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BELLEGARDE, Jean Baptiste Morvan, M. l'abbé de.
A General History of all Voyages and Travels Throughout The Old and New World, 1708
£1,500
First edition in English, originally published in Paris in 1707, "devoted entirely to the early voyages of the Spaniards in the Americas, and which contains much information relating...
Octavo (194 × 114 mm). Modern bottle green morocco, title gilt to spine, green endpapers. Engraved frontispiece and 5 other plates. Spine sunned, hinges cracking,... Read more
BELL, Sir Charles.
Tibet. 1924
£200
First edition. "This book gives us a history of Tibet from the 15th century, and its, and and peoples" (Yakushi). Bell was one of the first Westerners to make a serious study of the...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, Tibetan seals in gilt to upper and lower boards. Coloured frontispiece and numerous half-tone plates from the... Read more
BELL, Sir Charles.
Tibet. 1924
£500
First edition, extremely uncommon in jacket. "This book gives us a history of Tibet from the 15th century, and its, and and peoples" (Yakushi). Bell was one of the first Westerners...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, Tibetan seals in gilt to upper and lower boards. With the dust jacket. Coloured frontispiece and one other coloured... Read more
BELL, John.
Travels From St. Petersburg in Russia to Diverse Parts of Asia. 1763
£3,750
First edition of the account of the author's "remarkable journey" from St. Petersburg through Siberia and into China on behalf of the Russian tsar. Bell's narrative includes detailed...
2 volumes, octavo (239 × 181 mm). ?publisher's calf-backed marbled boards, contrast labels, edges sprinkled red. Folding map frontispiece to volume I, shows the... Read more
BELL, James.
A System of Geography, popular and scientific, 1832
£1,250
First edition. James Bell (1770–1833) set up in business as a Glasgow cotton manufacturer but found study more congenial. This is his principal work, drawing heavily on the work...
6 volumes, octavo. Handsomely bound in contemporary diced calf, spines richly gilt in compartments, double black lettering-pieces, covers with thick-and-thin fillet... Read more
BELL, Gertrude.
Persian Pictures. [1928]
£250
First US edition, first printing. Originally published anonymously in 1894, Persian Pictures is the travel memoir of Gertrude Bell (1868–1926), a female adventurer who, along...
Octavo. Original grey cloth backed fuchsia boards, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and upper board in black and gold. With the dust jacket. 2 tanned spots... Read more
(BELGIAN ARMY)
Handbook of the Belgian Army 1934. 1934
£225
First edition. Uncommon, print run of just 750 copies; IWM copy only on COPAC; no copy of this issue on OCLC, a single copy of the previous iteration, of 1926, at Brown, but the...
Octavo. Original grey linen on card wraps. Folding table, 3 plates on line-drawn insignia, 4 half-tone plates of uniforms, folding coloured map in an end-pocket.... Read more
BELAUNDE-TERRY, Fernando.
Peru's Own Conquest. 1965
£100
First edition, first impression of the autobiography and political manifesto of Peru's most beloved president, Fernando Belaunde-Terry (1912–2002). Inscribed by him on August...
Octavo. Original blue cloth backed grey boards, titles to spine and upper board in black. With the dust jacket. 4 map plates. Lightly rubbed to extremities, edges of... Read more
BEECHEY, F. W.
Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering's Strait, 1831
£3,500
First octavo edition, same year as the Admiralty edition in quarto, of "one of the most valuable of modern voyages"(Hill). Beechey's expedition went to the Bering Strait "As a relief...
2 volumes, octavo (213 × 136 mm) Twentieth-century half calf on old marbled boards, red morocco lettering-pieces and green numbering roundels. Housed in a brown... Read more
BEATTIE, William.
The Danube: its history, scenery, and topography... 1842
£525
Quarto. Original brown morocco heavily blocked in brown, spine and upper cover elaborately lettered in gilt, spine with gilt leaf motifs in compartments, gilt inner dentelles,...
Quarto. Original brown morocco heavily blocked in brown, spine and upper cover elaborately lettered in gilt, spine with gilt leaf motifs in compartments, gilt inner... Read more
BEATSON, Stuart, Brigadier-General.
A History of the Imperial Service Troops of Native States, 1903
£375
First and only edition, print-run of 250 copies only and consequently uncommon. COPAC has BL and SOAS only, OCLC adds just 3 more at the universities of Minnesota and Pennsylvania,...
Octavo. Original blue cloth with white corners, title gilt to spine and upper board, pale blue patterned endpapers. Folding map, part hand-coloured in a front-pocket.... Read more
BEATON, Cecil.
India. 1945
£750
First de luxe edition, first impression, from the library of the author, purchased from Elkin Matthews in 1981 and sold as lot 14 at Sotheby's Hodgson's sale on April 9, 1981. With...
Quarto. Original red boards, titles to upper board gilt. Black and white illustrations by Cecil Beaton throughout. Bookplate of David John Gilson. Boards lightly... Read more
BEATON, Cecil.
Near East. 1943.
£500
First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To dearest, Bianca, with all good wishes, from Cecil, 1949".
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper board in yellow, top edge stained red. With the pictorial dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece and 23... Read more
BEARD, Peter; Isak Dinesen; Kamante.
Longing for Darkness. Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa. 1975
£4,500
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Peter Beard to author Lois Wyse with an elaborate ink drawing across both front endpapers, "To Lois with the rest of the picture coming...
Tall quarto. Original black boards, titles to spine in white, image of Blixen to upper board and of, tan endpapers. With the dust jacket. Illustrations throughout. An... Read more
BAZIN, René.
Charles de Foucauld. Explorateur du Maroc ermite au Sahara. 1921
£25
Octavo. Contemporary half burgundy calf, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, crest to upper board gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Some light...
Octavo. Contemporary half burgundy calf, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, crest to upper board gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge... Read more
BATES, Henry Walter.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons. 1895
£150
Seventh edition. First published in 1863. Bates travelled with Alfred Russel Wallace in Amazonia for two years 1848–9, and remained behind when Wallace returned to England. He...
Octavo (180 × 117 mm). Contemporary green calf, red morocco label, elaborate decoration to spine, raised bands, twin rule to boards with crest to front, marbled... Read more
BATES, H. E.
The Face of England. 1952
£85
First edition, first impression.
Quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top-stain. With the dust jacket. Colour frontispiece and 39 plates. An excellent copy in the dust jacket that is... Read more
BARTTELOT, Walter George.
The Life of Edmund Musgrave Barrtelot. 1890
£150
Third edition, published in the same year as the first. Intended by his brother as a detailed corrective to the account of Major Barttelot's conduct in command of the Rear Column,...
Octavo. Original red coth, title gilt to spine, armorial to the upper board, patterned endpapers. Mounted Woodburytype portrait frontispiece, one photogravure plate... Read more
BARTLETT, W[illiam] H[enry].
The Nile Boat; 1852
£350
Third Edition.
Octavo. Steel-engraved frontispiece, half-title vignette and 31 plates, one of them folding, two maps, and 17 wood-engraved vignettes to the text. Gift inscription... Read more
BARTHOLD, W[asili].
Turkestan down to the Mongol Invasion. 1968
£165
Preferred edition of Barthold's thesis, first published 1899-1900, and in English in 1928. Barthold was the pre-eminent Turcologist of his time, and did much to focus attention on...
Octavo, original black buckram, title gilt to spine. Folding coloured map at the rear. Very slightly rubbed, overall a very good copy. Read more
BARTHÉLEMY, D[ominique], & MILIK, J[ózef] T[adeusz].
Discoveries in the Juadaean Desert. I. Qumran Cave I. 1956
£65
Second Impression. Report on the first analyses of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Quarto. 37 plates, plans and diagrams to the text. Very good the original green cloth in slightly tattered, but largely complete dust jacket. Read more
BARROW, John.
A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793: 1806
£5,250
First edition of the "first illustrated English work on … Vietnam"(Hill). A description of the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. "The voyage visited Madeira,...
Quarto (263 × 209 mm) Contemporary blue straight-grained morocco on drab boards, title gilt direct to the spine, double-ruled compartments with attractive roundel... Read more
BARLOW, Roger.
A Brief Summe of Geographie. 1932
£50
First edition. First publication of Barlow's translation, with additional material on navigation, of Enciso's Suma de Geographia, an English attempt to pre-empt the project for a new...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to the spine, both boards with gilt block of a galley within elaborate blind panels. Photogravure frontispiece and 2 similar... Read more
BARKER, Henry Aston.
A Short Description of the Island of Elba, 1815
£575
First edition. Uncommon. Programme for Barker's topical view of Elba at the renowned Leicester Square Panorama, opened by his father, Robert Barker, in 1793. Barker had been...
Octavo. (200 × 130 mm). recent drab paper wraps to style. Engraving of "Bonaparte's Flag at Elba" to the title page, folding plate of the panorama. Some foxing,... Read more
BARING-GOULD, Sabine.
The Deserts of Southern France. 1894
£250
First edition. This copy inscribed in volume I; "James Skinner, With the Author's compliments, S.B.G., 25th December 1894."
2 volumes octavo. Original mid-blue combed cloth, title gilt to spines, attractive large gilt block of a Caussenard shepherd to the upper boards, midnight blue... Read more
