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[STERNE, Laurence]
A Sentimental Journey Through France & Italy. 1780
£65
A lovely copy of Sterne's comedic travelogue which was first published in 1768.
Small octavo (167 × 98 mm). Contemporary mottled calf, red morocco label, centre tool to spine in compartments with gilt rules, roll to boards, cream endpapers.... Read more
STERN, Henry A.
The Captive Missionary: [1868]
£650
First edition. One of the key accounts of the events which ld to the Abyssinian Expedition. Stern - "an arrogant bigot" (ODNB) - was treated particularly harshly. "The detention of...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spine, entwined in shackles, blind panels to the boards, large gilt device of an Abyssinian warrior to the upper board.... Read more
STEINBECK, John.
A Russian Journal 1948
£9,750
First edition, first printing. An astonishing presentation copy to Nathaniel Benchley inscribed by Steinbeck on three full pages, "Well now, Capa and I went to Russia, a big country...
Large octavo. Original yellow/grey/tan cloth backed blue boards, titles to upper board and spine in blue, top edge stained blue. With the dust jacket. An excellent... Read more
STEEL, John Philip.
A Memoir of Colonel James Steel C.B., written and printed by his Son … 1909
£350
First and only edition, extremely uncommon, just four copies on OCLC: BL, London Library, and universities of Minnesota and Arizona. Substantial account of service in the Java...
Octavo. Original blue diced cloth, leather title label to the spine. Portrait frontispiece and 5 other plates, 3 plans, one full-page facsimile, facsimile signature to... Read more
STARK, Freya.
Baghdad Sketches. 1937
£125
First UK edition, expanded from the Baghdad Times edition of 1932 and with the addition of a selection of the author's superb photographs. Series of sketches intended "to give a...
Octavo. Original turquoise cloth, title gilt to the spine, "signature" gilt to the upper board. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece and 50 other plates from Stark's... Read more
STARK, Freya.
Perseus in the Wind. 1948
£200
First edition, first impression. With a one page autograph letter signed by the author tipped-in to the front pastedown. It is dated November 1948 and thanks the recipients for a...
Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the dust jacket. Read more
STARK, Freya.
Riding to the Tigris. 1959
£200
First edition, first impression. Inserted is a double-sided autograph letter signed by the author and dated November 1977 from Treviso which mentions the approaching publication of...
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Top stain faded. An excellent copy in the lightly... Read more
STARK, Freya.
Rome on the Euphrates. The Story of a Frontier. 1966
£200
First edition, first impression. Inserted are a postcard and a photographic Christmas card written by the author to Barnet Pavitt, as well as a note from the latter presenting them...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper board gilt, blue top-stain. With the dust jacket. Illustrated throughout. Small cataloguing note tipped-in on... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
Autograph note giving a first hint of his commission to find Livingstone. 1868
£2,250
By his brilliant coup in getting his reports of the conclusion of the Abyssinian Expedition back to London before the official despatches, Stanley had established himself as the star...
Small octavo. (195 × 120mm). 20ll. on a single sheet of cheap lined note-paper, signed "Stanley, War Cor[respondent] NY Herald" Creases from old folds, some... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
Coomassie and Magdala: 1874
£595
Second edition, same year as the first. Stanley covered the Abyssinian expedition for the New York Herald and the sensational reception of his despatches from the fall of Magdala,...
Octavo. Original bottle green pictorial cloth, title gilt to the spine with a trophy of Ethiopian arms, gilt roundel portraits of Napier and Wolseley set in foliage... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
In Darkest Africa 1890
£6,500
First edition, edition de luxe. Number 64 of 250 copies signed by Stanley. Stanley's famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the beleaguered...
2 volumes, demy quarto. Original dark brown half morocco, vellum boards with the title, flag of Emin Pasha and Stanley's signature to the upper boards gilt, titles to... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
In Darkest Africa 1890
£750
First edition. Stanley's famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan, contains some of his most celebrated...
2 volumes, octavo, (213 × 132 mm) Contemporary tree calf by Bickers, red and black morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, gilt arabesque panels to the... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
In Darkest Africa 1890
£900
First edition, the regular trade issue. Stanley's famous account of his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan, contains...
2 volumes, octavo (214 × 132 mm). Contemporary tree calf , red and green morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, gilt floral rolled panel to the boards with... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
Through the Dark Continent. 1878
£750
First US Edition in the publisher's de luxe binding. Account of Stanley's controversial Trans-African Expedition of 1874-7. Stanley finally dispelled Livingstone's notion that the...
2 volumes, octavo. Publisher's brown half morocco on marbled boards, titles gilt to spines which are gilt in compartments, raised bands, marbled edges and endpapers.... Read more
STANLEY, Henry Morton.
Through the Dark Continent. 1878
£750
First edition. Account of Stanley's controversial Trans-African Expedition of 1874-7. Stanley finally dispelled Livingstone's notion that the "Lualaba was the source of the Nile and...
2 volumes, octavo (213 × 132 mm) Contemporary tree calf, red and black morocco labels, spines gilt in compartments, gilt panels to the boards, edges and endpapers... Read more
STACY, Colonel Lewis Robert.
Narrative of Services in Beloochistan & Affghanistan, 1848
£750
First Edition thus. "Colonel Stacey's [sic.] recollections account for two sets of events on the Afghan Border between 1840 and 1842. In the first episode he served as an interpreter...
Octavo. Original green diapered, embossed cloth, rebacked with most of the original spine laid down, and more recent leather label, new endpapers. Folding... Read more
(SRI LANKA)
The Ceylon Almanac and Annual Register for the Year of Our Lord, 1857. 1857
£850
First edition. Fascinating and useful digest of information for the island; weights and measures; rates of pay; directories of the civil, religious, naval and military authorities;...
Octavo (212 × 134 mm). ?Publisher's half calf on marbled boards. Large, loosely inserted, lithographed folding map of the canal "commencing at Hatotte Amunam... Read more
SPARRMAN, Anders.
A Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, 1786
£2,500
Second Edition, Corrected. A botanist and disciple of Linnaeus, Sparrman's desire to travel was stimulated by an early trip as a surgeon on a Royal Swedish East India Company ship to...
2 volumes, quarto. (222 × 272mm). Bound in contemporary lightly sprinkled tan full calf, sympathetically rebacked, smooth spine, double gilt ruled compartments,... Read more
[SOUTHEY, Robert]
The Expedition of Orsua; and the Crimes of Aguirre. 1821
£200
First edition of Southey's account of the career of the infamous adventurer Lope de Aguirre and of his usurpation of the command of Pedro de Ursúa's expedition to find El...
Small octavo (180 × 102 mm). Original sheep-backed boards, title inked to spine with later paper label. Rubbed, joints cracked to the cords but holding, paper... Read more
SMOLLETT, Tobias (ed.)
The Modern Part of an Universal History, 1780-4
£3,000
Second edition, originally published 1759-65. Editorship credited to Smollett in The New Cambridge Bibliography, confirmed in his ODNB entry, which also firmly ascribes to him "the...
42 volumes octavo (205 × 127 mm). Contemporary lightly sprinkled calf, red and black morocco title and volume labels, narrow green morocco label with the series... Read more
(SMET, Pierre-Jean de) CHITTENDEN, Hiram Martin, & Alfred Talbot Richardson (eds).
Life, Letters and Travels of Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, S.J. 1801-1873. 1905
£575
First Edition. The Jesuit Father De Smet's Life provides an overview of his life and travels among Western Indian tribes from 1838–70. His journals and notes contain some of the...
4 volumes, octavo. Original dark green vertical fine-ribbed cloth, title gilt to spines. Frontispiece to each and 12 other plates, folding map in end-pocket to Volume... Read more
SÉMACH, Yomtob.
Alliance Israélite Universelle - Une Mission de l'Alliance au Yémen. [1910]
£250
First Edition thus. Scarce, one copy only on OCLC, at Harvard. Extracted from the Bulletin de l'Alliance Israélite Universelle, paginated pp.48-162, this copy has the MS...
Octavo. Crudely glued into later card wraps with typed title label to upper "panel", title page present. 4 plates. Quite heavily browned, some staining, ink marks to... Read more
SLOCUM, Joshua.
Sailing Alone Around the World. 1900
£875
First edition, first printing of this superb narrative of the first single-handed circumnavigation of the globe. "The classic account of a small boat voyage, which has been compared...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles and decoration to spine and upper board in silver and green, top edge gilt, others uncut. Half-tone frontispiece and numerous... Read more
SLOCUM, Joshua.
Voyage of the Liberdade. Description of a Voyage "Down to the Sea." 1890
£2,500
First edition, this copy inscribed on the first blank, "To Capt. Masson with compts. of Joshua Slocum, New York, May 21st 1890." Slocum's first book, really quite uncommon with just...
Small octavo. Original dark green cloth, title gilt to the upper board, palmette band in blind at head and tail, sepia floral sprigged endpapers, Frontispiece from a... Read more
SLIM, William J.
Campaign of the Fourteenth Army, 1943-44. [1947]
£350
First edition. Extremely uncommon brief account - "confined to the action and movements of the major formations, and to the plans on which these were based" - which was "presented"...
Octavo. Original green moiré cloth, Fourteenth Army badge to the upper board in black. 21 maps with dispositions in colour, 5 of them folding. Very good. Read more
