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SCOTT, Robert F.
The Voyage of the "Discovery". 1905
£1,250
First American edition, published simultaneously with the UK edition. A classic of its genre, Scott's official narrative of his first Antarctic expedition, 1901–1904, the first...
2 volumes, large octavo. Original dark blue fine vertical-ribbed cloth, title gilt to spines, gilt embossed medallions to upper boards - reverse and obverse of the... Read more
[SCOTT, R. F.; E. H. Shackleton; R. W. Skelton; L. Bernacchi; & A. G. B. Cherry-Garrard]
South Polar Times 1902 -1911. 2002 & 2010
£875
The first three volumes were originally published 1907-14, this facsimile offered in a numbered edition of 350. The fourth volume was never previously published, this is copy 317 of...
4 volumes quarto. Original blue cloth, title gilt to spines and upper boards, upper boards with mounted colour illustrations within gilt panel, blue silk page-markers.... Read more
SCHWEINITZ, Hans-Hermann, Graf von.
Orientalische Wanderungen. In Turkestan und im Nordöstlichen Persien. 1910
£425
First edition. Account of a trip into Central Asia by the German traveller and philanthropist. From Ashgabat von Schweinitz passed through Masshad to Merv and then on the Oxus to...
Octavo. Original grey typographic card wraps, printed in red and black. Numerous illustrations to the text from the author's photographs, 2 maps, one full-page, one... Read more
SCHÜRMANN, Ulrich.
Teppiche aus dem Kaukasus. [1964]
£450
Originally issued as the catalogue for the first exhibition of Caucasian carpets at the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Crafts in 1961. This revised edition was produced in response to...
Tall octavo. Original mid-blue cloth with title gilt to spine and stylized weaver device to the upper board. In the dust jacket. 160 colour illustrations, 140 of them... Read more
SAVILE, Albany Robert, & Ferdinand Henry Wheeler Milner.
The Anglo-Afghan War of 1878. 1878-81
£6,750
First and only editions, classified "Confidential." Rare, the only other set of these papers that we have been able to trace is that in the India Office Records...
Foolscap quarto (304 × 195 mm) Contemporary half calf on black moiré boards, black morocco label, ruled compartments, edges sprinkled red. 12 linen-backed,... Read more
SAVAGE-LANDOR, A. Henry.
Everywhere. The Memoirs of an Explorer. 1924
£250
First edition. Travels in Asia, Africa and South America by one of the last explorers in the grand style; "Landor's want of training and his impatience to press on with all speed...
2 volumes, octavo, original black cloth, title gilt to spine and upper board, globe in green to the upper boards, top edge gilt. In the dust jackets. Photogravure... Read more
SANSON, Nicolas, père & fils.
Die gantze Erd-Kugel, 1679
£7,500
First German edition of Sanson's handsome atlas portatif, translated from the French continental volumes published in 1648, 1652, 1655, and 1657. The collation resembles closely the...
4 parts bound in one, quarto (240 × 186 mm). Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine. Engraved allegorical frontispiece/title page with female figures with the... Read more
SANSON D'ABBEVILLE, Nicolas & Guillaume.
Description de tout l'univers, en plusieurs cartes, 1700
£7,500
First edition under this title, comprising atlases of the four continents already published as individual volumes by Halma, with the addition of new maps of England, Scotland,...
Quarto (220 × 165 mm), in six parts (including Luyt's Tables Geographiques and Bion's L'Usage des Globes as supplements). Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine gilt... Read more
SALT, Henry.
Twenty-Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt. 1809
£50,000
First edition, with plates watermarked 1824. Having failed in his original ambition to be a portrait painter, "On 20 June 1802 Salt left England on an eastern tour, as secretary and...
Large folio (751 × 534 mm). Original marbled boards, with red morocco patch title label to the upper, rebacked and recornered in red morocco to style, title gilt... Read more
RYAN, D. G. J.; G. C. Strahan; J. K. Jones.
Historical Record of The 6th Gurkha Rifles. Volume I 1817-1919. 1925
£575
First Edition. "The three Bns are dealt with separately - 1st Bn in full, for its entire span through to 1919, 2nd Bn from its formation in 1904 onwards, and 3rd Bn quite briefly...
Octavo. Original rifle green cloth, title in silver to the spine, regimental crest in silver to the upper board. Frontispiece and 23 plates, 22 folding maps, title... Read more
RUTTLEDGE, Hugh.
Everest 1933. 1934
£425
First edition of Ruttledge's account of the 1933 British attempt to climb Mount Everest, which he led. Nine years had passed since the last expedition, on which Mallory and Irvine...
Crown octavo. Original blue cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the striking pictorial dust jacket. With fifty photographic illustrations, three diagrams in the text,... Read more
RUTTER, Eldon.
The Holy Cities of Arabia. 1928
£850
First edition. This copy inscribed on the front free endpaper of the first volume; "Sibyl M. Parry/ With the compliments of her privileged friend, Eldon Rutter. 3.XII.1928." Rutter...
2 volumes octavo. Original bottle green buckram on bevelled boards, title gilt to spines, Arabic script to the upper boards - Mecca to Volume I, Medina to Volume II -... Read more
RUSCHENBERGER, William Samual Waithman.
A Voyage round the World; including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam, in 1835, 1836, and 1837. 1838 & 1837
£4,500
First editions. Individually uncommon, perhaps Ruschenberger the more so, and together here offering a very full record of important early American trade negotiations in the Middle...
2 volumes octavo (220 × 134 mm; 215 × 138 mm). Uniformly bound in black half morocco on marbled boards, title gilt to spine, flat bands sparingly tooled,... Read more
RUGGLES, J., Major-General.
Recollections of a Lucknow Veteran, 1845-1876. 1906
£250
First edition. This copy with an original photograph of Ruggles mounted verso of the half-title, inscribed beneath; "Your Majesty's faithful Servant, J. Ruggles;" and with a single...
Octavo. Original khaki cloth with dark blue flash across the front board, title gilt to spine. Portrait frontispiece. Spine a little tanned, endpapers slightly... Read more
ROTHWELL, John Sutton.
Narrative of the Field Operations connected with The Zulu War of 1879. 1907
£1,250
Uncommon. Print run of just 1,500 copies, the 1881 edition of 2,000 is widely believed to have been suppressed. "Most military accounts of the campaign rest squarely on the official...
Octavo. Original red embossed cloth, title gilt to spine. 7 folding maps in rear pocket, including the unlisted map of the Lines of Communication which was not issued... Read more
ROTH, Henry Ling.
The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo. 1896
£1,400
First edition "limited to 700 for sale." In his introduction Roth explains the origins of this work; "Some years ago my friend, Prof. E. B. Tylor, FRS, placed in my hands a parcel of...
2 volumes, large octavo. Original green "crazed" cloth, blind panels to the boards, title gilt to upper board and spine, top edge gilt, chocolate brown surface-paper... Read more
ROSE, Edward B.
The Truth about the Transvaal. 1902
£95
First Edition. Anti-Imperialist analysis published under the aegis of the Morning Leader. Rose is described on the title page as "Late President of the Witwatersrand Mine...
Octavo. Inscribed "With Mr. John P. Thomasson's Compliments" on the front free endpaper. Endpapers foxed and browned, otherwise very good in the original green... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on The Great Plains. 1899
£4,750
Signed limited edition of 1000 copies; signed by the author below the portrait frontispiece.
Quarto. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in terracotta morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, dark... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter. 1905
£250
First edition, first printing.
Octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with facsimile signature and 48 half-tone plates Contemporary... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
The Works. 1926
£3,500
National Edition. The writings of the 26th President of the United States on outdoor life, ranching, history, politics and war, with an autobiography in volume twenty.
20 volumes, octavo. Recent full tan morocco, red and green labels, titles and decoration to spines gilt, raised bands, marbled boards, top edges gilt, others... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness. 1914
£350
First edition. Account of Roosevelt's "zoogeographic reconnaissance" with the Brazilian explorer Rondon to discover if the Rio da Dúvida ("River of Doubt"), flowed into the...
Octavo. Recent dark green morocco, title gilt to spine, raised bands, gilt lozenges in the compartments, single rolled panel to boards, marbled endpapers, top edge... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness. 1914
£2,500
First edition, first impression. Very scarce in the dust jacket. Account of Roosevelt's "zoogeographic reconnaissance" with the Brazilian explorer Rondon to discover if the Rio da...
Large octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board and top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Photogravure frontispiece and 48... Read more
ROOSEVELT, Franklin D.
Inaugural address of Franklin D. Roosevelt President of the United States. 1933
£4,750
The advance issue, first published version of FDR's inaugural address, annotated in pencil on the upper cover as one of the White House file copies, with the signature of Stephen T....
Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original wraps. In quarter dark blue cloth on patterned paper portfolio, typed label to upper panel, black silk ties. Rockwell Kent... Read more
ROGERS, Woodes.
A Cruising Voyage Round the World: 1718
£3,250
First published in 1712, Woodes's journal was an immediate success and is widely considered to be "a buccaneering classic" (Hill). Born in Bristol around 1679, Rogers made an...
Octavo (196 × 118 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco label to the spine, bands, double rules to the compartments, double ruled panels to the boards,... Read more
ROERICH, Nicholas.
Himalayas Abode of Light. 1947
£150
First edition. Last life-time work of the artist and philosopher, who was described by Gorky as "One of the greatest intuitive minds of the age."
Quarto. Original blue cloth backed printed boards, paper label to the spine. Colour frontispiece and 23 tipped-in head-piece illustrations, one of them in colour. A... Read more
