Search results for: 'the works'
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(MOUNTAINEERING.) THE PINNACLE CLUB. The Pinnacle Club Journal.[No place] : 1924-73
First editions, a scarce mountaineering set; a continuous run of the first fifteen journals published by one of the earliest British women-only climbing clubs, with contributions from leading female climbers such as Eleanor Winthrop Young, Dorothy Pilley, Nea Morin, and Dorothea Gravina. Copac locates continuous runs at just seven institutions, and... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 131221
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COLQUHOUN, James Andrew Sutherland, Major. With the Kurram Field Force, 1878-79.London : 1881
First edition. An excellent account of the formation and operations of General Roberts's expeditionary force. Captain Colquhoun, arrived only in time for the action on Peiwar Kotal, but compiled a detailed account of the preparation of the force and its advance from the diary of Major Collett, the assistant quartermaster-general. Colquhoun, a Royal... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 127107
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IRANIAN, Mihran, & others. Photograph album documenting a cruise to North Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean on RMS Celtic.New York : 1902
Engrossing, wide-ranging and thoughtfully compiled Gilded Age photograph album assembled by a member of a tour party sailing from New York on a Mediterranean cruise aboard the White Star liner RMS Celtic. Perhaps most importantly it includes a handful of superb depictions of Istanbul by the celebrated Armenian photographer Mihran Iranian, whose work... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131724
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(KATIP ÇELEBI.) HERBELOT, Barthelémy d'. Bibliothèque orientale.The Hague : 1777-9.
First published in 1697, this revised and expanded edition of d'Herbelot's monumental work is "generally considered the best" (Arcadian Library, p. 238), containing supplements by J. J. Reiske, "undoubtedly the best Arabist in Germany" (ibid.), Leiden professor H. A. Schultens, and other pre-eminent 18th-century orientalists. The Bibliothèque orientale... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 117606
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(PUBLISHING.) The London Printing and Publishing Company (Limited). Pair of publisher's blads.London : c. 1859-61
A fascinating and notable piece of 19th century publishing history: a pair of publisher's blads, in this case used by a salesman in the garnering of subscriptions for two very popular and topical part works, Robert Montgomery Martin's The Indian Empire (1858-59) and Charles Ball's The Indian Mutiny (1858-61); each gilt stamped on the front cover, "Specimen.... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 141030
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SAINT-FOND, Barthélemy Faujas de. Voyage en Angleterre, en Écosse et aux îles Hébrides;Paris : 1797
First edition of this account of Saint-Fond's (1741-1819) travels to Britain in the year 1784, with important observations on the geology of northern England and Scotland, most notably his recognition that Fingal's Cave was a volcanic formation, which had gone unnoticed by Joseph Banks. The work also includes anecdotes of Banks, John Whitehurst and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 127675
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MATTHEWS, J.W. Incwadi Yami., or Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa.New York : 1887
First US edition, perhaps with precedence over the UK edition of the same year. Matthews left Britain in 1864 as surgeon on the Tugela, an emigrant ship. On arrival he managed to obtain the post of District Surgeon of Victoria County, Natal. In 1871 he proceeded to the diamond fields, having already sent up an advance party under the geologist G.J.... Learn More£625.00Stock Code: 68185
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ZEILAU, Theodor. Fox-Expeditionen i Aaret 1860Copenhagen : 1861
First and only edition; an important and attractively illustrated work on the British survey of the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland in conjunction with the laying of the North Atlantic telegraph cable. The steam yacht Fox, purchased and fitted out by Lady Franklin, had most famously been used during McClintock's search for the Franklin expedition... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 127072
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[PETHERICK, Edward Augustus, compiler.] Edwards's Australasian Catalogue:London : [1899]
First edition of bookseller, publisher, bibliographer and book collector's 3,000 item priced catalogue of Australiana. In 1865, the English-born Petherick (1847-1917) started collecting titles for a catalogue or bibliography of Australia but temporarily abandoned the project in 1870 to focus on reorganising the bookselling firm that he worked for, George... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 118564
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MATTHEWS, Frederick C. American Merchant Ships, 1850 -1900. [Series One and Two.]Salem : 1930-1
First edition, limited issue 52/97 copies, only 87 being for sale. Handsome set of this important reference work. Learn More£695.00Stock Code: 45752
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MONTAIGNE, Michel de, & William Hazlitt (ed.) The Complete Works.London : 1842
First Hazlitt edition of the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne's collected works, gathering his influential essays and letters. The present essays were originally published between around 1570 to 1592, and cover a wide variety of topics, from religion, philosophy, and classics, to solitude, age, drunkenness, anger, books, imagination, and many... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 140342
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BORROW, George. The Works.London : 1841-74
First editions. A finely bound set of the author's principal works, being The Zincali (1841), The Bible in Spain (1843), Lavengro (1851), The Romany Rye (1857), Wild Wales (1862), Romano Lavo-Lil: Word-Book of the Romany (1874). Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 102083
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BANCROFT, Hubert Howe. The Works.San Francisco : 1886
First edition, the complete set of what is still considered by historians to be the most important single source of early Western American history. "Colossal co-operative undertaking; nothing approaching it has ever been attempted in this country" (Howes). Although the first title-page is dated 1886, the set was published 1883-90. Vols. 11 and 33 were... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 68597
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BURTON, Richard Francis. The Memorial Edition of the Works.London : 1893-4
Memorial edition, all first printings. These titles were all that were issued in the Memorial Edition for each of which Isabel Burton wrote new prefaces. "Although she lived in Burton's literary shadow, referring to herself as 'the mere bellows player to the organist', Isabel Burton was a good writer" and she did publish several accounts of their travels... Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 135160
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GRIFFIN, Lepel H., & Charles Francis Massy. Collection of three works on the rulers of the Punjab, handsomely bound in matching style.Lahore and Allahabad, : 1870 - 1890
A genuinely rare opportunity to acquire these three highly elusive monographs on the ruling families of the Punjab, each a remarkable work of exhaustive research written or inspired by Lepel H. Griffin, one of the most colourful officials in nineteenth century British India, the man described by his fellow Indian administrator, Sir Walter Lawrence,... Learn More£12,000.00Stock Code: 140157
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INGLIS, James. Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier.London : 1878
First edition. Inglis (1845-1908) was the son of a Scottish clergyman. "In 1866 he went to India at the instigation of his brother Alexander, a Calcutta tea merchant, and became an indigo planter in Bihar and the North-West Provinces. He revelled in tiger shooting and pigsticking, and published sporting verses, Tirhoot Rhymes (Calcutta, 1873), under... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 121134
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CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia; The Viceroy of Ouidah; On the Black Hill; The Songlines; Utz; What Am I Doing Here.London : 1977-89
First editions, first impressions, a complete collection of the author's works published in his lifetime.
Chatwin (1940-1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and connoisseur of the arts who "redefined travel writing" (ODNB). He joined the antiquities department at Sotheby's at 18 years old, rising from a porter to director of the firm within... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 141970
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CARTER, W. H. From Yorktown to Santiago with the Sixth U. S. Cavalry.Baltimore : 1900
First edition, first printing. William H. Carter (1851-1925) served as a mounted messenger for the Union in the Civil War, also serving in the Spanish-American war, the Indian wars and World War One. This is the first of Carter's six historical military works and provides a detailed account of the history and movements of the Sixth U. S. Cavalry, with... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 117512
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[SMITH, Charles, & Walter Harris.] The Antient and Present State of the County of Down.Dublin : 1744
First edition of The Antient and Present State, here combined unusually with the first London edition of its parent work, A Topographical and Chorographical Survey, presented in a very well preserved plain period binding. Charles Smith (c. 1715 - 1762), the moving force behind this important book, could be described as an Irish John Aubrey, being an... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 141048
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PRICE, David. Chronological Retrospect, or Memoirs of the Principal Events of Mahommedan History.London : 1821
First edition sheets with title pages dated 1821 and issued by the publishers on completion of the work, uncommon. A significant work by the orientalist and army officer David Price (1762-1835), who saw action in the Third Anglo-Mysore War against Tipu Sultan, and, on retiring from the East India Company's service, settled in Wales and "devoted himself... Learn More£5,500.00Stock Code: 107059
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SUYUTI, Jalal al-Din al-. History of the Caliphs.Calcutta : 1880-1
First edition in English of Suyuti's Ta'rikh al-khulafa'. Fairly common in libraries, but rare in commerce, with no copies traced in auction records.
A prolific polymath, Suyuti (1445-1505) was born in Cairo, where he lived through the final decades of the Mamluk Sultanate. His cohesive and authoritative chronicle of Muslim rulers, from the immediate... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 117609
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HENDLEY, Thomas Holbein. Handbook to the Jeypore Museum.Calcutta : 1895
First and only edition. Guidebook to the Jeypore Museum (now the Albert Hall Museum, Jaipur) written by the museum's curator Colonel Hendley of the Bengal Medical service eight years after the building had been inaugurated and illustrated with detailed and attractive photo-chromo-lithographed plates by William Griggs, the pioneer of the process.
Rudyard... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 129923
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OGILBY, John. America; being the latest and most Accurate Description of the New World …London : 1671
First edition, second issue. The third in Ogilby's series of "Atlases" intended eventually "to cover the whole world, to be funded through lotteries, subscription plans, and advertisements. The first, Africa, appeared in 1670. Others followed soon after: Atlas Japannensis (1670), America (1671), Atlas Chinensis (1671), and Asia (1673). These were not... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 110366
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CHATWIN, Bruce. In Patagonia; The Viceroy of Ouidah; On the Black Hill; The Songlines; Utz; What Am I Doing Here.London : 1977-89
First editions, first impressions, of all of Chatwin's works published in his lifetime. Chatwin (1940-1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. His first book In Patagonia established his reputation as a travel writer. In 1982 he was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel for his... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 117554
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(DICTIONARIES.) A Dictionary of the English Language …London : 1794-95
A most attractive trio of 18th-century desk dictionaries and geographical-historical reference works, housed together in a book-form case. Learn More£1,875.00Stock Code: 104275
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WARD, William. Account of the Writings, Religion, and Manners, of the Hindoos:Serampore : 1811
The first volume was first published in 1806, but no copies traced, this full edition being issued in 1811 from the Mission Press that Ward laboured so hard to establish. Extremely uncommon, just one set traced at auction, maybe 20 locations institutionally. Trained as a printer, and working in that capacity on various newspapers in the Midlands, and... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 102883
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WHITE, J. Claude. Sikhim & Bhutan: Twenty-One Years on the North-East Frontier 1887-1908.London : 1909
First edition, first impression, of this important and handsomely produced work, comprising some excellent photographs and finely-detailed photogravures captured by the author. White (1853-1918) was a British political officer, residing in the Himalayas for a little over two decades. He initially served as Executive Engineer with the Indian Public Works... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138614
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STACY, Lewis Robert. The Narrative of Lieutenant Colonel L. R. Stacy.Serampore : 1844
First and only edition, scarce, "printed though not published for private circulation among the author's friends"; the clipped bookseller's catalogue description present here states that only 20 copies were printed, a number corroborated by University of California (Berkeley) and Bodleain; apart from these copies only two other locations are cited... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 122379
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RUSSELL, George. A Tour through Sicily, in the year 1815.London : 1819
First edition of this attractively illustrated and uncommon narrative. A contemporary reviewer, while bemoaning the book's high price of a guinea, remarked on Russell's "very minute and satisfactory descriptions of things which other travelers, have, perhaps, treated too negligently" (Analyses of Seven New Works of Voyages and Travels, 1819). George... Learn More£825.00Stock Code: 140383
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LAWRENCE-ARCHER, James Henry, Capt. Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49.London : 1878
First edition, uncommon just 6 locations on Copac, OCLC adds 15. "The objective of this work is to supply from original and official sources, information on some points of interest, which have not been fully explained either in the Despatches relating to the Punjab campaign, or in other sources also reviewing the current of events from the death of... Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 106999
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VEGA, Garcilasso de la. The Royal Commentaries of Peru,London : 1688
First edition in English of Vega's chronicles of Peru, the first work by an author born in the Americas to enter the western canon. Born in the early years of the Spanish conquest from an Incan mother and a conquistador father, Garcilasso de la Vega (1539-1616) moved to Spain aged 21, where he wrote the present histories. First published in Lisbon in... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 126602
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THOMPSON, George. Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa.London : 1827
Second edition; same year as the first. One of the most valuable works on South Africa published in the early nineteenth century, the present work was written by George Thompson, a British merchant living in Cape Town for many years as the representative of a British company. Between 1823 and 1824, he set out to explore the north-eastern parts of the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 94259
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PRINSEP, Henry Thoby. Note on the Historical Results, deducible from recent Discoveries in Afghanistan.London : 1844
First edition. Prinsep (1792-1878) was a long-time "servant of John Company" and "recognized as one of ablest men in the service" (ODNB). On his retirement in 1843 after over 30 years in the sub-continent, he and his wife Sara, sister to Julia Margaret Cameron, set up in Little Holland House where their salon was "one of the artistic and literary centres... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 127436
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CANFIELD, Flavia Camp. Around the World at Eighty.Rutland, VT. : 1925
First edition of this collection of letters recounting the author's voyage around the world on the Cunarder RMS Berengaria - built for HAPAG and launched in 1912 as SS Imperator, briefly commissioned post-WWI as USS Imperator, before being handed over to Cunard as war reparations. The party made landfall in Cuba, Panama, southern California, Hawaii,... Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 135804
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PRINSEP, Henry Thoby. Origin of the Sikh Power in the Punjab, and the Political Life of Muha-Raja Runjeet Singh,Calcutta : 1834
First and only contemporary edition of this highly authentic account, based on probably the most accurate first-hand report on the life and times of Ranjit Singh. The portrait of the maharajah was taken from the life by a noted Indian portraitist and engraved by the Indian master-engraver of the Calcutta mint. Extremely uncommon on the market, no auction... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 139506
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(HARRIS, Walter.) The Defence of the Scots Settlement at Darien, Answer'd, Paragraph by Paragraph.London : 1699
First edition of Walter Harris's rebuttal to A Defence of the Scots Settlement at Darien, published the same year and variously attributed to Archibald Foyer, George Ridpath, Andrew Fletcher and James Watson. That pamphlet had optimistically attempted, shortly before the Darien Scheme was abandoned, to convince the English to support the project, no... Learn More£875.00Stock Code: 135270
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SPRUCE, Richard; Alfred Russel Wallace (ed.) Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon & Andes,London : 1908
First edition. One of Wallace's later works was this edition of the botanical papers and diaries of his friend and co-Amazonian explorer Richard Spruce, who had died in 1894. "This work best reflects Spruce's gift for analysis, description, and narrative, along with his dry humour" (ODNB).
Spruce was sent to South America in 1849 by Hooker, Bentham,... Learn More£1,200.00Stock Code: 119025
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WESTON, Stephen. Extracts from a Journal in the Months of June, July, August, and September, in the Year 1819.London : 1820
First and only edition. Stephen Weston, (1747-1830), antiquary, classical scholar, and minor Shakespearian. Educated Eton, and Exeter College, Oxford. "Weston accompanied Sir Charles Warwick Bampfylde of Devon as his tutor in a long tour of the continent. As a result of this tour he conceived a passion for travel and a particular love for France and,... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 139891
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ADLEY, Charles Coles. The Story of the Telegraph in India.London : 1866
First edition. Uncommon, just four locations on Copac - BL, Oxford, Cambridge, and NLS - OCLC adds MIT only. Adley dedicates the book to Robert Wygram Crawford, chairman of the Commons committee on East India Telegraphic and Postal communications, and also of The East India Railway Company, as another who has "ceaselessly advocated measures indispensable... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 99968
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RIBBENTROP, Berthold. Hints on Arboriculture in the Panjab;Lahore : 1873
First edition of this uncommon work, inscribed "With best regards Berthold Ribbentrop". The author, an influential German forestry expert, was instrumental in the establishment of the forestry administration, initially out of military and economic considerations, but which over time came to have considerable ecological and environmental impact. Ribbentrop... Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 136333
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(GREAT BRITAIN, Army, Home Guard.) Record of the Technical Companies of the 40th County of London (G.L.C.C.) Battalion, Home Guard. 1942 - 194[London : 1945]
Fascinating mimeographed report on the Home Guard battalion formed by engineers from the Gas Light and Coke Company in 1942, with a volume of fine photographs. Rare, with no other copy traced in libraries or in commerce, except an ambiguous reference in the National Archives at Kew. After repair work from the Blitz eased off in the autumn of 1941, company... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 116865
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HOWISON, John. European Colonies, in Various Parts of the World,London : 1834
First edition, well represented institutionally but commercially uncommon; a most attractively presented copy in a superior contemporary binding. John Howison (1797-1859) was a Scot who from 1818 to 1820 travelled in Quebec and Ontario, and whose Sketches of Canada (1821), published when he was still in his mid-twenties, "was an immediate success and... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 120995
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MEHMED EMIN ÂLI PAÇA. Documents relating to Baron Maurice de Hirsch's concessions to build and operate the Ottoman Empire's railway lines from Constantinople to Vienna.Turkey : 1874 - 86
Fascinating group of documents relating to Baron Maurice de Hirsch's concessions to build and operate the Ottoman Empire's railway lines from Constantinople to Vienna, dating to the time the agreements were revised (1872) to when he was seeking to extricate himself (1887):
1. Covering letter to the annotated Actes 1874 document addressed to Baron... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 141678
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FORSTER, Johann Reinhold. History of the Voyages and Discoveries made in the North.London : 1786
First edition in English, originally published in German in 1784. A comprehensive overview of northern explorations from ancient to modern times, including accounts of the English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish and Russian voyages in search of the Northwest and Northeast Passages from the earliest recorded explorations to 1780, including... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 132399
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RENNELL, James. The Marches of The British Armies in the Peninsula of India during the Campaigns of 1790 and 1791.London : 1792
Second edition, same year as the first. Third Anglo-Mysore War. Uncommon, and detailed account drawn from official accounts of Cornwallis and Medows's campaigns against Tipu Sultan down to the Battle of Arakere in May 1791. Tipu's army was routed and retreated into Seringapatam, but the British forces were forced to return to Bangalore by the problems... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 86803
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BROCQUIERE, Bertrandon de la. The Travels of Bertrandon de la Brocquiere to Palestine,Hafod, Ceredigion : 1807
First edition in English. Bertrandon de la Brocquiere (c. 1400-1459) was a Burgundian agent and pilgrim, his book blending travel narrative with a "reconnaissance tour of the Near East" (Tyerman). Although written at the behest of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, with the intention of acting as a spur to an intended crusade in 1454 which never materialised,... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139109
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(ACKERMANN, Rudolph, publ.) GERNING, Johann Isaac von. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine, from Mentz to Cologne:London : 1820
First illustrated edition, with plates watermarked 1816-20. By 1820, Rudolph Ackermann (17641834) had established himself as one of the premium publishers of colour plate books in Britain, largely thanks to a number of works on English topography starting with The Microcosm of London in 1808. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rhine was... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 136164
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COOK, John, & John Maule. An Historical Account of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, M,DCC,LXXXIX.London : 1789
First edition. Uncommon. Reprints in full the original grants of William and Mary for the establishment of the Hospital, and offers a detailed description of the building works, and the finished structure, accompanied by a spectacular folding engraved plate of a river view taken from a drawing by Thomas Lancey. Lancey was placed at the Hospital school... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 85988
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SHOOTER, Joseph. The Kafirs of Natal and Zulu Country.London : 1857
First edition of "one of the best works on the native races of Natal and Zululand published up to the middle of the 19th century" (Mendelssohn). The author spent four years as a missionary in Albert, Natal, and provides a detailed account of Zulu and Xhosa customs and beliefs, and a history of Shaka Zulu and his successors. His own findings are supplemented... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 120941
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LANSDOWNE, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, fifth marquess of. Speeches of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viceroy and Governor General of India.Calcutta : 1894
First and only edition, one of 110 copies, rare: among British and Irish institutional libraries Copac locates only the copy at the British Library; OCLC adds a single copy worldwide, at Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine at Nanterre (described in a note as "Rel. arm." - presumably "reliure armorial" - i.e. an armorial binding... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 116668
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MALCOLM, John, Sir. Sketch of the Sikhs;London : 1812
First edition of this scarce account of Sikhism, the cornerstone of later publications on the topic, annotated over four pages by a British Officer who interacted with the Sikhs during his service. This "preliminary effort" (Khurana, p. 22) on the subject sheds some light on the history of the Sikhs, their countries and government, and their religion.... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 135209
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LAWRENCE, Henry Montgomery. Some Passages in the Life of an Adventurer in the Punjab.Delhi : 1842
First edition, extremely uncommon, just two copies - BL and Oxford - on Copac, OCLC adds five more - NYPL, Yale, Harvard, universities of Minnesota and Missouri. One of the earliest commercial productions of this press, all Delhi imprints before 1850 are uncommon. Excellent copy of Lawrence's "fictionalised memoirs of Colonel Bellasis who joined the... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 107518
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EGERTON, Lady Francis. Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land, in May and June, 1840.London : 1841
First edition, printed "for private circulation only; for the Benefit of the Ladies' Hibernian Female School Society". An attractively illustrated account of an excursion that took in Jaffa, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Jericho, Ramla, Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, Beirut and Baalbec. Harriet Catherine Greville married Francis Egerton, first earl of Ellesmere,... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 139323
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CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE, Jean. A Voyage to California, to observe the Transit of Venus.London : 1778
First edition in English of two works edited for publication by Count Cassini, first published at Paris in 1772 and 1770 respectively. "A great deal of interest was taken in the transit of Venus. The French government had two expeditions in the field The British government also sent Captain Cook out to Tahiti for the same purpose. Streeter calls this... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 62469
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NAPIER, Sir William. History of General Sir Charles Napier's Administration of Scinde, and Campaign in the Cutchee Hills.London : 1851
First edition. William Napier was the brother of Charles Napier, who had conquered and administered Sindh and been a leading figure in British India prior to his resignation over his disagreements with Governor-General Lord Dalhousie. William Napier published both an account of the conquest of Sindh and the present volume, a praising account of Charles... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 122301
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HOUGH, William. A Brief History of the Bhopal Principality in Central India.Calcutta : 1845
First edition of this conspicuously uncommon history of Bhopal - at the time of publication under the protection of the presidency of Bengal - consolidating "all the information to be obtained in printed works" (p. v); Copac cites copies at just five British and Irish institutional libraries (BL, Manchester, SOAS, Oxford, Southampton), OCLC adds another... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 122391
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POCK, Alexander. Six highly-finished pencil drawings in the guest-book for Werzer's Gasthof "zum Weißes Rössl".Pörtschach am Wörthersee : 1947
The guest-book for Werzer's famous Gasthof "zum Weißes Rössl" at Pörtschach am Wörthersee, now the home of the Brahms Haus Museum, containing six highly-finished pencil drawings by Alexander Pock: 1) Mounted officer, with New Year's wishes for 1947, dated on 26 December 1946; 2) Bust-portrait of a feldmarschal, 23 March 1947; 3) Two sailors, "on... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 94476
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MCCRINDLE, John Watson. The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraean Sea:Bombay : 1879
First edition. An extension of Vincent's interpretation of the Periplus through access to Bombay government papers. The Periplus was an account written in the middle of the first century C.E. describing the routes and commercial opportunities to be accessed from Rome's Egyptian ports along the coast of the Red Sea, Northeast Africa and the Indian... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 98667
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FRUNEAU, René. Collection of six scarce works on navigation, hydrography, meteorology, and astronomy published at Nantes.Nantes : 1829-33
First editions of a group of rather eccentric theoretical papers on a range of matters maritime by an "ancien marin Nantaise", based in his experiences as a ship's captain in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans. In his introduction to the first "opuscule" Fruneau insists that he is not seeking patronage (Certes! l'intérêt ni autres motifs n'ont... Learn More£6,000.00Stock Code: 67938
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GRIGGS, William. 18 Plates of Ornamental Tiles Collected By the Afghan Boundary Commission.London : [1894]
First and sole edition, extremely uncommon, V & A and BL only in UK, OCLC adds another 10 locations. A striking set of plates of ornamental tiles collected by the Afghan Boundary Commission, a joint Anglo-Russian project, active between 1884 and 1886, to set Afghanistan's northern border. A team travelled through Herat, Bala Murghab, Mazar-i-Sharif... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 129429
