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AYROUARD, Jacques. Recueil de plusieurs Plans des Ports et Rades et de quelques Cartes particulières de la Mer Méditerranée,[Paris or Marseille?] : 1732-46
First and only edition of this uncommon collection of charts, including the first printed chart of Monaco, a large folding map of Marseilles, and accurate charts of most of the ports, harbours and bays of the region. Ayrouard's work forms a working "waggoner" for the coast, recording soundings, anchorages, and pilotage notes on rocks and reefs, and... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 106965
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AYROUARD, Jacques. Recueil de plusieurs Plans des Ports et Rades et de quelques Cartes particulières de la Mer Méditerranée,[Paris or Marseille?] : 1732-46
First and only edition of this uncommon collection of charts, including the first printed chart of Monaco, a large folding map of Marseilles, and accurate charts of most of the ports, harbours and bays of the region.
Ayrouard's work forms a working waggoner for the coast, recording soundings, anchorages, and pilotage notes on rocks and reefs,... Learn More£18,000.00Stock Code: 66701
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RODRIGUES GIRÃO, João. Litterae iaponicae annorum M.DC.IX et X. ad R. admodum piae mem. P. Claudium Aquavivam generalem praepositum Societatis Iesu A.R.P. Provinciali eiusdem in Iapone Societ. missae.Antwerp : 1615
Second Latin edition of this relation concerning the Jesuit mission to Japan during the years 1609 and 1610, the first Italian edition was published by Bartolomeo Zanetti in Rome, 1615, and the first Latin edition, translated by Halloix, appeared in Douai, 1615. The report was addressed to the Superior General of the order, Claudio Acquaviva (1543-1615)... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 87948
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BUTE, John Crichton-Stuart, 4th marquess of. Moorish Recipes.Edinburgh : 1954
First edition, limited to 185 copies, this numbered 21 on the limitation slip mounted on the front pastedown, no copies of this limited edition traced institutionally. Perhaps the earliest English cookbook devoted solely to Arab cuisine, with detailed instructions for some 80 dishes.
"The first purpose of this book is to provide, for those Europeans... Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 139749
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POUCHOT DE CHANTASSIN, Claude-Michel, & Joseph-Jacques Le Maire. A New Voyage to the East-Indies in the Year 1690 and 1691.London : 1696
First editions in English. The first part is a translation of Pouchot de Chantassin's Relation du Voyage et Retour des Indes Orientales pendant les Années 1690 & 1691. Par un Garde de la Marine Servant sur le Bord de Monsieur Duquesne (Paris, 1692). His name is not given in this translation, but appears in the privilege to the French edition. "The... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 80264
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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 Library Hub locates only the copy at the British Library; WorldCat 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... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 116668
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(CORNWALLIS, Charles, first Marquess Cornwallis.) FORREST, G. W. (ed.). Selections from the State Papers of the Governors-General of India. Lord Cornwallis.Oxford : 1926
First edition, first impression. This remains a vital source of information on Cornwallis and was one of the last editorial ventures of the veteran historian of India, Sir George Forrest (1845-1926), a man whose diligent work in the Indian archives "opened the way for a new type of history of British India" (ODNB). Volume I is given over entirely to... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 140904
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LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de. Voyage in Search of La Pérouse …London : 1800
First edition in English, same year as the French, this in the favoured, and less common, single-volume quarto edition. Labillardière was the botanist and doctor on the d'Entrecasteaux Pérouse search expedition, and was entrusted with the task of writing the official account following the death of the commander from scurvy. "Although unsuccessful... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 79886
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[HURD, Richard.] Dialogues on the Uses of Foreign Travel.London : 1764
First edition; a second and a Dublin edition followed the same year. The work consists of a series of imaginary conversations, in which the literary-minded bishop of Worcester emulates the style and views of Shaftesbury on foreign and Locke on domestic education, following the method of his popular Moral and Political Dialogues (1759). Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 124042
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GALLOP, Rodney. A Book of the Basques.London : 1930
First edition, first impression, signed by Gallop and dated March 1939 on a loosely inserted piece of paper. A Book of the Basques "seems likely to remain the standard work in English on that small country" (V.A.).
Rodney Gallop (1900-1948), was a noted folklorist and member of H. M. Foreign Service. He travelled the world to gather... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 143205
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LUNA, Miguel de. The History of the Conquest of Spain by the Moors.London : 1687
First edition in English of the first part (all published) of Miguel de Luna's Verdadera historia del rey Don Rodrigo (1592-1600), itself purportedly translated from an Arabic source, but in fact an original composition. Luna's account of the Arab conquest of Spain to the year 761 was considered genuine by Southey, dismissed by George Ticknor and other... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 120934
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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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TYSSOT DE PATOT, Simon. Voyages et avantures de Jaques Masse.Bourdeaux [i.e. The Hague] : 1710 [i.e. around 1714]
First edition of this early utopian novel, "the best-known of all the radical philosophical novels of the Early Enlightenment" and which "surpassed practically every other work of philosophical fiction of the age for notoriety" (Israel, pp. liii and lvi). The novel details a Frenchman shipwrecked off South Africa - the co-ordinates are given as 60E/44S,... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 123204
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OUTRAM, [James]. The Conquest of Scinde.Edinburgh and London : 1846
First edition, presentation copy of Outram's account of the controversial annexation of Sind, inscribed "With the author's Complements" on the half-title of volume 1, probably in a secretarial hand. Having been specifically requested by Napier as commissioner for the treaty terms, Outram came to identify so closely with the position of the amirs and... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 120230
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WATSON, Robert Grant. Spanish and Portuguese South America during the Colonial Period.London : 1884
First edition of this expansive compendium of South American history, in the variant brown cloth binding. Watson travelled widely as a British diplomat allowing him to write a number of regional histories; "it is on of the advantages of foreign legations, that now and then a man connected with them is found intelligent enough and industrious enough... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 119367
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[BONNE, Rigobert.] Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre,[Geneva : 1780?]
An attractive copy of this popular atlas, published to accompany Raynal's 1788 Historique Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce dans les deux Indes. Several printings are known, with variant engravings. Bonne was a significant figure in the development of cartography, prioritizing accuracy and detail over decoration. Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 131914
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PRESUHN, Emil. Pompeji: die Neuesten Ausgrabungen von 1874 bis 1881 für Kunst-und-Alterhumfreunde.Leipzig : 1881
Second edition, improved and enlarged, of this superbly illustrated and important study; first published in 1878 and again in 1882. Scarce, one copy only among British and Irish institutional libraries (V&A); WorldCat adds just three more (Strasbourg, Erlangen, Sachsiche Landesbibliothek).
The German archaeologist Emil Presuhn (1844-1881), described... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 129881
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GEARY, Grattan. Burma, after the Conquest,London : 1886
First edition of this "detailed description of Upper Burma at the time of the annexation" (Speake). Grattan Geary (d. 1900) was "editor of the Times of India, and subsequently acquired the Bombay Gazette where the present work was printed, took a prominent part in Bombay municipal affairs and was at one time Chairman of the Corporation. An... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 133453
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LEPPER, Charles H. The Question of an Overland Route to China from India via Assam,Richmond : 1882
First edition. Scarce, only 2 copies on WorldCat - Stanford and NYPL.This short paper was the culmination of almost 10 years of obsessive work by Lepper trying to identify the best overland route from Indian to China. From the early 1870s he had been writing letters home to England and to Indian newspapers urging the necessity - for the success of the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 125448
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(CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY). Pomponius Mela. Iulius Solinus. Itinerarium Antonini Aug. Vibius Sequester.Florence : 1526
An early edition of this collection of classical geographical texts, including Pomponius Mela and Julius Solinus, and a translation into Latin of the Greek 1st-century world geography of Dinoysius Periegetes. The text is based on the first edition of the collection, printed by the Aldine press in 1518. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 137339
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PULSZKY, Francis. The Tricolor on the Atlas; or Algeria and the French Conquest.1854
First edition. Pulszky was a Hungarian nationalist, Kossuth's ambassador in London, and an exile after 1849, he accompanied Kossuth to America in 1851 as his private secretary. He supported himself by the pen, publishing a number of books in his own right, and undertaking translation work. The present book combines both, "Among the Tourists who have... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 62945
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SCHLEGEL, Gustaaf. Problèmes géographiques.Leiden : 1892-95
First edition under this title of a collection of offprints from T'oung-Pao, the oldest international journal of sinology; scarce: Library Hub gives just one location in British and Irish institutional libraries (Cambridge), WorldCat adds 16 worldwide. Gustaaf Schlegel (1840-1903), was one of the most distinguished sinologists of the 19th-century and... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 110279
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(RUSSIA) L'Industrie Pétrolière en U.R.S.S.Paris : 1929
First and only edition, uncommon WorldCat locates just 4 copies, three of them in France. Special issue produced by Le Courrier des Pétroles, "the weekly journal for economic and political financial information on all matters relating to oil, liquid fuels and the mining industry" covering developments in the Soviet oil industry: "Russian oil is on... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 123983
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[CARNOTA,] John Smith [Athelstane, Conde da.] Memoirs of the Marquis of Pombal;London : 1843
First edition, an attractive copy in the original cloth. The Marquis de Pombal (1699-1782) was Portugal's Secretary of State for Internal Affairs, the most powerful position in government, from 1750 to 1777. He is remembered for his sweeping economic reforms, his advocacy of Enlightenment ideals, his anti-Jesuit activities, and his leadership during... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 117245
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DUANE, William. A Visit to Colombia in the Years 1822 & 1823.Philadelphia : 1826
First edition. Duane (1760-1835), maverick Irish-American journalist and editor of the Democrat organ Aurora, travelled to newly independent Colombia to secure payment for arms and provisions sent to Bolivar's revolutionaries by Philadelphia merchant Jacob Idler, an affair passed over in silence in his important travelogue (such activities had forestalled... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 119211
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[MORGAN, Joseph (trans.)] A Compleat History of the Piratical States of Barbary, viz. Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Morocco.London : 1750
First edition thus of this English translation of Jacques Philippe Laugier de Tassy's Histoire du royaume d'Alger (1725), originally published in 1728-9 under the title A Complete History of Algiers, here published with additional matter.
It is widely held that Joseph Morgan (fl. 1707-1739) is the author of this translation. As vice-consul in... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 118623
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WEINTHAL, Leo (ed.) The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922.London : 1923-6
First edition, complete with the map volume, of this suitably lavish tribute to one of the most glorious failures of the empire, the project conceived by Cecil Rhodes as "The Iron Spine and Ribs of Africa". By 1914 there was already a 2,600-mile link from Cape Town to Bukama in the Congo; two sections of river steamer and an isolated length of Congolese... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 120708
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[JUSTEL, Henri, ed.] Recueil de divers voyages faits en Afrique et en l'Amerique,Paris : 1674
First edition of this important collection of voyages, assembled by the Huguenot Henri Justel, a "promoter, through hospitality and correspondence, in circles in Paris and London, of the optimistic spirit of enquiry which would be a feature of the European Enlightenment" (ODNB); this is a most attractive copy with a fine provenance. Included here is... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 125351
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MARSHALL, Joseph. Travels Through Holland, Flanders, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, the Ukraine, and Poland,London : 1772
Excellently provenanced first edition of this substantial work purporting to represent the author's detailed itinerary of a 7,000 mile trip across Europe. Part of an contemporary "genre" of carefully researched and plausibly plagiarised travelogues.
Initially the work was well received, The Critical Review declaring that "We have met with much... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139634
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CANTEMIR, Demetrie, voivode of Moldavia. Historisch- geographisch- und politische Beschreibung der Moldau.Frankfurt and Leipzig : 1771
First and only contemporary edition, a very pretty copy with an appealing regional provenance of an important record, the first scholarly account of Moldavia and containing the first accurate map; uncommon, with just a single copy traced at auction, and eleven locations world-wide noted by WorldCat: three in the UK (BL, London, Oxford), two in the US... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 140613
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BAHRAIN. Bahrain and Bapco.Manama : 1956
First and sole edition, rare, with no copies located by an online search of institutional libraries worldwide, and published for limited in-house circulation. An attractively produced brochure for the new employee of Bapco (Bahrain Petroleum Company), superseding the previous booklets entitled Bahrain and Personnel Regulations. It is divided into three... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 131246
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FURTADO, Júnia Ferreira. The Map that Invented Brazil.São Paulo : 2013
First edition. In 2004, Dr Furtado discovered an unknown map by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon D'Anville, entitled "Carte de L'Amérique méridionale" in the archives of the Bosch Company in Stuttgart. It was "the first document to configure Brazil as a massive territory extending, from north to south, from the present day states of Amapá and Rondônia... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 127175
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AYNSLEY, Mrs. J. C. Murray. Our Visit to Hindostán, Kashmir, and Ladakh.London : 1879
First and only contemporary edition, a sparkling copy from the library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, a collection celebrated for its quality (sale at Sotheby's London, 27 March 2014, lot 52). This is the first of three Indian travelogues by Harriet Georgina Maria Murray Aynsley (née Manners-Sutton, 1827-1898), who travelled out to Bombay with her husband,... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 140826
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HANSON, James, Captain. Route of Lieutenant-General Sir Miles Nightingall, K.C.B. Overland from India.London : 1820
First and only edition of this engaging and elusive account. Hanson, described on the title page as "Late Assistant Quarter-Master-General with the Field Army of the Madras Establishment", acted as ADC to Sir Miles Nightingall, commander-in-chief of the Bombay Army, on his return home from India in 1819. The party sailed on the East Indiaman ship-sloop... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 124141
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MARTIN, R. Montgomery. China; Political, Commercial, and Social;London : 1847
First edition, published in the wake of the First Opium War (1839-42). A very attractive set of this important work by the Dublin-born writer and civil servant Robert Montgomery Martin (c.1802-1868), who served as treasurer of Hong Kong: "His tenure was brief and controversial. Concluding that Hong Kong was unsuitable as a base for British operations... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 129925
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(QATAR.) DAJANI, Khaled. Spoken Arabic of Qatar in English Script.Beirut : 1956
First edition, one of 1, 000 copies printed, and inevitably rare. "This is colloquial Arabic. It is not 'school Arabic', but the real everyday language of the Qatar Arab people" (introduction). Apparently the only edition of one of the earliest guides to the Arabic dialects of the Arabian Gulf. Qatar, then a British Protectorate, was experiencing a... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 131240
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MACDONALD, Duff. Africana;London : 1882
First edition of this important account of Malawi, from the celebrated travel collection of Franklin Brooke-Hitching, with his pencilled initials to the half-titles. Macdonald (1850-1929) arrived in the Shire Highlands in July 1878 as the first ordained minister of the newly-established Church of Scotland mission at Blantyre. During his tenure the mission... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 119304
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CESNOLA, General Louis Palma Di. Cyprus:London : 1877
First edition of this controversial work on Cypriot antiques by Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904) an Italian-American soldier, diplomat, and amateur archaeologist. He was United States consul at Larnaca in Cyprus from 1865 to 1877, a time during which he carried out extensive excavations and uncovered a large quantity of antiquities. The collection... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132949
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OGILBY, John; BOWEN, Emanuel. Britannia Depicta; or, Ogilby Improv'd;London : 1720
First edition, large paper copy, first issue, of this highly popular reduced version of John Ogilby's 1675 road atlas, with Bowen's address given as "next ye King of Spain", plate 128 misnumbered 121, and plates 74 and 75 transposed. Bowles decided to trump Thomas Gardner and John Senex, who were also planning reduced-format reissues of Ogilby, by augmenting... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 123422
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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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NANSEN, Fridtjof. In Northern Mists.London : 1911
First edition in English, published the same year as the Norwegian original, rare in the dust jackets, and a very handsome copy in the superior gilt-stamped variant binding; In Northern Mists is also encountered with the front boards lettered and panelled solely in black. Nansen wrote the book at the request of the Royal Geographical Society: "this... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 119191
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AUSTRALIA. Report from the Select Committee on Transportation.London : 1812
First edition of this uncommon and important paper, providing the only published documentation relating to Macquarie's earliest years. After Bligh was deposed in the Rum Rebellion of 1808, questions were asked about the real value of transportation to New South Wales, and in 1811 a Parliamentary Select Committee was called to inquire into the system... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 114355
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BICHURIN, Iakinf. Sobranie svedeni o narodah, obitavshih v Sredney Azii v drevnie vremenaSt Petersburg : 1851
First edition, considered as the first scientific attempt at an ancient history of Central Asia. This was Bichurin's last work, bringing together data collected over the previous three decades. Inevitably it is mostly based on Chinese materials, but, as Bichurin states in the preface, he wanted to show the ethnic history of the whole region of Central... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 119926
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BICHURIN, Iakinf. Opisaniye chzhungarii i vostochnago turkistana, v'drevnem' i ninshem sostoyanii. Perevedeno s'kitayskago …St Petersburg : 1829
First edition, rare, of this pioneering description of Central Asia by one of the founders of Russian sinology, Iakinf Bichurin (1777-1853); it gathers three Chinese texts in their first European translation. The region covered corresponds to northwest China and Central Asia, comprising East Turkestan and Dzungaria, the latter bounded by the Tan Shan... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 121603
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AZERBAIJAN/DAGESTAN - BEREZIN, Ilya Nikolaevich. Puteshestvie po Dagestanu i Zakavkazyu (Travel to Dagestan and the Transcaucasia).Kazan : 1849
First edition. Extremely uncommon Russian imprint, just two copies traced on WorldCat, Leiden and Warsaw Universities. Historically important, well-written, and highly engaging account of travels through Dagestan and the territory of modern Azerbaijan by Ilya Berezin (1818-1896), a noted Russian Orientalist, Turkologist, later professor of Kazan University... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 121874
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![[Arabic title.] Maured Allatafet, seu Rerum Aegyptiacarum annales, ab anno Christi 971, usque ad annum 1453.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/116745.jpg)
IBN TAGHRIBIRDI, Abu'l-Mahasin Yusuf. [Arabic title.] Maured Allatafet, seu Rerum Aegyptiacarum annales, ab anno Christi 971, usque ad annum 1453.Cambridge : 1792
First edition of this noted history of Egypt from the Fatimid conquest to the mid-15th century. Ibn Taghribirdi (c.1410-1470) was the son of a Mamluk amir and himself a close companion of a son of Sultan Jaqmaq (r. 1438-53); his work is generally critical of the Shi'ite Fatimids and apologetic with regard to the Sunni Mamluks, though together with his... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 116745
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SULLIVAN, Edward The Bungalow and the Tent.London : 1854
First edition. Sullivan, the son of Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Sullivan, was a travel writer whose prose was replete with "true, fresh vivacity, energy, generosity of mind, quickness of observation, and instinct for fun" (The Living Age, Vol. XXXV p. 568). Here Sullivan describes a trip where, "with understated fortitude, he notes being left in the 'agreeable'... Learn More£300.00Stock Code: 127198
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[BURTON, Richard F.] Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S.London : 1863
First edition. "Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he was offered the consulship at Fernando Po, a small, unhealthy island in the Bight of Biafra on the west African coast. When he accepted the position on 27 March 1861 he requested to retain his... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 45033
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SALT, Henry. A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country,London : 1814
First edition of this handsomely illustrated and important 19th-century account of Ethiopia. In 1802 Salt accompanied Viscount Valentia on a tour of India, Ceylon, and the Red Sea, serving as his secretary and draughtsman, and in 1805 was sent by him on a mission to the ras of Tigré, "whose affection and respect he gained, and with whom he left one... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 137509
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LELEWEL, Joachim. Géographie du Moyen Age.Brussels : 1850-2-7
First edition of this work on medieval geography through classical Greek, Latin and Arab sources, by the Polish historian and geographer Lelewel (1786-1861). Considered a "pioneer writer on cartography" (Tooley), he insisted on engraving all of his plates in order to maintain their accuracy. He was educated at the Imperial University of Vilna and, becoming... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 117612
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CARRÈRE, Joseph-Barthélemy-François. A Picture of Lisbon, taken on the Spot:London : 1809
First edition of this timely English translation of Carrère's 1798 Voyage au Portugal et particulèrement Lisbonne. Evidently rushed onto a market craving information on Portugal following Soult's invasion in January 1809. It was variably received at the time: The Monthly Review correctly identifying that it was "derived from a French source", and... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 139694
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ORLICH, Leopold von. Travels in India, including Sinde and the Punjab.London : 1845
First edition in English, same year as the first German, an exceptional association copy, from the personal library of the earl of Ellenborough, who was Governor General at the time of the events described. It is uncommon in the cloth.
Orlich (1804-60) was a Prussian officer in the Emperor Alexander Regiment who sought permission to join the... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 139592
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MOLL, Herman. Atlas Geographus: or, a Compleat System of Geography, Ancient and Modern...London : 1712
First edition in book form, volume III of five, covering Asia, complete in itself and with all listed maps, charts, plates and tables, including maps of Arabia, Persia, India, China, East Indies, Japan, Tartary and Independent Tartary. The complete set of five volumes is notably scarce, and individual volumes highly uncommon. "In 1711, Moll founded... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 94077
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(CHINA) TEICHMAN, Eric. The Consular Officer's Vade-Mecum.Beijing : [1920]
First edition. Detailed notes "on Treaty Interpretation and Precedent and Diplomatic and Consular Procedure in China... intended as an informal guide for junior Consular Officers... and should not be regarded as officially authoritative... blank pages have been inserted for the noting of corrections and additions". Areas covered include: Trade; Courts;... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 124808
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STANLEY, Henry Morton. The Congo and the Founding of its Free State.New York : 1885
First US edition, published in the same year as the London edition. Stanley's self-justificatory account of "opening up the Congo" (ODNB) for Leopold II of the Belgians documents one of the most appalling episodes in the European "Scramble for Africa". A work of official propaganda, it stands as a valuable record of the avowed motivations of the colonial... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 140780
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![Opisanie Bukharskogo Khanstva [Description of the Khanate of Bukhara].](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/117824.jpg)
KHANYKOV, Nikolay Vladimirovich. Opisanie Bukharskogo Khanstva [Description of the Khanate of Bukhara].St Petersburg : 1843
First and only edition, decidedly uncommon, A classic of the literature of the Great Game, essentially an intelligence report towards Russia's strategic ambitions in present day Uzbekistan, it is considered the first attempt at a scientific description of the Khanate of Bukhara.
The author was the noted Russian orientalist, historian and diplomat... Learn More£8,000.00Stock Code: 117824
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LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa;London : 1857
First edition, Bradlow's variant 2: the frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225 are all tinted lithographs by T. Picken, and the extra leaf after page 8 is absent. Frank R. Thorold called this the first issue, and Gaston Renard believed it to be the second, but as many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119267
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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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[BURTON, Richard F.] Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S.London : 1863
First edition. "Newly married and needing employment, Burton approached the Foreign Office for a consular position, hoping for the post at Damascus. Instead, he was offered the consulship at Fernando Po, a small, unhealthy island in the Bight of Biafra on the west African coast. When he accepted the position on 27 March 1861 he requested to retain his... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 74797
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VESELOVSKY, Nikolay Ivanovich. Ocherk Istoriko-Geograficheskikh Svedeniy o Khivinskom Khanstve ot Drevneyshikh Vremen do NastoyashchegoSt Petersburg : 1877
First and only edition, uncommon, with just seven locations on WorldCat. A detailed, but lucid, historical overview of the Khanate of Khiva, part of present-day Uzbekistan, written by the renowned Russian orientalist and archaeologist Nikolay Veselovsky (1848-1918), perhaps best known for his early excavations of Afrasiab, ancient Samarkand. The present... Learn More£7,250.00Stock Code: 117826
