Through The Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There by Carroll, Lewis [Dodgson, Charles] - 1877

Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front board with light blue lettering and linear design.The first edition of Lady Elizabeth Thompson Butler's travel accounts of Ireland, Egypt, the Cape, and Italy, illustrated profusely throughout with colour plates. 28 illustrations from watercolors and 21 smaller sketchesLocale: Egypt; Ireland; Italy; South Africa. (Travel, Travel and Adventure)The first edition of this work. A travel work looking at the turn of the century in Ireland, Egypt, the Cape, and Italy. With a colour frontispiece, twenty-seven colour plates, and numerous in-text monochrome engravings. Written and illustrated by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. Thompson was a famed painter of history paintings, one of the only female painters of her time who found fame with her scenic paintings, such as battle scenes. With six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Collated, complete. Condition: In the original publisher's cloth binding. A little bumping to the tail of the spine and extremities.… Read More

In 2 volumes, frontispiece with titles to each volume (including tissue-guarded to first volume), illustrations in text throughout.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded is in the people's edition cover with original uncancelled title page First Edition, Reprint
Slight rubbing and marking to covers and to endpapers; with bumping to corners, some foxing and marking to first and last few leaves of second volume, both volumes in good condition , green cloth, red and black illustration to upper boards with red borders and black decorative titles, black decorative titles with red detail to lower boards and spines.

Sheba's Daughters. being a record of travel in Southern Arabia.
Original green cloth, title gilt to spine together with Athena's owl.
Boards slightly mottled with slight damage to top and bottom of spine. Please see photos for condition.
Protected in Mylar.
Frontispiece and 46 other plates, folding map at the rear.
First edition with index and an appendix on the rock inscriptions by A. F. L. Beeston.

Part of a Two volumes set. See Volume Two. Numerous B/W pictures, drawings, maps in separate folders. Introduction by Robin Bidwell.

Ali Bey el Abbassi was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and spy in the early 19th century. This volume encompasses his travels in North Africa and the Middle East in the early nineteenth century.

Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. Front board with light blue lettering and linear design.The first edition of Lady Elizabeth Thompson Butler's travel accounts of Ireland, Egypt, the Cape, and Italy, illustrated profusely throughout with colour plates. 28 illustrations from watercolors and 21 smaller sketchesLocale: Egypt; Ireland; Italy; South Africa. (Travel, Travel and Adventure)The first edition of this work. A travel work looking at the turn of the century in Ireland, Egypt, the Cape, and Italy. With a colour frontispiece, twenty-seven colour plates, and numerous in-text monochrome engravings. Written and illustrated by Elizabeth Thompson, Lady Butler. Thompson was a famed painter of history paintings, one of the only female painters of her time who found fame with her scenic paintings, such as battle scenes. With six pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. Collated, complete. Condition: In the original publisher's cloth binding. A little bumping to the tail of the spine and extremities.… Read More

In 2 volumes, frontispiece with titles to each volume (including tissue-guarded to first volume), illustrations in text throughout.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded is in the people's edition cover with original uncancelled title page First Edition, Reprint
Slight rubbing and marking to covers and to endpapers; with bumping to corners, some foxing and marking to first and last few leaves of second volume, both volumes in good condition , green cloth, red and black illustration to upper boards with red borders and black decorative titles, black decorative titles with red detail to lower boards and spines.

Sheba's Daughters. being a record of travel in Southern Arabia.
Original green cloth, title gilt to spine together with Athena's owl.
Boards slightly mottled with slight damage to top and bottom of spine. Please see photos for condition.
Protected in Mylar.
Frontispiece and 46 other plates, folding map at the rear.
First edition with index and an appendix on the rock inscriptions by A. F. L. Beeston.

Ali Bey el Abbassi was a Spanish explorer, soldier, and spy in the early 19th century. This volume encompasses his travels in North Africa and the Middle East in the early nineteenth century.

Folding maps, v, xi, 414p. dj. 24cm. Facsimile of the rare 1857 edition with a New Introduction (2 1/2p.) by Robin Bidwell.