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Basiliae [Basel], per Ioannem Oporinum,, [1550]. Folio. pp. [xii], 297, [xv]. Lacks final blank and two folding tables at the end. With historiated woodcut initials. Some light toning and spotting. Signature P slightly loose. (Bound with Casaubon’s Commentary and notes from his excellent 1587 edition of Strabo, printed by Vignon in Geneva. pp. [viii], 223. With woodcut title border. Wormtrack to lower inner margin from prelims to E, and paper restoration to the upper margin of the last dozen or so leaves affecting text. Some waterstaining.) Later vellum, a little minor wear. The first edition of Gerbel’s description of Greece was a slender volume of 80 pages printed in 1545 to accompany maps by the Corfiot emigre Nicolaos Sophianos. No early editions of the maps survive, and they are known only from the woodcut re-issue of 1602 and an engraved version of 1552. This second edition of Gerbel’s work is to all intents and purposes a different book, expanded into seven sections: a general… Read More

London, 1816. 4to. pp. 292 + lithographed folding map with original hand colour in outline, with short tear, and 20 single-page black and white maps and plans all lithographed by brothers James and Josiah Neele, with a view of St. Alphege Church by R. H. Best lithographed by Josiah Neele alone. Publisher’s blue embossed cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, neat repairs at head and foot of spine. Ownership inscription of F.G. Cox, 12 The Grove, Blackheath, to first page of text, dated 1893; Frederick George Cox was a member of the Greenwich vestry. The folding map is reduced from a 1690s survey by Surveyor General, Samuel Travers. OCLC 65246949. Book

London: Rodwell & Martin , 1822. 4to, engraved title and 64 steel engraved plates by Charles Heath, E.J. Roberts, John Rolfe and others after Batty, interleaved with text. Title slightly cropped, old ownership signature partially washed out from upper margin; plate 57 misbound with plate 13. Modern half calf. Batty was a talented amateur artist who served with the Grenadier Guards in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo. Book

London, printed for E. Newbery [...], [c. 1795]. 12mo. pp. vi, 178, [vi] advertisements + engraved portrait frontis. and 5 engraved plates. Some staining towards the end of the volume. Green vellum spine over marbled boards (as described by Roscoe), worn. Early juvenile ownership isncription: Mary Anne Matthews. Priced 1/6 on title. Elizabeth Newbery succeeded her husband John Newbery, who is generally regarded as the first to publisher to specialize in children’s literature. The first dated edition of this work appears to have been printed in 1789, and there are a number of undated issues which are difficult to pin down precisely (Newbery’s bibliographer Roscoe makes good use of dated ownership insriptions). However, Elizabeth Newbery retired in favour of John Harris in 1801, which gives us a terminus ante quem. Lee Boo’s story caused a sensation at the time. He was both ‘noble savage’ and educational experiment. In 1783 Henry Wilson’s ship, the East Indiaman… Read More

Renton, WA, U.S.A.: T S R, Incorporated, 1990. Mass Market Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0880389052. Book One of The Dark Elf Trilogy. Travel back to strange and exotic Menzoberranzan, the vast city of the drow and homeland to Icewind Dale hero Drizzt Do' Urden. The young prince of a royal house, Drizzt grows to maturity in the vile world of his dark kin. Possessing honor beyond the scope of his unprincipled society, young Drizzt faces an inevitable dilemma. Can he live in a world that rejects intergrity?.

London: Richard Bentley and Son [...], 1892. 8vo. First edition. pp. x, 438 + folding map, 9 plates and numerous text illustrations; original pictorial cloth. The travels in this book arose from Baden-Powell’s appointment as Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Queensland. He later became of a pioneer of military aviation and introduced flying-based activities to his brother Robert’s Scouting movement. Book

Manchester: At the University Press, 1918. 8vo. pp. xiv, 198, [ii] ads. 4 plates, 9 text illustrations, 4 maps, one folding. Occasional light underlining in pencil. Publications of the University of Manchester. Ethnological Series, No. III, publisher’s cloth, a little rubbed. 1936 dated ownership inscription to pastedown. Book

London: Tinsley Brothers , 1864. First edition. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xvii, 386; vi, 412. Bound without half titles. Wood engraved frontispieces to both volumes, slight spotting to first. Small ink stains to vol. 1, p. 113, which has worked loose. Page 181 of volume 2 misnumbered as page 381 (first issue). Contemporary plain green cloth, trivial wear to heacaps. Bookplates of Robert Henry Follett Houston. Book

London: Printed for Joseph Johnson,, 1809. 4to. pp. xii, 238, 89, [i] + engraved portrait frontispiece, view of the British and French positions before Corunna, and two folding maps: Plan of the Action near Coruna and a general map of Spain and Portugal with the march of the British columns (troop movements picked out with original hand-colour, some offsetting on facing text). Light toning, a couple of ink blots and the portrait of Sir John has been idly traced on the tissue guard. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, some wear, rebacked with original spine laid down. Juvenile ownership signature of Ernest Williams above the index. Edited from Sir John Moore’s papers by his younger brother James. Moore was a popular and humane commander; his death during the battle which covered the (successful) embarkation of the remnants of the British army from Spain deflected a certain amount of critiscm from the humiliations of the campaign, but at the time of publication (months after Corunna and… Read More

London: Archibald Constable and Co.,, 1825. 8vo. pp. xx, 374. Scattered foxing throughout. Worn contemporary cloth, lettered direct on spine, rebacked, endpapers renewed. ‘Proctor was the agent for a British loan to Peru. He relates his arrival at Buenos Aires, his journey across the Pampas of Argentina, then over the cordilleras to Santiago and Valparaiso, and by sea to Callao and Lima. He describes a visit to General Bernardo O'Higgins and gives various particulars concerning General Simon Bolivar, General Antonio Jose de Sucre's expedition, and other events of importance in the liberation of Spanish South America’ (Hill). Hill, Pacific Voyages, 1396; Sabin, Bibliotheca Americana, 65951. Book

[London], Printed for Private Circulation [by B. Clay, Sons, and Taylor], , 1882. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt; corners bumped, sporadic light foxing, a few marginal tears and light creases to maps, otherwise a very good copy. Contemporary armorial bookplate of William Frederic Lawrence, Cowesfield, Wilts.Only edition. Presentation copy, inscribed ('From the writer') and initialled by the author, dated July, 1882. The letters record a young traveller's world tour, from Liverpool to Quebec, California, Australia and New Zealand; he spent nearly a year in the Antipodes (1879-80). He then visited China, Japan, the Philippines, South-east Asia, Singapore [check] and India. He and his wife (aged 28 and 22) drowned in the English Channel off Dieppe in 1887: a four-page offprint from the Wokingham Parish Magazine (torn in half) is tipped in. Most of the few known copies were issued without the maps, which were specially commissioned from James Wyld. The copy at the National Library… Read More

Paris, chez Regnault, 1789. 3 vols. 8vo. pp. [iv], iv,368, [ii]; [iv], 382; [iv], 402, [ii] + 3 engraved folding maps (Spain, Madrid and Cadiz, engraved by Pierre François Tardieu) and 9 folding plates. Occasional wormholes in lower margin, one or two small spots and stains, contemporary calf, some wear to joints, headcaps and extremities. Author’s name, ‘Bourgoing’, given in a contemporary hand on front pastedown. Jean-François, baron de Bourgoing (1748-1811) was a French diplomat, writer and translator, who served at the Court of Spain as France’s military attaché and principal assistant to the French ambassador between 1777 and 1783. He was active in negotiations to persuade Spain to join the Franco-American alliance during the American War of Independence (Spain went to war with England and besieged Gibraltar, but did not fully support the American colonists). Book

London: Freemantle & Co , 1902. 2 vols. 4to. Number 16/150, signed by the artists. pp. xvii, [i], 211, [i]; xi, [i], 208 + 40 leaves of plates, and numerous illustrations in the text, japanese vellum blocked in gilt, a touch dusty and with a light half-ring stain to upper cover of volume one; bookseller’s ticket to front pastdown: R.D. Steedman, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A poet and journalist, Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) was also a close friend of Shelley and Keats; his ‘anecdotical’ history of Kensington was first published in 1855. This large-paper limited edition was illustrated and signed by the three artists concerned: Edmund Sullivan, Claude Shepperson and Herbert Railton. Book

London, Chapman and Hall,, 1856. First edition, 8vo. pp. viii, 316. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, a little wear, headcap and part of the lettering pice on the spine neatly renewed. Inscription dated 1969 in red ink to verso of title-page. Walter White (1811-1893) trained as a cabinet maker in his father’s business, but for forty years served as a librarian at the Royal Society. He wrote a number of books based around his walking holidays, including erxpeditions to Mont Blanc, eastern Germany and Bohemia. Book

London: printed for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge [...], 1856. Small 8vo. pp. 354 + 15 wood-engraved plates. Some light staining. Brown publisher’s cloth, blocked in gilt and blind, recased preserving original spine, end-papers etc. Bookseller’s ticket and stamp of W. Simpson, Brighton, and contemporary gift/ownership inscriptions dated 1856. The sixth edition of Murray’s popular and influential book on the Mutiny on the Bounty and the settlement of Pitcairn in its aftermath contains a record of births, deaths and marriages on the island and a table of all ships which called there, from the arrival of the Topaz in 1808. A preface dated August 1856 brings events completely up-to-date, with an account of the proposed abandonment of Pitcairn in favour of Norfolk Island (which had in fact taken place in May-June that year). The Pitcairners began to return just eighteen months later. Book

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, , 1951. 8vo. pp. viii, 324. Very good example in lightly worn dust wrapper. Recollections of an Indian Civil Servant in Burma, and on retirement in rural England. Book

Edindurgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1853. Second edition. 8vo. pp. xiv, [ii], 380, 16 (publisher’s ads) + and tinted lithographic frontispiece and 2 b/w lithographed maps by W. and A.K. Johnston, the second of which (tracing the author’s route in red) is folding; numerous wood engraved b/w vignettes in the text. Spotting at intervals, folding map foxed and with short nicks and tears. Brown publisher’s cloth blocked in gilt and blind, with a vignette of a camel-drawn cart on the front cover, neat restoration to headcap; binder’s ticket of Edmonds and Remnants on lower pastedown as per Abbey. Oliphant’s ‘rambling and adventurous career’ (ODNB) has been the subject of several biographies. He trained as a lawyer, but became known as a traveller, diplomat, journalist and religious mystic. Travelling in Russia shortly before the Crimean War, he warned against ‘Russian aggression’, and by ‘passing as phlegmatic German peasants from some… Read More

London: Rowland Ward Ltd, 1904. First edition, 8vo. pp. 302, with 113 b/w photographic illustrations, both full-page and in the text + two colour-printed folding maps prepared by Stanford’s, both with Demidoff’s route marked in red (one general map bound in at the end, one of Kamchatka folding into pocket on rear pastedown), light spotting to frontispiece, modern red half morocco. Later ownership inscription to free end-paper (L.F. Fisher, Redcar, 1949). The immensley wealthy Count Elim Pavlovich Demidov, third Prince of San Donato, was the Russian Empire's last ambassador to Greece; he died in exile in Athens in 1943. He published a number of accounts of travel and sport in the Russian Empire. This covers a round trip he made from London in 1900 with St George Littledale, who had accompanied him on an earlier shooting trip to the Caucasus. The pair travelled on the new Trans-Siberian railway to Vladivostok, and by steamer to Kamchatka. Book

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown , 1823. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. xvi, 381, [i]; vii, [i], 447, [i] + 4 aquatint plates with original hand colour (one, ‘Chateau Duing’, supplied from another, shorter copy), and with numerous woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary calf, blocked in gilt and blind, neat restoration to joints and headcaps, marbled edges. Contemporary gift inscription to free endpaper: ‘Augustus Cox. The gift of A. Kinnaird’; pencil inscription below, VJA Hyam, Wells, 1963. Armorial bookplate of Augustus Cox to front pastedowns. The Monthly Review (1824) praised ‘the substantial merits of the work, which greatly surpass those of our common books of travels’ noting that the Bakewells were travelling ‘through diistricts little known’ to their countrymen, and that they spent ‘some time’ in each of the places they describe; the reviewer emphasised thr value of Robert Bakewell’s geological observations, and even approved of… Read More

London: George Philip & Son, , 1889. 8vo pp. xviii, 488 + 2 folding maps, lithographed in colours, and 31 full-page plates; with 4 further maps and 37 illustrations in the text. Contemporary prize calf (Proprietary School, Ealing), rebacked, retaining original spine, somewhat worn; modern morocco lettering piece. Thomson also travelled extensively in eastern and southern Africa; Thomson’s Gazelle is named in his honour. Book