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Voyages Travel VOYAG E S T& R AV E L maggs bros ltd 1 VOYAGES & TRAVEL maggs bros. ltd 50 Berkeley Square, London w1j 5ba Tel: 020 7493 7160 fax: 020 7499 2007 email: [email protected] Catalogue 1444 Bank Account: Allied Irish (GB), 10 Berkeley Square, London W1J5BA Sort code: 23-82-97 Account Number: 47777070 IBAN: GB94AIBK23839747777070 BIC: AIBKGB2L VAT number: GB239381347 Access/Mastercard and Visa: Please quote card number, expiry date, name and invoice number by mail, fax or telephone. EU members: please quote your VAT/TVA number when ordering. The goods shall legally remain the property of the seller until the price has been discharged in full. Items with an * are subject to VAT. Front cover illustration: item 107 Maggs Bros. Ltd. CONTENTS AFRICA 1 [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN] COOKE (Lieut.-Colonel A[nthony] C[harles]) africa 5 Routes in Abyssinia. Presented to the House of Commons, in pursuance of their Address dated November 26, 1867. near and middle east 27 europe, russia and turkey 40 First edition. Large folding lithographed map, coloured in outline at the rear, further folding outline map. 8vo. Ink stamp of the Law Society to the last page india, central asia and far east 55 only, some light browning, a little marginal brittleness with a few leaves with australia and the pacific 83 splits, title page chipped at the fore-margin, but overall very good in modern calf-backed marbled boards. [iv], 252pp. Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationery south america 106 Office by Harrison and Sons, 1867. £1500 central america and the west indies 117 “The object of this compilation is to collect together the information on the routes north america 127 in Abyssinia which is scattered through the works of different travellers...” [From the Preface by Colonel Henry James, Director of the War Office Topographical and arctic and antarctica 150 Statistical Department.] Includes extracts from the works of Salt, Bruce and of a more contemporary nature, Dr. Beke and Münzinger, extracted from the Abyssinian Blue Books. The excellent folding map was compiled by E.G. Ravenstein, Geographer at the Topographical Depôt, from the same range of sources and was produced on the Depôt’s lithographic press under Cooke’s superintendence. Cooke had access to the library and map-room of the Royal Geographical Society in the preparation of this work, and “In return the Topographical Department supplied the RGS with copies of the textual information it compiled and views it reproduced by both lithography and photography.” [Ryan Picturing Empire. p.84] Before entering the War Office Cooke had distinguished himself at the Siege of Sebastopol, directing the right attack, he was later to Command the RE in Bermuda and at Aldershot. Quite an uncommon item, OCLC lists eight copies with this pagination, but without mentioning the maps. Two further copies are mentioned, of the same date, with maps, but of only 109pp. NSTC further muddies the waters by recording a “Second Edition with Maps”, but without offering a pagination. 2 [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN] [NAPIER (Field-Marshal Robert Cornelis, Earl) Item 2 & THEODORE (Emperor of Abyssinia)] Superb Large Transfer Ware Loving Cup. Glazed off-white pottery loving-cup, 117mm high, scrolled handles, pedestal base, on opposite sides are transfer portraits of Napier and Theodore in sea- 6 maggs bros ltd africa 7 green, a frieze of a trophy of arms and an armorial with crossed spears is run 5 [ALGERIA] Album of Pencil Drawings of the French Conquest of Algeria inside the lip, around the foot of the pedestal and along the handles. Small chips in 1844. from the base of the pedestal, glaze minutely crazed, but otherwise very good indeed. No maker’s mark, n.d. but [c.1868] £1500* Light card wrappered landscape 8vo. album, 152 by 228mm, containing twelve An extremely scarce and highly desirable commemorative item relating to the Abyssinian mounted roundels, 115mm diameter, with pencil sketches of scenes from the Expedition, dating is far from exact but must come from the period between the campaign culminating in the battle of Isly, and the bombardment of Tangier and opening of the campaign and before Napier was ennobled as Lord Napier of Magdala, Mogadir, each captioned in ink in a neat copper-plate hand. Some light foxing 17th July, 1868. This cup was purchased in the Blewitt Collection Sale of 2001, having and browning, some of the leaves marginally stained, but overall very good, been exhibited previously in the 1987 “Long to Reign over us” exhibition at Newport the album itself is probably of later construction, the sketches themselves near Museum. contemporary. Unsigned, undated, French, [c.1845.] £850* The drawings are competent, if not professional, the style dramatic and reminiscent 3 [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN] PRIDHAM (John). The Abyssinian Expedition, of popular prints. Beginning with Bugeaud studying the disposition of the Adb el Grand Divertimento. Descriptive of the Battle and Entry into Magdala, for Kader’s camp a variety of images from the Marshal’s campaign are shown; the Chasseurs the Piano-Forte. d’Afrique taking a standard; the rout of the camp; the famous “exploit” of Colonel Morris - who in hot pursuit of fugitives from the camp found himself isolated with five hundred Chasseurs confronting six thousand Arab cavalry. The second group of six illustrations 4to. Sheet music with tinted lithographic cover with some hand-colour. Very concentrate on the naval bombardments of Tangiers and Mogadir. The Prince de good. 13pp. S.J. Brewer & Co. nd [1868]. £500 Joinville is shown planning his attack; the Suffren opening fire; and the Prince leading AMOT 652, 424, “Col. lith. of infantry assaulting heights.” The cover lithography is by the taking of the Forts at Mogadir. Stannard & Son, the red-coats of the British troops have been hand-coloured over the tinted ground. Attractive item from the period of high enthusiasm for mementoes of 6 ALLEN (Capt. William). Retained copy of Orders to Lieut. Webb, dated June the campaign. 29th 1842, written aboard “HM Steamer Wilberforce, Clarence, Fernando Po”. 4 [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN] WAR OFFICE. [Views in Abyssinia.] Autograph manuscript. Folio. 4pp. Clarence, Fernando Po, 1842. £1450 Sole edition. Map & 12 lithographs. Oblong 4to. Half red buckram, spine gilt. Allen took part in Lander and Oldfield’s expedition to the Niger in 1832, but is best known 12pp. London, War Office, nd [but 1867]. £1950 for his involvement with the expedition sent in 1841 to the Niger under Capt. Trotter, Juel-Jenson copy with his bookplate. An extremely uncommon work, it was produced when he commanded the Wilberforce. This document relates to the period immediately under the aegis of Colonel Sir Henry James as Director of the Topographical and following this latter disastrous expedition, which was designed to disrupt the slave trade. Statistical Department of the War Office, the restrikes of the “borrowed” plates being Although a number of treaties were signed with tribal leaders, the expedition was struck carried out at the War Office Topographical Depôt. A great innovator, James was by an epidemic of fever that claimed the lives of many of its crew. Indeed, the prospect also director of the Ordnance Survey from 1857 until 1870, and promoted the use of of further illness still looms large: “if therefore the slightest symptoms of sickness should photozincography in mapping. breakout among your European party you are on no account to attempt it...” Produced with very much the same intent as the illustrative material in Geographical The orders, in the form of a letter, respond to Webb’s request to be given temporary Handbooks of later periods, a visual guide to the terrain to be encountered on campaign. command of the Wilberforce, and proceed to ‘Model Farm’. The orders prohibit him from The illustrations are drawn from a variety of published sources: four are taken from Salt’s proceeding further up river than Rabbah or undertaking any additional exploration. illustrations for Valentia’s Voyages and Travels to India ...; two from Lefebvre’s Voyage en Abyssinie; one from Bernatz’s Scenes in Ethiopia; and five photographically reproduced from Salt’s own Voyage to Abyssinia. 8 maggs bros ltd africa 9 7 ANDERSSON (Charles J.) A Journey to Lake ‘Ngami, and an Itinerary of Particularly rare. This edition precedes the first edition noted by both Theal and the Principal routes leading to it from the West Coast; with the Latitudes of Mendelssohn as being published in 1806. No copies on COPAC, only four on OCLC. some of the Chief Stations. Comprised of thirty-nine letters, this account of the Cape before the rule of the Batavian Republic is more properly a vehicle for the author’s view on slavery - to which he was First edition. 12mo. Modern morocco-backed buckram boards, gilt. 44pp. [Cape opposed - and includes a general history of it from ancient times. The dramatic folding Town], Pike & Riches, 1854. £3500 frontispiece and plates are all after sketches by the author. Hosken, p81; Mendelssohn I, p609; Theal, p116. Andesson’s first separately published work, this little pamphlet is extremely uncommon outside South Africa, it was not recorded in Mendelssohn’s bibliography. The text gives an account of Andersson’s second journey which he began in early 1853, reaching the 9 BAIKIE (Dr.W.B.) Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwora lake some months later. Descriptions of the game and the native races encountered are and Binue, commonly known as the Niger and Tsadda in 1854. given. Copac records just 2 copies in the U.K. (BL. & Nat Hist Mus.), OCLC gives only the BL. While the SAB adds 7 copies. First edition. Frontispiece, folding map & folding plan. 8vo. Half calf, gilt, slightly rubbed.
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