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GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX References are to item numbers. A more detailed index is given at the end of the catalogue. We are exhibiting at these fairs: Asia 1, 4, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 32, 33, 36, 39, 40, 44, 45, 54, 55, 56, 59, 61, 62, 65, 67, 74, 75, 77, 78, 83–88, 92, 93, 97, 98, 111, 115, 116, 118–120, 123–126, 128, 129, 132–136, 138–141, 144, 146, 148,

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Antarctica 39, 40, 160, 161, 163, 164, 202 28–30 October boston Europe 17, 28, 34, 38, 40, 43, 51, 53, 59, 63, 69, 76, 78, 89, 91, 95, 107, 113, 114, 166, 184, 196 Hynes Convention Center Australia 16, 39, 40, 60, 98 www.bostonbookfair.com

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VAT no. gb 701 5578 50 Front cover illustration from Johann von der Behr’s Diarium, item 18. Dover St opening hours: 10am–7pm Monday–Friday; 10am–6pm Saturday Illustration above from Fanny Parks’s Wanderings of a Pilgrim, item 137. Peter Harrington Limited. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133–137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 7JY. Design: Nigel Bents; Photography Ruth Segarra. Registered in England and Wales No: 3609982 www.peterharrington.co.uk All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120

1 responsible for the sections on mollusca and crustacea in collaboration with Lovell Reeve (autodidact conchologist, natu- ADAMS, Arthur (ed.) The Zoology of the Voyage of 1 2 ral history dealer, author and publisher of the monumental H.M.S. Samarang; Under the Command of Captain Sir Conchologia iconica, who was also the publisher of the present Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. London: work) and Adam White (assistant to the Keeper of the Zoologi- the Slave Trade. London: for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848–50 cal Department of the British Museum, and author of the 1847 Harrison and Sons, 1892 6 parts, folio. Original green cloth-backed green card printed wrap- List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection), respectively. The 2 volumes, octavo (236 × 150 mm). Contemporary black half calf, dark pers, rebacked. Housed in a green morocco-backed book-style drop- section on fishes was written by Sir John Richardson, who had blue cloth sides (vol. I morocco-grain and vol. II watered), spines back box by Newbold and Collins of Sydney. With 55 tissue-guarded accompanied Franklin on his first two expeditions, was with gilt in compartments, raised bands, buff endpapers, edges speckled plates: 52 lithographs and 3 engravings, of which 35 (32 of the lith- John Rae on his search for Franklin in 1847, and who has been red. Occasional blindstamps of the Barbados Corporation. Slightly ographs and all the engravings) are hand-coloured. The transfer to described as “eminent in medicine, exploration, and natural rubbed overall, extremities bumped, vol. II sunned along head of plates was undertaken by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, James De history” (ODNB); the commentary on the vertebrata is provid- front board, spotting to endleaves of vol. I, a few pages finger-marked Carle Sowerby, and C. W. Wing. Ex-library copies from the Boston So- ed by John Edward Gray, Keeper of the Zoological Department in the margins not affecting text. A very good copy. ciety of Natural History, with library blindstamp to titles, some wrap- at the British Museum. first edition, one of 500 copies printed, a printed issue-slip pers and occasionally to the margins of plates, bookplates to verso tipped in at the title page of volume I appearing to indicate that of front panels of the wrappers recording purchase from the Courtis The front panel of the wrappers of Mollusca Part I is inscribed: a maximum of 250 copies were actually issued in the first in- Fund, apart from the final part which has a plate which records pres- “Dr. Gould with Lowell Reeve’s regards” and Part II, probably stance, with six copies only now traced in libraries worldwide. entation from the E. R. Mayo library, inked accession inscriptions to secretarially, “With the Author’s Compts.” An excellent set of This handbook for British sailors was published in light of the the front panels dating from 1849, except the last which was obtained this elusive and important work. Extremely uncommon, just in 1891; externally slightly browned and soiled, a little chipped at the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889–90 and significantly four sets at auction in the last 50 years, no other copy retaining extremities, contents lightly browned, a very good set. in the same year as the Exclusive Agreement, the last in a series the wrappers traced at sale. first edition of the official publication of the zoological re- of 19th-century treaties agreed between the various Gulf sheik- sults of Belcher’s extensive surveying voyage in the Malay Ar- Abbey 529, for the official account of the voyage, this zoological record noted doms and the British, for whom the suppression of slavery and but not described; Hill 105, present work not noted; Howgego, II, B25; Nissen piracy provided a useful pretext for the protection of Indian chipelago. The report was edited by Arthur Adams, assistant ZBI 289; Sabin 28400. surgeon on board the Samarang, who acted as scientific officer shipping routes. Reproduced here in full are the texts in each for the voyage. “The desire shown by the Commander of the £30,000 [96702] treaty signed between the United Kingdom and the Gulf sheik- Expedition to afford every facility in the pursuit of science, en- doms from 1820 to 1847. abled me to bring together numerous observations, to collect The emergence of the modern Gulf states £7,500 [104970] specimens, and make sketches and drawings of many of those 2 more rare and evanescent forms of life which it is my hope may help to advance the Zoology of that part of the globe” (Pref- (ADMIRALTY.) Instructions for the Guidance of Her ace, p. vi). Adams was himself an accomplished malacologist, 1 Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of

2 3 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 The earliest reference in history to a language named after the Arabs 3 (AGATHARCHIDES, et al.) [Title in Greek letters.] Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone exerptae historiae, Appiani Iberica. Item de gestis Annibalis. Omnia nunc primum edita. Cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus. Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1557 Octavo (161 × 106 mm). 18th-century speckled calf, title gilt to spine within double fillet panel in second compartment, similar panels containing flower and vase tools to the other compartments, double fillet panel to boards. Greek types. Erosion on boards from the sprin- kling now stabilised, restoration to head- and tail-caps and joints, light toning, mild damp-stain to the upper, inner quadrant of the text from the rear, overall very good. editio princeps of these five Greek histories, including Pho- tius’s recension of “On the Erythrean [Red] Sea” by Agath- archides. “Agatharchides’ original text is lost, but extracts and digests of it are found in three later authors: Diodorus Siculus, Strabo and the collection of extracts made by the Byzantine 5 theologian Photius in the ninth century ad … Of these three witnesses … the Photius text is considered closest to the origi- 5 nal” (Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity, p. 295): Diodorus extensively ALDAMER, Shafi; Richard Mortel; Humberto da altered the text to fit his “distinctive literary style”, whereas Strabo’s immediate source was not Agatharchides at all but Silveira. The Visit of HRH Princess Alice, Countess of the lost geography by Artemidorus of Ephesus (Burstein, Aga- Athlone and the Earl of Athlone to the Kingdom of Saudi tharchides of Cnidus, p. 38). Photius’s version is unique in refer- Arabia 25 February–18 March 1938, With a Summary ring to an aromatic plant “which in Arabic (arabistii) is called of Saudi-British Relations. Riyadh: King Abdulaziz Public larimna”, a passage found at p. 71 of the present text: if part of Library, printed Anis Commercial Printing Press, Beirut, 2007 Agatharchides’s original account, this would be “the earliest Quarto. Original grey cloth, title in toned grey to the front board, reference in history to a language named after the Arabs” and publisher’s device similarly to the tail of spine. With the dust jacket. 4 Retso has “no doubt that Photius had a text very close to Aga- Profusely illustrated from the countess’s photographs, 2 of them in tharchides’ original before him” (Retso, p. 300). colour. Text in English throughout. Very good in jacket with minor also contains the earliest extensive account of the geography sive, folding hand-coloured geological sections at the rear. A little crumpling along the edges. “On the Erythrean Sea”, an account of an expedition to the rubbed, spine sunned, corners bumped and slight string-notches to and ethnography of the coats of northeast Africa and Western first and only edition, the first publication of photo- west coast of Arabia ordered by Ptolemy II in 280 bc in reac- the fore-edges of boards, small patch at the fore-edge of the front Arabia” (Burstein). Several peoples are identified as “arabes”, graphs taken by HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, on tion to Seleucid expansion in the region, has been identified board rubbed through, some foxing to the frontispiece, largely ver- including the “Nabataoi” (Nabateans), “Thamoudenoi” (Tha- her 1938 historic state visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as “the most important source for an almost forgotten chap- so, light browning, but overall a very good copy, hinges tight and mud) and “Gasandoi” (Ghassanids). This edition of Agath- undertaken with her husband the Earl of Athlone, and her ter in the history of discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea text and plates clean. archides precedes its appearance in Hoeschel’s editio princeps son, Lord Frederick Cambridge. The countess, Queen Victo- … by the agents of the Ptolemaic government in Egypt … It of Photius’s Bibliotheca, itself based on a manuscript owned by first edition. “Ainsworth was one of the founding members of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1835 he was appointed ria’s longest surviving grandchild, was the first British royal to Estienne, by nearly half a century. This highly significant early visit the country, and the only British royal to meet King Ab- source for the region also includes the first separate work on surgeon and geologist to the Euphrates expedition. This account of the geological work [of the expedition] is dedicated to dulaziz. The tour took in Riyadh, Hofuf, and Dammam, and India by Ctesias of Cnidos and two books by Appian that were Princess Alice met Noura bint Abdul Rahman, sister of the not included in Estienne’s 1551 edition. Francis Chesney head of the expedition. Ainsworth produced this work very quickly, long before Chesney’s own account had king and other members of the Saudi royal family. The images Adams C3020. appeared” (Atabey). The expedition was intended to “examine show the kingdom right on the cusp of its major transforma- tion – oil was struck in significant commercial quantities for £1,750 [94741] the feasibility of opening up the Mesopotamian rivers to steam navigation as a new route to India, as well as asserting British the first time at Dammam No. 7 in the same year. The original photographs are in the collection of the King Abdulaziz Public 4 political presence in the area, promoting British commercial ties, and gathering scientific and archaeological data” (ODNB). Library, and had never previously been published. Most were AINSWORTH, William Francis. Researches in Assyria, Ainsworth contributed “ geological sections across northern shot in black and white, but the few taken in colour are be- Babylonia, and Chaldea; forming Part of the Labours of Syria and the Taurus Mountains, discovered several deposits of lieved to be the first colour photos to be taken of the Kingdom, the Euphrates Expedition. London: John W. Parker, 1838 commercially important minerals in Mesopotamia and Anato- certainly predating the advent of Aramco’s well-resourced pho- Octavo. Original blue-green finely diaper cloth, title gilt to spine, lia, and explored a substantial part of south-east Persia”. tographic department by several years. This copy has laid-in panels and elaborate strapwork centre-tool to boards, cream sur- two original press photographs depicting the party’s outward Atabey 10; Howgego II, C26; not in Blackmer, Weber or Wilson. face-paper endpapers. Tinted lithographic frontispiece, steel-en- journey from London via Cairo. graved title-page vignette and 4 further similar vignettes, 3 exten- 3 £1,250 [95148] £1,250 [102589]

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4 volumes, octavo (204 × 127 mm). Contemporary tree calf, smooth entails serious responsibilities … Aramco employees having a spines, red morocco labels, single gilt rules, ex-libris the Cruising As- real interest in the Company and the Arabs should, it is hoped, sociation, with monogram in gilt at foot of spine, gilt stamps on front find the Handbooks entertaining; but that is not their primary boards (these marks more attractive than otherwise), and ink de-acces- purpose … The Handbooks are designed to give information sion stamp to front free endpaper in vol. I. Engraved frontispiece por- about the Aramco enterprise itself and about Arabia and the trait of George III, 23 engraved portraits, 7 engraved maps coloured in outline (6 folding); engraved title pages only as issued. With ownership Arabs which will help employees understand the reasons be- inscriptions of G. Rushout, 1788, to front free endpapers and a con- hind Aramco policies and objectives” (vol. I, i-iii). Five volumes temporary ink sketch of a Georgian gentleman to the front pastedown cover: Aramco and World Oil; The Work and Life of Aramco 6 in vol. I, apparently in the same hand. Lightly rubbed, an excellent set. Employees; The Background of Arabia and the Middle East; first edition of this early account of Britain’s foreign entan- Saudi Arabia, the Government, the People, the Land; and The “It was a magnificent scene … the Blue Mountains, eight black forests were upon their sides, and patches of bright em- glements around the time of the American Revolution. A moral- Culture and Customs of the Arabs. thousand feet high, towered above a stratum of clouds, the erald green, and white houses, were seen as we ran along the ist with a didactic approach to history, Andrews “criticized post- Lebkicher (1895–1968) joined Standard Oil of California as rugged hills below them furrowed by ravines” south coast towards Port Royal” (Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising 1763 policies that had precipitated the American war … He none a petroleum geologist in 1924. Having made his first trip to Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the the less thought that the Americans, an ambitious people, would Saudi Arabia in 1935, soon after the 1933 concession agreement 6 West Indies, 1833, Vol. I, p. 285). The present watercolour was in- eventually have insisted on independence anyway. Britain, he between Standard Oil and the House of Saud, he was posted ALEXANDER, Sir James Edward. Original watercolour tended to be an illustration for his Transatlantic Sketches, but was predicted, would not suffer unduly from the loss. ‘Through the there permanently in 1952 as Director of Training at the Ara- not included in the final publication, the Caribbean being repre- view of the coast of Jamaica with the Blue Mountains in excellence of her constitution, and the wisdom of her govern- mco headquarters in Dhahran (the name having been adopted sented by views of St Vincent and Havana. ment, but, above all, through the genius, the industry, and the the background and two fishing boats in the foreground. in 1944). His co-author George Rentz Jr (1912–1987) joined Ar- persevering disposition of her people’, he argued that the nation Jamaica: 1831 Alexander (1803–1855) was a British army officer and fellow amco in 1946, having spent the war working in propaganda in of the Royal Geographical Society who volunteered to exe- would climb to even greater heights” (ODNB). Egypt with the Office of War Information, and established the Watercolour and ink on paper (90 × 380 mm), titled in pencil “Blue Mt. company’s Arabian Research and Translation division, which Jamaica” in the lower right corner; mounted on contemporary grey cute commissions for the Society and “literary and scientific Howes A259, “aa”; Sabin 1501. individuals” travelled to South America in 1831. He went up he ran until 1954. He remained with Aramco until 1963, when card mount (440 × 555 mm) with wash-line; titled, initialled, and dated £1,750 [109815] in reddish ink “Blue Mountain, Jamaica, 1831, J.E.A.”, window-mount- the Essequibo River and travelled to the Caribbean, where he he became curator of the Middle East Collection at the Hoover ed, framed and glazed. Mount a little soiled and with a few minor chips, visited Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St Vincent, Ja- Institution, Stanford University. His doctoral thesis on Wah- but the sketch itself clean and overall in very good condition. maica “with its blue mountains, fertile savannahs, and deadly 8 habism and the origins of the Saudi Arabian state, originally A highly evocative watercolour view of the Jamaican coastline lagoons”, and Cuba. From there he sailed to New Orleans, trav- (ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.) LEBKICHER, submitted at the University of California, Berkeley in 1948, was with the famed Blue Mountains, the longest mountain range of elling extensively in America (meeting the president in Wash- Roy, Max Steineke, George Rentz Jr, & others. American finally published in 2006 as The Birth of the Islamic Reform Move- the island, in the background. Sir James Alexander, the artist, ington DC), before returning to Liverpool. Employees Handbook Series. New York: Arabian American ment in Saudi Arabia. They were assisted in the compilation of noted the grandeur of this very scene in the published version of Oil Company, 1950 the handbook by Max Steineke, the company’s chief geologist £1,500 [98688] from 1936 until 1950, who is credited with the first discovery of his travels: “After a week’s run we sighted afar off the dim outline 5 volumes, quarto (279 × 217 mm). Original spiral-bound printed grey oil in commercial quantities in Saudi Arabia. Scarce in com- of part of St Domingo, and then the lofty mountains near Point 7 wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white with Morant, the eastern cape of Jamaica. It was a magnificent scene, original maps, tables, photographs and drawings. Slightly tanned merce and only one complete set in UK libraries, though fairly this part of the island; the Blue Mountains, eight thousand feet ANDREWS, John. History of the War with America, overall, a few faint marks to wrappers, occasional informed annota- prevalent in US institutions; an excellently preserved copy of a high, towered above a stratum of clouds, and the rugged hills France, Spain, and Holland; commencing in 1775 and tions in pencil. An excellent set. somewhat self-destructive production. below them were furrowed by ravines; we could see no level ending in 1783. In Four Volumes with Portraits Maps and first edition of the first iteration of this detailed handbook £1,750 [100008] land, but the steep cliffs descended abruptly into the sea, on Charts. London: published by His Majesty’s royal licence and for Aramco employees. An interesting document of American- which were one or two small coasting vessels. As we approached authority; for John Fielding and John Jarvis, 1785–6 Arab relations in the mid 20th century: “The strictly American nearer, we observed that the hills were not altogether barren, flavor of the Aramco enterprise in a country like Saudi Arabia

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9 ing to spine, surface-splitting to inner hinge, leaves and material with Items include Aramco’s Saudi Arabia, revised edition (San Fran- The first American Gulf pilot occasional staining from adhesive and the odd fold or tear as expect- (ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.) LEBKICHER, cisco, February 1949): a rare precursor to the more lavishly ed, a few pouches loose. Overall very good. produced and detailed employee handbooks by Roy Lebkicher 11 Roy; George Rentz; Max Steineke. Handbooks for a unique scrapbook containing over 100 documents, tell- that appeared from 1950, providing information on Aramco (ARABIAN PENINSULA.) Red Sea and Gulf of Aden American Employees. New York: Russell F. Moore Company ing the story of the application and appointment of San Fran- centres of operation, Saudi culture and restrictions as well as Pilot. Comprising the Suez Canal, the Gulfs of Suez and Inc. & Arabian American Oil Company, 1952 cisco-based engineer Harold D. Vance to the Arabian American working conditions and requirements; two similar Aramco Akaba, the Red Sea and Strait of Bab el Mandeb, the 2 volumes, quarto. Vol. I in original green cloth lettered in gilt on Oil Company (Aramco), his journey via Europe and the Levant booklets concerning retirement planning and life insurance Gulf of Aden with Sokotra and adjacent Islands, and the spine and front board; vol. II wire spiral-bound in the original printed to Saudi Arabia, his training, and his early days at the Aramco (each in duplicate); several letters and memoranda from Ara- Southeast Coast of Arabia to Ras al Hadd. Washington: sand-grain card wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour and black headquarters in Dhahran. Incorporating original photographs, mco concerning terms of employment abroad – a typical let- and white, full-page coloured maps. Vol. I with bookplate to front newspaper clippings, a range of personal and business corre- ter outlines the items considered contraband in Saudi Arabia, Published by the Hydrographic Office under the Authority of the pastedown, very lightly rubbed along extremities and a touch sunned Secretary of the Navy, Government Printing Office, 1916 on spine, an excellent copy; vol. II wrappers a little rubbed at the ex- spondence, rare Aramco staff publications and maps, in addi- which range from “All human or animal images (Company Octavo. Original red-brown cloth, title gilt to spine and front board. tremities, some separation at spine, but on the whole very good. tion to an eclectic mix of ephemera (in particular tickets and employees are allowed to import dolls upon payment of 30% stamped envelopes, several with explanatory annotations by Advalorem Duty)” to “Amcer electric refrigerators”; a pho- Folding colour map frontispiece. Bookplate to front free endpaper. A revised edition of the preceding item. Lebkicher celebrated Vance), this scrapbook charts Vance’s personal involvement tographic pamphlet giving an overview of the Aramco train- little rubbed and spotted, spine marked and with minor damage at 30 years with the company in the post of Director of Training, the head, corners slightly bumped, light toning, but a very good copy. with Aramco at a highly significant moment in the history of ing centre in Sidon, Lebanon, which closed in 1958 owing to explaining in the Aramco Dhahran house paper Sun & Flare that the company and in modern geopolitics. In 1933, a year after be- intense civil strife; and a folding schematic map of Dhahran first edition of this naval pilot. Of particular interest is the he had always “regarded Aramco as an American-directed enter- coming the first ruler of a united Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud signed from 1953 (opening to 280 × 280 mm), with six photographs account of settlements unrecognisable today: Jeddah “is mile prise having a very special importance in the world. The going an agreement with Standard Oil of California to allow them to printed on verso illustrating Aramco’s efforts to make the area square, and inclosed [sic] by a wall, with small towers at in- has often been rough, and there is still plenty to do and many begin searching for oil; they finally struck significant reserves as familiar as possible for its American employees. tervals, the angles toward the sea being commanded by two problems to solve, but when I look at what Aramco has accom- in 1938 and in 1944 changed their name to the Arabian-Amer- forts” (p. 311), whereas Aqaba “is a small Arab village, in an ex- plished in 21 years since April 1933, I am happy and proud”. Despite Aramco’s sustained efforts to recreate a particular kind of ican Oil Company (Aramco). On discovering the discrepancy tensive date grove … Close to the village is a small square fort, lifestyle in the Arabian desert, this veneer of comfort and respect- between the taxes Aramco paid to the US government and the garrisoned by Turkish soldiers” (p. 278). This is not to be con- £950 [94788] ability could prove just as illusory in a Saudi context as an Ameri- royalties it paid to his own, Ibn Saud successfully negotiated a fused with the British title of the same name, first published in can one: Vance has also kept a typed list enumerating the qualities 50 per cent share of Aramco revenues, threatening otherwise 1863, though deriving much of its information from the sixth 10 of “The typical Aramco man”, who “Mixes one batch of Martinis to nationalise his country’s oil: an ultimatum mirrored by con- edition (1909) of that publication. (ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.) VANCE, per day”, “Has one nervous breakdown (only one allowed per contemporary developments in Iran and Venezuela and certainly in- Macro 314 for 8th edition of the British title. Harold D. [Aramco scrapbook.] San Francisco, The Azores, tract)”, and is “Allowed one divorce per contract, if necessary”. forming Nasser’s decision to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956. £1,250 [100003] Rome, Beirut, Sidon, Dhahran: 1951–3 Prior to his appointment, Vance served in the US Army during £3,000 [100129] Quarto (300 × 255 mm). Two-tone cloth, decorative panel to front 1940–46, then for the Edward R Bacon Company in San Francis- board in blind partially coloured in brown and extending to spine, co during 1946–52, with a break from 1951 to 1952, during which material both tipped and laid in, with several pouches. Damp-stain- he saw active duty in the US Navy in Korean waters.

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12 bead and chain panel with small floral tools to the corners, gilt edges, beaded roll gilt to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers. With engraved ARCHER, Edward Caulfield. Tours in Upper India, and frontispiece and 6 engraved maps and charts, 4 of them large and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains; with Accounts of folding, illustrations to the text, errata/directions to the binder leaf the Native Princes, &c. London: Richard Bentley, 1833 present at the rear. Boards a little scuffed with the occasional scrape, 2 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth-backed drab boards, paper neatly restored as also the head- and tailcaps, light browning to the labels to spines. Half-titles present. A little rubbed and soiled on text, overall a very good copy. boards, string-notches to the fore-edges, labels slightly chipped, first edition in english of Arrian’s account of the navarch cloth of lower hinge of volume I just split at the head, foxing to the Nearchus’ voyage from the Indus estuary to the Tigris in 325 endpapers and fore-edge, text-block just a touch toned, but overall a bc, in effect the Greek “discovery” of the Arabian Peninsula. very good copy indeed. “It was in the time of Alexander that the land of Oman was first 14 first edition. Late in 1827 Archer, a major in the 16th Lanc- seen by Europeans. His admiral, Nearchus, when passing up ers, had accompanied Stapleton Cotton, Lord Combermere, the Persian Gulf, sighted Cape Maceta or Cape Mussendom, India Marine Board and superintendent for Bombay, and later pher, probably Louis Haghe, had little “working up” or “im- Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, on an extensive tour and heard from the pilot of a great Omani emporium … Al- governor of Prince of Wales Island, Penang. proving” to do, to create highly attractive and effective images. of Northern India as aide de camp. “Amongst the description exander hearing his report, determined on sending an expe- of official inspection of troops and fortifications, he added dition to circumnavigate the Arabian peninsula, but his early Macro 2253; Howgego, I, N10; Wilson p. 237. James Atkinson (1780–1852), a surgeon in the Bengal service, superb stories of the history associated with the numerous death in Babylon put an end to this and other schemes, and for £2,500 [94709] attracted Lord Minto’s attention for his linguistic skills and locales, of the best of Mughal architecture, and about the rich- nearly a hundred years no fresh light was thrown on the land” was appointed assistant assay master at the mint, which he ness of the agrarian landscape … Archer’s narrative offers an (Miles, The Tribes and Countries of the Persian Gulf, p. 8). 14 retained until 1828. In 1833, after a furlough in England, he re- important view of the state of Upper India at the close of the turned to his original profession as surgeon to the 55th NI, and In the course of his work Vincent consulted Niebuhr, “the best 1820s” (Riddick). ATKINSON, James. Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: in 1838 was chosen as Superintending Surgeon to the Army of modern travellers surviving”; James Rennell, whose “ci- Henry Graves & Company; J. W. Allen & Co.; and Day & Haghe, of the Indus during the First Afghan War. He was “relieved in Riddick, Glimpses 68; Yakushi A83. vilities will not be erased from my mind”; Mr. Jones, later Sir 1842 the ordinary course of routine shortly after the surrender of Harford Jones-Brydges, “resident for the Company at Busheer £2,500 [107000] Dost Mohammad” and returned to Bengal in 1841 – “and thus and Basra” from whom he “obtained much information in the Large folio (540 × 367 mm). Original green morocco-backed green moiré boards, title gilt to spine and front board, French fillet in escaped the fate which awaited the army of occupation”. At- space of a short interview”; and Alexander Dalrymple who “de- The Greek “discovery” of the Arabian Peninsula blind and double gilt rule, thick and thin at spine edges, cream kinson is perhaps best remembered for his translations from mands the utmost tribute of my gratitude”. endpapers. Single-tint lithographic title page, and 25 similar plates, 13 Persian, his selections from the Shâh Nâmeh of Firdausi being An inscription to the second blank records the presentation lithographic dedication leaf, and letterpress leaf of descriptions, the most notable, but he evidently possessed considerable, if (ARRIAN.) VINCENT, William (ed.) The Voyage of of this copy to John Spratt Rainier “in 1799 by his friend Philip printed in blue in double column. All original guard-sheets in place. amateur, artistic abilities. This title is often encountered loose, Elaborate armorial bookplate of Hugh, 2nd Duke of Westminster to Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected Dundas Esqre”; with the ownership inscription of J. Rainier front pastedown. Just a little rubbed, almost imperceptibly recased ragged and heavily foxed; this is a really superior copy, largely from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and McQueen facing on the first blank verso. Admiral Rainier (d. where shaken loose from the gutta-percha, some foxing as usual, clean and bright, and carefully restored. Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern; 1836) was the nephew of Admiral Peter Rainier (1741–1808), but a very good copy indeed. Abbey, Travel 508; Colas 173; Lipperheide 1493; Tooley 73. and like him served largely on the East Indies Station: in 1796 containing an Account of the First Navigation attempted first edition. Without doubt one of the finest illustrated he commanded the 16-gun Swift as one of his uncle’s squad- £6,000 [102546] by Europeans in the Indian Ocean. London: T. Cadell, Jun., books on Afghanistan, the plates depict a selection of superb ron at the seizure of the Dutch possessions of Amboyna, in the and W. Davies, 1797 views on the march – Bolan Pass, Quetta, Khojak Pass, Kan- Moluccas, and Banda Neira. Philip Dundas (c.1763–1807), also dahar, and Kabul. The highly detailed, yet skilfully composed Quarto (279 × 212 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked served with the Navy in India, became president of the East with the original spine laid down, black morocco label, flat spine gilt and sensitively coloured, originals for these plates, 16 of which centre-tool of a roundel enclosing a three-master to compartments, are now in the British Museum, show clearly that the lithogra- dolphin corner-pieces, double fillet gilt panel to boards enclosing a

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Foolscap quarto (333 × 200 mm). Later blue paper wrappers. Housed ability of any Opposition from the Natives … he saw very few in a black cloth flat back box. Stab-holes visible, title page somewhat … and had Reason to believe that the Country was very thinly browned and a little soiled, the rest of the contents toned, one or two peopled … the Climate was similar to that about Toulouse … minor paper flaws, very good. the Proportion of rich Soil was small in Comparison to the bar- 15 16 first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the ren, but sufficient to support a very large Number of People; title page by the committee chairman, Sir Charles Bun- there were no tame Animals, and he saw no wild Ones … but published in 1749, Attiret offered an enthusiastic description of The “beautiful disorder” of Chinese gardens bury, the “good-natured but neglectful sporting gentleman observed the Dung of what were called Kangerous, which were the imperial park of Yuanming yuan (Garden of Perfect Bright- who preferred the company of grooms and jockeys”, to George about the Size of middling Sheep, but very swift and difficult to 15 ness) under the reign of the Qianlong emperor … Attiret’s ac- Townshend, first marquess Townshend, hero of Quebec, and catch … there were no Beasts of Prey, and he did not doubt that count is the most detailed description of a Chinese imperial ATTIRET, Jean-Denis. A Particular Account of the shortly before this Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. This highly in- our Oxen and Sheep, if carried there, would thrive … there was park to reach Europe in the 18th century and thus provided an Emperor of China’s Gardens near Pekin: in a Letter from fluential parliamentary report was instrumental in initiating great Plenty of Fish … The Grass was long and luxuriant, and essential source for Western knowledge of the gardens of Chi- F. Attiret, a French Missionary, now employ’d by that the establishment of the penal colony at Botany Bay, and with there were some eatable Vegetables … Abundance of Timber na” (Bianca Maria Rinaldi, ed., Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Emperor to Paint the Apartments in those Gardens, to it British colonisation of Australia. and Fuel, sufficient for any Number of Buildings”. Accounts, 1300–1860, 2016, Ch. 9). his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir In 1779 a parliamentary committee was set up to consider the Cordier I, p. 123. Banks’s testimony was crucial in convincing the committee Harry Beaumont [pseud. of Joseph Spence]. London: R. appalling conditions in Britain’s prisons, a situation further that it would be of “Public Utility if the Laws which now di- Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1752 £1,250 [109230] exacerbated by the miserable state of the hulks on the Thames. rect and authorize the Transportation of certain Convicts to Octavo (202 × 120 mm). Recent dark grey wrappers, red speckled edg- The secondary objective of the committee was to weigh the var- … North America, were made to authorize the same to any es. A little staining to half-title and final leaf. A very good copy. 16 ious possibilities “relating to the Transportation of Offenders other Part of the Globe that may be found expedient”; and first edition in english and first separate edition of At- (AUSTRALIA.) Report from the Committee who were to Foreign Parts”. North America, in a state of revolution, was the authority of Banks’s evidence determined that Botany no longer an option, and it was the evidence offered by Joseph tiret’s “influential account of the emperor of China’s gardens” appointed to consider the Several Returns, which have Bay “on the Coast of New Holland, in the Indian Ocean” was (ODNB); it was originally published as part of Lettres édifiantes Banks, based on his experiences as a naturalist with Cook on eventually chosen. been made to the Order of the House of Commons et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de Endeavour, that proved most persuasive. Directly asked which Extremely uncommon: Copac locates copies at BL and Bristol la compagnie de Jésus (Paris: Guérin, 1749). “Jean-Denis Attiret of the 16th Day of December 1778, That there be laid place “in any distant Part of the Globe” he would consider best Central Library only; OCLC adds Duke and the University of (1702–1768) arrived in China in 1738 to join the French Jesuit before this House, an Account of Persons convicted of to transport a colony of Felons “whence their Escape might be Melbourne. mission and from 1739 spent the remainder of his life serving Felonies or Misdemeanours, and now under Sentence of difficult, and where, from the Fertility of the Soil, they might at the Qing court as a painter. He was the first Western traveller Imprisonment, in the Gaols and Houses of Correction be enabled to maintain themselves, after the First Year”, he un- Not in Black, Goldsmith’s or Kress. to perceive the spatial mechanism that determined the design in the City of London, and the Counties of Middlesex, hesitatingly suggested Botany Bay, adducing a wide range of £9,750 [102603] of Chinese gardens. In a letter written from Beijing in 1743 and Essex, Kent, Herts, Surrey, and Sussex … London: 1779 factors in its favour: “He apprehended that would be little Prob-

12 13 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 practices of European Companies” (see Floor & Faghfoory, The First Dutch–Persian Commercial Conflict: The Attack on Qeshm Island, 1645). A view of the attack on Qeshm is included in the somewhat naïve, but nonetheless splendid, plates which also show Batavia, Goa, St Helena, and Kamron in Persia, and images of some of the unusual flora and fauna encountered by Behr – co- conut trees, the cinnamon tree, an elephant hunt, flying fish, and so forth. The title is well held institutionally but scarce in commerce, with just one copy at auction in the last 50 years. Landwehr, VOC, 309. £12,500 [96772]

19 BENT, Theodore & Mabel. Southern Arabia. Soudan and Socotra. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900 Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, device in blind to the front board. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 25 half-tone plates, 6 coloured maps, 5 of them folding. Spine a little sunned, pale toning, a scatter of foxing to the fore-edge, else an unusually well- preserved copy. first edition, later issue. Bent and his wife surveyed in the Arabian Peninsula extensively between 1893 and his death in 1897, adding “much to European knowledge of the Hadhramaut country, the mountainous area backing the Gulf of Aden … In Novem- ber 1896 he traversed Socotra and explored the little-known country within 50 miles of Aden. His last journey was through parts 17 18 of southern Arabia in 1897” (ODNB). This account of those last explorations – divided into sections on Southern Arabia, Muscat, Ayrouard dedicates the work to Jean Frédérick Phélypeaux, A working waggoner for the Mediterranean including the 18 the Hadhramaut, Dhorat and the Gara Mountains, the Eastern comte de Maurepas, secretary to the royal household and min- first printed chart of Monaco BEHR, Johann von der. Diarium, oder Tage-Buch über Soudan, the Mahri Island of Sokotra, Beled Fadhli and Beled Yafei ister of the navy in the court of Louis XV, who was prominent dasjenige, so sich Zeit einer neun-järigen Reise zu Was- – was edited by his wife Mabel, “herself an intrepid traveller”, and 17 in attempts to introduce a more scientific approach to naval ser und Lande, meistentheils in Dienst der Vereinigten is illustrated by “her important and early photographs”. AYROUARD, Jacques. Recueil de plusieurs plans des affairs until he was exiled in 1749 for writing derogatory epi- grams about the king’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour. The Geoctroyrten Niederländischen Ost-Indianischen Com- Macro 524. ports et rades et de quelques cartes particulières de la mer pagnie, besonders in denselbigen Ländern täglich bege- méditerranée, avec les figures des terres remarquables Conseil de la Marine, for whom this work appears to have been £2,000 [95175] produced, had been founded in 1720 as a central depository ben und zugetragern. Jena: Urban Spaltholtz, 1668 pour les reconnaissances des atterrages … [Paris or for maps, plans, journals, and memoirs relating to navigation. Quarto (187 × 153 mm). Later pinkish-yellow glazed boards, pale green Marseille?] 1732–46 Of the hydrographer, little is known beyond the brief details morocco label, compartments formed by a single gilt rule, gilt flower Quarto (335 × 256 mm). Contemporary mottled sheep, raised bands, he gives on the title where he describes himself as “Royal pi- tool to compartments. Engraved portrait frontispiece and elaborate red morocco label to the second compartments, anchor devices gilt lot of the King’s Galleys,” and explains that these charts were emblematic additional title page, 15 engraved plates, the view of Bat- to the other five, edges sprinkled blue. Engraved title, 4 folding en- prepared by him on voyages that he undertook on the coast, avia folding. A little rubbed at the extremities, some browning, but graved charts, and 75 double-page, of which 10 are coastal profiles. overall a very good, clean copy. leading him to add further pilotage notes for the safe entry Somewhat rubbed, and with skilful restoration to the board edges, first and only edition. A fascinating account of the East joints, and head and tail of spine; tan-burn to the endpapers, fold- into certain of the harbours and roads (“avec les Remarques Indies and Persia by a German soldier in the service of the VOC. ing map of Marseilles with clean tear, no loss, professionally repaired, nécessaires qu’il faut observer pour l’entrée à Certains Ports light browning throughout, occasional marginal staining, but overall et autres Endroits”). Similarly, the engraver of these superb- Behr had returned to Europe in 1650, but his narrative was not very good. ly detailed charts, Louis Corne, was known to Tooley solely published for another 18 years. He provides an account of the VOC’s attack in 1645 on the strategically important island of first and only edition of this collection of charts, includ- from this work. It is possible that this was a local production, Kischmisch, or Qeshm, which dominated the Strait of Hormuz ing the first printed chart of Monaco, a large folding map of perhaps produced in Marseille, hydrographer and engraver and had been contested between the Persians, Portuguese and Marseilles, and accurate charts of most of the ports, harbours brought together under the aegis of the Conseil de la Marine to English for some time. The Dutch were struggling to improve and bays of the region. Ayrouard’s work forms a working “wag- produce this pilot for the benefit of visiting French naval ships. the terms of their silk trading agreement with the Safavids, goner” for the coast, recording soundings, anchorages, and NMM 206; Shirley, British Library, M.AYR-1a.; LC 7862; The Map Collector, Issue and attacked the island in the hope of forcing the Shah’s hand pilotage notes on rocks and reefs, and includes a series of 24, p. 49, “How Monaco evolved on maps and views”, by David Lyon; Olivier, in negotiations but were unable to take the fort. The show of coastal profiles as a further aid to navigation. This pilot would Pl.2495, No. 27. force did achieve some amelioration of their situation, and the subsequently be drawn on by numerous hydrographers, most £12,500 [106965] incident is illuminating of power relationships in the Gulf in notably William Heather who cites Ayrouard in his New Mediter- the early modern period, challenging “conventional wisdom ranean Pilot of 1802. Scarce: OCLC records just six copies out- that the Safavid economy was subservient to the exploitative side France. 19

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Bligh’s first account of one of the most remarkable courage as a seaman, ensured his continued employment by incidents in the whole of maritime history the Admiralty, led to his election to the Royal Society, and to 21 his appointment as governor of New South Wales. 20 Ferguson, 71; Hill, 132; Kroepelien, 87; O’Reilly-Reitman, 543; Parks 7; Sabin, With the contemporary ownership inscription of T[?] R. mond’s role in the Arab Revolt. See Seven Pillars references BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His 5908a; Wantrup, 61. Twigg, dated 1806, to the title page, and a two-page extract to him”. Decidedly uncommon in commerce: just one copy from the Kentish Gazette recounting Captain Folger’s discovery traced at auction. Majesty’s Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of £7,500 [109303] Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, From Tofoa, one of of the last survivor of the mutiny – John Adams, also known as Not in Macro; O’Brien F0140. Alexander Smith – on Pitcairn, copied in the same hand to the the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the The fundamental published account of the Bounty saga final blank. £1,250 [105513] East Indies. London: George Nicol, 1790 21 Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Howgego, I, B107; NMM, Voyages & Travel, 624; Parks, Quarto (300 × 234 mm). Contemporary half calf sometime neatly 12; Sabin 5910; Spence 104. rebacked, marbled sides. Housed in a brown cloth, fleece-lined slip- BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken case. With the folding engraved plan “A Copy of the Draught from by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of conveying £10,000 [106153] which the Bounty’s Launch was built” by Mackenzie, and 3 engraved the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s charts by J. Walker after W. Harrison (two of them folding). Bookplate 22 of Louis E. Goodman (1892–1961), United States federal judge. Front Ship The Bounty … including an Account of the Mutiny on joint partially split but sound, scattered foxing, a few old pale splash- Board the said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of BRÉMOND, Édouard. Le Hedjaz dans la guerre es on leaf B2, pencilled note at foot of D4 (and a couple of other light the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat … London: for George Nicol, 1792 mondiale. Préface du Maréchal Franchet d’Espérey. Paris: marginal markings). A very good, tall copy. Quarto (300 × 240 mm). Modern blue straight-grain morocco by Bayn- Payot, 1931 first edition of Bligh’s first account of “one of the most tun-Rivière, title gilt direct to spine, low, flat double bands, roundels Octavo. Original printed light card wrappers. 5 double-page maps to remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history”, pub- gilt to compartments, one of them containing the date, gilt simple gilt the text. Wrappers a little rubbed and lightly soiled, pale browning to lished in an effort to influence opinion in his favour, absolving panelling to boards, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Stipple- the text, but overall very good indeed. engraved oval portrait frontispiece of Bligh by Conde after Russell, him “from any blame that might be levelled against him be- first edition. Brémond was head of the French military cause of the incident” (Hill). The story of Fletcher Christian’s folding plan of the Bounty, folding plan of the Bounty’s launch, plate of a breadfruit, and 4 plans and charts, 3 of them folding. Light browning mission to the Hejaz, having been sent by the French govern- mutinous commandeering of the Bounty, and the setting adrift throughout, and some marginal fingersoiling, folding plates with old ment to assert its presence in the region. Brémond was a very of Bligh and his 18 loyal crewmen on a 23-foot launch is a tale creases from misfolding, now refolded and pressed, a couple of small different character to Lawrence, with whom he liaised, and he known to all, but “what is not so well known is that in the professional repairs, but overall a very good copy. wrote in part to set straight the record of the Arab Revolt as he course of this hazardous journey Bligh took the opportunity first edition of Bligh’s account of the entire expedition. saw it, offering a “more precise and less romanticised docu- to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of “This full account of the voyage, then, includes a slightly al- mentation of the intervention in the Hejaz, returning events to New Holland as he passed along it – an extraordinary feat of tered version of Bligh’s own account of the mutiny, which had their true scale” (Foreword). seamanship” (Wantrup). Despite the film-fuelled condescen- been published two years earlier. This extended and revised sion of posterity, it should be remembered that Bligh’s skill as This is Peter Hopkirk’s copy with the library bookplate inside text makes this the fundamental published account of the a navigator, perhaps second only to Cook in his time, and his the front panel of the wrappers, and his pencilled comment Bounty saga” (Parks Collection). to the front free endpaper, “Rare and very important for Bré- 22

16 17 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 24 BUDISHCHEV, Ivan Matveevich. Western seaboard of the Black Sea: planar map of part of the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmora, and Constantinople. [? Moscow: c.1801] Manuscript map in pen and ink and watercolour, on paper watermarked “D Blauw” (968 × 364 mm). Western edge lightly stained in places with some associated fraying and loss just biting image, but otherwise in an excellent state of conservation. highly attractive manuscript chart dating to the period under Catherine the Great when Russian interest in the Black Sea was shifting. “The reasons for this shift lay in the imperatives of strategy and geography. Caffa and the other

Crimean ports were really more part of the southern coast 25 than they were of the northern; they were separated from the Crimean interior by a chain of mountains and naturally looked out to the seaports of Anatolia, not to the flatlands of The first account of Petra by a European the north. The situation suited the Ottomans, of course, but 25 23 it was a problem for the Russians … The new centre of gravity became Odessa, the greatest of modern Black Sea ports … It BURCKHARDT, John Lewis. Travels in Syria and the 23 was the premier example of the new political and cultural op- Holy Land. Published by the Association for Promoting BROWNE, William George. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and timism that pervaded Russia’s acquisitions in the late 18th and the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. London: John Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798. London: T. Cadell and W. early 19th centuries, the southern equivalent of the creation of Murray, 1822 Davies; and Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, 1806 St Petersburg a hundred years earlier … Until the end of the Quarto (260 × 210 mm). Contemporary tan half calf recently rebacked empire, it remained the commercial, administrative, and cul- to style; marbled sides, endpapers and edges. Lithographic portrait Quarto (268 × 209 mm). Contemporary half calf, drab paper sides, frontispiece of Burckhardt “in his Arab Bernous” after a sketch by black morocco label, flat bands, elaborate gilt tooling to compart- tural heart of the Russian Black Sea, the quintessential impe- Henry Salt at Cairo, 6 maps and plans of which 2 folding, several ments, foliate roll gilt to spine and corner edges, marbled edges. rial seaport and the leading export centre of the entire empire” sketches and transcriptions to the text. Corners bumped and slightly Engraved frontispiece, 3 folding maps, and full-page plan; with er- (King, The Black Sea, p. 163). worn, boards rubbed, title page sometime torn and skilfully restored rata, corrigenda and directions to the binder leaf, half-title bound Between 1792 and 1809, Budischev (d. 1829) gained consid- on verso, institutional blindstamp of Free Church College Glasgow in. Contemporary engraved bookplate with baronial coronet and the to title page and sig. D2r, marginal spotting to frontispiece and non- monogram E.V.B. to front pastedown. Slightly rubbed and spotted, erable experience serving as midshipman and lieutenant on folding maps with offsetting to facing leaves (images largely spared), skilfully restored on the joints, contents lightly browned throughout, various ships of the Imperial Baltic and Black Sea fleets. From folding area map foxed, folding map of Hawran with very short closed the prelims more heavily so, and some foxing to the maps, one map 1797 to 1799 he took part in a reconnaissance of the northern tear along fold to no loss of image. A very good copy. with neat, old paper repair verso, remains very good in an appealing coasts of the Black Sea and of the lower reaches of the Kuban contemporary binding. River; and, between 1801 and 1802 as captain-lieutenant, com- first edition. The Travels is notable for providing the first second edition, enlarged, first published in 1799. An manded a survey of the western coast from Odessa to the Bos- account of Petra by a European. Between 1809, when he first important work which “contains the earliest information in porus, from which expedition this chart is drawn, and which arrived in Aleppo to learn Arabic, and his death from dysen- English about Darfur (Sudan). Browne, inspired by Bruce’s possibly represents that which Budischev made on completion tery in Cairo eight years later at 32, Swiss-born Burckhardt trav- travels, went to Egypt in 1792 hoping to explore the oases in of the voyage. Subsequently promoted captain second rank, he elled extensively in the Near East, in the guise of Ibrahim ibn the eastern Sahara and to journey to the source of the White continued his hydrographical work while running the depot of Abdallah – an Indian merchant and pilgrim to the holy places Nile. He reached El Fashur in Darfur and was the first English- Black Sea charts. “During this period, he drew up an Atlas of in which character he is shown in the frontispiece, and under man to explore the temple of Jupiter Ammon at the Oasis of the Charts and Plans of part of the Black Sea (1807) and the Azov and which name he was buried in the Muslim cemetery at Cairo. Siwa. Browne was the first European to describe Darfur, which Black Seas Marine Guide-book” (Black Sea Encyclopaedia, p. 156). “A close and accurate observer, with an intimate knowledge he reached with a Sudanese caravan in 1793. He was impris- of the manners and language of the people among whom he The chart covers approximately 450 miles of the western coast- travelled, he was able to accomplish feats of exploration which oned there by the Sultan of Darfur. In 1796 he reached Egypt line of the Black Sea from Odessa in the north to Istanbul and again by caravan and eventually returned to England via Syria to others would have been impossible … he had to jot down the Sea of Marmora in the south, drawn to an approximate his observations secretly under his cloak or behind a camel for and Constantinople” (Blackmer). A somewhat controversial scale of 57/8 inches to one degree of latitude (1:744,143), with account at the time, due to its sympathetic portrayal and ad- fear of exciting suspicion among his Arab guides and compan- soundings, explanatory text and toponyms in Russian, and ions” (ODNB). miration of the East, Browne’s description of Egypt is widely stylised mountains and cities. considered to be “one of the best of the period, despite its dry, Arcadian Library 8949; Atabey 166; Macro 628; Blackmer 237; Howgego 1800– affected style” (Howgego). £9,750 [102321] 1850 B76; not in Burrell. Arcadian Library 11091 for the first edition; not in Atabey, Browne’s work £1,500 [107976] represented solely by a French juvenile based on the Travels 156; Blackmer 219 listing the first edition; Gay 43; Howgego I, B170; Ibrahim Hilmy I, p. 91.

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“A most remarkable work of the highest value” (one of the first modern publications of Raj photography, and based on Worswick’s pioneering collection, now at the Getty 26 Research Institute) included more photographs by Burke and BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage Baker than by any of their contemporaries. to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, £8,000 [107517] Green, and Longmans, 1855–6 27 3 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, title gilt to spines, spine Presentation copy to Anthony Powell decoration and panelling to boards in black, terracotta surface-paper 27 soldiers and a striking scene of “No. 1 Mountain Battery shell- endpapers with advertisements to the pastedowns. Housed in a dark BURKE, John. [Album of photographs from the Second ing Diliasi from Palosi” (Burke, 81). 28 blue quarter morocco book-style box, matching linen sides. With 15 plates in all, 5 of which are chromolithographs, including the famous Afghan War.] 1878–93 At around 17 years old John Burke travelled out to India as an BYRON, Robert. The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men. portrait of Burton as “The Pilgrim” mounted as frontispiece to vol. Landscape folio (380 × 300 mm). Contemporary black half skiver, assistant apothecary to the Royal Artillery, going on to form a London: Duckworth, 1928 II, 8 single-tint lithographs, an engraved plate of “Bedouin and Wah- dark green morocco-grain boards ruled in gilt, gilt edges, white moi- partnership with William Baker, a retired sergeant of the 87th Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Numerous mono- habi Heads” and an engraved plan, together with 2 folding maps and ré-silk effect endpapers. 39 albumen photographs each c. 215 × 280 Regiment, in a photographic studio. Burke and Baker were chrome plates. Spine lightly toned, a few small splash marks across a folding plan. A little rubbed, spines slightly dulled, and crumpled at mm mounted to stiff card leaves, detailed inked captions on mounts “the first commercial photographers in Peshawar and in the binding, slight creasing to cloth on back cover otherwise a very good head and tail with some minor restoration at the head of vols. I and identifying location and personnel, discreet captions and Burke cata- North-West Frontier … [ranking] among the earliest war, news copy. logue numbers in the plate where applicable (26 photographs labelled III, corners bumped, hinges of vols. II and III, professionally repaired, and landscape photographers in the Indian subcontinent … first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the au- Burke, Burke and Baker or “B”; 2 with numbers only; 5 captioned “J. light browning throughout, some foxing front and back, but overall [becoming] over the next decades the first photographers to a very good set in the cloth, showing minimal judicious restoration. Winter”; remainder uncaptioned), contemporary tissue-guards laid thor on the front free endpaper: “Tony, with bitter remorse work in large areas of northern British India and the independ- for his sufferings, Robert. June. 7.28”, and with the armorial first edition. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a in. Binding slightly rubbed, some light staining to boards, neat restoration of the joints, head and tail of spine and to the corners, a few ent feudal realms of Kashmir and Afghanistan” (Khan, From bookplate of the recipient, the novelist Anthony Powell. A fine dozen Europeans were known to have made the hajj to the Is- very minor spots of foxing to mounts, first photograph slightly oxi- Kashmir to Kabul, p. 11). Outside of the extensive archive of the association copy: Byron and Powell were contemporaries and lamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina and lived, and of those dised and a few slightly faded along margins but prints in the main in photographs themselves, they left little record of their lives, friends at both Eton and Oxford. After leaving Oxford Powell only the Swiss explorer J. L. Burckhardt had left a detailed ac- excellent condition, retaining their rich tonal contrasts. taking a prominent place “among the finest forgotten photog- became a reader at Duckworth and was instrumental in help- count. Burton made the pilgrimage in complete disguise as a A collection of fine photographs largely originating from the raphers of the British Raj”. ing Byron to place his book there – perhaps the “sufferings” Muslim native of the Middle East, an exploit of linguistic and Black Mountain (or Hazara) Expedition of 1891, with the own- which Byron alludes to in his inscription. The Station is Byron’s cultural virtuosity that carried considerable risk. During the Whatever the reason for their work being passed over in favour ership inscription of Captain C. J. H. H. Noble to the front free second book, and “was based on his journey to the Orthodox several days that Burton spent in Mecca, he performed the of better-known photographers (Bourne and Shepherd for ex- endpaper. The North-West Frontier Province was highly unsta- holy site of Mount Athos on the shore of the Aegean in 1927. associated rites of the pilgrimage such as circumambulating ample), it is not due to any technical or aesthetic shortcom- ble, and restive local tribes, in particular the Yusufzai, were a He and three friends were welcomed as guests at the ancient the Kaaba, drinking the Zemzem water and stoning the devil ings: “The chemicals and procedures they used have aged bet- major problem for the British, who converged on the region monastery of Docheiariou. It was during this journey and the at Mount Arafat. His resulting book surpassed all preceding ter than those of many others … [and] the rich composition of from three directions with a total force of some 7,000 troops. writing of his account of it that Byron formulated his passion- Western accounts of the holy cities, made him famous and be- their images is immediately apparent. In their time, they won From the photographs it is clear that Burke was attached to the ate ideas about Byzantine culture – what he called ‘my chosen came a classic of travel literature, described by T. E. Lawrence many of the top photography awards in competitions through- Indus River column: there are views of Attock, Abbottabad, past’” (Speake). as “a most remarkable work of the highest value”. out British India”. Burke’s work was also far more widely pub- Rawalpindi, the Indus Valley, and several of Murree, regimen- lished in Graphic and the ILN than that of any of his competitors. Speake, Literature of Travel and Exploration, I pp. 158–60. Abbey, Travel 368; Howgego IV, B95; Penzer, pp. 49–50. tal photographs, camp views, various images including Sikh This excellence has not been lost on genuine connoisseurs of £4,500 [103236] £9,750 [108787] Indian photography: Worswick and Embree’s The Last Empire

20 21 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 Carls was a German graphic artist, designer, and photographer who joined the wave of German immigration to Brazil, settling in Recife in 1859, and establishing Casa Litographica, one of the first lithographic presses in Pernambuco. An enterprising and innovative printer, he took on a wide range of work, bringing the potential of high quality lithographic printing to advertising material, diplomas, stock certificates, letterheads, and maps, being the publisher of José Tibúrcio Pereira Magalhães’ Cidade do Recife e seus arrabaldes [the City of Recife and its Environs] in 1870. But it is for the sequence of plates that constitute the present work that he is best known, comprising an inclusive collection of impressive views of of the region: the public buildings, grand private homes, theatres, churches, shipping in the harbour, markets, and landscapes of the outlying villages and estates, all teeming with life, showing the signs of the ac- celerating modernisation of Brazil following independence, “a significant iconographic series for the visual memory of the country, depicting scenes of everyday life, customs and landscapes” (Silva, p. 1567). A collaboration with German- born artist Louis Adam Cornell Krauss, who arrived in Recife in 1877, it has been suggested that the plates incorporate, un- credited, the work of pioneering Brazilian photographers such as João Ferreira Vilela, Alfredo Ducasble, Guilherme Gaensly 30 (Wilhelm Gänsli) and Augusto Stahl. Certainly a number of

29 the views exhibit a sharpness of detail that hints at the use of mun on 4 November 1922. Carnarvon hurried to Luxor and the photographic reference, and some bear a close resemblance to tomb was entered on 26 November. The discovery astounded images produced by these Brazilian pioneers: for example, the One of the most comprehensive visual reports carried out with Carls’s imprint as title page, and 36 coloured lithographic plates. the world: a royal tomb, mostly undisturbed, full of spectacular Very light shelf-wear, some marginal browning to the plates, occa- view of Recife from the observatory of the Naval Arsenal is very objects. Carter recruited a team of expert assistants to help him on any Brazilian city in the period sional scatters of spotting, overall very good indeed. similar to Gaensly’s framing of the same subject, and the plate in the clearance of the tomb, and the conservation and record- of the Sete de Setembro bridge bears comparison with Vile- 29 a wonderfully preserved copy of this superb visual ing of its remarkable contents. On 16 February 1923 the blocking la’s views. When the Pernambucan organising committee for record of brazil in the late 19th century. “The col- to the burial chamber was removed, to reveal the unplundered CARLS, Francisco Henrique. Album de Pernambuco. the Berlin South American exhibition of 1866 included one of ourful and airy rendering contributes much to the appeal of body and funerary equipment of the dead king. Unhappily, the Pernambuco: F. H. Carls, 1880 Carls’s albums, they did so in the belief that this would present this extensive series of images that forms one of the most com- death of Lord Carnarvon on 5 April seriously affected the sub- Landscape quarto (300 × 420 mm). Original green cloth, title gilt to the German public with an “an idea of the beauty of our city”. prehensive visual reports carried out on any Brazilian city in sequent progress of Carter’s work. In spite of considerable and the front board within a broad black stylised floral panel between two the period” (Correa do Lago). The album was first issued in Not in Borba de Moraes; Correa do Lago, Brasiliana Itaù, pp. 328–9; Silva, repeated bureaucratic interference, not easily managed by the single gilt ruled panels, the black panel repeated on the rear board, “Franz Carls: Memórias Litográficas do Recife Oitocentista”, in 21st Encontro short-tempered excavator, work on the clearance of the tomb edges lightly marbled, floral-pattered endpapers in sepia, the title in 1873 under the title Album de Pernambuco e seus arrabaldes [Album Nacional de Pesquisadores em Artes Plásticas – Vida e Ficção/Arte e Fricção, proceeded slowly, but was not completed until 1932. Carter han- German neatly inked in purple in a contemporary hand to the first of Pernambuco and its Environs] with 50 plates (it was subsequent- 2012. blank, small bookbinder’s ticket of Wilhelm Bitz, Basel, to the lower ly reissued with varying numbers of plates, some copies having dled the technical processes of clearance, conservation, and re- fore-corner of the front pastedown, dated August 1885 in the same as few as 15 to 20, and with the composition rarely repeating). £35,000 [108232] cording with exemplary skill and care. A popular account of the hand. High-finish pictorial chromolithographic calendar for 1880 work was published in three volumes, The Tomb of Tutankhamen 30 (1923–33), the first of which was substantially written by his principal assistant, Arthur C. Mace” (ODNB). CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace. The Tomb of Tutankha- men. Discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard £2,950 [101917] Carter. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923–27–33 3 volumes, large octavo. Original dark yellow cloth, titles gilt to spines and front boards, front boards decorated with gilt scarab on black panel, green and white patterned endpapers. 414 illustrations. Own- ership inscription to front free endpaper of vol. II. Vol. I front hinge cracked but holding; vol. II front hinge starting, spine cracked but holding; vol. III front hinge starting, rear hinge cracked but holding. Spines gently rolled, contents lightly foxed; a very good set. first edition of Carter’s own account of the most spectacular archaeological discovery of the 20th century. “In the summer of 1922 Carter persuaded Carnarvon to allow him to conduct one more campaign in the valley. Starting work earlier than usual 29 29 Howard Carter opened up the stairway to the tomb of Tutankha-

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Two-colour printed map on two sheets, each 758 × 535 mm, dissected into 16 panels and mounted on linen, folding into original green cloth-covered boards (234 × 140 mm), titled in gilt on front board, blind panelling to both. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Boards lightly mottled and with some skilful repairs at the edges, elastic retaining band renewed, minor worming at the foot of sheet 1, some professional reinforcement to the folds on the linen backing, but overall very good. first and only edition of this uncommon 1:6,400,000 scale map, with just three copies on OCLC (Cambridge, and Washington and Chicago universities). It was produced as Russia began its concerted expansion into the Central Asian khanates, considerably upping the stakes in the Great Game. A reduced version of the map was included in Demetrius Boulg- er’s England and Russia in Central Asia (1879). The map covers the 33 area from the Caspian in the west to Lop Nur in the east, taking in the Mustagh Pass to the south, and extending north as 33 far as Orenburg and Semipalatinsk, now Semey, Kazakhstan, CHICK, Herbert. A Chronicle of the Carmelites in encompassing the territories of present day Uzbekistan, Turk- menistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, a large part of Kazakhstan, Persia, and the Papal Mission of the XVIIth and XVIIIth and areas of Mongolia, China and Russia. centuries. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1939 2 volumes, quarto. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, blind pan- 31 31 £3,250 [103913] els to boards. Portrait frontispiece and 39 other plates, folding map. Slightly rubbed, spines relined, hinges repaired, endpapers browned, 31 pale toning to the text, some inked marginalia in vol. I, slight tide- marks at the fore-edge of both volumes. CATLIN, George. North American Indians. Being Letters first edition of this important contribution to the history of and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, the region, based on extensive documentation from Archivio Written During Their Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the di Propaganda Fide and Casa Generalizia dei Carmelitani in Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. 1832–1839. Rome. “In 1604 Pope Clement VIII, with the support of Sigis- Edinburgh: John Grant, 1926 mund III Vasa of Poland, dispatched a mission of Discalced 2 volumes, large octavo, original pictorial red cloth, titles gilt to Carmelite fathers to Persia; the embassy represented the cul- spines and front covers with pictorial decoration in gilt and black, top mination of a policy of seeking alliances against the Ottoman edge gilt, others uncut. Over 300 colour illustrations on 180 plates, empire that had been initiated by Pius V when he had attempt- including 3 coloured maps, one folding. Spines faded, some light foxed to formalize relations with Shah Tahmasb … they received ing to endleaves; an excellent, fresh set. a very warm welcome from Shah Abbas I (1588–1629) and were A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin set out in 1830 from permitted to settle at Isfahan in 1608. As ambassadors, they his home in Pennsylvania to record on canvas the indigenous were given a royal residence near the Meydan-e Mir, where tribes of North America and their way of life. His eight years they established a handsome monastery. For many years it among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky sheltered a varying number of fathers from a wide range of na- Mountains resulted in his “Indian Gallery,” an enormous col- tional backgrounds. In 1752 the last Carmelite departed, only lection of artefacts as well as more than 400 paintings, includ- a short interval after the death of Philippe-Marie de St.-Augus- ing portraits and scenes of tribal life. The resultant book, first tin, bishop of Isfahan, in 1749 … The primary importance of published with uncoloured plates in 1841, is “one of the most the Carmelites in Persia was as witnesses to history; they were original, authentic and popular works on the subject” (Sabin). observers of political and social events through the reigns of “The history and the customs of such a people,” Catlin wrote, Abbas I and Safi I (1629–42), the fall of the Safavids, and the “preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the subsequent period of troubles. In addition, as great travelers, lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life the Carmelite missionaries were often reassigned to new posts shall prevent me from becoming their historian” (Hassrick). and covered hundreds of kilometers in order to join their pro- Hassrick 15; Sabin 11536. vincial chapters” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). £1,750 [109797] Not in Wilson. £3,000 [95110] 32 (CENTRAL ASIA.) The Russian Official Map of Central Asia. Compiled in Accordance with the Discoveries and Surveys of Russian Staff Officers up to the Close of the Year 1877. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1877 32

24 25 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 tion of the French navy’s charts of the region. The party included Jean-Baptiste Hilaire, considered by Boppe, Les Peintres du Bosphore au dix-huitième siècle, to be the artist amongst the early orientalists who best understood the Levant, and who contributed the expressive landscapes and well-observed and char- acterful costume studies; the engineer and architect Jacques Foucherot, who surveyed the archaeological sites and provides the superb plates of architectural details; and Foucherot’s secretary, François Kauffer, later to identify the site of ancient Troy at Hisarlik, who was responsible for producing of most of the detailed charts of harbours and islands. The spectacular baroque allegorical tailpieces, most of them emblematic of the islands visited, are by Guët, Choffard, Varin, Moreau le jeune, and Hilaire amongst others. The work met with immediate and enthusiastic success, which greatly facilitated the advance of Choiseul-Gouffier’s academic and political career. He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres in 1782, and of the Académie Française in 1783, and in 1784 became the French ambassador

to Constantinople. Following the Revolution he was replaced, 35 36 but he ignored the recall to Paris for fear of execution, and in 1792 emigrated to Russia where he became director of the Octavo. Original brown cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate panels with Sheet of British Petroleum Company stationery with roneoed compli- Academy of Arts and Imperial Library, finding great favour large palmette corner-pieces in blind to boards, cream surface-paper ments message loosely inserted. with the empress. Under the Empire, Napoleon’s amnesty to endpapers. Wood-engraved frontispiece of the homra tree. A little first and only edition of this fascinating early piece of pro- emigrés allowed him to return to France, and at the Restora- rubbed on boards, spine sunned and professionally repaired, joints motional literature for the burgeoning oil industry. Evidently tion he became a minister of state and a peer, also regaining skilfully restored, contents lightly toned. A very good copy. these “announcements” were in fact rather grand advertise- his seat at the Académie in 1816. first edition. Churi claimed to have been trained at the ments for BP, which were gathered together and presented Atabey 241; Blackmer 342; Cohen–de Ricci 238; Weber II, 571. “congregation of Propaganda in Rome from 1842 to 1849. He even more grandly still. Publication was noted at the time in the was subsequently in London where he taught Arabic, Latin, £6,500 [83997] “Wheels of Industry” column of The Commercial Motor, the journal 34 Italian and Hebrew”. Among his pupils was Captain William of the commercial vehicle industry: “An extremely beautiful pro- Peel, third son of Sir Robert Peel, who had been planning an duction entitled ‘In the Land of the Shah’ has been issued by the 34 expedition into the interior of Africa, and “proposed to Churi British Petroleum Co., Ltd. which is the distributing organisa- CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel F. A., comte de. that they should make a short tour to Egypt, Mount Sinai, Jeru- tion of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd. The publication forms a salem, Nazareth, and Syria. They left England on 20 October, Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce. Paris: 1782 portfolio of some of the company’s announcements which have and were back by 20 February 1851. On 20 August following Folio (522 × 335 mm). Contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco appeared in the Press, but that Statement by no means does jus- they left on the longer and more serious journey. They went up tice to it, for the ‘announcements’ took the form of delightful by Kalhoeber (with his ticket on front free endpaper verso), title direct the Nile, across the desert to Khartoum, and on to al-’Ubayd, to spine, paired narrow bands, framed by gilt rules of various thickness, drawings of Eastern life, commerce, and customs by Christo- simple geometric panelling to boards, beaded edge-roll, gilt edges, where they suffered a severe attack of fever and ague. Peel re- pher Clark, R.I., and they are reproduced on special paper, so bold Greek key roll to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers. With engraved turned to England early in January” (ODNB). Both men wrote that the impression given is almost that of steel engravings. Each vignette title, 13 maps, 2 of them folding, 32 full-page views, 27 sheets accounts of their experiences during this second trip: Peel, A drawing is accompanied by some interesting text. The portfolio of half-page plates, maps and plans, 29 full-page plates (largely of ar- Ride through the Nubian Desert (1852) and Churi the present work. is one of those productions that most men will take home. We chitectural details), 4 costume illustrations on 1 sheet and 14 superb Not in Gay; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 135, misspelled as “Chusi”. believe that a copy will be sent to any reader who mentions The illustrative head- and tailpieces. A little rubbed and scuffed, corners Commercial Motor” (The Commercial Motor, 17 November 1925). bumped, some judicious restoration at the head and tail of spine and to £1,500 [97449] the board edges, light browning and occasional foxing of the contents, The images range from the ancient historical – “A Temple of but overall very good, and a handsomely-presented copy. 36 the Fire Worshippers”, “The Glories of Ancient Persia”, “The first edition, first issue, with the Discours Préliminaire CLARK, Christopher (illus.) In the Land of the Shah – Tomb of Khusru Pharviz” – to the contemporary industrial – concluding on the fourth line of p. xvi. First volume only, but “Transporting Pipe Line in Persia”, on mule back, “150 Miles Being a Series of Announcements Issued by the British complete in itself, and without doubt one of the most desir- of Pipe Lines” – via picturesque travelogue – “Ferry-Boats of able of all 18th-century works on Greece. A second volume was Petroleum Co. Ltd. from Britannic House, Moorgate, the Tigris”, pitch waterproofed gufas, “A Persian Wedding” 34 published in two parts, the first in 1809, and the “final bio- London E.C. 2. London: British Petroleum Co. Ltd, Distributing as described by Sir Percy Sykes, “A Land of Leisurely Travel”, graphical livraison was published posthumously” (Blackmer), Organisation of the Anglo Persian Oil Co. Ltd., [1925] a heavily laden camel caravan. The evocative artwork is by edited by the cartographer Barbie du Bocage, in 1822. 35 Folio (440 × 298 mm). Original buff printed, yapp-edged, light card Christopher Clark, a British commercial artist-illustrator best wrappers. With 12 finely printed monochrome lithographic plates (c. remembered for his work for British Railways, often featuring Choiseul-Gouffier first went to Greece in 1776 as a member of CHURI, Joseph H. Sea Nile, the Desert, and Nigritia: 155 × 200 mm), imposed within a “plate-mark” above descriptive text. scenes of British pageantry. Extremely uncommon: no other a scientific expedition to the eastern Mediterranean on board Travels in Company with Captain Peel, R.N. 1851–1852 Staples a touch rusted, a few minor splits to the edges of the wrap- copies traced either institutionally or commercially. the Atalante, commanded by the marquis de Chabert, a veteran … With Thirteen Arabic Songs, as Sung by the Egyptian pers, a scatter of foxing throughout, but overall very good indeed. of the American Revolution, who was charged with the correc- Sailors on the Nile. London: published by the Author, 1853 £1,750 [103822]

26 27 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 first edition of one of the most ambitious works in the history of printing, a monument to the collective scholarship of the savants who accompanied Napoleon’s expedition to Egypt in 1798. The Description de l’Égypte was the first encyclopaedia devoted to an African country, paving the way for the archaeological exploration of Egypt during the 19th century, and providing the model for later expeditions undertaken by the French government in Morea, Algeria and Mexico. “Never before or since has a study of such scope and thoroughness been accomplished on the basis of field-work carried out in so short a space of time and under such inadequate and harrowing circumstances” (Herold, p. 183). Though the Commission was in large part made up of civil engineers, surveys and car- tographers, such were its encyclopaedic aims that it also had a large arts contingent, including painter André Dutertre, architect Charles-Louis Balzac, musician Guillaume Villoteau, and notably Vivant Denon, the founder of modern Egyptology who was appointed first director of the Louvre on his return to France in 1802. Among the scientists were mathematician Gas- pard Monge, chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, zoologist E. G. Saint-Hilaire, and the mineralogist Déodat de Dolomieu, with Desgenettes as chief medical officer. Their work is divided into four sections: Antiquités deals with the arts and architecture of Ancient Egypt; État moderne with the architectures, crafts, costumes and daily life of Egypt after the Arab Conquest in the 7th century; Histoire naturelle, containing illustrations by eminent artists H. J. Redoute, Jacques Barraband and Pierre Turpin; and Cartes géographiques et topographiques, a survey extending beyond Egypt to Syria and Palestine, territory which formed part of Napoleon’s wider ambitions in the region, thwarted with the disastrous siege of Acre in 1799. Blackmer lists four variants of the first edition, all with a different number of colour plates. However, “publication was as massive an undertaking as the accumulation of the material itself. A special engraving machine was invented by Conte especially for this work to enhance the quality of the plates … The fact that production took almost twenty years, the work being issued in livraisons, with the subsequent vagaries of binding, means that each copy differs to a certain extent … The varia- tion in the number of coloured plates seems to invalidate the theoretical four states of colouring. Booksellers who see many copies incline to the theory that colour plates could be chosen to order” (Atabey). This copy appears to have been bound for chemist Jean-Pierre-Casimir Marcassus, Baron de Puymaurin (1757–1841), with his name gilt to spines of several volumes, with which the remaining volumes are uniformly bound. De Puymaurin was also member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1800 to 1830, and was appointed to run the medal section of the French mint in 1814. A full collation of this work is available 37 on request. En français dans le texte 219; Atabey 343; Blackmer 476; Nebenzahl, Maps of 37 26 volumes, comprising 9 folio text-volumes bound in 13, 1 elephant oured. Text volumes complete with 25 engraved plates and 16 plates the Holy Land, 60; Nissen, BBI, 2234; Nissen, ZBI, 4608; Wilbour pp. 178–185 folio text volume, 9 elephant folio and 3 double-elephant folio plate (COMMISSION DES SCIENCES ET ARTS D’ÉGYPTE.) of inscriptions. Joints and extremities skilfully restored, spines a little for the second edition; v. Herold, Bonaparte in Egypt. volumes. Uniformly bound in red quarter roan, spines with rolled darkened, sides scuffed and marked in places, a few volumes variably Description de l’Égypte, ou recueil des observations bands gilt forming compartments alternately lettered and tooled sunned along board-edges, occasional light browning to introducto- £225,000 [107992] et des reserches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant with chandelier devices gilt, red boards (diced in some volumes) ry text in a few plate volumes, laid-in tissue-guards very occasionally l’expédition de l’armée française. Paris: Imprimerie Impériale with rolled fleur-de-lys borders gilt. Plate volumes complete with 894 creased or torn, else internally clean and fresh. An exceptional set. [later Royale], 1809–30 plates of which 38 are wholly or partly colour-printed or hand-col-

28 29 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 “The foundation of all our knowledge of Moslem Spain” 38 CONDÉ, J. A. History of the Dominion of the Arabs in Spain. Translated from the Spanish by Mrs Jonathan Foster. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854–5 3 volumes, octavo (174 × 109 mm). Contemporary half calf, red and green labels, low gilt milled bands, floral centre-tools, stylised foliate corner-pieces, marbled boards, edges and endpapers. Steel-engraved frontispiece to volume I. A little rubbed, small gold inked pressmarks to the tails of spines, light browning, but overall a very good set. first edition in english, the first time “a complete survey, based on Arab sources, was provided of the history of Islamic Spain from 711 to 1492, and a framework was established which has been followed ever since” (Hamilton, The Arcadian Library, p. 271). Condé’s work, “characterized by a strong sympathy for Arab culture”, was first published in Madrid 1820–1. 40 With the bookplates of Catholic scholar Joseph M. Gleason to the front pastedowns, and his pencilled critique at the beginning of the text of volume I: “It has become the fashion to in the different Hemispheres; and containing a Genuine decry this work in our times, but most of the criticism is par- History and Description of the Whole World, as consist- rot-like. Yet Gayangos [Spanish Arabist Pascual de Gayangos y ing of Empires, Kingdoms, States, Republics, Provinces, Arce, author of The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain] Continents, Islands, Oceans, &c. … throughout Europe, calls it the foundation of all our knowledge of Moslem Spain”. Asia, Africa, and America … Together with a Complete 39 Arcadian Library 9214. History of every Empire, Kingdom, and State … In which is introduced, to illustrate the Work, a consider- £1,750 [95147] copies of the first edition and contains some extra material in In addition, bound uniformly with the Cook set are first edi- the form of a new preface in which Hawkesworth replies to tions of two important works related directly to these voyages: able Number of the most accurate Whole Sheet Maps, the charges of poor editing made against him by Dalrymple” forming a Complete Atlas. To which is added a complete 39 FORSTER, George. A Voyage Round the World in his Britan- (Hordern House, Parks Cook Collection). guide to Geography, Astronomy, the use of the Globes, nic Majesty’s Sloop, Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James (COOK, James.) Complete set of the three voyages and Maps &c. … Likewise containing … Captain Cook’s Voy- COOK, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round Cook, during the years 1772, 3, 4 and 5. London: B. White, J. two related works. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell [and ages. Together with all the Discoveries made by other others], 1773–85 the World. Performed in His Majesty’s Ships the Resolution Robson, P. Elmsly, G. Robinson, 1777. 2 volumes, quarto. “This ac- and Adventure, in the Years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775. London: count was published some months before Cook’s account of Mariners since the Time of that celebrated Circumnavi- 11 volumes, quarto (286 × 226 mm). Uniformly bound in contempo- gator. … The Whole Forming a Complete Collection of rary tree calf neatly rebacked in sheep, gilt lettered spines, gilt Greek- W. Strahan and T. Cadell. 1777. 2 volumes, quarto. his second voyage” (Beddie) and is “an important and necessary addition to Cook’s voyages” (Hill). Voyages and Travels. London: Printed for C. Cooke, 1791–7 key border on sides. green linen inner hinges. All charts, plates and COOK, James, & James King. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. portraits as called-for in all volumes. From the library of the American London: G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. 3 volumes, quarto. FORSTER, John Reinold. Observations made during a Voyage 2 volumes, folio (384 × 240 mm). Contemporary full tree calf, raised bands, red and dark green morocco labels, edges speckled black. En- politician William Freeman Vilas (1840–1908), successively Postmas- Round the World. London: G. Robinson, 1778. Quarto. “The first ter General and Secretary of the Interior, with his armorial bookplate graved frontispiece, 83 similar plates, and 22 maps, of which 12 fold- in each volume. Hole through the Straits of Magellan map in volume I botanical work to be published from Captain Cook’s second ing. Extremities slightly rubbed and bumped, minor wear to corners, skilfully repaired, some general browning, scattered foxing and spot- voyage to the South Pacific (1772–1775) and it is important to boards a touch scuffed, occasional mild spotting to text block, closed ting, otherwise a good complete set the history and science of botany, as it contains large numbers tears to a few leaves, a few corners turned. of new generic and specific names relating to the plants of second–first–second editions respectively of the three first edition, later issue of Bankes’s impressive Geography. Australasia and Polynesia … it has been said to be the founda- voyages. The charts and plates to the third voyage have been Originally issued in 90 weekly parts, starting in 1787, copies of tion of our knowledge of New Zealand, Antarctic, and Polyne- bound into the text volumes in the appropriate places, rather the work appear in several variants. “While it was being issued sian vegetation” (Hill). than presented separately as an atlas volume. “Captain Cook’s changes were made to its title page, to the contents of some parts three great voyages form the basis for any collection of Pacific Beddie 650, 1216, 1552, 1247 (George Forster), 1262 (John Reinold Forster); Hill and to the maps it contained. These changes allow a sequence books. In three voyages Cook did more to clarify the geograph- 783, 358, 362 (listing the first edition), 625 (George Forster), 628 (John Reinold of variants to be established for the title page and for some indi- Forster); Holmes 4, 24, 47 (listing the first edition), 23 (George Forster), 29 ical knowledge of the southern hemisphere than all his pre- (John Reinold Forster). vidual parts, and allow some parts (but not a whole set of parts) decessors together had done. He was the first really scientific to be dated” (Prescott, A Guide to Maps of Australia in Books Published navigator and his voyages made great contributions to many £20,000 [100989] 1780–1830, p. 242). This continuous editing process of Bankes’s fields of knowledge” (Hill, 358). Geography, which revised and added information (especially to 40 the parts concerned with Australia and the recently established HAWKESWORTH, John. An Account of the Voyages under- colony), reflects the particular shape of the English interest in taken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discov- (COOK, James.) BANKES, Thomas. A Modern, Authen- geography and exploration at the end of the 18th century. eries in the Southern Hemisphere. 3 volumes, quarto. London: tic and Complete System of Universal Geography. Includ- W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1773. “Second and best edition, gen- ing All the late important Discoveries made by the Eng- Beddie 507 & 2674; Sitwell, Four Centuries of Special Geography p. 86. erally preferred to the first as it is complete with the chart of lish, and other celebrated Navigators of various Nations, £3,750 [101906] the Straits of Magellan and the List of Plates missing in many 39

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Tête-de-tirage, inscribed to Nancy Astor the most famous tiger hunting book in print, this work went sold by E. Croydon; sold also at Gore’s Dawlish, and Gilbert’s, through numerous editions in several languages, and contin- Torquay, 1817 41 ues to be popular today. Corbett describes his hunts after the Octavo (211 × 134 mm), in 4 parts. Contemporary red straight-grain COOMARASWAMY, Ananda K., & Sister Nivedita. Champwat man-eater, the Chowgargh tigers, the Powalgargh morocco, flat spine gilt in compartments, sides panelled in gilt and Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists. London: George G. Harrap 42 tiger, and other adventures” (Czech). Corbett is largely mis- blind and centred with a blind arabesque within a wide gilt lozenge, & Company, 1913 remembered as an exemplar of the “white hunter”, but is re- brown endpapers, edges gilt. Folding engraved map as frontispiece, 16 hand-coloured aquatint plates by D. Havell and others after No- Octavo (235 × 159 mm). Original red morocco, spine and front cover With the ownership inscription of Guru-Sadaya Dutt to the vered in India as the father of conservation: “Tall, slim, and ble, 3 of these folding. With the contemporary bookplate and own- lettered, ruled and decorated in gilt, rear board ruled in blind, top front free endpaper, dated 24 November 1928. Dutt (or Datta) blue-eyed, Corbett was a handsome, scrupulously honest, and ership inscription of Elizabeth Mirehouse, and the bookplate on the edge gilt, others untrimmed, printed on japon throughout. Colour modest man, kind and generous, and beloved and admired by was the husband of the Indian reformer and women’s-rights rear pastedown of John Fisher (1758–1825), Bishop of Salisbury. Ex- frontispiece with captioned tissue-guard and 31 similar plates by Ab- all who knew him, no matter what their rank. He was awarded activist Sarojini Nalini: the Hogarth Press published his biog- tremities rubbed, the map with short marginal tear, occasional light anindro Nath Tagore and others under his instruction. Spine sunned, raphy of her in 1929. the volunteer decoration, the kaisar-i-Hind gold medal, the browning, an excellent copy. rear cover commensurately faded along joint with small (10 mm) nick OBE, and the CIE, and was granted the freedom of the forests to leather at lower inner corner, a little restoration to tips and board- £1,250 [109793] in India, a privilege given only once previously to a European. first edition, a superior copy in red morocco, with the edges. A very good copy, partly unopened. In 1957 the Indian government renamed the Hailey National bookplate of John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury. Fisher was “a first edition, deluxe limited issue, inscribed “To 42 Park, the famous tiger sanctuary in Garhwal, the Corbett Na- highly cultured prelate, a generous patron of both authors and artists, and a capable sketcher; he was chaplain to the Royal Viscountess Astor MP, with sincere regards” on the front free CORBETT, Jim. Man-Eaters of Kumaon. With an tional Park ‘in memory of one who had dedicated his life to endpaper; the tête-de-tirage, number 1 of 75 copies. Nancy As- the service of the simple hill folks of Kumaon’ … He is today Academy in 1807 and helped to set up the British Institution Introduction by Sir Maurice Hallett … and a Preface the previous year. For the last twenty-five years of his life he tor, the first female member of parliament, took an outspoken by Lord Linlithgow. Bombay: Humphrey Milford, Oxford considered one of the earliest conservationists and the father interest in India and particularly the rights of Indian women, of the movement to save the tiger from extinction” (ODNB). was one of John Constable’s leading patrons” (ODNB). The though as such viewed the issue of self-determination with a University Press, Indian Branch, 1944 work concludes with a chapter on the conchology of the re- Octavo. Original cream cloth, lettered in brown on spine. With the Czech p. 51; Yakushi C148, misidentifying the place of publication of the true gion. The work is variously attributed to Edward Croydon, the certain ambivalence, writing to the Secretary of State for In- first. dia, Samuel Hoare, to ask whether he could “sleep easy in his dust-jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 3 other plates, maps to the publisher; William Bonneau Noble (1780–1831), the illustrator; endpapers. Contemporary ownership inscription of Thomas Patrick £1,250 [102946] or the engravers, Daniel Havell and James Shury. bed and think of India governed only by Indian men” (Man- Healy, Lt., 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles, who served dler, ed., After the Victorians, p. 113). The author Sister Nivedita 1944–5, demobbed around 1947 as a major. Remarkably well-pre- Abbey Scenery 115; Tooley 347. (born Margaret Noble in County Tyrone) travelled to India in 43 served copy, the cloth – typically of Indian publications – a little tired £2,750 [100333] 1898 to become a disciple of the Hindu thinker and founder looking, light toning to the text-block, and just a scatter of foxing to (CROYDON, Edward, publ.) A Guide to the Watering of the Ramakrishna mission, Swami Vivekananda. In 1900 she the fore-edge, the unclipped jacket somewhat browned, and becom- Places, on the coast, between the Exe and the Dart; In- founded a school for girls in Calcutta, on which she spent most ing brittle, the folds to both flaps separating and professionally rein- cluding Teignmouth, Dawlish, and Torquay, embellished forced verso with japanese tissue, some splitting and minor chipping of her assets, and died in 1911 with this book about a third fin- with a general view of Teignmouth and Dawlish, and the ished. Coomaraswamy completed the text: he was an English- at the edges, a little loss at the head and tail of spine, and some sur- various Seats around them, With a short Description of educated art historian of Tamil origin who was influential in face flaking at spine edges, but pictorially and textually largely complete, certainly a very good copy. the revival of Indian culture, and by his death in 1947, “recog- the Neighbourhood; To which will be subjoined, by spe- nized internationally as a leading Indologist, art critic, histo- true first edition of Corbett’s first book, printed and pub- cial Leave, from the Honourable the Board of Ordnance, rian, and linguist.” lished in Bombay, and extremely uncommon thus. “Perhaps a reduced part of their grand map. Teignmouth: printed and

32 33 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 1843, widely translated in Europe, banned by Czar Nicholas I and by Lenin, lost in obscurity for some time, and eventually adopted as the darling text of disgruntled American diplomats who, stationed in Moscow during Stalin’s rule, plundered it for surprisingly apropos aphorisms. Custine’s description of the despotism he perceived in Russia in 1839 – he discusses ‘the police of the imagination’ and describes the Russian people as ‘voluntary automata’ – are easy to recognise as remarkably accurate descriptions of later tyrannies” (Epp, “The Marquis de Custine and the Question of Russian History” in The Oxonian Review, March 2003, issue 2.2). This copy has an extremely appealing provenance, being the Raglan copy, with the gift inscription “Richard H. Fitzroy Som- erset, Dec. 28th 1843. The Gift of his Father” to the front free endpaper, the recipient’s ownership inscription to the front frees of the other two volumes, and his book-label as Lord Raglan to all the front pastedowns, together with the modern Cefntilla bookplate of the Raglan seat. After exemplary service during the Napoleonic Wars, Raglan was appointed Welling- ton’s secretary as Master of the Ordnance, and subsequently commander-in-chief for the campaign against the Russians in the Crimea. Though long scapegoated for the conduct of the campaign, later revisionist studies (such as Christopher Hib- 44 bert’s The Destruction of Lord Raglan, John Sweetman’s Raglan, and Stephen Harris’s British Military Intelligence in the Crimean The most intelligent book about Russia War) have provided more balanced and favourable portrayals. 44 £1,500 [109137] CUSTINE, Astolphe Louis Léonard, marquis de. The 45 Empire of the Czar; or, Observations on the Social, DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige Beschryving van Asie: Political, and Religious State and Prospects of Russia, behelsende de Gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, 45 45 made during a Journey through that Empire. Translated Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome from the French. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Beschrijving van gansch Gellukigh, Woest, en Petreesch Bookplate of Heyse-Tak; front board has “sprung”, 19th century repair Dapper. The plates (which are excellent strong impressions) Longmans, 1843 of Steenigh Arabie. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 1680 to fore-edge of engraved title. include superb views of Baghdad, Abydos, Ephesus, Smyrna, 3 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate Magnesia, Muscat, and Mecca. Among the half-plates are at- 2 parts bound in 1, folio (317 × 194 mm). Contemporary vellum, ti- first edition of Dapper’s Asia Minor and Mesopotamia; a Ger- panels in blind to boards, pale cream surface-paper endpapers. Spines man edition followed in 1681. The Atabey Library copy has tractive botanical subjects, including the coffee tree (p. 62 in sunned to tan and slightly crumpled head and tail, corners bumped, tle inked on spine, three-line blind tooled border on sides enclosing 16 plates but one of these is an additional botanical plate not the second part). all three volumes a little cocked, volume I very slightly shaken, light a large arabesque blind stamp, red speckled edges. Letterpress title browning, a very good set. printed in red and black; engraved pictorial title, 12 double-page en- called-for in the collation. In common with many of his con- Arcadian Library 8342; Atabey 322; this edition not in Blackmer; Macro 805. graved view (2 also folding), 3 double-page maps, 22 half-page plates. temporaries such as John Ogilby, the Dutch physician Olfert first edition in english, the same year as the first, which Dapper (1639–1689) never travelled to visit the lands he wrote £6,000 [100075] was published in four volumes under the title La Russie en 1839. about, instead compiling extant translations and others’ eye- The Russian philosopher Alexander Herzen acclaimed it “the witness accounts to produce lavish and encyclopaedic books most intelligent book about Russia”; in its importance to po- for the northern European readership. His and others’ work litical history it has been “compared to that of de Tocqueville’s thus both reflected and directed growing public interest in Democracy in America. But it was the book’s prophetic descrip- distant places and foreign peoples. Dapper was meticulous in tion of mid 20th-century Russia that was to be the basis of its using hundreds of published sources and several unpublished reputation in the last century. Indeed, the book’s publication ones for each of his books; he did not lift whole passages from history speaks volumes about the nature of its impact and its one book, but often based a single paragraph on two or three importance: it was remarkably popular when published in different sources. In this sense his work is indispensible to modern scholarship, as it reflects manuscript sources that have since been lost. Central to the contemporary appeal of Dapper’s works were the engravings, which ranged beyond the geographical interest served by maps and views. Clothing, eating habits, religious beliefs, court ceremonies, and judicial practices were all subjects discussed by travellers and mis-

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46 to the Royal Society, and so without the letters F.R.S. after his Presentation copy inscribed in his own hand to a fellow copies of any of Darwin’s books with the inscription written in DARWIN, Charles; Robert Fitzroy; Philip Parker King. name on the second title. orchid enthusiast the author’s hand are notably rare: the usual procedure was for such inscriptions to be written by one of Murray’s clerks on Dar- Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships This set with an appealing provenance, bearing the ownership 47 win’s behalf. Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, inscriptions of Francis Leveson-Gower (1800–1857), later Fran- describing their examination of the southern shores of cis Egerton, first earl of Ellesmere, to the front free endpapers DARWIN, Charles. Journal of Researches Into the Natural This is the final definitive text, with the earliest state adverts, first South America, and the Beagle’s circumnavigation of the and title or half-titles of all but volume II. The signatures are History and Geology of the countries visited during the issue in the green cloth case to match the Origin. The Journal of Re- globe. London: Henry Colburn, 1839 dated March 1840, under a year after publication. Leveson- voyage of H.M.S. Beagle round the world, under the searches was first published as vol. III of Fitzroy’s Narrative of the sur- Gore, a politician and poet, inherited a considerable fortune Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R.N. Tenth Thousand. veying voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle in 1839 (see 3 volumes in 4 (vols. I–III and Appendix to vol. II), quarto. Original from the third duke of Bridgewater which he “put to generous previous item), and also issued as an independent volume at the blue fine-diaper cloth, covers with panels in blind, spines lettered in London: John Murray, 1860 gilt, cream surface-paper endpapers, edges uncut, imprint “Colburn, use in his support of the arts and scholarship … He was first Octavo. Original green diagonal-wave-grain cloth, titles to spine gilt, same time. The second edition, extensively revised and reduced London” in gilt at foot (Freeman variant a). 9 folding engraved maps president of the Camden Society in 1838, and president of the decoration to boards in blind, chocolate brown coated endpapers, Ed- from about 224,000 words to 213,000, was first published in 1845 (8 loose in cover pockets, one bound in) by J. Gardner and J. and C. British Association at Manchester in 1842, of the Royal Asiatic monds & Remnants ticket to rear pastedown. Housed in a green flat in the scarlet cloth of John Murray’s Colonial and Home Library. Walker; 47 etched plates after P. King, A. Earle, C. Martens, R. Fitzroy Society in 1849, and of the Royal Geographical Society, 1854–5. back cloth solander box. Woodcut illustrations in the text. Bookplate It was reprinted in the same series in 1852, the title page now de- and others by T. Landseer, S. Bull, T. Prior, and others. He was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery and a member of W. H. Watts to front pastedown (engraved by Walter E. Spradbery, scribing it as a new edition, instead of second, although there first edition. “The five years of the voyage were the most of the Roxburghe Club” (ODNB). 1911). Some scattered foxing including to presentation leaf, early ink is no change. The present is the next issue of the same second annotations to rear pastedown endpaper (apparently the recipient’s), important event in Darwin’s intellectual life and in the history Freeman 10; Hill I, pp. 104–5; Sabin 37826. edition, and is the final text as Darwin left it. The parts from the offset from old label to front free endpaper, hinges cracked, some original stereos are the same, but a postscript, dated 1 February of biological science” (DSB). Vol. I contains King’s account of light wear to cloth, a very good copy. the expedition in the Adventure made between 1826 and 1830, £87,500 [109483] 1860, is added to the preliminaries, and it is in a green cloth case second edition, presentation copy, inscribed in dar- surveying the coasts of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. In Vol. of the same style as the first three editions of the Origin. “The page win’s hand on the blank leaf preceding the title, “G. Chich- II (and its appendix volume) Captain Fitzroy described the nar- height is nearly two centimetres greater than before and the wider ester Oxenden Esq. With the Author’s Compliments”. An au- rative of the Beagle’s second voyage, between 1831 and 1836, to margins give the book a much better appearance. Inserted adver- thor of satiric verses and parodies, George Chichester Oxenden South America, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, New Zealand tisements in this edition may be as late as September 1868” (Free- (1797–1875) was also an orchid enthusiast who had provided and Australia and other countries. In this set, the Darwin vol- man). In this copy, the advertisements are dated January 1860. Darwin with several specimens. Oxenden was included on Dar- ume, “Journal and Remarks 1832–1836”, is the first issue, print- Freeman 20. win’s presentation list for Fertilisation of Orchids (1862), and his as- ed before the end of January 1839, the month he was elected sistance is noted in several places within that book. Presentation £75,000 [105325]

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48 lin’s pictorial journal follows the progress of the 3rd Brigade first edition, limited issue, one of 12 copies “sur papier awe”. Oscar Eckenstein (1859–1921) started climbing when he DAVENPORT, Charles Talbot. “Pen and Ink Sketches of of Major-General Sir Robert Low’s relief force from their en- Alfa mousse des papeteries Navarre, non mis dans le com- was just 13 years old, but his “serious ascents in the Alps began try into the Malakand Pass to arrival at Chitral, and includes merce”: a detailed study of the hajj with particular emphasis in 1886” (ODNB) when he “evidently made up for lost time … the Life of a ‘Griffin’ in India.” [c.1870] numerous excellent landscapes, together with group portraits on medical aspects. Duguet had spent several years in the Le- making numerous first ascents with various climbers [includ- Landscape quarto (230 × 289 mm). Contemporary red morocco-grain of British and native troops, and of local dignitaries. The in- vant as inspector general of health services of the states under ing the Austrian mountaineer Lorria] … many of these peaks skiver, matching cloth, initials gilt to the front board, marbled endpa- dependent monarchy of Chitral was seen as a possible route French mandate, responsible for the medical supervision of are documented in The Alpine Portfolio” (Kaczynski, Perdurabo, p. pers. With 32 caricature sketches on 14 leaves, 8 full-page, the remaining 6 leaves divided into 4 panels, all with descriptive text on the ver- for the Russians into British India, so when the death in 1892 the pilgrimage to Mecca. In 1928 he was appointed inspector 42). He was a distinctly eccentric individual, a “short, sturdy, sos of the previous leaf facing. A little rubbed and soiled, with some of the long-time ruler Aman-ul-Mulk II, in the absence of any general of the Conseil sanitaire, maritime et quarantenaire asthmatic, bearded, sandal-wearing, shabbily dressed bohe- light restoration on the joints, light browning throughout, some off- law of succession, threw the state into chaos, it was felt neces- d’Egypte, or International Quarantine Board. mian, whose choice of pipe tobacco was found particularly setting from the illustrations to the facing leaves, first two leaves with sary to intervene to ensure the stability of the region. In an at- Macro 871. noxious by his companions, in retrospect appears to belong short splits to the fore-edge, repaired, overall very good. tempt to establish a secure base for operations, on arrival from to the alternative culture of a much later generation of rock inscribed by the artist, over his initials on verso of the Gilgit the political agent, Surgeon Major George Robertson, £1,650 [105496] climbers” (ODNB). A railway engineer by profession, he cre- front free endpaper: “To my Grandson O[rmus] N[eville] occupied the local fort, and found himself bottled up there. In ated new designs “for ten-point crampons and a much shorter T[albot] Davenport, at the request of Rose Dartnell – to whom the end the 15,000 strong army was pre-empted by a somewhat 51 and more wieldy ice axe which could be used one-handed, and for whom these drawings were done by Charles Talbot rag-tag force (400 Sikh Pioneers, 40 Kashmiri sappers with a ECKENSTEIN, Oscar, & August Lorria. The Alpine conducted experiments into the relative strength of knots, Davenport when he first soldiered in India”. This lively and pair of mountain guns, and 900 Hunza irregulars) cobbled to- Portfolio. The Pennine Alps from the Simplon to the and championed the use of tricouni nails in climbing boots. highly-detailed, if slightly naïve, series of cartoons chronicles gether by Colonel James Kelly at Gilgit, which relieved the gar- Great St. Bernard. London: Published by the Editors, 1889 Many of these innovations, which later became commonplace rison almost a month before the main force arrived. among the mountaineer’s tools of trade, were regarded with the typical experiences of a young officer in India in the mid Folio (418 × 332 mm). Original burgundy half leather book-style port- great suspicion by the establishment circles”; but he also was 19th century: drunken sports in the Mess, misunderstand- Uncommon, with four copies on Copac, to which OCLC adds folio, pebble-grain cloth sides, neatly rebacked, title gilt to the front a “pioneer in the development of the athletic potential of the ings of local customs, outflankings by native servants, all very a further five locations. This copy with some extremely inter- board, together with the accompanying caption text volume in origi- human body on rock”. He was a climbing mentor to Aleister good-humoured and self-deprecatory. Charles Talbot Daven- esting pencilled notes to both the introductory text, and a nal printed calque paper wrappers. With 101 heliotypes printed on Crowley, with whom he conquered Popacatapetl and attempt- port (1848–1919) purchased a lieutenancy in the 83rd (County number of the plates; and three original photographs loosely light card stock, including the specimen plate of the Matterhorn from ed K2. Crowley was in awe of both his climbing abilities and of Dublin) Regiment of Foot, later the Royal Irish Rifles; in inserted, two (109 × 143 mm) personal albumen prints with near Breuil, photographed by Donkin, loosely inserted in the portfolio as issued. Portfolio slightly rubbed and soiled and with some his character: “His detestation of every kind of humbug and 1867, he retired in 1881 as paymaster with the rank of major. identifications pencilled verso, the other a larger (210 × 242 professional restoration, plates lightly browned, occasionally slightly false pretence was an overmastering passion. I have never met mm) unnumbered Burke print of an encampment at a durbar. £2,250 [107192] more so in the margins, and with one or two corners chipped, the text any man who upheld the highest moral ideals with such un- Circumstantially it would seem that the annotator might have volume wrappers and text a touch browned, a few minor edge-splits, flinching candour” (The Confessions, p. 151). 49 been with the medical services. overall a very good copy. Extremely uncommon: Copac records just two sets (BL and DEVELIN, Sergeant-Major, R.E. Views in Chitral. Taken Bruce 4350; Yakushi D196. first and sole edition, limited issue; number 82 of 160 copies. An excellent complete set of this sought-after visual re- NLS), and OCLC adds four (Zentralbibliothek Zurich; Media- during the Advance of the 3rd Brigade of the Chitral £2,250 [107629] cord of the Alps, many of them by noted pioneers of mountain theque Valais, Sion; University of Colorado, Boulder; Florida Relief Force under the Command of Brigadier-General photography. W. F. Donkin, Honorary Secretary of the Alpine State University). 50 W. F. Gatacre. London: Maclure & Co., 1896 Club and the Photographic Society, had died climbing in the Neate p. 106. Landscape quarto (240 × 308 mm). Neatly rebound in red cloth, title gilt DUGUET, Marie-Louise-Firmin. Le pèlerinage de la Caucasus the previous year; the publication is dedicated to his £9,500 [100823] to front board. 127 photogravure plates, 4 of them folding. Title page Mecque. Au point de vue religieux, social et sanitaire. memory (“he who first raised mountain photography to the foxed, text pages lightly browned, and the plates toned as often, a few dignity of a fine art”). Vittorio Sella’s commitment to excel- plates with minor worming in the upper margin, but overall very good. Avec une préface de Justin Godart. Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1932 lence drove him to insist on using 30 × 40 cm plates, inventing first and only edition of this fine visual record of the 1895 special pack-saddles and rucksacks to allow their transporta- expedition to relieve the siege of Chitral, an incident of the Octavo. Original printed card wrappers. With 8 plates, maps and tables to the text. Lightly rubbed and soiled on the wrappers, pale ton- tion. When Ansel Adams visited the Sierra Club’s exhibition Great Game that became a considerable cause célèbre. Deve- ing, else very good. of Sella’s work he confessed to feeling of “a definitely religious

38 39 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 laws and maxims of government, in a manner which would have done honour to Montesquieu himself ’”. The author of this work, Theodor Mundt, was a German philologist and librarian, best known for his writings on aesthet- ics and for his advocacy of the emancipation of women, who compiled the memoir “on account of its intrinsic interest as well as the relation it bears to the present war” (Preface). Un- common, with eight copies on Copac. Reid, Borderland: A Journey through the History of Ukraine; Memoirs of the Baron de Tott. £950 [109183]

54 ELPHINSTONE, Mountstuart. An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, & J. Murray, 1815 52 53 Quarto (285 × 208 mm). Contemporary calf, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, flat spine, title gilt direct. Hand-coloured also called Gessi Pasha (1831–1881), to crush the insurrection. aquatint frontispiece and 12 other similar plates, one uncoloured “The Garibaldi of Africa” and the “scourge of the slavers” aquatint, large folding engraved map (opening 637 × 789 mm), col- The multi-lingual Gessi had served originally as a translator 52 oured in outline, and one similar full-page map. Contemporary ar- with Gordon during the Crimean War. Following his campaign morial bookplate of Abraham Caldecott, former Accountant General (EGYPT & ABYSSINIA; anti-slavery campaign.) Carta against the slavers, for which he earned the title of “Il flagello 54 to the Bengal Presidency, to the front pastedown, together with the dell’ Egitto e dell’ Abissinia. [? Milan: Artaria & Ferd. Sacchi degli schiavisti” (Scourge of the Slavers), Gessi became gover- slightly later plate of William Woodville Rockhill, American adven- e figli, c.1878–9] [Together with:] GESSI, Romolo. Seven nor of Bahr-el-Ghazal. 53 turer and diplomat. A little rubbed, with some judicious restoration Years in the Soudan: being a record of Explorations, and refurbishment at the extremities and on the joints, light brown- This rare map, printed in English and Italian, was used by ELIOT, Hon. William Gordon Cornwallis, later 4th earl ing throughout, the occasional spot of foxing, some offsetting from Adventures, and Campaigns against the Arab Slave someone following Gessi’s campaign closely, either from di- of St Germans (trans.) Krim-Girai, Khan of the Crimea. the plates, the large map with professional repairs at the folds and to Hunters. Collected and Edited by his son Felix Gessi. rect military communications or newspaper reportage (there Translated from the German of Theodore Mundt. London: an old tear, formerly stub-mounted, but now laid in for ease of open- London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892 are pinholes at the top corners where it has been displayed). It ing, overall a very good copy. John Murray, 1856 Large folding map lightly coloured in cream and blue (sheet size: 690 has a number of fascinating annotations: there are several un- first edition of this superbly detailed regional study, illus- Octavo. Original red linen-grain cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate × 860 mm, folding down to 140 × 210 mm). Dissected into 20 sec- derlinings and marks in black and red, and various tiny hand- panelling in blind to boards, light green surface-paper endpapers. A trated by a series of costume plates that are closer to individu- tions, backed on to linen. Detailed glossary translating English terms written notes in Italian locating troop positions, for example little rubbed overall, bumped at the corners, head and tail of spine ated portraits than the “types” usually encountered in such into Italian. Undated, although several printed details are dated with “200 soldati” (soldiers) at Foweira, “50 soldati Sudanesi” at crumpled and with minor chipping, pale toning, some light foxing, works, by one of the most remarkable figures in the establish- explorers’ names, the latest identified is the Wilhelm Junker expedi- Sobat, “100 Soldati” at Nasser, “No Soldati” at Shambeh. The but overall a very good copy. ment of British hegemony in India in the early 19th century. tion of 1877–8. The book: Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine and name “Gessi” is handwritten in red and highlighted with a Elphinstone went out to India in 1795 at the age of 16 in the front cover lettered in gilt and ruled in black, black coated endpapers. first edition. A very pleasing association copy, inscribed hand-drawn feathered arrow at Bahr el-Ghazal. A number of service of the East India Company, advanced to the impor- Portrait frontispiece of Gessi from a photograph, 22 plates (2 double- the places marked coincide with the campaign map present in “With the Translator’s love” on the first blank, and the book- page, largely from wood-engravings), illustrations in the text, folding tant post of Resident at the court in Nagpur in 1804, and in Gessi’s book, as do the numbers of “soldati” mentioned, for plate of Lord Raglan and the modern Cefntilla bookplate to the coloured campaign map. Map lightly toned and with a touch of foxing front pastedown. Richard Henry FitzRoy Somerset, 2nd baron 1808 was appointed ambassador to the Afghan court at Kabul. in places otherwise in excellent condition. Book: spine a little rolled, example: on page 206 Gessi notes that at Lado “two hundred There he was to assess the extent of French penetration, which and forty guns of an antique pattern were delivered to me” – Raglan, was married to the author’s cousin, Susan Caroline. inner hinges neatly strengthened, scattered foxing, short closed-tear Raglan’s father, recently deceased at the time of presentation, had established an embassy in the Persian capital, and per- to map. A very good copy. this ties-in closely to the “230 soldati” at Lado inscribed on the had famously commanded the British forces in the Crimea; suade Shah Shuja into a defensive alliance. The mission was first edition in english. A rare and intriguing map cou- map (“soldati” may be here conflated with “guns”). We have formally a failure, with the suspicious Afghan court refusing only been able to locate one copy of the map, at the Biblioteca the association gains poignancy from the fact that Eliot’s el- pled with a copy of the first English translation of Gessi’s first- der brother the Hon. Granville Charles Cornwallis Eliot, a cap- the embassy passage beyond the border town of Peshawar; El- hand account, including letters “which do not appear in the statale di Cremona, where a handwritten note states that it was phinstone did, however, return to India “with a mass of new published at Milan by Artaria and Ferd. Sacchi e figli, who were tain in the Coldstream Guards, was shot through the head and Italian edition” (note by the translators). killed at Inkerman. information about the Punjab and the north-west … Elphin- also responsible for publishing a map of Egypt, the Sudan, the stone’s subsequent Account of the Kingdom of Caubul continued to In 1877 General Gordon was appointed as Governor of Sudan Red Sea, and Abyssinia in 1887 (viewable online at New York Qirim Giray (d. 1769), one of the most influential rulers of the inform British policy on the north-western frontier until the and he immediately made preparations to move against the Public Library Digital Collections). Not in Copac or OCLC. Crimean Khanate and a scion of the ruling Giray clan (direct 1840s” (ODNB). thriving slave trade based at Bahr el Ghazal (now in South Su- descendants of Genghis Khan), was “a clever, affable man with Czech, African Big Game Hunting Books 1785–1999, pp. 104–5: “numerous Abbey, Travel 504; Colas 960; Howgego, II, E10; Lipperheide 1483; Tooley 209. dan) and its leader Al-Zubayr Rahma Mansur, known as the instances of hunting buffalo, hippo, crocodiles and various antelope species”, a weakness for practical jokes involving severed heads”. He as- “Black Pasha”. After various manoeuvrings the latter was de- the binding of our copy is a variant not recorded by Czech; Hogg, The African pired to an alliance with Frederick the Great against the Rus- £5,750 [105235] tained in Cairo and his son Suleiman, in accordance with his Slave Trade and its Suppression, 3519b. sians, and conspired to similar ends with the baron de Tott: father’s wishes, started an insurrection, raising 6,000 troops £1,250 [102324] “the two spent long evenings talking politics inside the crim- and conducting large-scale raids. Gordon instructed his right- son-lined tent, Qirim delivering his ‘opinions on the abuses hand man, the Italian soldier and explorer, Romolo Gessi, and advantages of liberty, on the principles of honour, or the

40 41 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 first edition. “This book concentrates attention on the period from about 1700 until 1850 and includes critical comments on British policy. Travelling extensively from Iran across Afghan- istan and Central Asia into India Ferrier developed a masterly knowledge of the history, geography, and languages of the area” (Yakushi). The author, “diplomat”, explorer, and soldier of fortune, Joseph Philippe (or Pierre, but not Pierce as per Yakushi) Ferrier (1811–1886) signed up to serve as an instructor with the Persian army in 1839, after developing a “feeling for adventure” while being prosecuted by his creditors (Encyclopaedia Iranica). Following a rather ramshackle, unofficial mission to Persia, Ferrier returned to France, where, upon discovering that Fran- co–Persian diplomatic relations had been reopened, offering the chance of further service, he immediately took himself to 55 Baghdad. “After the Anglo-Afghan war of 1838–42, conditions in Afghanistan were much disturbed. Having reached Herat with 55 many difficulties, Ferrier was suspected by Yar Mohammed to FERRARIO, Giulio. Descrizione della Palestina. O storia be an English spy. After a long and perilous itinerary in Afghani- del vangelo. Illustrata coi monumenti. Milan: Società stan, where he fell prey between rival local rulers, he would re- Tipographia de’ Classici Italiani, 1831 turn to Herat and reach Tehran. During his voyage, and particularly at the end, he sent reports on the British in Central Asia to Royal octavo (265 × 175 mm). Contemporary Italian tan morocco, cov- Henry Rawlinson at Baghdad and to Justin Sheil at Tehran. He ers elaborately blindstamped with floral corner- and centrepieces, diced central panels, gilt-tooled vine-leaf borders, flat spine richly gilt brought to Sheil a manuscript from Alexander Burnes. He also in compartments, marbled endpapers. Engraved folding area map reported to Sartiges on the political situation in Afghanistan”. and 32 aquatints by Bramati, Angeli and others of which 31 hand-col- An account of his trip was published in an English translation oured. Slightly rubbed overall with a couple of small superficial holes in 1857, only being issued in French in 1870. In his preface Cap- to front joint, folding map foxed and with tear skilfully repaired on verso, pencilled captions in Italian to fore edges of plates, rear free tain Jesse makes the point that Ferrier’s writings “can be more 57 endpaper recto annotated in pencil, the very occasional marginal thoroughly appreciated here [in England] than in France; and spot, but an excellent copy, internally crisp and fresh, with wide mar- that they must prove of real value in England is evident when The grander and wilder beauties of Bengal (Martin Hardie). They are also eulogised in Mildred Archer and gins and notably bright plates. we consider how great are the interests involved in the devel- Ronald Lightbown’s India Observed: India as viewed by British Artists first separate edition, revised and significantly expanded; opment – commercial, social, and religious – of that vast con- 57 1760–1860 (V&A 1982): “Beautiful in themselves, they also mark originally published as part of Ferrario’s immense Il Costume An- tinent which Providence has permitted to fall under our rule”. FORREST, Charles Ramus. A Picturesque Tour along an evolution from earlier aquatints, whose subjects sparkle un- tico e Moderno, issued simultaneously in French and Italian in 143 Yakushi F32. the Rivers Ganges and Jumna, in India: consisting of der an eternal sunlight, in showing at times an evening light or parts from 1816 to 1834, forming a total of 17 volumes. In the £850 [102592] Twenty-four Highly Finished and Coloured Views, a stormy skies. … Forrest may have supervised their colouring preface Ferrario claims to have corrected the errors of the first Map, and Vignettes, from Original Drawings made on with more care than was always usual”. Forrest served with the edition from various accounts, including those of Mayer and the Spot; with Illustrations, Historical and Descriptive. 3rd East Kent Regiment (“The Buffs”) from 1802 to 1814 in In- Chateaubriand. Remarkably uncommon in this form, with ten dia and in the Peninsula, acting as Major of Brigade in Bengal copies in institutional libraries worldwide and just three seen at London, R. Ackermann, 1824 in 1810; his Indian tour was undertaken in 1807, motivated by “a auction in over 50 years; this is a particularly handsome copy. Quarto (332 × 264 mm). Recent Cosway-style red morocco binding by desire to explore [Bengal’s] grander and wilder beauties.” Bayntun, with a miniature painting (under glass) set into the front Hamilton, Arcadian Library 8859; Blackmer 588 for Il Costume Antico e cover, showing the Taj Mahal in the centre of the panel, surrounded Abbey, Travel 441; Martin Hardie, pp. 109–10, 313; Tooley 227. Moderno, vol. I only & Atabey 427 for the first edition in French; not in Abbey, by eight smaller paintings of Indian historic sites, the space between Burrell or Howgego. £17,500 [107778] the ovals infilled with minute gilt floral motifs, richly gilt spine, sin- £1,500 [107964] gle-line gilt border on sides enclosing gilt panel with ornamental corners, gilt edges, richly gilt turn-ins, red watered silk endleaves, pre- 56 served in a custom made fleece-lined red cloth slipcase. With folding engraved map as a frontispiece, 24 fine hand-coloured aquatint plates FERRIER, J. P. History of the Afghans. Translated by Hunt or Sutherland after Forrest, title page and last leaf each with from the Original Unpublished Manuscript by Captain a hand-coloured aquatint vignette. Watermarks: plates 1825; text 1821 William Jesse. London: John Murray, 1858 & 1824. Embossed library stamp of Donald Duncan MacDermid on a preliminary blank. Occasional light offsetting. Octavo (217 × 133 mm). Recently bound in half calf, to style, marbled boards and edges, red morocco label, low bands with milled gilt roll, first edition of one of the finest colour plate books on India, floral lozenges to compartments, double rule in blind to spine and originally issued in six monthly numbers. “The illustrations are corner edges, brown endpapers. Folding engraved map at the rear, clear and bright, finely engraved, frequently printed in two col- and one full-page map. Armorial bookplate of Cyril Flower, Baron ours, and well finished by hand … a brave attempt to express Battersea, reimposed to the front pastedown, that of Monier Wil- what the author in the glittering and oriental peroration to his liams, noted orientalist, Boden professor of Sanskrit facing on the preface describes as ‘the enchanting features of India, eternally front free endpaper, and the attractive collector’s plate of Gerald Sat- glowing in the brilliant glory of the resplendent Asiatic sun’” tin to the first blank. Light browning, else very good. 56 57

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2 volumes bound as one, quarto (267 × 207 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, black morocco label, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, but somewhat flaked, single ruled panel enclosing a beaded gilt panel to boards, edges sprinkled blue, marbled endpapers. Dou- ble folding strip map of “the Route of Mr. Forster from Loldong to Petersburg”. Bound with both half-titles. Leather with considerable craquelure, some flaking, loss to spine, but surface now stable, corners through, front joint cracked but holding, light browning, some foxing to the map, but remains very good, and a reasonably appealing copy. first edition thus: the first volume was published in Cal- 60 60 cutta in 1790, the year before Forster’s death, the whole being published for the first time as here. Forster (c.1752–1791), was 58 lated to the mission to the New Hebrides, but on occasion she an officer of the HEIC on the Madras establishment, and be- “A bold fellow and ready for anything”: from civil war also entered Eastern Polynesia, “to give such aid as she could to tween 1782 and 1784 undertook “a remarkable overland jour- blockade-runner to Pacific mission ship captain the missionaries of the London Missionary Society, while they 58 ney from Calcutta to Europe, travelling through Jammu to 60 were without a vessel of their own” (p. 49), visiting Samoa, Rara- FORSTER, Charles. The Historical Geography of Arabia; Kashmir, Kabul, Herat, Persia, across the Caspian Sea, and tonga, and the Ellice group. It is clear that her role in the mis- Or, the Patriarchal Evidences of Revealed Religion: thence to Russia. This journey traced back, to a large extent, (FRASER, William Alexander.) The Comprehensive sion went far beyond that pure logistics: “The ‘Dayspring’ is one the route of Alexander in his pursuit of Bessus. It also took Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments According a Memoir, with Illustrative Maps; and an Appendix, of the institutions of the Presbyterian church, and her name is Forster through districts of considerable commercial and po- to the Authorized Version … London: Samuel Bagster and containing Translations, with an Alphabet and Glossary, famous throughout all our congregations and Sabbath schools. litical interest to the British. Adopting various disguises on his of the Hamyaritic Inscriptions recently discovered in Sons, 1867 The vessel is supported by other Presbyterian churches as well route … he travelled in the company of local merchants. This Hadramaut. London: Duncan and Malcolm, 1844 Quarto (300 × 250 mm). Contemporary black pebble-grain morocco, as ours; but Melbourne is her head-quarters, and she is well clandestine mode of travel, through regions completely unfa- title gilt direct to spine, raised bands with a dotted roll gilt, double fil- 2 volumes, octavo. Original purple fine diaper cloth, title gilt to spine, known, by sight or by report, to all our people” (p. 56). miliar to contemporary Europeans, made it impossible for him let panels to compartments enclosing fleur-de-lys and foliate scrolled elaborate panels to boards, cream endpapers. A large folding engraved tools gilt, concentric gilt panels to the sides incorporating a rope- map in an end-pocket to each volume – Classical and Scriptural Geogra- to use any instruments to survey his route, although he was Captain Fraser’s role in this success was central: in the mis- twist roll with small dog-roses, and fleur-de-lys corner-pieces, brass phy – an engraved map and 3 plates of inscriptions, 2 folding, one of them later described as an acute observer with a good knowledge of sionaries’ report for 1869 they commended him as “a univer- clasp, gilt edges, fine dotted edge-roll, foliate scrolled roll gilt to the stub-mounted and double-folded. Ex-Malta Garrison library, their paper the languages of central Asia” (ODNB). In Russia he had “sailed sal favourite among the natives; and from his obliging, kindly, turn-ins, brown surface-paper endpapers, two royal blue silk page- labels to the front board, small ink stamps to the title pages, rubbed and up the Volga to Russia, and then proceeded to St Petersburg” and gentlemanly bearing to all connected with the mission, markers. A little rubbed at the extremities, contents lightly browned bumped, sunned at the extremities, some repairs, hinges cracking, light (Cross), his travels there occupying just under a hundred pages proving himself qualified for the responsible and noble work with a scatter foxing, the folding “Table of Comparative Chronology”, browning throughout, occasional foxing, about very good. of volume II. On his return to England he was encouraged by is somewhat used, having the appearance of having been frequently to which God has called him”. On his retirement in 1872, the first and only edition. “An attempt at the proof of the de- Henry Dundas to write a general study of the political state of referred to, but overall very good. Melbourne Christian Review remarked that “The popularity of the India, and “in 1785 he published Sketches of the Mythology and ‘Dayspring’ in the colonies is due very much to Captain Fraser, scent of the Arabs from Ishmael”, based on the analysis of the presentation bible to Captain Fraser from the missionaries Customs of the Hindoos, a work which attracted considerable at- and it is even a question whether the mission vessel would pre-Islamic inscriptions uncovered in the Hadhramaut (Gha- on the Loyalty Islands and New Hebrides, with a large black tention” (ODNB). Back in India he was employed by Cornwallis now be in existence but, under God, for the seamanship and ni). Forster (1787–1871) was a graduate of Trinity College, Dub- morocco presentation label to the front pastedown: “Present- to negotiate the conclusion of defensive alliance against Tipu self-denial of her commander. It is no light task to sail a ves- lin, a protégé of Bishop John Jebb (1775–1833), and, although ed to Capt. W. A. Fraser by the Missionaries on the Loyalty Is- Sultan with Mudhoji Bhonsla and the Nizam Shah, reaching sel for so many years among the shoals and reefs of Polynesia he did not live to know it, grandfather of the novelist E. M. For- lands and New Hebrides as a token of respect for his character Nagpur in July 1788. He died there in 1790 as resident to the without shipwreck; to have much intercourse with many native ster. After assisting Jebb as curate and later as chaplain, Forster & gratitude for his services to the cause of Christian mission as court of Raja Raghoji Bhonsla. The completion of the present tribes and races without a collision; to control a crew without became rector of Sisted in Essex and one of the Six Preachers in Master of the missionary vessel Dayspring 1867”. Canterbury Cathedral. His first book, the controversially con- work was attained “from papers found in his possession”, and insubordination; to convey so many mission families without ciliatory Mahometanism Unveiled, appeared in 1829. on publication quickly obtained a high reputation, being “val- Late in 1863, after signing on a crew that had promised to ab- a complaint; and to maintain the missionary character of the stain from alcohol, tobacco and profanity, Fraser embarked as Gay 3570; Ghani p. 136; Macro 971. ued by contemporaries for its contribution to the geographi- ‘Dayspring’ in so many of the ports of Australasia – and this cal knowledge of central Asia”. It was swiftly translated into captain of the Dayspring, a 100-foot fast barquentine of 115 tons Captain Fraser has done.” Fraser eventually retired to England, £950 [99439] French by the prominent orientalist Louis-Mathieu Langlès as built by Carmichael and Co. of New Glasgow, N.S., serving as a dying in Ilfracombe in 1914. Dayspring was wrecked in a hurri- Voyage du Bengale à Pétersbourg (1802). Mission supply vessel plying between Australia and the islands cane in Anelgauhat Harbour, Aneityum in January 1873. 59 of the Pacific. Fraser’s own abiding commitment to the project Cross D41; Ghani p. 136; Henze, II, pp. 262–3; Riddick 39; Wilson p. 73; £3,500 [95274] FORSTER, George. A Journey from Bengal to England Yakushi F95. was demonstrated by the fact that “soon after the keel was laid, through the Northern Part of India, Kashmire, Afghani- [he took over] the actual superintendence and care of the struc- £3,000 [98149] ture” (Cambell and McDonald, A Year in the New Hebrides, Loyalty stan, and Persia, and into Russia, by the Caspian-Sea. Islands and New Caledonia, p. 45). The Dayspring’s main duties re- London: R. Faulder, 1798

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61 62 GARNETT, Lucy M. J. The Women of Turkey. And Their GARRETT, Hal & Ned. Collection of photographs and Folklore. With an ethnographical map and introductory related material from the Pacific theatre of the Second chapters on the ethnography of Turkey; and folk- World War. Japan and the Philippines: 1944–5. conceptions of nature, by John S. Stuart-Glennie. [Vol. I:] 194 original photographs of which 84 are 8 × 10 ins (approximately Christian Women. [Vol. II:] Jewish and Moslem Women. 200 × 250 mm) and 100 are small format (95 × 115 mm), with 6 in other London: David Nutt, 1890–1 sizes; some duplicates, some with manuscript and printed annotations on the backs, a small number with annotations on the fronts. 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, single The photographs all very good, with just the occasional creased cor- 62 (vol. 1) and double (vol. 2) frame to boards in blind, front boards with ner, spot, abrasion, or toning; the accompanying pieces all in very winged swastika and sun vignettes gilt, black (vol. I) and brown (vol. good condition. II) coated endpapers, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Folding As noted on the back of one of the large format photos, Hal year Annapolis reunion book (which contains his biography) superb collection of original photographs docu- ethnographic colour map. Vol. I with publisher’s presentation ink- sailed into Nagasaki harbour on 26 September. The earliest is included, as well as the cruise-book for the ship he served menting life in the Pacific fleet at the end of the Second World stamp to half-title, vol. II with bookplate of Edward and Ruby Thal- photographs of the ruined city had been taken by the Japanese on, the USS North Carolina, with a photograph of that battleship War, including the ruins of Nagasaki less than two months af- mann to front pastedown and rear pastedown with later bookseller’s military photographer Yosuke Yamahata on 10 August, only loosely inserted along with three others. There is also a 1944 ticket and library label. Extremities bumped and worn, a few nicks ter the detonation of the atomic bomb. The owner of this col- one day after the bombing, and the first Western journalists silk map of the Philippines, probably Hal’s, and a wonderful to spine-ends, covers lightly rubbed and marked; vol. 1 spine sunned lection, Ned Garrett, graduated from the United States Naval arrived in the first week of September. By the time that Hal aircraft identification guide, a “restricted” publication issued with a few faint dents to rear board, vol. II half-title tanned. A very Academy in 1940 and spent 18 months aboard the USS North arrived, the city had been swept clean of much of the horror by the US Naval Training Station in Columbus, Ohio. good copy. Carolina. Though it is possible that Ned took some of the photo- of the immediate aftermath, and his photographs reflect as- first edition, uncommon in the original cloth. “Lucy Gar- graphs in this collection, he did not remain in the Pacific long pects of life returning. One traveller poses for a portrait in £1,875 [99766] nett travelled extensively in the Balkans and Middle East, re- enough to see many of the places depicted; it is likely that the the ruined landscape, and in another picture a group of men cording the customs of the people among whom she lived. In principal photographer was Hal Garret, credited on the backs sits atop a massive pile of soybeans removed from a building Smyrna, and later in Salonica, she learned Greek and Turkish; of many of the photos of the Philippines and Japan. We have near the waterfront. The most affecting photograph depicts her familiarity with demotic Greek led to a collaboration with been unable to trace Hal in the historical record, but it seems a pile of rubble and burned corpses. The photographs in the the folklorist John Stuart Stuart-Glennie … Her most impor- that Hal was taking photographs in an official capacity: the collection include a variety of subjects, from ships and planes tant achievement was the documentation and comparative backs of some of the small format photos are printed “Offi- to landscapes, ruined cities, and portraits and group shots of study of Balkan folk literature, which is still valuable when de- cial US Coast Guard Photograph”. In many cases he has been servicemen. Sailors and officers are seen enjoying Tokyo street tached from the dubious theories of ‘scientific’ folklore with granted access to areas that would have been off-limits for or- life, including riding in rickshaws. One of the most poignant which Stuart-Glennie tended to preface and gloss her work. dinary seamen; and a few of the photos are professional aerial photographs in the collection captures a young woman in de- She was particularly interested in the lives and status of wom- shots. His presence as a Coast Guard photographer at impor- spair, begging on the sidewalk with a sleeping child in her lap en, and took advantage of her access to the women’s quarters tant moments of the Pacific campaign makes sense given the as passersby look on. of remote Christian and Muslim communities to supplement role of the organisation in the Second World War: Coast Guard the accounts of earlier travellers for whom, as she noted, ‘the coxswains, who were skilled at managing smaller ships and In addition, the collection contains a number of other interest- female sex may be said not to have existed … at all’ (The Women landing craft in the treacherous waters around coasts, served ing items. There are a few photographs from the US, some of of Turkey, 1, 1890, lxxvii)” (ODNB). not only as trainers for navy and marine personnel but were a motorcade featuring a dignitary who may be General Eisen- themselves key figures during Allied landings in both theatres hower, and also a V2 rocket that was captured from German £1,250 [109714] of war. forces and displayed outdoors in Washington DC. Ned’s 20- 62

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63 appointed drawing and oriental writing-master at Haileybury GELL, William. The Topography of Troy and its Vicinity: College, founded for the training of cadets for the East India Company in 1806. Illustrated and Explained by Drawings and Description. London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1804 Abbey 399; Atabey 483; Blackmer 660; Lascarides 81. Folio (418 × 268 mm). Contemporary full diced russia, neatly rebacked £7,750 [99470] to style with red morocco label, compartments formed by simple double rules, and enclosing fleuron tools; gilt French fillet frame to 64 boards enclosing bead and chain panel, similar edge-roll, and to turn- ins, marbled endpapers, edges sprinkled blue. With 28 hand-coloured GOOD, Frank Mason. Views in Upper Egypt. London: W. plates by Thomas Medland after Gell’s drawings, 7 of them etchings, Mansell, 1871–2 and 21 aquatints, 3 of these folding; coloured etched vignette to the Landscape quarto (260 × 50 mm). Contemporary brown morocco title page, and 11 other similar headpieces, together with one uncol- over bevelled boards, title in gilt to front board within a broad panel in oured aquatint headpiece; 2 maps by Medland after Gell. Prospectus for blind, the same panel to rear board, paired bands to spine, broad gilt 64 Engravings with a Descriptive Account, in English and French, of Egyptian Mon- roll to each, panels in blind to compartments with quatrefoil centre- uments, in the British Museum (1804), by the same publishers, and also tool, gilt edges, zigzag roll gilt to turn-ins, white moiré effect end- with engravings by Medland, tipped-in before the title page. Some papers. With 58 original albumen prints (157 × 205 mm), numbered 48); and the third in the winter of 1871–2 included Egypt, Con- al Astronomical Society and the RGS, who was “fond of travel- light wear at the extremities, light toning, some offsetting as usual, by the photographer in the negative, images mounted rectos only on one folding plate with a short closed tear, no loss, but overall a very stantinople and Malta – “the Egyptian part being a repetition ling and had visited nearly all parts of the globe”. linen-hinged card leaves. The album a little rubbed, some judicious of the 1868 tour”. It is this expedition from which this selection good copy. With the armorial bookplate of William Baker (1743–1824), restoration at the extremities; variable, but mainly light, foxing of the See Gernsheim, Incunabula 584; Lazard, “Frank Mason Good and his Middle dates, evidenced by the presence here of an image of the great the son of Sir William Baker, one of the wealthiest merchants of the mounting leaves, some marginal fading of the prints, one or two a East Photographs”, in The Photohistorian, No. 93, summer 1991. 18th century, occupying prominent positions in both the Hudson Bay temple at Abu Simbel showing the facade following Mariette’s little spotted, overall very good, the majority with excellent contrast £12,500 [108084] and East India companies. His influence was such that he was able to and tonal range. clearance operations of 1869. During his fourth and final tour play a prominent part in financing the Seven Years War. His first mar- of 1875 he visited Palestine, Syria and Lebanon. riage was to Julia Penn, granddaughter of Willian Penn. attractive album of archaeological images from Egypt taken by one of Francis Frith’s closest associates. The Good is probably best known for his Near Eastern stereograph first and only edition of “the most beautiful book on Troy album contains a wonderful selection of Good’s archaeologi- series, but it is very likely that many notable images of the ever published” (Lascarides). Gell travelled extensively in the cal views including Heliopolis, Abu Simbel, Karnak, Luxor, region from the 1860s and 1870s previously credited to Frith eastern Mediterranean in the early years of the century, visiting Philae, with the party’s dahabieh moored at the island, and should in fact be attributed to Good (see Phoenix, “Preparing the Troad with Dodwell in 1801, and fixing, to his own satis- the Memnomium at Thebes. Albums concentrating solely on an Acquisition Report for the Portfolio, F. Frith’s Photo-Pic- faction, the site of Troy at Bunarbashi (Pinarbasi) in line with Good’s work are decidedly uncommon. tures of the Lands of the Bible Illustrated by Scripture Words”, the theories of Jean-Baptiste le Chevalier. Gell’s sketches of the Ryerson University, theses and dissertations, Paper 1181, 2008). expedition have been criticised for showing “no great artistic Frank Mason Good (1839–1928) was born in Deal, Kent, the son Lazard is certainly correct in his “conviction … that Good was power”, however “their exactness and minuteness”, produced of a chemist and druggist, which “probably explains his skill in an outstanding ‘landscapist’, acclaimed by his contemporar- with the assistance of the camera lucida, might fairly be seen the manipulation of chemicals” (Lazard, p. 47). He first trav- ies … [but] afterwards, for reasons I do not understand, com- as offering classical clarity and light, as an alternative to the ro- elled to Egypt as Francis Frith’s assistant in late 1857, and sub- pletely forgotten by the photohistorians of today” (p. 46). mantic elaboration and gloom that sometimes obscures topo- sequently he made four photographic tours of the Middle East. graphic accuracy in other similar works of the period. He was His first trip (1866–7) took in Greece Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, With a gift inscription to the front free endpaper verso,“ Wm. assisted in the creation of this attractively clear visual record by Alexandria, Suez and Petra, with a series of his views being Irving Page from his friend A. M. Sandbach, 1873”. The recipi- the meticulous transfer of his sketches by Thomas Medland. published by Frith who had essentially underwritten the trip. ent William Irving Page (1840–1904), sometime house surgeon Most likely trained at the British Institution, he is identified in The second trip was to Egypt (1868–9), “from Alexandria to at St George’s, was a respected astronomer, a fellow of the Roy- the drawing by Alfred Edward Chalon of Students at the Brit- Abu Simbel on the second cataract … between these two plac- ish Institution (BM1879,0614.758). Medland (c.1765–1833) was es, Good photographed about everything of interest” (ibid., p. 64

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66 2 volumes, small octavo (154 × 94 mm). Original grey thin paper illustrated wrappers. Housed in a cloth flat back solander box with chemise. GORDON, William. The History of the Rise, Progress, 65 Folding frontispiece to each, and 12 other plates in all, two of these and Establishment, of the Independence of the United folding. A very pretty set, the wrappers a little rubbed, and tanned at States of America: including an Account of the Late War; spines, that of vol. I with some minor repairs, but remains very good. 65 darin outside the walls of Tinghae”. Three large watercolours and of the Thirteen Colonies, from their Origin to that first edition. Rarely encountered in the wrappers, which depict the interior of the “Great Temple or Joss House in the GOLDSMITH, George. The watercolour album of an actually include two of the listed illustrations: a Persian dan- City of Tinghae” and “Seven extraordinary monuments with- Period. London: Printed for the Author, 1789 naval officer on active service in China during the First seuse on the front panel and, for contrast, an imam on the rear. in the outer wall of the Great Temple at Tinghae containing 3 volumes, octavo (200 × 122 mm). Contemporary lightly sprinkled From Hartleben’s Miniaturgemälde aus der Länder-und Völkerkunde, Opium War; together with an archive of documents Bones of the Dead”. One of the interior sketches (extended by sheep, red morocco labels. Folding map frontispiece to volumes I and II. A little rubbed, and with some judicious restoration to spines, a similar enterprise to Shoberl’s World in Miniature, the series related to Goldsmith’s naval career, 1821–51, including 23 attaching an additional sheet) features detailed notes on the joints, and corners, typical browning throughout, but overall a very running to some 50 titles over a ten year period; uncommon, documents specifically related to his service during the elaborate temple decorations. Five double-page panoramas good set on an elusive work. OCLC locating just six sets. war. 1821–51 comprise a visual record of the port of Amoy and the nearby first u.s. edition, published the year after the London edi- Oblong folio (245 × 325 mm). Original blue Chinese brocaded silk Colongsoo Island, showing the harbour at Amoy with a forest Not in Atabey or Blackmer; Wilson p. 84. tion. The first full-scale history of the War of Independence by leporello album with pink paste-paper endpapers, bookseller’s ticket of masts; the town on Colongsoo, where British troops were an American, it remained the primary authority on the conflict £1,250 [94464] of Thayshing inverted to the rear pastedown. 15 watercolours and 3 quartered; the island’s remarkable rocky landscape; and the for the century after its publication. Sabin considers that “Gor- pencil drawings on folding album leaves. 14 of the watercolours, and majestic banyan trees of the interior. One of the pencil draw- don is deservedly reckoned as one of the most reliable and one of the pencil drawings are double-page panoramas, all but one ings showing Chusan Island is by Lieutenant James Stoddart of the views with detailed pencil captions and notes on the margins, impartial of the numerous historians of the American Revolu- of HMS Cornwallis, who also saw considerable action in the detailed descriptions of each image are appended to the notes below. tion.” Born in Hertfordshire in 1727/8, Gordon was educated campaign. Three of Goldsmith’s watercolours were taken on Binding slightly rubbed on extremities, with some restoration, spine for the dissenting ministry and ordained in 1754. Prompted by his return voyage to England: two are spirited plein air studies relined, hinges repaired, several leaves slightly soiled on extremities, his political sympathies to move to America, he lived there for but overall very good. of waterfalls at the Cape of Good Hope, the other an appealing about 15 years, working in Massachusetts, but in early 1776 he view of Jamestown, St Helena, from the sea. superb album of views taken during the first opium was dismissed “after delivering a harsh attack on article 5 of the war (1839–42) by an artistically talented naval officer, Com- The manuscript archive contains a number of interesting doc- articles of confederation” (ODNB). He returned to London in mander George Goldsmith, commanding HMS Hyacinth, an 18- uments from various stages of Goldsmith’s naval career, from 1786, following his decision to compose a history of the events gun sloop. Goldsmith’s sketches are well observed, technically a certificate of service as Volunteer First Class on the sloop he witnessed in North America – believing that the new repub- meticulous, aesthetically pleasing, and portray locations in the HMS Martin in 1821, to his appointment as captain of the Bri- lic would not be receptive to an impartial history, he hoped to theatre in which he was actively engaged. The group contains tannia in 1851. Among the material relating the First Opium have better success with publication in England. images of the British occupied city of Tinghae (Dinghai, Zhou- War are a letter from the Admiralty informing Goldsmith of Howes G256; Sabin 28011. san), the citadel and port of Chinghae (Zhenhai, near Ningbo), his promotion to the rank of commander; memos, orders and the port of Amoy (Xiamen) and Colongsoo (Gulanguy) Island. receipts, some original, some retained copies, sent to Gold- £2,750 [100782] The album contains 11 skilfully executed views, dated in the smith by Sir William Parker (Commander-in-Chief of the East period February–March 1842 when Goldsmith was the senior Indies and China Station), Captain Joseph Nias (Senior Officer 67 officer in the citadel of Chinghae. They include a highly-fin- in the Pearl River), Captain Edward Belcher (Senior Officer at GRÄFFER, Franz. Persien. (Iran.) Nach Jourdain, ished panorama of the citadel of Tinghae; a landscape “within Macao), Captain Henry Smith (Senior Officer at Amoy), and Morier, Jaubert, v. Kotzebue, Tancoigne. Pest, & Pesht & the walls” of the city; a vista of the waterfront at Chinghae in- others. A full listing of the watercolours is available on request. cluding with the entrance to the Yong River; and views of the Leipzig [Vienna printed]: Hartleben, 1823 countryside “on the road to Tinghae” and of a “Tomb of a Man- £18,750 [100739] 67

50 51 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 third war, Burma was formally annexed to Britain, becoming a Maure, Thiaqui, Céphalonie, Zante, Strophades, Cérigo province of India. Graham explains that he had originally in- et Cérigotte … Paris: Tavernier, An VIII (1810) tended his photographs for his “own satisfaction”, but “later 4 volumes, 3 octavo text volumes (196 × 123 mm) and folio atlas. Text in on, when I found so many of my friends were anxious to secure contemporary streaked sheep, tan and black morocco labels, flat spine, copies, which I had not the time to print, it struck me that they compartments formed by chequered bands, gilt floral tools in the first would probably be glad to obtain a Series, as a memento of and fifth, the third and sixth filled with a repeated wavy ribbon tool, Burmah, if I could get them done at a moderate price” (Pref- single gilt flower and ellipse roll panel to boards, edges and endpapers ace). The pictures “are necessarily small, as they were taken by marbled; atlas folio in contemporary marbled boards. With 9 maps, apparatus capable of being carried by an Officer in the field, one of them folding, and 21 plates, views, “types”, and antiquities. the negatives being on Eastman’s paper”. Half-titles bound in. Text volumes just a little rubbed, particularly at the extremities, light restoration at heads and tails of spines, tan-burn £5,000 [96617] to a few leaves front and back in each volume, light browning else; atlas volume also a little rubbed, spine skilfully restored, some mild stain- 70 69 ing in the margins of some plates, overall a very good set. Bookplate of the notable and reclusive Belgian bibliophile François-Xavier Borluut de GRASSET DE SAINT-SAUVEUR, André. Voyage Noortdonck to the front pastedown of volume I. previously been embroiled in the “affaire du Canada” – was consul-general for the islands of Venice, and made his son historique, littéraire et pittoresque dans les isle et first edition. “This important and very detailed work device-consul for Corfu in 1782 and later interim consul to Zante. possessions ci-devant Vénitiennes du Levant; Savoir: scribes the Ionian Islands shortly after their acquisition by the He was subsequently commercial commissioner at Majorca, Corfou, Paxo, Bucintro, Parga, Prevesa, Vonizza, Sainte- French. Grasset de Saint-Sauveur lived in there from 1781 until publishing his Voyages au îles Baléares in 1806. 1798, latterly as a commissioner of commercial relations for Napoleon. The islands had come into the possession of France Atabey 517; Blackmer 722 (without half-titles); Legrand & Pernot, Bibliographie Ionienne, 582 (“peu commun”). in 1797” (Blackmer). Grasset’s father – also André, who had £5,000 [106212]

70 GRAY, James. Life in Bombay, and the Neighbouring 68 Out-Stations. London: Richard Bentley, 1852 68 Octavo. Original pinkish morocco-grain cloth, title gilt to spine stylised floral devices, “Oriental” panelling in gilt and blind to the front GRAHAM, Robert Blackall. Photographic Illustrations, board, in blind to the back, pale cream endpapers with advertise- with a Description of Mandalay & Upper Burmah ments. Two-tint lithographed frontispiece and 11 other similar plates, Expeditionary Force, 1886–87. By a Cavalry Officer. woodcut to the text, advert leaf for Bentley’s Railway Library bound in before the half-title. Inked ownership inscription of Augusta Wilder, Birmingham: A. Pumphrey, Photographic Publisher, 1887 née Smith, to the front pastedown. Somewhat rubbed, now sympa- Quarto (287 × 214 mm). Later red half morocco, old marbled boards, thetically restored on spine and at the corners, hinges neatly repaired, black morocco label. Title page printed in red and black, lithographic light browning throughout the plates somewhat more so and with plan of Mandalay, and 59 albumen prints (100 × 133 mm) mounted on some offsetting to the text, small piece torn from the lower corner of thin card leaves, rectos only, within red ruled borders, with accompany- the title page, no loss of text, a very good copy. ing letter-press text. Contemporary ownership inscription of H. H. Day, with his bookplate; later bookplate of noted military bibliophile Mark first edition of this excellent descriptive and visual record Dineley. A little rubbed, boards slightly soiled, light browning through- of the period. The author was no doubt sincere, but slightly out, the mounting leaves slightly rippled and with some marginal soot- premature, in his desire to offer a comprehensive view of the streaking – see below – the majority of the prints remain strong, a few a Bombay presidency as part of a perfectly pacified India. The little faded, and one somewhat spotted, overall very good. work is uncommon, with seven locations on Copac (BL, NLS, first and only edition of this extremely uncommon pho- Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, SOAS and V&A). tographic record of the Third Anglo-Burmese War; Copac With the armorial bookplate of John Cornwall and booklabel locates BL and SOAS only, OCLC adds eight further copies of John Wolfran Cornwall (1870–1947) to the front pastedown. worldwide. A printed slip from the publishers, tipped in af- John Wolfran Cornwall was born in Dehra, India and attended ter the second blank, explains that on 8 December 1887 their Trinity College, Cambridge. He took his medical degree in premises have been subject to “a serious fire … the contents 1900, entered the Indian Medical Service in 1896, and rose to have suffered very considerably”, which almost certainly ex- the rank of lieutenant colonel. He served as professor of hy- plains the scarcity of the book and also the soot at the page giene at Madras Medical College, Chennai, 1903–6, and direc- edges. A newspaper clipping relating the story is mounted on tor of the Pasteur Institute of India, Coonoor, Tamil Nadu, the third blank. from 1906 until his retirement in 1926. The earlier armorial The war was the last of three between the Burmese and the bookplate could be that of his grandfather, Rear Admiral John British fought during the 19th century. Following the Second Cornwall (1795–1870) or his uncle John Cornwall (1826–1860). Anglo-Burmese War, Lower Burma had been annexed to Brit- Not in Abbey, Tooley, Martin Hardie, or India Observed. ain, the Konbaung Dynast retaining sovereignty only of the territories described as Upper Burma. At the conclusion of the 69 £1,500 [94626]

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“Next to Daniell, the most attractive colour plate book on Robert Melville Grindlay (1786–1877), also known as the corners through, some minor stripping, leaves lightly browned and shows similarities of style, palette, the manner in which the India” (Tooley) founder of ANZ Grindlays Bank, arrived in India in 1803 and slightly rippled, some minor marginal soot-smutting towards the sketches are captioned and dated, and in the handwriting of served with the Seventh Bombay Native Infantry from 1804 front, the watercolours all in excellent condition, overall very good. the captions itself. 71 to 1820. After his retirement he founded the agency firm of superbly vivid pictorial record of travels through The present album, compiled after Harcourt returned to Eng- Grindlay’s & Co. and began a career as a talented self-trained the himalayan regions of the punjab. Harcourt’s jour- GRINDLAY, Robert Melville. Scenery, Costumes and land in 1889, fills lacunae in the British Library holdings, artist. “While most professionals were engaged in painting ney took him from present-day Kullu to Killar, 2–30 September Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India. among which there is just a single image dating from 1871 [portraits] of the nabobs and sahibs or composing history pic- 1871; he then later visited to the hill station of Dalhousie be- London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1830 and only seven dating from February and October 1873. Pre- tures of imperial interest, the amateur artists were able to cast tween June and October 1873, with images of excursions to the sent here are 39 watercolours dated between 2 and 30 Sep- Folio (400 × 315 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, spine richly their nets much wider. The works of professional artists had to Beas Valley and Rohtang Pass, to Gondla west of Dalhousie, gilt in compartments with repeated floral design, double-ruled flat tember 1871, representing a kind of visual diary of a journey satisfy their clients and sell in a fairly competitive market. The taking in the village of Kugti in the Chamba District in Septem- bands between dotted rolls gilt, red morocco label lettered in gilt to up the Kullu Valley by the Beas River, the Hyphasis of the sketches and drawings of the amateurs, however, were meant ber 1873. The sketches are immediate and detailed, if impres- second, gilt edges, marbled sides and endpapers. Engraved title with Greeks, easternmost extent of Alexander’s conquests, where primarily for the artists themselves, were executed more freely, sionistic, suggesting that they were taken with the intention coloured stipple vignette by J. S. Agar, 36 plates coloured in aquatint he faced mutiny and turned back. The 15 watercolours, which and are a more intimate observation of the Indian scene” (P. of working them up as more highly finished images later. To- on large paper by Reeve, Bently and others, all after original draw- date from June, September, and October 1873, include views ings by Grindlay, Westall, Roberts, Daniel, Stanfield, Fielding and Pal and V. Dehejia, From Merchants to Emperors). gether they convey a telling impression of the rugged, moun- of the Rohtang Pass and Ghondla, as well as several views of Purser. Interleaves after each plate. “Portico of a Hindoo Temple” tainous scenery of this Himalayan region, many of them also Colas 1334; Tooley (1954) 239; Abbey, Travel 442. Dalhousie and Chamba. The latest watercolour in the album plate bound as frontispiece (listed last in Abbey). Joints and extremi- showing built structures, native houses, villages, and temples, is of Dalhousie, dated October 1873. These were most likely ties very slightly rubbed, some faint toning to morocco at corners, £15,000 [107132] and the numerous vertiginously gorge-spanning “joola” rope executed on a second visit to the region by Harcourt, presum- binder’s blanks foxed, occasional light spotting and offsetting to in- suspension bridges. terleaves of which 2 with small chips to top edges, a few plates (British 72 ably while on leave. Residency at Hyderabad, Fishing Boats in the Monsoon, Entrance of The watercolours are unsigned but can be firmly attributed The donor of the Harcourt collection to the British Library was the Great Cave Temple) with faint marginal smudges and marks with HARCOURT, Alfred Frederick Pollock. “Kooloo – to Alfred Frederick Pollock Harcourt (1836–1910). He was As- Duncan Grant. “Harcourt married Georgiana Willis, first cous- images spared. An excellent copy. Lahoul – Chumba”: an album of over 50 watercolour sistant Commissioner in the Punjab from April 1869 to March in of Ethel McNeil, the mother of Duncan Grant. Early in life first edition, third state (the first one-volume iteration), sketches taken in the Lower Himalayan regions of the 1871. Harcourt “was the first person to take note of the archi- Miss McNeil became an orphan and lived with the Harcourts with Smith, Elder & Co. on the single title page, the two con- tectural grandeur of the temples in the Kullu Valley. He clas- Punjab (present-day Himachal Pradesh). 1871–3 in India for some years before marrying Bartle Grant of the tents leaves brought together and without part-titles or sheet sified the temples of Kullu Valley in four architectural cat- Folio album (375 × 515 mm). Contemporary dark green half morocco, 8th Hussars” (BLIOSM). The direct provenance of the present signatures. The work was originally published in six parts of six egories” (Mian Goverdhan Singh, Wooden Temples of Himachal mid-green morocco-grain cloth, for R. Ackermann, Regent Street, album is from Marjorie Timbs, née Heather, a schoolteacher plates each, of which Ackermann published the first two, start- matching patch label to the front board, low bands to spine with Pradesh, New Delhi, 1999, p. 60). Harcourt published an ac- who emigrated from Sussex to Australia after the death of her ing in 1826. Publication was then taken over by Smith, Elder, broad gilt rules, paired thick and thin gilt rules to spine and corner count of the region, The Himalayan Districts of Kooloo, Lahoul, and husband and left it to her nephew. We have been unable to whose name replaces Ackermann on the remaining 24 plates. edges. With 53 finished watercolours & 1 pencil drawing mounted rec- Spiti (1871), a book illustrated with just four lithographs from trace a link between Grant and Marjorie, beyond the presence “The book therefore exists in three forms: copies in parts or tos only on light card mounting leaves within inked line borders; 29 of his drawings of local people. The four original drawings are of both in Sussex. bound from the parts, copies divided internally into two vol- the watercolours measure approximately 250 × 350 mm, and 17 around held in the British Library’s India Office Collection, part of 170 × 250 mm, with the remaining 7 in marginally smaller or larger umes but without the part-titles, the text being a reprint, and their collection of 545 drawings by Harcourt executed between Yakushi H45 for Harcourt’s publication on the region. A full listing of the formats. The majority are captioned in the image in pencil or colour; watercolours is available on request. copies with one title page only” (Abbey). all have detailed ink captioning on the mounting leaves. A further 6 1861 and 1889. A comparison of the watercolours in the present watercolours have been loosely inserted. A little rubbed and scuffed, album with Harcourt’s work in the British Library collection £14,500 [108096]

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73 HARRIS, William Cornwallis. Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, during the Years 1836, and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, through the Territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn, with a 75 Sketch of the Recent Emigration of the Border Colonists, and a Zoological Appendix. Bombay: at the American Mission first edition of this well known travel book. Herbert had Press, 1838 secured a place in Sir Dodmore Cotton’s disastrous diplomatic Octavo (214 × 134 mm). Modern black half calf, marbled boards, red- mission to Shah Abbas of Persia, sailing from England on 23 dish tan label, low bands with gilt roll, fleuron gilt to compartments, March 1627, and returning on 12 January 1630. In the course of double rule in blind to spine and corner edges. Lithographic frontis- 74 74 his journey home, Herbert visited the Persian cities of Gom- piece and three other similar plates, folding lithographic map with broon, Shiraz, Esfahan, Ashraf, Qazvin, and Qom as well as some outline colour showing the movement of the Voortrekkers in ture of the South African game fields prior to the growing pres- in the United States at that time. Ordinary copies with tinted Surat, Mauritius, the Cape of Good Hope, and St Helena. “Her- the Great Trek. Pencilled ownership inscription of Colonel William sure of civilization” (Czech). plates were priced $6. These copies, described as “Extra fine bert inserted materials into his narrative about places he had Gordon to the half-title, perhaps the soldier of that name who joined edition on Bristol boards in portfolio” were priced at $12. Ben- not visited although he sometimes implied that he had, and in the Bengal Army in 1842, and was assistant field engineer Multan and Abbey, Travel 333; Czech pp. 118–9; Henze II, pp. 463–4; Howgego, II, H9; Mendelssohn I, pp. 686–8; SABIB, 2, p. 506. nett describes the plates as “many times finer than those in the each succeeding edition the amount of this second-hand mate- present at Gujrat. With the half-title. Small piece lacking from the in- regular account of the Perry expedition”. rial increased significantly. One particularly famous digression ner margin of the map, some loss of image, light browning through- £2,500 [98148] out, very occasional spot of foxing, remains a very good copy. Bennett, A Practical Guide to American 19th Century Color Plate Books, p. 53; appearing in the first edition onward was his speculation about McGrath, American Colorplate Books, 123. the medieval Welsh Prince Madoc’s discovering and colonizing first bombay edition, first issue, which predates the first 74 America. This segment was apparently included to please the London by a year, “scarce” (Czech). Harris was commissioned HEINE, Wilhelm. Graphic Scenes in the Japan £18,000 [105850] earl of Pembroke’s own Welsh nationalist fancies … Some Yeares in the Bombay Engineers in 1823, promoted to captain in 1834 Travels proved sufficiently popular to encourage a Dutch transla- and major in 1836, before being invalided to South Africa for two Expedition. New York: G. P. Putnam & Company, 1856 75 tion in 1658, and a French in 1663. During his years of retirement years. On the voyage out he met Richard Williamson, a Bombay Folio. Original half roan portfolio, cloth sides, lettered in gilt on front HERBERT, Thomas. A Relation of Some Yeares Travaile, after the Restoration, Herbert produced expanded third, fourth, civil servant, and decided to undertake a big game hunting ex- cover. Letterpress text volume, 12 ff., in original cloth-backed printed wrappers, together with 10 plates on India paper mounted on card, and fifth editions in 1665, 1675, and 1677 respectively, and the pedition. “Although primarily a hunting expedition, Harris cov- Begunne Anno 1626. Into Afrique and the greater Asia, as issued, comprising uncoloured lithographed portrait of Perry af- book continued to be reprinted after his death” (ODNB). ered much ground not seen before by Europeans, and on his way especially the territories of the Persian Monarchie: and ter a daguerreotype by Haas, and 9 hand-coloured lithographs after some parts of the Orientall Indies, and Iles adiacent. Of to the Vaal discovered the source of the Marique River, one of paintings by Heine. Portfolio neatly restored, spine and corners re- Herbert includes a general account of Arabia – with an engrav- the head-waters of the Limpopo” (Howgego). “Harris journeyed newed, new Petersham ties to style, lower panel of the text volume their Religion, language, habit, Discent, Ceremonies, ing of the Persian and Arabian coasts – and an important early to the Meritsane River where he encountered a herd of quaggas professional repaired, plates lightly surface-cleaned and with some and other matters concerning them. Together with the account of the Cape of Good Hope, with perhaps the first pub- and brindled ‘gnoos’ he estimated at 15,000 head. He bagged judicious restoration at the corners, overall very good. proceedings and death of the three late Ambassadors: Sir lished view of Cape Town (p. 17); a description of the Hotten- eland and was attacked by lion in the region. Crossing the Mari- first edition, the superior issue with hand-col- D.C. Sir R.S. and the Persian Nogdi-beg. As also the two tots; and a brief glossary with examples from their language qua River, he hunted ostrich and white rhinoceros. Entering oured plates. William Heine was the official artist on Com- great Monarchs, the King of Persia, and the Great Mogul. “which must have been the first published in an English work” the Cashan Mountains, he collected elephant, then proceeded modore Matthew C. Perry’s 1853–4 expedition, which played a London: Printed by William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, 1634 (Mendelssohn, p. 706). The illustrations include a map of to the Limpopo Valley where he hunted buffalo and hippopota- Madagascar, a flying fish, “a sharke fish”, and the Dodo, about leading role in the opening of Japan to the West. On his return Quarto (275 × 183 mm). Late 18th-century polished tree calf, decora- mus, with additional sport after giraffe, black rhinoceros, sable, which Herbert comments that “greasie stomackes may seeke to the United States Heine produced several series of prints tive gilt spine, black label, yellow edges. Engraved title page by Wil- and lion. Harris’s work is valuable as it presents a detailed pic- commemorating the trip. A group of six elephant folio prints liam Marshall, 35 engravings in the text. A few scrapes to binding, after them, but to the delicate, they are offensive and of no appeared in 1855, followed by these in a smaller format, with joints split at head and tail, prelims and a couple of gatherings damp- nourishment.” different images and explanatory text. Both projects employed stained, closed tear across M3 and N1. An appealing copy complete STC 13190; Sabin 31471; Howgego, Exploration, H67. the New York firm of Sarony, probably the best lithographers with the attractive engraved title page and Stansby’s colophon printed on a separate leaf at the end. £2,250 [98422]

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rated elements of this expedition into Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the narrative poem that would make its author famous and establish the image of the Byronic hero. 76 77 Abbey, Travel 202; Atabey 584; Blackmer 821; Brunet III, 241. 76 first edition. Hill was only 15 when he was sent by his 78 £3,000 [94114] HEYGATE, John. Motor Tramp. London: Jonathan Cape, grandmother to visit his distant relative Lord Paget, English ambassador to Constantinople. From there he travelled to sue guards, one engraved architectural plan, 2 plates of Albanian 79 1935 script, 2 plates of music, 2 engraved folding maps. Bookplate of Kin- Greece, Egypt, Palestine, Jordan and Arabia, returning to Eng- HOLDSTOCK, Peter. Local Color. Awali, Bahrain: [ for the Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in blue, top land three years later in April 1703 with Paget. His Ottoman Em- turk to front pastedown. Small white stain to the slightly darkened edge red, bottom edge untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Half-tone photographer, c.1954] pire was a “luxury publication designed to establish its author’s spine, extremities lightly rubbed, corners gently bumped, boards a photographic frontispiece and photographs throughout the text. Spine touch scuffed and soiled, minor worm damage to front joint, inner social and literary credentials … at nearly 350 pages it was an Landscape quarto (195 × 245 mm). Original comb-bound black-coated very faintly rolled, nonetheless a superb copy in the dust jacket with a hinges cracked but holding firm, light offsetting from plates lacking heavy card boards, map design in white on black to the front board. impressive achievement for a 24-year-old. Hill’s primary mod- slightly toned and nicked on spine and light rubbing to rear panel. tissue guard, a few short splits to the lightly foxed folding maps, oc- With 23 leaves of silk-finish photographic stock with black and white el was the diplomat Sir Paul Rycaut’s Present State of the Ottoman first edition. Heygate’s account of a motor-tour across Eu- casional pale spotting to margins. A very good copy. photographs printed both sides, another similar image mounted in- Empire of 1668. He borrows many of Rycaut’s observations on rope in the company of Henry Williamson is dominated by second edition, issued the same year as the first, of this side the rear board, contents listing, including technical details for the political, institutional, and religious history of the Turks their sojourn in Nazi Germany. account of a tour of Albania, Greece, and Turkey the author each image, camera, exposure, etc., inside the front. A little rubbed at … yet he is undoubtedly more interested in projecting himself made together with Lord Byron. “Hobhouse’s account of this the edges, contents remain excellent, overall very good. into the picture as an adventure hero … Hill dramatizes him- £875 [107659] journey, Byron’s first visit to Greece, is of great interest not only first and only edition of this wonderful selection of well- self struggling with knife-wielding Arabs, finally stabbing one for the light it sheds on an important period in the poet’s life, composed and printed images of mid 20th-century Bahrain, con- to death, going underwater pearl-diving, braving storms and 77 but also for Hobhouse’s detailed accounts of ethnographical taining attractive views, various trades, and “types”. The selection dangerous tempests on his sea journey to Samon and, finally, HILL, Aaron. A Full and Just Account of the Present State and topographical materials and his descriptions of Ali Pasha’s includes a portrait of the Sheikh of Bahrain with Ibn Saud, and enduring ‘A Strange Accident which befel the Author in a Vault of The Ottoman Empire. In all its Branches: With The court” (Blackmer). In Greece they were “surprised to discover aerial views of Awali, the town founded in the 1930s by the Bah- among the Mummys’” (Gerrard. Aaron Hill: The Muses’ Projector, considerable anti-Turkish feeling among the inhabitants. They rain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) to house their headquarters Government, and Policy, Religion, Customs, and Way of 1685–1750, p. 22). Complete copies are genuinely scarce in com- Living of the Turks, in General. Faithfully related From a based themselves in Athens, visiting Marathon on 24 January, and foreign technical staff, and of Dhahran, Saudi HQ of Ara- merce, with just three seen at auction in the last 30 years. mco. The album’s approximate dating comes from the fact that Serious Observation, taken in many Years Travels thro’ and went via Smyrna to Constantinople, where they attended Atabey 580; Arcadian Library 16882; Blackmer 817 for the second edition an audience with Sultan Mahmoud II” (ODNB). Byron incorpo- the sheikh in the initial double portrait is Salman bin Hamad those Countries. London: for the author by John Mayo, 1709 (1710); not in Burrell. al Khalifa (1894–1961), who ruled 1942–61; King Abdulaziz ibn Folio in fours (345 × 220 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf panel- £2,500 [107982] Saud, with whom he is pictured, died in 1953. The aerial images stamped in blind, rebacked (19th-century) with brown morocco spine show the respective administrative capitals at a state of develop- in compartments double-ruled in gilt, reddish-brown morocco label, ment consonant with a date in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and floral roll gilt to board-edges, red sprinkled edges. Engraved portrait 78 the Fairchild K-20 used to take them was a high-quality, wartime frontispiece and 7 plates each with facing explanatory leaf. Owner- HOBHOUSE, J. C. A Journey Through Albania and ship inscription of John Lilley (“his book, 1714, 915”) to final blank; military handheld model produced 1941–5, and therefore likely to armorial bookplate of Sir John Bridger (squire of Coombe Place, Lew- Other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to be entering the army-surplus market around this time. Holdstock es; appointed Sheriff of Sussex, 1780) to front pastedown. Extremities Constantinople, During the Years 1809 and 1810. Second was a BAPCO employee in the Awali in the 1940s, and won the slightly rubbed, corners bumped, a few light scuffs and splashes to edition. London: Printed for James Cawthorn, 1813 company’s Kingsbury Cup in both 1940 and 1941 and the Russell covers, old restoration to craquelure on front, inner hinges some- Quarto (265 × 204 mm). Near-contemporary dark brown sheep, Cup for 1941. We can trace only one other copy of this attractive time reinforced with red cloth, ticket or plate removed from front raised bands to spine, titles gilt to dark brown-green morocco label, visual record of the Gulf before the acceleration of its oil-fired pastedown, light browning to front flyleaves and sigs. 2O–2X, plates decorations to bands gilt, to compartments in blind, double ruling to modernisation in the latter part of the 20th century. and explanatory leaves foxed as often, pale staining to sig. 2Ir, short boards in gilt and blind, marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece, chip to bottom edge of sig. 2L1 not affecting text, very occasional faint 17 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 7 of which are folding, all with tis- £3,000 [103621] marginal spot. Overall a very good copy. 78

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81 from Cape Mussendom to the entrance of the Basrah River. This side of the gulf is always avoided by European vessels, 80 80 HORSBURGH, James. The India Directory or Directions for it is little known, and considered unsafe … during strong for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New north-westers there is probably no good anchorage, or shelter “Willcock’s weekend war” – with the Seaforths on the the command of Major-General Sir James Willcocks (ibid.) The Holland, Cape of Good Hope, and the Interjacent for ships against these winds”. His account includes what is al- North-West Frontier cheaply won peace was brief, however, as the Mohmand war Ports; compiled chiefly from Original Journals at the most certainly the first western identification of the island now parties, stirred by their mullahs’ demands for a jihad, began East India House, and from Journals and Observations, known as Zirku: “In latitude about 25° N, there is a place called 80 the disturbances which would necessitate the Mohmand Ex- made during Twenty-one Years Experience navigating Seer, with the island Zara at a small distance to the westward; HORN, Robert. An officer’s private photographic record pedition to quell. in those Seas. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by here the Pearl Bank is thought to commence”. Zirku, a posses- of campaigning in the Zakka Khel Expedition, Bazar The album includes a great number of identified portraits of Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, Booksellers to the Honorable East sion of Abu Dhabi, is now the home to one of the region’s ma- Valley Field Force, and Mohmand Expedition. [1908] fellow officers and NCOs (including Major the Hon. Douglas India Company, 1809–11 jor oil processing, storage and export centres. Landscape quarto (230 × 280 mm). Modern green cloth. With 96 origi- Forbes-Sempill, who died during the campaign in the storm- 2 volumes bound as one, quarto (254 × 203 mm). Near-contemporary James Horsburgh (1762–1836) went to sea at 16 as an apprentice nal photographs 40 × 98 mm window-mounted in 12 card leaves, the ing of Halwa, and Sir James Willcocks, commanding), togeth- half calf, marbled boards, tan morocco label, compartments formed in the North Sea coal trade. He subsequently settled in India, great majority with inked captions. A little rubbed, some of the im- er with views of the camps, Walai and Chinar, forts at Ali Mas- by double gilt rules, edges sprinkled brown. Trade card/book-label obtaining work first as a rigger in the Calcutta shipyards, and of I. W. Norie & Co., “Chart and Map Sellers to the Admiralty & the ages a little faded, but the majority with decent tone and definition, jid and Shabkadr; punitive actions at Walai and Kund; jirgahs then on locally based merchant ships. In 1786 he was first mate overall very good. Hon. East India Company” to the verso of the front free endpaper, and with the Afridis and Mohmands; images of native regiments, on the Atlas; the ship was wrecked in the Bay of Bengal, prompt- well-kept, fully-captioned snapshot album of ser- 28th Punjabis, Khyber Rifles, Gurkhas, 54th Sikhs; an interest- ownership inscription of James Hobbs, dated London 1814 mounted on the second blank. Somewhat rubbed, judicious restoration to ex- ing his resolve to compile and collate as much accurate naviga- vice with the 1st Bn. Seaforth Highlanders during the opera- ing group of images relating to the capture of Nahakki village tremities, some discolouration to the front hinge, typically somewhat tional information on the region as he could. Horsburgh sub- tions against the Zakka Khel Afridis in the Bazar Valley, and around which there was fierce fighting during May, including browned throughout, but overall very good. sequently became hydrographer to the East India Company. In the Mohmands on the Khyber Pass. From the end of the Ti- Mohmand prisoners, searches “for hidden Rupees etc”, and first edition of this important publication, which would 1836, when news of his death reached Canton “a subscription rah campaign in 1898 the Zakka Khel Afridis had “remained the “House or stable … used as Officer’s Mess”. become the standard manual for the eastern navigation. The was opened for a memorial …, which resulted in the construc- the persistent enemies of tranquility and progress. Numerous With the partially obliterated inscription to the front paste- work provides such detailed instructions for navigation in the tion of the Horsburgh lighthouse on the rock of Pedro Branca raids in British territory were proved to have their origin in down, concluding “Photos of Colonel Robert Horn in India with Red Sea and Persian Gulf as were then available, clearly dem- in the eastern entrance to the Strait of Singapore, for the safety the Bazar Valley” (Nevill, Campaigns on the North West Frontier, p. The Seaforths 1902 [sic] from his younger brother [William] onstrating the imperfect knowledge of Arabian coast at the of shipping arriving from China. An equally lasting memorial 331). The autumn of 1907 brought a renewal of activity, raids Headdrick”. Horn subsequently served with his regiment on the time, even to a well-connected scholar of navigation such as was the perpetuation of his East India Directory by the admiralty being carried out “with such daring that even Peshawar city Western Front, Neuve Chapelle; badly wounded Festubert, May Horsburgh. Concerning the section of the coast between Mus- hydrographic office, which produced the fifth, sixth, seventh, itself became the scene of wholesale robbery under arms. A 1915; Arras 1917; killed in action April 1918 at Scherpenberg. cat and Al-Qatif he concludes: “As a sequel to the instructions and eighth editions in 1841, 1852, 1855, and 1864”. Scarce: no military expedition was then sanctioned at the beginning of for the navigation of the Gulf of Persia, it may be proper briefly copies traced at auction. February 1908, ‘limited strictly to punishment of Zakka Khel, £1,650 [94262] to mention the coast which forms the west side of that gulf, and not occupation or annexation of tribal territory’” under £12,500 [96474]

60 61 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 a route to the summit for later climbers” (ODNB). Bruce “was too old to take part in the climbing, but his knowledge of Hima- layan languages and military organization, his cheerfulness and joviality, and the Gurkhas he brought to organize the porters all contributed to the expedition’s success. Captain John Geoffrey Bruce (1896–1972), a Gurkha officer and Bruce’s cousin, and George Ingle Finch, a chemist, supported by Lance-Naik Tejbir Bura, a Gurkha NCO, reached a record elevation of 27,300 feet (8,310 metres) using oxygen” (ODNB). E. F. Norton “took charge of the difficult third Everest expedition [when Bruce fell ill]. Af- ter many crushing setbacks, and hazards owing to blizzards and ferocious winds, Norton led the first serious summit attempt. Again he climbed without oxygen, an aid for which he had little respect. At 28,000 feet his companion, Somervell, was stopped by severe throat trouble and Norton continued alone to a height of 28,126 feet. He reached the great couloir on the north face, which later became popularly known as Norton’s couloir. This, too, was an altitude record, and it was 54 years before anyone climbed higher without oxygen. Another summit bid was undertaken a few days later by Mallory and Andrew Comyn Irvine,

82 from which neither man returned. Norton handled this tragedy and the publicity it engendered with impeccable dignity, and his dispatches from Mount Everest after the loss are among the The first attempts at climbing Everest most lucid and moving examples of mountain writing. He also 82 wrote the greater part of the official expedition book, The Fight for Everest, 1924” (ODNB). HOWARD-BURY, C. K.; C. G. Bruce; E. F. Norton. [The Everest trilogy:] Mount Everest: The Reconnaissance, Neate, Mountaineering and its Literature, 387, 124, 573 (all asterisked as “suggested reading”). 1921; The Assault on Mount Everest 1922; The Fight for Everest: 1924. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1922–5 £900 [107065] Together 3 works, octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spines and front covers. With a total of 2 photogravure frontispieces, one col- 83 our frontispiece, numerous monochrome plates from photographs, IVES, Edward. A Voyage from England to India in the year 7 folding maps. Embossed library numbers at foot of spines (labels neatly removed from pastedowns), spines a little rolled, a touch of MDCCLIV. And an historical narrative of the Operations 83 foxing in places, one map torn at stub, otherwise a very good set with of the Squadron and Army in India, under the Command gilt lettering bright and inner hinges intact. of Vice-Admiral Watson and Colonel Clive, in the Years through Germany and the Netherlands, arriving in England Japanese fusuma room dividing screens, some of them show- first u.s. editions (published the same year as the first Lon- 1755, 1756, 1757; including a Correspondence between in March 1759. His “accounts of the manners and customs of ing a clear arts and crafts influence. This is a beautiful collec- don editions) of these comprehensive and important first-hand the Admiral and the Nabob Serajah Dowlah. Interspersed the inhabitants, of the diseases and medical practices, of the tion of hand-finished materials showing designs from the pe- accounts of the first attempts to climb Everest. Howard-Bury with some interesting Passages relating to the Manners, natural history, and of the products of the countries he visited, riod immediately predating the widespread commercialisation “led a diverse expedition of surveyors, climbers, and military of- Customs, &c. of several Nations in Indostan. Also a some then little known to Europeans, are those of an acute of fusuma production. and, for his time, relatively enlightened observer” (ODNB). ficers, which achieved the goals of surveying Everest and finding Journey from Persia to England, by an unusual Route. £1,500 [103576] With an Appendix, containing an Account of the Diseases Cox I, 299; Diba 115; Graesse III, 439; Henze II, 690; Howgego I, P117; Wilson 107. prevalent in Admiral Watson’s Squadron: A Description of most of the Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, of India, with £3,000 [92947] their real, or supposed, medicinal Virtues … London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773 84 Quarto (263 × 193 mm). Later half calf, marbled boards, morocco label (JAPAN; architecture.) Go fusuma mi hon [fusuma to spine. Folding map frontispiece, folding map, 13 plates, of which one handmade samples]. [Kyoto: c.1910] is folding (“The Hookah”). A little rubbed, light browning throughout, Landscape quarto (198 × 271 mm). Original bark-textured grey paper- occasional staining, frontispiece map torn, no loss, old repair, title covered boards, punch sewn with purple silk ties, calligraphic title label page and least few leaves slightly soiled, overall a very good copy. mounted on the front board, grey on grey, silhouette maple leaf-pat- first edition of this important historical narrative. Ives was tered pastedowns 22 samples, all with rubber-stamped maker’s name, surgeon of the Kent from 1753 to 1757, sailing via the Cape of and discreet inked inventory notes. A little used, with minor wear along Good Hope and Madagascar to India. In August 1757 he re- the board edges, and some chipping at the head and tail of spine, the signed and travelled overland from Basrah, through Bagh- contents with some light foxing or browning in places, showing versos. dad, Mosul, Aleppo, Cyprus, Leghorn and Venice, and home Meiji-era salesman’s sample catalogue with a selection of su- 82 perb hand-stencilled paper and paper-backed silks for use on 84

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At this time, she is at Hakone, and thus closer to the epicentre, 86 and the latter part of the entry, written at a later point, reads: 85 (JAPAN; military uniforms.) Kaisei rikugun fukusei zu “The earthquake happened shortly after this – at 11.55 – in [Army dress code amendments]. Tokyo: Rikugunsho, 1875 which the house collapsed & I nearly lost my life in it – The afield to Osaka and Hong Kong, she socializes only within 85 Tebbutts were both killed in the hotel to which they had gone Quarto (274 × 181 mm). Original Japanese fukuro-toji, pouch binding, the community of British expatriates and her husband’s col- double-punched with green silk, and jute ties, original printed paper (JAPAN; earthquakes.) TENNANT, James & Sheena. to see someone.” leagues at P&O. Sheena seems to find the Japanese language wrappers with thin linen spine. 264 hand-coloured plates on 132 Jap- Manuscript diaries recording the 1923 earthquake in and culture hard to grasp. Likewise, Tennant’s diary for 1923 Following this, Sheena writes no more for the rest of 1923; it anese-style double leaves. Wrappers somewhat damped, rubbed and Kobe. 1923 initially outlines his daily life, touching upon his work, social is her father’s diary that gives a sense of the scope of the ca- a little soiled, spine with some chipping, marginal worming towards 7 volumes, duodecimo (130 × 115 mm). Bound for Asprey in dark green life, sports, and music, the latter an interest he shares with his tastrophe. “Rose as usual – to busy morning in office – about the rear, almost entirely marginal, very slight encroachment on a few images, but overall very good, plates clean and the colour bright, a morocco, titles to spines and front boards gilt. Each volume with one daughter and which they indulge in together in Japan by visit- noon I was standing talking to the shroff [cashier] when I sud- page per day and additional blank pages at the rear. Spines lightly number with lightly pencilled annotation in English. ing various concerts. denly felt faint & started to sway about for a few seconds – this sunned, light wear to extremities, spine ends of a couple of volumes was an earthquake, the first I’ve felt in so marked a manner – it first edition of this uncommon catalogue of Meiji Restora- chipped, text blocks gently toned. Overall in very good condition. The pleasantries of expatriate life are brutally interrupted by must have been a bad one where the centre was” (1 Septem- tion military uniforms: OCLC locates three copies only (Na- the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1 September 1923. Sheena’s en- Seven manuscript diaries by James Tennant (1852–1933), a ber). The scale of the disaster does not become clear to him tional Diet Library, LoC, and University of Michigan). The try on that day reads: “Poured with rain all night & blowing Scottish industrialist, and his daughter Sheena Kendall (1883– until two days later. On board a train he finds “an atmosphere catalogue shows that the modernising Japanese army adopted pretty hard this morning. After breakfast the Tebbutts, Mrs Ed- 1974). Six are those of Sheena, dated between 1919 and 1924; of panic about the earthquake – Japanese papers say Yokoha- uniforms resembling those of their American Civil War advi- gar and I struggled out and baled the boats and got the rowing the final volume is her father’s diary for 1923. The annual dia- ma & Tokio totally destroyed, including Hakone … It will be sors and of the French Third Empire. Early in the 1870s the boat & the canoe up on the beach as it looked very typhoony.” ries, most fully written out, detail life among the expatriate a long time before one can take in all the tragedy of this co- Meiji Emperor and Saga Saneharu, his Minister of Justice, community in Kobe during the early 1920s and give a personal lossal calamity”. On 5–8 September he reports “fresh develop- issued a series of edicts establishing regulations governing account of the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. ments every day, and it was very difficult & wearing for anyone the uniforms of civil officials, nobles, and the military, and James Tennant hailed from Fairlieburne, Fairlie, Ayrshire; to cope with each day’s situation – farthermore [sic] Kozhewar this contemporary hand-coloured catalogue clearly reflects Sheena was the youngest of his six children. In 1919 she mar- collapsed on Wednesday having become thoroughly run down the Western influence on uniform design at the time. These ried Herbert “Ken” Kendall (1881–1941) with whom she trav- for some time past … every day brought telegrams enquiring uniforms were in service through the Boshin War of 1868–9, elled to Japan, where he worked at the P&O office in Kobe. after people, and every day one met & talked to more refugees and the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877. Some were subsequently With the exception of a few months (April–September) in & heard their harrowing experiences … Yokohama & Tokio has modified in 1886 to resemble more closely Imperial German 1922, Sheena remained in Kobe with her husband; her father been totally destroyed, probably some 250,000 people killed, uniforms and then used with minor changes during the Sino– joined them sometime in early 1923, though the exact date is some in dreadful circumstances, & the loss in property is said Japanese War of 1894. unclear. The early entries for Sheena’s time in Japan are domi- to be Yen 5000,000,000”. See Nakata & Nelson, Imperial Japanese Army and Navy Uniforms and Equipment (1987). nated by descriptions of the voyage and the ship and their new £2,750 [102561] life among the foreign residents of Kobe. Overall, the Kend- £1,850 [108323] alls’ life in Kobe shows little interplay with the Japanese. While Sheena goes on excursions around Kobe, as well as further 85

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87 Unmarked as such, this copy is from the collection of Robert (JAPAN; shipbuilding.) Japanese Shipping, Ancient and M. Lewert: Bob Lewert was a specialist in the immunology of parasitic diseases, Professor Emeritus of the University of Chi- Modern. Tokyo: Mercantile Marine Bureau, Department of cago, a Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, consultant to the 88 88 Communications, March 1904 Surgeon General of the US Public Health Service and Depart- Landscape quarto (270 × 360 mm). Publisher’s gold floral silk brocade ment of the Army; also a life member of the Japanese Society paper, manuscript conversion scale miles, kilometres, versts mount- hard work paid off. On 2 February 1855 … Lord Panmure finally binding, purple silk ties at spine, inset white silk label in the form for the Preservation of Artistic Swords (Tokyo) and a director, ed on the front panel. The case a little rubbed, and in the colouring of a fan to the front board, title in English and Japanese, gilt edges, made the foundation of an intelligence department official. It former chairman and life member of the Japanese Sword Soci- of the sea two different batches of pale green wash seem to have been gilt sprinkled textured endpapers. Housed in the original white wo- was to be called the Topographical and Statistical Department. used, one of which has oxidised to a light brown, while the other has ven raffia flap box, bone-toggle closures, one lacking. 60 high-quality ety of the United States. Jervis was to take command” (Wade, Spies in the Empire: Victorian held its shade, including one which is positively piebald where both collotype plates, captioned in English and Japanese. The album itself Military Intelligence, p. 25). £3,250 [107382] have been used for parts; some browning else, but overall very good. just a little spotted on the labels, and with slight wear to the corners; the box somewhat worn, soiled and splitting, but sound, and overall first edition, seemingly an early state, here mounted on Over time the T&S would become the Directorate of Military very good. 89 ten smaller sheets, rather than the two large sheets as usu- Intelligence, later the Defence Intelligence Staff. In this context it is interesting to note that Clausewitz was somewhat dis- first edition of this superbly presented visual record of JERVIS, Thomas Best. To her Most Gracious Majesty ally encountered, although the positioning of the marbled missive of the abilities of General Mukhin – whose work forms the development of Japanese shipbuilding, illustrating every Queen Victoria, and the Allied Armies of France and outer wrappers with the map text still suggests this bipartite the basis of Jervis’s map – as Quartermaster-General, because type of vessel from canoes of the eighth century bc to the lat- England. This Military Topographical Map of the Krima division. This is a superbly detailed map of the Crimean Pen- he “was appointed to his post just because he was well-known est steamboats. Uncommon: OCLC records five copies of this insula produced at the outbreak of the war in the region with Peninsula, constructed, and founded, on the Most Recent as a skilled specialist in the arts of topography and map sketch- edition (LoC, Smithsonian, Columbia, University of Michigan, “the Russian names, title and observations … translated or Astronomical Observations, verified, and completed from ing” (quoted in Schimmelpenninck van der Oye & Menning, and Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek). rendered into English by Major Jervis himself, and various use- Authentic Military Surveys of the Staff of his Imperial ful and important additions also made to the original Russian Reforming the Tsar’s Army, p. 296). £2,750 [106628] Majesty’s Quarter Master General’s Department, by Major map” (map text). The map was subsequently re-issued in vari- £2,000 [104001] General Mukhin in the year 1816; by Express Command ous formats, over various imprints (editions were published in 88 of Governor General & Aid de Camp Prince Volkonski Turin, Paris, Brussels), no doubt for Jervis to recoup his costs, (JAPAN; swords.) KAMADA, Saburodayu Gyomio. 2nd. during his Administration of that Country. Is by her and repurposed, for example in 1856 as a geological map; here Honcho kaji ko [The Imperial collection of swords]. Majesty’s Permission inscribed … The original map was it is presented in its original form, as a document of military Osaka: 1795 engraved and printed at the Military Topographical Depôt. topographical intelligence. 12 volumes, octavo (255 x 108 mm). Original Japanese sewn-binding, Attached to the État-Major or Staff of his Imperial Majesty Jervis retired from service in 1841, but in 1843 established a pale blue relief-patterned light card wrappers, calligraphic paper la- in the year 1817 … [text in English and Russian]. London: lithographic press for the production of maps in India. “Mak- bels. 6 of the volumes profusely illustrated with woodcuts. First vol- [ for the compiler,] 1854 ing maps was his passion … in 1846 he began to outline his ume with minor scuffing to the front cover, last volume has some Large engraved wall-map (1330 × 2300 mm); original wash colour to reforms and proposals for military cartography, and he wrote worming to margins towards rear, some soiling and edge-wear to all the sea, small geological map as inset with hand-colour, dissected to Lord Aberdeen explaining that the War Office needed some- volumes, otherwise the paper labels are all solid bright and clear, and into 90 panels and mounted on 10 sheets of linen, and numbered. one to improve the geographical information available to ex- the contents show just some light toning, but remain tight, bright, Mounted verso are 4 sheets of letterpress providing a digest of use- peditionary forces. That someone was, of course, Thomas Best clean and unmarked, a very good set ful information about the Russian Empire: “A General Account of the Jervis. The war in the Crimea proved Jervis’s point. The com- first edition thus; extremely uncommon, just one set noted Extent of the Russian Empire … ”; “Organization of the Military and manders had no idea of the territory they were encroaching. Naval Forces of Russia … ”; “Miscellaneous useful Information con- in OCLC, that in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Essentially The setbacks in the early phase gave Jervis the ideal pretext for a regional survey of sword makers, giving the name of the mas- nected with present Seat of War, and the Powers and States engaged therein”; and “Remarks on the proper Pronunciation of Foreign, and an audience with the Secretary of State for War [who] could ter swordsmith, his school, and his disciples, illustrated with not be persuaded to form an official corps, but permitted Jervis examples of nakago-tangs, with mei or signatures. Asiatic Words in particular”. Housed in the original black morocco- grain skiver slipcase, lettered “Topographical Map of the Crimea 1817” the task of doing the work himself … He went to work with on spine, with contemporary green linen chemise lined with marbled alacrity and created a map of the Crimea … The dedication and 89

66 67 Peter Harrington 120 inscriptions, and an historical notice of the Kings of Granada, from the conquest of that city by the Arabs to the expulsion of the Moors, by Mr. Pasqual de Gayangos. London: Owen Jones, 1842–5 2 volumes, elephant folio (585 × 415 mm). Recent red crushed half morocco, red moiré cloth sides ruled in gilt, raised bands hatched in gilt to spines forming compartments ruled in gilt, second, third and fourth gilt-lettered direct, top edges gilt. Chromolithographic title-page to each volume, 102 plates of which 67 chromolithographic (plate XLVI, Sala des Tribunal, also embossed), 31 engraved (of which 1 coloured, 3 double-page and 1 double-page and folding) and 4 lithographic (including 1 coloured), together with occasional wood-engravings to the letterpress, all by T. T. Bury, W. S. Wilkinson and others after Goury or Jones. Unnumbered tailpiece of vol. II transposed to rear of vol. I. Vol. I with slightly foxed title-page and small portion of pale dampstaining to lower outer corner of a few leaves not affecting images or text; vol. II with slight string-notches to boards fore- edges, plate L with a few marginal chips and spots and occasional pale marginal foxing to earlier plates with images spared. An excellent copy with bright plates. first edition of the work that ushered in “the great period of British lithography” (Hunnisett) and precipitated “a revolution 90 in the history of colour printing” (Hamilton). Upon finishing his architectural training, Jones travelled to Egypt, Turkey, and 90 Spain in the company of French architect Jules Goury, spend- JESSEN, Burchart Heinrich. W. N. McMillan’s Expedi- ing six months at the Alhambra Palace in Granada. “On his re- tions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & Brit- turn to England in 1834 Jones began the preparation of his first ish East Africa. London: [printed by] Merchant Singer & Co., great work, Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra. He issued the first three parts in 1836, but did not complete for private distribution only, 1906 the first volume (in ten parts) until 1842. The two parts of the Large octavo. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cov- second and final volume were published in 1845. This was an er. Portrait frontispiece, 38 plates and numerous illustrations to the important and impressive work, establishing his reputation as text, large folding coloured map in end-pocket. Spine and back cover sunned, a few marks to front cover, front hinge a little shaken, light an expert on Moorish art and architecture … In order to illus- foxing to edges of book block. trate the Alhambra to his desired standards, Jones wanted to use chromolithography … But it was a new process and was be- first edition. “A very scarce title due to its private print- yond the abilities of English printers at this date, leading Jones ing, in this, Jessen a Norwegian, recounts four hunting trips to undertake the work himself ”, setting up presses at his own in Africa with the McMillans of St Louis, Missouri. The first home in London (ODNB). “Jones’s approach to colour-printing expedition along the Blue Nile in 1902 records only a few ga- was that of the precise architect with an eye for abstract design zelle hunts. In 1904, a second trip carried the McMillan party and the harmony of colours, an approach carried further in his along the Upper Baro River of Abyssinia with hunts for hip- Grammar of Ornament, 1856” (Abbey). popotamus, elephant, and lion. In addition, more elephant were bagged near Lake Tata and the River Kaia. There was Abbey, Travel 156 (dates vol. II as 1846); Hamilton, Arcadian Library 9302 & 14142, p. 278 (erroneously dates the first edition as 1841); Hunnisett, Steel- hunting for a variety of plains game including giraffe and ze- Engraved Book Illustration in England, p. 207 bra throughout this expedition. The third expedition along the Blue Nile offers adventures in Abyssinia but little in the £15,000 [107967] way of sport. A fourth trip made in Autumn 1905 found the party in British East Africa in the foothills of Donyo Sabuk, C. W. I. Bulpett, who accompanied the Mcmillans, bagged rhinoceros, eland, and lion, while Mrs. McMillan collected her own lion” (Czech). Czech, An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books, p. 84. £1,500 [97963]

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94 92 first and only edition of this important early Russian contribution to the history of the Great Game by Egor Kovalevskii, KAWAKAMI, Clarke H.; P. H. Ma; Mr & Mrs H. Vere Travels of Yegor Petrovich Kovalevsky, Moscow, 1956). The other es- Steel-engraved portrait frontispiece of the author, folding coloured noted geologist and diplomat. In the first section Kovalevskii Redman. Manchoukuo. A Pictorial Record. Tokyo: Asahi says are ‘‘The Earthquake in Kashmir (1828)’’, ‘‘Turkmenian map of eastern Africa, folding map of routes taken by Krapf, 12 chro- describes his travels to the Central Asian khanates of Khiva and Rakhman-Ayaz (a Story of Love)’’, ‘‘A Trip to Kulja’’, and ‘‘Ran- molithograph plates. Neat 20th century ownership inscription on Shimbun, 1934 Bokhara in 1839–40. Renowned for his skill in gold prospect- jit Singh (Maharaja of Lahore)’’. Kovalevskii (?1811–1868) was front pastedown, scattered foxing and browning, closed tears into Quarto. Original green cloth, title blocked in black to both boards and ing, he was invited by the emir of Bukhara to undertake a min- folding map of routes. A very good copy in what may be the publish- born into the dvorianstvo nobility in the village of Iaroshevka in spine, map endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 299 full-page pho- eralogical survey of Khiva. Kovalevskii’s party joined the mer- er’s deluxe binding. togravure illustrations from photographs, captioned in English and Kharkov Province, and went on to study at Kharkov University. chant caravan at Orenburg, departing in October 1839, but just French, and 20 pages of illustrated advertisements. Endpapers slight- He published extensively, his first being a volume of poems, first edition, the most important work of the German Prot- a month later they were captured by Khivan slavers in the Ülken ly differentially browned, hinges slightly cracked and repaired, light and after the present work issued accounts of his expedition estant missionary and explorer Johann Ludwig Krapf (1810– Borsyk Desert, now in Kazakhstan. They managed to escape toning, collector’s embossed stamp to the title page, and small ink in north-east Africa (1847–8), where he was among the first to 1881), who arrived in Ethiopia in 1837 before moving on to Cairo and travelled close to 200 miles to the fort at Akbulak which was stamps to title, and the two leaves of the preface, the jacket somewhat note the sources of the White Nile, and of Mongolia and China, in 1842. For the next 11 years, Krapf worked in the coastal ar- rubbed on the folds and edges, some crumpling and minor chipping in Russian hands. Within three days the fort was invested by the based on his trips to Peking in 1849–50. Extremely uncommon eas of modern Kenya, first in Mombasa, then Rabai, on a ridge head and tail of spine, short closed tear to the lower panel, repaired Khivans, with Kovalevskii himself successfully organising its de- – just two copies on OCLC (Oxford and Columbia). a few kilometres inland, and then in November 1848 set out verso with japanese tissue, but remains very good and visually highly fence. Later his party joined the force of General Vasily Perovsky, to visit the Kamba. He reached the edge of Ukambani after 21 appealing; uncommon in the dust jacket. governor of Orenburg, on the retreat from his unsuccessful ex- £5,750 [109326] days, where the chief, Kivoi, said he had “often seen a mountain first edition of this handsomely produced photographic pedition to Khiva (November 1839 – March 1840). Ostensibly called Kegnia (Kenya) which was covered with a cold, white sub- propaganda item promoting the Japanese puppet state of Man- despatched with the intention of freeing Russian captives from The first European sighting of Mount Kenya stance. When he invited Krapf to a nearby hilltop the missionary chukuo, established in China in 1931 under the rule of the Puyi, the hands of Turkmen slavers, this was in fact an opportunist could see in the distance both mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. the Last Emperor. A note on the title verso explains that 8 × 10 attempt to extend Russia’s borders while the British were entan- 94 The expedition was beset by illness and a mutiny of the porters, copies of the photographs can be obtained from the publishers gled in the first Anglo-Afghan War. In the spring of 1840, Kova- KRAPF, Johann Ludwig. Travels, Researches, and Mis- and Krapf returned to the coast”. On his second expedition to via Asahi Photo Service. levskii returned to Bokhara, this time with the merchant caravan sionary Labours, during an Eighteen Years’ Residence in Ukambani in April 1851, Kivoi agreed to build a mission station via Tashkent, taking the opportunity of also visiting Khiva. This £850 [101160] Eastern Africa. Together with Journeys to Jagga, Usam- on his territory, but when Kivoi and 50 followers accompanied section contains separate essays dedicated to ‘‘English Offic- bara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum; and a the missionary to the agreed site, “Kivoi’s enemies ambushed ers in Central Asia’’, discussing the exploits of Arthur Connolly, 93 coasting voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado. With him in the forest, killed him and put his men to flight. Krapf, Charles Stoddart, James Abbott and Richmond Shakespear; and left alone and destitute, wandered through the forest, shunned an Appendix respecting the snow-capped mountains of KOVALEVSKII, Egor Petrovich. Stranstvovatel’ po sushie concerning the ‘‘Military Expedition along the Shore Ice of the by the Kamba, and eventually limped back to the coast … In 1852 i moriam [A Wayfarer across Land and Seas]. St Petersburg: Eastern Shore of the Caspian Sea’’ undertaken by Perovsky in eastern Africa; the sources of the Nile; the languages and Krapf and another Basel-trained missionary, Johann Erhardt, P. P. Bocharov, M. Olkhin, 1843–5 1836 to the Mangyshlak Peninsula. literature of Abessinia and eastern Africa, etc. etc. and sailed down the East African coast as far as Kilwa, in the process a concise account of geographical researches in eastern Octavo (168 × 105 mm). Contemporary streaked half sheep, marbled The second part of the book containing some of the earliest providing the first new information about the coast since the boards, black morocco labels, gilt rules to spine, all edges stained yel- Russian works on Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Punjab. The es- Africa up to the discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Living- British coastal survey of 1822–24” (Howgego). low. Small title-page device to the first two parts, half-titles bound in say ‘‘A Story of a Sepoy (Afghanistan)’’ tells the tale of a survi- stone in September last, by E. G. Ravenstein. London: Henze 3, pp. 70–74; Howgego II, K22. to the second two. A little rubbed at the extremities, corners through, vor of the British Army’s disastrous retreat from Kabul in 1842, Trübner and Co., 1860 some nicks to spine, lacks the front free endpaper, light browning £850 [109012] throughout, a very good copy. considered by Russian historians as the first Russian source for Octavo (214 × 132 mm). Contemporary brown morocco, blind banded the history of the Anglo-Afghan War of 1839–42 (See Valskaya, spine and panelling on covers, gilt edges, yellow coated endpapers.

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95 leaves, together with telegrams, newspaper clippings, &c. Loosely inserted photographic Christmas and New Year’s greeting postcard LABORDE, Charles, & Valery Larbaud. Rues et visages from General Willcocks to the officer commanding the 1/39th Gar- de Paris. Paris: Éditions de la Roseraie, 1926 whal Rifles. Somewhat worn on spine, split on the joints, but boards Folio. Loose as issued in publisher’s portfolio japon-backed green still attached, rubbing to edges of boards, block sound, some photo- glazed paper boards, paper title label to the front board, retains the graphs a little faded, but in general remaining clear, with good detail ties. Original watercolour for the plate “Restaurant de Nuit”, the suite and easily readable, overall very good. of 20 etched plates in two states, with and without colours, etched Souvenir album compiled by Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel roundel vignette to the title page, illustrations to the text. With the J. T. H. Lane, 1/39 Garwhal Rifles, recording services in Per- bookplate of the Paris-based Basque artist Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta sia, Mesopotamia, on the North-West Frontier, and in Kerala, to the front pastedown. Portfolio a little rubbed, label to front board bubbled, one flap of the portfolio replaced, light toning, but overall containing some extremely unusual images from these First very good indeed. World War “sideshows”, and post-war religious and tribal disturbances. The first section consists of 66 snapshot sized (45 limited issue, one of 20 copies on japon from an edition × 68 mm) photographs of reasonable quality from the Seistan of 132 copies. A beautifully printed edition of Laborde’s bril- Force. Originally called the East Persia Cordon, this small liantly evocative images of Paris in the 1920s: high life on “Les force was established to work in concert with a similar Russian Grands Boulevards”, the “Champs-Élysées”, “Avenue du Bois”, 96 group “to ensure the tranquillity of this region and frustrate in “Passy” and at the “Restaurant de Nuit” (of which the im- the activity of German agents”, prominent among these being mersive original is present here), the everyday in “Ménilmont- Folio (575 × 400 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, marbled routes, and trade. In 1826 the 17-year-old de Laborde (1809– Wilhelm Wassmuss, “the German Lawrence”. Images from ant”, on “La Rue Lepic”, and the platform of the “Metro direc- sides ruled in gilt, gilt-tooled flat bands to spine forming compart- 1869) had travelled with his father across Asia Minor and Syria this theatre are far from common; the album offers numerous tion Étoille”; and low life at the famous maison de passe “Aux ments, titles direct to second gilt, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. En- to Cairo, where he met the engineer Louis Linant de Bellefonds views of forts including “My H.Q. Dalbandian. An oasis in 400 Belles Poules” on the rue Blondel. Largely a commercial artist- graved calligraphic title-page with lithographic vignette mounted on (1799–1883), then in the service of Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha. The miles of desert … This fort was attacked by mutineers of the illustrator, Laborde worked for virtually all of the proliferation indiapaper, 45 engravings to the text, and 69 plates comprising 101 two Frenchmen decided to set up an expedition to the site of Camel Corps 10 days after I left for Mesopotamia”. of illustrated magazines in France of his time, illustrating over discrete images: 44 single lithographs, mounted, of which the El Oue- ber plate hand-coloured; 10 plates with 2 lithographs to single mount- Petra with a view to making drawings of the monuments there, 50 books between 1919 and his death in 1941, as well as pro- ed sheet, 3 plates of 2 lithographs, one mounted and other direct to and travelled by way of Suez and Mount Sinai in local dress. Chronologically the next section relates to Lane’s services in ducing advertising work and designing for the theatre. The the plate; 3 plates with multiple lithographs, 3 double-page litho- Burckhardt (1812) and the team of Irby and Mangles (1817–18) Mesopotamia, comprising 52 larger format photographs (83 × text was provided by Valery Larbaud, “an erudite cosmopoli- graphic plates, 4 engraved plates containing multiple images includ- had already visited the ancient Nabataean capital, but Laborde 102 mm), including some excellent views of traffic on the Ti- tan” (Ency. Brit.) and talented writer and critic, who “became ing map with Laborde’s route in colour, and large folding engraved was the first traveller to spend enough time in the area in order gris, monitors, a Thames steamer, and street scenes in Bagh- a literary intermediary between France and Europe, especially map to rear. Armorial bookplate of Scottish collector John Waldie of to record his observations in the form of plans, views and maps. dad. Lane was next with the 4/39th Garwhalis in the Third Af- England and Spanish-speaking countries”, helping to translate Hendersyde (1781–1862) with his hand-numbered shelf mark label to ghan War, 1919, including the Siege of Thal, events recounted Blackmer 929; not in Abbey, Atabey or Burrell. and popularize Coleridge, Whitman, Samuel Butler, and Joyce, front pastedown. Joints and board-edges skilfully restored, morocco through a series of newsclippings from the Pioneer and States- and supervising Auguste Morel’s translation of Ulysses. sunned to tan in places, front free endpaper creased, pale tide-mark £19,500 [107973] men and 16 original photographs in various formats, some of to gutter of a few early leaves, light spotting to half-title and folding these badly developed, but also of particularly sharp and inter- £3,250 [99238] map and to margins of a small number of plates, only encroaching on a few of the unmounted images, hinges of double-page plates some- 97 esting images of the battalion’s HQ at Thal and subsequently time reinforced. An excellent copy, internally bright and fresh, with LANE, Jocelyn Theodore Horsburgh. Personal photo- at Tochi. Lane’s account of Waziristan is limited to clippings, The first illustrated account of Petra but these do have his informative inked commentary, and are rich impressions of the plates. graph and clippings album of service. Mesopotamia, Persia, accompanied by a carbon-copy typescript note of congratula- 96 first edition of this “important work” (Blackmer), which pro- India: 1917–20 tions to the unit on their “soldier-like behaviour”, signed by vided the only visual representation of Petra available to Western LABORDE, Léon de. Voyage de l’Arabie Petree. Paris: Quarto. Contemporary green cloth-backed textured paper-covered Captain J. G. Smyth VC, Brigade-Major of the 43rd. Giard, 1830 scholars until Roberts’s Holy Land (1842–5), with an introductory boards, lettered “Scrap Book” on the front cover. With 154 original essay on different aspects of the region, including travel, pilgrim photographs of various formats, fully captioned, mounted on 32 £1,750 [94422]

72 73 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 of the then-imperfectly known Asiatic side of the Pacific and the details of “the peculiarities he observed in the natives of the northwest coast of North America, [which] are especially valuable” (Sabin). En route to Kamchatka, La Pérouse was the first to navigate safely and chart the Japan Sea and the strait between the island of Sakhalin and the northernmost island of Japan, which bears his name. At Kamchatka he received instructions to proceed to Australia to assess the extent of Brit- ish plans in New South Wales. Travelling via Samoa, where he discovered the islands of Savaii, Manono and Apolima in December 1787, and through the Tongan group, he arrived at Botany Bay in January 1788, just hours after Captain Phillip had arrived with the First Fleet. La Pérouse’s habit of forwarding despatches whenever the opportunity offered ensured their survival; the final despatches were sent from Botany Bay, after which the expedition was never seen again. Evidence slowly came to light that both ships were wrecked on the reefs around the islands north-west of Australia. One crew was massacred by the local inhabitants. The Astrolabe was unloaded, taken apart and a two-masted craft built from its wreckage, which left westward some nine months later, its fate unknown. Two men, one a “chief ” and the other his servant, stayed behind, surviving until 1823. Ferguson, 288; Forbes, 311; Hill, 975; Howes L93; Sabin 38962. £15,000 [103462]

99 98 [LA ROQUE, Jean de.] A Voyage to Arabia Fœlix, by way The best English edition of La Perouse’s famous Pacific first unabridged translation into english (preceded of the Eastern Ocean, and the Streights of the Red Sea, being the First made by the French in the Years 1708, 1709, voyage by two editions of 1798, both of them “abridged in some particular or other”), accompanied by an atlas with the full com- and 1710. Together with a Particular Account of a Journey 98 plement of maps and plates. This edition is therefore “usually from Mocha to … the Court of the King of Yaman … LA PÉROUSE, Jean François Galaup de. A Voyage round considered to be the best one in English … now an extremely Also a Narrative concerning the Tree and Fruit of Coffee. the World, performed in the Years 1785, 1786, 1787 and rare work” (Hill). The expedition was “one of the most impor- Collected from the Observations of those who made the tant scientific expeditions ever undertaken to the Pacific and last Voyage; and an Historical Treatise of the Original 1788 by the Boussole and Astrolabe. Published by Order 99 west coast of North America”. The atlas volume contains mag- and Progress of Coffee … To which is added, An Account of the National Assembly, under the Superintendence of nificent maps of Russian Asia, Japan, the Pacific north-west of the Captivity of Sir Henry Middleton at Mokha, by the L. A. Milet-Mureau … London: A. Hamilton for G. G. and J. coast, San Francisco, Monterey, and also Necker Island. The 1670 coffee-drinking had become widespread” (Howgego). La Robinson, J. Edwards and T. Payne, 1799 most significant results of La Pérouse’s voyage are the charts Turks, in the Year 1612, and his Journey from thence to Roque had made an extensive study of Oriental languages, but 3 volumes, 2 quarto text volumes (308 × 242 mm), and folio atlas (432 Zenan, or Sanaa, the Capital of the Kingdom of Yaman had never travelled further than the Levant; however, he saw × 268 mm). Text volumes in contemporary full calf, tan morocco let- … London: E. Symon, 1732 an article in “the new Mercury printed at Trevoux” which gave tering- and numbering-pieces, bands with a dotted gilt roll, quatrefoil Octavo (195 × 119 mm). Contemporary panelled calf, neatly rebacked to an account of a voyage of 1708–10 to Arabia, and made contact devices to four compartments, thick and thin gilt fillet panels enclos- style with red morocco label. 2 folding engraved plates of the coffee plant with the commander of the voyage, Godefroy de la Merveille. ing a panel of alternate lozenge and “puzzle-piece” design, scrolled at the rear, woodcut initials and headpieces. Somewhat rubbed, profes- He worked up an account from de Merveille’s letters and pa- edge-roll, marbled edges and endpapers; the plate atlas half calf, sional restoration at board edges, light browning, a very good copy. marbled boards, to match. Vol. I with engraved portrait of La Pérouse pers and those of Major de la Grelaudière and M. Barbier, the by Heath, atlas with engraved allegorical title page dated 1798 and 69 second, and preferred, edition in english (the first ship’s surgeon, relating to the subsequent voyage: the inten- plates, maps, charts and views, 32 of the maps folding, including the was in 1726, some ten years after the first French). It is widely tion of these missions had been “to intercept the trade in cof- large folding map route map, coloured in outline; plates of views, cos- seen as the first scholarly treatise on the subject, and from fee before the beans reached the markets of Egypt and Turkey”. tume, natural history, coastal profiles, and native craft; errata leaf at La Roque’s standpoint was an excellent promotional ploy. La To this La Roque appended an extensively researched essay on end of vol. II. All volumes a little rubbed, and neatly rebacked with Roque’s father, a Marseilles merchant, had travelled with Jean the botany and cultivation of coffee and his historical overview the original spines laid down, text lightly browned, portrait with de la Haye’s Turkish embassy of 1639–41, then on to the Levant of the spread of the beverage. The present edition also includes some foxing and offset onto the title page, damping at the fore-edge bringing back coffee and coffee-making equipment, which he an account of Sir Henry Middleton’s period of captivity as a of the latter third of the plate volume heavier towards the rear, some kept for his own use in Turkey: “The drink remained some- hostage in Yemen. marginal spotting and browning else, but overall a very good set. The thing of a local curiosity until 1699 when emissaries of Sultan Rosebery copy with armorial bookplates to the front pastedowns of Atabey 673 for the French first; Gay 3680; Howgego I, L30; Macro 1426. all three volumes. Mohammed IV came to Paris bringing with them sacks of the curious bean. By the time the ambassadors departed in May £2,750 [95184] 98

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100 7,000 hostile tribesmen, but he successfully forced the passage Lieutenant-Colonel Harry Pirie-Gordon. A Brief Record is a thor- large paper issue is a superbly produced book in terms of bind- LAWRENCE, Henry Montgomery. Some Passages in the of the two tributaries of the Jhelum, near Muzaffarabad, and ough account of the advance of the EEF from July 1917 and the ing, quality of paper stock, and presswork. following two sharp engagements eventually forced them to end of October 1918, containing many articles, two of which Life of an Adventurer in the Punjab. Originally published O’Brien A101. submit” (ODNB). As a result Lumsden received the thanks of are by T. E. Lawrence (though unattributed), which, along with in the Delhi Gazette. Delhi: Printed at the Gazette Press, by government, and Lawrence gave him responsibility for raising the reports in the Arab Bulletin and The Times, are Lawrence’s £2,750 [108903] Kunniah Lall, 1842 a corps of guides for frontier service, which went on to develop first published accounts of the Arab campaign. The preface Octavo (211 × 131 mm). Contemporary native black straight-grain roan- a superb reputation as an elite fighting force in the region. The states that this record was created so that “members of that Superb association copy with a letter from T.E.L. backed marbled boards, title gilt longitudinally, framed by foliate loz- Onslow Square address of a kinsman, Colonel Henry William Force may be able to take home with them an acceptable ac- enges, foliate roll in blind too spine edges. Somewhat rubbed, worn at Lumsden, late Madras Artillery, is pencilled on the rear free count of the great advance in which they played a part”. 103 the board edges, spine skilfully restored with some retooling, text-block endpaper: this Colonel Lumsden was a Fellow of the Society of (LAWRENCE, T. E.) LIDDELL HART, [B. H.] “T. E. lightly browned and with some marginal spotting, remains very good. O’Brien A011. Antiquaries of Scotland, and the family historian. Lawrence” In Arabia and After. London: Jonathan Cape, 1934 first edition of one of the earliest commercial productions £6,500 [108776] Octavo. Original red orange buckram, matching top-stain, title gilt of this press. An excellent copy of Lawrence’s “fictionalised Chopra, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his Times, p. 42, later critical editions; Riddick 135 for the London, 1845, edition. to spine and front board. In the dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece after memoirs of Colonel Bellasis who joined the forces of the Sikh 102 Augustus John and 11 other plates, 5 folding maps. A touch cocked, leader Runjeet Singh”, further described by Riddick as “per- £3,500 [107518] LAWRENCE, T. E. Revolt in the Desert. London: Jonathan light toning, else very good in rubbed and soiled jacket, lacking part haps better read with George Frazier’s [sic] fictional Flashman of the front panel and spine. Cape, 1927 series than as a history”. In fact Lawrence worked a great deal 101 first edition, presentation copy inscribed by the of fascinating and little-known information into his narrative Quarto. Original brown quarter pigskin, gilt lettered spine, sand- [LAWRENCE, T. E.] A Brief Record of The Advance of the coloured buckram sides, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. With the author to his secretary on the front free endpaper:“To Doris of a freelance at large, which he had gleaned from his lengthy Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the Command of Josselyn, ‘Adjutant-General to the Forces’ by which this book acquaintance with the Sikhs as a revenue surveyor in the North- dust jacket. Coloured portrait frontispiece, 10 coloured plates, 8 black and white plates, one folding map at the end. Spine of price-clipped was carried forward and the objective toilfully attained – with Western Provinces. Chopra considers Lawrence’s account of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby. July 1917 to October 1918. Compiled from Official Sources and Published by jacket slightly toned, hint of foxing to fore-edge. An excellent copy, all good wishes from B. H. Liddell Hart, 26th February 1934”; the Sikhs to be “authentic, reliable and accurate”, standing out largely unopened. and with a short pencilled note from Lawrence, dated 26.VI.33, as “readable and objective”. All Delhi imprints before 1850 are The Palestine News. Cairo: produced by the Government Press first edition, large paper issue, number 8 of of 315 cop- loosely inserted, “Miss D. Josselyn, you will see that it’s Lid- uncommon. There are just two copies of this title located on and Survey of Egypt, 1919 ies thus. The costs for production of the 1926 Seven Pillars of dell Hart’s fault if [‘that’ struck out] all this mess of scribbling Copac (BL and Oxford), OCLC adding five (NYPL, Yale, Har- Quarto. Original buff-coloured cloth, spine lettered and decorated around his text affronts your eye. He asked for it, and for it to in black, front cover lettered in black, grey-green endpapers. Linen- Wisdom had ballooned to such an extent that Lawrence was vard, Minnesota and Missouri universities). be sent to you. Soit – T.E.S.” Liddell Hart submitted the type- mounted photographic portrait frontispiece of Allenby (with facsimile contemplating selling either his library or some of his prop- This copy has a superb provenance, bearing the ownership signature), 56 coloured plates (complete: plate 1 explanation of sym- erty to clear the debt. Eventually he settled on the publication script, and/or proofs of the book to Lawrence for his critique, inscription of Colonel Thomas Lumsden, Simla 1843, on the bols used & 55 campaign and operational maps). Binding a little soiled of an abridgement, undertaken in 1926 with the help of some which was duly forthcoming (see King’s College, LHMA, Lid- title page, together with his inked identification of the author and marked, some wear to extremities, inner hinges split but sound. of his fellow servicemen, an earlier attempt by Edward Garnett dell 9/13). A superb association copy of this highly influential as “Major H. M. Lawrence, Bengal Artillery”. Colonel Lums- first edition, scarce in this state. More commonly found having been set aside. Published in March 1927 in Great Britain early biography, which was central to the creation of the Law- den was the father of Henry Burnett Lumsden, who became a in buff paper wrappers, O’Brien notes that only “a few copies” and America, in both limited and trade issues, three impres- rence of Arabia myth. protégé of Lawrence’s when he was resident at Lahore. “Lums- were bound in cloth. This is a “collaborator’s copy” bearing sions were soon sold out and two more quickly added. This O’Brien E058. den accompanied Lawrence to Kashmir in October 1846, and the name of Corporal E. W. Grater on the official compliments £3,500 [103645] in December was sent with 3,000 Sikh troops and six guns slip pasted to the front free endpaper and signed by the editor through Hazara. Lumsden’s force encountered resistance from

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108 104 105 106 107 LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a Sketch of Sixteen In variant publisher’s morocco sold the US copyright of Seven Pillars (the “subscriber’s text”) to interest, which have not been fully explained either in the Des- Years’ Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey Doubleday Doran in 1935, resulting in this first US trade edition. patches relating to the Punjab campaign, or in other sources from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West 104 This is the first procurable US edition as the first (1926) was pub- [also] review[ing] the current of events from the death of Ran- Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. lished in a tiny edition of just 22 copies (only 10 of which were jeet Singh to the period in question … There is detail about the Zambezi, to the Eastern Ocean. London: John Murray, 1857 nominally for sale) purely to establish copyright. battles of Ramnagar, Chillianwalla, and Gujrat” (Chopra). Law- London: Jonathan Cape, 1935 Octavo. Original brown sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine, blind rence-Archer (1823–1889) was gazetted second lieutenant in the Large octavo. Original dark red hard-grain morocco, title gilt to spine, The recipient, Hazel D. Hansen (1899–1962), was the Distin- panels to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers. Folding frontis- 39th Foot Regiment in December 1840, and served with the 24th crossed swords device in gilt to the front board, top edge gilt, the oth- guished Professor of Classics at Stanford. There she studied piece and 22 other plates, illustrations to the text, 3 folding maps, one Foot Regiment throughout the Punjab Campaign in 1848–9, see- ers uncut, Cockerell marbled endpapers. With a portrait frontispiece under, and later collaborated with, the Distinguished Profes- of them in an end-pocket. Spine a touch faded, some marks to covers, and numerous other plates, many in colour, 4 maps. Slight streaking ing action at the latter of the two battles noted above. He went sor of Greek Alexander T. Murray. Murray’s translation of the tips bumped and slightly worn, front hinge repaired, a couple of faint on the front board, spine just a touch sunned, some foxing to the un- on half-pay as a captain in January 1869 and remained so until Odyssey was first published in 1919 and is still available in marks to contents. A very good copy. cut edges, but overall a very good copy. his death in February 1889; he spent his later years in the compo- the Loeb classics series. Lawrence, when working on his own first edition. The book covers the first of Livingstone’s three third english edition, the first trade edition, fifth impres- sition of a range of historical and genealogical works. translation (published 1932), would certainly have known and major expeditions “in which he followed the Zambezi, discover- sion, published two months after the first. An attractive and consulted Murray’s version. Murray translates AWL’s quote Bruce 4203; Chopra, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his Time, p. 127. ing Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma intriguing variant, not noted by O’Brien. rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east from the Odyssey (Book 11, line 367) as “upon thee is grace of £1,650 [106999] O’Brien A042. words, and within thee is a heart of wisdom”, words addressed … During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before” (PMM). £1,500 [105495] to Ulysses by King Alcinous of Phaeacia. In the mid 1920s both 107 Hansen and AWL were studying in Athens, she at the Ameri- LEAKE, William Martin. The Topography of Athens with This copy conforms to Bradlow’s Variant No. 3, with the frontis- can School of Classical Studies, he at the British School; and it piece, plate 8 and 17 woodcuts by Whymper, and an extra leaf af- 105 some Remarks on its Antiquities. London: John Murray, most likely there that they would have begun their clearly warm ter p. 8; the ads in this copy are dated November 1, 1857. Bradlaw LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. and affectionate acquaintance. 1821 refrains from citing this as the “third issue”, since the precise New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935 O’Brien A054. Octavo. Original green cloth-backed drab boards, paper label to relationship of the variants is unknown – indeed, Bradlaw only Large octavo. Original grey-brown buckram, gilt lettered spine, gilt spine. Engraved frontispiece and 8 folding plates. Half-title bound retains Gaston Renard’s order of issue “not because of a belief £2,250 [106603] in. Boards somewhat rubbed and with some damp-staining at the top crossed swords device on front cover, reddish-brown top edge. With in its correctness but merely for convenience”, and notes that the dust jacket. Housed in a custom made green cloth solander box. edges, spine sunned and the paper label chipped, pale browning to “the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue Portrait frontispiece, numerous plates (many in colour), 4 maps. Jack- 106 the text-block, occasional spotting, hinges carefully repaired, spine et repaired on verso, front panel with small loss at head and tape mark relined, but overall a very good copy, judiciously restored and well- with the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+ is not the first issue”. at foot; manilla envelope taped to rear pastedown, containing numer- LAWRENCE-ARCHER, James Henry. Commentaries preserved in the original boards. The extra leaf following p. 8 covers Livingstone’s account of his married life and the upbringing of his children. As to why the ex- ous clippings relating to T. E. Lawrence (ostensibly collected by the on the Punjab Campaign, 1848–49. Including some first edition. “The basis for modern topographical and ar- recipient and spanning 1935–1962, when she died). A very good copy. tra leaf was inserted, Bradlow remains baffled: “Why did Living- Additions to the History of the Second Sikh War, from chaeological studies of the city. A very important work” (Black- stone decide to have the extra leaf after page 8 inserted? Did he second us edition, first state of the jacket, presenta- Original Sources. London: Wm. H. Allen, 1878 mer). Between 1805 and 1810 Leake travelled extensively through feel that he had neglected his wife by not mentioning her in this tion copy from T. E. Lawrence’s youngest brother, inscribed Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate panelling Greece and the Levant, acting as liaison with Ali Pasha in an at- way in the first place? All these questions and a host of others on the front pastedown the day after publication: “To Hazel D. in black to boards, brown surface-paper endpapers. 5 maps, one of tempt to influence the vizier to support Britain’s actions against will occur to trained bibliographers and it may well be, that, in Hansen, with love and gratitude [Greek quotation from Homer, which is folding. Contemporary ownership inscription of Major N. I. the French in the region. During Leake’s residence in Greece he the future, some indefatigable researcher will find the answers.” see below] A.W.L. Cambridge, England. September 28, 1935”. Foster on front free endpaper verso; inscription of the Marquess of met Lord Byron who found him “taciturn, ill-dressed and quite Anglesey dated 1966 on recto. A little rubbed, minor chipping and Arnold Walter Lawrence (1900–1991), archaeologist, was the au- unlike an Englishman of this world”. Back in London, “Colonel” Abbey, Travel 347; Bradlow, “The Variants of the 1857 edition … ” in Lloyd ed. splitting head and tail of spine, hinges neatly repaired, pale toning, thor of two monograms on Hellenic studies: Later Greek Sculpture Leake as he was universally known, was a frequent contributor to Livingstone 1873–1973; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p. 908; Printing and the but overall a very good copy. Mind of Man 341. (1927) and Greek Architecture (1957), and T. E. Lawrence’s literary learned journals: eight of his papers appeared in the Classical Jour- first edition. “The objective of this work is to supply from executor. Reportedly to pay his brother’s inheritance tax, AWL nal between 1814 and 1822, and twenty in the Transactions of the Royal £750 [109851] original and official sources, information on some points of

78 79 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 teered to join Ritchie on his scientific mission as Frederick 112 Marryat, the officer originally commissioned, was unable to MACGAHAN, Januarius Aloysius. Under the Northern do so. Leaving Tripoli in April 1819, the group was greatly de- Lights. With Illustrations by G. R. de Wilde. London: layed at Murzuk as both Ritchie and Lyon were taken ill, and in November 1818 Ritchie succumbed to dysentery leaving a Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876 weakened Lyon to lead the expedition. Lyon continued to Zuila Octavo (213 × 136 mm). Contemporary dark blue half morocco, mar- in the east before abandoning the undertaking and returning bled boards and endpapers, title gilt direct to spine, fouled anchor devices to compartments, single gilt rule to spine and corner edges. to Tripoli in March 1820. While unable to track the Niger, Lyon Wood-engraved frontispiece and 7 other similar plates, illustrations brought with him “intelligence gathered from merchants that to the text, folding coloured map. Bound with the half-title. Slightly the Niger ‘runs into a lake called Tsaad’. He also brought back rubbed and with some restoration at spine, light browning through- the first reports of the fate of Hornemann” (Howgego). Re- out, very good. turning to London in July 1820, Lyon wrote this account of the first edition. An account of the voyage made by Sir Allen expedition, detailing the journey as well as regional traditions, William Young “with the object of assisting the government medicine, and natural history. Arctic expedition which set out in May 1875 under the com- 109 Abbey, Travel 304; Blackmer 1044; Gay 2780; Hilmy I 397; Howgego II L52. mand of George Strong Nares. Young took his steam yacht Pandora, with a crew of 31 men, to Baffin Bay. He tried to make £1,750 [94071] 109 the north-west passage, but was stopped by heavy ice in Peel 111 Strait. On the return journey he picked up George Nares’s LOUGHLAND, Ronald A., & Khaled A. Al-Abdulkader. The end of the Khivan khanate Marine Atlas. Western Arabian Gulf. Dhahran, Saudi dispatches from the Carey Islands, bringing home the latest Arabia: Saudi Aramco, 2011 111 General Skobelev, MacGahan defied the ban on correspondents news of Nares’s expedition” (ODNB); he was later knighted accompanying the expedition; he crossed the Kyzyl-Kum desert for his services. The author was a well-known American war Folio (375 × 304 mm). Original photographic boards, titles to spine MACGAHAN, Januarius Aloysius. [A Traveller’s Account on horseback and was present at the surrender of Khiva. His and front board gilt, blue endbands and endpapers, CD-ROM in correspondent (see previous item). Uncommon: ten loca- of Khiva and its History; in Ottoman Turkish] Hive later investigations of the Bulgarian atrocities in 1876 were in- open-faced case to rear. Profusely illustrated with colour photo- tions on Copac. siyahetnâmesi ve-tarih-i. Istanbul: Basiret Matbaasi, 1292 ah strumental in preventing Britain from supporting Turkey in the graphs, drawings and charts. Some 30 farewell inscriptions to retiring Hentze V, p. 556; Howgego, IV, Y2. Aramco executive “Kris[topher Horvath]” on front pastedown and (1875/6) Russo–Turkish War of 1877–8, a key factor in Bulgaria gaining free endpaper. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed, a few restored Royal octavo (230 × 160 mm). Contemporary green sheep-backed peb- independence from the Ottoman Empire. £2,250 [109127] nicks to spine, hinges uniformly reinforced with blue buckram. Inter- ble-grain boards, title gilt to spine, gilt lozenges to compartments, Atabey 744; Ghani p. 233; Yakushi M12 – all for different English language nally bright and fresh, a very good copy. blind panelling to boards, pale green endpapers. With 32 plates with editions. first edition. An exhaustive scientific survey of the marine tipped-in tissue guards, folding map to rear. A little rubbed, spine £850 [103689] and coastal habitats found along the Saudi Arabian portion of slightly sunned, the contents variably browned through variations in the paperstock, 2-inch closed tear to map-fold, but overall very good. the Gulf, an area covering some 1200 miles of diverse coastline (including islands) from Ra’s al-Khafji on the Kuwaiti border first edition in turkish, the year following the English first in the north to Ra’s Abu Qamis on the border with the UAE in edition, and the first and only edition published in the Otto- the south; also included is an in-depth chapter on the history man Empire. Extremely uncommon (four locations on OCLC), of the region. Scarce: two copies on Copac, to which OCLC this timely Turkish translation of MacGahan’s account of the adds four in libraries worldwide. 1873 fall of the Khivan khanate to the Russians under General Kaufman was made in the same year as the Russian translation. £1,200 [102570] MacGahan (1844–1878) was a foreign correspondent for Gor- don Bennett’s New York Herald and later the Daily News. He had 110 previously covered the Franco-Prussian War in 1870–1 and was LYON, George Francis. A Narrative of Travels in Northern subsequently appointed the Herald’s St Petersburg correspond- Africa, In the Years 1818, 19, and 20; Accompanied by ent. On hearing of the departure of a force to Central Asia under Geographical Notices of Soudan, and of the Course of the Niger. London: John Murray, 1821 Quarto (268 × 210 mm). Near-contemporary dark brown half calf, marbled boards, low raised bands to spine, titles to spine gilt, geometric decorations to compartments in blind, grey endpapers. 17 hand-coloured lithographs, mainly of costumes, by Hullmandel after Lyon, and a partially coloured engraved folding map. Charterhouse School library bookplate to front pastedown. Extremities and boards slightly rubbed, corners gently bumped, prelims lightly foxed, occasional spotting and soiling throughout, small chips to margins of plates V and VIII. A very good copy. first edition of this account of the Niger expedition under the command of Joseph Ritchie, one of several 19th-century British expeditions that sought to delineate the river. Lyon (1795–1832), a British naval officer stationed at Malta, volun- 110 112

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113 and Holland produced a survey of the Icelandic population in MACKENZIE, Sir George Steuart. Travels in the Island terms of history, culture, and health. of Iceland, During the Summer of the Year MDCCCX. Abbey, Travel 160; Tooley 313; Graesse IV 328. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Company, 1812 £1,000 [94018] Quarto (267 × 211 mm). Turn-of-the-century dark brown half morocco, marbled boards, raised bands to spine, titles and decorations to 114 compartments gilt, single rules to boards gilt, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, by Zaehnsdorf. Bound with the half-title. With 8 hand- MAHAN, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Sea Power coloured aquatint plates, 6 black and white engraved plates, 15 black Upon History 1660–1783; The Influence of Sea Power 115 and white engravings in text, 3 maps, one of which is coloured, and upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793–1812; The folding, and 4 charts. This copy from the library of the Money-Coutts Life of Nelson, the Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great The standard work on Persia for a century German (1830), and Persian (n.d.) [sic], the history was par- family with bookplate to front pastedown, dated 1889 signed J.D.B., ticularly valuable for contextualizing events surrounding his Britain, second edition; Sea Power in its Relation to the i.e. the engraver John Dickson Batten (1860–1932). Spine slightly 115 own time in Persia, and served as the standard western work sunned, occasional light spotting to margins of text block, mild off- War of 1812. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, MALCOLM, Sir John. [The History of Persia: in Persian] for about a century”. setting from plates. An excellent copy. Limited, 1892–92–99–1905 Ta’rikh-i Iran. Bombay: no publisher, 1287 ah (1870/1) second edition, revised and expanded; the first edition ap- 4 works in 6 volumes, octavo (207 × 135 mm). Uniform bindings of This translation was the result of a British mission to Iran in 2 volumes in one, tall quarto (332 × 230 mm); lithographed through- early 20th-century blue half morocco for J. & E. Bumpus Ltd (their the 1860s “for the purpose of establishing a telegraph line con- peared the previous year. George Mackenzie (1780–1848) was a out. Native half binding of contemporary black straight-grain roan, gilt-stamps at foot of front turn-ins), spines lettered in gilt, compart- necting India to Great Britain through Iran. While en route Scottish mineralogist who, accompanied by physicians Henry green pebble-grain cloth sides, double fillet rolls forming compartments ruled around in gilt, marbled sides and endpapers, gilt edges. to India, the head of the mission, Major General Frederic Jon Holland (1788–1873) and Richard Bright (1789–1858), set out ments to spine gilt, titles direct to second and fourth gilt, remaining Numerous diagrams and maps (some folding). A fine set. Goldsmid, was the guest of the governor of Kirman, Muham- for Iceland in 1810. Mackenzie wrote the majority of the book, compartments with central fleuron devices gilt, edges speckled red. including the travel narrative and the sections on mineralogi- early london editions of Mahan’s classic texts. Described Portrait frontispiece, 29 plates with albumen prints mounted within mam Isma’il Khan Vakil al-Mulk”, who in return requested a cal research, Bright composed sections on the flora and fauna, by John Keegan as “the most important American strategist of lithographed foliate borders with captions as issued, large folding Persian translation of the History, Malcolm having been a good the 19th century”, and by Barbara Tuchman as “the Clausewitz lithographic map opening to 650 × 510 mm. Blindstamp of Bath Public friend of his father. Malcolm’s account was critical of the Qajar of naval warfare”, Mahan’s development of the concept of “sea Library to a number of leaves and most plates. A few pale markings to dynasty, however, and Goldsmid was only able to commission power” has been identified as one of the major factors in the sides, corners a touch bumped, light toning, sporadic faint spotting Mirza Isma’il Hayrat to produce a Persian version once back in outbreak of the naval arms race at the end of the 19th century. as usual, frontispiece tanned, map slightly foxed with a short closed India, “where translators were unconstrained by Qajar impe- tear at gutter, minute spill-burn to f. 5, plate facing vol. I p. 111 torn at rial sensibilities and where the ruling British had inherited a All four works were first published in Boston, and the editions corner to no loss of albumen print, vol. II pp. 112–13 finger-marked, Persian literary and bureaucratic tradition from their Mughal most plates with a gentle ripple to edge of mount with images spared. in this set are: a) second London edition of The Influence of Sea predecessors” (Farzin Vejdani, Making History in Iran, pp. 24–5). Power Upon History (first published 1890), using American sheets Overall a very good copy. with cancel titles, mentioning The Influence of Sea Power upon the first edition in persian. The Scottish-born diplomat and Rare, with perhaps six complete copies in libraries, this copy French Revolution on the title; b) first London edition of The French administrator Malcolm (1769–1833) originally arrived in Per- from the collection of noted British diplomat and orientalist Revolution (published the same year as the first); c) first London sia in 1800 as an envoy, the first person since Elizabeth’s reign Colonel Samuel B. Miles (1838–1914), with his wife’s presen- edition, 1899, of The Life of Nelson (first published 1897), stated to undertake such a mission. On his return ten years later he tation plate to Bath Public Library to the rear pastedown and “second edition, revised”; d) first London edition of War of 1812 was received with “pomp and cordiality”, developed a trusting blindstamps as usual. (published October 1905, the same year as the first). relationship with the shah, and introduced the country to the Arcadian Library 12281 for the first edition overall and p. 85 refers; Diba p. 85; Ghani p. 236; Schwab 360; Wilson p. 134. Hattendorf & Hattendorf A2d, A4b, A6c & A12b. potato (known locally as “Malcolm’s plum”). “His classic His- tory of Persia, which appeared in 1815, brought him an honorary £5,000 [102966] £1,500 [109843] doctorate of laws from Oxford. Translated into French (1821), 113

82 83 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 116 Fort, and Pillars. Colonel Gother Frederick Mann (1817–1881), MANN, Frederick & Helen E. Map of the Shooting Royal Engineers, came from a family of army officers and military engineers; Gother Mann (1747–1830) is listed in ODNB and Districts lying between Hangchow – Nanking – Wuhu made extensive charts and maps in Canada, including the lay- and Shanghai. Compiled from the Best Authorities with ing out of townships, most noticeably Toronto. Mann and his Numerous Additions. 1884–5–6, 1898, 1901–2–3–4. By wife, Margaret, served in Trinidad (1847–50) and China (1857– the late Fred Mann. Brought completely up to date with 61), and he clearly returned there to compile this map; he is the inclusion of all railways Open and Projected and the mentioned briefly in David Harris’s Of Battle and Beauty: Felice Names of Principal Towns, Romanised according to the Beato’s Photographs of China (2000). Uncommon: OCLC locates Revised Regulations of the Imperial Chinese Post Office, eight copies in institutional libraries worldwide, with two in names in Chinese Characters in the Mandarin Dialect, British and Irish institutional libraries (British Library; Ox- by Helen E. Mann. Shanghai: Frederick and Helen Mann, 1909 ford). Octavo. Original dark slate-green cloth, gilt lettered on front cover. £1,650 [102331] Large folding map coloured green, red and black (1200 × 750 mm, folding down to 160 × 200 mm), dissected into 32 sections, backed on 117 to linen. Ownership inscription of F. S. L. Jones on front pastedown, facing folded linen blank and initials dated [19]09 on 3 other linen MARKHAM, Clements R. (ed.) Narratives of the Mission 117 blanks; gift inscription to facing blank dated “10/1.15.” A couple of of George Bogle to Tibet, and of the Journey of Thomas short tears to spine of cloth case, a very small area of letterpress on Manning to Lhasa. Edited, with Notes, an Introduction, he returned to Bengal through the way of going. This was the the legend worn, general paper toning and a few light stains, one or first mission, and the second in 1783 by Samuel Turner. The in- two very faint pencil marks, otherwise in surprisingly good condition. and Lives of Mr. Bogle and Mr. Manning … London: Trübner & Co., 1876 troduction contains a description of the Himalayan range, and Features on the map image include a tide table at Shanghai, an historical account of Exploration in Tibet” (Yakushi). ODNB railways (open and under construction), creeks, canals, large Octavo. Original purple sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine, geometric panelling in blind to boards, pale cream endpapers. Steel-engraved remarks that “it is difficult to think of anyone who fits the colo- towns, swamps, pagodas, province boundaries, and a note on portrait frontispiece, 5 wood-engraved plates and 2 illustrations to nial stereotype less than Bogle”. He adopted Tibetan dress and the famous Hangchow Bore; along with colourful local refer- the text, folding collotype facsimile, 4 folding maps, 2 of them col- mastered colloquial Tibetan, “enjoying many opportunities to ences such as stretches of the river “used by junks in summer” oured in outline and with routes marked in red, errata slip bound in indulge in ‘merriment’ as he feasted with his Tibetan hosts, or “used all the year round by river steamers”. The case’s front before the introduction. Recased in the carefully restored cloth, light hunted with the lama’s nephews, played chess with Kalmyk pastedown has a table of distances (from Shanghai, Soochow, toning of the text, a very good and highly presentable copy. merchants”. Wusih, Chnghchow, Wuhu, Huchow, Sungkiang, Kashing and first edition of these early accounts of British travel in Tibet. 118 Thomas Manning “visited Lhasa and saw the Dalai Lama in Haining, with various stages and posts), and another table “Bogle, an officer of the East India Company, was dispatched 1811” (Yakushi) while he was serving as the doctor to the Eng- giving distance in nautical miles by the winter route between to Deb Rajah of Bhutan and Teshoo Lama of Tibet in 1744, as a first edition. The son of the famous naval novelist, Frank lish factory at Canton. He was “the first and for many years the towns and settlements on the Yang-Tze-Kiang for Shanghai trade mission by Warren Hastings. He reached Tashico Dzong Marryat was sent to sea at 14, accompanying Sir Edward Belch- only British traveller to reach the holy city. Ignoring the fact to Chingkiang, and Chingkiang to Wuhu and Tatung. Staging and Paro Dzong off Bhutan, and then crossed Tang La from er’s cruise to the Far East in the Samarang, taking in Borneo, that he had been refused permission, he rode up to the Dalai posts include names such as Centaur Buoy, Light Ship, Mud the Chumbi Valley and reached Gyangtse and Shiagtse. In 1775 the Philippines, and Taiwan, “for nearly five years surveying Lama’s palace, heavily but ineffectually disguised. Surprisingly and fighting pirates” (ODNB). Taking after his father, Marryat he was permitted to stay for five months … Manning was far was a highly observant and engaging narrator, and offers here from overawed by Lhasa. ‘If the palace exceeded my expecta- a lively account of the events on the cruise, including the sup- tions, the town as far fell short of them’, he wrote, ‘There is pression of piracy in the archipelago, illustrated by excellent nothing striking, nothing pleasing in its appearance. The habi- plates worked up from the his own sketches. tations are begrimed with smut and dirt. The avenues are full of dogs … growling and gnawing bits of hide which lie about in Abbey 549. profusion and emit a charnel-house smell’” (ODNB). £2,250 [95115] Howgego I, B118, & II, M11; Yakushi M88. £1,500 [97443]

118 MARRYAT, Frank S. Borneo and the Indian Archipelago: With Drawings of Costume and Scenery. London: Octavo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, black morocco label, flat bands with a fine single rule, flat bands bracketed by thick and thin rules, single gilt fillet to spine and corner edges, edges finely sprinkled brown, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers. Chromolitho- graphic frontispiece and pictorial half-title, and 20 one- and two-tint lithographed plates, 37 woodcut illustrations to the text, half-title bound in. Armorial bookplate of William Norris to the front pastedown, his collared talbot crest gilt to the third compartment on spine. A little rubbed, slightly discolouration to spine, light browning of the 116 text-block, some foxing to the plates as usual, very good. 118

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120 Pierre Amédée Jaubert, one of the most distinguished pupils MEYENDORFF, Michael de. Voyage de Orenbourg a of the great French Arabist Silvestre de Sac and Napoleon’s “favourite orientalist adviser and dragoman” (Hamilton, Boukhara, fait en 1820, a travers les steppes qui s’étendent Friends and Rivals in the East, p. 230), who was also overall edi- a l’est de la mer d’Aral et au-dela de l’ancien Jaxartes; revu tor of the work. The reviewer for the Foreign Quarterly Review par M. le chevalier Amédée Jaubert. Paris: Librairie Orientale considered it one of the “most lively and picturesque pieces de Dondey-Dupré, père et fils, 1826 119 of descriptive writing which it has been his fortune to meet”. Octavo (206 × 130 mm). Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, Henze III, p. 451. title gilt direct to spine, together with lozenge rolls and tooling com- 119 ciety of Bengal. The following year he was recruited by the East posed of drawer-handle, fleuron and fan-shaped devices, edges sprin- £2,250 [109203] MASSON, Charles. Narrative of Various Journeys in India Company as news writer in Afghanistan, in return for a kled brown over yellow. With 4 hand-coloured lithographed plates free pardon for his desertion and a small allowance” (ODNB). Balochistan, Afghanistan and the Panjab. London: Richard and 3 uncoloured by Charles-Philibert de Lasteyrie, folding engraved 121 map by Alexandre Blondeau after Lapie and Jaubert, publisher’s ad- In the years immediately before the First Afghan War, Masson Bentley, 1842; [Together with:] – Narrative of a Journey to vertisement leaf at beginning. Somewhat rubbed at the extremities, MONTAGUE, William Edward. Campaigning in South was strongly critical of the Forward Policy, using his narrative Kalat. London: Richard Bentley, 1843 endpapers neatly renewed, some foxing and browning as usual, over- Africa. Reminiscences of an Officer in 1879. Edinburgh and to comment adversely on the conduct of Alexander Burnes and Together 2 works in 4 volumes, octavo. Original matching purple all very good. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1880 combed cloth, title gilt to spines, panelling in blind to boards, pale Sir William Macnaughten. He left Afghanistan in 1838 and dur- first edition, preceding the Jena publication in the origi- Octavo (196 × 130 mm). Recent dark blue morocco, red and green cream surface-paper endpapers. Single-tint lithographic frontispiece ing the ensuing British invasion remained in Sind, compiling nal German later the same year. Meyendorff (1795–1863), lettering-pieces, raised bands bracketed by double gilt rules, roundel and one other similar plate to each volume of the first-named, to- the first work here. “In attempting to return to Afghanistan born into an aristocratic Livonian German family, was edu- with palmette devices gilt to compartments, single fillet gilt panel to gether with numerous woodcut illustrations to the text; large folding in 1840, he became accidentally embroiled in the Baluchistan boards, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Bound with the half-title. map to the pendant volume. All spines a little sunned, and crumpled cated at Göttingen, and in 1820 was chosen to accompany Ne- revolt and was imprisoned by the British authorities without Old stain from self-adhesive tape to the half-title, some foxing front head and tail with some minor splits and chips, overall a little rubbed, gri’s embassy to Bokhara. The mission had been authorised either charge or good reason” – events which he describes and back, light browning throughout and occasional marginal finger- and bumped at the extremities, light browning to the text-blocks, and by Alexander I following repeated requests from the emir in the pendant volume. Although Masson lacked any formal soiling, remains a very good copy. some foxing particularly to the plates; the pendant volume neatly re- for diplomatic overtures. The party, which included the bi- training, “as an accurate observer of, and extensive traveller in, backed with the original spine laid down, end papers renewed, fold- ologists Heinz Christian Pander and Eduard Friedrich Ever- first edition of an uncommon account of the Anglo-Zulu a virtually unknown land he was unrivalled”, and the present ing map with two closed tears, no loss; a very good set. smann, was escorted across the Kirghiz steppe by “a little War, with seven locations on Copac. Montague served in the narrative “has been judged to be a record which is unsurpassed army consisting of 200 Cossacks, 200 infantry, 25 Bashkirs, Zulu War as brigade major of the 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, first editions. An attractive set of this important memoir … for the width of its scope of inquiry into political, social, and 2 pieces of artillery” (Foreign Quarterly Review, XIV, 1834, p. and subsequently as Staff Officer Fort Marshall and to the- fly of turbulent times on the frontier. Considered “to be the most economic and scientific matters and the general accuracy of its 66). They carried out extensive geographical and natural his- ing column in the operations against the hostile chiefs. “In this enigmatic among the European explorers” of the north-west conclusion” (Chopra). frontier, Masson (1800–1853) was born John Lewis in London, torical surveys: the present work contains a lengthy appendix book, Capt. Montague describes his journey to northern Na- and in 1821 enlisted as a private in the East India Company’s With the ownership initials of Lieutenant-Colonel John Ar- on the natural history of the emirate, and both Pander and tal, campaign life, the Battle of Ulundi, and the aftermath of infantry, later transferring to the Bengal European Artillery. chibald Ballard, dated 1857 to the front free endpaper of vol- Eversmann published their findings separately. “The expedi- the Anglo-Zulu War” (Raugh). He was present at the siege of Bharatpur in 1826 but deserted ume I. Ballard earned a considerable reputation for his “cool tion was at this point the richest source of information on Bruce 4909; Raugh 2772; SABIB, III, p. 359. in early July 1827 in Agra and changed his name, travelling to bravery in action” during his services attached to the Turkish Bokhara. A large group of previously unknown place-names Afghanistan and embarking on over a decade of “pioneering forces in the Crimea, commanding a brigade in Omar Pasha’s – nearly two thousand in number – were added to the map” £1,250 [109473] travel and antiquarian investigation”. He collected over 80,000 campaign in Mingrelia (Buckland). (Henze, the cataloguer’s translation). The superb map based ancient coins and other objects “which first provided a chro- Chopra, Maharaja Ranjit Singh and his Times, pp. 43–4; Riddick 148 & 149; on Meyendorrf ’s surveys appended to the account was com- nology of the dynasties of central Asia in the unknown centu- Yakushi M108a, for the first-named. piled under the supervision of Pierre M. Lapie, colonel in the ries after the death of Alexander the Great. From 1834 Masson Corps Royal des Ingénieurs Géographiques and later head of £5,750 [107519] published news of his discoveries in the Journal of the Asiatic So- the topographical section of the French ministry of war, and

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tion, endpapers browned and with some tan-burn at the corners, text lightly toned, overall a very good copy. first edition of one of the earliest accounts of Russian relations with the Khanate of Kokand, containing a detailed description of an expedition across Central Asia, into areas very little known at the time. “I publish the result of my observations with the hope of throwing some light on these interesting countries, the birthplace of the tribes which were long the scourge of the Russian Empire” (translation from the London Magazine review of Klaproth’s “Magasin Asiatique”, April 1826). The author was an interpreter with the Special Siberian Corps of the Russian army, who in 1813, was sent on a special mission to the khanate in order to “repair relations” (Starr, Ferghana Val- ley: The Heart of Central Asia, p. 44) following the death of two members of a Kokandian deputation on their return from a embassy to the court at St Petersburg in 1812. Accompanied by a 100-camel caravan of Russian merchants seeking to establish trade relations with Kokand and laden with imperial gifts for

122 123 the khan, Nazarov departed from Omsk in May 1813. What follows is a finely-observed geographical travelogue en- 122 Important account of Kokand compassing topography and ethnography, largely pragmatic, MUNDY, Godfrey Charles. Pen and Pencil Sketches, but inevitably tinged with the Orientalism of its time, and 123 nonetheless revealing for that. His route took him via Pet- being a Journal of a Tour in India. London: John Murray, NALIVKINE, Vladimir Petrovic. Histoire de khanat de ropavlovsk, across the Kazakh-Kirghiz steppe, where he was 1822. Khokand. Traduit de russe par Auguste Dozon. Paris: warned to guard against plunder by the marauding Kirghiz 2 volumes, octavo (201 × 134 mm). Contemporary half calf, mar- hordes – “slaves to their word, but violent, vindictive, thieves Ernest Leroux, éditeur, 1889 124 bled sides, red morocco labels, broad flat bands with zigzag roll in by nature, and ungoverned in their passions … the right of the blind, framed by single gilt rules. Lithographic frontispiece to each, Quarto (273 × 172 mm). Contemporary dark blue half morocco, mar- strongest prevails amongst them in the fullest sense of the and 17 other similar plates, engraved illustrations to the text, folding bled boards, by Joseph Bretault, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tri- where Nazarov receives the reply to the tsar’s letter and is sent term”. He visits Tchimket (modern-day Shymkent in Kazakh- engraved map, routes inked in colour, at the rear of volume I. Con- colour silk page-marker. Original wrappers bound in front and back. on his way with a small escort. He makes his circuitous return Double-page engraved map. Very lightly rubbed at the extremities, stan), where the governor offers them 200 soldiers as an es- temporary ownership inscription of Clarentia Chichester, daughter via the recently conquered town of Urutupa, Khujand, a thriv- of Colonel Henry Mason, H.E.I.C., to the title pages, a couple of ad- pale toning, a very good copy. cort on their way to Tashkent, where “the city is full of life; the ing city now in Tajikistan, and revisits Tashkent, before again ditions neatly inked to the 4-pp. glossary in volume I. A little rubbed, streets are crowded; the people dance before the doors of the first edition in french. Originally published in Russian in braving the Kirghiz and reaching Petropavlovsk on 15 October particularly on the joints, rear joint of volume two just starting at the houses, others have music in their gardens; one imagines one- 1886 at Kazan, this edition was issued for l’École des langues 1814. tail, light browning, some hygroscopic spotting to the plates, but orientales vivantes. An important account of the Khanate of self in a continuous fête”, but where the governor impounds overall very good. Kokand, a city now in the Ferganah Region of Uzbekistan, it is the caravan and the Kokoandians’ gifts from the tsar. One of the few such accounts to be published, the edition was first edition. “Captain Mundy toured India from November underwritten by Nikolai Petrovich Rumyantsev (1754–1826), well represented institutionally, but uncommon in commerce, Once at Kokand (“very large and populous; there are not less 1827 until January 1830 as an aide to Lord Combermere, Com- Russian Foreign Minister and Imperial Chancellor, a promi- with just two copies at auction in the last 50 years. An excel- than four hundred mosques”), Nazarov secures his audience mander-in-Chief of the Company’s arms. Mundy’s journal re- nent patron of arts, a collector and bibliophile, and a supporter lent copy in an attractive contemporary binding by Bretault, with the khan – a man “of about five-and-twenty … dressed ports on the inspection made and the dignitaries met along a of Russian exploration, who sponsored Krusenstern and Li- a pupil of Victor Champs, and recognised as one of the fore- in a shawl decorated with golden fringes and acorns” – and path which began in Calcutta and passed through Cawnpore, sianski’s first Russian circumnavigation of 1803–6. Extremely most binders practising in Paris at the turn of the 19th century presents the tsar’s letter and gifts. Having declined to hand Lucknow, Agra, Delhi, Gwalior, Meerut … Also of interest were uncommon, with just six copies on OCLC. (Devauchelle, La Reliure en France, III, p. 127). over what remains of the merchants’ goods or turn renegade his comments on six months spent in Simla early in its devel- as restitution for the death of the envoys, and having declared Speake, I, pp. 214–6. opment … Mundy’s official duties, as recorded in his journal, £1,750 [104677] himself willing to face execution in the knowledge of the ven- seemed minimal, but his time was well filled with hunting, £6,750 [105435] geance that the tsar would visit upon his murderers, Nazarov tigers, pig-sticking, and sketching” (Riddick). Czech inevita- The first Russian embassy to Kokand finds his Cossack guard dismissed and himself under house bly accentuates these latter aspects: “the author hunted tiger arrest. The khan then proposes that he accompany him on a near the Ganges and in the Dehra Dun. He spent time among 124 hunting trip to Marghilan with the intention of moving him the Mahrattas, observed wild elephants, and participated in NAZAROV, Filipp M. Zapiski o Nekotorykh Narodakh further from any possible assistance. antelope hunting with cheetahs and falcons … includes a dis- i Zemliakh Srednei Chasti Azii Filippa Nazarova, cussion of the lion hunting exploits of Col. James Skinner and Otdel’nogo Sibirskogo Korpusa Perevodchika, Posylan- Nazarov spends some months travelling the Ferghana valley, William Fraser. The plates of tiger hunting from elephant back nogo v Kokant v 1813 i 1814 Godakh. [Notes on the Peo- visiting amongst other places Andijan, where the khan kept are quite striking”. ple and Lands in the Central Part of Asia …] St Petersburg: a game preserve, and Namanghan, notable as a centre for Czech p. 145; Riddick 153. Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1821 handcrafts, and horticulture. “Throughout this sandy steppe we saw very populous villages; the inhabitants appeared to be £850 [109948] Octavo (210 × 122 mm). Contemporary maroon quarter sheep, mar- extremely well off, and to want nothing that can make their bled boards. Contemporary book-label of H. J. Melin on the bottom margin of p. 17, small ink-stamp to the tail of the last page. A little existence happy; their countenances have an expression of the rubbed, particularly on the joints and corners, some skilful restora- most perfect contentment”. The party then returns to Kokand,

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125 first edition, uncommon in the cloth. Newton was closely NEALE, Frederick Arthur. Turkey and the Turks; or involved in the foundation of three highly influential archaeological institutions: the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Historical Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Present Studies, the Egypt Exploration Fund, and the British School Condition of the Ottoman Empire. London: James Madden, at Athens. Following graduation from Oxford, where he was a 127 1854 friend of Ruskin, Newton worked at the British Museum as as- 2 volumes bound as one, octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine sistant in the department of antiquities under Edward Hawkins. together with a panel incorporating a fountain, trophy of “Oriental” sides lavishly blocked and lettered in gilt, white moiré doublures tane, secretary to de Lesseps. Five hundred copies of Fontane’s arms and two falcons, wide, ornate blind panels to both boards, large “In 1852 Newton resigned from the British Museum on appoint- and endpapers, gilt edges. Housed in the original folding case, red work were printed, with 200 reserved for the Khedive, of which fountain centre-tool, gilt to the front, and in blind to the back, gilt ment as vice-consul at Mytilene. From April 1853 to January 1854 morocco backing red cloth blocked to a design similar though some- this is one. As the Khedive objected to the preface of Fontane’s edges, pale yellow endpapers. Each volume with hand-coloured fron- he served as acting consul at Rhodes … In addition to consular what different to that of the binding, watered silk lining, metal clasps work, which gave credit for the canal to de Lesseps, he ordered (some minor wear and fading, extremities skilfully refurbished). tispiece and plate. Somewhat rubbed and soiled, but sound, hinges duties he was authorized to serve the interests of the museum the removal of Lesseps’ portrait frontispiece, the preface, and the Inauguration: 4 lithographic portrait plates, uncoloured, and 13 litho- carefully repaired, light browning to the text-block, certainly about by acquiring antiquities through excavation and purchase. His final six gatherings (which included plates 21–25) from his copies. very good and not unattractive. graphic plates of which 11 are coloured and 2 tinted. Voyage pittoresque: excavations on Kalymnos in 1854 and 1855, financed by Lord coloured lithographic map as frontispiece and 20 coloured litho- Blackmer 1198 & 611; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 66 & I, 235. An early re-issue of Neale’s Islamism: its Rise and Progress (1854), Stratford de Redcliffe, the British ambassador at Constantino- graphic plates (of 25, and without the portrait frontispiece, as issued), with the addition of four costume plates, a cancel general title, ple, yielded many inscriptions for the British Museum. Also in with printed thin paper guards. All mounted on stubs. Slight rubbing £12,500 [107978] and no title page to volume II. “The work is basically a history 1855 he unearthed the bronze serpent from Delphi in the hip- to front cover, scattered light foxing, stub to portrait of the Khedive of Islam and includes the Arab caliphates, the Saracens, the podrome at Constantinople and visited Bodrum (ancient Hali- splitting, a few guards torn without loss, a very good copy. Moslems in India, as well as the Ottoman Empire. It is car- carnassus) for the first time. After a second visit in the following first edition of this spectacular double volume, one of the ried up to the Crimean War and also contains an account of spring he obtained a government grant of £2000 together with 200 special copies reserved for the Khedive and presumably the Greek revolution” (Blackmer). Uncommon in either issue, naval and military support for an expedition to retrieve some li- presented to one of the dignitaries attending the ceremonies, there nine copies as here on OCLC, but none in the UK where ons from the mausoleum immured in the castle of St Peter and although there is no mark of ownership. The Suez Canal was Copac records six sets of the first issue. to excavate the site of the mausoleum itself ” (ODNB). the world’s supreme engineering feat at the time, a 102-mile Atabey 862 for the earlier issue; Blackmer 1188. Atabey 869; Blackmer 1193; Gernsheim, Incunabula of British Photographic canal that connected the Mediterranean Sea with the Indian Literature, 284. Ocean through the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt. The sea-level wa- £850 [105420] terway allowed ships to travel between Europe and South Asia £1,250 [99196] without having to circumnavigate Africa, thereby shortening 126 the sea voyage by some 7,000 km. The canal was the brainchild NEWTON, Charles Thomas. Travels & Discoveries in the 127 of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to Cairo. Levant. London: Day & Son, Limited, 1865 NICOLE, Gustave. Inauguration du Canal de Suez. Voyage In 1856 the Suez Canal Company was formed and granted the 2 volumes, tall octavo. Original green sand-grain cloth, title gilt to des Souverains. Aquarelles d’après nature et portraits par right to operate the canal for 99 years. The canal was opened spines, elaborate blind panelling to boards, cream endpapers. Folding Riou. [Bound with, as issued:] FONTANE, Marius. Voyage to navigation on 17 November 1869, having taken ten years to map frontispiece to each, 12 lithographic plates from photographs by pittoresque à l’ishthme de Suez. Vingt-cinq grandes complete. The inauguration was a lavish affair, presided over Francis Bedford after drawings by Newton and his wife, 20 plates, one aquarelles d’aprés nature par Riou, lithographiées en by the Khedive, Isma’il Pasha, with the French Empress Eugé- of them folding, the majority etched after photographs by Colnaghi nie in the French imperial yacht. Portraits of the heads of state couleur par MM. Eugène Ciceri et Jules Didier. Paris: Paul and Spackman, 2 double- and 2 full-page maps, one double- and 2 present include Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, Frederick Wil- full-page plans, numerous wood-engraved illustrations to the text. A Dupont & E. Lachaud, 1869 helm of Prussia, and the Prince and Princess of Holland. little rubbed, volume I rear board slightly bubbled and mottled, rear 2 works in one volume, large folio (546 × 385 mm). Original quarter endpapers discoloured, and both hinges repaired, some light brown- red morocco, red morocco-grain cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, The painter Edouard Riou also signed the plates of the second ing, but overall a very good set, presenting well. part, a detailed account of the canal construction by Marius Fon- 127

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128 The culmination was an expedition into Afghanistan in 1915, to be jointly led by himself and the diplomat Werner Otto von NIEDERMAYER, Oskar von. Afganistan. Leipzig: Karl W. 131 Hentig: “they were to be Germany’s ‘Lawrences’ – or as one Hiersemann, 1924 British officer christened them ‘Angels of Darkness’ – for their and some events contemporary with its composition. For this service on the NWF. He later served with distinction in the First Quarto. Original cloth with Afghan rug style design in orange and orders were to spread violence and disorder under the ban- brown, edges blue, yellow endpapers. With 243 photogravure plates, translation Dorn used a copy from the library of the Royal Asi- World War, MID four times, DSO, Order of the Crown of Belgium. ner of Holy War, and to turn the people of the East against the and 3 full-page plans, sketches to the text. A little rubbed, and mildly atic Society: “it is very carelessly written, by one Fut’h Khan, for British and their allies”. The expedition reached Kabul, but sunned, pale browning, but otherwise very good. his own use, in the year 1131 of the Hejra (a.d. 1718)” (Preface). £875 [107639] despite Niedermayer’s best efforts, the negotiations with Emir first and only edition of this uncommon and superbly Habibullah had no decisive outcome. In May 1916 the team £1,200 [96543] 131 illustrated account of Afghanistan. Niedermayer, a German were ordered to withdraw from Afghanistan and work on at- soldier-academic and spy, was spotted as a young officer-cadet NUÑEZ, Ignacio. An Account, Historical, Political, and tachment to the Ottoman Empire. This involved a dangerous 130 in the 10th Bavarian Field Artillery Regiment (Erlangen). He Statistical of the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata: With return march through hostile Russian territory, which was ac- studied under the philologist Georg Jacob at Friedrich-Alex- (NORTH-WEST FRONTIER.) The Risings on the North- complished on 1 September 1916. an Appendix, concerning the Usurpation of Monte Video ander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, becoming proficient West Frontier. Being a Complete Narrative, with Specially by the Portuguese and Brazilian Governments. London: R. in English and Russian, with passable Arabic and Turkish and £2,000 [103807] Prepared Maps, of the Various Risings of the Frontier Ackermann, 1825 modern Persian, and subsequently carrying out a number of Tribes in the Tochi Valley, the Swat Valley, the Country Octavo (210 × 128 mm). Contemporary calf, dark tan morocco label, expeditions while on paid furlough (very much in the style of 129 of the Mohmands and Mamunds, and the Country of flat spine, compartments formed by a decorative roll, gilt with attrac- the British equivalent “shooting trips”) into Persia and India. (NIMATULLAH.) DORN, Johannes Albrecht Berhard. the Afridis and Orazkai; and of the Several Punitive tive arabesque foliate tools to compartments, single fillet gilt panel to “Extremely tough and resourceful, he was, in the words of one History of the Afghans: Translated from the Persian of Campaigns undertaken against these Tribes, as well as boards, milled edge-roll in blind, edges sprinkled brown. Large fold- contemporary, ‘the kind of man who made the German army ing lithographic frontispiece map printed on thick paper, coloured in almost invincible’” (Hopkirk, On Secret Service East of Con- Neamet Ullah … London: Printed for the Oriental Translation the Two Minor Expeditions sent against the Utman Khels outline, of the Plata, Parana, Uruguay and Grande rivers, lithographic stantinople, p. 63). Committee, 1829–36 and the Bunerwals; the whole covering a Period extending plan of Buenos Aires. A little rubbed, particularly on the joints, the Quarto, in 2 parts. Original green sand-grain cloth, paper spine label. A from the Middle of June 1897 to the End of January, 1898. front just starting, hinges sound despite the weight of the frontispiece little rubbed, spine label chipping and slightly scuffed, but largely legible, Allahabad: Printed and Published at the Pioneer Press, 1898 map, and the contents clean. A very good copy. front hinge just started and the first quire slightly loose as a consequence, Octavo. Original red cloth, lettered in black on spine and front board. first edition in english, simultaneously published in Span- endpapers browned, light toning throughout, a very good copy. 2 folding maps. Slightly rubbed, and somewhat mottled on boards, ish. Following the signing of a controversial Treaty of Amity, Com- first edition. Dorn (1805–1881) was a pioneer in many areas spine sunned, endpapers and text-block variously browned and oc- merce and Navigation between Britain and the United Provinces, of Iranian studies in Russia. “He was particularly interested in casionally slightly brittle in the margins, but overall very good. which essentially recognised their independence from Spain, Nu- the Pashtuns and published annotated editions and translations first edition of this extremely useful chronological compi- ñez was sent to London as secretary to the Legation at the English of texts on tribal history. Dorn never visited Afghanistan, but lation. A fragile publication, this copy is better preserved than and French Courts, and immediately published the present work, he nevertheless established the scientific basis for Afghan stud- usual. It was wrongly attributed in the past to Churchill, who did a comprehensive description of the region. ies, particularly the first systematic description of Pashto” (En- famously contribute to The Pioneer’s reporting on the campaign A pencilled note to the front free endpaper records that this copy cyclopaedia Iranica). Ni’mat Allah al-Harawi (fl. 1613–1630), called of Sir Bindon Blood’s Malakand Field Force. Uncommon, with was “From Lord Metcalfe’s Library”, while a neat later bookplate Nimatullah, was a chronicler and waqia-navis, or court reporter, just three locations on Copac (BL, Oxford, and Cambridge). to the front pastedown shows it to have belonged to John Fair, a at the court of the Moghul Emperor Jahangir. He compiled the merchant banker, whose investments in railways had much to Makhzan-i-Afghani from materials accumulated by Haibat Khan With the ownership inscription of Peter Francis Fitzgerald 85th do with the expansion and modernisation of Buenos Aires. of Samana, and, while some of the content is somewhat fanci- King’s Light Infantry to the front pastedown and rear board. ful, the book was a major source for the origins of the Pashtuns, Fitzgerald served with the 2nd Battalion in South Africa, men- Palau 198831; Sabin 56333. also including the genealogies of the Afghan rulers in Bengal tioned in despatches and wounded, while the 1st Battalion was on 128 £875 [94631]

92 93 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 second edition in english, seven years after the first; the first edition in German being the Schleswig printing of 1647. This “renowned narrative” (Arcadian Library) was one of the most influential accounts of both Russia and Persia of its time. Adam Olearius or Öschläger (1603–1671) was the librarian and court mathematician to Duke Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp. In 1633 he was appointed secretary to the ambassadors Philip Crusius and Otto Bruggemann (or Brugman) on their mission to the courts of Tsar Michael I and the Shah Safi to negotiate “arrangements by which Frederick’s newly-founded city of Friedrichstadt should become the terminus of an overland silk-trade” (Ency. Brit., 1911). The first embassy travelled from Lübeck via Riga to Moscow in 1633 and returned in April 1635 in order to receive the duke’s ratification of the advantageous treaty they had negotiated with Michael. In 1636 they embarked on the second embassy travelling via Moscow to Astrakhan and on to Persia, whence they returned in 1639 after a series of inconclusive negotiations. “Once back at Gottorp, Öls- 132 133 chläger became librarian to the duke, who also made him keeper of his Cabinet of Curiosities, and induced the tsar to excuse his 132 the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia … (promised) return to Moscow. Under his care the Gottorp library Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, and cabinet were greatly enriched in MSS., books, and oriental O’DONOVAN, Edmond. The Merv Oasis. Travels and and other works of art”. Adventures East of the Caspian during the Years 1879– Persia, and other Adjacent Countries … Whereto are Added 80–81 including Five Months’ Residence among the the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo … from Persia, The book also includes the narrative of Johan Albrecht de Man- Tekkês of Merv. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1882 into the East-Indies. Containing a particular Description delslo (1616–1644), who accompanied the embassy to Isfahan be- of Indosthan, the Mogul’s Empire, the Oriental Ilands, fore setting off alone from Hormuz to Surat, travelling through 2 volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered spines. En- Gujarat to Agra, Lahore, Goa, Bijapur and Malabar, and visiting graved portrait frontispiece of O’Donovan, 15 plates of maps, plans Japan, China … London: John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669 Ceylon, Madagascar, the Cape of Good Hope, and St Helena on and facsimiles (some folding), large coloured folding map of the Rus- Folio (317 × 196 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, red morocco his return voyage in 1639. Before his death five years later, he 134 so-Persian frontier (in pocket at end of volume II). Very slight dishing label, compartments gilt with central lozenge tools within scrolled of covers otherwise an excellent set. corner-pieces. Engraved frontispiece, incorporating the title, with passed his journals and notes to Ölschläger, who edited them for publication as here, and published them with further descriptions first edition. In 1879 O’Donovan undertook, as Daily News portraits of the ambassadors including Olearius, 6 double-page or Superb visual record of Khiva and Bokhara of the Coromandel coast, Bengal, Siam, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, correspondent, his “celebrated journey to Merv in Turkestan folding engraved maps, 2 engraved portraits, engraved illustration to Bantam, the Philippines, Formosa, China, and Japan. 134 – a daring, difficult, and hazardous feat, with which his name the text. A little rubbed, corners bumped, judicious restoration to extremities, endpapers browned, light toning with occasional spotting, became associated. From the Russian advanced posts on the The Arcadian Library, p. 26, & p. 386; Atabey 884, “a late French edition”; not OLUFSEN, Ole. The Second Danish Pamir-Expedition. a few minor splits on the folds of the maps, the largest with some old in Blackmer; Cordier, Japonica, 362–368, Indosinica 883 & Sinica 2076–77 for Old and New Architecture in Khiva, Bokhara and south-eastern shores of the Caspian Sea he travelled through paper repairs verso, but overall a very good copy. The Rosebery copy, editions of Mandelslo; Cross A4; Ghani p. 286, this edition; Henze III, pp. 638– Turkestan. Published at the Expense of the Church Khorasan, and eventually, with great difficulty and at con- contemporary ownership inscription of Vere Fane, 4th earl of West- 44 Olearius, & p. 363 Mandelslo; Howgego I M38; SABIB, III, pp. 575–6; Wilson siderable risk, accompanied only by two native servants, he moreland to the title page, inked book label of General John Fane, p. 162, editions of Mandelslo noted at pp. 134–5; Wing O270g. Ministry and Carlsberg Fund. Copenhagen: Gyldendalske reached Merv. He was at first suspected by the Turkomans of 11th earl, dated 1856 to the front pastedown, beneath the armorial Boghandel Nordisk Forlag, 1904 £7,250 [100022] being an agent of the Russians, who were then threatening bookplate of Archibald Philip [Primrose], 5th earl of Rosebery. Folio. Original sand buckram, title in brown to upper board spine. an advance on Merv. For several months he consequently re- 26 half-tone plates from photographs. Just a little rubbed, front free mained in Merv in a sort of honourable captivity, in danger of endpaper slightly browned, the text pages more lightly so, overall a death any day, and with no prospect of release … He managed very good copy. to send into Persia a message, which was thence telegraphed first edition of an important architectural study from the to John Robinson, the manager of the Daily News. In this dis- two Danish Pamir Expeditions. Olufsen commanded both of patch O’Donovan explained his position, and appealed to his these trips into Central Asia, 1896–9, during which the team friend: ‘For God’s sake get me out of this’. Robinson applied to visited Bokhara as a guest of the emir; carried out exhaustive the Foreign Office and to the Russian ambassador in London, scientific surveys throughout the Pamirs; made the first -an and immediate steps were taken to effect O’Donovan’s release. thropological study of the Siaposh and the mountain Tajiks; However, by his own efforts, combining courage with diplo- and “scaled peaks as high as 8,000 metres and living with the macy, he extricated himself from his perilous position. On re- Kyrgyz nomads” (Howgego). Olufsen’s was to be the last non- turning to London ‘the man of Merv’ was a celebrity, and he Russian scientific expedition in the region for 90 years. On the read a paper to the Royal Geographical Society” (ODNB). second trip the party was “provided with a camera and 2,000 £950 [94638] glass plates” (Gorshenina, Explorateurs en Asie centrale: voyageurs et aventuriers de Marco Polo à Ella Maillart, p. 224, our translation), making this remarkable visual record possible. 133 Howgego IV, O7; Yakushi O32. OLEARIUS, Adam. The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors sent by Frederick Duke of Holstein, to 133 £2,750 [103825]

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Essential reference on Bokhara, uncommon inscribed 136 ranges of Siberia, was the recognition of the temporal sequence of rocks from the centre to the flanks of a range.” 135 PALLAS, Peter Simon. Voyages en différentes provinces de l’empire de Russie, et dans l’Asie septentrionale; This French edition includes additional material covering the OLUFSEN, Ole. The Emir of Bokhara and his Country. traduits de l’allemand. Paris: Maradan, 1789–93 findings of the natural historians Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin, who Journeys and Studies in Bokhara (With a Chapter on Together 6 volumes, 5 quarto text volumes (274 × 214 mm), and folio died in the Caucasus during the expedition, Ivan Ivanovich Le- 137 my Voyage on the Amu Darya to Khiva.) Copenhagen: atlas (354 × 265 mm) of plates and maps. Original pinkish paper covered pekhin, and Johann Gottlieb Georgi. Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag; William Heinemann, boards, all neatly rebacked to style with typographical labels. Atlas with Atabey 900; Cohen–de Ricci p. 781; Cross D11 for the English first; Howgego time. Fanny, however, travelled extensively: she sailed by herself London, 1911 large folding general area map, loosely inserted, and 10 other maps, 3 I, P10; Nissen, ZBI, 3076. in their pinnace, the Seagull, up the Jumna River to Agra, and up Large octavo. Original purple cloth, title gilt to front board and spine. of them folding, and 2 double-page; 97 plates, 26 of them folding; half- the Ganges to Fatehgarh, and spent nearly a year visiting Cawn- Large folding coloured map in band inside rear board, numerous titles present in all volumes. Boards a little rubbed, soiled and softened £3,750 [100524] pore, Meerut, Delhi, and Landour in the Himalayas … Her hus- at the corners, lightly browned throughout, volume I with some mar- half-tone illustrations from the author’s own photographs to the text, band, whom she describes as kind and considerate, encouraged ginal dampstaining, but overall a very good, wide-margined set. many full-page. A little rubbed, spine lettering a touch oxidised, judi- 137 her travels. The couple had no children, and he probably realised cious restoration at the head of spine, light foxing to the prefatory first edition of the “the celebrated French translation” PARKS, Fanny. Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the that, in a society which saw a woman’s natural focus as her family, matter and fore-edge, else very good. (Cross), originally published in German between 1771 and 1776. Picturesque, during Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; she needed an alternative outlet for her energies. These were con- Volume I here in the second issue with Maradan imprint and first edition, inscribed by the author on the title page. with Revelations of Life in the Zenana … Illustrated with siderable: she was characterised by remarkable physical stamina, Olufsen was fluent in Russian and Usbegic, so he was able to date of 1789, publication having been interrupted – as explained Sketches from Nature. London: Pelham Richardson, 1850 and indefatigable enthusiasm and curiosity about every aspect of conduct his own interviews with natives, employing only a Ta- in the Avis – by lack of sufficient paper of the quality required. Indian life. Everywhere she went she sketched. She studied and jik interpreter with whom he conversed in Ottoman Turkish. In 2 volumes, large octavo. Original blue morocco-grain cloth, ti- Born in Berlin in 1741, Pallas was the son of a surgeon. He was tle gilt to spines together with a block of Krishna playing his flute, noted every aspect of the peoples she met, and the plant, animal, Bokhara the travellers “were welcomed as guests” by the emir, educated at Halle, Göttingen, and at Leiden where he submitted large gilt panel incorporating Skanda mounted on a peacock to the and insect life she encountered, preserving with arsenical soap lengthening their stay, with the result that the present study his doctorate in 1760. After a trip to England to study natural front boards, the same design in blind to the lower. 49 plates, 21 of specimens for her renowned ‘cabinet of curiosities’, which also “can be used as a work of reference on the details of the re- history and geology, Pallas settled at The Hague where he pub- them chromolithographs, 4 with hand-colour and finished with gum housed a heterogeneous assortment of interesting objects, espe- gion’s architecture, archaeology, customs, religions, tradition- lished his acclaimed Elenchus zoophytorum and Miscellanea zoologica. arabic, the rest lithographic, 8 single-tint, uncoloured folding litho- cially Hindu figures. Her fluent Hindustani enabled her to penal costume, and for its profuse illustration from photographs In 1767 Catherine the Great invited him to St Petersburg, where graphed panorama of the Himalayas in an end-pocket to volume I. etrate Indian life, and she adopted some Indian customs, signing A little rubbed, and with some small repairs head and tail of spines, of ethnographic and handcrafted pieces, monuments and lo- he became professor of natural history at the Imperial Academy her writing and drawings in Persian script … and playing the si- endpapers renewed, light browning to the text-block, some spotting cal peoples” (Gorshenina, Explorateurs en Asie centrale, pp. 225). of Sciences, and in 1768, at the specific request of the tsarina, tar. She admired the dignity and grace of Indian life, in which she Quite a fragile production, the thin cloth, heavy text-block, of the plates, the uncoloured lithographs being particularly affected, he was placed in charge of an expedition of five naturalists and but overall a very good copy retaining the handsome original cloth. considered European ways were often an ugly intrusion. Although and large folding map all contribute to the frail condition of seven astronomers into Russia and Siberia. Over the next six an Anglican, she was sceptical about attempts at religious conver- first edition. Uncommon, and highly sought-after, particu- copies usually encountered; this, lightly and skilfully restored, years the party traversed the empire from the plains of European sion and the effect of some European philanthropic endeavours larly in the cloth. “Fanny and Charles Parks sailed for Calcutta is a very superior copy, and very uncommon indeed inscribed. Russia to the borders of Mongolia. “Pallas arrived back in St Pe- … Fanny Parks’s book, which was extensively illustrated with in June 1822, finally leaving India in August 1845. Her account of Howgego, IV, O7; Yakushi O34. tersburg in July 1774 with a vast amount of data and many fossil drawings by herself, her friends, and Indian artists, was lavishly her years in India, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque, specimens, but broken in health. His hair was whitened with produced and won wide acclaim. Reviewers noted the accuracy, £2,500 [104298] largely based on the journal which she kept for her mother, was fatigue, and nearly all of his companions had died. His journals detail, and range of observation – as well as the unusual character published in 1850. The focus of the book was India, its people, and had been regularly despatched back to St Petersburg and were of the authoress” (ODNB). their culture. It thus gains momentum when, in 1826, the Parkses awaiting him on his arrival” (Howgego). Based upon these Pal- left Calcutta, where life was largely confined to British society, to Abbey 476; Howgego II, I1; SABIB III, p. 631. las published his major findings.“ His chief geological contribu- live ‘up country’ in Allahabad. Here Charles spent almost all his tion, based largely on his study of the Ural and Altai Mountain £5,000 [95111]

96 97 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 A Russian secret agent in Tashkent wide-ranging knowledge of Asian languages that led to his being recruited by the Russian government in 1861. He travelled 139 extensively across Asia, often passing himself off as a Muslim, PASHINO, Petr Ivanovich. Turkestanskii krai v 1866 claiming that going incognito had once saved his life in Afghani- [Travel Notes, Turkestan 1866]. St Petersburg: Tiblen, 1868 stan, and it certainly helped to him to obtain a remarkably in- Quarto (310 × 224 mm). Recent dark brown half morocco, marbled timate and detailed portrait of the lives of the peoples of this boards, red morocco label, raised bands, single rules in blind to spine region, in both the cities and on the steppe, which continues and corner edges. With 20 tinted lithographic plates, 5 of them two- to be drawn upon by historians and ethnographers to this day. tint, the remainder single-tint; wood-engraved title-page vignette, The work also offers an excellent visual record. The majority of the and cleverly worked wood-engraved historiated initials to each of the 17 chapters, with vignette tailpieces to all but the last; double- plates are of Tashkent, with views of madrassahs and mosques, page three-colour regional map. Half-title and errata leaf bound in. street scenes, but also the courtyard of the home of Said Azim Mu- 138 Light toning to the text throughout, a scatter of foxing, plates a little hammed Bai, a wealthy merchant who had been one of General browned, occasional marginal staining, three tissue-guards renewed, Cherniaev’s leading supporters in the Russianization of the city 138 but overall a very good copy. after its conquest. “Seid Azim spoke Russian and moved comfort- PARSONS, Abraham. Travels in Asia and Africa; first and only edition of this highly desirable account of ably within the worlds of both imperial and local business and politics. He had previously gained the favour of tsarist admin- including a Journey from Scanderoon to Aleppo, and Tashkent, capital of Russian Turkestan (now Uzbekistan), and istrators by buying the freedom of Russian slaves in the region. over the desert to Bagdad and Bussora; A Voyage from its surrounding area at the time of the Russian annexation. De- cidedly uncommon, with OCLC showing only nine locations Seid Azim’s goals extended beyond gaining lucrative contracts Bussora to Bombay, and along the Western Coast of worldwide, and just a single copy at auction in the last 50 years. or a leading position within the colonial administration. Letters 140 India; A Voyage from Bombay to Mocha and Suez in the On the establishment of the new Russian governor-generalship to tsarist officials attest to his strong commitment to improving Red Sea; and a Journey from Suez to Cairo and Rosetta in of Turkestan in 1866, Petr Ivanovich Pashino (1838–1891) was local education under Tashkent’s new rulers” (Sahadeo, Russian 140 Egypt. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 transferred from his posting as junior secretary to the embassy Colonial Society in Tashkent, 1865–1923, pp. 20–1). Other localities in- (PERSIAN GULF.) Persian Gulf Pilot. Comprising the Quarto (263 × 208 mm). Recent half calf, marbled boards, to style, red in Teheran, to Tashkent, the administrative centre, as “agent of clude Khodzent, now Khujand in Tajikistan, and Turkestan and Persian Gulf and its Approaches from Ras al Hadd, in the Chimikent, or Shymkent, both now in the South Kazakhstan morocco label, compartments enclosing elliptical roundels formed the Minister of Foreign Affairs”. Pashino is described by Charles South-West, to Cape Monze, in the East. London: published by gilt gallery and disc roll. Uncoloured aquatint frontispiece of Bagh- region of Kazakhstan. Two of the plates are from photographs Marvin in the monitory chapter dedicated to him in Reconnoitring by the Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, 1955 dad, uncoloured aquatint plate of Antioch. Frontispiece somewhat Central Asia as “Pashino, the Russian Secret Agent”, and he does by Mikhail K. Priorov, which are probably among the very first browned, a little creased and with a small repair at the inner margin, indeed seem to have been some sort of operator within the com- photographic records made in Central Asia. The map is also of Octavo (240 × 150 mm). Original blue cloth, titles in yellow to spine overall a little browned, a minor paper repairs to corners of a few and front board. 2 full-page maps, 4 pages of coloured buoyage sys- plex machinations of the Great Game. On graduation from St particular interest, being the first based on the accurate surveys leaves, slight damp cockling in the lower margin, particularly towards tems, several diagrams and tables to the text, 30 plates of coastal pro- made of the region following the Russian advance. the rear, but remains a better than good copy. Petersburg, he was sent to Kazan Imperial University, at the time files. Ownership monogram and sticker to notations of supplements one of Europe’s foremost centres for oriental studies, where “he first edition. Little is known of Parsons’s origins – he was £10,000 [104983] page; notices from the publisher tipped in before title page and p. spent several years in philological investigations”. It was his 1. Spine slightly sunned, front board a touch bowed, a little rubbed probably born in Bristol, the son of a merchant captain. He trav- overall. A very good copy. elled extensively for “commercial speculation, making several journeys in Asia Minor in 1772–4, and travelling from Iskend- First published in 1870, this tenth edition succeeded the ninth erun through the mountains to Aleppo. From there he crossed of 1942. All editions of these highly detailed navigational the desert to Baghdad, where he stayed between May and Octo- handbooks to the Gulf tend to be uncommon. Beyond the spe- ber 1774. He travelled up the Euphrates to Hillah and downriver cifically maritime aspects, they provided background on local to Basrah, where he was during the siege by a Persian army in conditions, climate, items of trade and so forth; this edition in 1775. He next visited Bombay, and then – ever inquisitive – made particular stands as a valuable record of areas that were soon a lengthy voyage along the west coast of India as far as Goa, re- to develop beyond recognition following the discovery of oil: turning to Bombay early in 1776. In 1778 he travelled via the Red “The coast between Dibai [sic] and Abu Dhabi … is, except for Sea and Egypt, and visited Mocha, Suez, Cairo, and Rosetta. a small village, at which there are some date trees … quite bar- Having returned to Europe in the same year he retired to Leg- ren, uninhabited, and … there is no tree larger than a man- horn, where he died in 1785” (ODNB). He left his manuscript grove bush. Landing unarmed on the mainland between Dibai account to his brother-in-law, the Revd John Berjew of Bristol, and Abu Dhabi is not recommended, for it is often visited by whose son, the Revd John Paine Berjew, edited it for publication. Bedouin from the interior” (p. 161). Abu Dhabi itself “consists for the most part of huts and extends along the coast for nearly Parsons was a curious and attentive traveller, his observations two miles. In the two there is a small fort … with five towers giving “insights into the various places that he visited, including close together, on one of which is the flagstaff. A small tower Bombay, Mocha, and Cairo. Everywhere he took much interest stands on the beach, where there are several prominent stone in commerce, government, and ways of life”; of particular inter- buildings, one of which is erected on the low sandy point which est are his account of the preparations at Cairo for the inunda- projects slightly in a north-westerly direction from the town” tion of the Nile and of its effects, and his description of “the 216 (p. 163). Similar descriptions illuminate the pre-oil histories groups making up the grand procession of pilgrims to Mecca”. of Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, along with Muscat, by contrast Abbey notes an octavo edition of 1802, apparently in error. long familiar to European travellers to India and the Far East. Abbey, Travel 348; Atabey 927; not in Blackmer; Gay 104; Hamilton, Arcadian Macro 290 for the 7th edition, 1924. Library 12649. £1,250 [100002] £1,850 [99192] 139 98 99 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120

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141 Nanak. together with a Short Gurmukhi Grammar, and an Appendix containing some Useful Technical Words, (PERSIAN GULF.) Persian Gulf Pilot. N.P. No. 63. 144 145 Comprising the Persian Gulf and its Approaches from in Roman Character. Lahore: Printed at the “Civil and Military Gazette” Press, 1888 Ra’s al Hadd, in the south-west to Ras Muari in the known as Rub’ al Khali. London: Constable and Company winning praise from Sir William Jones for protecting Britain’s Octavo. Original dark green pebble-grain cloth, title gilt to the front east. London: published by the Hydrographer of the Navy, Ltd., 1933 mercantile interests in the Ottoman Empire. 1967; [Together with:] Supplement No. 5 – 1974 to Persian board within blind panels which repeat on the rear board, marbled endpapers, binder’s ticket of the Civil & Military Gazette Press to Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, Atabey 975; not in Blackmer. Gulf Pilot (Eleventh Edition, 1967). Corrected to 7th the front pastedown. Somewhat rubbed, particularly at the lower titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards December 1974. corners, cloth slightly bubbled, rebacked with the original spine laid gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. With £1,500 [105237] 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, title in yellow to spine and down, hinges lined with linen, light browning, remains very good. frontispiece and 31 other plates, and with 2 coloured folding maps to the front board; supplement wire-stitched in the original printed first edition in english of Shardha Ram Phillauri’s ac- and a similar plan. A fine copy. The painstaking work of a genuine scholar paper front wrapper and plain card rear board. Folding general map count of the rise of Sikhism and the rule of Maharaja Ranjit first edition. A record of the “greatest [of his] remarkable 145 frontispiece and 13 other full-page maps, 21 plates of coastal profiles. Singh, one of the works that established Shardha Ram as the journeys” (ODNB). Ronald Wingate considered that “it is main- Folding frontispiece to the supplement. Slightly sunned at spine and “Father of modern Punjabi prose”. As it was considered an im- ly to him that the world owes its present knowledge of Central PRICE, David. Chronological Retrospect, or Memoirs of board edges, lightly rubbed, endpapers a touch browned, front wrap- Arabia” (DNB), and his tombstone in Beirut describes him as the Principal Events of Mahommedan History, from the per of the supplement just toned at the fore-edge. portant source for British administrators in the region, Court was “asked to bring this work out as soon as possible, as it was Greatest of Arabian Explorers, judgements that it would be dif- Death of the Arabian Legislator, to the Accession of the This edition succeeded the tenth of 1955 (see previous item), much required, and I have, therefore, done so as quickly as I ficult to disagree with. Emperor Akbar, and the Establishment of the Moghul here with the supplement updating the volume to 1974 (a new could. I have priced it at six rupees to subscribers, and eight Arcadian Library 12686; Ghani 302; Howgego, III, p.31; Macro 1781. Empire in Hindustaun. From the Original Persian edition was not issued until 1982). An interesting record of a rupees to non-subscribers, so as to put it within the reach of time at which “extensive new building development” was be- Authorities. London: J. Booth for Longman, Hurst, Reees, Orme all”. Court added the grammar, basing it on one published by £2,250 [106262] ginning to “change the appearance of some of the towns, nota- and Brown; and Black, Kingsbury, Parbury, and Allen, 1821 the American Presbyterian Mission Press, having “often tried, bly Abu Zabi and Dubayy”, with reference to “the picturesque 3 volumes in 4, quarto (272 × 208 mm). Recent half sheep to period but in vain, to get one, and my aim in inserting one has been 144 town of Muscat”, and noting that “the coast between Dubayy style, spines gilt tooled on the raised bands, blind tooled in compart- simply to supply this want”; similarly, the appendix of techni- (PORTER, Sir James.) LARPENT, Sir George. Turkey; and Abu Zabi … is except for a small village, at which there ments, red and black twin labels, marbled sides and edges. Large cal words was “chiefly taken” from the Mission Press’s Panjabi folding handcoloured map of Asia (from the eastern Meditarrenean are some date trees, situated about 4 miles south-westward of its History and Progress: from the Journals and Corre- Dictionary. spondence of Sir James Porter, Fifteen Years Ambassador to Korea, and from Siberia to Mysore). An attractive set: clean and Dubayy, quite barren”. well margined. Court (1843–1892) is best known for his translations including at Constantinople; continued to the Present Time, with £1,250 [99504] the Araish-i-Mahfil (1872), Nasr-i-Benazir (1889), and an adapta- a Memoir of Sir James Porter, by his Grandson … London: first edition sheets with title pages dated 1821 and issued tion of Malcolm’s History of Persia from Mirza Hairat’s Persian Hurst and Blackett, 1854 by the publishers on completion of the work, scarce. A signifi- 142 translation (1888). Extremely uncommon: Copac lists copies at cant work by the orientalist and army officer David Price (1762– 2 volumes, octavo. Original green morocco-grain cloth, title gilt to 1835), who saw action in the Third Anglo-Mysore War against PHILAURI, Sharadha Rama; COURT, Major Henry BL, SOAS, Oxford, and Royal Asiatic Society; no copies traced spine, elaborate blind panelling to both boards, Porter’s arms gilt Tipu Sultan, and, on retiring from the East India Company’s (trans.) History of the Sikhs; or Translation of the Sikkhan at auction. to the front boards, pale yellow surface-paper endpapers. Engraved service, settled in Wales to works on Arabian, Persian, and In- de Raj di Vikhia, as laid down for the Examination in portrait frontispiece to each. Lightly rubbed, spines tanned, frontis- £1,750 [107001] pieces and title pages foxed, light toning, otherwise a very good set. dian history. The present book is his best known and the most Panjabi. Narratives of the Ten Gurus, Hisgtory of the important, covering “the period from the death of Muhammad first edition. “Includes Porter’s unpublished journals Sikhs from the Rise of Maharaja Ranjit Singh to the to the accession of Akbar … Without pretending to any striking “Greatest of Arabian explorers” and his very interesting papers and correspondence; volume Occupation of the Panjab by the English, a Short Resumé grasp or generalization, it is nevertheless useful and was for II contains Larpent’s work on the progress of reform in Tur- 143 many years almost the only English work of reference for some of the Customs, Rites, Songs, and Proverbs of the Sikhs, key, much of it based on Ubicini’s Lettres sur la Turquie (1851–4)” branches of Eastern history” (ODNB). and Twenty Discourses regarding Events in the Life PHILBY, Harry St John Bridger. The Empty Quarter. (Atabey). Porter (1710–1776) was appointed ambassador at of Guru Nanak, taken from the Janam Sakhi, or Life of Being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia Constantinople in 1746 and remained in the post until 1762, £5,500 [107059]

100 101 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 first edition of the first authoritative English translation of the Qur’an. This copy with the near-contemporary ownership inscription of Dutch Arabist “J[ohannes] Willmett, 1770” to the front free endpaper. Willmett (1750–1835) was the author of several works, including a Qur’anic lexicon published in Rotterdam in 1784; his ownership inscription is accompanied by a scholarly note in Latin on Sale’s text, pointing readers to David Megerlin’s first German translation of the Qur’an made directly from the Arabic, and noting that Sale’s version contains a number of details absent from du Ryer’s notoriously inaccurate French edition; before Sale, the only previous complete translation of the Qur’an into English had been Alexander Ross’s 1649 version, a translation made directly from du Ryer’s French. George Sale was a solicitor by training and “the first notable English Arabist who was not in holy orders … From 1726 to 1734 he was closely associated with the Society for the Propa- 146 147 gation of Christian Knowledge, which he served in his legal capacity. Meanwhile he was working on a translation of the 148 146 Eighteenth-century Arabist’s copy of the most Qur’an … a landmark in the history of Qur’anic studies” (Holt, (PUTIATIN’S MISSION TO JAPAN.) Picture of the authoritative early English translation Studies in the History of the Near East, p. 58). Sale was textually 3 volumes, octavo (198 × 123 mm). Contemporary sheep-backed Russian Steamship … [Nagasaki: c.1854] indebted to the 1698 Latin translation of Ludovico Marracci, boards, finely sprinkled pink paper, red double-labels, spines with 147 double gilt ruled compartments, edges sprinkled red on yellow. Woodblock print with applied colour (354 × 475 mm). Window-mount- confessor to Pope Innocent XI; notably, his citation of Muslim (QUR’AN; English.) The Koran, Commonly called Housed in a recent, plain brown cloth slipcase. With 2 engraved folded in ebonised wood frame with gilt sightline. Lightly browned, and commentators is restricted to those already mentioned by his ing maps by Mentelle and Chanlaire hand-coloured in outline, 4 fold- a few minor creases, judicious restoration to a few short splits and The Alcoran of Mohammed, Translated into English predecessor. Yet Sale’s work, and in particular his extensive ing tables. A little rubbed on boards, contemporary repair to the front scrapes, but overall very good indeed. immediately from the Original Arabic; with Explanatory Preliminary Discourse discussing both the biography of the board of volume II, minor worm incursions on the rear joint of volume A wonderful locally-produced image of the Vostok, a steamship Notes, taken from the most approved Commentators. Prophet and the Arabian context of Islam, evinces “an enlight- I, and the front joint of volume II, light browning and occasional spot- that took part in Vice-Admiral Euphimy Vasil’evich Putiatin’s To which is prefixed A Preliminary Discourse. By George ened and objective attitude which may have been responsible ting, a very good set in unrestored contemporary condition. mission to negotiate trade arrangements with the Tokugawa Sale. London: by C. Ackers for J. Wilcox, 1734 for his gradual dissocation from the activities of the SPCK”, first edition. Having lost Pondicherry (Puducherry) in the in contrast to the openly polemical intentions of Marracci, shogunate, which were to result in the signing of the Treaty Quarto (250 × 200 mm). Contemporary vellum, spine with raised siege of 1793, the French regained it under the terms of the whose prefaced offered a lengthy refutation of the Qur’an and of Shimoda, the first treaty between the Russian and Japa- bands enclosed by ropework fillets in blind and inked title to second Treaty of Amiens, but Henry Wellesley refused to cede it, and nese empires. Putiatin sailed from Russia in the frigate Pal- compartment, covers concentrically panel-stamped in blind with Muhammad’s prophethood (idem). Sale’s balanced presenta- therefore when Renouard de Sainte-Croix (1767–1840) arrived in las, and stopped at Portsmouth for refitting before facing the acorn cornerpieces and “mandorla” centrepieces in the Islamic style, tion of Muhammad and Islamic origins was much admired by 1802 he was almost immediately imprisoned. A soldier-savant, rigours of rounding the Cape of Good Hope. While there he red-sprinkled edges. Title-page printed in red and black, folding map his contemporaries, including Voltaire, Lessing and especially he had been sent out to help organise the defence of the Philip- also purchased an “iron-hulled screw steamer, the Fearless, and of Arabia, 3 genealogical plates of which 2 folding, one folding plan Gibbon, whose treatment of Arabian history and Islam in his pines, but following his release he undertook a two year long renamed it Vostok” (Grainger, The First Pacific War, p. 51). The of Mecca. Vellum rubbed and darkened overall with cockling towards Decline and Fall relies heavily on Sale. In 1921 Edward Denison survey of southern India including the Coromandel and Mala- ship’s captain was Voin Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov, a gradu- upper outer corner of front cover, both upper outer corners bumped, Ross claimed that Sale’s version had still not been superseded, bar coasts. He then departed on a thorough tour of the entire light variable tanning throughout as often with browning to quire U, ate of the St Petersburg School of Mathematics and Naviga- and more than fifty years later Sale’s objectivity guarded him east Asian region, taking in Malacca, Mindanao, Manilla, the first blank slightly chipped and nicked along fore edge, very occasion- from criticism in Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978). tional Sciences, elder brother of the famous composer. al faint spotting chiefly restricted to margins and title-page, small Marianas, Luzon, Macao, the Camarines, the Bissayes (Visayas), the gold mines at Mabulao, and on his return voyage Canton, Delays meant that Putiatin’s squadron arrived shortly after Ad- worm-track to lower outer corners of a few leaves in quires 2D-G with £4,500 [107756] Cochinchina and Tonkin, with around two thirds of the third miral Perry’s similar expedition, but the Russian’s more meas- no loss of text. Internally clean overall: a very good and notably well- margined copy in a pleasing contemporary binding. volume here being dedicated to his experiences in China. ured approach contrasted distinctly with that of the American, 148 and was eventually to ensure a highly successful outcome. It RENOUARD DE SAINTE-CROIX, Carloman-Louis- Written in epistolary form, de Sainte-Croix’s approach encom- was recorded that during the squadron’s second visit to Naga- François Félix, marquis. Voyage commercial et politique passes history, geography, natural history, ethnography, indus- saki, “just before he left, Nakamura Tameya, the secretary to try and commerce, with a keen eye to international trade. He aux Indes Orientales, aux iles Philippines, a la Chine, the plenipotentiaries, a member of the new special commit- was also the author, under a pseudonym, of L’Hindoustan, ou Reli- tee to introduce steam ships to Japan, came to the schooner avec des notions sur la Cochinchine et le Tonquin, gion, moeurs, usages, arts et métiers des Hindous (1816); he compiled a Vostok with Putiatin and a Japanese artist to have a look at its pendant les années 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 et 1807, two volume statistical survey of Martinique; produced memoirs engine. The artist made a quick sketch. It was the first steam contenant des observations et des renseignements, tant on sugar production and slavery in the French colonies; translat- ship to visit Nagasaki harbour, and only the third to visit Japan” sur les productions territoriales et industrielles que sur ed and edited Staunton’s Ta Tsing Leu Lee for the French market; (McOmie, The Russians in Nagasaki, 1853–4, p. 54). The present le commerce de ces pays; des tableaux d’importations et and his Mémoire sur la Chine adressé à Napoléon ler was translated and print was probably based upon the drawings and notes made d’exportations du commerce d’Europe en Chine, depuis published in Toung Pao by Cordier in 1901. The present work on that occasion, as the captioning includes reference to the 1804 jusqu’en 1807; des remarques sur les mœurs, les was published in German in 1811, but not into English. squadron’s first arrival in August 1853, departure in November, coutumes, le gouvernement, les lois, les idiômes, les Cordier Indosinica, 2425; Sinica 2106; Howgego II, D12; Lust 384; Nardin, return in January 1854, and departure the following month, religions, etc.; un apperçu des moyens à employer pour Bibliographie des ouvrages en français sur les Philippines, 135 (“très with no mention of the mission’s subsequent return in April. intéressant”). affranchir ces contrée. Paris: Crapelet for Clament frères, 1810 £3,750 [103501] 147 £2,750 [100737]

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149 Brockedon, F.R.S. Lithographed by Louis Haghe. London: RICH, Gregory. The Mutiny in Sialkot. With a brief F. G. Moon, 1846–49 description of the Cantonment from 1852 to 1857. Sialkot 3 volumes, large folio (600 × 430 mm). Contemporary deep purple Cantonment: privately printed by P. N. Handa, Handa Printing full morocco, spines richly gilt in compartments separated by raised bands, titles direct to second and fourth gilt, covers elaborately panel- Press, 1924 stamped in gilt with a Greek-key border incorporating a pleasing foli- Octavo (159 × 98 mm). Contemporary pink cloth-backed green flo- ate roll, gilt edges, broad turn-ins gilt, marbled endpapers. Housed ral sprigged paper boards, perhaps new endpapers. A little rubbed on in matching cloth-lined slipcase with marbled sides. 124 tinted litho- 151 boards, free endpapers browned, toning of the text-block, very good. graphed plates, 3 vignette-titles and 121 plates, in the scarcest form, first and only edition. “Rich attempts to preserve what with original hand-colour, cut to the edge of the image and mounted Nubia was the result of a uniquely fortuitous collaboration be- ins consisting of a floral roll tool interspersed with Egyptian cartou- information remained concerning events at Sialkot” (Sorsky), on card in imitation of water-colours, as issued, mounted on guards ches, gilt edges, yellow coated endpapers. With 3 tinted lithographic throughout. Armorial bookplate of Evan Charles Sutherland-Walker tween artist, publisher and engraver. This – a wonderful copy, Green drawing attention to his use of “survivor’s testaments” (Is- in the preferred state, in a splendid contemporary binding – titles, 121 plates by Louis Haghe after drawings by David Roberts (61 to front pastedowns. Very faint rubbing to extremities; offsetting to full-page, 60 half-page), 2 engraved maps, all mounted on guards. A lam and the Army in Colonial India: Sepoy Religion in the Service of Empire, tissue guards, very occasional light foxing as often, the large majority fully embodies the continuing impact of the project. p. 84). Uncommon, with just three locations on Copac (NLS, BL few leaves lightly spotted. of plates clean and fresh. An excellent set. Abbey, Travel 272; Tooley 401–2; Blackmer 1432. and Oxford); OCLC adds three more copies (Australian Defence first edition of Roberts’s monumental work, “one of the first edition in the preferred deluxe coloured format of “one Force Academy, Universities of Toronto and Minnesota). £175,000 [67119] most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publish- of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century ing and … the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph” (Abbey). This Sorsky 902. publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph” 151 copy is in a most unusual and striking binding; we have been (Abbey, Travel). No publication before this had presented so £850 [104237] able to trace one other example of a work using the same hiero- comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia, from Drawings Made glyphic tools, a set of Champollion’s Monuments de l’Égypte et de la and people of the Near East. Representing the completion of on the Spot. With Historical Descriptions by William One of the most important and elaborate ventures Nubie (Paris, 1790–1832) in the Royal Academy Library, though a project begun in 1842, but a discrete work in its own right, Brockedon, F.R.S. Lithographed by Louis Haghe. London: the binder remains anonymous. This copy is the regular tinted of 19th-century printing and the apotheosis of the Egypt and Nubia was published in three formats between 1846 F. G. Moon, 1846–49 issue (see previous item for the subscribers’ issue). tinted lithograph and 1849, with the deluxe coloured-and-mounted format of- 3 volumes bound in 2, large folio (610 × 433 mm). Contemporary fered at triple the price of the simplest format. Abbey, Travel 272; Gay 2216; Ibrahim-Hilmy, vol. II, p. 176; Lipperheide 1591; 150 green morocco (joints skilfully refurbished), gilt lettered spines deco- Rohricht 1984; Tooley 402. Widely recognised at the ultimate expression of tinted lithog- ratively gilt tooled with Egyptian hieroglyphics, sides with broad gilt ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia, from Drawings Made border of Egyptian hieroglyphics running laterally at top and bottom raphy, an artistic and commercial triumph, Roberts’s Egypt & £50,000 [108231] on the Spot. With Historical Descriptions by William and elaborate gilt strapwork border running vertically, richly gilt turn-

104 105 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 first edition of this account of the society’s disastrous first missionary expedition, which took them into Nyasaland, now Malawi. Founded in 1860 by a coalition of groups in Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin universities, the Universi- ties’ Mission to Central Africa was inspired by the lectures that David Livingstone gave on his visit to England in 1857 and was established with two main aims: to establish a missionary presence in Central Africa and to offer active opposition to the slave trade. It was the first mission society operated by the high church faction of the Anglican Church, and unique among Anglican missions in that primary authority rested not with a committee based in Britain, but with a bishop in the field, for which purpose Charles Mackenzie was consecrated bishop of central Africa in Cape Town Cathedral in January 1861. The missionary party set off up the Zambezi into Shire, where their choice of Magomero as their base was fatally flawed, placing them in the middle of a region ridden with disease and 152 153 deeply troubled by intertribal conflicts. Bishop Mackenzie died 155 there of blackwater fever on 31 January 1862, along with three 152 lishman (Stanford). The maps are all on a scale of 54.5 miles to other members of the tiny missionary party and many local of America’s Cowboy Artist, 2003, pp. 84–85). The descriptive let- ROGERS, Henry Darwin, & A. Keith Johnston. Atlas one inch, and are very well executed. They are derived from the people. Early conversion efforts from this base yielded little terpress is by another big figure of the West, the pioneer, cat- large Map of the United States, British & Central America … by Rog- of the United States of North America, Canada, New result and supplies ran out or were destroyed during a period tleman and one-time vigilante Granville Stuart (1834–1918). ers and Johnston of the same year. The western US maps show of famine. Under its new bishop, W. G. Tozer, the mission sub- Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Mexico, Central £1,250 [100060] the routes of the proposed Pacific Railroad. Rogers probably sequently withdrew from the area, abandoning the graves of America, Cuba, and Jamaica. On a Uniform Scale … with wrote the descriptive text. Johnston engraved and drew the the missionaries who had died there, and establishing a new 155 Plans of the Principal Cities and Sea-Ports … London: maps – these maps are perhaps the best examples of Scottish headquarters in Zanzibar. Edward Stanford, 1857–61 highly detailed mapmaking applied to the western territories (RUSSIA: THE VOLGA & THE CASPIAN.) Album of Folio (367 × 248 mm). Original red zigzag-grain cloth, neatly rebacked and states, in the pre-Civil War period”. £1,850 [104413] original watercolours taken on a trip from the Baltic to with the original spine laid down, title gilt to front board, blind pan- Russia and Persia. Sept.–Nov. 1869 elling to both boards, pale cream surface-paper endpapers. 24 stub- Particularly noteworthy are the maps of the territories of Utah 154 Folio (leaf size 370 × 260 mm; images c. 210 × 120 mm). Later half mounted double-page maps, most hand-coloured in outline, some and New Mexico, which are certainly among the earliest com- RUSSELL, Charles M. Studies of Western Life. With sheep to style, old marbled boards, original label laid down, lozeng- more fully coloured, and 5 two-colour lithograph sheets with 9 plans mercial atlas maps that show these territories individually, rather es gilt to compartments. With 14 watercolours corner slit-mounted of ports and harbours; map of the city of Charleston by the same pub- than combining them with other states or territories. A number descriptions by Granville Stuart. New York: The Albertype or tipped onto album leaves, neat calligraphic ink captions on the lisher mounted on front pastedown. Somewhat rubbed, light brown- of the other maps, those of the territories of Kansas, Nebraska, Co., 1896 mounting leaves and occasional in a minuscule hand at the foot of ing throughout, but overall a very good copy. Oblong octavo. Original brown cloth, silver lettered on front cover, Washington, and Oregon for example, are also early representa- the images by the artist. With a watercolour map/track chart loosely string ties, floral patterned endpapers. 12 leaves of plates. Neat own- first edition of this superbly executed and timely atlas tions of short-lived political entities, which would soon be fur- inserted. Overall very good. ther divided to create the smaller territories from which most of ership inscriptions at head of title page. An excellent copy. showing America on the eve of the American Civil War. David An excellent group of very well-executed, high quality amateur the states west of the Mississippi would eventually be created. an important work in the mythologizing of the Rumsey describes the work as an “unusual collaboration be- watercolour views by a mid 19th-century English traveller to This issue of the atlas includes an additional plan of the city of american west. First published in 1890, this edition, with tween a Scot (Johnston), an American (Rogers), and an Eng- Russia, including an unusual series of views of the Volga cit- Charleston, published by Stanford in February 1861, and clearly the copyright dated 1896, is apparently unrecorded in Copac ies: Nizhny Novgorod, Simbirsk, Samara, and “Ouswan op- showing Forts Moultrie, Johnson and Sumter, which were to be- and OCLC. Charles Marion Russell (1864–1926), known as posite Kazan on Volga” (Verkhny Uslon village). Other images come the focus of the first battle of the Civil War. “The Cowboy Artist” is, along with Frederick Remington, one offer appealing panoramas of the Caucasus Mountains and of the great artists of the Wild West. “Printed in Brooklyn and Phillips, Atlases, 3670; Rumsey 3825; Sabin 72699. the shore of the Caspian Sea between Petrovskoye (fortress copyrighted by Roberts, Studies of Western Life was an attempt to first erected in 1844, now Makhachkala capital of Dagestan) £6,000 [103749] cash in on Charlie’s rising fame as the Cowboy Artist and the and Derbent, the country’s second city; the Greater Caucasus general public’s steadily mounting interest in the Wild West with Mount Shahdag, 14,000 feet, now in Azerbaijan; and of 153 [but] there is no evidence that Charlie ever made any money on the environs of Isfahan. There are also four excellent studies the project” (John Taliaferro, Charles M. Russell: The Life and Times ROWLEY, Henry. The Story of the Universities’ Mission of Moscow showing the Kremlin, exterior and interior views of to Central Africa, from its Commencement under Bishop St Basil’s Cathedral, the famous domes, and a chapel interior, Mackenzie to its Withdrawal from the Zambesi. London: together with a sombre study of an abbess and a group of nuns; Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1866 also a lively street view titled “In the Suburbs of St Petersburg,” Octavo. Original green sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine, blind pan- with a fire watchtower, drozhkys and a four-horse omnibus. els to boards, publisher’s device gilt to centre of front board. Frontis- Two other views depict the harbour at Helsingborg and the piece and 7 other plates, 2 full-page maps, numerous illustrations to Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. The images are accompanied the text. A little rubbed, and a touch dusty, front hinges just starting, by a hand-drawn map of the route from Hull to St Petersburg, front pastedown slightly marked by the removal of a bookplate, light showing the traveller’s route across the Baltic Sea. browning and some foxing to front and rear and to the fore edge, a 152 very good copy. 154 £4,500 [100738]

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plan of Kabul, and one other map. Very light shelfwear, some foxing front and back, light toning otherwise, an excellent copy. first edition. Lady Sale’s diary account of the siege, fall, and retreat from Kabul was a great popular success, the author becoming “the heroine of the hour, renowned for her courage” (ODNB); she “graphically describes General Elphinstone’s weak and vacillating leadership in the face of the insurgent Afghan chiefs and his army’s subsequent retreat … Sale’s entries make clear the sense of confusion, poor discipline, non- existent organisation, and lack of planning which contributed to the terrible bloodshed of the retreat” (Riddick). This copy is in a very pretty contemporary binding, offered together with a three-page autograph letter from Lady Sale, together with a contemporary copy of Dr William Brydon’s account of his experiences as the sole survivor of the retreat. The letter, dated 18 August 1844, on a single bifolium of small octavo mourning stationery is addressed to Mrs Spink, wife of 156 157 158 Colonel Spink, Assistant Quartermaster-General at Cork and a colleague who had seen service with General Sale in the 12th 156 “As record of what actually happened, this is probably the best 157 Foot (the original envelope addressed in Sale’s hand-mount- (RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.) Official History (Naval and account of the Russo-Japanese War produced by any general SAINT-EXUPÉRY, Antoine de. Vers la vallée du Nil. Liège: ed beneath the signature) and gives a sense of the reception staff in Europe. Reports of the British observers and the official Military) of the Russo-Japanese War. London: HMSO, Éditions Dynamo, 1945 that the Sales received in England: “I feel it quite delightful accounts of Austria, Germany, the United States, Russia and being able to sit down quietly in the country for the racket- 1910–20 Japan were all consulted; Russian authorities provided much Octavo, pp. 12. Original stitched cream wrappers, titles red and black and multicoloured decoration to front cover. With the glassine jacket. ing of a London life is dreadfully fatiguing to an old woman. 3 volumes, large octavo, together with 3 book-style map-cases. Origi- useful information, and the proofs were ‘very carefully revised’ An exceptional copy. I feel greatly flattered by & very grateful for all the kindness nal mid-blue cloth, title gilt to spines, appendices to volume III in by Japanese military officers in Tokyo” (Higham). This history original buff card wrappers, housed in the map-case as issued. Vol- and attention shown to us. Sale dined with the Court of Direc- was a significant departure from the conventional campaign first edition, signed limited issue. This is copy number ume I with frontispiece and 3 other plates, 10 maps and plans, all but tors on Wednesday & the ladies went to the gallery to hear the histories that had preceded it, being perhaps the “first of its 1, the tête-de-tirage, the only copy in the edition printed on one folding, 3 folding panoramas, and a folding order of battle, nu- Imperial Japon paper. The whole edition consisted of 49 cop- speeches, it was most exciting. Sale was so affected by it that merous tables to the text; 25 folding maps and plans in the accom- kind to treat war as an integrated whole rather than a compos- ies, of which 40 were printed on vélin, 8 on Vélin Chiffon Bleu, when he rose to speak, utterance was almost denied him. I was panying map-case: volume II with frontispiece and 11 other plates, 5 ite of independent military and naval operations”. This radical and the present copy only on japon imperial. The pamphlet completely taken aback at my health being drunk & the uni- fortification plans, all but one folding, 9 folding panoramas, 7 folding new treatment of the facts of war was perhaps a result of there versal cheering that accompanied it … This evening we were orders of battle and statistical tables, numerous tables to the text, er- was printed in memory of Saint-Exupéry, whose plane had dis- being no official historian as such, the work being a “synthesis asked to the Russian Ambassadors but sent an excuse as being rata slip bound in at the tile page; 30 maps and plans, one of waxed constructed by a talented team … all the members of which appeared off the coast of Marseilles on 31 June 1944, and is a linen, in the map-case: volume III, frontispiece and 6 other plates, short, hitherto unpublished, account by Saint-Exupéry of his in the country. Tomorrow we dine at the Duke of Wellington’s pulled their weight. The Official History was a terrific task which to meet the Prince of Prussia. On Monday Sale dines with the one full-page plan and 7 folding panoramas; map-case with 39 folding was only rendered possible by good team work”. crash on 30 December 1935, when he and his navigator André maps and plans: large folding order of battle to the appendix volume. Prévot were stranded in the Saharan desert for four days near Junior United Service Club. So you see being in the country is Ex-Belfast Reference Library, their small and tidy ink-stamps through- The name most usually associated with this publication is Sir the Nile Delta until they were rescued by a Bedouin. Saint-Exu- nothing very quiet. I fear you will think us very ungrateful for out, cloth slightly worn and faded, the whole set now professionally Ernest Swinton, best remembered as one of the progenitors of péry referred to the episode in his autobiographical work Terre all the attention shewn us here when I say how happy I am in cleaned and restored, presenting reasonably well, and entirely sound, the tank, but among his associates were F. E. Whitton, who des hommes (Wind, Sand, and Stars in the US), which won him the the prospect of returning to India in December, but which con- contents lightly browned, light foxing to the liners of the map-cases, was to become an accomplished and popular historian and stitutes Home”. some of the maps a little finger-soiled, but overall certainly very good. Grand Prix du Roman de L’Académie française in 1939, and the biographer; Archibald Wavell, soldier, scholar, and viceroy of National Book Award in America. The opening of Le Petit Prince The book is also accompanied by a six-page contemporary first and only editions, extraordinarily uncommon. Be- India, compiler of Other Men’s Flowers, a “widely popular anthol- was in part a reference to this experience. transcription of Dr William Brydon’s famous letter to his cause of the varying print runs (2,000 copies of vol. I, 1,000 of ogy … consisting entirely of pieces of poetry which he had by brother recounting his experiences as the sole survivor of the II, and 1,500 of III and its appendix), only 1,000 sets could ever £3,750 [109847] heart” and author of “‘Generals and generalship’, one of the retreat from Kabul: “Here I am at this place, all safe but not all be complete. There was an eight year hiatus between the pub- best statements on military command ever written: which sound, having received three wounds in the head, left hand & lication of the second volume and completion: a slip tipped-in 158 Rommel carried with him in the north African campaign”; and knee. I have lost everything I had in the world; but my life has at the title page of volume III explains that “the preparation Guy Dawnay, “army officer and merchant banker”, Allenby’s SALE, Lady Florentia. A Journal of the Disasters been saved in a most wonderful manner, and I am the only Eu- of this volume was completed in 1914, but publication has deputy chief of general staff in Egypt, described by T. E. Law- in Affghanistan, 1841–2. London: John Murray, 1843 ropean who has escaped from the Cabool Army of 13000”. The been unavoidably delayed owing to the late war”, meaning that rence as “the least professional of soldiers, a banker who read [together with a three-page letter from Lady Sale, and transcription is on three sheets of paper, watermarked Ren- many private purchasers of the series were no longer alive to Greek history; a strategist unashamed, and a burning poet with a contemporary copy of Dr Brydon’s account of his shaw & Kirkman 1840 and with the blindstamp of the Devizes obtain the last part. The majority of sets would have been in- strength over daily things” (ODNB). The result of their collabo- experiences on the retreat from Kabul.] stationers Henry Bull, folded to form three bifolia. stitutionalized and therefore suffered a slow demise through ration was “a work of exceptionally high quality” (Higham), rough handling, the weight of the volumes and the construc- and when offered complete, as here, highly desirable. Octavo (187 × 114 mm). Contemporary pink diced calf, green mo- The book bears the attractive armorial bookplate of James Bon- tion of the map-cases being a major contributory factor to rocco label, low, flat bands, compartments with gilt triple fillet panel nell on the front pastedown, and has a gift inscription from his Higham p. 492. overall physical deterioration, and the quantity of loose maps enclosing lozenge centre-tool with spiral arabesque corner-pieces, “relative” Mary Anne Harvey Bonnell, who later conveyed the triple fillet panels gilt to boards, sun-in-splendour gilt edge-roll, militating against the maintenance of completeness. There are £6,750 [97489] Bonnell estates at Purleigh to him by deed of gift. marbled edges and endpapers. Bookseller’s label of E. Blackwell of no complete sets recorded at auction. London Street, Reading, to the front pastedown. Folding frontispiece Bruce 4489; Riddick 163. £2,000 [99194] 108 109 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 sible for both commercial and (having witnessed slave raids from Brazil) humanitarian reasons. In 1840 he was duly sent back as boundary commissioner and subsequently established the so-called “Schomburgk Line” between British Guiana and the neighbouring countries of Venezuela and Brazil. Embacher 262; Engelmann 205; Henze V: pp. 78–84; Sabin 77791. £2,000 [94064]

160 SCOTT, Robert Falcon. Memorial plaque [c.1913] Embossed bronzed copper plaque (255 × 355 mm), in original eb- onized wood frame (framed size 367 × 455 mm). Wide border of lau- 159 rels, twined with a wreath bearing the names of those who died on the expedition, at the corners are roundels with portraits of Scott, his 159 wife Kathleen, and their son Peter, and the cross atop Scott’s grave cairn; the border encloses a quartered panel with four scenes from the SCHOMBURGK, Robert Hermann. Reisen in Guiana expedition, a dogsled pulling away from the Terra Nova, the pole party und am Orinoko während der Jahre 1835–1839. Nach man-hauling a sled, the party at the pole, and the graves of Scott, seinen Berichten und Mittheilungen an die Geographi- Scott, Wilson and Bowers; a central boss has a portrait of the expedi- sche Gesellschaft in London, herausgegeben von O. A. tion cat. Small metal label with the inscription “dulce et decorum est 160 161 Schomburgk. Mit einem Vorwort von Alexander von pro patria mori”. Some minor wear to the frame, with a few expert repairs, but overall in excellent condition. Humboldt und dessen Abhandlung über einige Wich- plate”. Scott is wearing the collar of Commander of the Royal tone, an exceptionally well-preserved example of this important and tige astronomische Positionen Guiana’s. Mit 6 colorir- An attractive commemorative souvenir; Scott’s widow her- Victorian Order and his Polar Medal awarded in 1905 for the much-reprinted visual document of the city. self received a silver version of the piece. The polar scenes are ten Ansichten und einer Karte. Leipzig: Verlag von Georg Discovery Expedition, both now in the collection of the British Superb panoramic view of the city taken from the Galata Tower based on photographs by Bowers and Ponting that appeared in Wigand, 1841 Museum. The publisher enhanced the image with the addition looking over the Bosphorus towards the Asian side, across the issues of the Daily Mirror – the newspaper had exclusive rights of a facsimile signature. Golden Horn can be seen the Topkapi Palace, and the great Octavo (257 × 162 mm). Near-contemporary dark green half morocco, to all expedition photographs – either for 12 February, the day mosques of the city: Haghia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Yeni spine lettered in gilt, gilt rules, marbled sides, endpapers, and edges. on which Scott’s death was announced, or the “Captain Scott £2,000 [100747] Gilt monogram to spine of Francis Burdett Thomas Nevill Money- Mosque, and the Süleymaniye. In 1857 Pascal Sébah opened Number” of 21 May 1913, which published the first images of one of the first photographic studios in Constantinople. Hav- Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer (1852–1923). 6 hand-coloured engraved 162 plates, large folding map. Extremities a little rubbed in places, one Scott’s party at the pole. ing met with great success, in 1873 he expanded the business corner worn, an excellent copy. £2,750 [100744] SÉBAH, Pascal. Panorama de Constantinople pris de la setting up a further establishment in Cairo, near to Shep- first german language edition of the German-British tour de Galata. Istanbul: Pascal Sébah, [c.1875] heard’s Hotel. In 1883 Pascal suffered a stroke and the business naturalist, surveyor and explorer’s account of his important 161 Landscape folio (313 × 372 mm). Original brown leather-backed mo- was taken over by his son Jean, who styled himself J. Pascal rocco-grain cloth, title gilt to front board within elaborate gilt panel, Sébah so as not to break the continuity of the business; he was expedition to the new colony of British Guiana, published the SCOTT, Robert Falcon. Memorial portrait. London: Maull year following the first English edition. Schomburgk surveyed rear board with central oval cartouche containing a crescent and star to become a talented photographer in his own right. In 1888 & Fox, 1913 the coast and the Essequibo, Courantyne, Demerara, and Ber- in gilt within a panel in blind. Housed in plum quarter morocco book- Jean went into partnership with a French photographer resi- style drop-back box, matching linen, title gilt to spine, raised bans bice rivers, in 1837 incidentally discovering the giant Victoria Photogravure (400 × 240 mm). Framed and glazed in a contemporary dent in Istanbul, Polycarpe Joaillier, the firm of Sébah & Joail- stained oak frame with gilt sight-line. Slight scrape in the left-hand gilt, lozenges gilt to compartments. 10 albumen prints mounted on lier in time becoming official photographers to the sultan. In Regia water lily (now renamed Victoria amazonica) and many card panels and joined with linen tape, leporello-style to form a pano- margin, a little toned, but overall very good. various forms this business continued down to the middle of new species of orchids, one genus of which, Schomburgkia, was rama (card panels 305 × 321 mm; photographic prints 268 × 320 mm), named for him. He is described by Henze as “the most impor- Following the announcement of the death of Scott, the pho- length of panorama when extended 3290 mm. Somewhat rubbed and the 20th century when, in 1952, its last incarnation Foto Sabah tant explorer of northern South America in the first half of the tographers Maull & Fox issued an advertising leaflet: “Messrs. soiled, gilt slightly oxidised, spine a little dry, first linen joint perished finally closed its doors. 19th century, the scientific discoverer of British Guiana”. On Maull & Fox being the proprietors of the copyright in the only and the panorama separated from the first panel which is mounted Öztuncay, Photographers of Constantinople, plate 701. his return to England in 1839 to accept the gold medal from the photographs of the Late Captain Robert Falcon Scott, R.N., inside the front board, other joints thinned and a touch weak, but Royal Geographical Society, he proposed that a settlement on C.V.O. taken in his full dress uniform, wearing his decorations: holding, some slight discolouration and finger soiling to the margins £10,000 [98014] the borders of Guiana should be established as soon as pos- have prepared from his favourite likeness a photogravure of the mounting cards, some pale browning in the sky of the panorama, but overall the print is clean, crisp and with excellent dark brown

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110 111 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 Inscribed to a director of his American publisher when in New York to collect the Cullum medal 164 SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic … New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1909 2 volumes, large octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spines, front covers lettered and with large pictorial block in silver, top edges gilt, untrimmed. Photogravure frontispiece to each volume, 12 colour plates (with captioned tissue-guards), 255 black and white plates, 3 folding maps and folding panorama in end-pocket of volume II, numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout. Without the errata slip in volume II. Silver of spines dulled, a few scratches and marks to back covers, binding of volume I shaken (inner joints split). first u.s. edition, presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper of volume I: “Mr Alfred Con- nor Balch from the author with kind regards. E. H. Shackle- ton April 1910”; also inscribed below the portrait frontispiece of volume I: “yours sincerely Ernest H. Shackleton April 23 1910”; and with the bookplates of the recipient and Fred and 163 Jane Balch. Alfred Connor Balch (1862–1957), of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, was a director of Shackleton’s Ameri- 165 166 163 can publisher, Lippincott. A kinsman of his, Edwin Swift Balch (1856–1927), also a Philadelphian and a member of the Ameri- faintest of spotting to front matter, else internally clean and fresh mild surface erosion to the first four, but no loss to the maps them- SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Heart of the Antarctic with bright plates. A superb copy in the slightly rubbed dust jacket selves, overall very good. can Geographical Society (described by the AGS Bulletin as “one Being the story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907– with a toned and slightly frayed spine and very mild spotting to the first edition of the extremely uncommon and intriguing of our leading writers on polar exploration”), pressed for an rear panel and flaps. 1909. With an Introduction by Hugh Robert Mill, D.Sc. American expedition and published Antarctica (Philadelphia, series of maps published to accompany Ciboria’s painstakingly An Account of the First Journey to the South Magnetic 1902). On 28 March 1910 Shackleton was in New York to re- first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the researched account of the battle. A recognised authority on Pole by Professor T. W. Edgeworth David, F.R.S. London: ceive the American Geographical Society’s Cullum Medal, pre- author on the title-page, “Eric Shipton, 21st November surveying and plan-drawing, having published widely on the William Heinemann, 1909 sented “to those who distinguish themselves by geographical 1938”. “One of the greatest pieces of mountain exploration” subject, Siborne was commissioned in 1830 to produce a mi- (Neate). Shipton had successfully participated in Francis 2 volumes, large octavo. Original blue pictorial cloth, front covers discoveries or in the advancement of geographical science”; he nutely accurate scale model of the field of Waterloo, though in Sydney Smythe’s expedition to Kamet in 1931 and the Everest with large silver block, spines lettered gilt, top edges gilt, others un- was the joint recipient for 1909 with the Argentinean explorer 1833 his work was interrupted by the new ministry’s withdraw- cut. With the drab paper, typographical dust jackets, Rosove’s No.1 Francisco Moreno. E. S. Balch was present “on the platform” expedition of 1933, though “the experience of those two lav- al of funds, leaving him to complete the project himself, at a without the pricing details. Photogravure frontispiece to each vol- during the ceremony (AGS Bulletin, vol. XLII 1910 no. 4). Shack- ishly organized undertakings convinced him that this was the cost of nearly £3,000. The model stirred controversy, revealing ume, 12 captioned tissue-guarded coloured, and 255 black and white leton “gave an hour to an exceedingly interesting account of wrong way to travel in the Himalayas and his next venture was as it did the vital intervention of Blücher’s 48,000 Prussians; other plates in all, 3 maps, panorama in end-pocket of volume II, and the work of his expedition, illustrated by many stereopticon in stark contrast. In company with Tilman and three Sherpas Wellington pointedly absented himself from the exhibition at numerous illustrations and diagrams throughout. Without the errata views” (AGS Bulletin). Signed or inscribed copies of the first US he spent three months in Garhwal Himalaya living largely off the Egyptian Hall, and Siborne failed to recoup costs. He sub- slip in volume II. Light damping at the fore-edge of all boards, the the country and at a total cost of £286. Instead of travelling sequently made a model of a smaller portion of the field on a silver blocks to the front boards slightly oxidised as always, frontis- edition are extremely uncommon. as sahibs and retainers they went as companions, sharing the larger scale to show the decisive charge of Anglesey’s cavalry pieces browned verso, light browning else, foxing to the fore-edges, Books on Ice 7.4; Rosove 305.B1b; Spence 1097; Taurus 58. same food and privations. In this remarkable journey they the jackets a touch rubbed, minor chipping and splitting at the heads and Picton’s infantry, exhibiting both side by side, and pub- forced an entry, for the first time, up the formidable Rishi of spines, small hole to the lower panel of that of volume II, but overall SOLD [108396] lishing his guide to the New Waterloo Model. The maps were very good set indeed, entirely unrestored. gorge and into the Nanda Devi sanctuary which, with its sat- engraved by Freebairn using Bates’s Anaglyptographic Process ellite peaks, they surveyed” (ODNB). first edition of Shackleton’s account of the British Antarctic 165 – a device “which was a development of the ruling machine, Expedition of 1907–9 (Nimrod), reviewed on publication by the SHIPTON, Eric. Nanda Devi. With a Foreword by Hugh Neate 696; Yakushi S209a. [and] converted objects with raised surfaces, such as coins, medals, and reliefs, into patterns of printed lines which sug- Manchester Guardian as “the best book of polar travel which has Ruttledge. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, 1936 £2,250 [109832] ever been written”. The sledge expedition “to the south mag- gest the contours of the original”. This process was applied to Octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in Ciboria’s modelling of the ground, and produced the most re- netic pole was one of the three foremost achievements of this light blue. With the dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece with cap- 166 markable contour maps of the field. expedition. The other two achievements were, first, the ascent tioned tissue-guard and 26 similar plates; vignette half-title, illus- SIBORNE, William. Plans and Maps to the History of the and survey of Mount Erebus (12,448 feet), the active volcano on trated endpapers and frequent drawings to the text by Bip Pares. Up- With the attractive contemporary military book label of Revd Ross Island and, second, the southern sledge journey, which per outer corner of front board bumped, light foxing to edges, the Waterloo Campaign. London: T. & W. Boone, 1844 C. T. C. Luxmoore to the front pastedown, a native of Oke- reached within 100 miles of the south pole” (ODNB). The ex- Folio. Contemporary red half morocco, red linen boards (binding 569 hampton in Devon and the vicar of Guilsfield, Montgomery; pedition established Shackleton as a “bona fide English hero,” × 458 mm), red morocco patch label to the front board, double fillet he was almost certainly a kinsman of Thomas Coryndon Lux- but the success of the book did little to alleviate “the financial gilt panel enclosing a dotted and an attractive floral gilt roll, with the moore who served as a lieutenant with the Royal Engineers title “Battles of Waterloo, & Quatre Bras”, marbled endpapers. With problems left to him by the expedition” (Books on Ice). Rosove 11 engraved maps with dispositions in colour, stub-mounted and laid in Belgium. notes “dust-jackets are very scarce”. down on linen. A little rubbed and soiled, but now carefully restored £1,250 [102064] Books on Ice 7.4; Rosove 305.B1b; Spence 1097; Taurus 58. on spine and boards, hinges reinforced with linen, some finger-soiling to the maps, occasional marginal hygroscopic damping and some £8,500 [103739] 165

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167 represented institutionally, this is a truly uncommon book on liam Orme, and published – perhaps piratically – by his older (SKINNER, James.) FRASER, J. Baillie (ed.) Military the market, particularly as here in the attractive, and entirely brother Edward, did at least seem to attract some positive at- fitting, yellow cloth, and with an appealing provenance. tention. Solvyns’s overall lack of success has been attributed to Memoir of Lieut-Col. James Skinner, C.B. for many years the fact that “for a public now used to the superb aquatints of a distinguished officer commanding a corps of irregular £975 [103536] Thomas Daniell, his engravings appeared, as a contemporary cavalry in the service of the H.E.I.C. Interspersed with wrote, ‘very rude’. Nevertheless his figures with their dignified notices of several of the principal personages who 168 and almost tragic air, form a unique survey of the people of distinguished themselves in the service of the native SLEEMAN, Sir William Henry. A Report on the System 169 Bengal and their daily life” (India Observed). powers of India. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1851 of Megpunnaism, or the Murder of Indigent Parents Abbey, Travel 429; Colas 2765; India Observed, p. 68; Martin Hardie p. 132; 2 volumes, octavo. Original yellow morocco-grain embossed cloth, ti- for their Young Children (who are sold as Slaves) as it A unique survey of the people of Bengal and their daily life Tooley 461. tle gilt to spines, pale blue surface endpapers. Lithographic bust por- Prevails in the Delhie Territories and the Native States 169 £3,750 [105236] trait frontispiece, printed on India paper and mounted, to volume I, of Rajpootana, Ulwar and Bhurtpore. Serampore: From the single-tone lithographic equestrian portrait “Lt. Col, Skinner & Major SOLVYNS, François Baltazar. The Costume of Hindostan Wm. Fraser of Skinner’s Irregular Horse upon their favourite charg- Serampore Press, 1839 Elucidated by Sixty Coloured Engravings; with 170 ers” to volume II. Slightly rubbed, soiled and sunned, light browning, Octavo. Original green moiré cloth by Martin of Calcutta, with his Descriptions in English and French, taken in the Years STANLEY, Henry Morton. Through the Dark Continent some foxing front and back, but overall an unusually good set with a stamp to the endpaper, spine titled in gilt between fleurons, fine di- typed label recording its loan to the Sandhurst Museum in 1954 by Lt. aper-textured green surface-paper endpapers. Folding genealogical 1798 and 1799. London: Edward Orme, [plates watermarked] 1832 or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Col. Richard T. Lawrence, C.I.E., M.C., verso of portrait in volume chart. Some gatherings a little proud at the fore-edge and consequently Folio (356 × 258 mm). Full contemporary red morocco, neatly rebacked Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the I, and to front free endpaper on volume II, their ink-stamps verso of a little tired at the edge but an excellent copy in the original cloth. The with the original spine laid down, title gilt to spine, broad flat bands, Atlantic Ocean. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1878 first, third and fifth compartments densely gilt, broad arabesqued foli- frontispieces, those of the National Army Museum to the title pages title page has a contemporary pencilled signature of H. W. Edwards. 2 volumes, octavo. Publisher’s brown half morocco, richly gilt spines, ate roll, gilt to boards, enclosing similar, narrower, roll in blind, gilt only. Lt.-Col. Lawrence, was a descendant of Lord Lawrence, as was first edition of this account of a lesser-known branch of marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Wood-engraved portrait fron- edges. 60 hand-coloured aquatint plates. A little rubbed, carefully re- for a time private secretary to the governor of the Punjab. tispieces of Stanley, 32 plates, numerous wood-engravings to the text thuggee by the nemesis of the thugs. An uncommon and elu- stored at the extremities, corners, head- and tail-caps, and on the joints, first edition. Born in Bengal, the son of an HEIC soldier (many full-page), 10 maps (2 large folding coloured maps in end- sive book, with just nine locations on OCLC, no copies traced endpapers renewed, light browning, and a scatter of foxing, largely to pocket of each volume). Neat book labels of Wellesley Free Library and the daughter of a Rajput zemindar, Skinner (1778–1841) at auction; it is particularly pleasing in the publisher’s binding. the text leaves, mild offsetting from the plates, a very good copy. ran away from Calcutta, where he had been apprenticed to a (Wellesley, MA), and pencilled ownership inscriptions of Warren “Sleeman’s most memorable achievement was the extirpation Later issue. Originally published in parts in 1804–5, and first printer, and joined de Boigne’s Mahratta army. At the outbreak Sawyer (a prominent Boston businessman who settled in Wellesley). of thuggee. The thugs were professional hereditary murderers published in book form in 1807, Martin Hardie remarks on the of the Mahratta War in 1803 he and several other British offic- Spines a little rolled otherwise a very good set. who worshipped the Hindu goddess Kali and preyed in organ- book’s “somewhat interesting history”. A professional artist, ers were obliged to resign, and Skinner went over to Lake’s first u.s. edition, in the publisher’s deluxe binding, ized bands on innocent travellers … At first Sleeman received Solvyns was born in Antwerp in 1760, trained at the Academy camp. After the capture of Delhi he was appointed to com- of Stanley’s famous account of his controversial Trans-African little support in his anti-thuggee campaign, but this changed there, and embarked on a career as a marine artist. Around mand a body of horsemen who had deserted from the enemy Expedition of 1874–7 (issued in the same year as the first Lon- in 1835 when Lord William Bentinck became governor-general. 1790 he “went to India to seek his fortune, but soon found and requested to serve under “Sikander Sahib” – Skinner being don edition). Stanley finally dispelled Livingstone’s notion that He made Sleeman head of a commission for the suppression of that he could not compete with British artists already estab- seen by them as a reincarnation of Alexander the Great. These the “Lualaba was the source of the Nile and vindicated Speke’s thuggee and dacoity (1839–42). During the next two years Slee- lished there” (India Observed). Managing to survive on various were to become famous as “Skinner’s Horse” or the “Yellow claim that the lake seen on his expedition with Burton was in- man investigated and repressed criminal organizations in upper small commissions, he eventually attracted the interest of Wil- Boys” – so known from their distinctive yellow kurtas. In the deed one of the sources” (Howgego). Acclaim for his success India … By 1848 thuggee had virtually ceased. J. W. Kaye stated liam Jones, and was encouraged to embark on the “grandiose years that followed he greatly distinguished himself and was in “solving the remaining mysteries of African geography” was the contemporary British view: ‘The extirpation of Thuggee is scheme for a huge work on the dress, manners and customs rewarded with considerable land grants, and in 1826 George IV tempered by criticism that his manner of carrying through the an exploit worthy to be celebrated by every writer who seeks to of the Hindus”. Between 1796 and 1799 he published his Col- conferred the CB on him, but it was discovered that as a major expedition amounted to “exploration by warfare” (ODNB). chronicle the achievements of the English in the East’” (ODNB). lection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings … which was not he was not of high enough rank to receive it, whereupon he Howgego IV, S59; Mendelssohn II, p. 380. well-received, but this selection of images, based on “water- was hastily promoted lieutenant-colonel. Though fairly well- £3,250 [99195] colour copies [made] from Solvyn’s originals” (Abbey) by Wil- £875 [107505]

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171 produced edition is certainly one of the grandest publications 173 STANLEY, Henry Morton. In Darkest Africa or the Quest, devoted to African exploration of the entire 19th century. STARK, Freya. Seen in the Hadhramaut. London: John Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. Speake pp. 1132–35. Murray, 1938 London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington Limited, £3,750 [103759] Quarto. Original brown cloth with green and white patterned paper 1890 boards, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt. With the original clear plastic 174 dust jacket with printed paper flaps. Illustrated with 130 plates after 2 volumes, demy quarto. Original dark brown half morocco, japon on 172 photographs by the author. An exceptional copy in the scarce jacket, bevelled boards with the title, flag of Emin Pasha and Stanley’s sig- Stavorinus (1739–1788) was a postmaster with the Dutch navy. with splits to folds of flaps. nature to front boards gilt, gilt lettered spines, top edges gilt, others STARK, Freya. Baghdad Sketches. Illustrated by E. N. With few opportunities for action, he turned to the merchant uncut, dark brown silk page-markers still intact. Titles printed in red Prescott. Baghdad: The Times Press, 1932 first edition, limited issue. Number 23 of 25 copies fleet and the Dutch East India Company for service overseas. and black, photogravure portrait frontispiece of Stanley on India pa- Octavo. Original red sand-grain cloth, printed paper label to spine signed by the author and specially bound. This title rare in col- “Between 1768 and 1778, he undertook several trading voyages, per mounted (printed by Lemercier from a photograph by Walery), and front board. With 12 plates. Spine gently rolled and sunned, a lit- lectible condition, due both to the extreme limitation and to visiting most of the Dutch trading posts in South Africa and similar Lemercier-printed frontispiece to volume II, and 44 plates, 6 tle wear to tips and edges of spine; an excellent copy. the fragility of the jacket: this is the most complete jacket we Asia, maintaining detailed logs on his travels by sea and land” of them etchings printed in sepia, signed in pencil by G. Montbard, first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author have encountered. (Moore, “Johan Splinter Stavorinus’ Voyages to the East Indies, the rest printed on India paper and mounted, 4 maps, 3 of them fold- on the front free endpaper, dated in the month of the book’s Patriot in an Age of Reason”, in Canadian Journal of Netherlandic ing, the 2 large area maps linen-backed, folding printed table, and 103 Macro 2118 for the American first. illustrations in the text, 3 of them full-page. Spines rubbed, scratch publication, “Poldoris, with love, F.S. Baghdad, Nov. ’32”. This Studies, 1991:12). His accounts of these voyages present extensive across numbering panel of volume I, sides stained, volume I with is the first book by one of the greatest woman travellers of the £2,500 [106966] descriptions of the Dutch colonies in Asia, covering a range of stain in the gutter at head of a number of leaves and splash marks century, published in Baghdad where she had moved in 1929, topics including local government, the role of the VOC, cus- across rear endpapers, otherwise internally clean and sound. and where “she went slumming in Arab clothing and was an 174 toms and history, flora and fauna, as well as extensive notes on first edition, deluxe signed limited issue, number 199 outsider among priggish British expatriates. She gained ac- STAVORINUS, John Splinter. Voyages to the East-Indies. the conditions of travel. The English edition was one of the few of 250 copies signed by Stanley. Stanley’s famous account of ceptance after adventurous journeys to Lurestan and the Ala- Translated from the Original Dutch, by Samuel Hull contemporary, up-to-date accounts of Java available to Stamford his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha (Eduard Schnitzer), the mut district of Mazandaran, and the War Office made maps Wilcocke. With Notes and Additions by the Translator. Raffles while planning the British invasion of the island. from her observations” (ODNB). On her return to London in beleaguered governor of equatorial Sudan, contains some of London: printed for G. G. and J. Robinson, 1798 Cox I 307; Hill pp. 281–2; Howgego I E5; Landwehr VOC 300; Mendelssohn II his most celebrated writing, especially his account of the tor- 1933 Stark was awarded the Back grant from the Royal Geo- 426; Tiele 1044. graphical Society and became the first woman to receive the 3 volumes, octavo (211 × 128 mm). Contemporary marbled boards, tuous 450-mile passage through the dense Ituri rain forest. rebacked and recornered in later calf, titles to spine gilt, edges sprin- Burton medal of the Royal Asiatic Society. £1,250 [94196] Stanley’s dealings with Emin Pasha, who proved singularly re- kled blue. 4 engraved folding maps. Boards rubbed and a touch sistant to being “rescued”, his abandonment of his own rear The recipient may have been Poldoris Thomson, wife of Aidan; soiled, prelims and rear endpaper slightly tanned, margins of text column and his wider motives for his mission have all come Stark and the Thomsons had a mutual friend in the Scottish block lightly toned. An excellent set. under suspicion then and since, but the book remains a classic author, journalist, and mountaineer, Janet Adam Smith (1905– first edition in english. The original Dutch edition ap- of African exploration. In the course of the journey Stanley met 1999). peared as two separate works, in 1793 and 1797. Beekman, in Roger Casement, then in service on the Congo, discovered the Arcadian Library 15448. his study of Dutch colonial literature, states that the English great snow-capped range of Ruwenzori, the Mountains of the translation “improves on the original; by rectifying inaccura- Moon, a new lake he named the Albert Edward Nyanza, and a £1,250 [106967] cies and errors” (Beekman, Fugitive Dreams: an Anthology of Dutch large south-western extension of Lake Victoria. This lavishly Colonial Literature, p. 49, n. 14).

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such a book should be. The field of his curiosity embraced not An essential Chinese vocabulary only all branches of natural history, but also economical and social conditions. His description of the cruelties practised on 177 the Negroes, and of the moral deterioration resulting to their STENT, George Carter. A Chinese and English Vocabulary masters, forms one of the most vivid indictments of slavery in the Pekinese Dialect. Shanghai: The Customs Press, 1871 that have been penned. Not the least curious thing in the book Octavo (205 × 127 mm). Contemporary dark red half roan rebacked to is the story of his relations with Joanna, a beautiful mulatto, style, marbled sides. Spine rolled, scattered foxing and signs of han- who nursed him when sick, and bore him a son” (DNB). Six- dling. A very good copy. teen of the plates are engraved by William Blake, considered first edition, presentation copy from the author to his by Geoffrey Keynes to be the artist’s “most interesting and im- father, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “First fruits of portant book illustrations” (Ryskamp, William Blake, Engraver: a seven years labour and study presented to Mr James Stent, by Descriptive Catalogue, 1969, p. 10). his affectionate son, The Author” and inscribed on an albu- See Abbey, Travel 719; Bentley Blake Books 499B; Sabin 91075. men print portrait (bound in as frontispiece): “Your affectionate son G. C. Stent”. The son of a Kent fruiterer and market £15,000 [100012] gardener, George Carter Stent (1833–1884) served in the 14th (King’s Light) Dragoons, seeing action in the Indian Mutiny, 176 and by the mid 1860s was a member of the British legation STEIN, Sir (Marc) Aurel. Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan. guard in Peking. He had a natural aptitude for the Chinese Personal Narrative of a Journey of Archaeological and language and this brought him to the attention of Sir Thomas Geographical Exploration in Chinese Turkestan. London: Wade, himself a distinguished Sinologist. In March 1869 Stent Fisher Unwin, 1904 joined the Chinese imperial maritime customs service and it Octavo. Original ochre cloth, title gilt to spine, and to the front board was through the auspices of the service’s inspector general, 175 in yellow with pictorial design in black and yellow. Photogravure Sir Robert Hart (the book’s dedicatee), that his vocabulary was frontispiece and numerous illustrations to the text, folding coloured published. It became a standard work of its kind, reprinted by Superbly coloured large paper copy folding and one double-page, by William Blake, Bartolozzi and oth- map at the rear. A little rubbed and slightly spotted, free endpapers the American Presbyterian Mission Press at Shanghai in 1877 ers after Stedman. A little rubbed, some judicious restoration to the lightly browned, light foxing to the fore-edge and to first few leaves, and 1898. In his preface Stent describes his book as being laid 175 joints and spines, binder’s blanks foxed, clean split to the frontispiece but overall very good. out “on an entirely new principle, and in a different style from STEDMAN, John Gabriel. Narrative of a Five Years’ of volume I with careful professional archival tissue repair verso, mild first edition, later issue, “Cheaper Edition”, one year any hitherto published, being an attempt to bring Chinese toning throughout, some scattered light foxing, and pale offsetting Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in after the first, and comprising first edition sheets with a -can characters into words and syllables, or words of syllables, as- from the plates as usual, overall a very good copy indeed. cel title. “A general narrative of his first exploration to Central similating it as near as possible to an English dictionary”. Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the second edition, large paper copy, superbly hand- Asia of 1900–1901. Crossing the Karakoram and the Pamirs £2,000 [109218] Year 1772, to 1777. London: J. Johnson and Thomas Payne, 1806 coloured throughout (the first edition of 1796 was not he entered Chinese Turkestan, and explored archaeologically 2 volumes, quarto (292 × 231 mm). Contemporary diced half russia, issued in a coloured state). “In 1772 [Stedman] volunteered the sand-buried ruins of Khotan and its neighbourings [sic]” title gilt direct to spines, low bands framed by single gilt rules, single to accompany an expedition sent out by the States-General (Yakushi). gilt fillets to spine and corner edges, marbled boards and edges, flat to subdue the revolted Negroes in Surinam, or Dutch Guiana. green-grey endpapers. Housed in a leather entry slipcase. Engraved Howgego IV, S65; Yakushi S328a. This service, in which he was employed for five years, gave him title pages with hand-coloured vignettes, hand-coloured frontispiece to volume I, 80 hand-coloured engraved plates and maps, 3 of them the opportunity of his life. His narrative of it is a model of what £1,250 [103018]

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178 until his death in 1886 under the assumed name of Siddons, 180 181 STOCQUELER, Joachim Hayward. Memorials of claiming to be the illegitimate grandson of the great actress Sarah Siddons. first edition. An uncommon and highly interesting ac- 181 Affghanistan; being State Papers, Official Documents, count, concentrating on the “surveys and explorations car- TATE, George Passman. The Frontiers of Baluchistan. Dispatches, Authentic Narratives, etc. Illustrative of the The text is prefaced by an eight-page subscriber’s list contain- ried out by members of the Survey of India in Mesopotamia, Travels on the Borders of Persia and Afghanistan. With British Expedition to, and Occupation of, Afghanistan and ing the names of such notables as Vincent Eyre, the famous Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa, Scinde, between the Years 1838 and 1842. Calcutta: [printed Kabul prisoner; Henry Havelock; William Mayne, who served and Afghanistan. These explorations and surveys were accom- an Introduction by Col. Sir A. Henry McMahon. London: at the Bishop’s College Press for] Messrs. Ostell and Lepage, 1843 in the campaign with the Army of the Indus, and with Sale’s plished in the face of many difficulties and in every variety of Witherby & Co., 1909 Brigade at Jalalabad, later commander of the Hyderabad Con- Octavo. Original mid-brown cloth, title gilt to spine, French fillet Octavo (213 × 142 mm). Contemporary native binding of burgundy terrain, from the icy highlands of Central Asia to the waterless tingent of the Nizam’s forces; James Skinner of Skinner’s panels in blind to boards, top edge gilt, the others uncut. Coloured half skiver, green diaper cloth, title gilt to spine which is divided into deserts of Persia and Arabia” (Preface, p. vii). Uncommon: Co- frontispiece from a watercolour by the author, and 36 plates from 6 compartments by paired thick and thin gilt rules, green endpapers. Horse fame; Meadows Taylor, author of Confessions of a Thug; pac locates one copy; OCLC adds four. photographs, folding route map, and coloured folding area map at the Lithographed frontispiece and 4 folding lithographic plans. Half-title and Henry Yule, the linguist, geographer and author of the rear. A little rubbed, neatly recased, endpapers renewed, light brown- bound in. Just a little rubbed at the extremities, light browning and a wonderful Hobson–Jobson. Also listed are some 21 book clubs £950 [103998] ing and scattered foxing, but overall a very good copy. scatter of pale foxing, a very good copy indeed in bright, unrestored established by native infantry regiments. This copy has the contemporary condition. ownership inscription of William Anley, who is recorded in 180 first edition. This copy is accompanied by an original wa- first and only edition. The book includes, among other the Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 as an attor- TATARINOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich. Semimiesiachnyi tercolour by Tate, reproduced as a plate in the book, captioned “Nad Ali. The delta of Seistan from the Tell of Surhdik”. An matter, a first-hand account of the murder of “Bokhara” Burnes ney and public notary practising in Esplanade Row, Calcutta, a plien v Bukharii [Seven Months captivity in Bokhara]. St uncommon and fascinating account of the author’s travels on written by his servant, Bowh Singh. The author is an intriguing prestigious address described by Eliza Fay in 1817, as seeming Petersburg: M. O. Vol’fa, 1867 figure: Stocqueler first travelled out to Bombay in 1819 to join to be “composed entirely of palaces … occupied by the prin- the borders of Afghanistan and Baluchistan, into Seistan on Octavo. Contemporary black skiver, marbled boards, cloth corner the army, but in 1824 bought himself out and entered Indian cipal gentlemen in the settlement” (Original Letters from India, the Baluch-Afghan Boundary Mission (1895–6), and Seistan tips, title gilt to spine longitudinally, original wrappers bound in Arbitration Mission (1903–5); on the latter Tate was in charge literary circles, over the next 20 years or so being involved in p. 239). Anley would have been a neighbour of Stocqueler’s as front and back, vignette to the front wrap of a yurt on the steppe with of the survey section. Both missions were undertaken under journalism, the Indian public library movement, and theatrical The Englishman had offices on Esplanade Row. The title is well camels and waggons, crimson silk page-marker. Folding lithographic promotions, interspersed with fairly frequent periods of insol- represented institutionally, but uncommon in commerce, with map at the rear, vignette to front wrap and title page. Slightly rubbed, Sir Henry McMahon, later Governor-General of Baluchistan, vency. While based in Calcutta during the 1830s he was propri- just two appearances at auction in the last 20 years. light browning, small inked library stamp of V. A. Vakhitov to the title who in his introduction here commends Tate for the “strength page and one other leaf, else very good. and picturesque colouring of his portraiture of the country and etor of the newspaper The Englishman, editor of both the Bengal £5,000 [105234] Sporting Magazine, and the East India United Services Journal, was first edition of this important and uncommon account of people he describes”. involved in the establishment of the Calcutta Public Library, 179 Struve’s troubled embassy to Bokhara, the repercussions of Wilson p. 223. and also in the promotion of the highly popular Sans Souci which forced the khanate’s capitulation to Russian rule – the £2,250 [102999] theatre. However, late 1841 found him in debtor’s prison, and TANDY, Edward Aldborough (ed.) Records of the Survey first time that the territories of modern Uzbekistan and Tad- soon after he sold up The Englishman and in 1843 returned to of India, Vol. XX – The War Record, 1914–1920. Dehra Dun: jikistan fell under Russian rule. Lieutenant-Colonel Tatarinov England, where he enthusiastically threw himself into Lon- The Geodetic Survey Branch Office, Survey of India, 1925 of the Corps of Mining Engineers was a member of the mis- don literary life. He was a prolific writer, producing reference Octavo. Original grey cloth, title in black to spine and to the front sion sent to Muzaffar, emir of Bokhara, to renegotiate friendly books based on his travels and military exploits, serial novels, board together with badge of the Survey of India. Double-folding mul- relations following the imprisonment of Bokharan emissaries biographies of Wellington and Sir William Nott, popular theat- tiple portrait Roll of Honour. With frontispiece and 27 plates, 5 folding by the military governor of Turkestan, Mikhail Grigorievich rical spectacles for Astley’s Amphitheatre, and commentaries maps, coloured in outline, in the end-pocket as called for, and 4 sketch Chernaiev. Tatarinov’s narrative covers the entirety of the mis- for the dioramas at German Reed’s Royal Gallery of Illustra- maps to the text. A little rubbed and soiled, corners bumped, head and sion, from the expedition’s departure from Orenburg, to their tail of spine crumpled, endpapers lightly browned, some foxing to the tion. Despite all his work, Stocqueler again faced bankruptcy liberation at Bokhara. OCLC locates seven copies. and fled the country for America, where he lived on and off fore-edge, but overall very good. Ownership inscription of the novelist Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010), a keen student of military cartography. £3,250 [106611]

120 121 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 other plates, frequent illustrations to the text and 2 full-page charts to the text, folding colour map of al-Rub’ al-Khali to rear (1:3,000,000; opening to 450 × 720 mm). Cloth faded to pink, extremities lightly rubbed with cloth worn away in places. A very good copy. a “specially made-up state” of the first american edition, fourth printing (a month after the first), produced for a dinner held by Scribner’s in Thomas’s honour on 22 February 1932, with a menu and guest-list bound in at the front (O’Brien). This copy is signed on the front free endpaper by Thomas and 27 of the assorted explorers, journalists and publishers who had attended the “American Arabian Night atop the Empire State Building”, and additionally bears the bookplate of American science-fiction author Edward Wellen to the front pastedown: a unique association copy of this important work, which describes the first recorded traverse of the Empty Quarter. A Post Office worker who left school with no qualifications, Thomas (1892–1950) joined the Somerset Light Infantry on the outbreak of war and was posted to Mesopotamia, where he developed the ambition to cross the Empty Quarter, leaving Mus- 183 184 cat late in 1930, arriving at Dhufar on the Indian Ocean coast of Arabia. “After waiting some months for his guides (who were 182 184 involved in desert hostilities) he eventually set out with a small camel caravan but no promise of protection from the warring THESIGER, Wilfred. Arabian Sands. London: Longmans, THIRLWALL, Newell Connop. The History of Greece. and predatory tribes of the interior. He emerged fifty-eight Green and Co. Ltd., 1959 New Edition. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, days later at Doha, on the Persian Gulf. The Royal Geographi- Octavo (225 × 150 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in ter- 1855–6 cal Society in London promptly awarded him their founder’s racotta morocco, raised bands, titles to spine gilt, dark green endpa- 8 volumes, octavo. Near-contemporary purple half hard-grain mo- medal, and other learned societies around the world followed pers, gilt edges. With frontispiece and 46 plates, 8 maps to the text, rocco, matching pebble-grain cloth, title gilt direct to spines, narrow suit … He was admired by T. E. Lawrence and by his successor some full-page, folding map loosely inserted. A fine copy. bands, gilt rolls, marbled edges and endpapers. With 13 maps and Wilfred Thesiger, who found twenty years later that Thomas first edition. This was Thesiger’s first book “and, in his opin- plans, 7 of them folding. Light shelf-wear, boards variably sunned, was remembered by the Bedouin as an honourable, brave, and largely just a narrow strip at the fore-edges, rear board of volume VIII ion, his finest” (ODNB). “During the years that I was in Arabia I tolerant man”. O’Brien notes that one copy of this special issue heavily sunned, light toning, some offsetting from the frontispiece never thought that I would write a book about my travels … Sev- 185 maps, but overall a very good set. was probably given to each dinner-guest, and that “most copies en years after leaving Arabia I showed some photographs I had have signatures of guests of honour near their printed names”, taken to Graham Watson and he strongly urged me to write a A solidly, attractively bound, and very well preserved copy. though it is hard to conceive of a copy so generously inscribed. The only non-American signature in this remarkable assembly book about the desert. This I refused to do … The following day Thirlwall’s History was first published 1835–44 as part of Lard- of names (excluding the author’s) is that of Vilhjalmur Stefans- Graham Watson came to see me again, and this time he brought ner’s Cabinet Cyclopaedia: the “work entailed prodigious labour. son, the Canadian-Icelandic explorer of the Arctic who won the Mark Longman with him. After much argument the two of them At Cambridge, where the first volume was written, he used to Royal Geographical Society Founder’s Medal in 1921, exactly ten persuaded me to try to write this book. Now that I have finished work all day until half-past three, when he left his rooms for a years before it was awarded to Thomas for his desert journey; it I am grateful to them, for the effort to remember every detail rapid walk before dinner, at that time served in hall at four; in Stefansson is accompanied by another polar traveller in Lau- has brought back vividly into my mind the Bedu amongst whom Yorkshire he is said to have worked 16 hours a day in his study. rence McKinley Gould, a geologist by training who received the I travelled, and the vast empty land across which I rode on cam- By a curious coincidence he and George Grote, his friend and Congressional Gold Medal on his return from a triumphant voy- els for ten thousand miles” (Introduction). schoolfellow [at Charterhouse], were writing on the same sub- age to the Antarctic in 1930. Further explorers include Freder- ject at the same time, unknown to each other. On the appear- £1,500 [102288] ick Dellenbaugh, pioneer of the American West; Roy Chapman ance of Grote’s first two volumes in 1846 Thirlwall welcomed Andrews, a naturalist made the first ever discovery of fossilised them with generous praise” (ODNB). 183 dinosaur eggs; Kermit, son of President Theodore Roosevelt; £1,250 [109144] and Lowell Thomas whose film, With Allenby in Palestine and Law- THESIGER, Wilfred. Arabian Sands. New York: E. P. rence in Arabia (1919), “marked Lawrence’s apotheosis and the Dutton and Company, Inc., 1959 Special issue signed by Thomas and over twenty notable genesis of what became his ‘legend’” (ODNB). This dazzling ar- Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed boards, title to spine, and abstracted attendees at a dinner in his honour ray is completed by signatures from members of the Scribner sand dune device to the front board in gilt and white. With the dust jack- family and other publishing grandees, a number of journalists et. With frontispiece and 46 plates, 8 maps to the text, some full-page, 185 including noted anti-corruption campaigner George Britt, and folding map mounted on the rear pastedown. Endpapers typically toned, THOMAS, Bertram. Arabia Felix. Across the “Empty noted author Vince Sheean, whose Personal History (1935) won the pale toning to the margins, else very good in clipped, slightly rubbed, inaugural National Book Award and later served as the basis for minor edge chips and splits, old tape repair at the head of spine. Quarter” of Arabia. With a Foreword by T. E. Lawrence Hitchcock’s thriller, Foreign Correspondent. A full list of signatories first u.s. edition, issued the same year as the first in the UK. (T.E.S.) and Appendix by Sir Arthur Keith. New York: is available on request. Signed on the title page by the author. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1932 O’Brien A155; Howgego IV T15; Macro 2185. £1,350 [100851] Octavo. Original maroon cloth, titles and camel vignette to spine and front cover gilt, fore edge untrimmed. With frontispiece and 47 185 £2,000 [106421]

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ish ship was “captured less than 70 miles from Bombay” in 1818, commended for his “unrivalled knowledge of the Arab … few it was the final straw and a force was sent out to suppress the political officers anywhere have brought to their work such a “pirates” for once and for all. The expedition was a great suc- profound knowledge of orientalism and such indefatigable en- cess, resulting in the capture of Ras al-Khaimah and the other ergy and patience in collecting vast stores of information by key Qawasim strongholds, and in 1830 with the conclusion of personal research or observation”. the General Treaty of Peace, binding the local shaikhs to abjure “plunder and piracy”. “However, the British realised that the fu- £110,000 [105271] ture security of the Gulf would depend less upon a piece of paper than upon the vigour with which they enforced it. A permanent 187 presence would have to be maintained and to act as policemen THOMPSON, George. Travels and Adventures in both topographical and background knowledge have always Southern Africa. Comprising a View of the Present State been required: the papers printed in this volume were designed of the Cape Colony. With Observations on the Progress 186 to provide this for the men on the spot and for their masters in and Prospects of British Emigrants. London: Henry Colburn, Bombay”. In this context, the first paper is of particular historio- 1827 graphical interest being Captain Robert Taylor’s compilation of 186 discreet blindstamps to the other maps, light toning, one gathering 2 volumes, octavo (220 × 141 mm). Modern brown half morocco, slightly loose, but overall an exceptional copy, superbly preserved. all the then available reliable information on the region, as a sort THOMAS, R. Hughes. Selections from the Records grey linen boards, raised bands to spine, titles and decorative tools of “invasion handbook” for the 1819 expedition. to compartments gilt, triple ruling to boards in blind, marbled of the Bombay Government, No. XXIV – New Series. first edition of this remarkable, historically important digest of information relating to the Persian Gulf, with particu- edges and endpapers. Frontispiece to each volume, 18 uncoloured Historical and other Information connected with the Containing as it does information of the greatest political and lar attention paid to the Trucial States, now the United Arab strategic importance, the volume was intended for highly lim- aquatints, 17 illustrations in text, 2 folding plans and one folding Province of Oman, Muskat, Bahrein and other Places in map. Spines gently sunned, extremities slightly rubbed, muted dark Emirates: “This volume is a collection of reports received by ited and selective distribution, as remarked by Bidwell: “Al- stains along front joints, prelims, endmatter, and folding plans the Persian Gulf. Bombay: Printed for the Government at the the Government of Bombay and was designed to serve as a ref- though the print run is not known, it must have been very small Bombay Education Society’s Press, 1856 lightly foxed, folding plans with minor nicks to stubs and a few erence book for officers working in the area … Anyone work- or much of it must have been lost. In the seventeen years that I short splits. An excellent set. Octavo. Original green cloth, paper labels to spine, and front board. ing on the 19th-century history of Eastern Arabia and the Gulf have been responsible for the library of the Middle East Centre second edition, the same year as the first. One of the most Housed in a plush-lined leather-entry marbled paper slipcase. 6 fold- comes across frequent references to it … It served as a basic at Cambridge, I have never known a copy offered for sale despite valuable works on South Africa published in the early 19th ing lithographic maps including the very large (580 × 922 mm) area source for Lorimer in his Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and an assiduous watch on antiquarian booksellers and their cata- map – “Map of Maritime Arabia with the Opposite Coasts of Africa century, the present work was written by a British merchant Central Arabia. It contains, however, a great deal more informa- logues”. We can trace just one complete copy at auction, the Bur- and Persia reduced from an Original Map by T. Dickinson, Chief En- living in Cape Town for many years as the representative of a tion that Lorimer omitted, presumably for reasons of space. rell copy; Copac locates eight copies (BL, London Library, Ox- gineer, lithographed in the Chief Engineer’s Office by Huskeljee E, British company. Between 1823 and 1824, Thompson set out The history of Abu Dhabi which Lorimer dealt with in just over ford, Aberdeen, Exeter, King’s College, LSE, and SOAS), OCLC and Kumroondeen E., Bombay 1st March 1856” – coastline outlined to explore the north-eastern parts of the Cape colony, “partly four pages here receives thirty-four” (Robin Bidwell in his in- adds Georgetown, Princeton, and Minnesota: of these, only six in blue, loose in pocket inside the front board and consequently often from motives of business, partly from the impulse of curiosity” troduction to the 1985 reprint). definitely identify the presence of the large map. lacking; together with the “Sketch of Rasool Khymah [Ras al-Khaim- (Preface, p. viii), travelling to the Orange River and onwards ah]”, with hand-colour; “Plan of Bassadore Roads by H.H. Hewett, The period covered was key to the historical development to the Midshipman”, similar “Trigonometrical Plan of the Harbour of Grane This copy was part of the bequest of the widow of Colonel to Kuruman. The account of these travels, “ghost-written by or Koweit” and “Sketch of the Island of Kenn”, and a large “Reduced region. From the early part of the 19th century, the operations Samuel Barrett Miles to Bath Public Libraries. For 14 years, Thomas Pringle, provides valuable descriptions of the geog- Copy of Chart of the Gulf of Persia”, uncoloured; and a folding let- of the Wahhabist Qawasim’s “holy war by sea” on what the Brit- Miles was one of the “men of the spot”, serving successively as raphy, history and natural history” of the region (Howgego). terpress census table. Some very light shelf-wear, spine sunned to ish referred to as the “Pirate Coast” had much hindered the use Political Agent in Turkish Arabia, Consul-General in Baghdad, Abbey, Travel 330; Howgego II T5; Mendelssohn II, pp. 493–4; Sabib IV, p. 490. brown, and some differential sunning on boards, Ex-Bath Public Li- of the overland “Desert Mail” to communicate vital despatches Political Agent and Consul in Zanzibar, and Political Resident brary with the S. B. Miles legacy bookplate in the map pocket, their to and from Britain’s burgeoning Indian empire. When a Brit- in the Gulf. In his obituary in the Geographical Journal Miles was £1,500 [94259]

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(Beijing), and finally up the great Yangtze (Yangzi) River. “The 190 photographs taken on these journeys form one of the most ex- TIBBS, William Arthur. “No. 27 Squadron in India tensive photographic surveys of any region taken in the 19th and on the North-West Frontier – Miranshah, Karachi, century” (ODNB). The present volumes, published on his return to London in 1872, established his reputation as a photog- Risalpur, &c.” India: 1927–30 rapher, traveller and authority on China. The first two volumes Landscape quarto (298 × 230 mm). Contemporary cord-backed brown were printed apparently in an edition of only 600 copies, a re- leather-textured paper covered boards. With 48 original photographs (152 × 208 mm) corner-mounted both sides of 24 card leaves, tissue stricted run that was increased to 750 copies for volumes 3 and guards between the leaves. Somewhat worn externally, boards through 4; the volumes were sold for £3 3s. each, a substantial amount at the edges, cord tie replaced with string, but internally clean and at the time, reflecting the high standards of production. sound, leaves sunned at the margins, a few corner-mounts missing, but Parr & Badger I, 32. the prints themselves in excellent condition, overall very good. An unusual and highly interesting album of high-quality pho- £75,000 [95456] tographs documenting the services of 27 Squadron RAF on the North-West Frontier during the last years of the 1920s. The 189 album contains numerous sharp and well-composed air-to- THORN, William. Memoir of the War in India, conducted air images of the unit’s Airco DH-9As and Westland Wapitiis by General Lord Lake, Commander-in-Chief, and Major- over the spectacular frontier scenery around their main base of 188 General Sir Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington; Miranshah – “My machine flying at Karachi”, “Flying over the snow clad mountains over Rasmak”, “Wapiti dropping food 188 from its Commencement in 1803, to its Termination in 1806, on the Banks of the Hyphasis. With Historical to Lhadu Column November 1929”, “Bombing on the Frontier THOMSON, John. Illustrations of China and its People. Sketches, Topographical Descriptions, and Statistical during operations in India during Summer 1930” – together A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Observations. London: T. Egerton, 1818 with aerial views of the bases, camps, and forts of the region; Description of the Places and People Represented. formal and informal group portraits; a group of three aerial Quarto (270 × 203 mm). Contemporary speckled calf neatly rebacked, views of the four Supermarine Southampton II flying-boats, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873–74 corners repaired, blue speckled edges. Folding handcoloured en- 4 volumes, folio. Original publisher’s half morocco, dark green peb- graved map of Hindustan, uncoloured map of India, 7 hand coloured which constituted the RAF Far Eastern Flight, taken at Karachi bled cloth sides, covers with gilt titles and gilt vignettes of the Confu- engraved plates (6 of battle plans). Bookplates on front pastedown on their way to Singapore from England; and a shot of Baron cian Temple at Peking, spine gilt, edges gilt. With 218 photographic and contemporary bookseller’s ticket; light offsetting from plates. A Koenig-Warthausen and his Klemm L.20B machine “Kamer- views and portraits by Thomson on 96 collotype plates, each with very good, well-margined copy. ad” at Karachi during his solo flight around the world. It is in- guard and leaf of descriptive text. Ownership signature of J. M. Wal- first edition. Written after Thorn had served at Waterloo triguing that the album covers the period when T. E. Lawrence ford to front free endpapers of first 2 volumes. A few marks to cloth, and retired to his native Germany; editions in both French had succeeded in getting himself posted to the frontier as a an excellent set. and German followed. Thorn began his military education humble clerk, being stationed at Karachi and at Miranshah. first edition, the deluxe edition in a variant publisher’s in England, “purchasing a cornetcy in 1799 in the 29th light Sadly, despite the closest possible scrutiny, it does not appear binding. Thomson aimed “to present a series of pictures of dragoons … he saw much action in the Second Anglo-Maratha that Shaw/Lawrence features in any of the images. China and its people, such as shall convey an accurate impres- War (1803–6) and distinguished himself in 1803 at the battle of Laid in is a bestowal document for the Imperial Service Medal, sion of the country I traversed as well as of the arts, usages, and Laswari in which he was also wounded” (ODNB). dated 1965, made out to William Arthur Tibbs, who is perhaps manners which prevail in different provinces of the Empire” the figure identified as “me” in two photographs taken in the (introduction). Between 1870 and 1872 Thomson undertook £1,250 [94630] Political Agent’s garden at Miranshah. four journeys, following the north branch of the Pearl River, up the River Min to the area around Foochow (Fuzhou), to Peking 188 £1,500 [105521]

126 127 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 “Considered of the highlights of late-Classical Arabic literature” (Miller), the importance of the ‘Aja’ib itself extends well beyond its literary merits. For students of Elizabethan drama, “what becomes clear when the Tamburlaine plays are laid alongside Ibn ‘Arabshah’s earlier Arabic work is that Marlowe has selected many incidents and details from his probable Western sources” – in particular the writings of Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459) – “that most likely have their bases in Ibn ‘Arabshah’s ‘Aja’ib al-maqdur” (ibid., p. 258). For the historian, it forms an illuminating contrast to the hagiographies produced by official chroniclers of the Timurid court: “Ibn ‘Arabshah was deported to Samarkand when Timur captured Damascus in 803/1400–1; studying under the great scholars of Central Asia, he learned Persian, Turkish, and Mon- golian. Subsequently he was a private secretary and tutor at the court of Mohammad I b. Bayazid in Adrianople. In 825/1422 he returned to Damascus, and in 840/1436 he settled in Cairo, where he remained until his death. The ‘Aja’ib was completed on 17 Muharram 839/12 July 1435. After a brief preface the work explains the significance of Timur’s name and then traces his 192 192 life and career step by step. The rulers whose kingdoms Timur annexed are discussed in detail and their territories described. the dual route through the Gobi Desert, which he crossed from Key eyewitness account of the court of Timur The plundering, devastation, and ferocious cruelty that Timur Kiachta to Beijing, added richly to the information gathered by unleashed wherever he met with any resistance are scrupulous- his predecessors” (Henze). Also, published here for the first 192 ly depicted. The exiling to Samarkand of the skilled craftsmen, time in the West, is a map of the Forbidden City. (TIMUR; historically known as Tamerlane.) AHMAD scholars, artists, and so on, whom he encountered on his campaigns is also described … Ibn ‘Arabshah examines Timur’s The text is here corrected and annotated by the great German IBN ‘ARABSHAH; MANGER, Samuel Henry (ed.) [Title in Arabic.] Kitab ‘Aja’ib al-maqdur fi akhbar Taymur. character, abilities, and conduct towards friend and foe, and orientalist Julius Heinrich Klaproth, who spent many years in offers a relatively objective assessment. Finally he gives a valu- Ahmedis Arabsiadae. Vitae et Rerum Gestarum Timuri, service of the Russian Academy of Sciences, accompanying able account of the intellectual world of Samarkand with a list Golovkin’s embassy to China of 1805, and carrying out impor- qui vulgo Tamerlanes Dicitur, Historia. Leeuwarden: at the of famous scholars, lawyers, shaykhs, interpreters of the Ko- tant linguistic and ethnographical surveys in the Caucasus in shop of H. A. de Chalmot, 1767–72 191 ran, doctors, and artists whom he had seen or of whom he had 1808–9. After his resignation from the Russian Academy, fol- 2 volumes in 3, quarto (200 × 150 mm). Contemporary full mottled heard” (Encyclopaedia Iranica). lowing an exile enforced by the Napoleonic wars, he eventually calf, double rules to boards in blind, spines richly gilt in compart- First publication in the west of a map of the Forbidden City settled in Paris, where, after the intercession of Humboldt, he ments separated by raised bands, red and green morocco labels to Samuel Hendrik Manger (1735–1791) was born in Maastricht to second and third respectively, all edges red, marbled endpapers, a family of Huguenot refugees. In 1760 he acceded to the chair 191 received a pension to continue his work and to publish from the French capital. Tipped-into the plate atlas is a letter to Kl- green satin bookmark to each volume. Arabic and Latin parallel text. of oriental language at Franeker, the second-oldest university in TIMKOVSKI, G. [Egor Fedorovich.] Voyage à Peking, aproth in Berlin in the rather decrepit hand of the celebrated Engraved head- and tailpieces throughout. Raised bands very slightly the Netherlands after Leiden, and was appointed professor of à travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821. Traduit du russe anthropologist, naturalist, physiologist, historian and bibli- rubbed, bookplates removed from front pastedowns, pages of vol. I theology four years later. A scholar of both Arabic and Hebrew, quire G transposed (print-shop accident); paper flaws not affecting par M. N******, revu par M. J.-B. Eyriès. Publié avec des ographer Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, Göttingen, 8 October Manger’s other works include a commentary on the Book of Ho- text at vol. I 2S3–4, vol. II 2H3 and 4C3; marginal soiling to vol. II pp. sea, one of the books of the Hebrew Bible; at Franeker he was corrections et des notes par M. J. Klaproth. Paris: Dondey- 1812. Blumenbach writes as secretary of the Königliche Soci- 429–32. An excellent copy, internally crisp and clean, well preserved Dupré père et fils, 1827 etät der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen to thank Klaproth for in a handsome contemporary binding with the gilt tooling and red influential as one of several“ broad-minded theologians … who pleaded for biblical exegesis free from any dogmatic constraint” 2 text volumes, octavo (201 × 122 mm) and folio atlas (313 × 235 mm) the “generous gift of 130 Asiatic coins”, and to tell him that edges strikingly bright. (Backus and Benedict, eds., Calvin and his Influence, 1509–2009, p. containing the map, plans and plates; text volumes in contemporary he has “been elected a corresponding member of the Society’s first and only edition in latin of Ibn ‘Arabshah’s eyewit- 210), in opposition to the radical Calvinist currents then preva- green quarter sheep, matching marbled boards, title gilt direct to Historical Class. I have already had your diploma prepared and ness account of Timur, alongside Manger’s revised and anno- lent across northern Europe: if Manger’s religious writings are spine, edges sprinkled blue, marbled endpapers, atlas recently bound am waiting for an opportunity to send it to you.” Interestingly tated edition of the original Arabic, the second Arabic edition to match. Atlas volume containing large folding lithographed route of most significance when viewed in this specific context, his Klaproth has evidently been attempting to sell the Society a overall following the 1636 editio princeps prepared by Dutch map, plan of Forbidden City, folding plate of the Russian Embassy at number of books (the coins perhaps as sweeteners). “The edition of the ‘Aja’ib has lost none of its importance. Peking, 8 lithographed plates – mostly after Chinese oil or gouache orientalist Jacobus Golius from a single manuscript. A consid- important collection of Chinese books which Your Honour erable scholarly achievement, Manger’s parallel text has never Brockelmann, II, p. 28–9, S II, pp. 24–5; Brunet, I, 117; Schnurrer 166; Balagna, originals – and a title-page vignette. Half-titles to the text volumes offers to sell to us … the two Chinese dictionaries and notes p. 70; Sarkis, col. 173; Aqiqi, II, pp. 654–5; Willems 434; Fück, pp. 165–6; bound in. Boards of text volumes restored, light browning through- truly been superseded and in the author’s own time served as for the pronunciation, plus the annals of the Chinese realm, Copinger 34; Smitskamp, PO 313. See further, Howard Miller, “Tamburlaine: out, but overall a very good set. the standard version of the ‘Aja’ib for scholars across Europe, in The Migration and Translation of Marlowe’s Arabic Sources,” in Travel and we should like to incorporate into our public library, provided first edition. Since the early 18th century the Russians had particular the majority who did not know Arabic, with Edward Translation in the Early Modern Period, ed. Carmine Di Biase (Leiden: Brill, they can be separately acquired. If so, I shall await your gra- 2006). by treaty maintained a school and a church in Peking. The Gibbon using it as one of his main sources for the chapter on cious reply.” The letter is accompanied by a contemporary Ger- Timur in the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Manger consulted terms also allowed them to send a mission once every ten years man transcription and a translation into French. £10,000 [103690] to change the personnel. At the time no other Western nation various manuscripts to improve on Golius, including the sole had the same opportunities to study the country and its peo- Cordier, Sinica, 2473–4; Henze V p. 327; Howgego II, K15; Lust 551. copy that Golius himself had used, and his text is supplemented with glosses from a range of other historical accounts. ple. “In particular, [Timkovksi’s] description and mapping of £2,500 [100540]

128 129 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 Petrovich von Kaufman by Nikolai Ivanovich Il’minskii, the famous Kazan’ missionary and Orientalist, whose student Os- troumov had been. Ostroumov had trained in Islam and Turkic languages, and this knowledge very quickly made him a confi- dant of Kaufman. Ostroumov retained this proximity to power all through the tsarist period. Until 1917, Ostroumov served the state in various capacities. In 1883, he was appointed the editor of the Turkiston viloyatining gazeti, the vernacular official gazette, through which he sought to shape the contours of local cultural debates in the direction of Russian state interests. He acted as a censor for local-language publications, and his opinion on ‘native’ affairs was routinely sought by local administrators. At the same time, he produced a vast corpus of scholarly writing on the ethnography and history of Central Asia, and on Islam. Ostroumov translated the Bible into Chaghatay and wrote anti-Islamic polemics in Russian. His private papers include correspondence with fellow Orientalists in Russia and 193 194 195 abroad, and his writings give ample evidence of his involve- 196 ment in the international enterprise of Orientalism” (Khalid, 193 pected, is the scope of Temür’s intellectual interest and ability “Russian History and the Debate over Orientalism” in Kritika, observe natural history, geography, commerce, religion, and I, 4, Fall 2000, p. 691). (TIMUR; historically known as Tamerlane.) WHITE, … The histories of his reign extol his knowledge of astronomy, manners of other peoples. Between 1700 and 1702 Tournefort, medicine, and particularly of the history of the Arabs, Persians accompanied by German botanist Andreas Gundesheimer Joseph (trans.) Institutes Political and Military, written £2,500 [109395] and Turks. His delight in debating with scholars was inex- (1668–1715) and artist Claude Aubriet (1651–1743, travelled originally in the Mogul Language, by the Great Timour, haustible … ” (Manz, The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane, pp. 16–17). 195 through the islands of Greece, and visited Constantinople, improperly called Tamerlane; First translated Into Persian The Arab historian Ibn Khaldun met Timur, and described him the borders of the Black Sea, Armenia and Georgia, collecting By Abu Taulib Alhusseini; and thence Into English with as “the sultan of the universe and the ruler of the world”, going TOURNEFORT, Joseph Pitton de. A Voyage into the plants, undertaking other types of observations, and reporting Marginal Notes By Major Davy, Persian Secretary to the on to explain to the emperor “his favourite theory, that ‘asabi- Levant: Perform’d by Command of the Late French his findings in letters to Count de Pontchartrain. It includes Commander in Chief of the Bengal Forces from the Year yah, group solidarity, was necessary for sovereignty, and the King. Containing The Antient and Modern State of the a famous early description of a vampire (vrykolakas) exorcism MCCCLXX to MCCCLXXIII, and now Persian Secr. to greater the number sharing the ‘asabiyah, the greater the power Islands of the Archipelago; as also of Constantinople, (vol. I, p. 103): “We were present at a very different scene, and the Governor General of Bengal. The Original Persian of the sovereignty. ‘You know how the power of the Arabs was the Coasts of the Black Sea, Armenia, Georgia, the one very barbarous, in the same Island [Mykonos], which transcribed from a MS. in the Possession of Dr. William established when they became united in their religion in fol- Frontiers of Persia, and Asia Minor. With Plans of the happen’d upon occasion of one of those Corpses which they Hunter, Physician Extraordinary to the Queen … and lowing their Prophet’” (Gies, “The Man who met Tamerlane”, principal Towns and Places of Note; an Account of the fancy come to life again after their Interment”. The book was Saudi Aramco World, Sept./Oct. 1978). published posthumously after Tournefort was run over and the Whole Work published with a Preface, Indexes, Genius, Manners, Trade, and Religion of the respective killed by a carriage in Paris. Geographical Notes, &c. &c. Oxford: At Clarendon-Press, 1783 The son of a humble broadloom weaver, the translator Joseph People inhabiting those Parts: And an Explanation of White was Laudian professor of Arabic at Oxford. This transla- Variety of Medals and Antique Monuments. Illustrated Blackmer 1318; Cox I, 221; Hunt 444; Lipperheide 1442; Nissen, ZBI 4154; Quarto (279 × 216 mm). Modern half calf by Period Binders, marbled Pritzel 9426. boards, red morocco label, floral lozenges gilt to compartments, edg- tion was published at the expense of the East India Company. with Full Descriptions and Curious Copper-Plates of es stained red. Portrait frontispiece and 2 plans. Text finely printed Uncommon with just a dozen locations on Copac. great Numbers of Uncommon Plants, Animals, &c. And £2,250 [109026] in English and Persian. Ownership inscription of Horace P. Biddle, £3,750 [103495] several Observations in Natural History … To which is lawyer, judge, poet, musicologist, and famous hermit of Indiana, to 196 the title page. Light browning throughout, offset from the portrait to Prefix’d, The Author’s Life, in a Letter to M. Begon: As the blank facing, and from the plans to the blank verso of the text leaf 194 also his Elogium, pronounc’d by M. Fontenelle, before [TUCHMAN,] Barbara Wertheim. The Lost British facing, and verso of the plan bound before, else very good. (TIMUR; historically known as Tamerlane.) a publick Assembly of the Academy of Sciences. Adorn’d Policy. Britain and Spain since 1700. With an introduction first edition in english of the so-called Autobiographical OSTROUMOV, Nikolai Petrovich. Ulozhenie Tumura with an Accurate Map of the Author’s Travels, not in the by Philip Guedalla. London: United Editorial Ltd., 1938 Memoirs of Timur or Temür, historically known as Tamerlane, [The Code of Timur]. Kazan: The University Press, 1894 French Edition: Done by Mr. Senex. London: London, for D. Octavo. Original white card wrappers printed in blue and black, illus- the most powerful ruler in Muslim world, and founder of the trated endpapers. Housed in a custom blue cloth solander box. Wrap- Octavo (251 × 158 mm). Contemporary black pebble-grain paper-cov- Browne, A. Bell, J. Darby [& six others], 1718 pers creased on spine and slightly rubbed and marked overall, edges Timurid dynasty. Current scholarship rejects the autobio- ered boards, blind single fillet panel to boards, spine unlettered, pale 2 volumes, quarto (247 × 185 mm). Contemporary panelled calf neatly toned, light foxing to prelims, but a very good and notably tight copy graphical claims of the original manuscript, but it remains one green endpapers. A little rubbed, particularly at the extremities, spine rebacked, red labels, red edges. Folding map and 151 plates, maps & of a fragile publication. of the most reliable sources for the social and military organi- creased, corners bumped, small hole to the title page, no loss of text, plans (6 folding), many botanical. A few marks to covers, a couple of sation of the Timurids and was the text on which the Moguls of some browning throughout, heavier to the front and rear, but overall corners a little worn, ink splash on fore edge of volume I encroaching first and only edition of Tuchman’s first book, written India based their administrative and military ideas. very good. just slightly on to letterpress and plates of a few gatherings, scattered while she was reporting on the Spanish Civil War for The Na- foxing and light browning. tion, published under her maiden name Wertheim; today high- “What emerges most strikingly from the accounts of Temür’s first edition of the first translation into Russian of the le- first edition in english, translated by John Ozell, a ly uncommon in this condition in commerce. Tuchman was life is his extraordinary intelligence – an intelligence not only gal code of Timur, provided with a scholarly commentary by year after the original text in French was published at Paris. twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize (The Guns of August, 1963, and intuitive, but intellectual. He was first of all a master politician Ostroumov. Extremely uncommon: just the BL copy on Copac, Tournefort (1656–1708) was royal botanist to Louis XIV, and the Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1972). and military strategist, able to win and keep the loyalty of his no copies recorded on OCLC. Nikolai Ostroumov (1836–1930) book arose from the suggestion made to the king in 1699 by nomad followers, to work within and transform a highly fluid “arrived in Tashkent in 1877 to take up the post of director of £1,750 [107553] the Count de Pontchartrain (Secretary of State and in charge of political structure, and to lead a huge army to conquests of un- schools in the newly created province of Turkestan. He had the French Academy), that he send suitable persons abroad to exampled scope … What is most impressive, because least ex- been recommended to the Governor General Konstantin

130 131 All items are fully described and photographed at peterharrington.co.uk Peter Harrington 120 Hart’s Army List, 1886, where we discover Vickers was quartermaster of the Border Regiment, formed in 1881 by the amal- gamation of the 34th and 55th, holding the rank of honorary captain as of 1883. With the ownership inscription of Captain John H. Sharpe, dated in the year of publication to the title page. Sharpe also saw service with the regiment in the Crimea, including the siege and fall of Sebastopol (medal with clasp and Turkish Medal), and rose to colonel of the Border Regiment. A later inscription records the presentation of the volume to the 55th Foot in 1931 (no accession markings). Extremely uncommon: Copac lists a first edition in BL and a single copy of this second edition in NLS; OCLC has only the BL copy. £1,250 [101195]

199 WARD, William. Account of the Writings, Religion, and 197 Manners, of the Hindoos: including Translations from 200 their Principal Works. Serampore: At the Mission Press, 1811 197 the excavation of the mosaics at Haghia Sophia in the early 4 volumes, quarto (237 × 183 mm). Near-contemporary half calf, green ropean observer of Hindu society and religion in early 19th- VAN NICE, Robert L. Saint Sophia in Istanbul. An 1950s when studying for his AM at Harvard, with his owner- pimple-grain cloth, titles gilt direct to spines, low narrow bands with century Bengal”. ship inscription to front pastedown of the portfolio and to the Architectural Survey. Washington, DC: The Dumbarton Oaks gilt dotted roll, enclosed between double gilt rolls, dog-tooth roll to front panel of the first instalment wrappers. spine and corner edges, edges sprinkled red, marbled endpapers. Per- £4,500 [102883] Center for Byzantine Studies, Trustees for Harvard University, & haps a “native” binding. All errata leaves present. Somewhat rubbed, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1965 & 1986 £3,250 [104062] particularly at the extremities, errata leaf to volume I lacking the top The papers of a “sultanized Englishman” Atlas folio (908 × 595 mm). Original blue-green portfolio, gilt letter- corner, no loss, now repaired, foxing front and back, and typical ing on spine, and front board. Colour view of Saint Sophia and 46 198 browning throughout, but remains a very good set indeed. 200 loose plates of architectural renderings, offset and collotype; the two VICKERS, Thomas H. 55th Regiment in India; or a first complete edition. The first volume alone was first (WELLESLEY, Richard Colley, Marquess.) MARTIN, sewn as issued 8-page introductory texts with contents lists laid-in. Record of Events during Six Years’ Service in India; 1863 published in 1806 (no copies traced); this full edition was is- Montgomery (ed.) The Despatches, Minutes, and first edition, complete in both instalments – published to 1869. Chakrata: 55th Regimental Printing Press, 1871 sued from the Mission Press that Ward laboured so hard to es- Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley, during his over 20 years apart – and uncommon thus. This apparently tablish: extremely uncommon in commerce, with just one set Octavo (204 × 131 mm). Contemporary burgundy half morocco-grain Administration of India. London: John Murray, 1836–7 number 96 of 750 copies. Nearly a half century in the comple- skiver, brown linen-grain cloth boards, neatly rebacked to style in traced at auction. Ward trained as a printer, working in that 5 volumes, octavo (217 × 135 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled tion, the project was initiated in 1936 by William Emerson, at matching morocco, title gilt to spine, pale green endpapers, edges capacity on various newspapers in the Midlands; in the au- boards, title gilt direct to spines, raised bands with dotted roll gilt, the time dean of the school of architecture at MIT, who had sprinkled red. Carefully restored at the corners, boards slightly tumn of 1798 a member of the committee of the newly founded edges sprinkled red, dun endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispiece travelled to Istanbul in order to see “the exquisite mosaics that rubbed and soiled, light browning throughout, overall very good. Baptist Missionary Society visited and Ward offered himself as with facsimile signature to volume I, 2 folding maps and one similar were then being recovered from beneath Fossati’s plaster by second edition, a year after the first: “Many applications a missionary – perhaps influenced by a remark made to him battle-plans, one coloured, one coloured in outline, and one with the dispositions in colour. With the bookplates of Sir Edward Cholme- Thomas Whittemore, founder of the Byzantine Institute”. He for copies having been made, after the First Edition was ex- in 1793 by William Carey concerning the need of a printer in ley Dering (1807–1896), Kent landowner and MP variously for Wex- realised that the previous years’ secularisation of the mosque hausted, the work was again put into type, as, as far as could the Indian mission field. He sailed from England to Calcutta as the State Museum of the Turkish Republic “created a long- in the Criterion in May 1799. While in India Ward was mainly ford, New Romney and Kent East, 1830–68. Just a little rubbed, some be, corrections made up to the end of 1870. An Essay on Dress offsetting from the plates and bookplates, mild foxing to text block awaited opportunity to advance our knowledge of this monu- concerned with the establishment and running of the press has also been added at the end of the book” (author’s preface). edges, light browning else, a very good set. ment unique in the history of architectural development”. The The 55th were deployed in India in 1863, and spent the follow- “by means of which the Bible, translated into Bengali, Marathi, project began with “the limited aim of setting down details of Hindi, and more than twenty other languages, was dissemi- first editions. A very handsome set indeed of this impor- ing 13 years there: the present volume is a rather eccentric ac- tant collection of Wellesley’s papers in a solid and soberly a single one of Saint Sophia’s four buttresses, the scope of the count of their services including the Bhutan War of 1864–5, nated throughout India. Numerous philological works were survey, as it became increasingly clear that by inspection and also issued”. The press burnt down just a year after the print- handsome binding. “The most brilliant part of Wellesley’s and accompanied by detailed lists of the men who embarked career was unquestionably his government of India. He must measurement alone unsuspected amounts of invaluable and at Portsmouth in 1863; men who have joined the regiment in ing of the present work, “the moulds for casting fresh type, hitherto unknown internal evidence could be assembled, was however, were recovered from the debris, and by the liberality be regarded as one of the three men who consolidated the India by exchange, transfer, volunteering or reengagement; empire of which Clive laid the foundation. In many respects progressively expanded until finally it encompassed the entire and men, women and children who have died since embarka- of friends in Great Britain the loss was soon repaired”. main structure as well as later accretions on its periphery. In he resembled Dalhousie more than Hastings; but the diffi- tion; together with details of marches, social activities, durbar Despite his onerous duties in connection with the press and sum, the study provides a framework and indispensable point culties which he was called upon to encounter were greater duties and so forth. his missionary work, Ward was also the author of a number of of departure for examining any of the numerous architectural, than those which confronted Dalhousie … As a member of publications, of which the present is “much the most impor- structural, or historical questions connected with more than Vickers served with the 55th Regiment throughout the Crime- a constitutional government such as that of Great Britain he tant … Although Ward did not mince his words in his condem- fourteen hundred years of the building’s continuous use”. an campaign of 1854–5 as drummer boy, “including the battles was somewhat out of place owing to his autocratic habits and of Alma and Inkerman, siege and fall of Sebastopol, repulse of nation of ‘Hindoo idolatry’, he did comment favourably on the the contempt which he felt, and did not attempt to conceal, This copy from the library of William L. MacDonald (1921– the sortie of 26th Oct. 1854, and assault of the Redan on the literary and philological achievements of Hindu scholars, and for the failings of his less able colleagues. Mackintosh called 2010), noted architectural historian, author of Early Christian 8th Sept. – wounded (medal with three clasps). Served also on in later versions modified somewhat the harshness of his stric- him ‘a sultanized Englishman’” (DNB). and Byzantine Architecture, The Architecture of the Roman Empire, and tures on Hinduism. Despite some serious inaccuracies, Ward’s the Bhootan Expedition in 1865, including the recapture of De- £2,000 [108968] The Pantheon: Design, Meaning, and Progeny, who participated in wangiri (medal with clasp)”. This information is drawn from work remains without parallel as a detailed account by a Eu-

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201 ton on both the Nimrod expedition of 1907–9 and second-in- WHITEHOUSE, Thomas. Some Historical Notices of command on the Transantarctic Expedition of 1917–19 … Wild 204 joined Shackleton on his final voyage to the Antarctic in 1921– Cochin on the Malabar Coast. Cottayam: C.M. Press, 1859 23 but the explorer’s death sapped Wild’s desire to continue” ville Macdonald (1824). He served in the Low Countries, West 205 Octavo (pp. 44). Late 19th-century green sand-grain cloth, gilt lettered (Howgego). A “handsome publication” reproducing “the last front cover, original printed blue wrappers bound in. Hand-coloured Indies, Cape of Good Hope, and the Peninsular, where Wilson YOUNG, Gavin. Reflections on the Present State of photographs of Shackleton to be taken” (Taurus). Wild emi- also served but not, it would appear, at the same time. Bosville’s lithographic frontispiece and 2 similar plates, 2 lithographic plans col- British India. London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1829 oured in outline. Wrappers somewhat stained and with some minor grated to South Africa, and drifted into bankruptcy and alco- brother Thomas married Wilson’s sister Fanny in 1793: “Obliged Octavo. Original red combed cloth, paper label to spine, panels in blind chipping, pale dampstain to fore-margin of frontispiece and title. holism. He died destitute in Johannesburg in 1939. a week after he had married my sister to embark with his regi- incorporating elaborate arabesques to both boards. A little rubbed and ment for Holland, he was soon afterwards killed in the action of first edition. Possibly a presentation copy from the author, Howgego III, S25; Taurus 112. soiled, spine a touch sunned, front pastedown slightly marked by the Lincelles [17 August 1793 in the Flanders Campaign of the War inscribed on the verso of the front wrapper: “With T.W’s best £1,250 [103756] removal of a bookplate, inked accession stamp verso of the title and regards”. Thomas Whitehouse was a minister of the Govern- of the First Coalition], where the Guards acquired great credit. once in the margins of the text, light browning, else very good. No officer in the corps was more esteemed; and though 6 feet 4 ment Church at Cochin. He writes in a breezy style, opening first and only edition. Published in the same year as de 203 inches in height, he was, from his corresponding symmetry of his brief history: “In the year a.d. 1500, the good folks living Lacy Evans’s On the Designs of Russia, and at a time when the au- form, considered one of the handsomest men in Europe … [A in the cocoanut topes which fringe the sea coast boundaries of WILSON, Robert Thomas. History of the British Expe- thor believed that Russian successes in the current war with the footnote adds:] His height occasioned his death, for a musket- the Cochin Rajah’s Dominions, had their curiosity excited (so dition to Egypt; to which is subjoined, a Sketch of the Ottoman Empire had put their army “in full march upon Tehe- ball struck him in the head” (Life of General Sir Robert Wilson, from far as the enervating effects of a tropical sun in Lat. 10 degrees Present State of that Country and its Means of Defence. ran”, this is a significant, and largely overlooked premonish- Autobiographical Memoirs, London 1862, p. 53). N. would admit) by the unusual sight of a fleet of ten or twelve London: T. Egerton, 1802 ment of the Great Game. It offers a contribution to the debate strange looking ships, sailing towards the south, hugging the Quarto (287 × 221 mm). Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, Sandler 3481. on the governance of India, from which James Silk Bucking- shore as much as they could with safety, and evidently looking gilt-banded spine, gilt roll tool border on sides enclosing single-line £1,500 [107066] ham, the arch-opponent of the EIC and promoter of colonial out for a favourable haven”. A fragile survival from the Chris- gilt panel with corner rosettes, gilt roll tool turn-ins, gilt edges, mar- self-rule, extracted two chapters for publication in his journal tian Mission Press that was established at Cottayam (Kottay- bled endpapers. Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Ralph Ab- 204 The Oriental Herald and Journal of General Literature, describing the am) in the 1820s by the Yorkshire-born missionary Benjamin ercromby by Meyer after Hoppner, handcoloured folding map of the book as offering a “full of such details as must satisfy the most western branch of the Nile (Cairo to Rosetta), map of the battle of Al- Baily, and rare: OCLC locates just five copies and the copy at WYLD, James. Map of Afghaunistan, Caubul, the Punjab, scrupulous of the conscientious care with which the informa- the British Library is the only one in British and Irish institu- exandria (units handcoloured), handcoloured map of the skirmish near Rajpootana, and the River Indus. [with:] Notes to Map of Rahmanie, 2 folding letterpress tables. Old dampstain to frontispiece tion has been collected, compared, and revised. It is not an in- tional libraries; no copy is recorded at auction. and title page (causing discolouration), occasional thumbing, closed- Afghaunistan, the Punjab, &c &c. London: James Wyld, 1842 jured person or an inflammatory writer who says all this; but £1,500 [94804] tear in margin of Alexandria map. A very good, wide-margined copy. Original brown diaper cloth, title in gilt to the front panel within a witness who gives abundant evidence of his calmness as well first edition of this popular first-hand account of the Brit- elaborate panel. Text in original printed pink paper wrappers. Fold- as of his knowledge of the subject … we strongly recommend ing engraved map, coloured in outline, bisected into 24 panels and 202 ish expedition to wrest Egypt from French control, written by this work as one of the best that has been published on India mounted on linen, opens 600 × 823 mm. Map-case a little rubbed, and for a very long period” (Vol. XX, Jan.–Mar. 1829, p. 112). WILD, Frank. Shackleton’s Last Voyage. The Story of the Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (1777–1849), who served under the sunned at spine, map slightly browned verso, the wrappers of the text expedition’s leader, Sir Ralph Abercromby. “The work derived Quest. From the Official Journal and Private Diary kept by pamphlet slightly rubbed and with some minor creasing, text toned, The author served in the army in India from 1806 when he was especial popularity from its charges of cruelty against Napo- but overall both pieces very good. posted lieutenant in the 17th Native Infantry, until his death Dr. A. H. Macklin London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923 leon, towards both his prisoners at Jaffa and his own soldiers first edition of this map of Afghanistan. A well-preserved at Calcutta in 1841, during that time holding a number of sig- Large octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine, front cover let- at Cairo. Napoleon complained to the British government and, nificant administrative positions including accountant to the tered in black and with large pictorial block, pictorial endpapers. copy of this handsome, timely, and desirable map. Uncommon, receiving no satisfaction, ordered Colonel Sebastiani to issue a Military Board, 1830–35, and Judge Advocate General, 1835–41. Coloured frontispiece, 100 black and white plates from photographs, Copac locating two copies of the map (Oxford and Durham), four counter-report” (ODNB). sketch maps in the text. Armorial bookplate of A. H. Richardson, who on OCLC (Melbourne, Minnesota, Nebraska and BnF), but just a Hodson notes Young’s publication of An Enquiry into the Expe- has inscribed his name in ink at the foot of the front cover and on the An interesting association copy, with the contemporary own- single location for the accompanying explanatory pamphlet (BL). diency of applying the Principles of Colonial Policy to the Government top edges; bookplate of J. B. Prentice on verso of front free endpaper. of India (Calcutta, 1822), and An Essay on the Mercantile Theory of ership inscription on a preliminary blank of “G. Bosville”; ap- £1,750 [94803] Binding a little used, small stain at head of spine, scattered foxing. parently Lieutenant-General Godfrey Bosville Macdonald, 3rd Wealth (1832), but not the present work (Hodson, List of the Offic- first edition. Wild had been with Scott on the Discovery, was Baron Macdonald of Slate (1775–1832), who legally changed ers of the Bengal Army). Uncommon: ten copies on Copac. with Mawson in 1911–14, “and was a close friend of Shackle- his name to Godfrey Bosville (1814) and then to Godfrey Bos- £1,250 [95661]

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Keith, Sir Arthur 185 mountaineering 51, 82, 165 Porter, Sir James 144 Surat 75 Kenya 94 Mozambique 108 Powell, Anthony 28 Swinton, Sir Ernest 156 Khiva 93, 111, 134–5 Muhammad 145, 147 Price, David 145 swords 88 Khotan 176 Mundt, Theodor 53 Punjab 72, 93, 100, 106, 119, 142, 204 Syria 4, 23, 25, 35 TRAVEL & EXPLORATION INDEX King, James 39 Mundy, Godfrey Charles 122 Putiatin, Vice-Admiral 146 Tahiti 20, 21, 46, 47 King, Philip Parker 46, 47 Muscat 19, 45, 186 Qur’an 147 Tajikistan 32 Klaproth, Julius Heinrich 191 Nalivkine, Vladimir Petrovic 123 Raglan, Lord 44, 53 Tandy, E. A. 179 Kokand 123–4 Napoleon 37 Rainier, John Spratt 13 Tatarinov, Aleksandr Alekseevich 180 Kovalevskii, Egor Petrovich 93 Native Americans 31 Ravenstein, E. G. 94 Tate, George Passman 181 Abdulkaber, Khaled A. Al- 109 Bengal 59, 169 Corbett, Jim 42 Good, Frank Mason 64 Krapf, Johann Ludwig 94 naval pilots 11, 17, 81, 140–1 Red Sea 3, 81 Tennant, James & Sheena 85 Abu Dhabi 81, 140, 186 Bent, Theodore & Mabel 19 Cornwall, John Wolfran 70 Gordon, William 66 Kyrgyzstan 32, 120 Nazarov, Filipp M. 124 Redman, H. Vere 92 Thesiger, Wilfred 182–3 Abyssinia 52, 90, 94 Bible 60 Court, Major Henry 142 Goury, Jules 91 La Pérouse, J. F. G. de 98 Neale, Frederick Arthur 125 Renouard de Sainte-Croix, marquis Thirlwall, Newell Connop 184 Adams, Arthur 1 big game hunting 41, 52, 73, 90, 122 Crimea 24, 53, 89 Gräffer, Franz 67 La Roque, Jean de 99 Nearchus 13 148 Thomas, Bertram 185 Admiralty 2 Black Sea 24 Croydon, Edward 43 Graham, Robert Blackall 68 Laborde, Charles 95 New Hebrides 60 Rentz, George, Jr 8, 9 Thomas, Bertram 185 Afghanistan 14, 27, 56, 59, 93, 119, Blake, William 175 Ctesias of Cnidos 3 Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, André 69 Laborde, Léon de 96 New Zealand 39, 46, 47 Rich, Gregory 149 Thomas, R. Hughes 186 128–9, 158, 178, 204 Bligh, William 20, 21 Custine, marquis de 44 Grater, Cpl E. W. 101 Lake, General Lord 189 Newton, Charles Thomas 126 Roberts, David 150–1 Thompson, George 187 Agatharchides 3 Bogle, George 117 Dapper, Olfert 45 Gray, James 70 Lane, J. T. H. 97 Nicole, Gustave 127 Rogers, Henry Darwin 152 Thomson, John 188 Ahmad ibn ‘Arabshah 192 Bokhara 93, 120, 134–5, 180 Darwin, Charles 46, 47 Greece 3, 28, 34, 78, 107, 184, 195 Larbaud, Valery 95 Niedermayer, Oskar von 128 Rowley, Henry 153 Thorn, William 189 Ainsworth, William Francis 4 Bombay 70, 138, 186 Davenport, Charles Talbot 48 Grindlay, Robert Melville 71 Larpent, Sir George 144 Niger 110 Royal Air Force 190 thuggee 168 Albania 78 Bombay printed 42, 73, 115, 186 Davy, Major William 193 Guedalla, Philip 196 Lawrence-Archer, James Henry 106 Nimatullah 129 Russell, Charles Marion 154 Tibbs, William Arthur 190 Aldamer, Shafi 5 Bonnell, James 158 Dawnay, Guy 156 Guyana 159, 175 Lawrence, A. W. 105 Nivedita, Sister 41 Russia 32, 44, 59, 133, 136, 155–6 Tibet 117 Alexander, Sir James 6 Borneo 118 De Wilde, G. R. 112 Haghe, Louis 14, 150–1 Lawrence, H. M. 100 Noble, Margaret 41 Russian sphere of influence 24, 32, tigers 41 Alice, HRH Princess 5 Bosville, Godfrey 203 Develin, Sgt.-Maj. 49 Hansen, Hazel D. 105 Lawrence, T. E. 101–5, 185, 190 Noble, William Bonneau 43 53, 89, 93, 98, 111, 120, 123–4, 132, Timkovski, Egor Fedorovich 191 Allenby, Gen. 101 botany 39, 45 Devon 43 Harcourt, A. F. P. 72 Lebkicher, Roy 8, 9 North America 31, 98, 152, 154 134, 136, 139, 180 Timur (Tamerlane) 192–4 Alps, the 51 Botany Bay 16, 98 Dorn, Johannes Albrecht Bernhard Harris, William Cornwallis 73 Levant 126, 195 (see also Turkey) North-West Frontier 27, 80, 130, 190 Russo-Japanese War 156 Tournefort, Jospeph Pitton de 195 American Civil War 152 Bounty, HMS 20, 21 129 Hart, B. H. Liddell 103 Livingstone, David 108 Norton, E. F. 82 Ruttledge, Hugh 165 Townsend, George, marquis 16 American Indians see Native Ameri- Brazil 29 Dozon, Auguste 123 Havell, Daniel 43 Lorria, August 51 Nubia 150–1 Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de 157 Tuchman, Barbara Wertheim 196 cans Brémond, Edouard 22 drawings, original 48, 64 Hawkesworth, John 39 Loughland, Ronald A. 109 Nuñez, Ignacio Sale, George 147 Turkey 61, 77, 78, 125, 144, 162 American Revolution 7, 66 Bright, Richard 113 Duguet, Marie-Louise-Firmin 50 Heine, Wilhelm 74 Loyalty Islands 60 Nyasaland 153 Sale, Lady Florentia 158 Turkish language 111 Anatolia 4, 24, 45 British Petroleum Co. 36 Dundas, Philip 13 Hejaz 22 Lumsden, Col. Thomas 100 O’Donovan, Edmond 132 Samarang, HMS 1, 118 Turkmenistan 32, 132 Andalus, al- 38, 91 Brockedon, William 150–1 Dutch East Indies 174 Herbert, Thomas 75 Lyon, George Francis 110 oil industry 5, 8–10, 36 Saudi Arabia 5, 8–10 Tutankhamen 30 Andrews, John 7 Browne, William George 23 Dutt, Guru-Sadaya 41 Hill, Aaron 77 Ma, P. H. 92 Olearius, Adam 133 Schomburgk, Robert Hermann 159 United Provinces of the Rio de la Angola 108 Bruce, C. G. 82 Eckenstein, Oscar 51 Himalayas 12, 72, 82, 137 Mace, Arthur C. 30 Olufsen, Ole 134–5 Scott, Robert F. 160–1 Plata 131 Antarctica 39, 160–1, 163–4, 202 Brydon, Dr William 158 Egypt 23, 30, 35, 37, 52, 64, 94, 127, Hinduism 41, 199 MacGahan, Januarius Aloysius 111–12 Oman 186 Sébah, Pascal 162 Uruguay 131 Appian 3 Buddhism 41 138, 150–1, 157, 203 Hobhouse, John Cam 78 Mackenzie, Sir George Steuart 113 Öschläger, Adam 133 Second World War 62 Uzbekistan 32, 123, 139 Arabian Peninsula 3, 11, 13, 19, 22, Budishchev, Ivan Matveevich 24 Egyptian Expeditionary Force 101 Holdstock, Peter 79 Macklin, Dr A. H. 202 Ostroumov, Nikolai Petrovich 194 Shackleton, Ernest H. 163–4, 202 vampires 195 26, 58, 75, 79, 96, 99, 101–5, 109, Bunbury, Sir Charles 16 Eliot, Hon. William Gordon Corn- Holy Land 25, 35, 55 Mahan, A. T. 114 Ottoman Empire see Turkey Sharpe, Capt. John H. 198 Van Nice, Robert L. 197 140–1, 143, 145, 173, 182–3, 185 Burckhardt, John Lewis 25 wallis 53 Hopkirk, Peter 22 Malay Archipelago 1, 118 Ozell, John 195 shipbuilding 87 Vance, Harold D. 10 Arabic language 3, 35, 91, 192 Burke, John 27 England 43 Hormuz 18, 133 Malcolm, Sir John 115 Pacific 20, 21, 39, 62, 98 Shipton, Eric 165 Vickers, Thomas H. 198 Aramco 8–10 Burma 68 Ethiopia see Abyssinia Horn, Robert 80 Manchoukuo 92 Pakistan see Balochistan and Punjab Shury, James 43 Vincent, William 13 archaeology 30, 64, 107 Burton, Richard F. 26 Everest 82 Horsburgh, James 81 Mandelso, Johan Albrecht de 133 Palestine 55 Siborne, William 166 waggoners see naval pilots Archer, Edward Caulfield 12 Byron, Robert 28 Eyriès, J. B. 191 horticulture 15 Manger, Samuel Hendrik 192 Pallas, Peter Simon 136 Sikhs 27, 100, 106, 142 Ward, William 199 Arctic 112 Carls, Francisco Henrique 29 Ferrario, Giulio 55 Howard-Bury, C. K. 82 Mann, Frederick & Helen E. 116 Paris 95 Sillitoe, Alan 179 watercolours, original 6, 64, 72, 95, Argentina 131 Carmelite Order 33 Ferrier, J. P. 56 hunting see big game hunting Manning, Thomas 117 Parks, Fanny 137 Silveira, Humberto da 5 155, 181 Arrian 13 Carter, Howard 30 Fisher, John, bp of Salisbury 43 Iceland 113 maps 32, 52, 89, 116, 166, 204 Parsons, Abraham 138 Skinner, James 167 Waterloo 166 Assyria 4, 45 Catlin, George 31 Fitzgerald, Peter Francis 130 India 3, 12, 13, 27, 41, 42, 48, 49, 57, Markham, Clements R. 117 Pashino, Petr Ivanovich 139 slavery 2, 52, 168 Wavell, Archibald 156 Astor, Nancy 41 Central Asia see Russian sphere of FitzRoy, Robert 46, 47 70–72, 80, 81, 83, 93, 97, 100, 106, 119, Marryat, Frank S. 118 Peel, Capt. William 35 Sleeman, Sir William Henry 168 Wellesley, Richard Colley, marquess Athens 107 influence Fontane, Marius 127 122, 125, 130, 133, 137, 149, 167–9, 179, Martin, Montgomery 200 Peking (Beijing) 177, 188, 191 Socotra 19 200 Athos, Mt. 28 Chaldea 4 Forrest, Charles Ramus 57 189–90, 198, 205 Masson, Charles 119 penal colonies 16 Solvyns, François Baltazar 169 Wellington, Duke of 189 Atkinson, James 14 charts, manuscript 24 (see also maps) Forster, Charles 58 Ionian Islands 69, 195 Mauritius 75 Pernambuco 29 South Africa 73, 75, 108, 121, 133, 187 Wertheim, Barbara 196 atlases 109, 152 Chick, Herbert 33 Forster, Georg 39 Iran see Persia McMahon, Sir A. Henry 181 Perry, Matthew C. 74 South America 46, 47 White, Joseph 193 Attiret, Jean-Denis 15 China 15, 32, 65, 92, 116, 133, 148, Forster, George 59 Istanbul 197 (see also Constantinople) McMillan, W. N. 90 Persia 4, 18, 33, 36, 59, 67, 75, 97, 115, Spain 7, 196 (see also Andalus, al-) Whitehouse, Thomas 201 Australia 16, 39, 46, 47, 98 176, 187, 191 Forster, John Reinold 39 Ives, Edward 83 Mecca 26, 45, 50, 138, 147 133, 138, 155 Spence, Joseph 15 Whitton, F. E. 156 aviation 157, 190 Chinese language 177 Foster, Mrs Jonathan 38 Jamaica 6 Mediterranean 17, 69 Persian Gulf 2, 81, 109, 140–1, 186 St Helena 75 Wilcocke, Samuel Hull 174 Ayrouard, Jacques 17 Chitral 49 France 95 Japan 62, 74, 84–88, 92, 98, 133, 146, Mesopotamia 4, 45, 97, 138 Persian language 115 Stanley, Henry Morton 170 Wild, Frank 202 Azerbaijan 155 Choiseul-Gouffier, comte de 34 Fraser, J. Baillie 167 156 Mexico 152 Petra 25, 96 Stark, Freya 173 Wilmett, Johannes 147 Babylonia 4, 45 Churi, Joseph H. 35 Fraser, William Alexander 60 Jervis, Thomas Best 89 Meyendorff, Michael de 120 Philaurī, Sharadhā Rāma 142 Stavorinus, Johan Splinter 174 Wilson, Robert Thomas 203 Bahrain 79, 186 circumnavigation 39, 40, 98 Galapagos Islands 46, 47 Jesse, William 56 Miles, Col. Samuel B. 115, 186 Philby, Harry St John Bridger 143 Stedman, John Gabriel 175 women 61 Balch, Alfred Connor 164 Clark, Christopher 36 Garnett, Lucy M. J. 61 Jessen, Burchart Heinrich 90 military history 7, 27, 49, 62, 65, 66, Philippines 62, 118, 133, 148 Stein, Sir Aurel 176 woodblock 146 Ballard, Lieut.-Col. J. A. 119 Cochin 201 Garrett, Hal & Ned 62 Johnston, A. Keith 152 68, 80, 88, 89, 101–6, 114, 121, 149, photographically illustrated 5, 8, 19, Steineke, Max 8, 9 world see circumnavigation Balochistan 119, 181 Cochinchina 148 Gayangos, Pascual de 38, 91 Jones, Owen 91 156, 166, 167, 189, 198–201, 203 51, 68, 76, 79, 82, 92, 109, 126, 134–5, Stent, George Carter 177 Wyld, James 204 Bankes, Thomas 40 Condé, J. A. 38 Germany 76 Josselyn, Doris 103 military uniforms 86 139, 161, 173, 181–3, 188, 202 Stocqueler, Joachim Hayward 178 Yemen 99 Banks, Joseph 16 Constantinople 24, 78, 126, 144, Gessi, Romolo 52 Kamada, Saburodayu Gyomio 88 Monaco 17 photographs, original 5, 10, 27, 49, Stuart-Glennie, John S. 61 Young, Gavin 205 Beagle, HMS 46, 47 162, 195 Gleason, Joseph M. 38 Kashmir 59, 93 Mongolia 32, 191 62, 64, 80, 97, 190 Stuart, Granville 154 Young, Sir Allen William 112 Behr, Johann von der 18 Cook, James 39, 40 Godart, Justin 50 Kawakami, Clarke H. 92 Montague, William Edward 121 pirates 118, 186 Sudan 19, 23, 52, 90, 110 zoology 1 Belcher, Sir Edward 1 Coomaraswamy, Ananda K. 41 Goldsmith, George 65 Kazakhstan 32, 93 Mortel, Richard 5 PMM titles 108 Suez Canal 127

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