Albums, Manuscripts, & Books About Travel offered by Sanctuary Books July 2015 [email protected] www.sanctuaryrarebooks.com 212-861-1055 { item no. 6 } { 1 - Afrique et Amerique } D'Avity, Pierre. Generale de L’Afrique Seconde Partie du Monde. [Bound with his:] Description Generale de L’Amerique, Troisieme Partie du Monde. Paris: chez Laurent Cottereau, 1643. Parts I and II (of 4) in one volume, complete for each part of the world; folio (345 x 220mm). Two engraved folding maps of Africa and the Western Hemisphere by Petrus Bertius, both dated 1640 (second state). Title pages separately printed in red and black with engraved allegorical vignette in each, decorative woodcut initials, chapter head and tail-pieces throughout. Near contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, gilt-stamped morocco title label on spine, red sprinkled edges; (occasional small dampstains, lightly browned throughout, maps with come creases, trimmed; lightly rubbed with some small gouges). Te Generale was frst published in 1619 under the title Les Etats, Empires et Principautez du Monde, this edition is probably edited by Jean Baptist Rocoles (whose name appears in the 1660 edition). Te Bertius maps were frst published in 1624 and this copy maintains the second state (dated 1640) unique to this edition. Te same title was printed by Claude Sonnius and Denys Bechet in Paris that same year 1643, although having the third state maps (dated 1646). Pierre D’Avity was an avid explorer and undertook many historical and geographical tours which lead to several publications on worldly descriptions. Tis 17th-century two-part compilation is notable for keeping some of the earliest mentions of the rediscovery of the island Martinique in 1637. Te work is completed in two further parts on Asia and Europe. $4,000 { 2 - Africa } Smith, A. Donaldson. Trough Unknown African Countries: Te First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu. London / New York: Edward Arnold, 1897. First Edition. Publisher's gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, t.e.g.; small 4to; pp. xvi, 471, [5] (blank, ads); plus photogravure frontispiece portrait, 6 folding maps, and numerous illustrations. Spine tips and corners lightly bumped and chipped; rear board lightly scuffed. Internally clean. $250 { 3 - Algiers } Margueritte, Paul. Alger - L' Hiver. Alger: J. Gervais Courtellemont, 1891. Full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, ornately gilt-stamped on boards and spine; folio; pp. 56, [3], plus numerous b/w photo-illustrations in text, and 16 plates. Binding a bit scuffed along joints and edges of boards; corners bumped. Contemporary inscription on front fyleaf, and some light foxing on endpapers; otherwise internally bright and clean. A scarce and attractive book. $175 { 4 } Stark, Freya. Te Southern Gates of Arabia. London: John Murray, 1946. $20 { 5 } Huxley, Aldous. Jesting Pilate, Te Diary of a Journey. London: Chatto and Windus, 1926. First Edition. Blue cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. [8], 291, [5] (ads), plus frontispiece and 13 plates. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; edges of boards just a little tanned; ownership signature on FFEP. Dust jacket chipped along the edges; two large tears down front panel. On India, Burma, Malaya, the Pacifc, and America. $100 { 6 } Post Card Album. Collection of postcards from all over the world, many with postmarks and stamps, early 1900s. Decorative paper over boards, cloth backstrip; 8x11 inches; pp. 76, each hosting 4 postcards, and COMPLETELY FULL! A grand total of 304 postcards, in full-color and b/w, offering scenes of Cairo, Paris, Barbados, Manila, Sydney, Tahiti, San Francisco, New Jersey -- and more. Many have postmarks and postage stamps. Cards are "mounted" into slits at their corners, and therefore whole and removable. With laid-in hand-drawn and illustrated map, quite toned and worn but very capably carried out, with a journey by sea indicated in red. Hinges cracked, with mull exposed; boards quite scuffed. Contents are in excellent condition, bright and clean (excepting a few faws in the map), and very, very cool. $750 { 7 } AROUND THE WORLD, 1928: Passenger's Photo Album from a Journey on the Ocean Liner "Resolute," Hamburg-America Line. Stab binding, leather over fexible boards, "Photographs / Around the World 1928 / S. S. Resolute" stamped in gilt on front board; oblong, 13x10 inches; contains over 450 b/w silver gelatin prints, affixed to recto and verso of each page with corner mounts, usually 4 per page. Average photo size is 5x4 inches, with handwritten caption printed direct on the photograph. Also includes 8x10s of the ship, the captain, and group portraits for a masquerade ball, an Oriental ball, a Japanese ball, and a ladies' luncheon, plus two laid-in group portraits, taken in Jerusalem (5x7), and on the Giza Plateau in Cairo (8x10). Te group portraits offer a wonderful look at the costume and fashions of the period. Te smaller photographs offer a few images of festivities -- and one storm -- on deck, but the majority of the album is given over to wonderful images of landscapes, landmarks, and people encountered on our compiler's long journey, from January to May of 1928. Ports visited include: Maderia, Algiers, Monte Carlo, Nice, Naples, Athens, Jerusalem, Djibouti, Agra, Delhi, Benares, Bombay, Calcutta, Ceylon, Rangoon, Sumatra, Java, Singapore, Bangkok, Borneo, Manila, Hong Kong, Formosa, Shanghai, Peking, Kyoto, Nikko, Kobe, Yokohara, Honolulu, and the Panama Canal. Boards deteriorating along the edges; pages a bit brittle; a few corner mounts broken, with photographs laid in. Nicely composed, exposed and printed, all photographs in this rich volume are in excellent condition, and removable for display (if so desired). $1,000 { 8 } Photograph Album, Scrapbook, Travelogue, Documenting a Cruise from May to September 1930, Aboard the T. S. S. Rotterdam to England, Ireland, Norway, Holland, Austria, France, and Russia. Cloth-covered boards, 12 x 10.5 inches; contains 30 grey heavy cardstock leaves. Nicely preserves silver- gelatin photographs (in sepia and b/w, average size is 2 x 4 inches), passenger lists, postcards, telegrams, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, a few manuscript entries, and more, tipped-onto the rectos and versos of every leaf, or laid-in at rear. Boards a bit scuffed, with a scattering of tiny bleached spots. Binding a bit shaken, as expected, as the volume is near-to bursting with keepsakes and treasures. Photographs of landmarks, landscapes, streetscapes, and some wonderful images of the clothing, interior design, and cars of the period. Postcards (mostly b/w, with a few colored) include – but are not limited to – Stonehenge, Tunbridge Wells, Warwick Castle, Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Anne Hathaway’s cottage (and lovely garden), Raglan Castle, Gloucester Cathedral, Blarney Castle, a portrait of Lenin, a portrait of Stalin, Te Paramount Hotel of New York City. Here and there throughout, this travelogue includes quite a few interesting pamphlets. All of them are clean and legible, though adhered to the scrapbook by their rear covers (and, as such, not removable without causing damage). Tey are: A guide to Te Duke of Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth; Te Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of Christ; Canterbury: A Handbook for Pilgrims; Guide to the High Rocks One Mile from Royal Tunbridge Wells; A Short Guide to Battle Abbey; A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Original Paintings and Drawings Made to Illustrate Books Published at the Bodley Head, (New Burlington Galleries, 1930); A guide to Compton Wynyates History of Blarney Castle; A Guide to Glebe Hotel, Lakes of Killarney, Ireland; Kate, by Mary McCartie (staple-bound illustrated wraps, printed by Te Veritas Company, Dublin); Te University Collection of Antiquities Short Guide-Books, I. Te Oseberg-Ship and Te Oseberg-Room, Oslo: A. W. Broggers, 1930; Authorised Guide to the Tower of London. Te fnal leaf introduces a new cruise, aboard the S. S. George Washington to Hamburg, Southampton and Cherbourg, and Cobh (Queenstown), with a passenger list, menu, and one tiny photograph of the Statue of Liberty. Tough no details of this journey are provided, one legend is recorded in manuscript: A one- page telling of “Te Seven Sluggards in the Courtyard of the Paula Becher Modersohn House in Boettcherstrasse,” in which seven brothers dig a spring because they’re too lazy to fetch water from the well, build a dyke around their house because they’re too lazy to fend off food, pave a road because they’d rather not dig their wagon out of the mud – in general, perform any number of laborious feats so that they can enjoy their laziness in comfort. Some rather brittle newspapers, a love letter (in which a very particular engagement ring is demanded), a few stray postcards and photographs, and manuscript (see below) are laid-in at the rear. Manuscript: 5 folded leaves, comprising 17 pages. Hastily records a series of charms, spells, superstitions, and omens – undated, not offering a location. “If you see leaves and dust suddenly rise in a little whorl wind, bless yourself and leave, there is ‘a passage’ there (i e) the fairies are going by…” $375 * * * * * * * { 9 - New England } Clarke, Helen Archibald. Hawthorne's Country. New York: Te Baker and Taylor Company, 1910. First Edition. Publisher's green cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on upper board and spine, full-color illustration mounted to upper board; 8vo; pp. [10], 348, plus frontispiece and 40 plates. Spine bumped and frayed at tips, with small scuff mark in the middle; front hinge tender. $40 { 10 - New England } Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana: or, Te Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its First Planting in the Year 1620, unto the Year of Our Lord, 1698. London: Tomas Parkhurst, 1702. First Edition. Contemporary blind paneled calf, rebacked, manuscript title in second spine compartment (6 gilt-ruled bands); folio (204x313mm). Folding engraved map of New England, New York and East Jersey (313x378mm), advertisement for publisher at end.