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SUMMER 2017
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TRAVELS &VOYAGES
SUMMER 2017
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Views in the Mysore Country
[London: "published ... for Capt. Allen", 1 June 1794]. Oblong
folio (18 1/4 x 23 3/4 inches). Engraved title/dedication to
Charles Marquis Cornwallis K.G., Governor General of
Bengal, 12pp. descriptive letterpress text at end. 20
uncoloured aquatint plates by J. Wells after Allan. (Old
dampstaining). Later half calf over period marbled paper
covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Robert & Maria Travis (booklabel; sale
Sotheby's London, 26 May 2005, lot 4).
A complete copy of one of the rarest of all India view books.
(#26976) $ 15,000
ALEXANDER
ALLAN
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Nuevo Descubrimiento del gran Cathayo, ò Reynos de Tibet, por el Padre Antonio de Andrade, de la Compañia de Iesus, Portugues, en el año de 1624 [caption title].
Lisbon : por Mateo Piñeiro, 1626. Quarto (7 1/2 x 5 5/8
inches). Collation: A-E4, F3 (ll.1-22 text, with caption title
and 8-line woodcut initial at start of text on recto of l.1; [1
leaf] "licencias" on recto, verso blank). Modern blue
morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, spine
lettered in gilt.
The very rare second printing of the first authoritative
printed account of a European traveller's visit to Tibet.
(#20420) $ 27,500
ANTONIO DE
ANDRADE
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Narrative of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed in surveying the islands of the eastern archipelago
London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848. 2 volumes, 8vo. 5
maps (3 folding and housed inside the pocket in volume
one), 30 plates (including 10 tinted lithographed views).
Publisher's purple cloth, covers blocked in blind and gilt,
spines faded.
First edition of a classic account of a surveying voyage in the
far east.
(#34359) $ 4,500
EDWARD
BELCHER
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A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken bycommand of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty's Ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh
London: printed for George Nicol, 1792. Quarto. Stipple-
engraved portrait frontispiece, 7 engraved plates, charts and
plans, uncut. Expertly bound to style in half 18th century
russia and contemporary marbled paper covered boards,
spine gilt in 6 compartments, red morocco lettering piece in
the second, the others with a repeat decoration in gilt.
First edition of the full official account of the Bounty
expedition, the famous mutiny and Bligh's miraculous
navigation to safety: a fine uncut copy.
(#33091) $ 12,000
WILLIAM
BLIGH
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Group 60 photographs depicting the people and landscape of Ceylon, and including a number of images documenting the visit by Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Ceylon: 1893. Mounted albumen photographs, many
captioned in manuscript on the mounts, many signed in the
negative by Skeen. Image sizes approximately 10 1/2 x 8 1/2
inches; card mounts measuring 14 7/8 x 12 inches. Housed in
a contemporary full morocco box, by A. Guenther of Vienna,
gilt patterned endpapers and edges, metal hinges and
clasps.
Lovely collection of 19th century images of Ceylon's people
and landscape, including images of a royal visit by Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
(#33778) $ 28,500
CEYLON
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A Voyage to the South Atlantic, and round the Cape Horn into the Pacific Ocean
London: printed for the author, by W. Bennett, 1798. 4to (11
1/2 x 9 inches). Stipple-engraved portrait frontispiece of the
dedicatee Sir Philip Stephens, by J. Collyer after William
Beechey, 6 folding engraved maps, 1 plate of a sperm
whale, 2 plates of coastal profiles. Contemporary calf,
covers with an elaborate wide gilt border, panelled in gilt
and blind with intricate cornerpieces comprised of small
tools, expertly rebacked to style, spine with wide semi-
raised bands in five compartments, black morocco lettering
piece in the second, the others with a repeat decoration in
gilt, marbled endpapers.
Important and rare account of whaling in the Pacific.
(#30271) $ 16,000
JAMESCOLNETT
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An Account of the Voyages undertaken by the order of His Present Majesty for making discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere
London: printed for W. Strahan, and T. Cadell, 1773. 3
volumes, quarto (11 x 8 5/8 inches). 51 engraved plates, maps
and charts. Contemporary calf, expertly rebacked to style,
spine gilt with raised bands, red and green morocco
lettering pieces. Provenance: Earl Fitzwilliam (Milton
House, Cambridgeshire, book label, armorial bookplate).
The Fitzwilliam set of the first edition, first issue, of
Hawkesworth's account of the most important mid-18th
century English voyages of exploration to the southern
hemisphere, including the official account of Cook's first
voyage.
(#25577) $ 12,000
JAMES COOK &
JOHN HAWKESWORTH
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An Account of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage by Hudson's Streights, to the Western and Southern Ocean of America
London: Sold by Mr. Jolliffe [and others], 1748-49. 2
volumes, 8vo (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches). [2], vii, [1], 237, [1]; [2], 328,
313-326, [18]pp. 10 engraved maps and plates.
Contemporary speckled calf, spine with raised bands in six
compartments, brown and black morocco lettering pieces
in the second and third compartments, the others with a
repeat decoration in gilt (expert repairs at joints).
A rare and important narrative of an early exploratory
expedition in Hudson's Bay in search of the Northwest
Passage.
(#33865) $ 39,500
THEODORE DRAGE
OR CHARLES SWAINE
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Discoveries of the French in 1768 and 1769, to the South-East of New Guinea, with the Subsequent Visits to the Same Lands by English Navigators, who Gave Them New Names
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1791. 4to (10 3/4 x 8 1/4
inches). xxiv,323,[1]pp. Half-title. 12 engraved folding maps
and plates (9 maps, 2 views, and a plate). Twentieth-century
half brown calf over patterned paper covered boards, spine
with raised bands, black morocco lettering piece in the
second compartment, the others with a repeat decoration in
gilt. Provenance: J. T. Sureune (signature dated 1837 on
endpaper); Thomas Gill (bookplate on the front pastedown).
First English edition, following the French edition of the
previous year.
(#28662) $ 3,250
CHARLES PIERRE
FLEURIEU
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Sinai and Palestine ... [With:] Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids ... [And with:] Upper Egypt and Ethiopia
London: William MacKenzie, [1863]. 3 volumes, small folio
(16 7/8 x 12 inches). 111 mounted gold-toned albumen
photographs (additional title with mounted vignette and 36
photographs, in each volume). Scattered minor foxing at
sheet edges. Expertly bound to style in half black morocco
and publisher's period cloth covered boards, spines with
raised bands in six compartments, ruled in gilt on either
side of each band, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt
edges.
The best edition of Frith's photographs of Upper and Lower
Egypt and the Holy Land.
(#31437) $ 37,500
FRANCIS
FRITH
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Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine effectué pendant les années 1866, 1867, et 1868 par une Commission Française présidée par M. le Capitaine de Frégate Doudart de Lagrée.
Paris: Librarie Hachette, 1873. 4 volumes in three (text: 2
vols., large 4to; atlas: 2 volumes in one, folio). Text: titles in
red and black, half-titles. Portrait frontispiece, 1 plate of
medals, 12 maps and charts; atlas: 12 maps, 9 plans, 1 tinted
lithographic aerial view, 48 plates on 40 sheets. Expertly
bound to style in crimson morocco-backed original pebble-
grained cloth, spines gilt, marbled endpapers.
Rare complete set of the first edition of the official printed
record of the most important 19th-century exploratory
expedition into Indochina.
(#18660) $ 37,500
M . JOSEPH FRANCIS
GARNIER
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Navigantium atque Itinerantium Bibliotheca; or, a Compleat Collection of Voyages and Travels: consisting of above four hundred of the most authentick writers
London: printed for Thomas Bennet, John Nicholson and
Daniel Midwinter, 1705. 2 volumes, folio. 2pp. list of
subscribers. 32 engraved plates and maps (5 folding, 5
double-page). Contemporary calf, covers panelled in blind,
spines in seven compartments with raised bands, red
morocco lettering piece. Provenance: Robert Fairfax of
Steeton (armorial bookplate).
The first edition of this important compilation of world
voyages, including descriptions of voyages to America, the
Arctic, Africa, the Middle East and China.
(#30507) $ 7,500
JOHN
HARRIS
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Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de La Pérouse ... [With:] Atlas pour servir à la Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de La Pérouse ...
Paris: Chez H. J. Jansen, An VIII [1799-1800]. 3 volumes
(text: 4to [11 3/4 x 9 inches]; atlas: folio [21 x 13 1/2 inches]).
Atlas: Engraved title, folding map, and 43 plates. Half titles
in the text. Text and atlas uncut. Text in contemporary blue
patterned paper-covered boards, rebacked to style; atlas
bound to style in period uniform blue patterned paper
covered boards, paper spine labels.
A fine uncut set of the first edition of the official published
account of the search for La Pérouse, by the naturalist on
the d'Entrecasteaux expedition.
(#21588) $ 13,500
JACQUES J . H . DE
LABILLARDIERE
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Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure dans les Isles de Chio, de Rhodes, de Chypres &c. De même que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, de Syrie, et de la Terre Sainte
Delft: chez Henri de Kroonevelt, 1700. Folio. Engraved
portrait of Le Brun by G. Valck after Sir Godfrey Kneller,
emblematic additional engraved title, folding engraved map,
97 engraved plates (including folding panoramas), 24
engraved illustrations. Expertly bound to style in period
mottled calf, spine with raised bands in six compartments,
red morocco lettering piece in the second, the others with a
repeat decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers.
First edition in French of this classic of Middle Eastern
travel, with spectacular panoramic views.
(#33305) $ 10,000
CORNELIUS
LE BRUN
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Voyages Celebres & remarquables, Faits de Perse Aux Indes Orientales ... Nouvelle Edition revûe & corrigée exactement, augmentée considerablement
Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Céne, 1727. 2 volumes in 1,
small folio (12 1/8 x 7 5/8 inches). Titles printed in red and
black. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 44 engraved maps,
plans and views (31 folding), 19 in-text engraved
illustrations. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands in
seven compartments, red and green morocco lettering
pieces in the second and third, the others with a repeat
decoration in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges.
A lovely copy of a noted illustrated work on Asia, including
maps and views of India, China, and Japan.
(#30277) $ 7,800
JOHANN A . VON
MANDELSLO
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The Pageant of Peking. Comprising Sixty-six Vandyck Photogravures of Peking and Environs
Shanghai: Published by A. S. Watson, printed and bound by
Kelly & Walsh, 1922. Folio. 66 photogravures by Mennie,
each tipped to larger sheets within a printed border with
captions to the facing images on verso. Calligraphic
manuscript presentation leaf signed by the trustees and
vestry of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Shangahi. Publisher's
blue silk, upper cover decorated and lettered in gilt.
Housed in a contemporary custom carved wooden box with
Chinese motifs.
A spectacular collection of photographs of early 20th-
century Beijing and the surrounding countryside: special
presentation copy housed in a carved wooden box.
(#29413) $ 6,000
DONALD
MENNIE
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Ambassades mémorables de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales des Provinces Unies vers les Empereurs du Japon.
Amsterdam: Jan Van Meurs, 1680. 2 parts in one volume,
folio. Title in red and black with integral engraved vignette.
Engraved additional title, 26 engraved maps and plates, 70
engraved illustrations, occasional engraved initials and
head-pieces. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked,
spine in seven compartments with raised bands, red
morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, dated
at the foot of the spine.
First edition in French of this important work on Japan, a
work whose illustrations "represent a high-water mark in
book illustrations of the 17th century" (Lach).
(#23668) $ 9,500
ARNOLDUS
MONTANUS
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Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Ægypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid ... collected and translated from the most authentick authors, and augmented with later observations
London: Tho. Johnson for the author, 1670. Folio (15 3/4 x 10
3/8 inches). Title in red and black. Engraved frontispiece, 59
engraved maps and plates (including 10 "half-sheet" views),
numerous in-text engravings, 9 leaves of letterpress tables.
Extra-illustrated with an additional plate from Ogilby's
America (Angra). Contemporary reverse calf, expertly
rebacked to style, red morocco lettering piece. Housed in a
modern full red morocco box.
A wide-margined, complete copy of the most authoritative
17th-century account of Africa published in English.
(#31205) $ 12,500
JOHN
OGILBY
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Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes ... [With:] ... Partie Historique rédigée par M. F. Péron. Atlas par MM. Lesueur et Petit ...
Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale, [1807-]1816. 3 volumes (2
vols. quarto text; large quarto atlas, two parts in one.
Historique text: half-titles, 2 folding tables, engraved
portrait frontispiece; Historique atlas: engraved titles, 40
engraved plates, 14 maps. Extra-illustrated with an
additional portrait of Baudin and 25 additional engraved
plates, comprising all the plates added to the 1824 second
edition. Nineteenth century green calf backed marbled
paper covered boards, flat spines gilt, marbled endpapers.
The rare first edition of the official narrative of the Baudin-
Freycinet Expedition: a unique example extra-illustrated
with additional plates from the second edition.
(#31302) $ 30,000
FRANÇOIS PÉRON &
LOUIS DE FREYCINET
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A Voyage Round the World; but more particularly to the North-West Coast of America
London: Printed for John Stockdale, and George Goulding,
1789. Quarto. xii, 384, xl pp. 20 engraved plates, charts and
maps (6 folding charts or maps, 2 engraved portraits, 12
engraved plates [the 5 ornithological plates with
contemporary hand-colouring, as issued]). Bound to style in
period mottled calf, covers with a Greek key border in gilt,
flat spine gilt, black morocco lettering piece, marbled
endpapers.
Rare deluxe issue with hand coloured plates of the first
edition of a classic narrative of the early exploration on the
Northwest coast.
(#33030) $ 17,500
NATHANIEL
PORTLOCK
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A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Seas, thence to the East Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope
London: printed for A. Bell and B. Lintot, 1712. Octavo (7 1/2
x 4 3/4 inches). 5 engraved folding maps. Contemporary
panelled calf, expertly rebacked to style, spine with raised
bands in six compartments, red morocco lettering piece.
Provenance: Thomas Cholmodeley (armorial bookplate).
First edition of an important early Pacific voyage and a
British buccaneering classic.
(#33067) $ 4,500
WOODES
ROGERS
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Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions ... [With:] Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage
London: A.W. Webster, 1835. 2 volumes, large quarto.
[Narrative:] 6 maps, 25 plates (9 hand-coloured).
[Appendix:] 20 plates. 37pp. list of subscribers, 1p. with
errata and additions to subscriber's list. Uncut and partially
unopened. Modern black morocco, covers panelled in blind,
spines with raised bands.
First editions of both the Narrative and the separately-
issued Appendix to Ross' second Arctic voyage: the large-
paper, "royal" issue, with additional hand coloured plates.
(#33127) $ 2,000
JOHN
ROSS
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An Authentic Account of an Embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China ... Taken chiefly from the papers of His Excellency the Earl of Macartney
London: W.Bulmer & Co. for G.Nicol, 1797. 3 volumes (text:
2 vols, quarto; atlas vol.: large folio) Text: 2 engraved
portrait frontispieces, 1 plate, 26 vignette illustrations. Atlas:
44 engraved views, plans, plates, charts or maps. Text:
contemporary tree calf, flat spine gilt. Atlas: expertly bound
to style in half calf and period brown paper covered boards,
spine gilt uniform to the text. Provenance: Sir Thomas
Courtenay Warner, 1st Baronet (armorial bookplate in text).
First edition of the official published account of the first
British embassy to China, headed by the Earl Macartney:
complete with the atlas of maps and plates.
(#27884) $ 27,500
GEORGE LEONARD
STAUNTON
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Western Himalaya and Tibet; a Narrative of a Journey through the Mountains of Northern India, during the years 1847-8.
London: Reeve and Co., 1852. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches). Two
tinted lithographed plates, 2 maps (one folding). 1p.
publisher's ad in the rear. Publisher's brown cloth,
decoratively stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, yellow
endpapers.
First edition, in publisher's cloth.
(#31610) $ 2,000
THOMAS
THOMSON
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Incredible photographic album of photographs documenting Harry Whitney's first and second expeditions to Arctic Greenland
[Northern Greenland]: 1909-1910. Oblong small folio (11 x 14
inches). 259 silver gelatin prints, most Whitney's
photographer's credit in the image, mounted recto only on
black paper within the album, images measuring approx, 3
1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Contemporary leather, upper cover
lettered in gilt. Housed in a black morocco backed box.
Provenance: G. Frederick Norton.
An important photographic record of high Arctic
exploration.
(#32859) $ 32,500
HARRY
WHITNEY
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