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DAMPIER (WILLIAM) Autograph letter signed ("Willi Dampyer"), to his employer Colonel William Helyar of East Coker ("Honrd Sir"), written early in his career while helping to manage Helyar's plantation in Jamaica, Jamaica, 13 January 1674[/75]. Sold for £74,500 inc. premium

DESCARTES (RENÉ) Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, & chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus la dioptrique. Les meteores. Et la geometrie, Leiden, Jan Marie, 1637. Sold for £52,500 inc. premium

GREAT EXHIBITION and W.H. FOX TALBOT Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, 1851. Reports by the Juries on The Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition was Divided, 4 vol., 154 MOUNTED CALOTYPES, [1851]-1852; with Official Catalogue, First Report of the Commissioners and album of coins, together 9 vol. A COMPLETE SET OF THE PRESENTATION ISSUE' - RICHARD COBDEN'S COPY (9). Sold for £25,000 inc. premium

CHRISTIE (AGATHA) [Novels and Short Stories], 42 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, Bodley Head, Collins, for the Crime Club, Harper Collins, 1922-1997 (42). Sold for £18,750 inc. premium

DOYLE (ARTHUR CONAN) Series of thirty autograph letters relating to the Edalji Case, signed ("Arthur Conan Doyle"),the majority to Captain The Hon G. A. Anson, Chief Constable of Staffordshire; with a large quantity of material relating to the case. Sold for £13,750 inc. premium

FLEMING (IAN) [Complete set of the James Bond novels], 14 vol., FIRST EDITIONS, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR IN 'CASINO ROYALE' on a leaf bound in at front of the book, Jonathan Cape, 1953-1966 (14). Sold for £12,500 inc. premium

ELIOT (T.S.) Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO SALLY BLAKE, Faber and Faber, 1939. Sold for £10,000 inc. premium

RANSOME (ARTHUR) Swallows & Amazons, FIRST EDITION, Jonathan Cape, 1930. Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

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BELLIN (JACQUES-NICOLAS) Le Neptune françois, ou recueil des cartes maritimes, levées et gravées par ordre du Roi. Premier Volume, Contenant les Cotes de l' Europe sur l' Ocean, depuis Dronthem en Norvege, jusqu'au Detroit de Gibraltar, avec la Mer Baltique, [Versailles, L'Imprimerie du Départment de la Marine, 1773]

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BELLIN (JACQUES-NICOLAS)
Le Neptune françois, ou recueil des cartes maritimes, levées et gravées par ordre du Roi. Premier Volume, Contenant les Cotes de l' Europe sur l' Ocean, depuis Dronthem en Norvege, jusqu'au Detroit de Gibraltar, avec la Mer Baltique, [Versailles, L'Imprimerie du Départment de la Marine, 1773]

Sold for £4,750 inc. premium

COLLINS (GREENVILLE) Great-Britain's Coasting Pilot: In Two Parts, Being a New and Exact Survey of England and Scotland from the River Thames to the Westward and Northward; with the Islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle; Likewise the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount, 1776

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COLLINS (GREENVILLE)
Great-Britain's Coasting Pilot: In Two Parts, Being a New and Exact Survey of England and Scotland from the River Thames to the Westward and Northward; with the Islands of Scilly, and from thence to Carlisle; Likewise the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, J. Mount, T. Page, and W. Mount, 1776

Sold for £1,750 inc. premium

MARTIN (ROBERT MONTGOMERY) The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, J. & F. Tallis, [1857]

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MARTIN (ROBERT MONTGOMERY)
The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, J. & F. Tallis, [1857]

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

MNEMONIC GLOBE - STOKES (WILLIAM) Stokes' Capital Mnemonical Globe, (Copyright), One Shilling, by Post 14 Stamps, of Mr. William Stokes, Teacher of Memory, Royal Polytechnic Institution, London, [1868]

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MNEMONIC GLOBE - STOKES (WILLIAM)
Stokes' Capital Mnemonical Globe, (Copyright), One Shilling, by Post 14 Stamps, of Mr. William Stokes, Teacher of Memory, Royal Polytechnic Institution, London, [1868]

Sold for £3,000 inc. premium

SAXTON (CHRISTOPHER) Norfolciae comitatus continens in se. Oppida mercatoria 26, pagos et villas 625, una cum singulis hundredis et fluminibus in eodem, vera descriptio. Cornelius Hogius sculpsit. Ano. Dni 1574, 1574

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SAXTON (CHRISTOPHER)
Norfolciae comitatus continens in se. Oppida mercatoria 26, pagos et villas 625, una cum singulis hundredis et fluminibus in eodem, vera descriptio. Cornelius Hogius sculpsit. Ano. Dni 1574, 1574

Sold for £3,125 inc. premium

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SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
Maps of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vol., Chapman and Hall, 1844

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

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ALCOCK (THOMAS)
Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey and Greece, in 1828-9... Not Published, first edition, Printed by E. Clarke, 1831

Sold for £2,250 inc. premium

ARAGO (JACQUES ETIENNE VICTOR) Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicinne, commandées par M. Freycinet... Atlas historique et pittoresque [only], Paris, Leblanc, 1822

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ARAGO (JACQUES ETIENNE VICTOR)
Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicinne, commandées par M. Freycinet... Atlas historique et pittoresque [only], Paris, Leblanc, 1822

£700 - £900

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BOWLER (THOMAS WILLIAM)
South African Sketches. A Series of Ten of the Most Interesting Views of the Cape of Good Hope, FIRST EDITION, Day & Son, 1854

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

CANADA – PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND A collection of watercolours, letters, diaries and photographs relating to the Grubbe family of Prince Edward Island, [c.1790-1890]

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CANADA – PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
A collection of watercolours, letters, diaries and photographs relating to the Grubbe family of Prince Edward Island, [c.1790-1890]

Sold for £4,750 inc. premium

CHARDIN (JOHN) The Travels... into Persia and the East-Indies, Through the Black Sea, and the Countrey of Colchis: Describing Mingrelia, Imiretta, Georgia, and Several Other Countries Unknown to These Parts of Europe, George Monke and William Ewrey, 1689

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CHARDIN (JOHN)
The Travels... into Persia and the East-Indies, Through the Black Sea, and the Countrey of Colchis: Describing Mingrelia, Imiretta, Georgia, and Several Other Countries Unknown to These Parts of Europe, George Monke and William Ewrey, 1689

Sold for £1,500 inc. premium

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[DAULIER DESLANDES (ANDRE)]
Les beautez de la Perse, Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1673

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

FRASER (JAMES BAILLIE) A Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, in the Years 1821 and 1822. Including Some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia, first edition, Longman, 1825

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FRASER (JAMES BAILLIE)
A Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, in the Years 1821 and 1822. Including Some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia, first edition, Longman, 1825

Sold for £2,125 inc. premium

FER (NICOLAS DE) L'Atlas curieux ou le monde représenté dans ces cartes générales et particulières du ciel et de la terre, First part only, [Paris, chez l'auteur, 1717], sold as an atlas not subject to return

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FER (NICOLAS DE)
L'Atlas curieux ou le monde représenté dans ces cartes générales et particulières du ciel et de la terre, First part only, [Paris, chez l'auteur, 1717], sold as an atlas not subject to return

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

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FRITH (FRANCIS)
Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids, William Mackenzie, [c.1862]

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

GOLD COAST RAILWAY Album of Photographs, Eastern Division of the Gold Coast Railway [c.1909-1910]--Album of Photographs, Eastern, Central and Western Divisions of the Cold Coast Railway [1913-1922]--COLQUHOURN (ARCHIBALD AND HOLT S. HALLETT) Report on the Railway Connexion of Burmah and China [1888] (3) together with a collection of approximately 70 postcards from the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone [c.1905]

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GOLD COAST RAILWAY
Album of Photographs, Eastern Division of the Gold Coast Railway [c.1909-1910]--Album of Photographs, Eastern, Central and Western Divisions of the Cold Coast Railway [1913-1922]--COLQUHOURN (ARCHIBALD AND HOLT S. HALLETT) Report on the Railway Connexion of Burmah and China [1888] (3) together with a collection of approximately 70 postcards from the Gold Coast and Sierra Leone [c.1905]

Sold for £2,000 inc. premium

[HERBERT (THOMAS)] Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, Describing More Particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan, J. Best for Andrew Crook and William Crook, 1665

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[HERBERT (THOMAS)]
Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, Describing More Particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan, J. Best for Andrew Crook and William Crook, 1665

Sold for £750 inc. premium

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[HERBERT (THOMAS)]
Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, Describing More Particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan, R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1677

£800 - £1,200

INDIA – SIR STREYNSHAM MASTER Group of books associated with Sir Streynsham Master and his circle, including one labelled "'A Booke of Particular Remembrances' in the hand-writing of Sir Streynsham Master: 1656-1716

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INDIA – SIR STREYNSHAM MASTER
Group of books associated with Sir Streynsham Master and his circle, including one labelled "'A Booke of Particular Remembrances' in the hand-writing of Sir Streynsham Master: 1656-1716

Sold for £4,375 inc. premium

JANSCHA (LORENZ) and JOHANN ZIEGLER Collection de cinquante vûes du Rhin les plus intéressantes et les plus pittoresques, depuis Spire jusqu' à Dusseldorf; dessinées sur les lieux d'après nature [repeated in German], first edition, Vienna, Artaria und Compagnie, 1798

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JANSCHA (LORENZ) and JOHANN ZIEGLER
Collection de cinquante vûes du Rhin les plus intéressantes et les plus pittoresques, depuis Spire jusqu' à Dusseldorf; dessinées sur les lieux d'après nature [repeated in German], first edition, Vienna, Artaria und Compagnie, 1798

£25,000 - £30,000

KAEMPFER (ENGELBERT) The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol., for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, 1728

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KAEMPFER (ENGELBERT)
The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol., for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, 1728

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

KOLBE (PETER) Caput bonae spei hodiernum, Das ist vollstandige Beschreibung des Africanischen Vorgeburges der Guten Hofnung, worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet ... und ... was die eigenen Einwohner die Hottentotten, vor seltsame Sitten und Gebrache haben, first edition, Nuremberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 1719

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KOLBE (PETER)
Caput bonae spei hodiernum, Das ist vollstandige Beschreibung des Africanischen Vorgeburges der Guten Hofnung, worinnen in dreyen Theilen abgehandelt wird, wie es heut zu Tage nach seiner Situation und Eigenschaft aussiehet ... und ... was die eigenen Einwohner die Hottentotten, vor seltsame Sitten und Gebrache haben, first edition, Nuremberg, Peter Conrad Monath, 1719

£1,000 - £1,500

LASOR A VAREA (ALPHONSE) Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus... qui de Europae, Asiae, Africae, & Americae regnis, provinciis, populis, civitatibus..., 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Padua, Jo. Baptistae Conzatti, 1713

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LASOR A VAREA (ALPHONSE)
Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus... qui de Europae, Asiae, Africae, & Americae regnis, provinciis, populis, civitatibus..., 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Padua, Jo. Baptistae Conzatti, 1713

Sold for £8,750 inc. premium

LYCKLAMA A NIJEHOLT (T.M.) Voyage en Russie, au Caucase et en Perse, dans la Mésopotame, le Kurdistan, la Syrie, la Palestine et la Turquie exécuté pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868, 4 vol., first edition, Paris, Arthus Bertrand and Amsterdam, C.L. van Langenhuysen, 1872-1875

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LYCKLAMA A NIJEHOLT (T.M.)
Voyage en Russie, au Caucase et en Perse, dans la Mésopotame, le Kurdistan, la Syrie, la Palestine et la Turquie exécuté pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868, 4 vol., first edition, Paris, Arthus Bertrand and Amsterdam, C.L. van Langenhuysen, 1872-1875

Sold for £937.50 inc. premium

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MALCOLM (JOHN)
History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1815

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

MARMOL CARAVAJAL (LUIS DEL) Primera [-Segundo] parte de la descripcion general de Affrica, con todos los successos de guerras que a auido entre los infieles, y el pueblo Christiano, y entre ellos mesmos desde que Mahom inueto su secta, 2 vol., first edition, Granada, René Rabut, 1573

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MARMOL CARAVAJAL (LUIS DEL)
Primera [-Segundo] parte de la descripcion general de Affrica, con todos los successos de guerras que a auido entre los infieles, y el pueblo Christiano, y entre ellos mesmos desde que Mahom inueto su secta, 2 vol., first edition, Granada, René Rabut, 1573

Sold for £2,250 inc. premium

MARTINI (MARTINO) Bellum Tartaricum, or the Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China, by the Invasion of the Tartars, John Crook, 1654

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MARTINI (MARTINO)
Bellum Tartaricum, or the Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China, by the Invasion of the Tartars, John Crook, 1654

Sold for £1,625 inc. premium

MAURIZI (VINCENZO)] History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat; together with an Account of the Countries and People on the Shores of the Persian Gulf, particularly of the Wahabees. By Shaik Mansur, FIRST EDITION, John Booth, 1819

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MAURIZI (VINCENZO)]
History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat; together with an Account of the Countries and People on the Shores of the Persian Gulf, particularly of the Wahabees. By Shaik Mansur, FIRST EDITION, John Booth, 1819

Sold for £20,000 inc. premium

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MOUNTAINEERING REY (GUIDO)
The Matterhorn, NUMBER 5 OF 15 SIGNED COPIES, T. Fisher, 1907

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

MOUNTAINEERING AITKEN (SAMUEL) Among the Alps. A Narrative of Personal Experiences, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, [Privately Printed, 1900]

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MOUNTAINEERING
AITKEN (SAMUEL) Among the Alps. A Narrative of Personal Experiences, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, [Privately Printed, 1900]

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

OLEARIUS (ADAM) The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia... Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other Adjacent Countries ... Whereto are Added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo . . . from Persia, into the East-Indies, 2 parts in one, John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669

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OLEARIUS (ADAM)
The Voyages and Travells of the Ambassadors Sent by Frederick, Duke of Holstein, to the Great Duke of Muscovy, and the King of Persia... Containing a Compleat History of Muscovy, Tartary, Persia, and other Adjacent Countries ... Whereto are Added the Travels of John Albert de Mandelslo . . . from Persia, into the East-Indies, 2 parts in one, John Starkey and Thomas Basset, 1669

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

OUSELEY (WILLIAM) Travels in Various Countries in the East; More Particularly Persia, 3 vol., first edition, Rodwell and Martin, for the Author, 1819-1823

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OUSELEY (WILLIAM)
Travels in Various Countries in the East; More Particularly Persia, 3 vol., first edition, Rodwell and Martin, for the Author, 1819-1823

Sold for £3,750 inc. premium

PIKE (ZEBULON MONTGOMERY) Reize naar Nieuw-Mexico en de Binnenlanden van Louisiana, voorafgegaan door eenen togt naar de bronnen van de Mississippi... Uit het Engelsch vertaald, 2 vol. in 1, Amsterdam, C. Timmer, 1812

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PIKE (ZEBULON MONTGOMERY)
Reize naar Nieuw-Mexico en de Binnenlanden van Louisiana, voorafgegaan door eenen togt naar de bronnen van de Mississippi... Uit het Engelsch vertaald, 2 vol. in 1, Amsterdam, C. Timmer, 1812

£600 - £800

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RUSSIAN COSTUME
The Costume of the Russian Empire... With Descriptions in English and French, first edition, W. Miller, 1803

£800 - £1,200

TENCH (WATKIN) A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, Including an Accurate Description of the Sitution of the Colony; of the Natives; and of its Natural Resources, first edition, G. Nicol, and J. Sewell, 1793

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TENCH (WATKIN)
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, Including an Accurate Description of the Sitution of the Colony; of the Natives; and of its Natural Resources, first edition, G. Nicol, and J. Sewell, 1793

Sold for £4,000 inc. premium

THEVENOT (JEAN DE) The Travels... into the Levant. In Three Parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies, H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, 1687

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THEVENOT (JEAN DE)
The Travels... into the Levant. In Three Parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies, H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, 1687

£1,000 - £1,500

[TRIPE (LINNAEUS) Photographs of the Elliot Marbles; and Other Subjects in the Central Museum Madras. By Captain L. Tripe, Government Photographer. 1858], [1858]

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[TRIPE (LINNAEUS)
Photographs of the Elliot Marbles; and Other Subjects in the Central Museum Madras. By Captain L. Tripe, Government Photographer. 1858], [1858]

Sold for £42,500 inc. premium

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VIVIAN (GEORGE)
Scenery of Portugal and Spain, FIRST EDITION, HAND-COLOURED PLATES, P. and D. Colnaghi, 1839

Sold for £1,250 inc. premium

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WARING (EDWARD SCOTT)
A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad, 1807; A History of the Mahrattas 1810, 2 works in one

Sold for £1,187.50 inc. premium

ATKINSON (GEORGE FRANCKLIN) The Campaign in India 1857-58... Illustrating the Military Operations before Delhi and its Neighbourhood, FIRST EDITION, HAND-COLOURED Day & Son, 1859

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ATKINSON (GEORGE FRANCKLIN)
The Campaign in India 1857-58... Illustrating the Military Operations before Delhi and its Neighbourhood, FIRST EDITION, HAND-COLOURED Day & Son, 1859

Sold for £6,250 inc. premium

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ATKINSON (JAMES)
Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, [Henry Graves, 1842]

Sold for £10,000 inc. premium

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ATKINSON (JAMES)
Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, Henry Graves, 1842

Sold for £1,375 inc. premium

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ATKINSON (JAMES)
Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, Henry Graves, 1842

Sold for £1,125 inc. premium

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D'OYLY (CHARLES) AND JAMES ATKINSON
Antiquities of Dacca, first edition, Printed by John Tyler, Published by John Landseer, [c.1814-1831]

Sold for £1,750 inc. premium

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HART (LOCKYER WILLIS)
Character & Costumes of Afghaunistan, Henry Graves, 1843

Sold for £3,500 inc. premium

ALDROVANDI (ULISSE) Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... volumen composuit, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, Bologna, N. Tebaldini, 1642

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ALDROVANDI (ULISSE)
Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... volumen composuit, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, Bologna, N. Tebaldini, 1642

Sold for £8,750 inc. premium

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DODOENS (REMBERT)
Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, Antwerp, Plantin, 1616

Sold for £1,875 inc. premium

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DU FOUILLOUX (JACQUES)
La venerie... [La faunconnerie de Jean de Francieres], 2 works (as issued) in 1 vol., Paris, Claude Cramoisy, 1628

Sold for £2,500 inc. premium

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Fine Books, Manuscripts, Atlases & Historical Photographs

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3• — MARTIN (ROBERT MONTGOMERY) The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, J. & F. Tallis, [1857]

4• — MNEMONIC GLOBE - STOKES (WILLIAM) Stokes' Capital Mnemonical Globe, (Copyright), One Shilling, by Post 14 Stamps, of Mr. William Stokes, Teacher of Memory, Royal Polytechnic Institution, London, [1868]

5• — SAXTON (CHRISTOPHER) Norfolciae comitatus continens in se. Oppida mercatoria 26, pagos et villas 625, una cum singulis hundredis et fluminibus in eodem, vera descriptio. Cornelius Hogius sculpsit. Ano. Dni 1574, 1574

6• — SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE Maps of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vol., Chapman and Hall, 1844

7• — ALCOCK (THOMAS) Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey and Greece, in 1828-9... Not Published, first edition, Printed by E. Clarke, 1831

8• — ARAGO (JACQUES ETIENNE VICTOR) Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicinne, commandées par M. Freycinet... Atlas historique et pittoresque [only], Paris, Leblanc, 1822

9• — BOWLER (THOMAS WILLIAM) South African Sketches. A Series of Ten of the Most Interesting Views of the Cape of Good Hope, FIRST EDITION, Day & Son, 1854

10 — CANADA – PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND A collection of watercolours, letters, diaries and photographs relating to the Grubbe family of Prince Edward Island, [c.1790-1890]

11• — CHARDIN (JOHN) The Travels... into Persia and the East-Indies, Through the Black Sea, and the Countrey of Colchis: Describing Mingrelia, Imiretta, Georgia, and Several Other Countries Unknown to These Parts of Europe, George Monke and William Ewrey, 1689

12• — [DAULIER DESLANDES (ANDRE)] Les beautez de la Perse, Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1673

13• — FRASER (JAMES BAILLIE) A Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, in the Years 1821 and 1822. Including Some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia, first edition, Longman, 1825

14• — FER (NICOLAS DE) L'Atlas curieux ou le monde représenté dans ces cartes générales et particulières du ciel et de la terre, First part only, [Paris, chez l'auteur, 1717], sold as an atlas not subject to return

15• — FRITH (FRANCIS) Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids, William Mackenzie, [c.1862]

17• — [HERBERT (THOMAS)] Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, Describing More Particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan, J. Best for Andrew Crook and William Crook, 1665

18• — [HERBERT (THOMAS)] Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, Describing More Particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan, R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1677

19• — INDIA – SIR STREYNSHAM MASTER Group of books associated with Sir Streynsham Master and his circle, including one labelled "'A Booke of Particular Remembrances' in the hand-writing of Sir Streynsham Master: 1656-1716

20• — JANSCHA (LORENZ) and JOHANN ZIEGLER Collection de cinquante vûes du Rhin les plus intéressantes et les plus pittoresques, depuis Spire jusqu' à Dusseldorf; dessinées sur les lieux d'après nature [repeated in German], first edition, Vienna, Artaria und Compagnie, 1798

21• — KAEMPFER (ENGELBERT) The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol., for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, 1728

23• — LASOR A VAREA (ALPHONSE) Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus... qui de Europae, Asiae, Africae, & Americae regnis, provinciis, populis, civitatibus..., 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Padua, Jo. Baptistae Conzatti, 1713

24• — LYCKLAMA A NIJEHOLT (T.M.) Voyage en Russie, au Caucase et en Perse, dans la Mésopotame, le Kurdistan, la Syrie, la Palestine et la Turquie exécuté pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868, 4 vol., first edition, Paris, Arthus Bertrand and Amsterdam, C.L. van Langenhuysen, 1872-1875

25• — MALCOLM (JOHN) History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1815

26• — MARMOL CARAVAJAL (LUIS DEL) Primera [-Segundo] parte de la descripcion general de Affrica, con todos los successos de guerras que a auido entre los infieles, y el pueblo Christiano, y entre ellos mesmos desde que Mahom inueto su secta, 2 vol., first edition, Granada, René Rabut, 1573

27• — MARTINI (MARTINO) Bellum Tartaricum, or the Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China, by the Invasion of the Tartars, John Crook, 1654

28• — MAURIZI (VINCENZO)] History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat; together with an Account of the Countries and People on the Shores of the Persian Gulf, particularly of the Wahabees. By Shaik Mansur, FIRST EDITION, John Booth, 1819

29• — MOUNTAINEERING REY (GUIDO) The Matterhorn, NUMBER 5 OF 15 SIGNED COPIES, T. Fisher, 1907

30• — MOUNTAINEERING AITKEN (SAMUEL) Among the Alps. A Narrative of Personal Experiences, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, [Privately Printed, 1900]

32• — OUSELEY (WILLIAM) Travels in Various Countries in the East; More Particularly Persia, 3 vol., first edition, Rodwell and Martin, for the Author, 1819-1823

33• — PIKE (ZEBULON MONTGOMERY) Reize naar Nieuw-Mexico en de Binnenlanden van Louisiana, voorafgegaan door eenen togt naar de bronnen van de Mississippi... Uit het Engelsch vertaald, 2 vol. in 1, Amsterdam, C. Timmer, 1812

34• — RUSSIAN COSTUME The Costume of the Russian Empire... With Descriptions in English and French, first edition, W. Miller, 1803

35• — TENCH (WATKIN) A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, Including an Accurate Description of the Sitution of the Colony; of the Natives; and of its Natural Resources, first edition, G. Nicol, and J. Sewell, 1793

36• — THEVENOT (JEAN DE) The Travels... into the Levant. In Three Parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies, H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, 1687

37• — [TRIPE (LINNAEUS) Photographs of the Elliot Marbles; and Other Subjects in the Central Museum Madras. By Captain L. Tripe, Government Photographer. 1858], [1858]

38• — VIVIAN (GEORGE) Scenery of Portugal and Spain, FIRST EDITION, HAND-COLOURED PLATES, P. and D. Colnaghi, 1839

39• — WARING (EDWARD SCOTT)A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad, 1807; A History of the Mahrattas 1810, 2 works in one

40• — ATKINSON (GEORGE FRANCKLIN) The Campaign in India 1857-58... Illustrating the Military Operations before Delhi and its Neighbourhood, FIRST EDITION, HAND-COLOURED Day & Son, 1859

41• — ATKINSON (JAMES) Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, [Henry Graves, 1842]

42• — ATKINSON (JAMES) Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, Henry Graves, 1842

43• — ATKINSON (JAMES) Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, Henry Graves, 1842

44• — D'OYLY (CHARLES) AND JAMES ATKINSON Antiquities of Dacca, first edition, Printed by John Tyler, Published by John Landseer, [c.1814-1831]

45• — HART (LOCKYER WILLIS) Character & Costumes of Afghaunistan, Henry Graves, 1843

46• — ALDROVANDI (ULISSE) Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... volumen composuit, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, Bologna, N. Tebaldini, 1642

47• — DODOENS (REMBERT) Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, Antwerp, Plantin, 1616

48• — DU FOUILLOUX (JACQUES) La venerie... [La faunconnerie de Jean de Francieres], 2 works (as issued) in 1 vol., Paris, Claude Cramoisy, 1628

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3^• —
MARTIN (ROBERT MONTGOMERY)
The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World, Geographical, Political, Commercial & Statistical, J. & F. Tallis, [1857]

4^• —
MNEMONIC GLOBE - STOKES (WILLIAM)
Stokes' Capital Mnemonical Globe, (Copyright), One Shilling, by Post 14 Stamps, of Mr. William Stokes, Teacher of Memory, Royal Polytechnic Institution, London, [1868]

5^• —
SAXTON (CHRISTOPHER)
Norfolciae comitatus continens in se. Oppida mercatoria 26, pagos et villas 625, una cum singulis hundredis et fluminibus in eodem, vera descriptio. Cornelius Hogius sculpsit. Ano. Dni 1574, 1574

6^• —
SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
Maps of the Society of the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 2 vol., Chapman and Hall, 1844

7^• —
ALCOCK (THOMAS)
Travels in Russia, Persia, Turkey and Greece, in 1828-9... Not Published, first edition, Printed by E. Clarke, 1831

8^• —
ARAGO (JACQUES ETIENNE VICTOR)
Promenade autour du monde, pendant les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du Roi l'Uranie et la Physicinne, commandées par M. Freycinet... Atlas historique et pittoresque [only], Paris, Leblanc, 1822

9^• —
BOWLER (THOMAS WILLIAM)
South African Sketches. A Series of Ten of the Most Interesting Views of the Cape of Good Hope, FIRST EDITION, Day & Son, 1854

10 —
CANADA – PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
A collection of watercolours, letters, diaries and photographs relating to the Grubbe family of Prince Edward Island, [c.1790-1890]

11^• —
CHARDIN (JOHN)
The Travels... into Persia and the East-Indies, Through the Black Sea, and the Countrey of Colchis: Describing Mingrelia, Imiretta, Georgia, and Several Other Countries Unknown to These Parts of Europe, George Monke and William Ewrey, 1689

12^• —
[DAULIER DESLANDES (ANDRE)]
Les beautez de la Perse, Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1673

13^• —
FRASER (JAMES BAILLIE)
A Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan, in the Years 1821 and 1822. Including Some Account of the Countries to the North-East of Persia, first edition, Longman, 1825

14^• —
FER (NICOLAS DE)
L'Atlas curieux ou le monde représenté dans ces cartes générales et particulières du ciel et de la terre, First part only, [Paris, chez l'auteur, 1717], sold as an atlas not subject to return

15^• —
FRITH (FRANCIS)
Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids, William Mackenzie, [c.1862]

17^• —
[HERBERT (THOMAS)]
Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, Describing More Particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan, J. Best for Andrew Crook and William Crook, 1665

18^• —
[HERBERT (THOMAS)]
Some Years Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, and Asia the Great, Describing More Particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan, R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1677

19^• —
INDIA – SIR STREYNSHAM MASTER
Group of books associated with Sir Streynsham Master and his circle, including one labelled "'A Booke of Particular Remembrances' in the hand-writing of Sir Streynsham Master: 1656-1716

20^• —
JANSCHA (LORENZ) and JOHANN ZIEGLER
Collection de cinquante vûes du Rhin les plus intéressantes et les plus pittoresques, depuis Spire jusqu' à Dusseldorf; dessinées sur les lieux d'après nature [repeated in German], first edition, Vienna, Artaria und Compagnie, 1798

21^• —
KAEMPFER (ENGELBERT)
The History of Japan: Giving an Account of the Antient and Present State of Government of that Empire... together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam, 2 vol., for the Publisher, and Thomas Woodward and Charles Davis, 1728

23^• —
LASOR A VAREA (ALPHONSE)
Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calamo delineatus... qui de Europae, Asiae, Africae, & Americae regnis, provinciis, populis, civitatibus..., 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, Padua, Jo. Baptistae Conzatti, 1713

24^• —
LYCKLAMA A NIJEHOLT (T.M.)
Voyage en Russie, au Caucase et en Perse, dans la Mésopotame, le Kurdistan, la Syrie, la Palestine et la Turquie exécuté pendant les années 1866, 1867 et 1868, 4 vol., first edition, Paris, Arthus Bertrand and Amsterdam, C.L. van Langenhuysen, 1872-1875

25^• —
MALCOLM (JOHN)
History of Persia, from the Most Early Period to the Present Time, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1815

26^• —
MARMOL CARAVAJAL (LUIS DEL)
Primera [-Segundo] parte de la descripcion general de Affrica, con todos los successos de guerras que a auido entre los infieles, y el pueblo Christiano, y entre ellos mesmos desde que Mahom inueto su secta, 2 vol., first edition, Granada, René Rabut, 1573

27^• —
MARTINI (MARTINO)
Bellum Tartaricum, or the Conquest of the Great and Most Renowned Empire of China, by the Invasion of the Tartars, John Crook, 1654

28^• —
MAURIZI (VINCENZO)]
History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat; together with an Account of the Countries and People on the Shores of the Persian Gulf, particularly of the Wahabees. By Shaik Mansur, FIRST EDITION, John Booth, 1819

29^• —
MOUNTAINEERING REY (GUIDO)
The Matterhorn, NUMBER 5 OF 15 SIGNED COPIES, T. Fisher, 1907

30^• —
MOUNTAINEERING
AITKEN (SAMUEL) Among the Alps. A Narrative of Personal Experiences, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, [Privately Printed, 1900]

32^• —
OUSELEY (WILLIAM)
Travels in Various Countries in the East; More Particularly Persia, 3 vol., first edition, Rodwell and Martin, for the Author, 1819-1823

33^• —
PIKE (ZEBULON MONTGOMERY)
Reize naar Nieuw-Mexico en de Binnenlanden van Louisiana, voorafgegaan door eenen togt naar de bronnen van de Mississippi... Uit het Engelsch vertaald, 2 vol. in 1, Amsterdam, C. Timmer, 1812

34^• —
RUSSIAN COSTUME
The Costume of the Russian Empire... With Descriptions in English and French, first edition, W. Miller, 1803

35^• —
TENCH (WATKIN)
A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales, Including an Accurate Description of the Sitution of the Colony; of the Natives; and of its Natural Resources, first edition, G. Nicol, and J. Sewell, 1793

36^• —
THEVENOT (JEAN DE)
The Travels... into the Levant. In Three Parts. Viz. into I. Turkey. II. Persia. III. The East-Indies, H. Faithorne, J. Adamson, C. Skegnes, and T. Newborough, 1687

37^• —
[TRIPE (LINNAEUS)
Photographs of the Elliot Marbles; and Other Subjects in the Central Museum Madras. By Captain L. Tripe, Government Photographer. 1858], [1858]

38^• —
VIVIAN (GEORGE)
Scenery of Portugal and Spain, FIRST EDITION, HAND-COLOURED PLATES, P. and D. Colnaghi, 1839

39^• —
WARING (EDWARD SCOTT)
A Tour to Sheeraz, by the Route of Kazroon and Feerozabad, 1807; A History of the Mahrattas 1810, 2 works in one

40^• —
ATKINSON (GEORGE FRANCKLIN)
The Campaign in India 1857-58... Illustrating the Military Operations before Delhi and its Neighbourhood, FIRST EDITION, HAND-COLOURED Day & Son, 1859

41^• —
ATKINSON (JAMES)
Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, [Henry Graves, 1842]

42^• —
ATKINSON (JAMES)
Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, Henry Graves, 1842

43^• —
ATKINSON (JAMES)
Sketches in Afghaunistan, FIRST EDITION, Henry Graves, 1842

44^• —
D'OYLY (CHARLES) AND JAMES ATKINSON
Antiquities of Dacca, first edition, Printed by John Tyler, Published by John Landseer, [c.1814-1831]

45^• —
HART (LOCKYER WILLIS)
Character & Costumes of Afghaunistan, Henry Graves, 1843

46^• —
ALDROVANDI (ULISSE)
Monstrorum historia. Cum paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium Bartholomaeus Ambrosinus ... volumen composuit, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, Bologna, N. Tebaldini, 1642

47^• —
DODOENS (REMBERT)
Stirpium historiae pemptades sex, Antwerp, Plantin, 1616

48^• —
DU FOUILLOUX (JACQUES)
La venerie... [La faunconnerie de Jean de Francieres], 2 works (as issued) in 1 vol., Paris, Claude Cramoisy, 1628