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AVILA (Ju an de), ‘Apostle of Andalusia’.
Les oeuvres du
bienheureux Iean d’Avila … en deux parties. De la traduction
de Monsieur Arnauld d’Andilly.
Paris, chez Pierre le Petit,
1673.
FIRST EDITION THUS, the title-pages (the first in red and
blank) with engraved vignette, pp (36), 122, 125-510; (2), (513) -
761, leaf Qiii duplicated and leaf Qii (pp 123-4) wanting, 2 parts
in 1 vol, continuous signatures and pagination, folio,
contemporary calf, fully gilt spine: four small oval stamps on
first title and the first and last few leaves with minor staining,
binding heavily worn but cords strong, internally clean and very
good copy. (3)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
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BARRETT (Wm.).
The history and antiquities of the city of
Bristol …
Bristol: Printed by William Pine …,
[1789]
FIRST EDITION, with a large folding map and 30 folding and
other engraved plates and plans, pages xix, (1, blank), 704,
including the 7-page subscriber list, large 4to, strongly bound in
recent boards, with label: a clean and very good to nice copy.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
31
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BARROW (John).
A Visit to Iceland, by way of Tronyem [i.
e. Trondheim], in the “Flower of Yarrow” yacht, in the summer
of 1834.
John Murray,
1835
FIRST EDITION, woodcut vignette title-page, a frontispiece, 8
plates and some text wood-cuts, pp xxiv, 320, large 12mo,
original cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut:plates spotted
and binding lightly spotted but sound and strong: a good to very
good copy in original state.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MECKLENBURG (Adolf
Friedrich), Duke of.
From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile.
An account of the German Central African Expedition of 1910-
1911.
Duckworth & Co.,
1913. FIRST ENGLISH EDITION,
with 248 plates (20 coloured), pages xvi, 241, (2): xii, 285, (2), 2
vols, 8vo, original cloth, gilt, top edges gilt: with some light
foxing in places but still a very good and outwardly attractive
copy, but, unfortunately, without the map.
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THOMAS (Bertram).
Arabia Felix: across the empty
quarter of Arabia. With a foreword by T. E. Lawrence (T. E. S.)
and appendix by Sir Arthur Keith, F. R. S., M. D.
Jonathan Cape,
1932. FIRST EDITION, with 3 maps (1 folding), and many
plates and illustrations, pages xxix, (3), 397, roy 8vo, original
cloth: a very good copy.
(3)
WEST (Richard).
Back to Africa 1970.
First Edition
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MALCOLM (Sir John).
Sketches of Persia.
John Murray
(Colonial and Home Library Vol IX),
1845. Pages xvi, 287 and (1,
16 adverts), with the half-title, small 8vo, original red cloth, with
armorial bookplate of William Kemmis: a very good to nice
copy. (5)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
32
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BARROW (John).
A Visit to Iceland, by way of Tronyem [i.
e. Trondheim], in the “Flower of Yarrow” yacht, in the summer
of 1834.
John Murray,
1835
FIRST EDITION, woodcut vignette title-page, frontispiece, 8
plates and some text woodcuts, pp xxiv, 320, large 12mo,
pleasantly rebound cloth, retaining original printed spine label,
edges uncut: a small and very faint stamp in three places, still a
clean and very good copy.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
MARSHALL (Thomas W. M.).
Christian Missions: their agents and their results. Second
edition.
Longman, Green …,
1863. BEST EDITION, pages (4),
644: (4), 479, xxxvi, 2 vols, 8vo, original cloth, gilt: one board
lightly discoloured, otherwise a very good to nice copy.
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ENOCK (Charles Reginald), FRGS.
Peru, its former and
present civilisation, history and existing conditions, topography
and natural resources, commerce and general development.
With an introduction by Charles Hume.
T. Fisher Unwin, The
South American series,
1920. FIFTH IMPRESSION, with a
folding map and 72 illustrations, pages xxxii, 320, 36 (adverts),
8vo, original cloth: a very good copy
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ESMONDE (Sir Thomas H. Grattan).
More Hunting
Memories.
Dublin: The Levins Press,
1930. FIRST EDITION,
with 24 plates, pages (12), 194, cr 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt: a
bright, fresh copy in the dust wrapper.
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DUCHAUSSOIS (P.).
Mid Snow and Ice. The Apostles of
the North-West.
Burns Oates & Washbourne,
1923. FIRST
ENGLISH EDITION, with a large folding map and 32 plates,
pages xiii, 328, 8vo, original blue cloth, gilt: small name stamp
in three places, otherwise a very good copy.
“History of the
Oblates of Mary Immaculate in the Canadian Northwest beginning in
1845, with information on the Dene, Mountain, Beaver, Yellowknife,
Dogrib, Slave, Hare and Cree Indians, and the Eskimos, and a history
of the fur trade. “ Originally published in Paris in 1921.
(5)
PICKERING (Charles), MD.
The Races of Man; and their
geographical distribution. New Edition. To which is prefixed,
An analytical synopsis of the natural history of man. By John
Charles Hall, M. D.
H. G. Bohn,
1850. With a folding coloured
map and 12 attractive coloured plates, pages lxxii, 445, (1), 8vo,
old neat rebound cloth: in nice, fresh state
Pacific Bibliography 20.
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€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
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BARRY (Sir Charles): -.
Studies and examples of the
modern school of English architecture. The Travellers’ Club
House, by Charles Barry, architect: illustrated by drawings... by
Mr. Hewitt... engraved by Mr J. H. Le Keux. Accompanied by
an essay on the present state of architectural study and the
revival of the Italian style, by W. H. Leeds.
John Weale,
1839
FIRST EDITION, with 10 engraved plates, pages viii (i. e. vi,
correct thus, no half-title was issued), 35 and advert leaf, folio,
contemporary half calf: the binding worn and rubbed but
strong, with light marginal staining on the plates, but still a large
and very good copy.
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
34
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[BARTHELEMY (Jean Jacques) ].
Maps, Plans, Views,
and Coints illustrative of the Travels of Anacharsis the Younger
in Greece, during the middle of the fourth century before the
christian aera. Fifth edition, accurately re-engraved from those
of the last Paris edition.
London: Printed for J. Mawman; F. C. and
J. Rivington …,
1817
The atlas only.
With engraved portrait frontispiece and 39
engraved plates and maps, many folding, many coloured in
outline, pages iv, 193, 4to, strongly bound in old, worn half calf,
the spine renewed in cloth: with a small oval stamp on title-page,
a large and very good binding copy.
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
35
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BAX (Clifford),
ed.
Florence Farr, Bernard Shaw and W. B.
Yeats [: letters].
Dublin: The Cuala Press,
1941
FIRST EDITION, pages (12), 85, (3), 8vo, original cloth-backed
printed paper boards, with printed paper spine label: a nice,
fresh copy in the original, though worn, clear tissue.
Limited to
500 numbered copies.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
MONTAGUE (John).
versions of
Irish poetry. 1972 (1973). a fine, fresh copy in the original
unlettered dust wrapper.
Limited edition of 350 numbered copies.
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€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
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BAYLEY (F. W. N.).
The New Tale of a Tub: an adventure
in verse. A fourth edition, revised by the author, with a new
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