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“The Black Act Meeting”. Concerning the legal rights of British
subjects. NSTC and COPAC both have the BL copy only.
(4)
DIGBY (Wm.).
Indian problems for English consideration.
A letter to the council of the National Liberal Federation.
No
place (Plymouth printed) Published for the National Liberal Federation,
1881. FIRST EDITION, 67-pages and errata slip, 8vo, recent
paper wrapper: with two small stamps on the title-page, but still
a very good copy. (5)
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
239
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HUME (David) & SMOLLETT (Tobias).
The history of
England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the death of
George the Second. In sixteen volumes, with the last corrections
and improvements. London Stereotype Edition..
[London: ] J.
Walker and Co.; W. Baynes and Son; R. Baynes; J. Harrison [and 32
others in London],
1824
With engraved portrait of Hume in duplicate, 16 vols, large
12mo, contemporary deep, dark blue straight-grained morocco,
attractive gilt bordered sides, fully gilt and lettered spines, all
edges gilt: an attractive set. (16)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
240
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HUMPHREY (O. W.).
Tales of the Magic Meadow.
Illustrations and cover design by Desmond V. Rushton.
Dublin:
A Morris Book, Morris & Co., publishers, 1 & 2 Rutland Place,
Cavendish Row,
1944
FIRST EDITION, with 6 plates in monochrome, mounted as
drawings, on a thicker green coloured paper, and 12 line
drawings in the text, pages (47), (1, imprint) printed on a pale
brown paper stock, 4to, original cloth-backed pictorial coloured
printed boards: a very good to nice copy in original state, with
no marks of ownership: a rare survival in this condition.
Remarkably uncommon: COPAC locates onlt the BL copy worldwide.
However, there is a copy in the Gilbert Library. The National Library of
Ireland holds a copy of a third edition, Dublin, 1947, describing it as an
8vo and quoting 111-pages. There is no record of a second edition. The
work is dedicated “to Irene, Dorothy and Muriel, for whose
entertainment The Magicky Man and The Witchery Woman were first
created. “
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
MAC,
pseud.
The Celebrity Zoo
(First Visit). Some desultory rhymes and caricatures. By “Mac”.
[Dublin] Published by Browne & Nolan,
1925. FIRST EDITION,
ALL PUBLISHED, with 20 full-page caricatures, (48) -pages,
4to, with the upper original printed wrapper only, which is
loose: a good copy. (2)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
241
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HUNTER (JOHN).
The Hunter Sketchbook. Birds &
Flowers drawn on the spot in 1788, 89 & 90 by Captain John
Hunter RN of the First Fleet.
Canberra,
1989
FIRST EDITION, with 100 full-page coloured illustrations and
some other illustrations, pp (10), 251, 4to, original quarter
goatskin over marbled boards, stiff glassine wrapper, original
open-ended buckram slipcase with silk ribbon pull: an excellent,
unmarked, as new copy
Number 158 of 500 numbered copies.
€60-€80 (£48-£64 approx.)
242
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HUTCHINSON (Thomas J.), FRGS.
Ten Years’
Wanderings among the Ethiopians; with sketches of the
manners and customs of the civilized and uncivilized tribes,
from Senegal to Gaboon.
Hurst and Blackett,
1861
FIRST EDITION, with vignette title-page and tinted litho
frontispiece (lightly foxed), pages xx, 329, (8, adverts), 8vo,
original mauve cloth by Leighton, Son and Hodge, with their
ticket: pages 5-12 of the advert leaves neatly excised, otherwise a
nice copy.
With much on human sacrifice, cannibalism, the slave
trade, etc., in West Africa.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
BURTON (Sir Richard): - Young
(Donald).
The search for the source of the Nile: correspondence
between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and
others, from Burton”s unpublished East African letter book;
together with other related letters and papers in the collection of
Quentin Keynes, Esq. Now printed for the first time. Edited,
with a biographical commentary, by Donald Young; and with a
preface by Quentin Keynes.
London: The Roxburghe Club,
1999.
With a tipped-in frontispiece of a reproduction of a carte-de-
visite photograph of Burton, a 4-page facsimile letter and a
folding map, pages xxxi, 207, (1), roy 8vo, original blind-
stamped cloth, gilt: a fine, fresh copy with the original 4-page
prospectus loosely tipped in.
(2)
PENDALL (Charles Pears).
The East African Force 1915-
1919. An official record of its creation and fighting career;
together with some account of the civil and military
administrative conditions in East Africa before and during that
period.
H. F. & G. Witherby,
1921. FIRST EDITION, with a
folding map and 12 plates, pages 288, (1), 8vo, original red
cloth: the spine evenly and lightly faded, otherwise a nice copy.
(3)
€80-€120 (£64-£96 approx.)
243
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HUYSHE (George Lightfoot).
The Red River Expedition.
London and New York: Macmillan and Co.,
1871
FIRST EDITION, with portrait, 3 folding maps, a folding table
and 2 text illustrations, pp xi, (1), 275, (1), with half-title, 8vo,
original red cloth, by Burn & Co, with their ticket, spine evenly
faded and a little wear to rear outside joint (inside hinges not
cracked): an attractive copy.
A valuable narrative, providing a vivid description of the difficulties of
the journey from Toronto to Manitoba.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT: (1)
CHAPMAN (Abel).
Retrospect.
Reminiscences and impressions of a hunter-naturalist in three
continents, 1851-1928.
Gurney and Jackson …,
1928. FIRST
EDITION, with 20 coloured plates by W. H. Riddell, 34 other
plates and many text illustrations, pages xix, 353, (5, adverts)
and errata slip, 8vo, original cloth, top edges gilt: the spine
skilfully repaired, with new endpapers: a very good copy.
Hunting and angling experiences in British East Africa, the Transvaal,
Spain, etc.
(2)
WATERTON (Charles).
Wanderings in South America, the
north-west of the United States, and the antilles, in … 1812,
1816, 1820 & 1824. With original instructions for the perfect
preservation of birds, etc. … New Edition, edited, with
biographical introduction and explanatory index, by the Rev. J.
G. Wood.
Macmillan and Co.,
1879. With 100 illustrations, pages
xvi, 520, 8vo, original green cloth, gilt, top edges gilt, by Burn,
with their ticket: with Webb & Jennings’ small library label on
the lower cover and the inside hinges cracked but the binding
strong and still a fresh, sttractive copy. (3)
€80-€100 (£64-£80 approx.)
244
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HUYSHE (Wentworth).
The Graphic History of the
South African War, 1899-1900. A complete narrative of the
campaign …
The Graphic Office,
1900
FIRST EDITION, with some 300 illustrations, 108-pages, folio,
original pictorial printed paper boards, cloth spine, neatly
repaired, with new endpapers: a very good copy.
Hackett, South
African War Books, 13, with full-page illustration.
ALSO WITH THIS LOT:
DOMINION COMPANY.
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