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PALMER, Robert Stafford Arthur, the Hon.
A Little Tour in India.
London: Unwin Brothers, Limited, The Gresham Press for Edward Arnold, 1913.
First edition. Palmer was the son of the politician and colonial administrator William Palmer, Earl of Selborne, and was educated at Winchester College and University College, Oxford, where he took First Classes in Classical Moderations and Literae Humaniores, obtained distinction in the examination...
£50
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DE WINDT, Harry Willes Darell.
Through Savage Europe. Being the Narrative of a Journey (Undertaken as Special Correspondent of...
London: Unwin Brothers Limited, The Gresham Press for T. Fisher Unwin, 1907.
First edition. An account of a journey across the Balkans undertaken in 1906 by the Anglo-French traveller and writer Harry De Windt (1856-1933, who travelled as the Special Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette), and the cinematographer Mr Mackenzie of the Urban Bioscope Company, ‘a canny Scotsman...
£275
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[TURKEY.]
Johnston’s war map of Turkey in Europe with latest divisions and railways 1876.
Edinburgh and London, W. and A.K. Johnston, 1876.
Showing the Balkans. A handsome map published by the firm established in 1826 by the Scottish geographers William (1802-88) and (Alexander) Keith Johnston (1804-71). ‘The Johnston partnership – which also encompassed William’s and Keith’s younger brother, Thomas Brumby (d. 1897); Thomas’s sons...
£100
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[TURKEY.]
Johnston’s war map of Turkey in Europe with latest divisions and railways 1877. [At head, in red:] Rectifications of...
Edinburgh and London, W. and A.K. Johnston, 1878.
Showing the Balkans, with small inset map of ‘The Bosporus & Constantinople’. A handsome map published by the firm established in 1826 by the Scottish geographers William (1802-88) and (Alexander) Keith Johnston (1804-71). ‘The Johnston partnership – which also encompassed William’s and Keith’s...
£120
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HARLINGUE, L. [Albert].
'Baktiaris Persans'.
[Iran, c. 1905-1911].
An impressive press image of the Bakhtiari tribe – revolutionaries in the Persian Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1911 – here posing in strength with their weapons. Their leader, Sardar As’ad Bakhtiari (1856-1917), was a key figure in the Iranian revolution; under his command (and with German...
£1500
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WELLINGTON, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of.
Three autograph letters signed to Lady Emily Ponsonby née Bathurst regarding her son’s...
April – November 1842.
Wellington does not object to her son switching to the Grenadier Guards ‘if any officer of the same rank can be found to exchange with him’.
£750
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BYRD, Richard Evelyn.
Little America. Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic. The Flight to the South Pole.
New York and London: The Knickerbocker Press for G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1930.
First edition, ‘Author’s Autograph Edition’, no. 348 of 1,000 copies signed by Byrd and the publishers, printed on Ragleaf All Rag Paper. Little America was the leader’s account of the first Byrd Antarctic Expedition of 1928 to 1930, which was the first American Antarctic expedition. It was undertaken...
£400
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‘HYSON, Timothy’ [?but Thomas LOWNDES].
A Letter to Mr. Richard Twining, Tea Dealer, and One of the Candidates for the Present...
London: C. Rowland For the Author, 1827.
[?]Second edition. The Letter to Mr Richard Twining is a public denunciation of the candidacy of the tea merchant Richard Twining (1749-1824) for a directorship of the East India Company in 1810. Twining, who had already been instrumental in the development of tea prices and taxation for many years,...
£250
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[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Pharmacopoea Taurinensis nunc primum edita jussu Augustissimi Regis.
Turin, Jean-Baptiste Chais, 1736.
First edition of this Turin pharmacopoeia, prepared by doctors at the city’s medical college at the order of Charles Emmanuel III, Duke of Savoy. Its first section comprises a list of all substances generally used in the preparation of medicines, with synonyms and notes to aid the user in distinguishing...
£1800
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[PHARMACOPOEIA.]
Apparatus medicaminum ad usum nosocomii Ticinensis anno MDCCXC.
Pavia, Joseph Bolzani, [1790].
Very rare first edition of this pharmacopoeia for use at the Ospedale Grande di San Matteo, also known as the Pietà, in Pavia, one of the foremost medical schools in Europe at the time of this publication. Founded in 1449, the Ospedale remained the centre of healthcare in the city for almost...
£750
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[ANATOMY.]
‘Breve compendio anatomico’.
[Italy, c. 1720.]
A handsome set of apparently unpublished notes on orthopaedics by an anonymous medical student, compiled in Italy in the early eighteenth century, covering bones, cartilage, ligaments and muscles. The manuscript opens with a detailed analysis of the human skeleton, its bones and articulation,...
£1750
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[CERVINI, Michael Antonio.]
‘Methodus medendi medicine partem complectens’, ‘Appendix de preiudiciis evitandis in methodo’;...
Turin, July-August 1714.
A substantial and highly interesting manuscript compendium, apparently unpublished, compiled by a medical student in Turin, in northern Italy, by the name of Michael Antonio Cervini, including numerous medical receipts and a treatise on surgery.
£2500
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[PORTUGAL.]
Centro dei Comunisti. Lotta di classe e potere politico in Portogallo (Quaderni Comunisti).
Rome, 26 September 1975.
An historical overview of the Portuguese ‘Carnation Revolution’ of 25 April 1974 and its aftermath, including a reproduction of João Abel Manta’s famous poster showing Vasco Gonçalves, Portugal’s prime minister, with his arms around a member of the MFA (Movimento das Forças Armadas)...£100
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THANET, Octave, pseudonym of Alice FRENCH, author, and A. B. ZHUROMSKAIA, translator.
Стачка [Stachka (literally ‘General...
Saratov, Knigoizdatel’stvo “Nov’” P. S. Feokritov, 1905.
Apparently first and only Russian edition.
£200
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[VOGEL, Johann Christoph.]
Démophon.
[France (probably Paris), c. 1787].
A contemporary scribal manuscript of Johann Christoph Vogel’s opera Démophon, from the library of Christoph Willibald Gluck.
£5250
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[ANON.]
‘Voyage en Italie et au Midi de la France 1891’.
[Geneva, c. April 1891].
A handsome, illustrated travel journal compiled by a Swiss student as a gift for his parents, recording his eleven-day trip in north-western Italy and south-eastern France in March and April 1891 in the company of his teacher and three schoolfellows. The author was a student at La Chatelaine boarding...
£1600
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FORBES, James David.
Travels through the Alps ... New edition revised and annotated by W.A.B. Coolidge ... With portrait, new maps,...
London, Adam and Charles Black, 1900.
A handsome edition of four of Forbes’s chief writings relating to his Alpine travels, from the library of Guido Rey (1861–1935), the distinguished Italian Alpinist, writer and photographer.
£450
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SCHUSTER, Claud.
Men, women and mountains. Days in the Alps and Pyrenees ... Foreword by Lord Sankey, G.B.E.
London, Ivor Nicholson & Watson, 1931.
First edition, presented by William Bellows (1873-1942) to the distinguished Italian Alpinist, writer and photographer, Guido Rey (1861-1935).
£100
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PERRY, William.
The Standard French and English pronouncing Dictionary; in two Parts …
London: Printed for Murray and Co. … J. Stockdale … and Scatcherd and Whitaker … 1795.
First and only edition of possibly the first French-English pronouncing dictionary.
£1350
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VIGNE, Godfrey Thomas.
A personal narrative of a visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan, and of a residence at the court of Dost...
London, Whittaker & Co., 1840.
First edition, a handsome copy. Vigne (1801-63) left Southampton for India in 1832, ‘and, after passing through Persia, spent the next seven years travelling north-west of India. He visited Kashmir, Ladakh, and other parts of central Asia, besides travelling through Afghanistan, where he had several...
£3500