Travel
Collection of works
£555
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Kerr, Robert. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels. Edinburgh: for William Blackwood, 1811-17. First edition, volumes 1-17 only (of 18), 8vo, contemporary calf-backed marbled boards with vellum tips, numerous engraving maps and charts;
Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas-François. Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. Maastricht: Jean-Edmé Dufour, 1774. Volumes 1 and 3-7 only, 8vo, contemporary calf, engraved frontispiece to each volume, 3 folding maps, worming to volumes 3 and 6;
Bruce, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh: for Archibald Constable and Co., 1805. Second edition, 7 text volumes, 8vo, and plate volume, 4to, several covers of text volumes detached, plate volume lacking covers, natural history plate 14, third folding map (of 3) with substantial loss;
[India]. Manuscript containing extracts from the Book of Genesis in Urdu and English, 18th or 19th century, 27 leaves (16.5 x 10.5cm), reversed calf binding;
and others including: Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Les six voyages qu'il a fait en Turquie, en Perse, et aux Indes … seconde partie [and:] Recueil de plusieurs relations relations et traitez singulier et curieux, [Amsterdam]: suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, 1679 (2 volumes of 3, 8vo, contemporary vellum, numerous engraved plates and maps, mostly folding), Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal, A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, Edinburgh, 1776 (volumes 1-3 only, 8vo, folding map frontispieces, volume 1 frontispiece torn, volume 2 front board detached); and similar (approx. 40)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.