Sauer, Martin
An Account of a Geographical and Astronomical Expedition to the Northern Parts of Russia
£504
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
… Performed … By Commodore Joseph Billings, in the Years 1785, et. to 1794. London: for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802. First edition, 4to, xxiii 332 58 pp., uncut in original boards, half-title, engraved folding map, 14 engraved plates, spine worn with loss of label, front board held by one cord only [Howes S117; Sabin 77152];
Barrow, John. Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. Second edition ('with additions and alterations'), 2 volumes, 4to, xvi 427 8, [6] 372 [4] pp., uncut in original boards, 8 hand-coloured aquatint plates, 9 engraved folding maps, volume 1 with 8 pp. advertisements to rear, volume 2 with half-title, directions to the binder leaf and advertisement leaf, volume 1 with paper perished from spine, front board detached, rear board attached by one cord only, B1 slit at foot, E4 (pp. 31/2) loose, volume 2 general chart loose, a few other maps offset [Abbey Travel 322, citing an additional ‘Chart of the Southern Extremity of Africa’ in volume 1, not present here but not in list of plates or in any other copies noted];
Carr, John. A Northern Summer; or, Travels round the Baltic, through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Prussia, and Part of Germany, in the Year 1804. London: Richard Phillips, 1805. First edition, 4to, xi [1] 480 8 pp., uncut in original boards, half-title, 11 aquatint plates possibly by William Daniell (see Abbey), of which one a folding panorama of St Petersburg (with short closed tear to fold), publisher's catalogue to rear, loss of paper at head and foot of spine, wear to extremities [Abbey Travel 73];
Ellis, Henry. Journal of the Proceedings of the Late Embassy to China. London: John Murray, 1818. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, uncut in original boards, engraved portrait frontispiece, 2 folding maps;
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Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.