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[Jamaica] The Royal Almanack and Register for the Island of Jamaica SALEROOM NOTICE: please see revised cataloguing

Published Kingston, 1785 or 1786

Cook, Captain James

A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World

Pinkerton, John

A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World

Estimate: £600 - £800

Shoberl, Frederic

The World in Miniature - 3 volumes

Oceania

28 books covering Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas

Estimate: £600 - £900

Bancroft, Hubert Howe

History of California [being volumes xviii-xxiv of The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft]

Estimate: £400 - £600

American Travel, including Simpson, Thomas

Narrative of the Discoveries on The north Coast of America

Estimate: £400 - £600

Moulton, Gary G. (editor)

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Estimate: £400 - £600

Scoresby, William

4 books

Nares, Sir G.S.

Narrative of a Voyage to the Polar Sea

Estimate: £300 - £500

Arctic Exploration

Collection of works

Arctic Exploration

Group of 22 books

Antarctic Exploration

47 books

Travel and Trade SALEROOM NOTICE: this only contains David, Raynal and Hedin, image not correct

A small collection

Soltykoff, Alexis

[Four plates from Indian Scenes and Characters, sketched from Life]

India

The Journal of Indian Art

India

Collection of works, 19th-20th century, including rare gazetteers and Indian imprints

Hutchison, John and Jean Philippe Vogel

History of the Panjab Hill States

India, 1930s

Collection of printed documents including viceregal tour programmes and government memoranda

India

Collection of printed or typescript documents and memoranda, 1910s-1930s

[Mason, George Henry]

The Punishments of China

The Campaign in India 1857-58

12 lithographs from the set of 26 by George Atkinson

Budge, E.A. Wallis

The Book of the Dead. Facsimiles of the Payri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerasher and Netchemet

Estimate: £400 - £600

Weinthal, Leo (editor)

The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922

Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Early Western Travels

Estimate: £600 - £800

Hall, Captain Charles Francis

Life with the Esquimaux

Oates, Frank

Matabele Land and The Victoria Falls

The Source of the Nile

Bruce & Speke

Burton, Richard F.

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

Estimate: £300 - £500

Livingstone, David

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa

Estimate: £250 - £350

African Travel

32 books

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

Asian Travel

7 books

Bishop, Isabella, née Bird

Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan

Bishop, Isabella, née Bird

A collection

Pennant, Thomas

Scotland and Wales

Stuart, John Sobieski Stolberg and Charles Edward

The Costume of the Clans

Charles I (1600-1649), King of England, Scotland and Ireland

Satin fragment reputedly from the shoes worn by Charles I at his execution

Regency science notebook

'Manuscript in Natural History'

George III (1738-1820), King of Great Britain and Ireland

Document signed, 1807

George III (1738-1820), King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

Document signed, 1794

Edward VII (1841-1910), King of the United Kingdom and Emperor of India

Document signed, 1902

Duleep Singh (1838-1893), Maharaja of the Punjab and the Sikh Empire

Autograph letter signed

India - Princely States

Large collection of documents signed by Indian rulers, 1930s

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

India - Princely States

Collection of typed letters signed from Indian rulers, 1930s-40s

India

Collection of signed letters and documents, 19th-20th century

Barrie, J. M. (1860-1937)

Margaret Ogilvy, with autograph letter signed

Sorabji, Kaikhosru Shapurji - Norman Peterkin - Owen Hamilton - Leigh Vaughan Henry

Literary ephemera

Chagall, Marc (1887-1985)

Group of signed pieces relating to his receipt of an honorary degree from the University of Glasgow, 1959

Ruskin, John (1819-1900)

Two autograph letters signed

Estimate: £300 - £500

Miscellaneous Scottish manuscripts

Regarding family history, genealogy, land, town affairs, etc.

Estimate: £300 - £500

[German legal handbook - Brandenburg]

Manuscript Sammelband, possibly 17th century

Annandale, Charlotte Johnstone, née van Lore van den Bempde, Dowager Marchioness of (1700-1762)

Collection of her correspondence

Dahl, Roald (1919-1990)

Autograph note signed

Estimate: £300 - £500

Lords of Leslie - Scottish Genealogical Manuscript

Late 18th century

[Robert Louis Stevenson interest] - Sir Graham Balfour

A.L.S. from Sir Graham Balfour to Sidney Colvin, and a collection of other letters

Asia, Hawaii, Canada

Photograph album, c.1880-1900

[Burma] Francis, John L.

Burmah and its People

[Istanbul] Sébah & Joaillier

Photograph album, c.1890

India and Sri Lanka

Collection of albums and photographs, 19th and early 20th century

Native Americans: cabinet cards and stereoscope views of North America, Europe and Africa

including: 'Coloured Cabinets of Noted Indians'

China and Japan, including Charles Lindbergh and his plane

A photograph album, c.1930-1935

Middle East

Pamphlets, photographs and printed ephemera relating to Saudi Arabia, Iran and elsewhere

Aramco - Saudi Arabia

Collection of press photographs, c.1955-60

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

Yemen

Large collection of photographs, 1950s-60s

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Large collection of photographs, 1940s-60s

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

Kuwait

Group of press and official photographs, 1960s

Estimate: £400 - £600

Scenes from Japan

A collection of photographs

Estimate: £300 - £400

Mennie, Donald

Glimpses of China

Mennie, Donald

China North & South

India

Signed portrait photograph of the 'Big Four' of the Narendra Mandal (Chamber of Princes)

Hardoon's Garden, Shanghai

photographs by Jack Bowes

Japan, China, The Philippines, Indonesia and Canada

Two photograph albums, 1925-1926

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

Hong Kong postcard album

72 postcards and postcard-sized images, early 20th century

Annan, James Craig (photographer)

The Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers at Erskine House

Civil engineering - Sir William Arrol & Co. Ltd

Company photographic archive of the construction of the Forth Road Bridge, c.1960

Tanqueray, Paul

Standing woman

Estimate: £300 - £500

Speed, John

The Province of Ulster

Speed, John

The Countie of Leinster

Speed, John

The Province of Mounster

Speed, John

The Province of Connaugh

Maps of Ireland

5 framed and double glazed maps

Estimate: £500 - £700

Edinburgh - De Wit, Frederik

The plan of Edenburgh exactly done from the original of ye famous D. Wit.

Dighton, Robert

Geography bewitched! or, a droll Caricature Map of England and Wales

Speed, John

Cambridgshire

[Slezer, John] - Edinburgh Panorama

The North Prospect of the City of Edenburgh

Macgill, W. (publisher) - Edinburgh Panorama

Edinburgh and the Surrounding Country as seen from the Calton Hill (365 feet above Sea Level)

Gozer, Edward (engraver)

Protestant Missionary Map of the World

De Wit, Frederik

A Plan of Edenburgh Exactly Done

Braun, Georg and Franz Hogenberg

Edenburgum, Scotiae Metropolis

De Wit, Frederik

A Plan of Edenburgh Exactly Done

Moll, Herman

The North Part of Great Britain called Scotland

Edinburgh - Leith Walk

Late 18th century etching with aquatint

Speed, John - Ireland

The Kingdome of Irland

[Court van der Voort, Pieter de la]

Les Agremens de la campagne

Glasgow style

A large collection of bindings designed by Talwin Morris, and others

Petit, Victor

Maisons de la Campagne des Environs de Paris

[French theatrical costume]

Galérie théâtrale

Giustiniani, Vincenzo

Galleria Giustiniana

Sorine, Saveli Abramovic

Portraits

Jaffer, Amin

The Al Thani Collection: Beyond Extravagance