Lot 34
Bishop, Isabella, née Bird
A collection
Auction: 02 October 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
The Englishwoman in America. London: John Murray, 1856. First edition, the author's first book, contemporary half calf, some spotting, illegible library stamp to title-page;
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900. First American edition, 8vo, portrait, frontispiece, folding map, original blue cloth gilt;
Korea and her Neighbors, New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1898. 8vo, frontispiece, 2 folding maps, plates, original brown pictorial cloth;
The Golden Chersonese, and the way thither. London: John Murray, 1883. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece spotted, folding map, plates, original green cloth gilt;
Among the Tibetans. New York: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1894. 8vo, plates, original red cloth gilt;
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. London: John Murray, 1880. Third edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green cloth gilt;
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1881. First American edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original cloth gilt, volume 2 with modern magazine clipping pasted to endpaper;
The Hawaiian Archipelago. Six Months among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and Volcanoes of the Sandwich Oslands. London: John Murray, 1890. Seventh edition, 8vo, original green cloth gilt;
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1894. First American edition, 8vo, original brown cloth gilt;
Stoddart, Anna M. The Life of Isabella Bird. London: John Murray, 1907. Third printing, 8vo;
Pfeiffer, Ida. Visit to Iceland. London: Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1852; A Woman's Journey Round the World, [n.d.]; Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy, 1852; with an additional biography of Pfeiffer (17)