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LOT 1

Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Collection of travel narratives, 19th & early 20th century

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 2

Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

Four 17th & 18th century works

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 3

Bruce, James

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

LOT 4

Dufton, Henry

Narrative of a Journey through Abyssinia in 1862-3

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 5

Winstanley, W[illiam]

A Visit to Abyssinia

Estimate: £200 - £300

LOT 6

Burton, Richard F.

The Nile Basin

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 7

Burton, Richard F.

Zanzibar

Estimate: £600 - £800

LOT 8

Ensor, F. Sidney

Incidents of a Journey through Darfoor

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 9

Speedy, Mrs [Cornelia Mary]

My Wanderings in the Soudan

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 10

Colomb, [Philip Howard]

Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 11

Sulivan, G[eorge] L[ydiard]

Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters & on the Eastern Coast of Africa

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 12

[Big game hunting - Egypt]

Journal of Herbert Edward Pretyman

Estimate: £300 - £400

LOT 13

Churi, Joseph H.

Sea Nile, the Desert, & Nigritia

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 14

Bourchier, W[illiam]

Narrative of a Passage from Bombay to England

Estimate: £200 - £300

LOT 15

Owen, W[illiam] F[itzwilliam] W.

Narrative of Voyages to explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, & Madagascar

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 16

Uganda

Collection of 19th & 20th century works, including a manuscript

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 17

African travel & exploration

Collection of works, 19th-20th century

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 18

East Africa

Collection of 19th & 20th century works

Estimate: £300 - £400

LOT 19

Africa

Collection of travel accounts, 19th & 20th century

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 20

East Africa

Collection of military handbooks & accounts of the Great War & the King's African Rifles

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 21

Sudan

Collection of accounts of travel & soldiering in the Sudan, 19th & 20th century

Estimate: £200 - £300

LOT 22

Sudan

Collection of 19th century works

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 23

Sudan & Egypt

Official histories, handbooks, local imprints, late 19th century

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 24

Africa

Collection of accounts of African big game hunting & natural history, 19th-20th century

Estimate: £200 - £300

LOT 25

Weinthal, Leo (editor)

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

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 26

Central Africa

Collection of central & cross-African travel narratives, 19th-20th century

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 27

African travel

Four 18th & 19th century works

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 28

Henry M. Stanley, Emin Pasha, & the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition

Collection of original accounts, 19th-20th century

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 29

Livingstone, David, & Henry M. Stanley

Collection of their accounts of African travel

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 30

Burton, Richard F.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah & Meccah

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 31

Moore, Joseph

Eighteen Views taken at and near Rangoon

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

LOT 32

Broughton, Thomas Duer

Letters written in a Mahratta Camp during the Year 1809

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 33

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Travels from India to England

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

LOT 34

Arabic manuscripts - Egypt & Arabia

Four illuminated petitions addressed to Ottoman commanders including Muhammad Ali Pasha

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

LOT 35

Tanjore School

Album of miniature paintings showing Indian castes, trades and costume

Estimate: £6,000 - £8,000

LOT 36

Mirza I'tisam ud-Din (c.1730-c.1800)

Shigurf Namah i Velaet, or Excellent Intelligence concerning Europe

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 37

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Album of sketches from travels in Burma, India, Persia, Africa, Canada and Britain, 1820s-40s

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

LOT 38

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Illustrated manuscript journal of a voyage to Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, 1829

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 39

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Illuminated manuscript petition in Arabic addressed to Sa'id bin Sultan (1795-1856), Imam of Muscat

Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000

LOT 40

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Sketchbooks of his travels in Canada, 1840s-50s

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

LOT 41

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Sketchbook of travels in Canada, including watercolours of Indigenous peoples

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

LOT 42

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Sketchbooks of travels in Canada and the United States, 1845-55

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

LOT 43

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Alexander's own copies of his published accounts of travel in the Americas

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 44

[African-American Music]

The Ethiopian Glee Book

Estimate: £200 - £300

LOT 45

Canada (Quebec)

Albums of watercolours & sketches by Eveline M. Alexander (1821-1906), including Indigenous peoples

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 46

Alexander, Edward Mayne (1846-1916)

Sketchbooks of travels in Canada, Morocco and Gibraltar, 1867-8

Estimate: £300 - £400

LOT 47

India

Collection of sketchbooks attributed to Colonel Edward Mayne Alexander (1840-1916)

Estimate: £700 - £1,000

LOT 48

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Manuscript journals of military service in Canada, the Crimea, and New Zealand, 1850s-70s

Estimate: £600 - £800

LOT 49

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Sketchbook of Crimean War service, 1854-6

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 50

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Sketchbooks of Ireland, 1857-9

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 51

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Sketchbook of New Zealand and the Maori during the First Taranaki War, 1860-1

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

LOT 52

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Sketchbook of New Zealand during the First Taranaki War, 1860-2

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

LOT 53

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Manuscript journals of two sea voyages, Ireland to New Zealand, 1860, and Australia to England, 1862

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

LOT 54

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Sketchbooks of travel and military service, 1860s

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 55

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Group of sketchbooks, 1870s-1880s

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 56

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Military and personal notebooks and documents

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 57

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Alexander's own copies of his travel accounts and other works

Estimate: £700 - £1,000

LOT 58

Peninsular War

General Sir James Edward Alexander's personal record of the creation of the Peninsular War Medal

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 59

Alexander, Sir James Edward (1803-1885)

Collection of books from his library

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 60

Antiquarian literature & fine bindings

Collection of works, 17th & 19th century

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 61

Cartes-de-visite

Album of 19th-century cartes-de-visite

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 62

Brown, John

A Genealogical Tree of the Potent & Independent Sovereigns, Lords of the Isles

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 63

Chandler, Richard

Travels in Asia Minor

Estimate: £300 - £400

LOT 64

Roberts, David

Egypt & Nubia

Estimate: £10,000 - £15,000

LOT 65

Churchill, Sir Winston S., & Ibn Saud

Official photographs of Churchill's meeting with Ibn Saud and other leaders in Egypt, February 1945

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

LOT 66

Churchill, Sir Winston S.

My Early Life

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 67

Aramco - Saudi Arabia

Collection of press photographs, c.1955-60

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

LOT 68

Yemen

Large collection of photographs, 1950s-60s

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

LOT 69

Kuwait

Group of press & official photographs, 1960s

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 70

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Large collection of photographs, 1940s-60s

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 71

African Travel

A Collection

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 72

Bishop, Isabella, née Bird

Journeys in Persia & Kurdistan

Estimate: £200 - £300

LOT 73

[French Archaeological Mission to Persia] Ministère de l'Instruction publique et des Beaux-arts

Délégation en Perse

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

LOT 74

[French Scientific Mission to Mexico and Central America] Ministère de l'Instruction Publique

[Mission scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amérique centrale: ouvrage publiée par ordre du ministre de l'instruction]

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

LOT 75

[Andrieu, Jean (1816-c.1872)]

'Désastres de Paris, 1871'

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 76

Travel & exploration

A collection

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 77

A. & C. Black

Collection of deluxe editions

Estimate: £300 - £400

LOT 78

Travel

Large collection of mainly American travel & history, 19th-early 20th century

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 79

Stedman, J. G.

Narrative, of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

Estimate: £300 - £400

LOT 80

Pinckney, Charles, Jr (1757-1824)

Document signed as governor of South Carolina, 1807

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 81

Parliament

An Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 25th March 1807

Estimate: £800 - £1,200

LOT 82

Slavery

Volume of two pamphlets on the slave trade

Estimate: £200 - £300

LOT 83

Melville, Herman

[Typee]

Estimate: £300 - £400

LOT 84

Pinkerton, John

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

Estimate: £300 - £400

LOT 85

Atkinson, George Francklin

Collection of plates from The Campaign in India, 1857-8

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 86

Hunter, James

Collection of plates from Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 87

Taylor, Meadows

Tippoo Sultaun: a Tale of the Mysore War

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 88

India

Photograph album compiled by a British Royal Artillery officer, 1875-8

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 89

Gordon, Sir John J. H.

The Sikhs

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 90

India - Sikhs

Photograph album of Sikh soldiers in the British Indian Army, c.1905-10

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 91

Kennedy, Richard Hartley

Narrative of the Campaign of the Army of the Indus, in Sind & Kaubool, in 1838-9

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 92

India & South Africa

Manuscript journal of a sea voyage from Calcutta to Lorient

Estimate: £300 - £500

LOT 93

India & Burma [Myanmar]

Collection of works, 19th & 20th century

Estimate: £200 - £300

LOT 94

India - Princely States

Large collection of documents signed by Indian rulers, 1930s

Estimate: £500 - £800

LOT 95

[East India Company printing in Arabic] Firuzabadi, Muhammad bin Yaqub al- (1326-1415 CE)

Kitab al-qamus al-muhit ['The Expansive Ocean']

Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000

LOT 96

Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, 1904

Photographs attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Irvine Davys

Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000

LOT 97

Laoshan Mountain Expedition Photographs

42 mounted albumen prints

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 98

Japan, China, Philippines, Indonesia & Canada

Two photograph albums, 1925-6

Estimate: £400 - £600

LOT 99

British Museum; Thompson, Stephen

[Photographs of British Museum Antiquities by Stephen Thompson]

Estimate: £700 - £1,000

LOT 100

Annan, Thomas

The Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry

Estimate: £400 - £600

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