Lot 105
Travel
Large collection of travel guides, mainly 19th century
Auction: 16 June 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
including: Thomas Cook & Son, Peking, North China, South Manchuria, and Korea, 1924 (fifth edition, original cloth, folding map); Imperial Japanese Government Railways, An Official Guide to Eastern Asia … Vol. IV. China, 1915 (original cloth, folding maps, rear inner hinge cracked); John Wilson, Wilson's Guide to Rothesay, and the Island of Bute, Rothesay: John Wilson, 1848 (original cloth, engraved map, additional title-page and plates); John Bower, Description of the Abbeys of Melrose, and Old Melrose, Edinburgh: for the author, 1822 (second edition, original boards, folding aquatint frontispiece); A Concise History of Worcester, Worcester: T. Eaton, 1808 (half calf, aquatint frontispiece, plates); 5 leporello-bound photographic view books of Genoa, Naples, Rome, Malta and Copenhagen, 19th century; approx. 30 Baedeker and similar guides for countries including Egypt, Italy, Great Britain, India, etc.; and similar (approx. 50)