Lot 412
TRAVEL BOOKS, A QUANTITY
INCLUDING DUTTON, E.A.T.
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 October 2018 at 12:00 BST
Description
Kenya Mountain. 1929. First edition, 56 plates, 4 maps, presentation copy to J.W. Arthur (whose assistance with large map is acknowledged in the Preface), also signed by J.D. Melhuish (whose photographs illustrate the work), original buckram, spine faded and slightly rubbed; Hall, Basil Travels in North America. 1829, 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary calf, rebacked; Tucker, Miss Abbeokuta, or Sunrise within the Tropics... The Yoruba Mission. 1858, original cloth; Bryant, J. Observations upon the Plagues inflicted upon the Egyptians. 1794, calf, rebacked; Bingley, W. Biographical Conversations on Celebrated Travellers. 1819-21. 3 volumes, 12mo, contemporary half calf; Curzon, Hon. R. Visits to Monasteries in the Levant. 1851, original cloth, rebacked retaining spine; Patterson, J.H. The Man Eaters of Tsavo. 1907, original cloth; Sheldon, C. The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon. 1911, original cloth; Northey, W.B. The Gurkhas. 1928, original cloth, neatly rebacked retaining spine; Halstead, M. Galveston [Texas], American Publishers' Association, 1900, original pictorial cloth; Hilton-Simpson, M.W. Among the Hill-Folk of Algeria. 1921, original cloth; Bernard, T. Land of a Thousand Buddhas. 1940, original cloth; Grant, C.F. & L. Twixt Sand and Sea... North Africa. [n.d.], original cloth; Elgod, C. A Medical History of Persia. 1951, original cloth, rubbed; and others, travel
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Larry Hutchison