Lot 78
£1,000
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 13 July 2022 from 10:00 BST
comprising:
[North America, West Indies, etc.].The Colonial Journal. Vol. I. January to July, 1816. London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy [and others], 1816. 3 numbers in 1 volume, 8vo (23.8 x 14cm), contemporary half calf, 7 engraved plates (of which 2 hand-coloured and 2 in sepia, one of the latter in aquatint), including views (e.g. 'A View of Hall-head Sugar-plantation, Jamaica' as frontispiece) and zoological subjects, plates spotted and offset, occasional damp-staining [Sabin 14688];
East India Company. Bugle Sounds for the use of the Infantry of the Army of Fort St George. Madras: Athenaeum Press, 1845. Oblong 8vo, contemporary marbled card wrappers, [9] ff., lithographed throughout;
Hunt, George Henry. Outram and Havelock's Persian Campaign, London: G. Routledge & Co., 1858. First edition, 8vo (17.9 x 10.7cm), contemporary half calf, 7 tinted lithographic plate, bookplate of the Barons Napier;
[Logan, John]. A Review of the Principal Charges against Warren Hastings Esquire, Late Governor General of Bengal. London: for John Stockdale; and John Murray, 1788. 8vo (20.2 x 12cm), modern boards, half-title, advertisements to rear, damp-staining to front, small repair to head of title-page [ESTC T143514];
and 13 others (these not collated), including: Regulations for the West African Frontier Force, 1922 (8vo, original printed wrappers); William Cole, Life in the Niger, or, the Journal of an African Trade, 1862 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, spine rolled); J. W. Bull, Early Experiences of Colonial Life in South Australia, Adelaide, 1878 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth, lithographic frontispiece, spine rolled); Horace Greeley, an Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco, New York, 1860 (first edition, 8vo, original cloth); Historical Sketches Illustrative of the Life of M. De Lafayette, New York: for the author, 1824 (first edition, 8vo); and similar (17)
Note: Three volumes only of the Colonial Journal were published, the last in 1818; one other copy traced in auction records a partial run containing numbers 1-6 of the total nine, sold in 1980. Contents include 'An Account of the Colony at Pitcairn's Island', 'On the Agriculture of the West Indies', 'An Account of New Connecticut', 'The Fur-Trade of Louisiana ... by the late Merriwether Lewis', 'Actual Legal Condition of the Slaves in Jamaica', and similar articles. No other copy of Bugle Sounds for the use of the Infantry of the Army of Fort St George traced in libraries or commercial records.