Travel
Collection of works
£630
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
Shackleton, Ernest H. South. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. First US edition, 8vo, original green cloth, all plates and maps as called for, wear to head and foot of spine, front inner hinge tender;
Patterson, J. H. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures. With a Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, photographic frontispiece, map to rear, photographic illustrations throughout the text, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page;
Selous, Frederick Courteney. Sport and Travel, East and West. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1900. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, 18 plates;
Roosevelt, Theodore. Through the Brazilian Wilderness. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, all plates and maps as called for, spine sunned and with fraying to head;
and 12 others, including Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails, reprint, c.1910 (original pictorial cloth), Charles Sheldon, The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon, 1911 (original cloth), W. S. Rainsford, The Land of the Lion, 1909, Lord Roberts, Forty-One Years in India, 1898 (2 volumes, original cloth), William T. Hornaday, Camp-Fires on Desert and Lava, 1908 (original cloth), and similar