Lot 161
Middle East
Collection of travel accounts
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
Slade, Adolphus. Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, etc. And of a Cruise in the Black Sea, with the Capitan Pasha, in the Years 1829, 1830, and 1831. London: Saunders and Otley, 1833. Second edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 20th-century cloth, edges untrimmed, half-titles, colour aquatint frontispieces, folding map, folding lithographic plate of manuscript facsimile;
Fellows, Sir Charles. Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, more particular in the Province of Lycia. London: John Murray, 1852. First edition, 8vo, original pictorial cloth gilt, 7 folding plates and maps including frontispiece, spine sunned and with label removed, wear to head of rear joint, ink-stamps of the Poynton and Worth Colliers' Library to front pastedown (the leaf repaired) and title-page, frontispiece partly torn along stub but remaining attached;
Bartlett, W. H. Gleanings on the Overland Route: Pictorial and Antiquarian. London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1864. 8vo, original pink cloth decoratively stamped in gilt and blind, gilt edges, 22 engraved maps and plates including folding panorama of Alexandria, spine sunned;
Palgrave, William Gifford. Personal Narrative of a Year's Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63). New Edition, in One Volume. London: Macmillan and Co., 1868. 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, engraved title-page with portrait of the author (the portrait implied to be a separate plate in the list of plates, apparently in error), 5 folding maps and plans;
Martin, William Young. The East: being a Narrative of Personal Impressions of a Tour in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. First edition, 8vo, original brown cloth decorated in black, wood-engraved frontispiece, worming to front joint, damp-staining to foot of frontispiece and title-page;
Walker, Theodore. Wanderings Eastward. A Diary of Travels in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, and Greece, in 1885. London: S. W. Partridge, 1886. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, 8 wood-engraved plates;
Hakluyt Society. Narrative of the Portuguese Embassy to Abyssinia during the Years 1520-1527 by Father Francisco Alvarez. London: Hakluyt Society, 1881. First edition, 8vo, original blue cloth, spine faded;
Beaufort, Emily A. Egyptian Sepulchres and Syrian Shrines. Including some Stays in the Lebanon, at Palmyra, and in Western Turkey. London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original pink pictorial cloth gilt, 5 chromolithographic plates (of 6: lacking volume 2 frontispiece), spines sunned, covers marked, volume 1 rear joint split;
and 15 others, the mentioned items collated with regard to plates only
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Footnote
THE LIBRARY OF DR ANDREW G. FRASER MD FSA SCOT (1937-2020)