Africa and Asia
Collection of travel narratives, 19th century
£1,071
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
Portal, Gerald H. An Account of the English Mission to King Johannis of Abyssinia in 1887. Privately Printed. Winchester: Warren and Son, [1888]. First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, inscribed 'with the compliments of the author, Cairo, Oct. 6, 1888', slightly rubbed;
Irwin, Henry Crossley The Garden of India; or Chapters on Oudh History and Affairs. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1880. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, half-title, 36 + [4] pp. advertisements, inscribed 'For Will and Mabel, with the writer's love, May 1880' on half-title, Crossley family bookplate, covers water-damaged, spotting to early leaves and occasionally elsewhere;
Sykes, Christopher. Wassmuss, "The German Lawrence". London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1936. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, with the scarce dust jacket, 12 photographic plates by Robert Byron and others, spine rolled, dust jacket slightly chipped, rubbed and marked;
Stanley, Henry M. Through the Dark Continent, or the Sources of the Nile. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879. First US edition, early issue, 2 volumes, 8vo, original green pictorial cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for (including 2 large folding maps in end-pockets), front free endpapers excised, damp-staining to plates, rear inner hinges cracked, folding maps with small holes to intersections of folds;
Idem. How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa. Published only by Subscription. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co., 1872. First US edition, 8vo, original red-brown pictorial cloth gilt, all plates and maps as called for, frontispiece map torn but all present, folding map facing p. 475 possibly lacking bottom section, spotting;
Beeton, S. O., and Ronald Smith. Livingstone and Stanley. An Account of Dr. Livingstone's Early Career, his Travels and Discoveries. London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1872. First edition, 8vo, contemporary red-brown cloth, 3 wood-engraved plates including folding portrait, original front wrapper (with map) bound in;
and 4 others similar
Footnote
Note: The US edition of Through the Dark Continent was first published in 1878. Library Hub traces five copies only for Beeton and Smith's work