Middle East and Asia
Collection of travel narratives ex libris Lt S. C. R. Duffy
£1,512
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
Description
all 8vo, original cloth, and with Duffy's ownership inscriptions (dated Liverpool, Bombay or Jubblepore), a few titles further annotated with various dates on front free endpaper (apparently denoting re-readings), and comprising:
Hale, F. From Persian Uplands. London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1920. First edition, map endpapers, half-title and final leaf browned;
Sykes, Ella & Sir Percy. Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1920. First edition, all plates as called for, folding map in end-pocket, errata slip;
Dickson, William Edmund Ritchie. East Persia. A Backwater of the Great War. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1924. First edition, 8 plates, folding map, spine rolled, covers slightly marked, cancelled library plate to rear pastedown
Philby, Harry St John Bridger. Arabia of the Wahhabis. London: Constable & Co., 1928. First edition, all plates as called for, large folding map (with short closed tear), half-title browned, edges spotted;
Younghusband, Sir Francis. Peking to Lhasa. The Narrative of Journeys in the Chinese Empire made by the Late Brigadier-General George Pereira. London: Constable and Company, Ltd., 1925. First edition, all plates and maps as called for, library markings removed from front board and rear pastedown, rear inner hinge tender;
and 9 others (these not collated), including: Olufsen, Through the Unknown Pamirs, 1904 (first edition in English); Tate, The Frontiers of Baluchistan, 1909 (first edition); Forbes-Leith, Checkmate: Fighting Tradition in Central Asia, undated; Maynard, The Murmansk Venture, undated; Blacker, On Secret Patrol in High Asia, 1922 (first edition, annotated 'The Bajgiranski Soviet, Miss R. P. Houston, Major L. V. Blacker, Capt. H. C. Duncan, Lt S. C. R. Duffy' on front free endpaper, front inner hinge tender); Etherton, Across the Roof of the World, 1911 (first edition, contemporary cloth); and similar
Footnote
Note:
S. C. R. Duffy was gazetted lieutenant, Indian Army, on 29th August 1919. His Wolseley helmet was sold at a UK auction in 2021. Hale's From Persian Uplands appears to be scarce in libraries and in commerce.