Lot 44
Voyage, Travels and Navigation, including Raleigh, Sir Walter
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The history of the world... Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1820. Five volumes in six, 8vo, contemporary half calf; Brassey, Mrs Sunshine and storm in the east... Longmans..., 1880. 8vo, contemporary half morocco; Hall, Basil, Captain Fragments of voyages & travels. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1832. Second edition, 6 volumes (first and second series), small 8vo; Howell, John The life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk... Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1829. 12mo, boards; Carey, M.L.M. Four months in a dahabëéh. L.Booth, 1863. 8vo, coloured plates, blue calf gilt; Bartlett, W.H. The Nile boat... Arthur Hall, 1850. 8vo, plates, red morocco gilt; Bishop, Nathaniel Voyage of the paper canoe. Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1878. 8vo, original[?] brown cloth gilt; Delessert, M. Eugène Voyages dans les deux océans. Paris: A. Franck, 1848. 4to, contemporary half calf gilt, lacking plate and map; Scherzer, Karl, Dr. Narrative of the circumnavigation of the globe... Saunders, Otey... [n.d.] 8vo, first series only, original blue cloth gilt; Jack, R. Logan Northmost Australia. Simpkin, Marshal..., 1921. 2 volumes, first edition[?], green cloth; 'The Earl and The Doctor' South Sea bubbles. Richard Bentley and Son, 1872. Fifth edition, 8vo, red cloth; and a quantity of others, all with Cruising Association bookplates, blind-stamps and gilt stamps to covers and spines, sold not subject to return (quantity)