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86 Shore (Frederick John). Notes on Indian Affairs, 2 volumes, John Parker, 1837, occasional pencil marginalia, contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpapers, contemporary half calf, rubbed to joints, spine labels to volume one lacking, 8vo, together with Napier (Charles James), Defects Civil and Military of the Indian Government, Charles Westerton, 1853, occasional pencil marginalia, bookplate of Archibald Trotter to upper pastedown, original cloth, rubbed and scuffed, 8vo, plus Arnold (Edwin), The Marquis of Dalhousie’s Administration of British India, 2 volumes, Saunders, Otley & Co., 1862-65, original publisher’s cloth, spines faded, a little rubbed and slightly scuffed, 8vo, plus three other titles relating to India (10)
£150-200
82 Ruttledge (Hugh). Everest 1933, 1st edition, 1934, sepia plates after photographs, including a portrait of F.S. Smythe, signed by Smythe in blue ink, original cloth gilt, in good condition, together with Everest: The Unfinished Adventure, 1st edition, 1937, numerous plates after photographs, folding maps, etc., original blue cloth gilt, spine lettering rubbed, large 8vo Neate R99 & R100. The first volume being an author’s presentation copy, inscribed to the front endpaper ‘Everest was worth trying for, and we will try again. Hugh Ruttledge. December, 1934.’ (2) £150-200
83 Savary (Claude Etienne). Letters on Greece; being a Sequel to Letters on Egypt, and containing Travels through Rhodes, Crete, and other islands of the Archipelago, 1st English edition, Dublin: L. White, et al, 1788, half-title, occasional minor mark, bookplate of Robert Montgomery, Convoy, Eire, to upper pastedown, contemporary marbled calf, joints cracked, 8vo (1)
£100-150
87 Sieber (Franz Wilhelm). Travels in the Island of Crete, in the Year 1817, 1st English ed., 1823, folding frontispiece, two engraved plates, light offsetting, bookplate, modern buff boards, black morocco label to spine, 8vo
84 Savary (Claude Etienne). Lettres sur l’Egypte, ou l’on offre le parrallele des moeurs anciennes et modernes des habitans..., 3 volumes & Lettres sur la Grece, pour Servir de Suite Celles sur l’Egypte, Nouvelle Edition, Paris, 1798, together four volumes, half-titles, four folding maps and two folding plates, occasional minor dust-soiling or light spotting, contemporary uniform marbled calf gilt, 8vo Blackmer 1492 & 1493. (4)
Blackmer 1542. First published in Vienna in 1820. “Sieber spent two years in the Levant, one in Crete collecting botanical specimens and the other travelling in Egypt and the Holy Land.” (1) £100-150
£150-200
88 Smith (Thornley). South Africa Delineated; or, Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of its Tribes and Missions, and of the British Colonies of the Cape and Port-Natal, 1st edition, 1850, six engraved plates (including frontispiece), publisher’s advertisements at rear, occasional spotting, original cloth gilt, spine torn, 8vo, together with Ellis (William), Three Visits to Madagascar during the Years 1853 - 1854 - 1856, Including a Journey to the Capital. With Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilisation of the People, 1858, wood engraved folding frontispiece, plates and illustrations, single-page engraved map, signature to upper margin of title, occasional spotting, contemporary half calf, rubbed, 8vo, plus 4 others, Chips from Tunis: A Glimpse of Arab Life, by Madame Barbe Patteson, [1885], The New Playground or Wanderings in Algeria, by Alexander A. Knox, 1881, The Martyr Church: A Narrative of the Introduction, Progress, and Triumph of Christianity in Madagascar, by William Ellis, 1870, and The Drama of Madagascar, by Sonia E. Howe, 1938, all original cloth, 8vo
85 Scott (C. Rochfort). Rambles in Egypt and Candia, with Details of the Military Power and Resources of those Countries, and Observations on the Government, Policy, and Commercial System of Mohammed Ali, 2 vols., 1st ed., 1837, five lithographed plates, and folding plan of Karnak, some light toning, modern brown half calf gilt, contrasting morocco labels to spines, 8vo Abbey Travel 269; Blackmer 1514. (2)
£100-150
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£150-200