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DASSIER, Jean and Jacques-Antoine.
‘An Explanation of Dassier’s Medals being a Representation of a Series of Events...
London, c. 1795-1800.
An exceptionally fine illustrated manuscript, with drawings after the series of sixty medals of Roman history from Romulus to the Age of Augustus produced by Jean Dassier and his son in 1740-1743. The drawings are executed with considerable finesse, adding detailed elements not clearly visible...
£7500
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POPE, Alexander.
Windsor-Forest. To the Right Honourable George Lord Lansdown …
London: Printed for Bernard Lintott … 1713.
First edition of Pope’s second separately published poem, preceded by An Essay on Criticism in 1711. Written in the tradition that young poets begin with pastoral verse, Windsor-Forest, with its epigraph from Virgil’s Eclogues, was the poem that first won Swift’s regard and...
£2750
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M’LEOD, John.
Voyage of His Majesty’s Ship Alceste, along the coast of Corea, to the Island of Lewchew; with an account of...
London, John Murray, 1818.
Second edition (first 1817), with five handsome aquatints, of this account of the voyage of the Alceste to China with Lord Amherst’s embassy, by the ship’s surgeon M’Leod.
£275
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HAMILTON, William, of Monkland.
Manuscript account book,
1706–53.
Manuscript account book with 41 entries recording payments to William (later Andrew) Hamilton of Monkland, Lanarkshire, by William Main of Meadowhead, of four pound Scots due annually for the ‘few duty’ (an annual land rent) on the farm of Meadowhead. The first entry is for £12 for the years 1704–6,...
£5000
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Lion and the Fox. The Role of the Hero in the Plays of Shakespeare …
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd., [1955.]
Reprint of the second edition of Lewis’s ‘first political book’, a collection of essays engaging with Shakespeare and Machiavelli first published in 1927 and then reissued by Methuen in 1951; inscribed in a very shaky hand ‘To Geoffrey Bridson from Wyndham / Oct 1956’.
£300
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THORNTON, Robert John, and Joseph DUFFOUR (translator).
Preuves de l’efficacité de la vaccine, suivies d’une...
Paris, Chomel, 1807.
First French translation of Thornton’s Facts decisive in favour of the cow-pock, which first appeared in 1802 and swiftly ran through numerous editions. Thornton (1768–1837) attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and the University of St Andrews, before lecturing on medical botany at Guy’s...
£200
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MEITNER, Lise, and Otto R. FRISCH.
On the Products of the Fission of Uranium and Thorium under Neutron Bombardment.
Copenhagen, Ejnar Munksgaard, 1939.
First edition of this highly important paper, published in Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. Mathematisk-Fysiske Meddelelser, vol. 17, no. 5.
£850
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ANSELMI, Giorgio, the younger.
Georgii Anselmi nepotis Epigrammaton libri septem. Sosthyrides. Peplum Palladis. Aeglogae...
Venice, Maffeo Pasini, September 1528.
The definitive edition of the epigrams of Giorgio Anselmi, grandson of the astrologer and music theorist of the same name, with several epigrams on his grandfather’s lost works on magic and the occult.
£875
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RICHARDSON, James.
Narrative of a mission to central Africa performed in the years 1850-51, under the orders and at the expense...
London, Chapman and Hall, 1853.
First edition recounting the English explorer, missionary and abolitionist James Richardson’s 1850-1851 expedition through central Africa, including the first known crossing of the Libyan Hammada al-Hamra, or ‘Red Plateau’.
£300
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GOBAT, Samuel.
Journal of a three years’ residence in Abyssinia, in furtherance of the objects of the Church Missionary Society...
London, Hatchard & Son; and Seeley & Sons, 1834.
First edition of a journal written by the Swiss Calvinist missionary and later Bishop of Jerusalem Samuel Gobat during his residence in Abyssinia between early 1830 and late 1832.
£275
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GALTON, Francis.
Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa being an account of a visit to Damaraland in 1851 … Also vacation...
London, New York, and Melbourne, Ward, Locke and Co., 1889.
Second revised edition, issued in ‘The Minerva Library of Famous Books’ series, recounting Francis Galton’s 1851 explorations in present-day South Africa and Namibia, together with an updated appendix on the history of Damaraland and the narrative of three ‘Vacation Tours’ to Spain, Palestine,...
£100
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BOYSON, Violet Fenton.
The Falkland Islands … With notes on the natural history by Rupert Vallentin.
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1924.
First edition of Violet Fenton Boyson’s history of the Falkland Islands, in what remains a standard work on the subject. Boyson was initially asked by the naturalist Rupert Vallentin to edit his notebooks on the natural history of the island. In response, Boyson suggested supplementing these notes...
£300
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DOMVILLE-FIFE, Charles William.
Savage life in the black Sudan. An account of an adventurous journey of exploration amongst wild...
London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1927.
First edition of Charles William Domville-Fife’s account of the wildlife and indigenous peoples of Sudan, complete with maps and photographs taken by the author himself.
£75
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CUNNINGHAM, Robert.
Notes on the Natural History of the Strait of Magellan and West Coast of Patagonia made during the Voyage of...
Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1871.
First edition of the travel account of Robert Oliver Cunningham (1841-1918), a Scottish naturalist employed aboard the H.M.S. ‘Nassau’ during a surveying expedition of the Strait of Magellan between 1866 and 1869.
£400
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DUNCAN, John.
Travels in western Africa, in 1845 & 1846. Comprising a journey from Whydah, through the kingdom of Dahomey, to Adofoodia,...
London, Richard Bentley, 1849.
Third edition recounting the West African expeditions of the Scottish traveller John Duncan, including the first appearance of Duncan’s account of the Niger expedition.
£150
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READE, William Winwood.
Savage Africa: being the narrative of a tour in Equatorial, south-western, and north-western Africa; with...
London, Smith, Elder, and Co., 1863.
First edition recounting an expedition through west Africa and along the west African coast by the British historian, philosopher, and explorer William Winwood Reade.
£175
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SWAYNE, Harold George Carlos.
Seventeen trips through Somaliland. A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893. Being...
London, Rowland Ward and Co., 1895.
First edition recounting hunting and exploration trips to Somaliland by the British soldier, explorer, naturalist, and big-game hunter Harold George Carlos Swayne.
£175
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BACKHOUSE, James.
A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa …
London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co.; York, John L. Linney, 1844.
First edition describing the travels of the Quaker minister, missionary, and amateur botanist James Backhouse (1794-1869) in Mauritius and South Africa.
£200
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FILIPPI, Filippo de and Caroline de FILIPPI (translator).
Ruwenzori. An account of the expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo...
London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1908.
First English edition, with handsome illustrations, describing the 1906 expedition to the Rwenzori mountain range in present-day Uganda under the stewardship of Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, the Duke of Abruzzi.
£300
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POWELL-COTTON, Percy.
A sporting trip through Abyssinia. A narrative of a nine months’ journey from the plains of the Hawash...
London, Rowland Ward, 1902.
First edition, signed by the son of the author and bound for the Powell Cotton Museum, describing a nine-month exploration and hunting expedition through Abyssinia by the English hunter and animal collector Percy Powell-Cotton.
£300