101. California – Homann, Johann Baptist / Landteck, Zacharias.

[California shown as an Island] Geographische Universal-Zeig und Schlag-Uhr.

Original hand-coloured engraving, with the Cartographer showing California as an Island. Nürnberg, Homann, [c.1735]. Plate Size: 57 cm x 48.5 cm. Sheet Size: 60.5 cm x 51.7 cm. Original map. Very good, actually stunning, condition. Some faint trace of browning to upper corners of sheet. Very minor tears to edges at centre-fold.

102. Barneby, W. Henry.

The New Far West and The Old Far East – Being Notes of a Tour in North America, Japan, China, Ceylon, Etc. With Maps and Illustrations. [Including an Appendix on the Supplementary Treaty of Commerce between the United States and Japan].

London, Edward Stanford, 1889. Quarto. Frontispiece, X, 316 pages with three large fold-out-maps in colour and eight illustrations in black-and-white. Hardcover / Stunning 19th century prize-binding in beautiful full tan calf bearing the Arms of Monmouth Grammar School [with their Motto “Serve and Obey”]. Inscription and embossed stamp of Monmouth – Grammar School to endpaper. Dedicated by Headmaster C.M.Roberts to former pupil W.A.Lamb in July 1890. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear.

103. Cary, John.

Cary’s New Itinerary: Or an Accurate Delineation of the Great Roads, Both Direct and Cross throughout England and Wales: With Many of the Principal Roads in Scotland. From an Actual Admeasurement by John Cary: Made by Command of his Majesty’s Postmaster General for official purposes: Under the Direction and Inspection of Thomas Hasker Esq., Surveyor and Superintendant of the Mail Coaches. [Including an advertising for Cary’s New Celestial and Terrestrial Globes (with Illustrations of Globes)]. [Subtitle:] This work shows the immediate Route from the Metropolis [London] to all parts of England and Wales: And from Town to Town in every direction, distinguishing also the Cities, Market, Borough and Corporate Towns: And those at which the Assizes are held and gives the time of the Mails, Arrival and Departure from each, Describes the Line of the Navigable Canals and the Course of the Rivers passed over, The Number of Houses and Inhabitants contained in each Town, And those Inns which supply Post Horses and Carriages. Also The Inn’s throughout the Metropolis [London] from which the Mail and Stagecoaches go, their time of departure & the Route they seveerally take. The Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Seats situate near the Roads, A List of the Packet Boats and their time of sailing. Copious Indexes. Maps of the Lot Wight Environs of London, Bath, Brighton, Margate & Cheltenham & a Large Map of England and Wales peculiarly adapted to the Work. – [An Advertisement juxtaposed to the titlepage reads: “This Edition contains the Routes to upwards of Nine Thousand Places, which have never been given in any work of a similar Description; being a complete Directory to every Parish situate out of the Line of the Direct and Cross Roads throughout England and Wales”].

Seventh Edition, with Improvements [complete with all maps as called for]. London, Printed for J. Cary, 1817. Octavo. Pagination: [1], 647 pages plus 7 maps / Detailed pagination see here: [1], Title, Large Folding Map, [121], 6 folded Maps, [526] pages. Modern, recent Hardcover / Very decorative half-leather with marbled-paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering on new sppine-label. New endpapers. Protective Mylar. Only the large folding map with a inor tear (one part of the map deliberately bound separate (geniously folding out to meet th erest of the map). Interior text and maps all in excellent, unusually clean condition !!

104. [Marriott Mena House Hotel] Bentley, Arthur, J.M. / Griffinhoofe, C.G.

Wintering in Egypt. Part I.: Under the Shadow of the Pyramids. Part II.: Hints to Invalids.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1894. 26.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 188 pages.18 illustrations including a map of the region around the Pyramids of Gizeh Mena Hotel, Bulak. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and gilt embossed pictoral on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Lower corner boards slightly bumped. Marking on front paste-down. Valleys between pastedowns and endpapers show tears. Binding a little shaky but overall still firm and strong. Interior is clean and bright. Extremely scarce publication !

105. Società Rododendro.

Bollettino della Società Rododendro [ogni numero compresa una sezione / each issue including a section: “Sezione Automobilistica” / Compreso il numero unico “Paganella” per l’anno 1905 / With the extra number for 1905 “Paganella”].

Five Volumes (bound in 2). Trento, Società Rododendro / Scotoni & Viiti, 1904-1908. 21 cm x 30 cm. Vol.1-2, 200 pages / Vol.3-5, 240 pages. Monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout both volumes. Beautifully illustrated coloured paper issue covers in Vol.1-2. Fold-out map of ‘Val Nambino, Val Agola e Val Dalgone’ in Vol.3-5. Hardcover / Excellent, contemporary library Buckram with gilt lettering on spine / Illustrazione delle copertine [Art Nouveau] di Tevini e Vitti / [Original, beautifully decorative wrappers with art nouveau cover-art by Tevini and Vitti bound within]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some occasional abrasions to the brochure – covers bound within. Interior unmarked. Binding strong and firm. Alpine Club stamps throughout. / Includes many pages with advertising on early car travel / Advertising for “Puch”, “Adler” and “Neckarsulmer” Motociclette / Local Advertising for tourism in the italian Trento [Trient / Alto Adige / Suedtirol] /

106. [Burke, Edmund].

Account of the European Settlements in America – In Six Parts [Published in Two Volumes of which we offer here Volume II pf the rare Irish Edition only and which includes the “Description of Canada” and “Cape Breton”, The West-Indies, Nova Scotia, Several Southern States etc.]. The Six Parts are: I. A short History of the Discovery of that Part of the World / II. The Manners and Customs of the original Inhabitants. / III. Of the Spanish Settlements. / IV. Of the Portuguese. / V. Of the French, Dutch, and Danish. / VI. Of the English. / Each Part contains: An Accurate Description of the Settlements in it, their Extent, Climate, Productions, Trade, Genius and Dispositions of their Inhabitants : the Interests of the several Powers of Europe, with respect to those Settlements and their Political Commercial Views with regard to each other.

The Fourth Edition, with Improvements. Volume II [of two]. Dublin, Printed for Peter Wilson, in Dame-Street, 1762. Small Octavo (10.5 cm wide x 17.5 cm high). [5], 301 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Binding still firm with the spine starting. Small stain to rear board. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

107. Heininger, C.P. (Publisher).

Historical Souvenir of San Francisco, California – with Views of Prominent Buildings, the Bay Islands, Stock Exchange etc. [Two Binding – Variations of the Fantastic original Tourist – Panorama of San Francisco / 12 years before the earthquake destroyed most of the buildings displayed in this Leporello / The Souvenir shows also a remarkable Birds Eye View of San Francisco ].

2 volumes ( 2 different editions of the same publications.) San Francisco, C.P. Heininger, 1889 / (ca.1898). 14.5 cm x 19 cm. 44 pages with illustrations (including bird’s eye view of San Francisco), 60-page-booklet with descriptions tipped into rear of the Leporello (the booklet cleanly detached but complete). Original, beautifully illustrated Hardcover Leporello / Accordion / Concertina – tourist publication with blindstamped emblemata “Eureka” to the rear board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear for the later edition. The Leporellos both in unusually, excellent condition. No fraying to the folds of the Leporellos. Binding of the 1889 edition is poorer, The Leporello and the booklet of this version are completely detached. A few tears and damages between the folds. Both interior of booklets are very clean. Overall very good condition and all illustrations are superfresh! Extremely scarce.

108. Norris-Newman, Charles L.

In Zululand With The British Throughout the War of 1879.

London, W. H. Allen 1880. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 343 pages. Illustrated throughout with portraits. Includes the vintage photograph of Sir Henry Bartle Edward Frere (including tissue-guard), 3 fold-out plans. With the often missing large fold-out Military Map of Zulu Land and Adjacent Parts of Natal and Transvaal. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Design on front board. First layer, with frontispiece, slightly detached. Otherwise in very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean, with very minor spotting near front. Ink markings to first page of first chapter. Bookplate / Exlibris of Davenport House (Bridgnorth) to front pastedown with the printed motto “Audentes Fortuna Junat”. Extremely rare, rather scarce and even scarcer with the large folding-map included !

109. Payne, John / Hardie, James / Provenance I: Signature of J.J. Westervelt [Jacobus James Westervelt (1755 – 1826) – Schraalenberg and Provenance II: Charles Sydney Clark (1925) presented this set to Johnson Free Public Library at Hackensack, New Jersey].

A New and Complete System of Universal Geography [Complete with all 20 maps / illustrations] ; Describing Asia, Africa, Europe and America; with their Subdivisions of Republics, States, Empires and Kingdoms : The Extent, Boundaries and Remarkable Appearances of each Country; Cities, Towns and Curiosities of Nature and Art. Also giving a general account of The Fossil and Vegetable Productions [with hand-coloured plates] of the Earth. The History of Man, In all Climates, Regions and Conditions; Customs, Manners, Laws, Governments and Religions: The State of Arts, Sciences, Commerce, Manufactures and Knowledge. Sketches of the Ancient and Modern History of each Nation and People to the present time. To which is added, A View of Astronomy, As connected with Geography; Of the Planetary System to which the Earth belongs; And of the Universe in General. With a copious Index annexed to each Volume. Being a Large and Comprehensive Abridgement of Universal Geography. By John Payne. With additions, corrections and Improvements from the latest and best authors by James Hardie – Author of “The Principles of Latin Grammar”, “The American Remembrancer” and “Universal Tablet of Memory” &c. In Four Volumes.

First Abridged Edition. Volumes I [Asia] and II [Africa] (of IV). New York, Printed for and Sold by John Low, Book-Seller at The Shakespeare – Head, No.332 Water-Street, 1798 – 1799. Octavo – Edition. Pagination: Volume I [Asia]: Folded Frontispiece (Map of the World), XLVIII, 518 pages plus 10 unnumbered pages of an Index and one additional page with Directions for the Bookbinder for placing the maps and illustrations as well as Errata. Volume I includes all 10 Maps / Engravings as called for / Volume II [Africa]: Folded Frontispiece (Map of Africa), 578 pages plus 12 unnumbered pages of an Index plus one additional page with Directions for the Bookbinder for placing the maps and illustrations as well as Errata. Volume II includes all 10 Maps / Engravings as called for. Hardcover / Modern Library – Binding with the original 18th century – work bound in. Former library copy of Bergen County Historical Society (cancelled) and Johnson Free Public Library in Hackensack, New Jersey, with a very boring, modern library binding and library cards applied to the endpapers only, leaving the bookblock with text and maps and illustrations entirely untouched from any library-signs. Very good condition with some signs of external wear.

110. [Seymour, William Deane, Cobh] Wilson, Colonel Sir Charles W.

Picturesque Palestine – Sinai and Egypt [Volume III and IV of the First Edition in Full Red Morocco, from the library of Captain William Deane Seymour of Cobh [Queenstown, Ireland] with his bookplate to endpaper – these possibly working copies for his later work “A Tour in Syria and Palestine”].

First Edition. London, J.S.Virtue and Co., [1870]. Folio. Volume III: VI, Map of Palestine, 240 pages with numerous text-illustrations on wood and full-page steel-engravings / Volume IV: VI, Map of Egypt and Sinai, 236 pages with numerous text-illustrations on wood and full-page steel-engravings. Very decorative full red Morocco with gilt lettering and ornament, bound by Francis Guy, Cork. Bindings rubbed with some minor wormhole-damage to Volume IV. PAstedowns and endpapers a little stained and dusty but interior absolutely excellent besides some foxing to tissue-guards.