11. 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 !!

12. [Irving, Washington] Knickerbocker, Diedrich.

A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty – Containing, among many surprising and curious matters, The Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, The Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and The Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong. The Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam : Being the only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been published.

A New Edition. In Two Volumes (complete set). London, John Murray, 1821. Octavo. Volume I: XXXI, 341 pages / Volume II: [3], 282 pages. Hardcover / Original half-leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Marbled paper on boards of both volumes slightly damaged. Otherwise both Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

13. Moschetti, [Prof. Allesandro].

Roma – [Original 19th century Tourist Guide with 40 (forty) Lithographic Plates on Rome in Piranesi-style / Rome in Antiquity].

[Rome], Incisioni del Prof. Moschetti, Epoca 1822. Small Octavo. 40 illustrations as Leporello. Original, blindstamped Hardcover with illustrated cover. With the original bands fully intact. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Very rare Piranesiesque Guide, including the famous Pyramide (Caio Cestio) and Veduti.

14. [Conder, Josiah].

Palestine / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe].

London, Printed for James Duncan, 1824. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. IV, 368 pages. With fold-out map and 3 black and white engravings showing: 1. Map of Palestine / 2. View of Jerusalem / 3. View of Bethlehem / 4. Plan of Jerusalem. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament and raised bands on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Spinelabel slightly loose. Minor foxing.

15. Anonymus [Roorbach, Orville A.]

Northern Regions, or a Relation of Uncle Richard’s Voyages for the Discovery of a North-West Passage and an Account of the Overland Journies of other Enterprizing Travellers.

London, J. Harris, 1825. 17.4cm x 11.1cm. XII, 315 pages. With 11 [of 12] beautiful full-page-plates, (each with two engravings) and a fold-out map of the arctic regions from 1825. Original, illustrated Hardcover. Binding a little distorted. The cover-illustration faded. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The fold-out map is cleanly torn (now in two parts).

16. [Conder, Josiah].

Mexico and Guatemala [Guatimala] [in: The Modern Traveller – A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical of the various Countries of the Globe].

Two Volumes (Complete Set). London, Printed for James Duncan, 1825. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. Volume I: VI, 371 pages / IV, 320 pages. With a folded Map of Mexico and 6 steel engravings: 1. Pyramid of Cholula / 2. The Great Square at Mexico / 3. Basaltic Rocks at Regla / 4. Suburbs of Guanaxuato / 5. Indians of Mechoacan / 6. Volcano of Jorullo. Hardcover / Original, decorative full leather. Marbled endpapers and edges. Binding rubbed but firm. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [The Modern Traveller – Volume 25 – 26].

17. [Conder, Josiah].

Birmah, Siam and Anam [Burma (Myanmar) / Thailand / Vietnam – in: The Modern Traveller – A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical of the various Countries of the Globe.

London, Printed for James Duncan, 1826. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. IV, 367 pages. With a folded black-and-white map of Indo-China and three black-and-white steel engravings showing: 1. The Imperial Court Ummerapoora / 2. A Woongee & His Wife / A Rhahan or Priest / 3. Cochin (Kochi) – Chinese shipping on the River Taifo (Fai-foo). Original Hardcover. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament to spine. Spinelabel missing. Binding firm but rubbed. Lower spine with minor damage only. Very good condition of the map and etchings. The rarest Volume in the series. [The Modern Traveller – Volume 11].

18. [Conder, Josiah].

Arabia, Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe].

Three Volumes. London, Printed for James Duncan, 1827. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. Arabia-Volume: IV, 362 pages / Egypt/Abyssinia-Volume I: IV, 366 pages / Egypt/Abyssinia-Volume II: IV, 364 pages. Includes three folded maps and nine black and white illustrations showing: 1. Map of Arabia / 2. Map of Egypt / 3. Map of Nubia and Abyssinia / 4. View of Mount Sinai / 5. Mosques at Mekka and Medinah / 6. View of Moosa / 7. Temple of Apollinopolis / 8. Cataracts of the Nile / 9. View on the River Tacazze / 10. Obelisk and King’s Seat at Axum / 11. View of Cairo / 12. The Pyramids from Old Cairo. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Minor foxing only. [The Modern Traveller- Volume 4-6].

19. [Conder, Josiah].

Persia and China / [in: The Modern Traveller- A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical, and Topographical, of the Various Countries of the Globe.]

Two Volumes (Complete Set). London, Printed for James Duncan, 1827. Duodecimo / 9 cm x 14.5 cm. Volume I: IV, 372 pages. / Volume II: IV, 340 pages. Including two folded maps and 6 black and white illustrations: 1. Folded map of Persia / 2. Folded map of China / 3. Isfahan / 4. Teheran / 5. View of the Golden Island / 6. Chinese Military Post / 7. Western Gate of Peking / 8. Persian Lady. Original Hardcover, decorative full leather. Full leather with gilted ornaments to outer margins of interior boards. Marbled endpapers and edges. Gilt ornament to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding rubbed but firm. Spinelabel and cover of Volume I detached. Minor signs of foxing. [The Modern Traveller- Volume 12-13].

20. Stuart de Rothesay, Charles Stuart, Baron (1779-1845) / Hay, Robert William (1786-1861) / Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (1780 – 1831) [Baron de Rousseau – French Orientalist and French Consul at Tripoli] / Alexander Gordon Laing (1794 – 1826) [Scottish explorer and the first European to reach Timbuktu] / Hanmer Warrington / Foreign Secretary for Prime Minister Wellington, George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen [Lord Aberdeen].

Original, unpublished and meaningful letter by British official and Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Robert William Hay, addressed with urgency to former secret agent in Spain and Portugal, Sir Charles Stuart de Rothesay, Scottish nobleman, and English ambassador to France (1815-1830); alerting Ambassador Charles Stuart of Hay’s arrival in Paris and his wish to ask him if he has “anything to communicate to me in regard to that Royal [Baron] Rousseau, The Barbary Consul”. Hay is in this letter preparing Stuart in order to investigate the situation around the death of explorer Alexander Gordon Laing in Africa. Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Sir R[obert] W.Hay, who had been informed about the situation around Laing’s missing Journals per private letter from the British Consul in Tripoli, Hanmer Warrington, announces his arrival in Paris to protest to the French government and advices ambassador Stuart:″I conclude that he [Baron Jean-Baptiste Rousseau] is by this time out of guarantiae, but I hope that by ensuing at Paris he will only get out of the frying Pan with the fire”. Hay continues: “I hope you will go with me (in case it be necessary) to the Minister, whoever he may be, in [?] Departement this ….were incredibly false for it. The French Govt. are really disposed & prosecute the Enquiry bon a fide. I think that same may acq…[….]…..on the other hand, if the French Govt. do not enter into y. enquiry with a good spirit, it will be in Rousseau’s …..to baffle me with the utmost facility in all our attempts to get at the truth. I spoke to Lord Aberdeen [George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Foreign Secretary for Prime Minister Wellington] on the day I left London, & he gave me full permission to conduct measures with you for the …of this affair. Yours very truly R.W.Hay”.

[London], [1829]. 5 octavo – pages on 2 sheets, folded. Excellent condition. Signed by Hay and dated probably “Monday, 19 Oct. [1829]”.