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References are to item numbers. A more detailed index is given at the end of the catalogue.

Asia 1, 4, 14, 15, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 27, 32, 33, 36, 39, 40, 44, 45, 54, 55, 56, 59, 61, 62, 65, 67, 74, 75, 77, 78, 83–88, 92, 93, 97, 98, 111, 115, 116, 118–120, 123–126, 128, 129, 132–136, 138–141, 144, 146, 148,

155, 156, 158, 162, 172, 174, 176–178, 180, 181, 186, 188, 191–195, 197, 201, 204

Indian Subcontinent 12, 40, 41, 42, 48, 49, 57, 59, 68, 70–72, 80–83, 97, 100, 106, 117, 122, 130, 137, 138, 142, 145, 149, 165, 167–169, 179, 186, 189, 190, 198–200, 205

Arabian Peninsula 2, 3, 5, 8–11, 13, 18, 19, 22, 25, 26, 40, 50, 58, 75, 79, 81, 96, 99, 101–105, 109, 141, 143, 147, 173, 182, 183, 185, 186

Africa 23, 30, 35, 37, 40, 52, 64, 73, 75, 90, 94, 101, 121, 127, 138, 150, 151, 153, 157, 170, 171, 187, 203

North America 6, 7, 31, 40, 66, 98, 110, 112, 114, 152, 154

South America 29, 39, 40, 46, 47, 108, 131, 159, 175

Antarctica 39, 40, 160, 161, 163, 164, 202

Europe 17, 28, 34, 38, 40, 43, 51, 53, 59, 63, 69, 76, 78, 89, 91, 95, 107, 113, 114, 166, 184, 196

Australia 16, 39, 40, 60, 98

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1ADAMS, Arthur (ed.) The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang; Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher during the years 1843–1846. London: Reeve, Benham, and Reeve, 1848–506 parts, folio. Original green cloth-backed green card printed wrap-pers, rebacked. Housed in a green morocco-backed book-style drop-back box by Newbold and Collins of Sydney. With 55 tissue-guarded plates: 52 lithographs and 3 engravings, of which 35 (32 of the lith-ographs and all the engravings) are hand-coloured. The transfer to plates was undertaken by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, James De Carle Sowerby, and C. W. Wing. Ex-library copies from the Boston So-ciety of Natural History, with library blindstamp to titles, some wrap-pers and occasionally to the margins of plates, bookplates to verso of front panels of the wrappers recording purchase from the Courtis Fund, apart from the final part which has a plate which records pres-entation from the E. R. Mayo library, inked accession inscriptions to the front panels dating from 1849, except the last which was obtained in 1891; externally slightly browned and soiled, a little chipped at the extremities, contents lightly browned, a very good set.

first edition of the official publication of the zoological re-sults of Belcher’s extensive surveying voyage in the Malay Ar-chipelago. The report was edited by Arthur Adams, assistant surgeon on board the Samarang, who acted as scientific officer for the voyage. “The desire shown by the Commander of the Expedition to afford every facility in the pursuit of science, en-abled me to bring together numerous observations, to collect specimens, and make sketches and drawings of many of those more rare and evanescent forms of life which it is my hope may help to advance the Zoology of that part of the globe” (Pref-ace, p. vi). Adams was himself an accomplished malacologist,

responsible for the sections on mollusca and crustacea in col-laboration with Lovell Reeve (autodidact conchologist, natu-ral history dealer, author and publisher of the monumental Conchologia iconica, who was also the publisher of the present

work) and Adam White (assistant to the Keeper of the Zoologi-cal Department of the British Museum, and author of the 1847 List of the Specimens of Crustacea in the Collection), respectively. The section on fishes was written by Sir John Richardson, who had accompanied Franklin on his first two expeditions, was with John Rae on his search for Franklin in 1847, and who has been described as “eminent in medicine, exploration, and natural history” (ODNB); the commentary on the vertebrata is provid-ed by John Edward Gray, Keeper of the Zoological Department at the British Museum.

The front panel of the wrappers of Mollusca Part I is inscribed: “Dr. Gould with Lowell Reeve’s regards” and Part II, probably secretarially, “With the Author’s Compts.” An excellent set of this elusive and important work. Extremely uncommon, just four sets at auction in the last 50 years, no other copy retaining the wrappers traced at sale.Abbey 529, for the official account of the voyage, this zoological record noted but not described; Hill 105, present work not noted; Howgego, II, B25; Nissen ZBI 289; Sabin 28400.

£30,000 [96702]

The emergence of the modern Gulf states2(ADMIRALTY.) Instructions for the Guidance of Her Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of

the Slave Trade. London: for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 18922 volumes, octavo (236 × 150 mm). Contemporary black half calf, dark blue cloth sides (vol. I morocco-grain and vol. II watered), spines gilt in compartments, raised bands, buff endpapers, edges speckled red. Occasional blindstamps of the Barbados Corporation. Slightly rubbed overall, extremities bumped, vol. II sunned along head of front board, spotting to endleaves of vol. I, a few pages finger-marked in the margins not affecting text. A very good copy.

first edition, one of 500 copies printed, a printed issue-slip tipped in at the title page of volume I appearing to indicate that a maximum of 250 copies were actually issued in the first in-stance, with six copies only now traced in libraries worldwide. This handbook for British sailors was published in light of the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889–90 and significantly in the same year as the Exclusive Agreement, the last in a series of 19th-century treaties agreed between the various Gulf sheik-doms and the British, for whom the suppression of slavery and piracy provided a useful pretext for the protection of Indian shipping routes. Reproduced here in full are the texts in each treaty signed between the United Kingdom and the Gulf sheik-doms from 1820 to 1847.

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The earliest reference in history to a language named after the Arabs

3(AGATHARCHIDES, et al.) [Title in Greek letters.] Ex Ctesia, Agatharchide, Memnone exerptae historiae, Appiani Iberica. Item de gestis Annibalis. Omnia nunc primum edita. Cum Henrici Stephani castigationibus. Geneva: Henri Estienne, 1557Octavo (161 × 106 mm). 18th-century speckled calf, title gilt to spine within double fillet panel in second compartment, similar panels containing flower and vase tools to the other compartments, double fillet panel to boards. Greek types. Erosion on boards from the sprin-kling now stabilised, restoration to head- and tail-caps and joints, light toning, mild damp-stain to the upper, inner quadrant of the text from the rear, overall very good.

editio princeps of these five Greek histories, including Pho-tius’s recension of “On the Erythrean [Red] Sea” by Agath-archides. “Agatharchides’ original text is lost, but extracts and digests of it are found in three later authors: Diodorus Siculus, Strabo and the collection of extracts made by the Byzantine theologian Photius in the ninth century ad … Of these three witnesses … the Photius text is considered closest to the origi-nal” (Retso, The Arabs in Antiquity, p. 295): Diodorus extensively altered the text to fit his “distinctive literary style”, whereas Strabo’s immediate source was not Agatharchides at all but the lost geography by Artemidorus of Ephesus (Burstein, Aga-tharchides of Cnidus, p. 38). Photius’s version is unique in refer-ring to an aromatic plant “which in Arabic (arabistii) is called larimna”, a passage found at p. 71 of the present text: if part of Agatharchides’s original account, this would be “the earliest reference in history to a language named after the Arabs” and Retso has “no doubt that Photius had a text very close to Aga-tharchides’ original before him” (Retso, p. 300).

“On the Erythrean Sea”, an account of an expedition to the west coast of Arabia ordered by Ptolemy II in 280 bc in reac-tion to Seleucid expansion in the region, has been identified as “the most important source for an almost forgotten chap-ter in the history of discovery, the exploration of the Red Sea … by the agents of the Ptolemaic government in Egypt … It

also contains the earliest extensive account of the geography and ethnography of the coats of northeast Africa and Western Arabia” (Burstein). Several peoples are identified as “arabes”, including the “Nabataoi” (Nabateans), “Thamoudenoi” (Tha-mud) and “Gasandoi” (Ghassanids). This edition of Agath-archides precedes its appearance in Hoeschel’s editio princeps of Photius’s Bibliotheca, itself based on a manuscript owned by Estienne, by nearly half a century. This highly significant early source for the region also includes the first separate work on India by Ctesias of Cnidos and two books by Appian that were not included in Estienne’s 1551 edition.Adams C3020.

£1,750 [94741]

4AINSWORTH, William Francis. Researches in Assyria, Babylonia, and Chaldea; forming Part of the Labours of the Euphrates Expedition. London: John W. Parker, 1838Octavo. Original blue-green finely diaper cloth, title gilt to spine, panels and elaborate strapwork centre-tool to boards, cream sur-face-paper endpapers. Tinted lithographic frontispiece, steel-en-graved title-page vignette and 4 further similar vignettes, 3 exten-

sive, folding hand-coloured geological sections at the rear. A little rubbed, spine sunned, corners bumped and slight string-notches to the fore-edges of boards, small patch at the fore-edge of the front board rubbed through, some foxing to the frontispiece, largely ver-so, light browning, but overall a very good copy, hinges tight and text and plates clean.

first edition. “Ainsworth was one of the founding members of the Royal Geographical Society. In 1835 he was appointed surgeon and geologist to the Euphrates expedition. This ac-count of the geological work [of the expedition] is dedicated to Francis Chesney head of the expedition. Ainsworth produced this work very quickly, long before Chesney’s own account had appeared” (Atabey). The expedition was intended to “examine the feasibility of opening up the Mesopotamian rivers to steam navigation as a new route to India, as well as asserting British political presence in the area, promoting British commercial ties, and gathering scientific and archaeological data” (ODNB). Ainsworth contributed “ geological sections across northern Syria and the Taurus Mountains, discovered several deposits of commercially important minerals in Mesopotamia and Anato-lia, and explored a substantial part of south-east Persia”.Atabey 10; Howgego II, C26; not in Blackmer, Weber or Wilson.

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5ALDAMER, Shafi; Richard Mortel; Humberto da Silveira. The Visit of HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone and the Earl of Athlone to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 25 February–18 March 1938, With a Summary of Saudi-British Relations. Riyadh: King Abdulaziz Public Library, printed Anis Commercial Printing Press, Beirut, 2007Quarto. Original grey cloth, title in toned grey to the front board, publisher’s device similarly to the tail of spine. With the dust jacket. Profusely illustrated from the countess’s photographs, 2 of them in colour. Text in English throughout. Very good in jacket with minor crumpling along the edges.

first and only edition, the first publication of photo-graphs taken by HRH Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, on her 1938 historic state visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, undertaken with her husband the Earl of Athlone, and her son, Lord Frederick Cambridge. The countess, Queen Victo-ria’s longest surviving grandchild, was the first British royal to visit the country, and the only British royal to meet King Ab-dulaziz. The tour took in Riyadh, Hofuf, and Dammam, and Princess Alice met Noura bint Abdul Rahman, sister of the king and other members of the Saudi royal family. The images show the kingdom right on the cusp of its major transforma-tion – oil was struck in significant commercial quantities for the first time at Dammam No. 7 in the same year. The original photographs are in the collection of the King Abdulaziz Public Library, and had never previously been published. Most were shot in black and white, but the few taken in colour are be-lieved to be the first colour photos to be taken of the Kingdom, certainly predating the advent of Aramco’s well-resourced pho-tographic department by several years. This copy has laid-in two original press photographs depicting the party’s outward journey from London via Cairo.

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“It was a magnificent scene … the Blue Mountains, eight thousand feet high, towered above a stratum of clouds, the

rugged hills below them furrowed by ravines”6ALEXANDER, Sir James Edward. Original watercolour view of the coast of Jamaica with the Blue Mountains in the background and two fishing boats in the foreground. Jamaica: 1831Watercolour and ink on paper (90 × 380 mm), titled in pencil “Blue Mt. Jamaica” in the lower right corner; mounted on contemporary grey card mount (440 × 555 mm) with wash-line; titled, initialled, and dated in reddish ink “Blue Mountain, Jamaica, 1831, J.E.A.”, window-mount-ed, framed and glazed. Mount a little soiled and with a few minor chips, but the sketch itself clean and overall in very good condition.

A highly evocative watercolour view of the Jamaican coastline with the famed Blue Mountains, the longest mountain range of the island, in the background. Sir James Alexander, the artist, noted the grandeur of this very scene in the published version of his travels: “After a week’s run we sighted afar off the dim outline of part of St Domingo, and then the lofty mountains near Point Morant, the eastern cape of Jamaica. It was a magnificent scene, this part of the island; the Blue Mountains, eight thousand feet high, towered above a stratum of clouds, and the rugged hills below them were furrowed by ravines; we could see no level land, but the steep cliffs descended abruptly into the sea, on which were one or two small coasting vessels. As we approached nearer, we observed that the hills were not altogether barren,

black forests were upon their sides, and patches of bright em-erald green, and white houses, were seen as we ran along the south coast towards Port Royal” (Transatlantic Sketches, Comprising Visits to the Most Interesting Scenes in North and South America, and the West Indies, 1833, Vol. I, p. 285). The present watercolour was in-tended to be an illustration for his Transatlantic Sketches, but was not included in the final publication, the Caribbean being repre-sented by views of St Vincent and Havana.

Alexander (1803–1855) was a British army officer and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society who volunteered to exe-cute commissions for the Society and “literary and scientific individuals” travelled to South America in 1831. He went up the Essequibo River and travelled to the Caribbean, where he visited Barbados, Tobago, Trinidad, Grenada, St Vincent, Ja-maica “with its blue mountains, fertile savannahs, and deadly lagoons”, and Cuba. From there he sailed to New Orleans, trav-elling extensively in America (meeting the president in Wash-ington DC), before returning to Liverpool.

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7ANDREWS, John. History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland; commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783. In Four Volumes with Portraits Maps and Charts. London: published by His Majesty’s royal licence and authority; for John Fielding and John Jarvis, 1785–6

4 volumes, octavo (204 × 127 mm). Contemporary tree calf, smooth spines, red morocco labels, single gilt rules, ex-libris the Cruising As-sociation, with monogram in gilt at foot of spine, gilt stamps on front boards (these marks more attractive than otherwise), and ink de-acces-sion stamp to front free endpaper in vol. I. Engraved frontispiece por-trait of George III, 23 engraved portraits, 7 engraved maps coloured in outline (6 folding); engraved title pages only as issued. With ownership inscriptions of G. Rushout, 1788, to front free endpapers and a con-temporary ink sketch of a Georgian gentleman to the front pastedown in vol. I, apparently in the same hand. Lightly rubbed, an excellent set.

first edition of this early account of Britain’s foreign entan-glements around the time of the American Revolution. A moral-ist with a didactic approach to history, Andrews “criticized post-1763 policies that had precipitated the American war … He none the less thought that the Americans, an ambitious people, would eventually have insisted on independence anyway. Britain, he predicted, would not suffer unduly from the loss. ‘Through the excellence of her constitution, and the wisdom of her govern-ment, but, above all, through the genius, the industry, and the persevering disposition of her people’, he argued that the nation would climb to even greater heights” (ODNB). Howes A259, “aa”; Sabin 1501.

£1,750 [109815]

8(ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.) LEBKICHER, Roy, Max Steineke, George Rentz Jr, & others. American Employees Handbook Series. New York: Arabian American Oil Company, 19505 volumes, quarto (279 × 217 mm). Original spiral-bound printed grey wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white with original maps, tables, photographs and drawings. Slightly tanned overall, a few faint marks to wrappers, occasional informed annota-tions in pencil. An excellent set.

first edition of the first iteration of this detailed handbook for Aramco employees. An interesting document of American-Arab relations in the mid 20th century: “The strictly American flavor of the Aramco enterprise in a country like Saudi Arabia

entails serious responsibilities … Aramco employees having a real interest in the Company and the Arabs should, it is hoped, find the Handbooks entertaining; but that is not their primary purpose … The Handbooks are designed to give information about the Aramco enterprise itself and about Arabia and the Arabs which will help employees understand the reasons be-hind Aramco policies and objectives” (vol. I, i-iii). Five volumes cover: Aramco and World Oil; The Work and Life of Aramco Employees; The Background of Arabia and the Middle East; Saudi Arabia, the Government, the People, the Land; and The Culture and Customs of the Arabs.

Lebkicher (1895–1968) joined Standard Oil of California as a petroleum geologist in 1924. Having made his first trip to Saudi Arabia in 1935, soon after the 1933 concession agreement between Standard Oil and the House of Saud, he was posted there permanently in 1952 as Director of Training at the Ara-mco headquarters in Dhahran (the name having been adopted in 1944). His co-author George Rentz Jr (1912–1987) joined Ar-amco in 1946, having spent the war working in propaganda in Egypt with the Office of War Information, and established the company’s Arabian Research and Translation division, which he ran until 1954. He remained with Aramco until 1963, when he became curator of the Middle East Collection at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His doctoral thesis on Wah-habism and the origins of the Saudi Arabian state, originally submitted at the University of California, Berkeley in 1948, was finally published in 2006 as The Birth of the Islamic Reform Move-ment in Saudi Arabia. They were assisted in the compilation of the handbook by Max Steineke, the company’s chief geologist from 1936 until 1950, who is credited with the first discovery of oil in commercial quantities in Saudi Arabia. Scarce in com-merce and only one complete set in UK libraries, though fairly prevalent in US institutions; an excellently preserved copy of a somewhat self-destructive production.

£1,750 [100008]

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9(ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.) LEBKICHER, Roy; George Rentz; Max Steineke. Handbooks for American Employees. New York: Russell F. Moore Company Inc. & Arabian American Oil Company, 19522 volumes, quarto. Vol. I in original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and front board; vol. II wire spiral-bound in the original printed sand-grain card wrappers. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, full-page coloured maps. Vol. I with bookplate to front pastedown, very lightly rubbed along extremities and a touch sunned on spine, an excellent copy; vol. II wrappers a little rubbed at the ex-tremities, some separation at spine, but on the whole very good.

revised edition of the preceding item. Lebkicher celebrated 30 years with the company in the post of Director of Training, explaining in the Aramco Dhahran house paper Sun & Flare that he had always “regarded Aramco as an American-directed enter-prise having a very special importance in the world. The going has often been rough, and there is still plenty to do and many problems to solve, but when I look at what Aramco has accom-plished in 21 years since April 1933, I am happy and proud”.

£950 [94788]

10(ARABIAN AMERICAN OIL COMPANY.) VANCE, Harold D. [Aramco scrapbook.] San Francisco, The Azores, Rome, Beirut, Sidon, Dhahran: 1951–3Quarto (300 × 255 mm). Two-tone cloth, decorative panel to front board in blind partially coloured in brown and extending to spine, material both tipped and laid in, with several pouches. Damp-stain-

ing to spine, surface-splitting to inner hinge, leaves and material with occasional staining from adhesive and the odd fold or tear as expect-ed, a few pouches loose. Overall very good.

a unique scrapbook containing over 100 documents, tell-ing the story of the application and appointment of San Fran-cisco-based engineer Harold D. Vance to the Arabian American Oil Company (Aramco), his journey via Europe and the Levant to Saudi Arabia, his training, and his early days at the Aramco headquarters in Dhahran. Incorporating original photographs, newspaper clippings, a range of personal and business corre-spondence, rare Aramco staff publications and maps, in addi-tion to an eclectic mix of ephemera (in particular tickets and stamped envelopes, several with explanatory annotations by Vance), this scrapbook charts Vance’s personal involvement with Aramco at a highly significant moment in the history of the company and in modern geopolitics. In 1933, a year after be-coming the first ruler of a united Saudi Arabia, Ibn Saud signed an agreement with Standard Oil of California to allow them to begin searching for oil; they finally struck significant reserves in 1938 and in 1944 changed their name to the Arabian-Amer-ican Oil Company (Aramco). On discovering the discrepancy between the taxes Aramco paid to the US government and the royalties it paid to his own, Ibn Saud successfully negotiated a 50 per cent share of Aramco revenues, threatening otherwise to nationalise his country’s oil: an ultimatum mirrored by con-temporary developments in Iran and Venezuela and certainly in-forming Nasser’s decision to nationalise the Suez Canal in 1956. Prior to his appointment, Vance served in the US Army during 1940–46, then for the Edward R Bacon Company in San Francis-co during 1946–52, with a break from 1951 to 1952, during which he saw active duty in the US Navy in Korean waters.

Items include Aramco’s Saudi Arabia, revised edition (San Fran-cisco, February 1949): a rare precursor to the more lavishly produced and detailed employee handbooks by Roy Lebkicher that appeared from 1950, providing information on Aramco centres of operation, Saudi culture and restrictions as well as working conditions and requirements; two similar Aramco booklets concerning retirement planning and life insurance (each in duplicate); several letters and memoranda from Ara-mco concerning terms of employment abroad – a typical let-ter outlines the items considered contraband in Saudi Arabia, which range from “All human or animal images (Company employees are allowed to import dolls upon payment of 30% Advalorem Duty)” to “Amcer electric refrigerators”; a pho-tographic pamphlet giving an overview of the Aramco train-ing centre in Sidon, Lebanon, which closed in 1958 owing to intense civil strife; and a folding schematic map of Dhahran from 1953 (opening to 280 × 280 mm), with six photographs printed on verso illustrating Aramco’s efforts to make the area as familiar as possible for its American employees.

Despite Aramco’s sustained efforts to recreate a particular kind of lifestyle in the Arabian desert, this veneer of comfort and respect-ability could prove just as illusory in a Saudi context as an Ameri-can one: Vance has also kept a typed list enumerating the qualities of “The typical Aramco man”, who “Mixes one batch of Martinis per day”, “Has one nervous breakdown (only one allowed per con-tract)”, and is “Allowed one divorce per contract, if necessary”.

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The first American Gulf pilot11(ARABIAN PENINSULA.) Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot. Comprising the Suez Canal, the Gulfs of Suez and Akaba, the Red Sea and Strait of Bab el Mandeb, the Gulf of Aden with Sokotra and adjacent Islands, and the Southeast Coast of Arabia to Ras al Hadd. Washington: Published by the Hydrographic Office under the Authority of the Secretary of the Navy, Government Printing Office, 1916Octavo. Original red-brown cloth, title gilt to spine and front board. Folding colour map frontispiece. Bookplate to front free endpaper. A little rubbed and spotted, spine marked and with minor damage at the head, corners slightly bumped, light toning, but a very good copy.

first edition of this naval pilot. Of particular interest is the account of settlements unrecognisable today: Jeddah “is mile square, and inclosed [sic] by a wall, with small towers at in-tervals, the angles toward the sea being commanded by two forts” (p. 311), whereas Aqaba “is a small Arab village, in an ex-tensive date grove … Close to the village is a small square fort, garrisoned by Turkish soldiers” (p. 278). This is not to be con-fused with the British title of the same name, first published in 1863, though deriving much of its information from the sixth edition (1909) of that publication.Macro 314 for 8th edition of the British title.

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12ARCHER, Edward Caulfield. Tours in Upper India, and in Parts of the Himalaya Mountains; with Accounts of the Native Princes, &c. London: Richard Bentley, 18332 volumes, octavo. Original green cloth-backed drab boards, paper labels to spines. Half-titles present. A little rubbed and soiled on boards, string-notches to the fore-edges, labels slightly chipped, cloth of lower hinge of volume I just split at the head, foxing to the endpapers and fore-edge, text-block just a touch toned, but overall a very good copy indeed.

first edition. Late in 1827 Archer, a major in the 16th Lanc-ers, had accompanied Stapleton Cotton, Lord Combermere, Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, on an extensive tour of Northern India as aide de camp. “Amongst the description of official inspection of troops and fortifications, he added superb stories of the history associated with the numerous locales, of the best of Mughal architecture, and about the rich-ness of the agrarian landscape … Archer’s narrative offers an important view of the state of Upper India at the close of the 1820s” (Riddick). Riddick, Glimpses 68; Yakushi A83.

£2,500 [107000]

The Greek “discovery” of the Arabian Peninsula13(ARRIAN.) VINCENT, William (ed.) The Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to the Euphrates, collected from the Original Journal Preserved by Arrian, and Illustrated by Authorities Ancient and Modern; containing an Account of the First Navigation attempted by Europeans in the Indian Ocean. London: T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, 1797Quarto (279 × 212 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked with the original spine laid down, black morocco label, flat spine gilt centre-tool of a roundel enclosing a three-master to compartments, dolphin corner-pieces, double fillet gilt panel to boards enclosing a

bead and chain panel with small floral tools to the corners, gilt edges, beaded roll gilt to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers. With engraved frontispiece and 6 engraved maps and charts, 4 of them large and folding, illustrations to the text, errata/directions to the binder leaf present at the rear. Boards a little scuffed with the occasional scrape, neatly restored as also the head- and tailcaps, light browning to the text, overall a very good copy.

first edition in english of Arrian’s account of the navarch Nearchus’ voyage from the Indus estuary to the Tigris in 325 bc, in effect the Greek “discovery” of the Arabian Peninsula. “It was in the time of Alexander that the land of Oman was first seen by Europeans. His admiral, Nearchus, when passing up the Persian Gulf, sighted Cape Maceta or Cape Mussendom, and heard from the pilot of a great Omani emporium … Al-exander hearing his report, determined on sending an expe-dition to circumnavigate the Arabian peninsula, but his early death in Babylon put an end to this and other schemes, and for nearly a hundred years no fresh light was thrown on the land” (Miles, The Tribes and Countries of the Persian Gulf, p. 8).

In the course of his work Vincent consulted Niebuhr, “the best of modern travellers surviving”; James Rennell, whose “ci-vilities will not be erased from my mind”; Mr. Jones, later Sir Harford Jones-Brydges, “resident for the Company at Busheer and Basra” from whom he “obtained much information in the space of a short interview”; and Alexander Dalrymple who “de-mands the utmost tribute of my gratitude”.

An inscription to the second blank records the presentation of this copy to John Spratt Rainier “in 1799 by his friend Philip Dundas Esqre”; with the ownership inscription of J. Rainier McQueen facing on the first blank verso. Admiral Rainier (d. 1836) was the nephew of Admiral Peter Rainier (1741–1808), and like him served largely on the East Indies Station: in 1796 he commanded the 16-gun Swift as one of his uncle’s squad-ron at the seizure of the Dutch possessions of Amboyna, in the Moluccas, and Banda Neira. Philip Dundas (c.1763–1807), also served with the Navy in India, became president of the East

India Marine Board and superintendent for Bombay, and later governor of Prince of Wales Island, Penang. Macro 2253; Howgego, I, N10; Wilson p. 237.

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14ATKINSON, James. Sketches in Afghaunistan. London: Henry Graves & Company; J. W. Allen & Co.; and Day & Haghe, 1842Large folio (540 × 367 mm). Original green morocco-backed green moiré boards, title gilt to spine and front board, French fillet in blind and double gilt rule, thick and thin at spine edges, cream endpapers. Single-tint lithographic title page, and 25 similar plates, lithographic dedication leaf, and letterpress leaf of descriptions, printed in blue in double column. All original guard-sheets in place. Elaborate armorial bookplate of Hugh, 2nd Duke of Westminster to front pastedown. Just a little rubbed, almost imperceptibly recased where shaken loose from the gutta-percha, some foxing as usual, but a very good copy indeed.

first edition. Without doubt one of the finest illustrated books on Afghanistan, the plates depict a selection of superb views on the march – Bolan Pass, Quetta, Khojak Pass, Kan-dahar, and Kabul. The highly detailed, yet skilfully composed and sensitively coloured, originals for these plates, 16 of which are now in the British Museum, show clearly that the lithogra-

pher, probably Louis Haghe, had little “working up” or “im-proving” to do, to create highly attractive and effective images.

James Atkinson (1780–1852), a surgeon in the Bengal service, attracted Lord Minto’s attention for his linguistic skills and was appointed assistant assay master at the mint, which he retained until 1828. In 1833, after a furlough in England, he re-turned to his original profession as surgeon to the 55th NI, and in 1838 was chosen as Superintending Surgeon to the Army of the Indus during the First Afghan War. He was “relieved in the ordinary course of routine shortly after the surrender of Dost Mohammad” and returned to Bengal in 1841 – “and thus escaped the fate which awaited the army of occupation”. At-kinson is perhaps best remembered for his translations from Persian, his selections from the Shâh Nâmeh of Firdausi being the most notable, but he evidently possessed considerable, if amateur, artistic abilities. This title is often encountered loose, ragged and heavily foxed; this is a really superior copy, largely clean and bright, and carefully restored. Abbey, Travel 508; Colas 173; Lipperheide 1493; Tooley 73.

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The “beautiful disorder” of Chinese gardens15ATTIRET, Jean-Denis. A Particular Account of the Emperor of China’s Gardens near Pekin: in a Letter from F. Attiret, a French Missionary, now employ’d by that Emperor to Paint the Apartments in those Gardens, to his friend at Paris. Translated from the French, by Sir Harry Beaumont [pseud. of Joseph Spence]. London: R. Dodsley, and sold by M. Cooper, 1752Octavo (202 × 120 mm). Recent dark grey wrappers, red speckled edg-es. A little staining to half-title and final leaf. A very good copy.

first edition in english and first separate edition of At-tiret’s “influential account of the emperor of China’s gardens” (ODNB); it was originally published as part of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses écrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la compagnie de Jésus (Paris: Guérin, 1749). “Jean-Denis Attiret (1702–1768) arrived in China in 1738 to join the French Jesuit mission and from 1739 spent the remainder of his life serving at the Qing court as a painter. He was the first Western traveller to perceive the spatial mechanism that determined the design of Chinese gardens. In a letter written from Beijing in 1743 and

published in 1749, Attiret offered an enthusiastic description of the imperial park of Yuanming yuan (Garden of Perfect Bright-ness) under the reign of the Qianlong emperor … Attiret’s ac-count is the most detailed description of a Chinese imperial park to reach Europe in the 18th century and thus provided an essential source for Western knowledge of the gardens of Chi-na” (Bianca Maria Rinaldi, ed., Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300–1860, 2016, Ch. 9).Cordier I, p. 123.

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16(AUSTRALIA.) Report from the Committee who were appointed to consider the Several Returns, which have been made to the Order of the House of Commons of the 16th Day of December 1778, That there be laid before this House, an Account of Persons convicted of Felonies or Misdemeanours, and now under Sentence of Imprisonment, in the Gaols and Houses of Correction in the City of London, and the Counties of Middlesex, Essex, Kent, Herts, Surrey, and Sussex … London: 1779

Foolscap quarto (333 × 200 mm). Later blue paper wrappers. Housed in a black cloth flat back box. Stab-holes visible, title page somewhat browned and a little soiled, the rest of the contents toned, one or two minor paper flaws, very good.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the title page by the committee chairman, Sir Charles Bun-bury, the “good-natured but neglectful sporting gentleman who preferred the company of grooms and jockeys”, to George Townshend, first marquess Townshend, hero of Quebec, and shortly before this Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. This highly in-fluential parliamentary report was instrumental in initiating the establishment of the penal colony at Botany Bay, and with it British colonisation of Australia.

In 1779 a parliamentary committee was set up to consider the appalling conditions in Britain’s prisons, a situation further exacerbated by the miserable state of the hulks on the Thames. The secondary objective of the committee was to weigh the var-ious possibilities “relating to the Transportation of Offenders to Foreign Parts”. North America, in a state of revolution, was no longer an option, and it was the evidence offered by Joseph Banks, based on his experiences as a naturalist with Cook on Endeavour, that proved most persuasive. Directly asked which place “in any distant Part of the Globe” he would consider best to transport a colony of Felons “whence their Escape might be difficult, and where, from the Fertility of the Soil, they might be enabled to maintain themselves, after the First Year”, he un-hesitatingly suggested Botany Bay, adducing a wide range of factors in its favour: “He apprehended that would be little Prob-

ability of any Opposition from the Natives … he saw very few … and had Reason to believe that the Country was very thinly peopled … the Climate was similar to that about Toulouse … the Proportion of rich Soil was small in Comparison to the bar-ren, but sufficient to support a very large Number of People; there were no tame Animals, and he saw no wild Ones … but observed the Dung of what were called Kangerous, which were about the Size of middling Sheep, but very swift and difficult to catch … there were no Beasts of Prey, and he did not doubt that our Oxen and Sheep, if carried there, would thrive … there was great Plenty of Fish … The Grass was long and luxuriant, and there were some eatable Vegetables … Abundance of Timber and Fuel, sufficient for any Number of Buildings”.

Banks’s testimony was crucial in convincing the committee that it would be of “Public Utility if the Laws which now di-rect and authorize the Transportation of certain Convicts to … North America, were made to authorize the same to any other Part of the Globe that may be found expedient”; and the authority of Banks’s evidence determined that Botany Bay “on the Coast of New Holland, in the Indian Ocean” was eventually chosen.

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A working waggoner for the Mediterranean including the first printed chart of Monaco

17AYROUARD, Jacques. Recueil de plusieurs plans des ports et rades et de quelques cartes particulières de la mer méditerranée, avec les figures des terres remarquables pour les reconnaissances des atterrages … [Paris or Marseille?] 1732–46Quarto (335 × 256 mm). Contemporary mottled sheep, raised bands, red morocco label to the second compartments, anchor devices gilt to the other five, edges sprinkled blue. Engraved title, 4 folding en-graved charts, and 75 double-page, of which 10 are coastal profiles. Somewhat rubbed, and with skilful restoration to the board edges, joints, and head and tail of spine; tan-burn to the endpapers, fold-ing map of Marseilles with clean tear, no loss, professionally repaired, light browning throughout, occasional marginal staining, but overall very good.

first and only edition of this collection of charts, includ-ing the first printed chart of Monaco, a large folding map of Marseilles, and accurate charts of most of the ports, harbours and bays of the region. Ayrouard’s work forms a working “wag-goner” for the coast, recording soundings, anchorages, and pilotage notes on rocks and reefs, and includes a series of coastal profiles as a further aid to navigation. This pilot would subsequently be drawn on by numerous hydrographers, most notably William Heather who cites Ayrouard in his New Mediter-ranean Pilot of 1802. Scarce: OCLC records just six copies out-side France.

Ayrouard dedicates the work to Jean Frédérick Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas, secretary to the royal household and min-ister of the navy in the court of Louis XV, who was prominent in attempts to introduce a more scientific approach to naval affairs until he was exiled in 1749 for writing derogatory epi-grams about the king’s mistress, Madame de Pompadour. The Conseil de la Marine, for whom this work appears to have been produced, had been founded in 1720 as a central depository for maps, plans, journals, and memoirs relating to navigation. Of the hydrographer, little is known beyond the brief details he gives on the title where he describes himself as “Royal pi-lot of the King’s Galleys,” and explains that these charts were prepared by him on voyages that he undertook on the coast, leading him to add further pilotage notes for the safe entry into certain of the harbours and roads (“avec les Remarques nécessaires qu’il faut observer pour l’entrée à Certains Ports et autres Endroits”). Similarly, the engraver of these superb-ly detailed charts, Louis Corne, was known to Tooley solely from this work. It is possible that this was a local production, perhaps produced in Marseille, hydrographer and engraver brought together under the aegis of the Conseil de la Marine to produce this pilot for the benefit of visiting French naval ships. NMM 206; Shirley, British Library, M.AYR-1a.; LC 7862; The Map Collector, Issue 24, p. 49, “How Monaco evolved on maps and views”, by David Lyon; Olivier, Pl.2495, No. 27.

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18BEHR, Johann von der. Diarium, oder Tage-Buch über dasjenige, so sich Zeit einer neun-järigen Reise zu Was-ser und Lande, meistentheils in Dienst der Vereinigten Geoctroyrten Niederländischen Ost-Indianischen Com-pagnie, besonders in denselbigen Ländern täglich bege-ben und zugetragern. Jena: Urban Spaltholtz, 1668Quarto (187 × 153 mm). Later pinkish-yellow glazed boards, pale green morocco label, compartments formed by a single gilt rule, gilt flower tool to compartments. Engraved portrait frontispiece and elaborate emblematic additional title page, 15 engraved plates, the view of Bat-avia folding. A little rubbed at the extremities, some browning, but overall a very good, clean copy.

first and only edition. A fascinating account of the East Indies and Persia by a German soldier in the service of the VOC. Behr had returned to Europe in 1650, but his narrative was not published for another 18 years. He provides an account of the VOC’s attack in 1645 on the strategically important island of Kischmisch, or Qeshm, which dominated the Strait of Hormuz and had been contested between the Persians, Portuguese and English for some time. The Dutch were struggling to improve the terms of their silk trading agreement with the Safavids, and attacked the island in the hope of forcing the Shah’s hand in negotiations but were unable to take the fort. The show of force did achieve some amelioration of their situation, and the incident is illuminating of power relationships in the Gulf in the early modern period, challenging “conventional wisdom that the Safavid economy was subservient to the exploitative

practices of European Companies” (see Floor & Faghfoory, The First Dutch–Persian Commercial Conflict: The Attack on Qeshm Island, 1645). A view of the attack on Qeshm is included in the some-what naïve, but nonetheless splendid, plates which also show Batavia, Goa, St Helena, and Kamron in Persia, and images of some of the unusual flora and fauna encountered by Behr – co-conut trees, the cinnamon tree, an elephant hunt, flying fish, and so forth. The title is well held institutionally but scarce in commerce, with just one copy at auction in the last 50 years.Landwehr, VOC, 309.

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19BENT, Theodore & Mabel. Southern Arabia. Soudan and Socotra. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1900Octavo. Original red cloth, title gilt to spine, device in blind to the front board. Photogravure portrait frontispiece and 25 half-tone plates, 6 coloured maps, 5 of them folding. Spine a little sunned, pale toning, a scatter of foxing to the fore-edge, else an unusually well-preserved copy.

first edition, later issue. Bent and his wife surveyed in the Arabian Peninsula extensively between 1893 and his death in 1897, adding “much to European knowledge of the Hadhramaut coun-try, the mountainous area backing the Gulf of Aden … In Novem-ber 1896 he traversed Socotra and explored the little-known coun-try within 50 miles of Aden. His last journey was through parts of southern Arabia in 1897” (ODNB). This account of those last explorations – divided into sections on Southern Arabia, Muscat, the Hadhramaut, Dhorat and the Gara Mountains, the Eastern Soudan, the Mahri Island of Sokotra, Beled Fadhli and Beled Yafei – was edited by his wife Mabel, “herself an intrepid traveller”, and is illustrated by “her important and early photographs”.Macro 524.

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20BLIGH, William. A Narrative of the Mutiny on Board His Majesty’s Ship Bounty; and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat, From Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch Settlement in the East Indies. London: George Nicol, 1790Quarto (300 × 234 mm). Contemporary half calf sometime neatly rebacked, marbled sides. Housed in a brown cloth, fleece-lined slip-case. With the folding engraved plan “A Copy of the Draught from which the Bounty’s Launch was built” by Mackenzie, and 3 engraved charts by J. Walker after W. Harrison (two of them folding). Bookplate of Louis E. Goodman (1892–1961), United States federal judge. Front joint partially split but sound, scattered foxing, a few old pale splash-es on leaf B2, pencilled note at foot of D4 (and a couple of other light marginal markings). A very good, tall copy.

first edition of Bligh’s first account of “one of the most remarkable incidents in the whole of maritime history”, pub-lished in an effort to influence opinion in his favour, absolving him “from any blame that might be levelled against him be-cause of the incident” (Hill). The story of Fletcher Christian’s mutinous commandeering of the Bounty, and the setting adrift of Bligh and his 18 loyal crewmen on a 23-foot launch is a tale known to all, but “what is not so well known is that in the course of this hazardous journey Bligh took the opportunity to chart and name parts of the unknown north-east coast of New Holland as he passed along it – an extraordinary feat of seamanship” (Wantrup). Despite the film-fuelled condescen-sion of posterity, it should be remembered that Bligh’s skill as a navigator, perhaps second only to Cook in his time, and his

courage as a seaman, ensured his continued employment by the Admiralty, led to his election to the Royal Society, and to his appointment as governor of New South Wales.Ferguson, 71; Hill, 132; Kroepelien, 87; O’Reilly-Reitman, 543; Parks 7; Sabin, 5908a; Wantrup, 61.

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The fundamental published account of the Bounty saga21BLIGH, William. A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in His Majesty’s Ship The Bounty … including an Account of the Mutiny on Board the said Ship, and the Subsequent Voyage of Part of the Crew, in the Ship’s Boat … London: for George Nicol, 1792Quarto (300 × 240 mm). Modern blue straight-grain morocco by Bayn-tun-Rivière, title gilt direct to spine, low, flat double bands, roundels gilt to compartments, one of them containing the date, gilt simple gilt panelling to boards, inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers. Stipple-engraved oval portrait frontispiece of Bligh by Conde after Russell, folding plan of the Bounty, folding plan of the Bounty’s launch, plate of a breadfruit, and 4 plans and charts, 3 of them folding. Light browning throughout, and some marginal fingersoiling, folding plates with old creases from misfolding, now refolded and pressed, a couple of small professional repairs, but overall a very good copy.

first edition of Bligh’s account of the entire expedition. “This full account of the voyage, then, includes a slightly al-tered version of Bligh’s own account of the mutiny, which had been published two years earlier. This extended and revised text makes this the fundamental published account of the Bounty saga” (Parks Collection).

With the contemporary ownership inscription of T[?] R. Twigg, dated 1806, to the title page, and a two-page extract from the Kentish Gazette recounting Captain Folger’s discovery of the last survivor of the mutiny – John Adams, also known as Alexander Smith – on Pitcairn, copied in the same hand to the final blank.Ferguson 125; Hill 135; Howgego, I, B107; NMM, Voyages & Travel, 624; Parks, 12; Sabin 5910; Spence 104.

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22BRÉMOND, Édouard. Le Hedjaz dans la guerre mondiale. Préface du Maréchal Franchet d’Espérey. Paris: Payot, 1931Octavo. Original printed light card wrappers. 5 double-page maps to the text. Wrappers a little rubbed and lightly soiled, pale browning to the text, but overall very good indeed.

first edition. Brémond was head of the French military mission to the Hejaz, having been sent by the French govern-ment to assert its presence in the region. Brémond was a very different character to Lawrence, with whom he liaised, and he wrote in part to set straight the record of the Arab Revolt as he saw it, offering a “more precise and less romanticised docu-mentation of the intervention in the Hejaz, returning events to their true scale” (Foreword).

This is Peter Hopkirk’s copy with the library bookplate inside the front panel of the wrappers, and his pencilled comment to the front free endpaper, “Rare and very important for Bré-

mond’s role in the Arab Revolt. See Seven Pillars references to him”. Decidedly uncommon in commerce: just one copy traced at auction. Not in Macro; O’Brien F0140.

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The first account of Petra by a European25BURCKHARDT, John Lewis. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. London: John Murray, 1822Quarto (260 × 210 mm). Contemporary tan half calf recently rebacked to style; marbled sides, endpapers and edges. Lithographic portrait frontispiece of Burckhardt “in his Arab Bernous” after a sketch by Henry Salt at Cairo, 6 maps and plans of which 2 folding, several sketches and transcriptions to the text. Corners bumped and slightly worn, boards rubbed, title page sometime torn and skilfully restored on verso, institutional blindstamp of Free Church College Glasgow to title page and sig. D2r, marginal spotting to frontispiece and non-folding maps with offsetting to facing leaves (images largely spared), folding area map foxed, folding map of Hawran with very short closed tear along fold to no loss of image. A very good copy.

first edition. The Travels is notable for providing the first account of Petra by a European. Between 1809, when he first arrived in Aleppo to learn Arabic, and his death from dysen-tery in Cairo eight years later at 32, Swiss-born Burckhardt trav-elled extensively in the Near East, in the guise of Ibrahim ibn Abdallah – an Indian merchant and pilgrim to the holy places in which character he is shown in the frontispiece, and under which name he was buried in the Muslim cemetery at Cairo. “A close and accurate observer, with an intimate knowledge of the manners and language of the people among whom he travelled, he was able to accomplish feats of exploration which to others would have been impossible … he had to jot down his observations secretly under his cloak or behind a camel for fear of exciting suspicion among his Arab guides and compan-ions” (ODNB). Arcadian Library 8949; Atabey 166; Macro 628; Blackmer 237; Howgego 1800–1850 B76; not in Burrell.

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23BROWNE, William George. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798. London: T. Cadell and W. Davies; and Longman Hurst Rees and Orme, 1806Quarto (268 × 209 mm). Contemporary half calf, drab paper sides, black morocco label, flat bands, elaborate gilt tooling to compart-ments, foliate roll gilt to spine and corner edges, marbled edges. Engraved frontispiece, 3 folding maps, and full-page plan; with er-rata, corrigenda and directions to the binder leaf, half-title bound in. Contemporary engraved bookplate with baronial coronet and the monogram E.V.B. to front pastedown. Slightly rubbed and spotted, skilfully restored on the joints, contents lightly browned throughout, the prelims more heavily so, and some foxing to the maps, one map with neat, old paper repair verso, remains very good in an appealing contemporary binding.

second edition, enlarged, first published in 1799. An important work which “contains the earliest information in English about Darfur (Sudan). Browne, inspired by Bruce’s travels, went to Egypt in 1792 hoping to explore the oases in the eastern Sahara and to journey to the source of the White Nile. He reached El Fashur in Darfur and was the first English-man to explore the temple of Jupiter Ammon at the Oasis of Siwa. Browne was the first European to describe Darfur, which he reached with a Sudanese caravan in 1793. He was impris-oned there by the Sultan of Darfur. In 1796 he reached Egypt again by caravan and eventually returned to England via Syria and Constantinople” (Blackmer). A somewhat controversial account at the time, due to its sympathetic portrayal and ad-miration of the East, Browne’s description of Egypt is widely considered to be “one of the best of the period, despite its dry, affected style” (Howgego). Arcadian Library 11091 for the first edition; not in Atabey, Browne’s work represented solely by a French juvenile based on the Travels 156; Blackmer 219 listing the first edition; Gay 43; Howgego I, B170; Ibrahim Hilmy I, p. 91.

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24BUDISHCHEV, Ivan Matveevich. Western seaboard of the Black Sea: planar map of part of the Black Sea, the Sea of Marmora, and Constantinople. [? Moscow: c.1801]Manuscript map in pen and ink and watercolour, on paper water-marked “D Blauw” (968 × 364 mm). Western edge lightly stained in places with some associated fraying and loss just biting image, but otherwise in an excellent state of conservation.

highly attractive manuscript chart dating to the pe-riod under Catherine the Great when Russian interest in the Black Sea was shifting. “The reasons for this shift lay in the imperatives of strategy and geography. Caffa and the other Crimean ports were really more part of the southern coast than they were of the northern; they were separated from the Crimean interior by a chain of mountains and naturally looked out to the seaports of Anatolia, not to the flatlands of the north. The situation suited the Ottomans, of course, but it was a problem for the Russians … The new centre of gravity became Odessa, the greatest of modern Black Sea ports … It was the premier example of the new political and cultural op-timism that pervaded Russia’s acquisitions in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the southern equivalent of the creation of St Petersburg a hundred years earlier … Until the end of the empire, it remained the commercial, administrative, and cul-tural heart of the Russian Black Sea, the quintessential impe-rial seaport and the leading export centre of the entire empire” (King, The Black Sea, p. 163).

Between 1792 and 1809, Budischev (d. 1829) gained consid-erable experience serving as midshipman and lieutenant on various ships of the Imperial Baltic and Black Sea fleets. From 1797 to 1799 he took part in a reconnaissance of the northern coasts of the Black Sea and of the lower reaches of the Kuban River; and, between 1801 and 1802 as captain-lieutenant, com-manded a survey of the western coast from Odessa to the Bos-porus, from which expedition this chart is drawn, and which possibly represents that which Budischev made on completion of the voyage. Subsequently promoted captain second rank, he continued his hydrographical work while running the depot of Black Sea charts. “During this period, he drew up an Atlas of the Charts and Plans of part of the Black Sea (1807) and the Azov and Black Seas Marine Guide-book” (Black Sea Encyclopaedia, p. 156).

The chart covers approximately 450 miles of the western coast-line of the Black Sea from Odessa in the north to Istanbul and the Sea of Marmora in the south, drawn to an approximate scale of 57/8 inches to one degree of latitude (1:744,143), with soundings, explanatory text and toponyms in Russian, and stylised mountains and cities.

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“A most remarkable work of the highest value”26BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855–63 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, title gilt to spines, spine decoration and panelling to boards in black, terracotta surface-paper endpapers with advertisements to the pastedowns. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco book-style box, matching linen sides. With 15 plates in all, 5 of which are chromolithographs, including the famous portrait of Burton as “The Pilgrim” mounted as frontispiece to vol. II, 8 single-tint lithographs, an engraved plate of “Bedouin and Wah-habi Heads” and an engraved plan, together with 2 folding maps and a folding plan. A little rubbed, spines slightly dulled, and crumpled at head and tail with some minor restoration at the head of vols. I and III, corners bumped, hinges of vols. II and III, professionally repaired, light browning throughout, some foxing front and back, but overall a very good set in the cloth, showing minimal judicious restoration.

first edition. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a dozen Europeans were known to have made the hajj to the Is-lamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina and lived, and of those only the Swiss explorer J. L. Burckhardt had left a detailed ac-count. Burton made the pilgrimage in complete disguise as a Muslim native of the Middle East, an exploit of linguistic and cultural virtuosity that carried considerable risk. During the several days that Burton spent in Mecca, he performed the associated rites of the pilgrimage such as circumambulating the Kaaba, drinking the Zemzem water and stoning the devil at Mount Arafat. His resulting book surpassed all preceding Western accounts of the holy cities, made him famous and be-came a classic of travel literature, described by T. E. Lawrence as “a most remarkable work of the highest value”. Abbey, Travel 368; Howgego IV, B95; Penzer, pp. 49–50.

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27BURKE, John. [Album of photographs from the Second Afghan War.] 1878–93Landscape folio (380 × 300 mm). Contemporary black half skiver, dark green morocco-grain boards ruled in gilt, gilt edges, white moi-ré-silk effect endpapers. 39 albumen photographs each c. 215 × 280 mm mounted to stiff card leaves, detailed inked captions on mounts identifying location and personnel, discreet captions and Burke cata-logue numbers in the plate where applicable (26 photographs labelled Burke, Burke and Baker or “B”; 2 with numbers only; 5 captioned “J. Winter”; remainder uncaptioned), contemporary tissue-guards laid in. Binding slightly rubbed, some light staining to boards, neat res-toration of the joints, head and tail of spine and to the corners, a few very minor spots of foxing to mounts, first photograph slightly oxi-dised and a few slightly faded along margins but prints in the main in excellent condition, retaining their rich tonal contrasts.

A collection of fine photographs largely originating from the Black Mountain (or Hazara) Expedition of 1891, with the own-ership inscription of Captain C. J. H. H. Noble to the front free endpaper. The North-West Frontier Province was highly unsta-ble, and restive local tribes, in particular the Yusufzai, were a major problem for the British, who converged on the region from three directions with a total force of some 7,000 troops. From the photographs it is clear that Burke was attached to the Indus River column: there are views of Attock, Abbottabad, Rawalpindi, the Indus Valley, and several of Murree, regimen-tal photographs, camp views, various images including Sikh

soldiers and a striking scene of “No. 1 Mountain Battery shell-ing Diliasi from Palosi” (Burke, 81).

At around 17 years old John Burke travelled out to India as an assistant apothecary to the Royal Artillery, going on to form a partnership with William Baker, a retired sergeant of the 87th Regiment, in a photographic studio. Burke and Baker were “the first commercial photographers in Peshawar and in the North-West Frontier … [ranking] among the earliest war, news and landscape photographers in the Indian subcontinent … [becoming] over the next decades the first photographers to work in large areas of northern British India and the independ-ent feudal realms of Kashmir and Afghanistan” (Khan, From Kashmir to Kabul, p. 11). Outside of the extensive archive of the photographs themselves, they left little record of their lives, taking a prominent place “among the finest forgotten photog-raphers of the British Raj”.

Whatever the reason for their work being passed over in favour of better-known photographers (Bourne and Shepherd for ex-ample), it is not due to any technical or aesthetic shortcom-ings: “The chemicals and procedures they used have aged bet-ter than those of many others … [and] the rich composition of their images is immediately apparent. In their time, they won many of the top photography awards in competitions through-out British India”. Burke’s work was also far more widely pub-lished in Graphic and the ILN than that of any of his competitors. This excellence has not been lost on genuine connoisseurs of Indian photography: Worswick and Embree’s The Last Empire

(one of the first modern publications of Raj photography, and based on Worswick’s pioneering collection, now at the Getty Research Institute) included more photographs by Burke and Baker than by any of their contemporaries.

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Presentation copy to Anthony Powell28BYRON, Robert. The Station. Athos: Treasures and Men. London: Duckworth, 1928Octavo. Original blue cloth, gilt lettered spine. Numerous mono-chrome plates. Spine lightly toned, a few small splash marks across binding, slight creasing to cloth on back cover otherwise a very good copy.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the au-thor on the front free endpaper: “Tony, with bitter remorse for his sufferings, Robert. June. 7.28”, and with the armorial bookplate of the recipient, the novelist Anthony Powell. A fine association copy: Byron and Powell were contemporaries and friends at both Eton and Oxford. After leaving Oxford Powell became a reader at Duckworth and was instrumental in help-ing Byron to place his book there – perhaps the “sufferings” which Byron alludes to in his inscription. The Station is Byron’s second book, and “was based on his journey to the Orthodox holy site of Mount Athos on the shore of the Aegean in 1927. He and three friends were welcomed as guests at the ancient monastery of Docheiariou. It was during this journey and the writing of his account of it that Byron formulated his passion-ate ideas about Byzantine culture – what he called ‘my chosen past’” (Speake).Speake, Literature of Travel and Exploration, I pp. 158–60.

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29CARLS, Francisco Henrique. Album de Pernambuco. Pernambuco: F. H. Carls, 1880Landscape quarto (300 × 420 mm). Original green cloth, title gilt to the front board within a broad black stylised floral panel between two single gilt ruled panels, the black panel repeated on the rear board, edges lightly marbled, floral-pattered endpapers in sepia, the title in German neatly inked in purple in a contemporary hand to the first blank, small bookbinder’s ticket of Wilhelm Bitz, Basel, to the lower fore-corner of the front pastedown, dated August 1885 in the same hand. High-finish pictorial chromolithographic calendar for 1880

with Carls’s imprint as title page, and 36 coloured lithographic plates. Very light shelf-wear, some marginal browning to the plates, occa-sional scatters of spotting, overall very good indeed.

a wonderfully preserved copy of this superb visual record of brazil in the late 19th century. “The col-ourful and airy rendering contributes much to the appeal of this extensive series of images that forms one of the most com-prehensive visual reports carried out on any Brazilian city in the period” (Correa do Lago). The album was first issued in 1873 under the title Album de Pernambuco e seus arrabaldes [Album of Pernambuco and its Environs] with 50 plates (it was subsequent-ly reissued with varying numbers of plates, some copies having as few as 15 to 20, and with the composition rarely repeating).

Carls was a German graphic artist, designer, and photographer who joined the wave of German immigration to Brazil, settling in Recife in 1859, and establishing Casa Litographica, one of the first lithographic presses in Pernambuco. An enterprising and innovative printer, he took on a wide range of work, bring-ing the potential of high quality lithographic printing to adver-tising material, diplomas, stock certificates, letterheads, and maps, being the publisher of José Tibúrcio Pereira Magalhães’ Cidade do Recife e seus arrabaldes [the City of Recife and its Environs] in 1870.

But it is for the sequence of plates that constitute the present work that he is best known, comprising an inclusive collec-tion of impressive views of of the region: the public build-ings, grand private homes, theatres, churches, shipping in the harbour, markets, and landscapes of the outlying villages and estates, all teeming with life, showing the signs of the ac-celerating modernisation of Brazil following independence, “a significant iconographic series for the visual memory of the country, depicting scenes of everyday life, customs and landscapes” (Silva, p. 1567). A collaboration with German-born artist Louis Adam Cornell Krauss, who arrived in Recife in 1877, it has been suggested that the plates incorporate, un-credited, the work of pioneering Brazilian photographers such as João Ferreira Vilela, Alfredo Ducasble, Guilherme Gaensly (Wilhelm Gänsli) and Augusto Stahl. Certainly a number of the views exhibit a sharpness of detail that hints at the use of photographic reference, and some bear a close resemblance to images produced by these Brazilian pioneers: for example, the view of Recife from the observatory of the Naval Arsenal is very similar to Gaensly’s framing of the same subject, and the plate of the Sete de Setembro bridge bears comparison with Vile-la’s views. When the Pernambucan organising committee for the Berlin South American exhibition of 1866 included one of Carls’s albums, they did so in the belief that this would present the German public with an “an idea of the beauty of our city”.Not in Borba de Moraes; Correa do Lago, Brasiliana Itaù, pp. 328–9; Silva, “Franz Carls: Memórias Litográficas do Recife Oitocentista”, in 21st Encontro Nacional de Pesquisadores em Artes Plásticas – Vida e Ficção/Arte e Fricção, 2012.

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30CARTER, Howard, & A. C. Mace. The Tomb of Tutankha-men. Discovered by the late Earl of Carnarvon and Howard Carter. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1923–27–333 volumes, large octavo. Original dark yellow cloth, titles gilt to spines and front boards, front boards decorated with gilt scarab on black panel, green and white patterned endpapers. 414 illustrations. Own-ership inscription to front free endpaper of vol. II. Vol. I front hinge cracked but holding; vol. II front hinge starting, spine cracked but holding; vol. III front hinge starting, rear hinge cracked but holding. Spines gently rolled, contents lightly foxed; a very good set.

first edition of Carter’s own account of the most spectacular archaeological discovery of the 20th century. “In the summer of 1922 Carter persuaded Carnarvon to allow him to conduct one more campaign in the valley. Starting work earlier than usual Howard Carter opened up the stairway to the tomb of Tutankha-

mun on 4 November 1922. Carnarvon hurried to Luxor and the tomb was entered on 26 November. The discovery astounded the world: a royal tomb, mostly undisturbed, full of spectacular objects. Carter recruited a team of expert assistants to help him in the clearance of the tomb, and the conservation and record-ing of its remarkable contents. On 16 February 1923 the blocking to the burial chamber was removed, to reveal the unplundered body and funerary equipment of the dead king. Unhappily, the death of Lord Carnarvon on 5 April seriously affected the sub-sequent progress of Carter’s work. In spite of considerable and repeated bureaucratic interference, not easily managed by the short-tempered excavator, work on the clearance of the tomb proceeded slowly, but was not completed until 1932. Carter han-dled the technical processes of clearance, conservation, and re-cording with exemplary skill and care. A popular account of the work was published in three volumes, The Tomb of Tutankhamen (1923–33), the first of which was substantially written by his prin-cipal assistant, Arthur C. Mace” (ODNB).

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31CATLIN, George. North American Indians. Being Letters and Notes on Their Manners, Customs, and Conditions, Written During Their Eight Years’ Travel Amongst the Wildest Tribes of Indians in North America. 1832–1839. Edinburgh: John Grant, 19262 volumes, large octavo, original pictorial red cloth, titles gilt to spines and front covers with pictorial decoration in gilt and black, top edge gilt, others uncut. Over 300 colour illustrations on 180 plates, including 3 coloured maps, one folding. Spines faded, some light fox-ing to endleaves; an excellent, fresh set.

A young lawyer turned portraitist, Catlin set out in 1830 from his home in Pennsylvania to record on canvas the indigenous tribes of North America and their way of life. His eight years among the major tribes of the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains resulted in his “Indian Gallery,” an enormous col-lection of artefacts as well as more than 400 paintings, includ-ing portraits and scenes of tribal life. The resultant book, first published with uncoloured plates in 1841, is “one of the most original, authentic and popular works on the subject” (Sabin). “The history and the customs of such a people,” Catlin wrote, “preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life shall prevent me from becoming their historian” (Hassrick).Hassrick 15; Sabin 11536.

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32(CENTRAL ASIA.) The Russian Official Map of Central Asia. Compiled in Accordance with the Discoveries and Surveys of Russian Staff Officers up to the Close of the Year 1877. London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1877

Two-colour printed map on two sheets, each 758 × 535 mm, dissect-ed into 16 panels and mounted on linen, folding into original green cloth-covered boards (234 × 140 mm), titled in gilt on front board, blind panelling to both. Housed in a black quarter morocco solan-der box by the Chelsea Bindery. Boards lightly mottled and with some skilful repairs at the edges, elastic retaining band renewed, minor worming at the foot of sheet 1, some professional reinforcement to the folds on the linen backing, but overall very good.

first and only edition of this uncommon 1:6,400,000 scale map, with just three copies on OCLC (Cambridge, and Washington and Chicago universities). It was produced as Russia began its concerted expansion into the Central Asian khanates, considerably upping the stakes in the Great Game. A reduced version of the map was included in Demetrius Boulg-er’s England and Russia in Central Asia (1879). The map covers the area from the Caspian in the west to Lop Nur in the east, tak-ing in the Mustagh Pass to the south, and extending north as far as Orenburg and Semipalatinsk, now Semey, Kazakhstan, encompassing the territories of present day Uzbekistan, Turk-menistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, a large part of Kazakhstan, and areas of Mongolia, China and Russia.

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33CHICK, Herbert. A Chronicle of the Carmelites in Persia, and the Papal Mission of the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 19392 volumes, quarto. Original black cloth, title gilt to spine, blind pan-els to boards. Portrait frontispiece and 39 other plates, folding map. Slightly rubbed, spines relined, hinges repaired, endpapers browned, pale toning to the text, some inked marginalia in vol. I, slight tide-marks at the fore-edge of both volumes.

first edition of this important contribution to the history of the region, based on extensive documentation from Archivio di Propaganda Fide and Casa Generalizia dei Carmelitani in Rome. “In 1604 Pope Clement VIII, with the support of Sigis-mund III Vasa of Poland, dispatched a mission of Discalced Carmelite fathers to Persia; the embassy represented the cul-mination of a policy of seeking alliances against the Ottoman empire that had been initiated by Pius V when he had attempt-ed to formalize relations with Shah Tahmasb … they received a very warm welcome from Shah Abbas I (1588–1629) and were permitted to settle at Isfahan in 1608. As ambassadors, they were given a royal residence near the Meydan-e Mir, where they established a handsome monastery. For many years it sheltered a varying number of fathers from a wide range of na-tional backgrounds. In 1752 the last Carmelite departed, only a short interval after the death of Philippe-Marie de St.-Augus-tin, bishop of Isfahan, in 1749 … The primary importance of the Carmelites in Persia was as witnesses to history; they were observers of political and social events through the reigns of Abbas I and Safi I (1629–42), the fall of the Safavids, and the subsequent period of troubles. In addition, as great travelers, the Carmelite missionaries were often reassigned to new posts and covered hundreds of kilometers in order to join their pro-vincial chapters” (Encyclopaedia Iranica).Not in Wilson.

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34CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER, Marie Gabriel F. A., comte de. Voyage pittoresque de la Grèce. Paris: 1782Folio (522 × 335 mm). Contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco by Kalhoeber (with his ticket on front free endpaper verso), title direct to spine, paired narrow bands, framed by gilt rules of various thickness, simple geometric panelling to boards, beaded edge-roll, gilt edges, bold Greek key roll to the turn-ins, marbled endpapers. With engraved vignette title, 13 maps, 2 of them folding, 32 full-page views, 27 sheets of half-page plates, maps and plans, 29 full-page plates (largely of ar-chitectural details), 4 costume illustrations on 1 sheet and 14 superb illustrative head- and tailpieces. A little rubbed and scuffed, corners bumped, some judicious restoration at the head and tail of spine and to the board edges, light browning and occasional foxing of the contents, but overall very good, and a handsomely-presented copy.

first edition, first issue, with the Discours Préliminaire concluding on the fourth line of p. xvi. First volume only, but complete in itself, and without doubt one of the most desir-able of all 18th-century works on Greece. A second volume was published in two parts, the first in 1809, and the “final bio-graphical livraison was published posthumously” (Blackmer), edited by the cartographer Barbie du Bocage, in 1822.

Choiseul-Gouffier first went to Greece in 1776 as a member of a scientific expedition to the eastern Mediterranean on board the Atalante, commanded by the marquis de Chabert, a veteran of the American Revolution, who was charged with the correc-

tion of the French navy’s charts of the region. The party includ-ed Jean-Baptiste Hilaire, considered by Boppe, Les Peintres du Bosphore au dix-huitième siècle, to be the artist amongst the early orientalists who best understood the Levant, and who contrib-uted the expressive landscapes and well-observed and char-acterful costume studies; the engineer and architect Jacques Foucherot, who surveyed the archaeological sites and provides the superb plates of architectural details; and Foucherot’s sec-retary, François Kauffer, later to identify the site of ancient Troy at Hisarlik, who was responsible for producing of most of the detailed charts of harbours and islands. The spectacular baroque allegorical tailpieces, most of them emblematic of the islands visited, are by Guët, Choffard, Varin, Moreau le jeune, and Hilaire amongst others.

The work met with immediate and enthusiastic success, which greatly facilitated the advance of Choiseul-Gouffier’s academic and political career. He was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres in 1782, and of the Académie Française in 1783, and in 1784 became the French ambassador to Constantinople. Following the Revolution he was replaced, but he ignored the recall to Paris for fear of execution, and in 1792 emigrated to Russia where he became director of the Academy of Arts and Imperial Library, finding great favour with the empress. Under the Empire, Napoleon’s amnesty to emigrés allowed him to return to France, and at the Restora-tion he became a minister of state and a peer, also regaining his seat at the Académie in 1816.Atabey 241; Blackmer 342; Cohen–de Ricci 238; Weber II, 571.

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Octavo. Original brown cloth, title gilt to spine, elaborate panels with large palmette corner-pieces in blind to boards, cream surface-paper endpapers. Wood-engraved frontispiece of the homra tree. A little rubbed on boards, spine sunned and professionally repaired, joints skilfully restored, contents lightly toned. A very good copy.

first edition. Churi claimed to have been trained at the “congregation of Propaganda in Rome from 1842 to 1849. He was subsequently in London where he taught Arabic, Latin, Italian and Hebrew”. Among his pupils was Captain William Peel, third son of Sir Robert Peel, who had been planning an expedition into the interior of Africa, and “proposed to Churi that they should make a short tour to Egypt, Mount Sinai, Jeru-salem, Nazareth, and Syria. They left England on 20 October, and were back by 20 February 1851. On 20 August following they left on the longer and more serious journey. They went up the Nile, across the desert to Khartoum, and on to al-’Ubayd, where they suffered a severe attack of fever and ague. Peel re-turned to England early in January” (ODNB). Both men wrote accounts of their experiences during this second trip: Peel, A Ride through the Nubian Desert (1852) and Churi the present work.Not in Gay; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 135, misspelled as “Chusi”.

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36CLARK, Christopher (illus.) In the Land of the Shah – Being a Series of Announcements Issued by the British Petroleum Co. Ltd. from Britannic House, Moorgate, London E.C. 2. London: British Petroleum Co. Ltd, Distributing Organisation of the Anglo Persian Oil Co. Ltd., [1925]Folio (440 × 298 mm). Original buff printed, yapp-edged, light card wrappers. With 12 finely printed monochrome lithographic plates (c. 155 × 200 mm), imposed within a “plate-mark” above descriptive text. Staples a touch rusted, a few minor splits to the edges of the wrap-pers, a scatter of foxing throughout, but overall very good indeed.

Sheet of British Petroleum Company stationery with roneoed compli-ments message loosely inserted.

first and only edition of this fascinating early piece of pro-motional literature for the burgeoning oil industry. Evidently these “announcements” were in fact rather grand advertise-ments for BP, which were gathered together and presented even more grandly still. Publication was noted at the time in the “Wheels of Industry” column of The Commercial Motor, the journal of the commercial vehicle industry: “An extremely beautiful pro-duction entitled ‘In the Land of the Shah’ has been issued by the British Petroleum Co., Ltd. which is the distributing organisa-tion of the Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd. The publication forms a portfolio of some of the company’s announcements which have appeared in the Press, but that Statement by no means does jus-tice to it, for the ‘announcements’ took the form of delightful drawings of Eastern life, commerce, and customs by Christo-pher Clark, R.I., and they are reproduced on special paper, so that the impression given is almost that of steel engravings. Each drawing is accompanied by some interesting text. The portfolio is one of those productions that most men will take home. We believe that a copy will be sent to any reader who mentions The Commercial Motor” (The Commercial Motor, 17 November 1925).

The images range from the ancient historical – “A Temple of the Fire Worshippers”, “The Glories of Ancient Persia”, “The Tomb of Khusru Pharviz” – to the contemporary industrial – “Transporting Pipe Line in Persia”, on mule back, “150 Miles of Pipe Lines” – via picturesque travelogue – “Ferry-Boats of the Tigris”, pitch waterproofed gufas, “A Persian Wedding” as described by Sir Percy Sykes, “A Land of Leisurely Travel”, a heavily laden camel caravan. The evocative artwork is by Christopher Clark, a British commercial artist-illustrator best remembered for his work for British Railways, often featuring scenes of British pageantry. Extremely uncommon: no other copies traced either institutionally or commercially.

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35CHURI, Joseph H. Sea Nile, the Desert, and Nigritia: Travels in Company with Captain Peel, R.N. 1851–1852 … With Thirteen Arabic Songs, as Sung by the Egyptian Sailors on the Nile. London: published by the Author, 1853

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