Exploration & Travel

Second (first illustrated) edition, 8vo, viii, 424 pp., large folding maps (tears to folds), 3 wood-engraved plates, original pictorial brown cloth gilt, a very good copy.

First editions throughout, together 9 volumes, comprising 8 volumes 4to text, and folio atlas. Occasional light spotting, late eighteenth/early nineteenth century polished calf gilt, sometime neatly rebacked preserving spines, morocco labels, atlas bound to match, a fine set. [FIRST VOYAGE] First edition. 3 volumes. 52 engraved maps, charts and views, of which 44 folding; includes 'Streight of Magellan' plate (short tears and repairs to folds). [SECOND VOYAGE] First edition. 2 volumes. 64 engraved plates, maps, and charts (large chart with short tear to fold). [THIRD VOYAGE] First edition. 3 volumes text plus atlas, 87 engraved plates, charts, and maps. Beddie 650, 1216, 1543; Hill 782, 358, 361; Holmes 5, 24, 47; Mitchell Library Cook 648, 1216, 1552; Sabin 30934, 16245, 16250; Hill, 782, 358, 361; Printing and the Mind of Man 223, Rosove 77 & Taurus 1 (Second voyage); Forbes 62 and Lada-Mocarski 37 (3rd voyage). Height of text: 30 cm Overall width of set: 39 cm; Atlas Height 57cm, Depth 41cm.

First edition. 4to, xvi, 287 [i] pp., two engraved folding maps, 11 aquatint plates (2 in colour), several folding, glossary at end, scattered light foxing, offsetting from plates, contemporary tree calf, sometime rebacked, red morocco lettering piece, a very good copy.

2 volumes, 8vo, I viii, 432; viii, 408 pp., 7 lithographs on india paper after drawings by the author (light spotting), original green paper over drab boards, paper labels, short splits to joints repaired, an excellent set.

First edition. 8vo, xix, 264 pp., engraved frontispiece (lightly foxed), original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt, a fine, fresh copy.

First edition. 8vo.,, xviii, 488 pp, 31 full-page plates, 2 folding maps, illustrations and maps in text, contemporary Clapham College prize binding, blue morocco gilt, all edges gilt, a fine copy.

First edition. 28 x 19 cm., xii, 183 pp., 24 pages ads at end, 2 portraits, 4 tinted lithographs, one monochrome illustration of an obelisk, original green cloth gilt, upper cover decorated in gilt and blind to a Moorish design, all edges gilt, bevelled edges, corners bumped else a fine clean copy.

Second edition. 4to, xxiii, [iii], 344, [xiv] index, [2] ads pp., folding plate and 4 folding maps, slight spotting, contemporary tree calf, expertly rebacked, original spine richly gilt, with red morocco label, laid down, a fine example.

First edition. 12mo, 2 parts in 1 vol., licence leaf at beginning, divisional titles, early ink ownership inscription to title, contemporary sheep, neatly and sympathetically rebacked, light wear to extremities, rubbed, an excellent copy.

First edition. 8vo, xvi, 299 pp., 2 pages ads at end, Folding map, 3 hand-coloured plates ( 1 with short tear to blank inner margin), contemporary tree calf, spine richly gilt morocco label, a fine copy.