Exploration & Travel

8vo, ix, 309 pp., engraved folding map by Samuel Neele (very light waterstain), contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, vellum tips, red morocco lettering piece, light wear, an excellent copy.

First edition. 4to., 20 pp., 54 collotype plates, each plate is accompanied by a guard sheet with descriptive letterpress, original black cloth gilt, neat repair to spine, a very good copy.

Second edition, 'mise en un meilleur ordre', 4 parts in 2 vols; folio (35 x 27.5 cm); introduction by Bazin, 179 of 181 hand-coloured lithographs (on 177 leaves), with four leaves of music and a hand-coloured vignette, engraved by Aubry-le-Comte, Deveria, Grévédon after drawings by père Castiglione, Pu-Qua and William Alexander (from Pittoresque representations of the dress and manners of the Chinese), Chambers, Dadley etc.,; quarter green morocco with blue marbled boards, spines in compartments with gilt and black morocco design, gilt title to second, some plates with minor stains, edges bumped, a fine copy.

First edition. 4to., title and 24 tipped-in photographs, arranged 1 or 2 per page, captioned below image, original illustrated wrappers, small loss to head o spine, a very good copy of a scarce title.

2 volumes in 1, 8vo, xii, 432; viii, 436pp., 2 engraved frontispieces, large folding map (small neat repair to verso), original blue blind-stamped cloth gilt, pictorial vignette to upper cover, all edges gilt, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

Third and best edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, first 2 volumes illustrated with maps and plates, third volume consisting of notes and addenda by Cordier, original green cloth, spines decorated in blue, morocco labels, an excellent bright set.

First edition, 8vo, xii, 432pp., folding map, 3 folding tables in pocket at end, 104 photographic illustrations on 74 plates, original green cloth gilt, an excellent copy.

5 volumes, 4to (26 x 19.5 cm), comprising the text in 4 volumes, pp. xvi, 741, [1](errata); [iv], viii, 485, [1](errata); xv, [i](blank), 629, [1](errata); [iv], viii, 770, [1](errata), [1](blank), with a portrait and four plates, half-titles present, small flaw in a few lower margins of vol. IV; and an atlas, pp. [iv], 28, with 50 maps and 23 tables, half-title inlaid by binder; contemporary calf, spines gilt, some light wear, slight cracks in joints, but an excellent set.

First edition. 8vo., [vi], 260, [ii], 17 pp., contemporary black morocco gilt, gilt lettered to upper cover, label of the 'Ching Foon' Printing and Bookbinding Office, Szechuan Road, Shanghai, a fine copy.

First edition in English. Two volumes, 8vo., vi, 321; vi, 315pp., wood-engravings in the text, some full-page, original green cloth gilt, neat repairs to extremities, an excellent set.