Exploration & Travel

Special edition. Publishers green cloth boards black illustration printed to front cover, gilt titles and frames to front cover and spine. 210 b/w illustrations, folding map in colour, pages browned, foxing to endpapers and map, closed tear to map. xii, 948 pp.

8vo, publishers brown cloth boards with ornamental gilt and blind-tooled title to front and gild title to spine. 12 engraved tinted plates and many small illustrations in text. edges rubbed, light foxing, a few inner joint cracks but holding firmly. Inscriptions of previous owners to front endpapers. 718 pp.

First edition of first work; second edition of second work; 4 volumes, 8vo, complete with 13 maps and 37 engraved plates (many folding), large folding plate of Solomon's Temple frayed at fore-edge and with tear, plate at page 76, vol. ii browned, contemporary panelled calf, spines richly gilt, light wear, to extremities, an excellent set.

First edition; 4to; engraved frontispiece (lightly spotted), 6 engraved maps (4 folding), slight offsetting to text, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, an excellent copy; xiv, 530, [ii] (errata and directions to binder), pp.

Ten parts, landscape elephant folio (39.4 x 51.7 cm), text in German and French, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates, hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title and dedication page; hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, occasional light spotting.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, lxxxiv, 357; vi (but iv, mispaginated, complete); 509 pp., 2 large folding maps, large folding plate of inscriptions, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, rebacked preserving spines, rubbed, internally clean and fresh.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, 399; 402 pp., folding engraved map, contemporary green polished calf-backed marbled boards gilt, spines faded, occasional light spotting, a very good set.

Second edition with additions, 4to, xx, 114 pp., light spotting to title, dedication, and pages 103-110, contemporary calf, rebacked, a good 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.