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Auction No 370, Category: Travel

12 Lots (displaying 1 - 12)

A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including "The Astrologer's Magazine"

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £135
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A selection of Antiquarian books in need of rebinding and / or restoration including The Astrologer’s Magazine ( formerly The Conjuror’s Magazine) August to December 1793; W. Cockburn The Nature and Cures of Fluxes, 1724; Michael Quin A Steam Voyage down the Danube, 1836, with folding map; Bayle The Travels and Adventures of James Massey, 1743, with frontisp; Marksman’s The Dead Shot, four different editions; and J. Clarke The Wreck of the Orion, 1851, with litho plate. Most have clean text, but The Astrologer’s Magazine suffers from intermittent foxing. (15)

Charles Murray "Travels in North America, including a Summer Residence with the Pawnee Indians"

Lot: 75

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £72
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Charles Murray Travels in North America, including a Summer Residence with the Pawnee Indians, Richard Bentley, 1854, 2 Vols, 3rd Edn, original cloth, gilt, VG; inner hinges frayed at front of Vol.1. VG (2)

Horace G. Hutchinson "A Saga of the 'Sunbeam' ", Longmans, 1911, original gilt cloth, spine a little faded,

Lot: 172

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £32
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Horace G. Hutchinson A Saga of the “Sunbeam”, Longmans, 1911, original gilt cloth, spine a little faded, endpapers browned, some minor tone spots elsewhere but generally fine internally with frontispiece and 12 photographic plates. Blindstamp of the Royal Forth Yacht Club at foot of title page. This work chronicles a voyage from the Moray Firth to Iceland, thence to Newfoundland and Canada in the ocean-going yacht Sunbeam; xviii,211pp.

Wilkie Collins "Rambles Beyond Railways; or Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot". Richard Bentley, 1851, First Edition

Lot: 173

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £60
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Wilkie Collins Rambles Beyond Railways; or Notes in Cornwall taken a-foot. Richard Bentley, 1851, First Edition, fine later half-calf, gilt, over marbled boards by G. Winstanley of Manchester; marble edged; foxing to free endpapers and occasionally the margins of a few of the 12 tinted lithograph plates which are otherwise fine; clean text. (8),304pp.

James Breeks "Primitive Tribes & Monuments of the Nilagiris", Cultural Publishing House, 1983, in chipped d/jkt;

Lot: 175

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £66
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James Breeks Primitive Tribes & Monuments of the Nilagiris, Cultural Publishing House, 1983, in chipped d/jkt; Samuel Baker The Albert N’Yanza, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1962, 2 vols, in slipcase; The Zambesi Journal and Letters of Dr.John Kirk, edited Foskett, 1965, 2 vols; and three other travel titles.  All in dustjackets. (8)

Mrs. Ernest Hart "Picturesque Burma, Past and Present" J.M.Dent, 1897, quarto, recased

Lot: 176

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £76
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Mrs. Ernest Hart Picturesque Burma, Past and Present J.M.Dent, 1897, quarto, recased incorporating the original decorated cloth, new endpapers; t.e.g., uncut elsewhere; occasional light spotting; fine photo-plates, maps and gravures.           

Charles Gutzlaff "Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 & 1833"

Lot: 177

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £66
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Charles Gutzlaff Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China in 1831, 1832 & 1833, Frederick Westley, 1834, contemp.gilt cloth worn at extremities; frontispiece damp-stained; title page with manuscript inscription of the Sion Meeting House Library, Alnwick; folding map intact but near detached; clean text. 347pp

Priscilla Wakefield "The Traveller in Asia; or, a Visit to the most Celebrated Parts of the East Indies and China"

Lot: 178

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £50
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Priscilla Wakefield The Traveller in Asia; or, a Visit to the most Celebrated Parts of the East Indies and China. Darton, Harvey, and Darton, 1817, 12mo, contemp leather badly stained with front board partly detached, gilt title intact; folding hand-coloured Map intact, reinforced with archival tape; good clean text. Index and advert leaf. Ownership signature to free endpaper dated 1817; iv,237,[10]. 

James Richardson "Travels in Morocco", Charles Skeet, London, 1860, 2 Volumes, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth,

Lot: 179

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £155
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James Richardson Travels in Morocco, Charles Skeet, London, 1860, 2 Volumes, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, worn, the backstrips shabby with pieces missing at head & foot, rear board of Vol. 2 cracked and repaired; good internally, each volume with frontispiece and engraved title; minor spotting to prelims; woodcuts in text; p.241/2 of Vol. 1 with tear in margin; advertisements at rear of Vol. 2; (vol.1) xxvi, 302pp.; (vol.2) vi, 320, [4]pp.

Edward North Buxton "Two African Trips with Notes and Suggestions on Big Game Preservation in Africa"

Lot: 191

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £88
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Edward North Buxton Two African Trips with Notes and Suggestions on Big Game Preservation in Africa, Edward Stanford, 1902, 1st  Edn, original pictorial buckram, spine darkened and a little frayed at extremities; internal hingeing weak in places; uncut; clean interior with 80 fine photographic plates; fine map in rear pocket.

Edward North Buxton "Short Stalks: or Hunting Camps North, South, East and West", 1892 and 1893,

Lot: 192

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £52
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Edward North Buxton Short Stalks: or Hunting Camps North, South, East and West, 1892 and 1893, the First and Second Editions, and Short Stalks – Second Series, 1898, all in the original pictorial buckram, the spines badly darkened. The 1892 and 1898 editions have been recased, the former with new endpapers; the texts and plates all clean and complete, the Second Series with fine folding maps in front and rear pockets. (3)

John Henry Cliffe "Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles Among the Mountains, Valleys and solitudes of Wales

Lot: 199

  • Auction Date: Wed 30th Aug 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £22
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John Henry Cliffe Notes and Recollections of an Angler: Rambles Among the Mountains, Valleys and solitudes of Wales, London, 1860, recased with new endpapers, employing part of the original cloth, fine internally; and ‘Stonehenge’ Manual of British Rural Sports, 1856, quarter leather, gilt, hinges frayed, complete with all plates etc,, clean interior, 720pp.   (2)