Auction No 403, Category: Travel

4 Lots (displaying 1 - 4)

Selection with several illustrated including Armstrong "Memoir of Peter de Wint", 1888, 24 fine plates; Erwin Lang "Hoffnung auf China", 1922,

Lot: 7

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Selection with several illustrated including Armstrong Memoir of Peter de Wint, 1888, 24 fine plates; Erwin Lang Hoffnung auf China, 1922, one of 600 printed; Schillings With Flashlight and Rifle, 2nd Edn, armorial bookplate & signature of Henry Courtney Brocklehurst; Pitt Hounds Horses and Hunting, 1948, and Lionel Edwards Famous Foxhunters 1932, both with bookplates of Adolph H.C. Wenger; and others. Good/VF (9)

William Jones "Discourses delivered before the Asiatic Society: and miscellaneous papers, on the religion, poetry, literature, etc., of.....India"

Lot: 17

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £24
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William Jones Discourses delivered before the Asiatic Society: and miscellaneous papers, on the religion, poetry, literature, etc., of the nations of India. Charles S. Arnold, 1824, 2nd Edn; 12mo, 2vols (in 1); rebound in fine modern cloth, gilt; engraved portrait foxed also affecting title page and index leaf, clean elsewhere; uncut two sides; xii,152pp.

C.M. Doughty "Travels in Arabia Deserta", Folio Society, 2013, re-issue of the 1936 edition with introduction by T.E.Lawrence;

Lot: 67

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £350 - £400
SOLD £370
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C.M. Doughty Travels in Arabia Deserta, Folio Society, 2013, re-issue of the 1936 edition with introduction by T.E.Lawrence; No.230 of 780 issued, complete in 2 volumes bound in half-leather by Lachenmeier with marbled sides designed by Jemma Lewis; t.e.g., together with fine folding map bound in buckram, and all contained in the issued box with gilt leather title label on verso. No internal markings. VF. Scarce

Harold Raeburn "Mountaineering Art", Fisher Unwin, 1920, 1st Edn., spine near-detached, VG internally; Dorothy Pilley "Climbing Days", 1935,

Lot: 68

  • Auction Date: Wed 1st Sep 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £26
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Harold Raeburn Mountaineering Art, Fisher Unwin, 1920, 1st Edn., spine near-detached, VG internally; Dorothy Pilley Climbing Days, 1935, 1st Edn; and five related titles. Mixed condition. (7)