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ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, Bloomsbury, 1997ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION, Bloomsbury, 1997. Sold for £43,812.50 inc. premium
FORSTER (E.M.) Barger family collection of twenty-eight autograph letters by E.M. Forster, two to his mother Lily Forster, fifteen to his intimate friend Florence Barger, two to her son Evert and nine to Evert's wife Mollie, 1915-64FORSTER (E.M.) Barger family collection of twenty-eight autograph letters by E.M. Forster, two to his mother Lily Forster, fifteen to his intimate friend Florence Barger, two to her son Evert and nine to Evert's wife Mollie, 1915-64. Sold for £17,562.50 inc. premium
AGRICOLA (GEORG) De re metallica, Basel, J. Froben and N. Episcopius, 1556AGRICOLA (GEORG) De re metallica, Basel, J. Froben and N. Episcopius, 1556. Sold for £12,562.50 inc. premium
IRELAND – WOLFE TONE, TEELING AND THE RISING OF 1798 Files of documents, kept by George Hewett, Adjutant-General of the British Army in Ireland 1791-99 and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland, 1813-16IRELAND – WOLFE TONE, TEELING AND THE RISING OF 1798 Files of documents, kept by George Hewett, Adjutant-General of the British Army in Ireland 1791-99 and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland, 1813-16. Sold for £11,312.50 inc. premium
LONDON - MARYLEBONE BARTLETT (J.A.) AND JOHN BRITTON. Topographical Survey of the Borough of St. Marylebone, as Incorporated & Defined by Act of Parliament 1832. Embracing & Marking the Boundaries of the Parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras & Paddington, J. Britton, 25 June 1834LONDON - MARYLEBONE BARTLETT (J.A.) AND JOHN BRITTON. Topographical Survey of the Borough of St. Marylebone, as Incorporated & Defined by Act of Parliament 1832. Embracing & Marking the Boundaries of the Parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras & Paddington, J. Britton, 25 June 1834. Sold for £4,437.50 inc. premium
BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) A pair of silver hat pins [eighteenth century?]BROWNING (ELIZABETH BARRETT) A pair of silver hat pins [eighteenth century?]. Sold for £2,295 inc. premium
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and New Caledonia, [1880s]; and a collection of 38 loose mostly late nineteenth century albumen prints of Australia (collection)AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and New Caledonia, [1880s]; and a collection of 38 loose mostly late nineteenth century albumen prints of Australia (collection). Sold for £1,147.50 inc. premium

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SURREY GREENWOOD (CHARLES AND JOHN) Map of the County of Surrey from an Actual Survey, Made in the Years 1822 & 1823, George Pringle, 1 September 1823
SURREY LINDLEY (JOSEPH) AND WILLIAM CROSSLEY. Map of the County of Surrey, T. Bowles, and others, [1756]; and 12 other maps of Surrey (19)
TEESDALE (HENRY) A New General Atlas of the World... from Drawings Made Expressly for this Work. By John Dower, Henry Teesdale, 1831
WESTMORELAND JEFFERYS (THOMAS) The County of Westmoreland Surveyed Anno MDCCLXVIII, Thomas Jefferys, 1770
AMERICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE Autograph journal, kept by Giles Welsford of Plymouth, while on board the Sally (Captain Henry Coupar), leaving London on 5 August 1780 and sailing from Gosport to Plymouth, from there in convoy to New York, between England and New York, August to October 1780
ARMENIA - GEOLOGY OSWALD (FELIX) A Treatise on the Geology of Armenia, FIRST EDITION, [Dulwich] & Iona, Beeston, Notts., by the Author, [1903]-1906
AUSTRALIA WHITE (JOHN) Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales, FIRST EDITION, J. Debrett, 1790
AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND AND PACIFIC - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, and New Caledonia, [1880s]; and a collection of 38 loose mostly late nineteenth century albumen prints of Australia (collection)
BELZONI (GIOVANNI BATTISTA) Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations... in Egypt and Nubia, Atlas vol. only, FIRST EDITION, John Murray, 1820
BERDINI (VINCENZO) Historia dell'antica, e moderna Palestina, 3 parts in 1 vol., Venice, Giovanni Battista Surian, 1642
BRANDLING (HENRY CHARLES) Views in the North of France, Atlas only, 1848;and 2 others, Jacottet on the Pyrenees (1835), and Palladio Architecture (1728)
BROWN (EDWARD) A Brief Account of Some Travels in Divers Parts of Europe, Benjamin Tooke, 1685
CEYLON - PHOTOGRAPHY Album of views, portraits and flower studies in Sri Lanka (42), and views of Port-Said and neighbourhood, Malta, Zimbabwe, and Italy, [1880s]
CHINA Album of views relating the H.M.S. Falcon, a Yangtze River Patrol boat, compiled by Petty Officer Blackwell, [c.1933-1937]
CHINA YAMAMOTO (SANSICHIRIO) Peking, Beijing, S. Yamamoto, May 1909
COOK (JAMES) - THE ENDEAVOUR HORACE. The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles... Done into English by Mr. Creech, sixth edition, WILLIAM PERRY'S COPY FROM ON BOARD 'THE ENDEAVOUR', inscribed by him with full details of the crew, date of departure and return of the "Endeavour" on the front endpapers, additionally inscribed "é libris Guli. Perry" on title, J. and R. Tonson, 1737
COOK (JAMES) ANDERSON (GEORGE WILLIAM) New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority... [an] Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, [Alex. Hogg, 1784-1786], sold not subject to return
DAULIER DESLANDES (ANDRE) Les beautez de la Perse, FIRST EDITION, Paris, Gervais Clouzier, 1673
GALLAND (JULIEN CLAUDE) Recueil des Rits et céremonies du pelerinage de la Mecque, aquel ecrits relatifs à la religion, aux sciences & aux moeurs des Turcs, FIRST EDITION, Amsterdam and Paris, Desaint & Saillant, 1754
INDIA - POSTAL HISTORY Two letters of salutation addressed to Major Vans Agnew ("Major Sahib"), both dated 19 Rabi'ii, 1237 [13 January 1822]: BOTH LETTERS IN THEIR ORIGINAL SILK ADDRESS BAG, in Kharita form, embroidered with a paisley pattern in gold and silver thread, with large seal attached in red wax of Maharajah Malhar Rao Holkar Subadur
INDIA - PRINCELY RULER Portrait of an unidentified princely ruler, seated wearing turban ornament and string of pearls and other jewels, on a gilt throne, [first half of twentieth century]
INDIA - PRINCELY RULER Portrait of an unidentified princely ruler, head and shoulders, wearing a cord-like turban, a pearl earring, large necklace, and a medal, [first half of twentieth century]
INDIA - PRINCELY RULER Portrait of an unidentified princely ruler, head and shoulders, wearing turban with brooch itself featuring a portrait, [first half of twentieth century]
INDIA - PRINCELY RULER Equestrian portrait of an unidentified princely ruler, in riding outfit and ornate turban, with a fortress in the background, [first half of twentieth century]
INDIA - PRINCELY RULER Large portrait of an unidentified youthful princely ruler, standing full-length wearing rich jewellery on headwear, arms and waistband with a string of pearls, in a studio setting with very large gold throne with lion-shaped arms, carved pillars and a view through curtains to a room beyond, [first half of twentieth century]
ITALY - ROME MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of 8 large views in Rome, and 4 studies of antique sculptures from Roman collections, [c.1860, mostly approximately 300 x 390mm., and 250 x 195mm.; and 12 other albumen prints, including 6 good views of Geneva by Garcin (54)
ITALY MACPHERSON (ROBERT TURNBULL) A collection of eight large views of Rome comprising: Arch of Titus; Horse of Marcus Aurelius; Temple of Antonius and Faustina; "Fresco on the Roof of a Church"; Church, most loose (a few on mounts), varying tones, various sizes (large group)
JAPAN SIEBOLD (PHILIP FRANZ VON) Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 5 vol., comprising 3 of text, and 2 of plates, Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1930-1931
LEAR (EDWARD) Illustrated Excursions in Italy, 2 vol. [First-Second series], Thomas M'Lean, 1846
[LØVENØRNS (POUL)] Beskrivelse over den Iislandske Kyst og alle Havne fra Fugle-Skiærene og til Stikkelsholm i Brede-Bugten med Forklaring over deres Indseiling, [Lisbon, c.1745?]; and 7 others on Brazil, Ethiopia, China etc. (8)
MAYER (LUIGI) Views in Egypt, From the Original Drawings in the Possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, Taken during his Embassy to Constantinople, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Bensley and R. Bowyer, 1801
MENDES PINTO (FERNÃO) Historia oriental de las peregrinaciones de Fernan Mendez Pinto portugues, a donde se escriven muchas, y muy estrañas cosas que vio, y oyó en los reynos de la China, Tartaria, Sornao, que vulgarmente se llama Siã, Calamiñam, Peguu, Martauan, y otros muchos de aquellas partes orientales... Traducido de portugues en castellano por el licenciado Francisco de Herrera Maldonado, Madrid, Melchor Sanchez, 1666
NIGERIA, SOUTH AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA Three albums of watercolours, ink and pencil sketches of scenes in Nigeria and Western Africa, Australia, and South America, including Brazil, Bahia and Chile, made by Thomas B. Cook, [1880-1893]; and another album, including pen and ink scenes ("Rio de Janeiro", "Sea Hunting... Chanaral [Chile]", both double-page; "Music Batouk. Scene in Bahia Xmas Day 1883", another street scene in Bahia, and others), several oil views, and an albumen print of Darling Point, Sydney; an oil painting (310 x 232mm.) of the coastline of Brazil near Rio de Janeiro; three albumen print photographs of T.B. Cook (studio portrait by Tuttle of Sydney; group of "Officer of the Oil Rivers 2nd Nov. 1892", and group of Europeans and Africans by "W.J. Sawyers, Photographer, West Coast of Africa" (group)

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NIGERIA, SOUTH AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA
Three albums of watercolours, ink and pencil sketches of scenes in Nigeria and Western Africa, Australia, and South America, including Brazil, Bahia and Chile, made by Thomas B. Cook, [1880-1893]; and another album, including pen and ink scenes ("Rio de Janeiro", "Sea Hunting... Chanaral [Chile]", both double-page; "Music Batouk. Scene in Bahia Xmas Day 1883", another street scene in Bahia, and others), several oil views, and an albumen print of Darling Point, Sydney; an oil painting (310 x 232mm.) of the coastline of Brazil near Rio de Janeiro; three albumen print photographs of T.B. Cook (studio portrait by Tuttle of Sydney; group of "Officer of the Oil Rivers 2nd Nov. 1892", and group of Europeans and Africans by "W.J. Sawyers, Photographer, West Coast of Africa" (group)

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NORDEN (FREDERICK LEWIS) Travels in Egypt and Nubia... Translated from the Original... by Dr. Peter Templeman, 2 vol., Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757
PARDOE (JULIA) The Beauties of the Bosphorus; Illustrated in a Series of Views of Constantinople and its Environs, T. Osborne, 1754; and 3 others (10)
PHILLIPS (RICHARD, PUBLISHER) New Voyages and Travels: Consisting of Original, Translations, and Abridgements, vol. 1-6 (of 9), Richard Phillips, [1819-1823], sold not subject to return
PINKERTON (JOHN) A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all Parts of the World, 17 vol., Longman, Hunt, 1808-1814
POLAR CHERRY-GARRARD (APSLEY) The Worst Journey in the World. Antarctic 1910-1913, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, with a loosely inserted AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, [1965], 8vo (4)
POLAR PONTING (HERBERT) "Captain Scott's Birthday Dinner, 6 June 1911", [negatives c.1911-12]
POLAR ROSS (JOHN) Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 2 vol. (including Appendix), 4to, A.W. Webster; together with a small group of contemporary newspaper articles about Ross and other Polar expeditions, and 2 manuscript maps drawn after those in George Back's Narrative (small group)
POLAR SHACKLETON (SIR ERNEST), Printed official wartime map of European Russia, signed and inscribed "To Elizabeth Dawson-Lambton from E H Shackleton/ Oct 1918"
ROOSEVELT (THEODORE) African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed on front free endpaper "To A.L. Butler Esq with the thanks and regards of Theodore Roosevelt, Nov. 1st, 1910", WITH ONE AUTOGRAPH LETTER AND ONE TYPED LETTER INSERTED, BOTH SIGNED, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910
SCHOBERL (FREDERIC) Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan, by Way of the Simplon... Engraved from Designs by J. and J. Lory of Neufchatel, R. Ackermann, 1820
SHEFIK (AHMED) Notes on a Visit to Sinai Monastery and a Motor Car Tour in Sinai Peninsula, in January 1926, first edition in English, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed "To Kaimakam L.H.C. Hatton Bey, [with mauve stamp] Lewa Director General, Frontier Adminstration" on the title, Cairo, Government Press, 1926; with 3 other items, including articles relating to the Nubian and Western Deserts extracted from Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, and a typescript article (with pencil annotations) entitled "Kufu's Treasure" (4)
STEDMAN (JOHN GABRIEL) Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Suriman, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the Year 1772 to 1777... With an Account of the Indians of Guiana, & Negroes of Guinea 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, J. Johnson, 1796
SUTCLIFFE (ROBERT) Travels in Some Parts of North America, in the Years 1804, 1805, & 1806, 8vo and 4to; and 8 others, miscellaneous (18)
TRAVEL JOURNALSManuscript journals of George Brigden, in two volumes, written in ink on lined paper, the first titled "My First Voyage", a daily account of his voyage as 2nd Steward on board the steam yacht Lady Beatrice from Gravesend to Southern Turkey, illustrated with 22 albumen prints; the second "my trip to Somaliland on the East Coast of Africa", 1888-1891
WETZEL (JOHANN JAKOB) Voyage pittoresque au Lac de Come, Zurich, Orell, Fussli & Co.
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