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“A WORK MORE SPLENDID… IN ITS DECORATIONS WE HAVE SELDOM SEEN”
FORBES, James. Oriental Memoirs. London, 1813. Four volumes. First edition of this splendid richly illustrated work on India, with frontispiece portrait and 93 engraved and lithographed plates, including 28 hand-colored natural history plates. Presentation/association copy inscribed by Forbes on the half title of Volume I to his cousin John Underwood, founder of the first hospital for Indians in Madras: “to John Underwood Esq from his affec. cousin the author.” Magnificently bound for presentation in full elaborately gilt-decorated morocco. $23,000.
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WITH 72 SUPERB ELEPHANT FOLIO EGYPTIAN PLATES, MANY IN COLOR
BINION, Samuel Augustus. Ancient Egypt or Mizraim. New York, 1887. Two volumes. Limited first edition, “Edition de Luxe,” number 193 of only 800 copies, splendidly illustrated with 72 spectacular large folio plates of pyramids, temples, views, the Sphinx, antiquities, mummies, papyri, among other Egyptian subjects, including 50 beautiful tinted and full-color lithographs. $19,800.
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FIRST EDITION OF HARRIS’ 1705 FOLIO COLLECTION OF VOYAGES:
WITH NUMEROUS LARGE MOLL MAPS AND ENGRAVED PLATES
HARRIS, John. Navigantium atque itinerantium bibliotheca. London, 1705. Two volumes. First edition of this early collection of voyages, two tall folio volumes with two engraved frontispieces (each with four portraits), nine large folding or double-page maps by Herman Moll and T. Lamb, and 21 splendid engraved plates, some folding. Includes descriptions of America, the South Seas, the West Indies, the North Pole, Russia, China, Africa, India, etc. $17,500.
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“ONE OF THE MOST SPLENDID NARRATIVES IN THE LITERATURE OF AFRICAN TRAVEL”
BRUCE, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh, 1790. Five volumes. Best edition of this illustrated classic of African exploration, published the same year as the first, magnificently embellished with engraved vignette title pages, three large engraved folding maps, and 58 engraved plates of scenery, antiquities, battle plans and natural history by James Heath. $15,000.
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“ONE OF THE MOST SPLENDID NARRATIVES IN THE LITERATURE OF AFRICAN TRAVEL”
BRUCE, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh, 1790. Five volumes. Best edition of this illustrated classic of African exploration, published the same year as the first, magnificently embellished with engraved vignette title pages, three large engraved folding maps, and 58 engraved plates of scenery, antiquities, battle plans and natural history by James Heath. $10,000.
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“THE FIRST TO REVEAL THE RICHNESS OF EGYPTIAN ART TO EUROPE”
DENON, Baron Dominique Vivant. Viaggio nel Basso ed Alto Egitto. Florence, 1808. First edition in Italian of Denon’s collection of 147 lovely engraved plates, including 71 aquatints with a sepia wash, and three double-page maps. $10,000.
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AN ACHIEVEMENT LIKENED TO THE GROUNDBREAKING WORK OF EDWARD CURTIS IN AMERICA, DUGGAN-CRONIN’S BANTU TRIBES OF SOUTH AFRICA
DUGGAN-CRONIN, Alfred Martin. Bantu Tribes of South Africa. Cambridge, 1929-54. Seven volumes. First editions of seven (of 11) volumes in Duggan-Cronin’s photographic masterpiece, an exceptional collection of 235 (of 376) collotypes printed on heavy card stock, a record of the lives and cultures of the Bantu peoples—including the Suto-Chuana, Bechuana, Nguni, Swazi, Baca, Hlubi, Vathonga, and Vachopi tribes. $9800.
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LEAKEY’S “THIRD ANGEL,” BIRUTE GALDIKAS:
IMPORTANT ARCHIVE OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN LEAKEY,
GALDIKAS AND WILKIE REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF AN ORANGUTAN RESEARCH PROJECT IN INDONESIA AND THE PROGRESS OF GALDIKAS’ RESEARCH THERE
LEAKEY, Louis S.B. and GALDIKAS, Birute. Archive of documents concerning Louis Leakey and Birute Galdikas’ Orangutan research. Nairobi; Los Angeles; Burnaby, British Columbia; Indonesia, 1969-1984. Three Louis Leakey letters to Leighton Wilkie regarding the establishment of an orangutan project, together with his typed manuscript signed (“L.S.B. Leakey”) describing his proposal for Galdikas’ orangutan research project. With seven typed letters signed by Birute Galdikas, also to the Wilkie brothers, describing the progress of her research—including her discovery that orangutans are not exclusively arboreal—along with black-and-white and color photographs of Galdikas at Camp Leakey, Camp Wilkie and among the orangutans she studied. $9200.
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“FUTURE TRAVELLERS WILL DO WELL NOT TO THINK THAT THEY ARE SETTING OUT UPON A MERE PROMENADE”
BURTON, Richard F. The Lake Regions of Central Africa. London, 1860. Two volumes. First edition of Burton’s account of his journey to Lake Tanganyika, with folding map, 12 full-page tinted plates and additional in-text woodcuts. $7200.
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“A CLASSIC OF TRAVEL LITERATURE”
PARK, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts… WITH: Journal of a Mission. London, 1815. Two volumes. First editions of Mungo Park’s classic narratives of African exploration, revealing for the first time the secrets of the “boundless forest” of the Gambia and Niger hinterlands, with a fine stipple-engraved portrait of Park, three folding maps, five engraved plates (two botanical and three of village life), and two plates of native music. With his Journal of the ill-fated second mission, with one folding map and occasional in-text illustration. $7200.
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