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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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“THE STUDY OF COOK IS THE ILLUMINATION OF ALL DISCOVERY”
(COOK, James). Cook’s Three Voyages. London, 1773, 1779, 1784. Nine volumes altogether. Mixed first and second edition set of Cook’s monumental pacific voyages, which transformed the dangerously unreliable maps of the Pacific’s expanse and the New World’s western coast, with second edition of the first and first editions of the second and third voyages. With the splendid large folio atlas volume. Superbly illustrated with 202 engraved charts, maps and plates, many double-page or folding. $75,000.
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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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WITH 30 FOLIO LTIHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF EGYPTIAN COSTUMES
PRISSE D’AVENNES, Emile. Oriental Album. London, 1848. First trade edition of this beautifully illustrated survey of Egyptian “modes of life,” with lithographic frontispiece portrait of botanist George Lloyd, to whom the work is dedicated, additional chromolithographic title page, and 30 large tinted lithographs of contemporary Egyptian dress. An exceptional copy in fine condition. $18,500.
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WITH 30 FOLIO LTIHOGRAPHIC PLATES OF EGYPTIAN COSTUMES: EMILE PRISSE D’AVENNES’ ORIENTAL ALBUM, 1848,
PRISSE D’AVENNES, Emile. Oriental Album. London, 1848. First trade edition of this beautifully illustrated survey of Egyptian “modes of life,” with lithographic frontispiece portrait of botanist George Lloyd, to whom the work is dedicated, additional chromolithographic title page, and 30 large tinted lithographs finished by hand of contemporary Egyptian dress. $18,500.
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WITH 24 LARGE SPLENDID HAND-COLORED VIEWS OF INDIA
FORREST, Lieutenant-Colonel [Charles Ramus]. A Picturesque Tour Along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna. London, 1824. First edition of this renowned India color-plate book, with 24 splendidly hand-colored aquatint views after original drawings by Forrest and large folding map showing the Ganges and the Jumna, handsomely bound. $18,000.
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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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“THE FIRST MODERN DESCRIPTION OF THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS”
POCOCKE, Richard. Description of the East. London, 1743-45. Two volumes. Rare first edition of Pococke’s significant account of his extensive travels in Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Cyprus, Greece and Asia Minor, copiously illustrated with 178 spectacular large engraved plates and maps (several folding) depicting plans, views, monuments, architectural details and botanical specimens. $16,000.
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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. $15,000.
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“OF IMMENSE IMPORTANCE FOR THE EARLY HISTORY OF UPPER CALIFORNIA”
(SERRA, Junipero) PALOÚ, Francisco. Relacion Historica de la vida del venerable padre fray Junipero Serra. Mexico City, 1787. First edition of this biographical study of Father Junipero Serra, an indispensable source for the early history of California. “The letters from Father Serra to Father Paloú give interesting details on the various Indian tribes and their manners and customs, together with descriptions of the country… This work has been called the most noted of all books relating to California” (Hill, 220-21). An excellent copy, complete with engraved portrait of Serra and engraved folding map, in contemporary vellum. $15,000.
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