PAST AUCTION

21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Sale Number: 739

Live from Edinburgh & Online

LOT 1

Lyell, Charles

Principles of Geology

SOLD FOR £1,008

LOT 2

Playfair, John

Illustrations of The Huttonian Theory of the Earth

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 3

Darwin, Charles

Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries visited by H. M. S. Beagle

SOLD FOR £5,040

LOT 4

[Charles Darwin - Richard Owen]

The Palaeontographical Society

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 5

Carson, Rachel L.

Under the Sea-Wind

SOLD FOR £454

LOT 6

Ornithology and natural history

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £278

LOT 7

Millais, John Guille

The Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland

SOLD FOR £353

LOT 8

Hamilton, Alexander

A Treatise on the Management of Female Complaints

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 9

Switzer, Stephen

The Practical Kitchen Gardiner

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 11

Pennant, Thomas

Indian Zoology

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 12

South American botanical album

Including several ferns

SOLD FOR £353

LOT 13

Clark, John Heaviside

[Views in Scotland, drawn on the spot by I. Clark]

SOLD FOR £2,394

LOT 14

Daniell, William

A large collection of prints

SOLD FOR £1,134

LOT 15

Gordon, Alexander

Itinerarium Septentrionale

SOLD FOR £479

LOT 17

Orkney

Collection of rare Court of Session rulings, [Edinburgh], 18th century

SOLD FOR £530

LOT 18

Roberts, David, and others

Collection of views from Harding & Lawson's Scotland Delineated

SOLD FOR £3,528

LOT 20

Scotland

including North, Charles McIntyre

SOLD FOR £454

LOT 21

Sinclair, John

The Statistical Account of Scotland

SOLD FOR £353

LOT 22

Slezer, John

Theatrum Scotiae

SOLD FOR £1,134

LOT 23

British topography

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 24

Greece

Five works

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 25

Greece

Three works

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 28

Russia - Crimea - Simpson, William

Seat of War in the East

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 29

Spain and Latin America

Three works, finely bound

SOLD FOR £429

LOT 30

[American Revolution]

Mémoires de Paul Jones

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 31

Burton, Sir Richard Francis

The City of the Saints and across The Rocky Mountains to California

SOLD FOR £454

LOT 32

Gage, Thomas

A New Survey of the West-Indies, being a Journal

SOLD FOR £1,890

LOT 34

Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark

Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804-1806

SOLD FOR £555

LOT 35

Mexico - Clavigero, Francesco Saverio

The History of Mexico

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 36

Washington, George

Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 37

[Brown, R. N. Rudmose, Robert Cockburn Mossman and J. H. Harvey Pirie]

The Voyage of the "Scotia"

SOLD FOR £1,197

LOT 38

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

The Worst Journey in the World

SOLD FOR £4,032

LOT 39

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley

The Worst Journey in the World

SOLD FOR £1,764

LOT 41

Peary, Robert E.

The North Pole

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 42

Ross, John

Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-West Passage

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 43

Shackleton, Ernest H.

South

SOLD FOR £1,008

LOT 44

Polar exploration

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £1,008

LOT 45

Polar exploration, first editions

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 46

Abyssinia [Ethiopia]

Parkyns, Mansfield

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 47

Burton, Sir Richard Francis

A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome

SOLD FOR £580

LOT 48

Chapman, Abel

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 49

Churchill, Winston S.

The River War

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 51

Salt, Henry

Twenty Four Views taken in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, Abyssinia and Egypt

SOLD FOR £10,710

LOT 52

[Sierra Leone] Winterbottom, Thomas

An Account of the Native Americans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone

SOLD FOR £2,016

LOT 53

[South Africa] Le Vaillant, François

Voyage de Monsier le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 54

South Africa

Two travel albums, early 20th century

SOLD FOR £945

LOT 55

Arabia

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £429

LOT 56

'Arabian Nights'

Al-juz' al-awwal min kitab Alf laylah wa-laylah

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 57

Burton, Sir Richard Francis

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah

SOLD FOR £4,788

LOT 58

Iraq

Memoir on the Ruins of Babylon

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 59

Islam, Eastern Christianity and Judaism

Group of works

SOLD FOR £353

LOT 60

Middle East

Collection of works

SOLD FOR £1,890

LOT 62

Ottoman Empire - Penzer, N. M.

4 volumes

SOLD FOR £303

LOT 65

Heath, Leopold (1817-1907)

"Hong Kong &c.

SOLD FOR £63

LOT 66

Indonesia

View of the Island of Banda-Neira

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 68

Waddell, L. A.

The Buddhism of Tibet or Lamaism

SOLD FOR £303

LOT 69

Arago, Jacques

Souvenirs d'un Aveugle

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 70

Cook, Capt. James

The Journals of Captain James Cook

SOLD FOR £693

LOT 71

Prévost, l'abbé Anton François

Histoire Générale des Voyages

SOLD FOR £2,772

LOT 75

Shaykh Muhammad Amir of Karraya or studio (fl. c. 1830-50)

The Balfour album

SOLD FOR £112,700

LOT 76

Indian Company School paintings

On mica and paper

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 77

India - Sanskrit printing

Hitopadesa, or Salutary Instruction. In the original Sanscrit

SOLD FOR £3,780

LOT 78

India - Malayalam printing

Compendiosa legis explanatio omnibus Christianis scitu necessaria Malabarico idiomate

SOLD FOR £882

LOT 79

[East Indies Sailing Directory]

A New Directory for the East-Indies

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 80

Government of India

Alqabnamah

SOLD FOR £10,080

LOT 81

Robson, Francis

The Life of Hyder Ally

SOLD FOR £580

LOT 82

India - Meghalaya

Report on Successions to Siemships in the Khasi States

SOLD FOR £1,512

LOT 83

Grandpré, Louis Maria Joseph, Comte de

A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 84

Harkness, Henry

A Description of a Singular Aboriginal Race inhabiting the Summit of the Neilgherry Hills

SOLD FOR £479

LOT 85

Moorcroft, William and George Trebeck

Travels in the Himalayan Provinces of Hindustan and the Panjab

SOLD FOR £404

LOT 86

Sri Lanka [Ceylon]

Forbes, Major Jonathan

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 87

Fergusson, James

Tree and Serpent Worship

SOLD FOR £630

LOT 88

India - Bengal Presidency

Collection of Calcutta imprints

SOLD FOR £328

LOT 89

India - Bhopal

Two biographical dictionaries of Persian poets

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 90

Wheeler, Stephen

History of the Delhi Coronation Durbar

SOLD FOR £756

LOT 91

Indian lithographic printing

Tarikh-i darbar-i taj pushi ['History of the Coronation Durbar']

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 92

Delhi

History of Delhi the Imperial City

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 93

India - North-Western Province

Set of Agra imprints, 19th century

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 94

India - Punjab, Oudh (Awadh) & other regions

Group of official reports, 19th century

SOLD FOR £1,890

LOT 95

India

Collection of rare Indian imprints on various subjects, 19th-20th century

SOLD FOR £504

LOT 96

Indian lithographic printing

Group of works on science and medicine

SOLD FOR £353

LOT 97

India

Group of rare Indian imprints, 19th-20th century

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 98

India

Group of rare pamphlets, Indian imprints, British and native presses, 19th century

SOLD FOR £278

LOT 99

India

Group of rare Indian imprints

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 100

Indian lithographic printing

Volume of treatises on Arabic grammar

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 101

Indian lithographic printing

Urdu poetry

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 102

Indian lithographic printing

Collection of works in Persian

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 103

Indian lithographic printing

Shrimad Bhagwat Gita bi'l-tasawir [Bhagavad Gita, in Urdu, illustrated]

SOLD FOR £252

LOT 104

Pratap Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Ayodhya (1855-1906)

Raskusumakar, or a Book on Rhetoric

SOLD FOR £479

LOT 105

Shah Jahan Begum, Nawab Begum of Bhopal (1838-1901)

Tahdhib al-niswan wa-tarbiyah al-insan

SOLD FOR £1,638

LOT 108

Stein, Sir Aurel

Two works

SOLD FOR £1,071

LOT 109

Indian National Congress

Volume of pamphlets

SOLD FOR £1,386

LOT 110

Wrede, Konrad (1865-1947)

Streifzüge durch Ceylons Wunderwelt

SOLD FOR £278

LOT 111

India

Quantity of works, including Indian imprints

SOLD FOR £1,008

LOT 112

Blaeu, Joannes

[Theatrum Orbis Terrarum: Volume V] - Scotia, quae est Europae Liber XII [Scotland & Ireland]

SOLD FOR £8,820

LOT 113

Jamieson, Alexander

A Celestial Atlas

SOLD FOR £2,772

LOT 114

Homann, Johann Baptiste - Ottoman Empire

Turkey and Arabia

SOLD FOR £378

LOT 116

Fife and St Andrews

Two maps

SOLD FOR £429

LOT 117

Speed, John

Britain, as it was divided in the tyme of the Englishe Saxons...

SOLD FOR £2,268

LOT 118

Speed, John

Cambridgshire

SOLD FOR £693