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BALL, JOHN, editor.
Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A Series of Excursions by
Members of the Alpine Club.
8 mounted chromolithographed plates; 23 text illustra-
tions; 9 maps. xvi, 514 pages, including half-title. 8vo, 202x136 mm, contemporary tree
calf, rebacked, joints rubbed; contents clean.
London, 1859
[100/200]
FIRST EDITION
of the first series, “one of the most famous titles in mountaineering literature”
(Neate). A second series in 2 volumes was published in 1862. Neate A32.
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BELLEW, HENRY WALTER.
Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan,
in 1857.
8 tinted lithographed plates. xv, [1], 480 pages, including half-title. Errata slip
tipped in. 8vo, 217x135 mm, original blue cloth blocked in gold and blind, spine darkened,
with white ink shelf number; marginal foxing on plates, content otherwise generally clean.
Later 19th-century bookplate of Sturgis Library, Barnstable, on front pastedown, their small
stamp in lower corner of title and plates.
FIRST EDITION
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London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1862
[800/1,200]
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BOISSARD, JEAN-JACQUES.
Vitae et icones Sultanorum Turcicorum, princi-
pum Persarum aliorumq[ue] illustrium heroum heroinarumq[ue] ab Osmane
usq[ue] ad Mahometem II.
47 full-page engraved portraits with varying ornamental
borders. [10], 356 [i. e., 353], [5] pages, including engraved title with portrait of Boissard on
verso. 4to, 187x150 mm, later 19th-century navy morocco gilt; contents unobtrusively
washed, minor restoration along fore edge of title.
Frankfurt am Main: Theodore de Bry, 1596
[3,000/5,000]
FIRST EDITION IN LATIN
of a collection of portraits and short biographies of Ottoman,
Persian, and Near Eastern rulers and notables. A German version was published the same
year. Adams B2345; Tchemerzine (1977) I, 816.
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