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BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS, Sir.
The Gold-Mines of Midian and the
Ruined Midianite Cities. A Fortnight’s Tour in North-Western Arabia.
Folding
tinted lithographed map. 395, [3] (of [5]) pages, including half-title; lacks the integral ad
leaf. 8vo, 217x139 mm, 20th-century
3
/
4
brown morocco gilt by Bayntun; minor spotting
on opening leaves. Signature of the astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868-1938).
C. Kegan Paul & Co., London, 1878
[300/500]
FIRST EDITION
.
Penzer, pages 95-96; Hogarth, The Penetration of Arabia, pages 178-82.
296
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BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS, Sir.
The Land of Midian (Revisited).
6
chromolithographed and 10 black-and-white plates; folding map. xxviii, 338; vii, [1], 319,
[1], 31, [1] pages, including half-titles and publisher’s catalogue dated 9.78 at end of
Volume 2. 2 volumes. 8vo, 218x142 mm, original pictorial ochre cloth, rebacked retaining
slightly worn original backstrips; institutional stamp on titles, recto of frontispieces and few
other plates, and in text.
London, 1879
[500/750]
FIRST EDITION
.
Casada 44; Penzer, pages 96-97.
297
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BUSBECQ, OGIER GHISELIN DE.
Legationis Turc. epistolae IV. In quibus
mores, et res à Turcis per septennium gestae explicantur.
5 full-page engravings by
Raphael Sadeler comprising portraits of the author, Suleiman the Magnificent, and Holy
Roman Emperor Ferdinand I; map of Europe; and view of Constantinople. 541, [53] pages,
including engraved title and colophon leaf at end. 12mo, 125x75 mm, 19th-century vellum
boards, spine darkened, ties lacking; 2 holes in A5 repaired with some text loss, contents
otherwise generally clean. Bookplates of the Earl of Munster, Col. Fitz Clarence, and Sir
William Stirling-Maxwell (before succeeding to the baronetcy).
Munich: Raphael Sadeler, 1620
[250/350]
Letters by the ambassador of the Holy Roman Empire at the Ottoman Court from 1555 to
1562, during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent.
298
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CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM, the Elder; et al.
De rebus Turcicis commentarii
duo accuratissimi.
143, [1] pages. Folio, 305x210 mm, modern
1
/
4
calf with morocco let-
tering piece; contents lightly toned with scattered minor spotting.
Frankfurt am Main: heirs of Andreas Wechel et al., 1598
[1,000/2,000]
FIRST EDITION
of a collection of writings on Ottoman history and rulers by Camerarius and
arguments for war against the Turks by François de la Noue and Johannes Cuspinianus.
299
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CHURCHILL, WINSTON, Sir.
The River War: An Historical Account of
the Reconquest of the Soudan.
7 photogravure portraits; text illustrations; 23 maps and
plans. xxii, 462; x, [4], 499 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 229x152 mm, origi-
nal gilt-pictorial dark blue cloth, light discoloration on Volume 2 spine and rear cover;
light to moderate foxing of text, owner’s signature on half-title in Volume 1 and front fly-
leaf in Volume 2.
London, 1899
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
.
Woods A2(a).
300
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COOK, FREDERICK ALBERT.
Through the First Antarctic Night, 1898-
1899. A Narrative of the Voyage of the “Belgica” among newly discovered
Lands and over an Unknown Sea about the South Pole.
Plates and maps, including
portrait of Cook and frontispiece. 8vo, 229x154 mm, original cloth, spine faded, hinges
cracked; contents clean, but with bookplate on verso of portrait, front free endpaper lacking.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900
[600/900]
NUMBER
125
OF
1000
COPIES
,
SIGNED BY COOK
.
Spence 312 (trade issue).