Sale 2488 - Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, October 16, 2018

223 c   BARROW, JOHN, Sir. Travels in China. 5 hand-colored aquatint or stipple-engraved plates and 3 uncolored engraved plates, including 2 double-page. x, [2], 632 pages. 4to, 261x205 mm, contemporary calf, quite worn, rebacked; foxing on uncolored plates and some text, color plates clean, light offsetting from frontispiece onto title. London:T. Cadell andW. Davies, 1804 [400/600] first edition . Barrow accompanied the Earl of Macartney’s 1792-94 embassy to China. Abbey Travel 531; Lust 365. 224 c   (BELL, GERTRUDE.) Poems from the Divan of Hafiz. Translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell. 151, [1] pages, including half-title. Publisher’s 16-page catalogue at end dated 1897. 12mo, 191x130 mm, original cloth, spine slightly faded, gilt lettering dulled; contents clean. London:William Heinemann, 1897 [600/900] first edition of Bell’s second book and the first published under her name, before she became known as a travel writer and political operative in the Middle East. with a signed inscription from bell on the verso of the half-title to James Carleton Young, dated June 1902, incorporating a quatrain from Edward Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. 223 TRAVEL LOTS 223 - 238 SEE ALSO LOTS 93 AND 146