Sale 2521 - Early Printed, Travel, Scientific & Medical Books, October 24, 2019

112 c   BELL, JAMES STANISLAUS. Journal of a Residence in Circassia during the Years 1837, 1838 and 1839. 12 lithographed plates, including 3 hand-colored; folding map, sparingly hand-colored in outline. [iii]-xxiii, [1], 453, [1]; [iii]-viii, 488 pages; lacks half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, 210x136 mm, contemporary 1 / 2 calf gilt, top of spines chipped, joints cracked or starting, cover corners worn; scattered foxing minimally affecting plates, map offset. Signatures of Burton Dunham dated Camden 1860. London: (Bradbury and Evans for) Edward Moxon, 1840 [400/600] first edition . Abbey Travel 355. 113 c   BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, JEAN-BAPTISTE-JOSEPH. China: Its Cos- tume, Arts, Manufactures, &c. 80 uncolored stipple-engraved plates. [10], 128; [4], 125, [1]; [4], 135, [1]; [4], 160 pages, including half-titles. 4 volumes in 2. 8vo, 169x104 mm, contempo- rary calf gilt, front covers detached; text leaves severely browned, plates generally clean. Abbey Travel 535 note; Colas 435. London: (S. Gosnell for) J. J. Stockdale, 1812-13 [250/350] 114 c   BRUCE, JAMES. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. 58 engraved plates of 43 natural history and 15 miscel- laneous subjects, with leaf of explanatory text for each of the 3 plates in Volume 4; 3 folding maps. 4 leaves of texts in various Ethiopic languages between pages 400 and 401 in Volume 1. [10] (of [12]), lxxxiii, [1], 535, [1]; [4], viii, 718, [2]; [2] (of [4]), viii, 759, [1]; [2] (of [4]), viii, 695, [1]; [2] (of [4]), xiv, 230, [12] pages, lacking half-title in all volumes but the second. 5 volumes. 4to, Volumes 1 and 3-5 290x230 mm, in contempo- rary tree sheep gilt, joints cracked or starting, cords intact,Volume 3 front joint and Volume 4 rear joint reinforced, vary- ing toning of contents, plates foxed with occasional marginal dampstains offsetting onto facing pages, dampstain in lower outer corner ofVolume 1 covers and con- tents, marginal dampstaining inVolume 3, blank portion of 2 preliminaries unevenly cropped in Volume 5;Volume 2 316x258 mm, in contemporary 1 / 4 sheep, spine ends damaged, contents foxed. Edinburgh: J. Ruthven for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790 [500/750] first edition . “Bruce was only the second European to visit the isolated mountain king- dom of Abyssinia since the 1630s . . . His long and energetic narrative . . . remains one of the great travel accounts of the eighteenth cen- tury” (ODNB). Nissen ZBI 617. 114 TRAVEL BOOKS LOTS 112 - 130