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

128 c   (RUSSIA.) A New and Exact Description of Moscovy . . . The whole containing all that is necessary to be known concerning that Vast Empire. [4], 28 pages. 4to, 190x148 mm, modern brown paper wrappers; contents soiled with dampstain in upper outer corners, margins trimmed removing most direction lines, bottom 2 lines of text on page 1, bottom 3 lines on page 27, and bottom line on around a dozen other pages. London: R. Baldwin, 1699 [300/500] first edition . Wing N541; not in RBH or ABPC. 129 c   WHIGHAM, HENRY JAMES. The Persian Problem. An Examination of the Rival Positions of Russia and Great Britain in Persia with Some Account of the Persian Gulf and the Bagdad Railway. 23 photographic plates; 5 maps, including folding frontispiece. xvi, 424 pages. 8vo, 222x145 mm, original cloth, spine darkened with ends worn and gilt lettering dulled, cover corners bumped, front hinge cracked; endpapers and half-title toned and foxed, frontispiece map worn along fold on verso, contents otherwise generally clean. Bookplate and signature of the American economist Jeremiah Jenks (1856-1929). New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1903 [300/500] first american edition of a book first published the same year in London collecting the author’s newspaper articles on contemporary conditions in Persia, and British and Russian competition for economic and political influence. Ghani, page 394. 130 c   WORSLEY, FRANK. Shackleton’s Boat Journey. 192 pages. 8vo, 169x104 mm, original cloth, spine faded, gilt letter- ing dulled, some blistering and discoloration on covers; negligible foxing on half-title and title, contents otherwise clean. London: Philip Allan & Co., Ltd., (1933) [300/500] first edition of this account of the 800-mile life- boat journey to South Georgia Island by Worsley as navigator, Shackleton, and 4 others to arrange the rescue of their remaining crewmates during the abortive Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition of 1914-17. Spence 1279. signed by worsley on the title page. From the library of the Antarctic research ship R. R. S. Discovery with its bookplate on the front pastedown, and inscription “Heave Ho, Discovery!” in an undetermined hand on the facing endpaper. 130 END OF TRAVEL BOOKS