Baker (Sir Samuel W.). The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, 1st edition, 1867, & 8 others
Sold for £560
Baker (Sir Samuel W.). The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, engraved frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding), 23 wood-engraved plates, light finger-soiling, frontispiece and title-page slightly spotted and marked, short split to one fold of folding map, inner hinges cracked, contemporary patterned cloth, 8vo (22.2 x 14 cm), together with:
Sale (Lady Florentia), A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1843, advertisement slip tipped to title-page, plan, folding map (laid down), 12 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, modern half calf to style, 8vo in 12s (19.8 x 12 cm),
Layard (Austen H.), Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babyon; with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1853, 14 lithographic plates including frontispiece, 2 folding maps, half-title discarded, repair to plan facing p. 67, plate at p. 115 partly split, closed handling tears to maps, later half calf, 8vo (20.7 x 12.8 cm), and 6 others, 19th and early-20th-century travel, including Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, 1st edition, 1857
(Qty: 9)
Czech Africa p. 15 (Baker).
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Sold for £560
Baker (Sir Samuel W.). The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs, 1st edition, London: Macmillan and Co., 1867, engraved frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding), 23 wood-engraved plates, light finger-soiling, frontispiece and title-page slightly spotted and marked, short split to one fold of folding map, inner hinges cracked, contemporary patterned cloth, 8vo (22.2 x 14 cm), together with:
Sale (Lady Florentia), A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1843, advertisement slip tipped to title-page, plan, folding map (laid down), 12 pp. advertisements, contemporary ownership inscription to title-page, modern half calf to style, 8vo in 12s (19.8 x 12 cm),
Layard (Austen H.), Discoveries in the Ruins of Nineveh and Babyon; with Travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the Desert, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1853, 14 lithographic plates including frontispiece, 2 folding maps, half-title discarded, repair to plan facing p. 67, plate at p. 115 partly split, closed handling tears to maps, later half calf, 8vo (20.7 x 12.8 cm), and 6 others, 19th and early-20th-century travel, including Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, 1st edition, 1857
(Qty: 9)
Czech Africa p. 15 (Baker).
