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234. Gordon, Seton. AMID SNOWY WASTES. Wild Life on
the Spitsbergen Archipelago. Cassell & Co. 1922.
1st Ed. Large 8vo. xiv + 206pp. 114 ills., 2 maps including one
folding. Original blue cloth with cold. ills., gilt to faded spine,
faded to edges, occasional minor stains. £75.00
235. Greenwood, James. WILD SPORTS OF THE WORLD:
A Book of Natural History and Adventure. Ward, Lock & Co.
N.d. c.[1880].
xxii + 426pp. + [xvi] publ. adverts. Cold. frontis., vignette t.p., 8
ports., numerous woodcuts from designs by Harden Melville and
William Harvey. Ex.-libris Fred Whittaker with ink stamp to
verso of frontis. and top edge of p.135, margins very lightly
browned, good in original gilt and black dec. cloth. £75.00
236. Gurney, Joseph John. A WINTER IN THE WEST
INDIES, Described in Familiar letters to Henry Clay, of
Kentucky. John Murray 1840.
2nd Ed. xvi + 282pp. 2 plates. Some light marginal browning,
ex.-libris M.D. Harrel, rebound in gilt lettered half leather with
cloth boards, some scuffing with sl. surface loss. £125.00
Sabin 29312.
Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847), banker and religious writer.
237. Hakluyt, Richard. THE PRINCIPALL NAVIGATIONS
VOIAGES AND DISCOVERIES OF THE ENGLISH NATION
A Photo-Lithographic Facsimile with an Introduction by David
Beers Quinn and Raleigh Ashlin Skelton and With a New Index
by Alison Quinn. CUP for the Hakluyt Society 1965.
2 vols. 4to. lx + [xvi] + [vi] + 975pp. Folding map. Ex.-libris Eric
J. Thompson, chipped d/ws. faded and sl. chipped to spines.
£85.00
Extra Series No. XXXIX.
238. Hamilton, Andrew. SIXTEEN MONTHS IN THE
DANISH ISLES. Richard Bentley 1852.
1st Ed. 2 vols. Sm. 8vo. [ii] + xii + 390pp. Some light browning,
ex.-libris J.W. Hill, e.ps. marked, hinges sl. cracked, original gilt
lettered blind embossed cloth, some sl. soiling, spines sl. chipped.
£300.00
The author was a member of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of the
North, at Copenhagen.
239. Hamilton, Angus. SOMALILAND. Hutchinson and Co.
1911.
1st Ed. [xvi] + 366pp. + [i] advert. Port. frontis., 24 ills. and a
folding map. Hinges cracked, inscription, f.e.ps. lightly browned,
some very occasional sl. spotting, original gilt edged gilt lettered
cloth sl. rubbed to edges and faded to spine, t.e.g. £85.00
240. Hartshorne, Anna C. JAPAN And Her People.
Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co. 1902
1st Ed. 2 vols. x + 377pp. + vi + 374pp. 50 photogravures,
folding map. Ex.-libris Peekham and Henry C. McLean, foreedge
of map very sl. chipped not affecting image, hinges cracked,
e.ps. very lightly browned in vol. 1, original bright gilt ills. red
cloth, in red cloth d/ws as issued lightly faded and sl. rubbed to
spines, t.e.g. £135.00
241. Herres, J.E. THE PART BORNE BY THE DUTCH IN
THE DISCOVERY OF AUSTRALIA 1606-1765. Published by
the Royal Dutch Geographical Society in Commemoration of the
XXVth Anniversary of its Foundation. Luzac & Co. 1899.
1st Ed. 4to. xvii leaves + 106 leaves. Parallel text in
Dutch/English. 2 folding maps, textual maps. Some light
marginal browning, original gilt lettered cloth, discoloured, spine
very sl. bumped. £85.00
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242. Hibbert, Christopher. ITALIAN CITIES. Rome;
Florence and Venice. The Biography of a City. Folio Society
1999.
3rd printing. 3 vols. Royal 8vo. Profusely illus. in colour and b/w.
Very good in original gilt lettered silken cloth of differing colours
with gilt device to upper boards, together in slipcase as issued.
£75.00
243. Higgins, Henry H. NOTES BY A FIELD-NATURALIST
IN THE WESTERN TROPICS. From a Journal Kept on Board
the Royal Mersey Steam Yacht “Argo.” Liverpool Edward
Howell 1877.
1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. [vi] + 205pp. 18 plates from drawings, folding
map. Some light browning and occasional spotting, upper hinge
glued, original gilt lettered cloth with gilt device to upper board,
spine very sl. chipped. £100.00
244. Hill, Samuel Charles. CATALOGUE OF THE HOME
MISCELLANEOUS SERIES OF THE INDIA OFFICE
RECORDS. HMSO for the India Office 1927.
1st Ed. vii + 684pp. Some light browning, original gilt lettered
cloth, spine sl. rubbed. £85.00
245. Hobley, C.W. BANTU BELIEFS AND MAGIC. With
Particular Reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba Tribes of Kenya
Colony; Together With Some Reflections on East Africa After
the War. With an Introduction by Sir James G. Frazer. H. F. & G.
Witherby 1922.
1st Ed. 312pp. Port. frontis., 10 plates. Ex-libris E. Gordon
Lawrence, light sporadic spotting, original gilt lettered green
cloth, minute mark to tail of lower board. £125.00
With ‘Bio-Bibliography of C.W. Hobley’ off print from ‘History of
Africa,, 8 (1981)’ pp.253-260 printed one side only, loosely inserted.
246. Hoyland, John. A HISTORICAL SURVEY OF THE
CUSTOMS, HABITS & PRESENT STATE OF THE GYPSIES;
Designed to Develope The Origin of the Singular People, and to
Promote The Amelioration of their Condition. York ... Wm.
Alexander 1816.
1st Ed. 265pp. + [ii]. publ. adverts. Light foxing, original paper
backed boards, some wear to edges, joints cracked, lacking much
of backstrip. £120.00
John Hoyland (1750-1831) writer on the Gipsies. ODNB ’... in the
counties of Northampton, Bedford, and Hertford that he ‘frequently had
opportunity of observing the very destitute and abject condition of the
Gipsy race’ whom he began to study in summer of 1814 .. [the above
work] has still some value, though it is mainly based on Raper’s
translation of Grellmann’s ‘Zigeuner.’’’
247. Ireland, Alleyne. THE PROVINCE OF BURMA. A
Report prepared on behalf of the University of Chicago. Vol. I
[only]. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company
1907.
Royal 8vo. [xxii] + 520pp. Without map of Burma at rear. Ex.-
Foreign Office Lib. with label and ink stamps to front e.ps.,
pencil annotation, upper hinge cracked, edges of leaves sl. spotted
and occasionally intruding onto inner margins, last leaf sl. torn
without loss, sl. rubbed original gilt lettered dark blue cloth with
sm. unobtrusive ‘foreign office’ stamp to board boards, sl. wear
to lower edges and corners, paper accession label to tail of spine,
head of spine bumped with sm. hole to cloth, t.e.g. £100.00
Colonial Administration in the Far East.
Inscribed ‘With the author’s respectful compliments.’
248. Janin, M. Jules. SUMMER AND WINTER IN PARIS.
Peter Jackson N.d. c.[1850].
1st Ed. 4to. 228pp. Additional engraved t.p. and 36 engraved
plates from drawings by M. Eugene Lami. Some very light