Opmaak 1 - Gert Jan Bestebreurtje

First edition. - Account of the cruise round the world of the Duke of Edinburgh. After
a short trip to the Mediterranean he set out for the Cape of Good Hope and Australia.
'There is a lengthy description of an exciting and successful hunt, with several elephants
bagged' (Czech p.116). 'The attempt to murder His Royal Highness at
Clontarf, Middle Harbour, Sydney, by O'Farrell, a Fenian sympathiser, is fully described'
(Ferguson 12627).
Mendelssohn II, p.20; NMMC I, 690.
111 MILNER, Thomas. Russia: its rise and progress, tragedies and revolutions.
London, Longman, Brown, Gren, and Longmans, 1856.
Contemporary green calf (Bickers & Son), gilt fillets, spine richly gilt with red
morocco title-label. With engraved frontispiece. XV,500 pp. € 195,00
First edition. - A nice copy.
Bibl. Russica M 1158.
112 MILTON, William Fitzwilliam and Walter Butler CHEADLE. The North-
West passage by land. Being the narrative of an expedition from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, undertaken with the view of exploration a route across the continent to
British Columbia through British territory, by one of the northern passes in the
Rocky Mountains. London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, (1867).
Original green pictorial gilt cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map and 8
engraved plates. XXIV,394 pp. € 175,00
Seventh edition, first published in 1865. - 'A lively narrative of a sporting trip from
England across Canada and return from British Columbia by sea, June, 1862 -
March, 1864. This work achieved considerable popularity and drew attention to the
agricultural, and mining possibilities of the Canadian West' (TPL 4340). - A fine
copy.
Sabin 24631; Wagner & Camp 420.
113 MIRZA ABU TALEB KHAN. The travels in Asia, Africa, and Europe, during
the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803. Written by himself, in the Persian language.
Translated by Charles Stewart. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810.
2 volumes. Contemporary half blue calf, spines richly gilt. With portrait frontispiece.
VIII,(16),320; 418 pp. € 950,00
First edition. - Very interesting account of a Muslim, written by 'A Persian Prince', an
official of upper-class Persian descent at the courts of Muslim rulers in Oudh and
Bengal. The first chapter is dealing with his family. In the other chapters he relates
his adventures starting with his leave from Calcutta. He disembarked at the Cape of
Good Hope and finally arrived in Ireland. 'The author, evidently a man of education
and ability, affords a short but interesting description of Cape Town' (Mendelssohn II,
p.22). In London he was received in aristocratic society and introduced to King