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pictorial and literary record of Guyon’s expedition to the province of Constantine inthe north of Algeria to undertake a medical inspection, which also permitted him totravel in the province, and particularly to Ziban, the southern part.The atlas volume was issued in 1850 and the accompanying text volume waspublished two years later, and sets of both volumes are uncommon on the market,particularly in its original binding by the Algerian bookseller, publisher, printer,and binder Bastide (who also printed some of the lithographic plates).THE FIRST ‘LONDON COMEDY’55. [HAUGHTON, William]. A pleasant Comedie called, a Woman will have herWill. As it hath beene diverse Times acted with great Applause. London, Printedby A[ugustine] M[athewes] and are to be Sold by Richard Thrale … 1631.Small 4to, pp. [78], lacking terminal blank; paper repair to title-page with the initial‘A’ and six letters of the imprint restored in facsimile, soiling to title and last leaf,browned throughout due to paper stock, I3-K3 gnawed at head, without loss;withal a good copy in early twentieth-century navy quarter morocco, spine sunned,chip to head. £3750Third edition (first published in 1616 as Englishmen for my Money, and again in1626) of this ‘merry and bustling comedy of London life’, the first of its kind.The only extant independent work by the enigmatic Elizabethan playwright WilliamHaughton (d. 1605), Englishmen was commissioned by Henslowe in 1598 andentered at Stationer’s Hall in 1601 (but unknown in print until 1616). The plotconcerns Pisaro, a ‘Portingal’ (i.e. Portuguese) usurer living in London, who wantsto marry his three daughters to a Dutchman, a Frenchman, and an Italian. Thedaughters instead love three dashing young Englishmen, indebted to Pisaro afterbeing swindled by him, and after much amusing trickery it is they who carry theday. The plot convolutions were familiar to Elizabethan audiences (The Jew ofMalta and The Merchant of Venice are obvious parallels), but Haughton was the firstto couch them in a distinct London setting, (and pair them with recognisablesupplementary characters such as an Oxford schoolmaster and a typical comicbuffoon), making Englishmen perhaps the first of what was to become theimmensely popular genre of London comedies.HEDIN’S SINO-SWEDISH EXPEDITION THROUGH CENTRAL ASIA OF 1937-1935,UNDERTAKEN WITH CHIANG KAI-SHEK’S SUPPORT56. HEDIN, Sven Anders. History of the Expedition in Asia 1927-1935 by SvenHedin in collaboration with Folke Bergman. [Translated by Donald Burton.]Stockholm: Elanders Boktryckeri Aktiebolag, 1943-1945.Four vols, 4to in 8s (296 x 237mm), pp. I: XXVIII, 258, [2 (blank l.)]; II: XV, [1(blank)], 215, [1 (blank)]; III: XV, [1 (blank)], 345, [1 (index map)]; IV: [2 (blank l.)],[6 (half-title, title and contents, versos blank)], 449, [1 (blank)], [2 (blank l.)];mounted photographic portrait frontispiece of Hedin in volume I, 126 plates with