Dominic Winter

TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
Other Properties
Lot 131
127 Ali (Sharaf al-din). The History of Timur-Bec, known by the
name of Tamerlain the Great, emperor of the Moguls and Tartars...,
2 volumes, J. Darby, 1723, half-title (repaired), five folding maps,
some worming occasionally with little loss of text, initial blanks
remargined, contemporary calf, rebacked, 8vo
(2) £150-200
128 [Anson, George]. [A Voyage Round the World in the Years
MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV..., 1748?], Atlas only, 42 engraved plates, maps
and charts, many folding, occasional waterstains and some soiling,
manuscript plate number to each, contemporary half calf, some
wear, 4to
Sold as a collection of plates not subject to return.
(1) £150-200
129 Barraud (Charles Decimus & Travers, William T. L.). New
Zealand: Graphic and Descriptive, 1st edition, 1877,
chromolithograph title, engraved map, six plain lithographs, lacking
twenty-four chromolithographs, some light soiling and slight
chipping to extreme edges, original half-morocco gilt, rubbed and
slightly scuffed, large folio
(1) £150-200
130 Black (Adam & Charles, publishers). Black’s General Atlas:
Comprehending Sixty-one Maps from the Latest and most Authentic
Sources..., 1847, title page with near contemporary ownership
signature, sixty (complete as list) engraved maps and comparison
plates all with contemporary outline colouring, slight marginal dust
and finger soiling, lacking front blank, slight spotting, a.e.g.,
contemporary half morocco gilt, worn, folio
(1) £200-300
131 Bracebridge (Selina, Mrs Charles Holt). Notes Descriptive of
a Panoramic Sketch of Athens, Taken May, 1839, Sold in Aid of the
Funds of the London Benevolent Repository, published W.H. Dalton,
1839, 8 pages text, large folding lithographed panorama, printed in
three sections, 26.5 x 303cm, split along folds and now in six pieces,
but complete with rubbing to some folds, loosely contained with
text in original cloth boards, linen hinge at rear present, rubbed
frayed on spine, slim 4to
Abbey, Life 545; Blackmer 193. Scarce. Originally published in 1836 in aid of
the fund for building the Anglican Church (now St Paul’s) in Athens, this
edition comprises an entirely new lithograph from a drawing made from a
different position, near the church of St Demetrius the Bombardier.
(1) £700-1000
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