forthcoming sales - Dominic Winter Book Auctions

22 De Bry (Johann Theodor & Johann Israel). Vera Descriptio
regni Africani, quod tam ab incolis quam Lusitanis Congus appellatur
per Philippum Pagafettam, olim ex Edoardi Lopez acroamatis lingua
Italica excerpta..., Frankfurt, 1598, pp.[8],60,[8], eng. title, eng.
armorial to dedication leaf, separate title to plates section (with
repaired closed tear to lower margin), two folding eng. maps (with
repaired closed tears), fourteen eng. illusts., woodcut dec. initials,
blank leaves H6 & 2D4 present (bound without H7 & H8), initial
leaves & maps washed(?), few repaired short closed tears, bound
with Il Pars Indiae Orientalis, in qua Iohan. Hugonis Lintscotani
Navigatio in Orientem, item regna, littora, portus, flumina,
apparentiae, habitus moreque Indorum & Lusitanorum pariter in
Oriente degentium..., Frankfurt, 1599, pp.[12],114,[6], title within
dec. eng. border, one eng. port. illust., woodcut dec. initials, occ.
browning & dust-soiling etc. throughout, modern vellum, folio
(1) £500-800
23 De Pauw (Cornelius). Recherches Philosophiques sur les
Americains, ou Memoires interessants pour servir a l’Histoire de
l’Espece Humaine..., 3 vols., New ed., Berlin, 1774, contemp.
marbled sheep, gilt dec. spines with contrasting morocco labels,
extrems. rubbed and slight wear, small 8vo
Sabin 59246. The author suggests that indigenous Americans were culturally
inferior to the rest of the civilized world, and his work provoked considerable
controversy at the time.
(3) £100-150
Lot 24
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24 Demidoff (M. Anatole de). Voyage dans la Russie, Meridionale
& la Crimee, par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie, Atlas, 1st ed.,
Paris, [1848], engraved title, 100 uncoloured plates and portraits,
without the text to plates 88-100 as often, lacking maps, occasional
light spotting, bookplate, contemporary red half morocco, rubbed
and scuffed, folio
(1) £1000-1500
25 European spa towns & waterworks. A collection of approx. 85
pamphlets and books, mostly German language, c.1830s-1910s,
including Stabel (Eduard), Das Sool-Bad Kreuznach fur Arzte
Dargestellt, pub. Bad Kreuznach, 1887, wood engraved illusts., orig.
decorative red cloth, 8vo, together with Loschner (Dr Josef), Der
Kurort Giesshubl-Puchstein in Bohmen, Karlsbad, 1883, litho. plates,
folding map to rear, orig. printed wrappers, some fraying to head
and foot of spine, 8vo, plus Brandt (G.H.), Hammam Rirha Algiers,
a Winter Health Resort and Mineral Water Cure Combined, 1883,
wood engraved frontis., folding map, orig. cloth gilt, 8vo, plus many
others including spa guide books and books about waterwork
projects, mostly bound in orig. paper wrappers
(approx. 85) £100-150