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48. HAY, Robert.
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Illustrations of Cairo. Drawn on
stone by J. C. Bourne, under the
superintendence of Owen B. Carter,
Architect.
London: Tilt and Bogue, 1840 [18474] £6750
Folio. Publisher’s dark blue quarter roan, blue moiré cloth
sides, front cover and spine lettered in gilt. Lithographed title
and 30 lithographed views on 29 sheets, lithographed in one
tint and later coloured by hand. A little wear to spine, some
minor foxing, two plates with slight marginal soiling, overall
a good copy.
FIRST EDITION. Robert Hay is a significant figure in early
Egyptian archaeology, but it is for this work he is best
remembered. Finding his team of accompanying artists in
Cairo with time on their hands, he published their sketches
of picturesque Islamic street scenes, which predate the
better-known images by David Roberts.
49. HOLT, Henry P.
The Mounted Police of Natal. With
an Introduction by Major-General
Sir J.G. Hartnell, K.C.B., Founder of
the Corps.
London, John Murray, 1913 [39109] £350
8vo. Original red cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece
of Hartnell and 23 other plates. Endpapers browned, the free
endpapers particularly so, some foxing, but overall a better
than usual copy, the spine a little sunned.
FIRST EDITION. Uncommon, includes sections on the Zulu
War – Isandlhlwana & Rorke’s Drift – Boer Wars and the
Bambata Rebellion. “The story includes numerous eyewitness
accounts. A readable general history” (Perkins).
Perkins p. 358.
50. HOSKINS, George
Alexander.
A Winter in Upper and Lower
Egypt.
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1863 [37178] £375
8vo. Contemporary half red sheep on marbled boards, spine
gilt in compartments, green and black labels, marbled edges.
Coloured frontispiece lithography by Vincent Brooks, steel
engraved title page vignette. Prelims. quite heavily foxed,
the rest of the text sporadically and lightly, top edge dusty,
slight damp bloom on the chestnut surface-paper endpapers,
but overall a very nice copy in a pleasingly unpretentious
contemporary provincial binding for Thomas, Bookseller of
Newtown, ticket to the front pastedown, a little rubbed, but
remaining attractive.
FIRST EDITION. Hoskins originally travelled through Egypt
and Nubia in 1832–3 sketching the archaeological sites.
When he returned in 1860–61 “health was my object,
trusting that the fine climate of the Nile might be more
efficacious than that of Italy or Spain.” Sadly it seems that
his trust in the Egyptian weather was misplaced: he died a
year after publication of this work.
51. KOTZEBUE, Moritz von.
Catalogue 57: Travel Section 2: Africa and the Middle East to Persia
Narrative of a Journey into Persia,
in the Suite of the Imperial Russian
Embassy, in the Year 1817.
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1819 [39053]
£950
8vo (215 × 135 mm). Recent half calf on marbled boards, spine
gilt in compartments, red morocco label. Uncoloured aquatint
frontispiece “with a basis in line and stipple” (Abbey) and 4
uncoloured aquatint plates. Embossed library stamp to the title
page only, mild browning, else a very good, clean copy.
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Kotzebue, son of the
playwright August von Kotzebue and a captain on the
staff of the Russian army, travelled to Persia in 1817 as
part of a Russian embassy to the encampment of Fatih
Ali Shah. On its publication by his father this journal was
extremely well received, being read with “keen interest”
by Goethe who had recently published his Orientalist
West-östlicher Divan.
Abbey Travel 390.
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