23rd Aug, 2024 10:30 GMT/BST
Books, Maps & Manuscripts
116
Bell (John).
Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia …. Containing, A Journey to Ispahan in Persia in the years 1715, 1716, 1717 and 1718. Part of a Journey to Pekin in China, through Siberia in the years 1719, 1720 and 1721. With a Map of the Author’s two routes between Mosco and Pekin. The Continuation of the Journey between Mosco and Pekin …. A Journey from Mosco to Derbent in Persia in the year 1722. A Journey from St. Petersburg to Constantinople in the years 1737 and 1738.
Glasgow: printed for the author by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1763, two small quarto volumes, [2], xvii, 357, [3]; [2], 426, [2] pages, folding map, preliminaries of volume 1 bound out of sequence, marginal annotation to pages 46 & 58 of vol. 2, reference numbers to verso of titles. A little foxing in places but contents generally VG. Contemporary calf (re-backed, wear to boards, particularly the edges), small Henry Blackmer bookplates loosely inserted.
Sold for £400
Estimated at £200 - £400
Auction: Books, Maps & Manuscripts, 23rd Aug, 2024
The Summer Book Sale includes a wide range of interesting books, maps, photographs and manuscripts. In the modern books there are first editions by J.R.R. Tolkien and Mervyn Peake, signed works by Evelyn Waugh, Siegfried Sassoon, John le Carre and others as well as a good collection of deluxe Folio Society works. Earlier books include a small collection of finely bound works published by Didot of Paris, early Law books, a seventeeth century cookery book, a sixteenth century book on Crucifixion by Lipsius, and a very early sixteenth century book using italics which caused controvery at the time.
A good collection of early travel books is complemented by an interesting album of photographs of British Central Africa as well as a small selection of early maps, including a scarce folding map of Tasmania. A typescript personal account of the British Economic Mission to the Far East in 1930 provides a surprisingly interesting read.
For the Royalists, there are signed photographs of Queen Victoria and Albert, Prince of Wales and three Christmas cards signed by H.M. the Queen Mother. The sale concludes with a section of books on Natural History, Science and Theology which includes three early editions of Darwin's Origin of Species and a ground breaking work on the human brain by Marie Antionette's physician Vicq D'Azyr, illustrated with hand-coloured aquatints.
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