Lot
284
Lot 284
Travel – Anon, A Comparative Sketch of England and Italy […]...
Hammer
£95
Travel – Anon, A Comparative Sketch of England and Italy […], two-volume set, first edition, London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, [n.d., 1793], ex-lib cloth and neat stamps, Eric Stanley’s bookplates, 8vo, (2); Bishops Burnet’s Travels […], Edinburgh: Sands, Murray, Cochran, 1752, contemporary calf (disbound), 8vo, (1); Mant (The Rev. F.W., Late Royal Navy), The Midshipman: or, Twelve Years at Sea, first edition, London: G. Routledge & Co., 1854, contemporary green quarter-calf over marbled boards, contemporaneous book label: Honble. B.N.O. de Grey, 8vo, (1); further contemporaneous sea voyage and shipwreck interest, (2); Hebert (Lady), Impressions of Spain in 1866, with Fifteen Illustrations, first edition, London: Richard Bentley, 1867, well-rebacked original publisher’s cloth, gilt pictorial 8vo, (1); Carlisle (The Earl of), Diary in Turkish and Greek Waters, fourth edition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1854, original publisher’s cloth, Plain Armorial bookplate and ink MS ownership inscription of: Francis Markham, 8vo, (1); Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta […], two-volume set, London: Jonathan Cape, 1943, d/j over cloth boards, 4to, (2); Prichard’s Through the Heart of Patagonia, London: Heinemann, 1902, ex-lib, 4to, (1); St Kilda, 1858, cloth, 4to, (1); Baedeker’s Switzerland, 1897, original red cloth, 8vo, (1); Montague’s Modern and Universal Gazetteer […], London: Printed for J. Wallis […], 1800, illustrated with fold-out engraved maps, contemporary 8vo, (1); another contemporary geographical gazetteer, Modern Geography, defective, fold-out and full-page maps and plates, 20th century three-quarter calf over marbled boards, 8vo, (1); 18th century and leather and part-leather bound travel narratives, including harlequin volumes of Heber, Lady Mary Worley Montagu, etc; later 19th and 20th century travel journeys, including Rebecca West, America, Tibet; etc., [approx. 50]
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