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C E N T R A L A S I A 1 – 3 1C H I N A & S O U T H - E A S T A S I A 32 – 5 0I N D I A & A F G H A N I S TA N 51 – 9 6J A PA N 9 7 – 112T H E M I D D L E E A S T 113 – 132

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C E N T R A L A S I AHighly detailed and copiously illustrated survey of the

Bakuvian oil industry

1 (AZERBAIJAN.) Обзор бакинскои нефтианои промыш-ленности за два года натсионализатсии, 1920–1922 (A survey of the oil industry in Baku in the first two years of nationalization). Petrograd: State Trust Petropechat 15th Press, 1922Folio (332 × 228 mm). Recent dark reddish brown half morocco, marbled boards, title gilt direct to the spine, original grey card wrappers bound in. With 20 plates (4 colour), 20 full-page graphs and tables, folding map. Wrappers soiled and rubbed, considerable skilful marginal restoration to both, no loss of text, some marginal soiling of the book block front and back, variable browning throughout.

first and only edition, 3,000 copies printed; uncommon, just seven locations on OCLC. With the collapse of the Russian Empire the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic had an independ-ent existence for two years, 1918–20, before the Soviet Union invaded, driven by the need for the region’s oil. The Soviets es-tablished Azneft as the state agency controlling all aspects of the industry in Azerbaijan. This is the first publication recording its activities. In presentation it is very similar to the pre-Revolution-ary business publications of the Nobel family, as opposed to the propaganda of later Soviet productions. Densely packed with in-formation, it is an economical and technological account rather

than an ideological celebration. From the library of the Russian émigré economist Pavel [Paul] Apostol, author, with Alexander Michelson, of La Lutte pour le petrole et la Russie (Paris, 1922), with his ink-stamp to title page.

£7,500 [124000]

2 (AZERBAIJAN: BAKU OIL FIELDS.) [Title on front cover:] Presented to dear comrade Katayama, Leader of the Japanese Proletariate [sic], member of the executive comittee [sic] of the Comintern, by the Workmen and Employees of the Aznepht, Baku. Baku, Azerbaijan: Azneft, 4 September, 1923Landscape folio album (277 × 400 mm). Original red morocco-grained cloth, title (as above) gilt lettered in Russian and English on front board, sepia endpapers with a repeated fern design. 48 original mounted photo-graphs (13 measuring 170 × 225 mm, the remainder smaller, various sizes) mounted on 21 leaves of grey heavy card-stock, linen-hinged, many with detailed captions in the emulsion. A little wear to extremities, some pale stains and abrasions to covers, overall in very good condition.

Superb and highly engaging presentation album celebrating the anniversary of the inauguration of the “Bay of Ilyich” oil field at Bibiheybat and commemorating the visit to the Azerbaijani oil-fields of one of the leading figures of the communist world in the 1920s, Sen Katayama (1859–1933). This unique volume opens with a view of the Azneft headquar-ters on Sadovaya Street (now Niyazi Street), formerly the “pal-ace” of Seyid Mirbabayev, one of the founders of the Azerbaijani oil industry. This is followed by 14 atmospheric views of the oil fields at Bibiheybat, 9.5 miles south of Baku, showing the exten-sion of the shoreline into the Caspian by “dirt fill”, during a So-viet program to expand the oilfields and increase production; 13 showing derricks, pipelines, trains, ships, and drilling, including the construction of a drilling rig in the bay (19 July 1923) and a diesel engine on Azneft’s narrow-gauge railway near Bibiheybat

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(10 August 1923). The album closes with a fine sequence of 19 photographs of workers gathering for the anniversary rally and speakers addressing the crowd—there are several shots of the new deputy director of the Azerbaijan petroleum industry, M. V. Barinov, addressing the crowd and then having his message conveyed by an Azerbaijani interpreter. Katayama himself can be seen addressing the rally. This section includes some superb shots taken right in amongst the crowd, reminiscent of the work of the great Soviet film director Sergei Eisenstein: banners bear-ing Soviet proclamations fly in the wind, workers look up at the stand where speeches are being delivered and a framed picture of Lenin displayed to the assembly. Finally, there is a fine portrait of Sen Katayama, seated, holding a cap, walking stick and hammer, whose funeral in Moscow and burial at the Kremlin was attended by 150,000 people. A wonderful record of the dramatic development of oil produc-tion under the Soviets during the 1920s, including some extraor-dinary cinematic photographs that have a wonderful sense of immediacy.

£14,500 [120938]

3 (AZERBAIJAN; DAGESTAN.) BEREZIN, Ilya Nikolaevich. Путешествие по Дагестану и Закавказю (Travel to Dagestan and the Transcaucasia); Путешествие по Востоку I (Travel to the East Vol. I, this complete in itself ). Kazan: University Press, 1849

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Octavo (209 × 134 mm). Contemporary brown sheep, marbled boards. 4 maps and plans (2 folding), 4 plates (2 folding), folding double-sided ta-ble. Worn, joints cracked, extremities of spine chipped, corners stripped, paper press labels to spine and front board, accession numbers inked to title page, tan-burn to corners of endpapers and first few leaves, variable browning throughout, about very good.

first edition of one of the earliest first-hand descriptions of Azerbaijan in the modern era; extremely uncommon Russian im-print, just two copies traced on OCLC (Leiden and Warsaw Univer-sities). Historically important, well-written, and highly engaging account of travels through Dagestan and the territory of modern Azerbaijan by Ilya Berezin (1818–1896), a noted Russian Orien-talist, Turkologist, later professor at the universities of Kazan (1846–55) and Saint Petersburg. Shortly after graduating from the Oriental faculty at Kazan with a master’s degree in Eastern Philol-ogy Berezin was sent on an extensive scientific expedition to cov-er the Caucasus, Persia, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Turkey, which lasted for over three years, 1842–5. The main reason for the trip was in fact the purchase of a collection of Arabic manuscripts for Kazan University in Baku, a description of the collection being included here. A second volume of Berezin’s travels was published in 1852 covering the latter part of his expedition.The book contains a detailed narrative of the first part of his jour-ney through the southern provinces of the Russian Empire: Dag-estan and Transcaucasia (modern Azerbaijan). Berezin travelled from Astrakhan to Tarki (now a suburb of Makhachkala), and from there to Derbent (Dagestan), Quba, Baku, Salyan, Lankaran and Astara (Transcaucasia/Azerbaijan). He gives a valuable over-view of the history and geography of the region; a précis of Rus-sian expeditions to the Caspian; notes about the Caucasian War (1817–1864) and the rebel forces of Imam Shamil; a discussion of Muslim antiquities and architecture, regional ethnography, trades and industries, manners and customs, language, food; there are separate chapters entirely dedicated to Derbent and Baku. The il-lustrations include a plan and views in Derbent, a plan of the Pal-ace of the Shirvanshahs in Baku and a map of the mouths of the Kura River and Ghizil-Agaj Bay on the Caspian Sea. There are sep-arate chapters on Baku and on Quba and its surroundings. There are also chapters on Salyan, now a regional capital and centre for the Azerbaijanii caviar industry, and Lankaran, an area frequently contested between Russia and Persia in the previous century.

£4,500 [121874]

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4 BICHURIN, Iakinf. Описаниые чжунгарии и восточнаго туркистана, в’древнем’ и ниншем состоянии. Переведено с’китаыскаго . . . (Description of Djungaria and Eastern Turkestan ancient and modern. Translated from the Chinese). St Petersburg: Karl Kray, 18292 volumes bound as one, octavo (213 × 126 mm). Modern quarter calf to style, brown marbled boards, red morocco label, compartments formed by rope-twist rolls containing scrolled devices in blind, speckled edges. With 4 hand-coloured lithograph costume plates. Small private library stamp removed from title page of first volume. A very good copy.

first edition, rare, of this pioneering description of Central Asia by one of the founders of Russian sinology, Iakinf Bichurin (1777–1853); it gathers three Chinese texts in their first European translation. The region covered corresponds to northwest China and Central Asia, comprising East Turkestan and Dzungaria, the latter bounded by the Tan Shan mountain range to the south and the Altai Mountains to the north. No copy traced and it appears to have eluded the great French sinologist Henri Cordier.

The Chinese sources cover the history and contemporary con-dition of the so-called “Western Lands”, corresponding to mod-ern Xinjiang or Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. Iakinf ’s 16-page preface is followed by an alphabetic index of ancient geographical names clarifying their location at the time. A ta-ble of distances between military stations in Chinese Turkestan precedes the main text and is supplemented with extracts from various government regulations and statutes regarding the re-gion (the settlement of Chinese exiles and criminals, duties and customs, possessions of the Turkestan princes, etc.) and genea-logical lists of the princes and rulers of the lands in Eastern Turk-estan. The attractive colour plates depict a Kalmyk warrior and his wife, an inhabitant of the area near Bukhara (a falconer with hooded bird on his arm), and a Turkestan girl.Nikita Yakovievich Bichurin (1777–1853), better known by his monastic name of Iakinf or Hyacinth, was the first Russian si-nologist, and the leading authority on Asia of his day. Originally a tonsured monk, he was named head of the Russian Orthodox Mission to Peking in 1807. He soon became aware of the serious dearth of knowledge about the region which was hindering mis-sionary efforts, and so began an intensive programme of study in Chinese languages and culture. Bichurin immersed himself in the translation of Chinese classics, the compilation of dic-tionaries of regional languages and dialects, and wide-ranging surveys of Chinese history, religion and geography, including the first detailed descriptions of Beijing; he also created an ethno-graphic record covering folk customs, regional dress, and popu-lar religious practices. He travelled extensively visiting Mongolia and Tibet, famously being the first European to produce a view of Lhasa. His published studies including Notes about Mongolia, A Description of Tibet, and a History of Tibet and Tsinghai. In 1821, after 14 years in China, Iakinf returned to Russia, where his concentra-tion on geographical studies led to questions concerning his re-ligious motivation. He was stripped of his title of archmandrite, and sent into exile at Valaam Monastery in Karelia, the farthest north outpost of the Orthodox Church, for four years. After his release from the monastery, in 1826, Iakinf became a translator for the Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He continued his studies of China, being instrumental in the estab-lishment of a Chinese language school in Kyakhta near the Mon-golia-Russia border, and made two trips to Siberia in 1830–1 and 1835–7. His work as a sinologist was recognised with membership of the Academies of Science of Russia, Germany, and France.Not in Cordier.

£7,500 [121603]

5 BICHURIN, Iakinf. Собрание сведени о народах, обитавших в Среднеы Азии в древние времена (Collection of Information on the Peoples that inhabited Central Asia in Ancient Times). St Petersburg: Tipografiya Voenno-uchebnykh zavedeniy, 18513 volumes, geographical index bound in 2 volumes, octavo (218 × 145 mm). Recent black half morocco and marbled boards to style, title gilt direct to the spine. Large folding regional map at rear (“Map for the His-tory of Nations that inhabited Central Asia in Ancient Times”), 670 × 1480 mm. Light browning, some marginal dampstaining, map with a number of splits on the folds, professional repairs verso, but overall very good.

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first edition, considered the first scientific attempt at an an-cient history of Central Asia. This was Bichurin’s last work, bring-ing together data collected over the previous three decades. Inev-itably it is mostly based on Chinese materials, but, as Bichurin states in the preface, he wanted to show the ethnic history of the whole region of Central Asia, which he defined as beginning at the Aral Sea, thus covering the ethnic groups that lived north of China to include Turkestan, Mongolia and Manchuria, together with Khiva, Bukhara, Kokand, and parts of Kazakh steppe. Con-spicuously uncommon, OCLC records a copy at SOAS only.

£10,000 [119926]

6 DMITRIEV-MAMONOV, Aleksandr Ippolitovich. Путеводител по Туркестану И средне-Азиатскоы железноы дороге (The Guide to Turkestan and the Central Asian Railway). St Petersburg: Isidor Goldberg, 1903Octavo (240 × 165 mm). Contemporary skiver-backed marbled boards with cloth tips, title gilt directly to the spine, front endpapers renewed. Photogravure portrait frontispiece of the tsar, large folding coloured map at the rear, numerous illustrations from photographs to the text. Skil-ful external restoration, front joint neatly repaired, corners consolidat-ed, head- and tail caps stiffened, some splits on the folds of the map, pre-Revolutionary institutional stamps just once to the text at the intro-duction, and to the margin of the map, marginal pale toning to the book block, overall very good.

first edition of this extremely popular regional guide which ran to ten editions by 1916. Surprisingly uncommon, particularly when complete with the superb folding map and the portrait of the tsar; OCLC locates just six copies of this first and a scatter of later editions. This official guide was commissioned by the Mili-tary Ministry and the Ministry of Railways and compiled by Dmi-triev-Mamonov, who also prepared the better known, and more frequently encountered, guide of the Trans-Siberian railway. The book contains a comprehensive survey of the history of the re-

gion, detailed advice for the European traveller, together with, inevitably, the railway schedules, superbly illustrated throughout from photographs.

£4,500 [123049]

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7 GALKIN-VRASKOY, Mikhail Nikolayevich. Етнографи-ческиые и Статистическиые Материалы по Среднеы Азии и Оренбургскому Краю (Ethnographical and Sta-tistical Materials on Central Asia and Orenburg Region). St Petersburg: A.Y. Isakov, 1868Octavo (210 × 142 mm). Contemporary Russian brown half sheep, black pebble-grained paper boards; spine with blind stamped title. Wood-cut-engraved title page vignette, 12 single-tint lithographed plates and 2 folding plans, large folding lithographed map at rear, outlined in colour. Overall a little rubbed, some judicious restoration to the spine and cor-ners, bottom corner of the title page torn, no loss of text, and skilfully restored, light browning throughout, remains a very good copy.

second enlarged and illustrated edition, published just a year after the first which was an unillustrated offprint from the Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society on the Department of Ethnography, issued in a run of just 250 copies. Uncommon: just five copies located on OCLC. The book is based on Galkin-Vras-koy’s (1832–1916) travels across Central Asia in the service of the Orenburg and Samara General-Governorship in 1858–9. In the summer and autumn of 1858 he was a part of Nikolay Pav-lovich Ignatyev’s (1832–1908) diplomatic mission to the Khanate of Khiva and the Emirate of Bukhara; the following summer he accompanied Colonel Viktor Dandeville’s (1826–1907) expedition to the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. Ignatyev’s mission aimed to map the Amu Darya River, obtain free navigation for Russian ships, and sign treaties of amity with Khiva and Bukhara—in the event, only that with Bukhara was ratified. This diplomatic mission’s mixed fortunes focussed the Russian government on the use of force to establish their influence in the region, leading

to a number of military campaigns in the 1860s. Dandeville’s ex-pedition gathered detailed information about Krasnovodsk Bay which was to become the bridgehead for Russian expansion into Transcaspia (modern Turkmenistan). The book includes the following sections: “About the Turkmens of the Eastern Shore of the Caspian Sea”, an essay which was awarded a silver medal of the Russian Geographical Society; “Journal of the Expedition sent to Survey of the Eastern Shore of the Caspian Sea in 1859”; “Overview of Russian-Khivan Re-lations”; “Excerpts from the Daybook of the 1858 Expedition from Orenburg to Khiva via the Kazakhstan Steppes and Amu Darya River”; “Concerning the Historical Rights of Russia on the Cities of Tashkent and Turkestan”; “Intelligence on Merv and Shegri-Syabz—based on a Debriefing”; “A Few Words on Sa-markand”; “About the Military Forces of the Emir of Bukhara”; “The Testimonies of the Russian Slaves returned from Bukhara in 1858–59”; “Testimonies of the Afghanis and Turkmens who ac-companied English Travellers Abbott and Shakespeare from Her-at to Khiva and thence to the Caspian Sea in 1840”; “Travel diary of a Translator, Turpayev the Armenian, sent from the Fort at No-vo-Alexandrovsky [now in Kazakhstan] to Khiva in 1834”; “An Ex-cerpt from the Moscow Senate Archive concerning the Dispatch of Prince Bekovich-Cherkassky of the Lifeguard Preobrazhensky Regiment to the Caspian Sea and Khiva in 1714–1717”; “About the Caravan Route from Mangyshlak to Khiva”; “Several Routes though our Kirghizian steppes to Central Asia, and between Bukhara, Kokand, Shegri-Syabz, Chardjui, Tashkent, et al.”; “Notes about the Settlement Locations of the Kirghizian Tribes of the Orenburg Region”.The 12 plates relating to the 1859 Caspian Sea expedition offer views of Fort Alexandrovsky, Kuva-dag valley, a camp in the Kras-novodsk Gulf, Ashuradeh Island, Gomishan (Gumish Tepe) vil-lage, the ruins of Shah-Abbas’s palace near Astrabad (Gongar), Baku city, Khiva and the Khan’s estate in the country near the city; together with portraits of a Turkmenian chief, and Salikh Khan; and plans of the Aktepe and Chikishlyar villages, where the Russian flotilla was attacked by the Turkmens on 18–19 Au-gust 1859. The large detailed map shows the territories of Central Asian states with the bordering parts of Russia. Galkin-Vraskoy’s subsequent career as statesman and administrator of Russian penitentiary system encompassed the governorships of Estonia (1868–1870) and Saratov province (1870–79). He then served as Chief Administrator of Prisons from 1879 and held membership of the State Council from 1896.

£7,500 [117848]

8 GLINKA, Grigoriy Vyacheslavovich. Азиатская Россия (Asiatic Russia). St Petersburg: Emigration Administration, Ministry of Land and Agriculture, 19143 quarto text volumes (290 × 223 mm) and one folio atlas (530 × 410 mm). Original black morocco-backed green cloth, bevelled edges, title gilt to spines, title and embossed Imperial eagle to the front boards, edges mar-bled, endpapers decorated with state crests and Imperial eagles. Origi-nal wrappers bound in, the front wrappers of the atlas volume with gilt and silver decoration. Volume I with 11 tissue guarded portraits and 77 other plates, 3 of them double-page, 15 coloured maps and diagrams on card-stock, one double-page, and an extensive folding collotype panora-ma of Vladivostok, numerous illustrations to the text; volume II with 62 plates, one of them double-page and one coloured, 3 tissue guarded por-

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traits, and 15 maps and diagrams on card, 2 of the maps coloured, 2 dou-ble-page, otherwise profusely illustrated from photographs in the text, some illustrations full-page; atlas with 72 maps and plates, the majority coloured and double-page, one folding, includes the postal and telegraph map 58a, which is not called for in the contents, fine chromolithograph-ic plate, with gold and silver, of regional coats of arms, captioned tissue guards, many plates with explanatory text verso. Some external resto-ration to all, spines professionally stabilised and recoloured; in the text volumes a few gatherings and single leaves skilfully reattached, marginal repairs to a number of leaves, a few trimmed, but overall very good.

first edition of this essential historic survey of Asiatic Russia. Sumptuously—if somewhat precariously—produced and copious-ly illustrated, it covers present day Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajik-istan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Siberia and is thought by many one of the most ambitious works of its type for the time. The Atlas is considered “one of the finest achievements of pre-revolu-tionary Russian cartography” (National Library of Russia, Cartog-raphy Department on-line catalogue). The book reflects the signif-icant advances made in the colonisation and exploitation of Sibe-ria, Russian Central Asia and the Far East following the construc-tion of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the 1890s, and the agrarian reforms begun by Witte and advanced by Stolypin. It was a period during which Russia became one of the world’s largest agricultural exporters, a growth in economic opportunity which encouraged mass migration from European Russia to the East, which was con-trolled by the newly formed Emigration, or Resettlement, Admin-istration. The director of the administration, Grigoriy Glinka, was the instigator and chief editor of the present work, and encouraged the contributions of prominent Russian authorities such as the ge-ographer and agroclimatologist Aleksandr Ivanovich Voeikov and the historical geographer S. M. Seredonin; the illustrations were chosen by the eminent archaeologist and art historian Prof. Adri-an Prakhov; and the maps selected by Mikhail Alekseevich Tset-kov, cartographer and specialist in historical geography who was the chief editor of the atlas volume. The first volume—Peoples and their Territories—contains articles on regional history and ethnog-raphy, including accounts of the Chukchis, Kamchadals, Eskimos, Mongols, Aleuts, Khivans, Bokharans, Cossacks and Old Believ-ers and their customs and economy, together with descriptions of the major cities and trading centres, and their administrative, legal, educational and medical systems. The second volume—Land and Economy—is dedicated to the geography, industry, agriculture and transport systems of Asiatic Russia. The atlas contains an introductory historical essay on the cartography of the region by Leo Bagrow, who went on to found Imago Mundi in 1935, and a

spectacular collection of maps representing all of the regions and provinces of Asiatic Russia, together with plans of 14 of the major cities, and diagrams schematising statistical data about the popu-lation density, climate, soil quality, and trade of the region. The combination of wire-stitching and printing throughout on coated paper often causes the bindings of the text volumes to fail, while the overall size and the quality of the maps militates against the survival of the atlas. The present set has benefited from judicious restoration and repair. An extremely handsome work, encyclopaedic in its scope.

£20,000 [120778]

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Important collection of papers on the early history of Kazakhstan

9 GRIGORYEV, Vasily Vasilyevich. Россия и Азия: Сборник Исследованиы и Статеы по Истории, Етнографии и Географии, Написанныкх в Разноые Время . . . (Russia and Asia: Collection of Works and Articles on History, Ethnography and Geography, written at Various Times). St Petersburg: Panteleyev Bros. 1876Octavo (238 × 148 mm). Elegant recent tan half morocco to style, marbled boards, raised bands, title gilt direct to spine, gilt devises to the com-partments, single gilt rule to spine and corners, edges lightly sprinkled red. First and last few leaves browned, book block otherwise lightly toned with a scatter of pale marginal foxing, overall very good.

first and only edition. A very scarce collection of ten articles by leading Russian Orientalist and Central Asia specialist Vasily Grigoryev (1816–1881); OCLC locates a single copy, at the Univer-sity of Aberdeen. The compilation includes much material on the early history of Kazakhstan, one of Grigoryev’s key research in-terests being the Khazars and the Golden Horde, interpreted as predecessors to the Kazakhs. He refers to the Horde as “the rulers of Russia’” and their capital Sarai as a “great and prosperous city”, calling for contemporary historians to focus more on this era of Russian history. These articles were initially published 1834–52 in various Russian journals, and gathered here specially for the Third

International Congress of Orientalists which took place in St Pe-tersburg in the autumn of 1876, at which Grigoryev presided. In 1853 Grigoryev “marched out with the Russian troops under General Perovskiy to Ak-Mosque [Tashkent, also known as the White Mosque]. For participation in this military expedition Grigoryev was promoted . . . [and] took the post of the chairman of the Orenburg boundary commission . . . More often than not Grigoryev applied tough measures, forcing the proud and wilful steppe peoples to submit and obey. Although a civilian officer, he was inclined to use even more severe measures than the military commanders. As he himself wrote, ‘The Kirghiz steppe thrills me with horror: I put sultans under arrest, remove them from their posts, catch villains, but, alas, much to my regret, I am not au-thorised to have them hanged’ . . . Needless to say, Grigoryev’s activities lay not exclusively in repressions, he was also respon-sible for health care, education, tried to end the abuse of power by local authorities . . . [and] opened the first scientific library in Orenburg . . . he was the first to introduce the Kyrghyz (Kazakh) language into the sphere of business communication instead of the Tatar language used before” (p. 7).

£3,750 [121738]

10 KARAZIN, Nikolai Nikolaevich. От Оренбурга до Ташкента (From Orenburg to Tashkent: N. N. Karazin’s Travel Notes). St Petersburg: G. Goppe, 1886Folio (415 × 300 mm). Text in two unstitched gatherings of 8 leaves, and 7 half-tone plates loose in the original cloth-hinged portfolio with typo-graphic title in red and black laid down on the front panel, cloth retaining loops at the fore-corners intact. 22 small line-drawn illustrations to the text, and 7 tinted plates, composites of vignetted sketches printed by in halftone by the leading contemporary exponents in the technique Anger-er & Goschl of Vienna. The portfolio somewhat worn and browned, folds professionally repaired, text lightly browned, and with minor creasing at the corners, but overall very good.

first and only edition, issued as a special supplement to Vsemirnaja illjustraeija (World Illustrated) in 1886. Uncommon, just four copies noted by OCLC: universities of Arizona and Illinois, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. The prominent Russian soldier, artist, traveller, and author Nikolai Karazin (1842–1908), together with Vasily Vereshchagin, became known for the documentation of the Russian conquest of Central Asia. The scion of a well-connected family of Russian Enlighten-ment intellectuals, his grandfather was the founder of Kharkov University. Karazin graduated from the Moscow Cadet Academy in 1862, spending the years 1865–7 at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg. In 1864 he participated in the suppression of the January Uprising in Poland, and from 1867 to 1872 he accompa-nied von Kaufman’s campaigns in Central Asia, the conquest of Bokhara, and the occupation of Khiva, for which he was award-ed with the Order of St Vladimir and a gold sword. Having retired from military service, in 1874 he accompanied the Russian Geo-graphical Society’s expedition to the Amu Darya River, and subse-quently followed the progress of the Russo-Turkish War, 1877–8, with the Russian and Serbian armies as an artist-correspondent. In later life he also made trips to India and Egypt, and across Eu-rope. Karazin enjoyed great popularity as a writer and illustrator of short stories and novels, his most popular work being a story for

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children entitled “Cranes Flying South” telling the tale of a bird’s migration from the Ostashkov swamps to the Upper Nile, which drew on his experiences in exotic locations. The present work,

with its cleverly-worked collaged plates of life on the steppe, covers Karazin’s experiences across Central Asia including present-day Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. A highly attractive and unusual piece.

£4,500 [109398]

11 (KAZAKHSTAN.) FON-GERN, Vladimir. Поездка на реку Чу к ее устиу через безводную постыниу Бедпак-Дала (A Journey to the Mouth of the Chu River through the Waterless Desert of Bedpak-Dala). Omsk: The Press of the Regional Staff, 1887Octavo, 24 pages. Wrappers renewed with the title panel and decorative border from the original retained. Large folding lithographic map at the rear. Wrappers carefully restored, light browning of the text and some chipping in the margins, no loss of text, a few short splits to the folds of the map, archival tissue repairs verso, but overall very good.

first and only edition. An extremely uncommon regional im-print—Omsk was the capital of the vast Steppes Region, today the northern part of Kazakhstan—reprinting an article from the jour-nal of the West Siberian Department of the Imperial Russian Geo-graphical Society regarding an expedition undertaken by Vladimir Karl fon-Gern. General Karl Gern, fon-Gern’s father, was pres-ident of the Orenburg Border Commission during the Kenesary Kasymov Rebellion (1837–47)—”the greatest challenge to Russian authority, and the most important event in Kazakh history in the nineteenth century” (Malikov, “The Kenesary Karymov Rebellion” in Nationalities Papers, Volume 33, 4, 2005, p. 569)—and later found fame as one of the earliest explorers of Kazakhstan. fon-Gern’s expedition was significant as the first scientific exploration of the Bedpak-Dala, the largest desert in Kazakhstan, an isolated and in-hospitable area, almost entirely uninhabited to this day. The highly detailed map covers the area from Astana [Akmola] in the north and east, the Sarysu river in the west, and the Chu in the south.

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The most valuable achievement of pre-revolutionary Central Asian studies

12 KHANYKOV, Nikolay Vladimirovich. Описание Букхар-ского Кханства (Description of the Khanate of Bukhara). St Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1843Octavo (222 × 148 mm). Later 19th-century Russian brown quarter sheep, marbled boards with cloth tips, title gilt directly to the spine, edges sprinkled blue, linen hinges, pre–1917 paper label of the library of the Orenburg military district to the front pastedown. Lithographic portrait and 2 folding lithographic maps at rear, a regional map and a city plan of Bukhara. A little rubbed at the extremities, pale toning to the book block, some neat professional repairs verso to minor splits to the folds of the maps, but overall a very good clean copy.

first and only edition, uncommon, just nine locations re-corded on OCLC. A classic of the literature of the Great Game, essentially an intelligence report towards Russia’s strategic am-bitions in present day Uzbekistan, it is considered the first at-tempt at a scientific description of the Khanate of Bukhara. The author was the noted Russian orientalist, historian and diplomat Nikolay Khanykov (1819–1878) and the report is based on his ex-periences during Colonel Konstantin Butenev’s 1841–2 embassy to Bukhara. The mission was organised as a response to a request of the Bukhara’s Khan, Nasrullah, for the dispatch of a geological officer “for the investigation of local ores and location of met-als and precious stones”. While the embassy was in Bukhara, Butenev negotiated for the release of British intelligence officers Arthur Conolly and Charles Stoddart who had been detained there. Despite making contact with Stoddart, and obtaining some detail from him of both his reconnaissance of the region and the conditions of the prisoners’ captivity, Butenev failed to

obtain the British officers’ freedom, and they were murdered soon after the Russian delegation left Bukhara.The book offers a detailed survey of the khanate, the last chapter giving a biographical overview of the life and struggle for power of Nasrullah Khan, the fifth Emir of Bukhara (r. 1827–1860), includ-ing his portrait by Lev Alexandrovich Belousov (1806–1864), art-ist and lithographer, a graduate of the Imperial Academy of Arts. The volume concludes with a supplementary alphabetical index of place names in Russian and Arabic. The lithographed map shows the then current borders of the Khanate of Bukhara and its immediate neighbours, and the meticulous plan of Bukhara accurately locates over 80 key buildings and other structures, in itself a remarkable document of the city in the early mid-centu-ry. Widely considered to be “the most valuable achievement in pre-Revolutionary Central Asian studies before the annexation of the region by Russia . . . Khanykov, who stayed in Bukhara for eight months in 1841–2 as a member of a Russian mission, ob-served the city of Bukhara for the purpose of ‘systematic descrip-tion’. He left valuable records, which are brief and to the point, of Bukhara’s city gates, its area, graveyards, fountains, ark (cita-del), jails, mosques, madrasas (including the number of rooms and students and the value of scholarships), caravanserais (includ-ing charges), public baths, tim (arcades of shops), the structure of houses, the permanent bazaar, suburban weekly fairs, feasts (festivals), mausolea, population (estimated as 60,000–70,000), trade with neighbouring countries and cities (Russia, Khiva, Mashhad, Kabul, Khokand, Kashgar, Yarkand), prices of goods, the machinery of governments, the ulama, the isan (Sufi spiritual

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masters), and the academic situation . . . Though the descriptions of Samarkand and Karshi are superficial, Khanykov’s record of nineteenth-century Bukhara is meticulous and well deserves the praise accorded it by later scholars such as V. V. Bartol’d and O. A. Sukhareva” (Henda & Miura (eds.), Islamic Urban Studies: Historical Review and Perspectives, p. 282).

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Military propaganda on the conquest of Bokhara

13 KOL’DEVIN, N. Битви русских с букхартсами в 1868 году И героискаиа оборона города Самарканда. Четире воыенния беседии с’нижними чинами (Wars between Russians and the Bokharans in 1868, and Heroic Defence of Samarkand. Four Conversations with the Lower Ranks). St Petersburg: Y. Shtaf, 1878Octavo. Original pale yellowish-green pictorial wrappers. Wrappers just a little rubbed and dusty, corners mildly dog-eared, pale toning to the text, very good.

second edition, first published 1873. Uncommon, OCLC with just two locations of the first (LoC and BL and none for this sec-ond which appears to be more substantial, expanded from 29 to 44 pages. An attractive propaganda piece recounting the story of the heroic Bokharan campaign for the troops. Following the Crimean War the Russian military had few major victories to cel-ebrate, so accounts of the Central Asian expeditions were vital

morale boosters. Inside the wrappers is a list of other “Educa-tional Tools for the Troops” by Kol’devin, described as being “for creative teaching commands and corps schools” and including volumes on basic arithmetic, spelling and letter-writing. The wonderful cover illustration depicts a military magic lantern lecture.

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14 KOSTENKO, Lev Feofilovich. Среднияя Азиа И водво-рение в неи русскоы гражданственности (Central Asia and the establishment of Russian rule). St Petersburg: Bezo-brazov, 1870Octavo (210 × 145 mm). Contemporary brown grained sheep, pale brown boards, title gitl direct to the spine. Large folding 1:4,200,000 map with outline colour at the rear. Slightly rubbed, the spine skilfully restored, light foxing and browning throughout, map browned and with some splits professionally repaired verso, overall very good.

first edition. Extremely uncommon, just four locations on OCLC. The first publication of Gen. Lev Feofilovich Kostenko (1841–1891) who was appointed as deputy director of the Turk-estan General Staff in Samarkand in 1867, just a year before Bokhara finally accepted protectorate status. He complied the present regional review from information gathered at that time. The contents include geographical, ethnographical, mineral-ogical and industrial surveys, a study of the development of the railway system, an outline of Russian policy, and a projection of prospects for the region in the immediate future. Kostenko was “a long-standing advocate of annexation . . . a leading proponent of Russia’s civilising mission in Asia” (Becker, Russia’s Protectorates in Central Asia: Bukhara and Khiva, 1865–1924, p. 149).

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15 NIKANOROV, Sergei M. La Peste et la Lutte contre elle dans les steppes du Sud-Est de la Russie. Saratov: Institut De Microbiologie et D’Epidemiologie du Sud-Est de la Russie, 1924Landscape octavo album (155 × 195 mm). Original grey printed wrappers, cord ties, 20 grey card leaves with original photographs laid in on both sides, art nouveau decorative borders, captions in Russian and French. 40 monochrome photographs. Wrappers a little rubbed and showing signs of handling. A very good copy.

Remarkable visual record documenting the Soviet efforts to com-bat plague on the Central Asian steppe; a highly scarce photo al-bum, OCLC showing only four locations (BL, Munich, Leipzig, and Hong Kong), produced under the auspices of Sergei Nikanor-ov, director of the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology of the South East (Mikrob) and the man charged with eradicating the plague in Kyrgyzstan and the steppe. Efforts began in earnest in 1923 and continued at high intensity through to 1925. In 1926 Nika-norov was awarded the Red Banner of Labour for his service.Compiled with a strong sense of narrative, the album includes sev-eral striking photos that give a vivid sense of place in telling the compelling story of Mikrob’s efforts. Alongside images of plague victims and mass graves, there is extensive documentation of pro-grammes of quarantine, treatment and education programmes. Michel, “Early Soviet Medicine and Plague in South-East European Rus-sia”, 2010.

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Pashino — a Russian secret agent in Tashkent

16 PASHINO, Petr Ivanovich. Туркестанскии краи в 1866 (Travel Notes, Turkestan 1866). St Petersburg: Tiblen, 1868Quarto (310 × 224 mm). Recent dark brown quarter calf, brown cloth boards with geometric pattern in gilt, title direct to spine, bands, com-partments with embossed fleur-de-lys pattern, edges sprinkled brown, gilt floral patterned endpapers. 20 tinted lithographic plates, 5 of them

two-tint, the remainder single-tint; wood-engraved title page vignette, and cleverly worked, illustrative wood-engraved historiated initials to each of the 17 chapters, with vignetted illustrations as tailpieces to all but the last; double-page three-colour regional map. Half-title and errata leaf bound in. Pre-1917 library ink stamps and inked accession notes to the title page, and three other pages, errata page with a small hole repaired with paper, minor ink stains on the top corners of several leaves at rear; some marginal fin-ger-soiling, but overall a very good copy with beautiful sound plates.

first and only edition of this highly desirable account of Tashkent, capital of Russian Turkestan and now of Uzbekistan, and its surrounding area at the time of the Russian annexation; decidedly uncommon, OCLC showing only nine locations world-wide, and just a single copy at auction in the last 50 years. On the establishment of the new Russian governor-generalship of Turkestan in 1866, Petr Ivanovich Pashino (1838–1891) was transferred from his posting as junior secretary to the embassy in Teheran, to Tashkent, the administrative centre, as “agent of the Minister of Foreign Affairs”. Pashino is described by Charles Marvin in the monitory chapter dedicated to him in Reconnoitring Central Asia as “Pashino, the Russian Secret Agent”, and he does indeed seem to have been some sort of minor operator within the

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complex machinations of the Great Game. On graduation from St Petersburg, he was sent to Kazan Imperial University, at the time one of Europe’s foremost centres for oriental studies, where “he spent several years in philological investigations”, and it was his wide-ranging knowledge of Asian languages that led to his being recruited by the Russian government in 1861. He travelled extensively across Asia, often passing himself off as a Muslim, claiming that going incognito had once saved his life in Afghani-stan, and it certainly helped him to obtain a remarkably intimate and detailed portrait of the lives of the peoples of this region, in both the cities and on the steppe, which continues to be drawn upon by historians and ethnographers to this day. The work also offers an excellent visual record. The majori-ty of the plates are of Tashkent, with views of madrassahs and mosques, street scenes, but also the courtyard of the home of Said Azim Muhammed Bai, a wealthy merchant who had been one of General Cherniaev’s leading supporters in the Russianiza-tion of the city after its conquest. Other localities include Khodz-ent, now Khujand in Tajikistan, and Turkestan and Chimikent, or Shymkent, both now in the South Kazakhstan Region of Kazakh-stan. Two of the plates are from photographs by Mikhail K. Prior-ov, which are probably among the very first photographic records made in Central Asia. The map is the first based on the accurate surveys made of the region following the Russian advance.

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17 PRZHEVALSKY, Nikolay Mikhailovich. От Киакхты на Истоки Желтои Реки, Исследование Севернои Окра-ины Тибета и Пут’ через Лоб-Нор по Бассеину Тарима. Четвертое Путешествие в Тсентралнои Азии (From Kyackta to the Sources of the Yellow River, Exploration of the Northern Frontier of Tibet and the Route through Lop

Nor along the basin of the Tarim. The Fourth Expedition in the Central Asia). St Petersburg: V. S. Balashev for the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, 1888Large octavo (273 × 197 mm). Contemporary dark green morocco-tex-tured roan, matching cloth boards, title gilt direct to the spine, white moiré endpapers. 29 tissue guarded photogravure plates and three fold-ing colour lithographed maps at rear. Lightly restored on the spine and at the corners, slight spotting to the boards, contemporary ownership inscriptions in purple ink to the front free endpaper and title page, light browning, overall very good.

first edition of the official account of Przhevalsky’s fourth ex-ploratory expedition into Central Asia, which set out from Kyakhta in Siberia in 1883 and “is often regarded as the most geographically significant” of his expeditions (Howgego). The party, consisting of Przhevalsky, Lieutenant Roborovsky, Petr Kozlov, and sixteen soldiers and Cossacks, crossed the Gobi Desert to the eastern Tian Shan Mountains and Qinghai (Kokonor) Lake, turning back at the headwaters of the Yangtze River. The expedition then moved west-wards to the “Wandering Lake” of Lop Nur, Hotan and Lake Issyk Kul. Handsomely produced for the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, the volume offers a highly detailed description accompa-nied by excellent photogravure plates, together with three maps showing the route of this fourth expedition as well as of the pre-vious three. “Przhevalsky’s expeditions, which preceded those of Sven Hedin and the host of later Europeans, had for the first time since Marco Polo and his successors defined the basic geography of Central Asia. It had visited places known only by rumour or re-port and had returned with a mass of meteorological, scientific and biological data. Przevalsky was honoured by Tsar Alexander III with promotion to major-general. He had discovered the wild population of Bactrian camels as well as what became known as Przewalski’s horse and Przewalski’s gazelle”.Howgego IV, P58; Yakushi P127 for the first German edition, In das Land der Wilden Kamele (1954), and the Japanese edition of 1967.

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18 STEBNITSKY, Ieronym Ivanovich. Карта Закаспиыско-го Краыа. Составлена по Новеышим Сведениыам в Воыенно-Топографическом Отделе Кавказского Воы-енного Округа (Map of the Trans-Caspian Region. Com-piled after the Newest Intelligence of the Department of Military Topography at the Caucasian Military District). [Tiflis:] 1875Large folding engraved 1:84,000 scale map (opens 1260 × 1398 mm, long-est measurements) dissected into 20 panels and mounted on red-brown linen, shaped with a space equivalent to 4 panels at the lower left, an area occupied by part of the Caspian. Housed in an attractive dark red quar-ter morocco book-style portfolio, marbled boards, vellum tips, title gilt longitudinally to the spine. Printed in two colours, the hachures being in sepia, seas hand-coloured, what was probably green now faded to pale brown. Light browning overall, some professional reinforcement on the folds, but overall very good.

One of the earliest detailed maps to be made of the Transcaspian region—the area between the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea—which in the years immediately following the issue of this map, was annexed piecemeal to the Russian Empire following a series of brutal campaigns led by Generals Lomakin, Skobelev, and Annenkov. The map covers the territories of modern Uzbekistan, Ka-zakhstan and Turkmenistan, stretching as far as the border with Iran and Afghanistan. It was compiled on the basis of the special survey carried out by the Russian military topographer Ieronym Stebnitsky, the then head of the Caucasian branch of the Department of Military Topography based at Tiflis. Stebnitsky served there 1867–1885, cre-ating a world-class centre for regional topographical intelligence. In 1870 Stebnitsky was attached to the Krasnovodsk detachment of the Imperial Russian army and accompanied it during the 1872–3 mil-itary expedition to the Khanate of Khiva under command of Colo-nel Vasily Markozov (1838–1908). As a result the Khanate became economically and politically dependent of the Russian Empire and lost significant territories on the right bank of the Amu Darya Riv-

er. Stebnitsky thoroughly surveyed the Turkmenian steppes from Krasnovodsk to the foothills of the Kurren Dagh Mountains, the northern and northwestern ranges of the Kopet Dagh Mountains, and followed over 300 kilometres of the dry bed of the Uzboy Riv-er—the ancient distributary of the Amu Darya River; he mapped the Chilmamedkum sands on the western part of the Karakum Desert, the Atrek River, and the western ranges of the Turkmenian Khoras-an Mountains. In all he traversed 3,200 kilometres of territory, over half of which had never been visited by a European. Stebnitsky was a member of the Russian Geographical Society, corresponding member of the Royal Geographical Society (from which he received two gold medals), a founding member of the Russian Astronomical Society, and the director of the Depart-ment of Military Topography of the General Staff 1885–96; Charles Marvin reported that Gen. Dmitri Osten-Sacken, who had seen extensive service in the Russo-Persian War, Russo-Turkish War, the Russian conquest of Caucasus, and the Crimean War, consid-ered him the “the best informed man” on the region (The Russian Advance towards India, p. 28), and Victor Dingelstadt, an irrigation expert with wide expertise in Central Asia, described him as “as the best living authority on the orography of the Caucasus” (“The Geography of the Caucasus” in the Scottish Geographical Magazine, V (1889), p. 356).

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19 STEIN, Marc Aurel. Ancient Khotan. Detailed report of archaeological explorations in Chinese Turkestan. Carried out and described under the orders of H.M. Indian Government. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 19072 volumes, quarto. Original red cloth, titles to spines gilt, triple rule to boards in blind, front covers with embossed titles in gilt and gilt roundel showing Athena with arm outstretched brandishing the aegis incorporat-ing the gorgoneion (Stein’s personal emblem), top edges gilt. Vol. I with 34

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plates from the author’s photographs, 6 engraved illustrations to the text. Vol. II with 56 halftone and 41 tinted lithographic plates from the author’s photographs, 22 original lithographic sketch maps of which 1 coloured in outline, original folding lithographic colour map in pocket at rear of vol-ume. Ex-library set, overall somewhat rubbed and spotted, spines slightly sunned and a little streaked, removal of press marks from tail of spine, new end papers throughout, library stamps removed from title pages, small area reinforced verso, embossed private library stamps to first leaves of text, a couple of repairs to plates, map splitting at folds repaired with archi-val tape in places, minor browning to text block. A better than good copy.

first edition of Stein’s account of his first expedition (1900–1) to Chinese Turkestan (now Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Re-gion). His findings revealed the extraordinary diversity of cultur-al forces at work in Khotan and its environs, situated as they were on the Silk Road. The influence of Buddhism was already known but Stein demonstrated the importance of Indian languages and culture in administration and daily life until at least the eighth century ce. Coins provide evidence for effective Chinese rule, Buddhist paintings betray Persian influence, while manuscripts and graffiti attest to the further presence of Tibetan culture. This work was also the first to demonstrate the spread of Graeco-Bud-dhist art forms from north-west India to Chinese Turkestan and China proper and contains eight appendices edited by Stein’s peers, including D. S. Margoliouth, Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford, and noted sinologist Edouard Chavannes.Howgego S65.

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“Perhaps the most fruitful archaeological expedition that has been undertaken in modern times”

20 STEIN, Marc Aurel. Serindia. Detailed Report of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China

Carried Out and Described under the Orders of H.M. Indian Government. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 19215 volumes, quarto, comprising 3 volumes of text, volume of plates and plans, and map-case. Original brick-red cloth, spines and front covers lettered in gilt, front covers with embossed gilt roundel showing Athe-na with arm outstretched brandishing the aegis incorporating the gor-goneion (Stein’s personal emblem). With 345 half-tone illustrations from photographs and 59 plans to the text volumes, 175 plates to the third vol-ume, map-case with 94 maps. Bookplates and shelf marks of Bath Public Library, with their stamps in blank margins of text and plates. Spine ends lightly bumped, front hinge of vol. III cracked, some very light foxing to contents. Map case a little rubbed, scratch to top panel, some maps a little cockled and creased. A very good set.

first edition, first impression, of this landmark work which has a strong claim to be the single most important text on Central Asia. Stein provides a richly illustrated account of his sec-ond Central Asian expedition of 1906–8, in which he crossed into Chinese Turkestan and excavated a number of sites along the Silk Road, discovered what appeared to be an extension of the Great Wall and “located the famous Jade Gate, the historic frontier post on the Silk Road” (Howgego). Most notably he gained access to the Mogao Caves, also known as the Caves of the Thousand Bud-dhas; it was here that Stein “was staggered to behold countless ancient manuscript bundles, heaped in layers to a height of 10 feet and occupying close to 500 cubic feet” (ibid.). In his review of the work, the distinguished British sinologist Lionel Giles stat-ed that “‘monumental’ is an adjective that is apt to be abused; but few will question its applicability to the present work, which describes in detail the progress and results of what is perhaps the most fruitful archaeological expedition that has been undertaken in modern times” (Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 56.1, 1921).Howgego III S65; Yakushi S332.

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21 TATARINOV, Alexander Alexeevich. Семимиесиачныи плиен в Букхарии (Seven month’s captivity in Bukhara). St Petersburg & Moscow: Osipovich Vol’fa, 1867Octavo (222 × 144 mm). Contemporary purple quarter morocco-grained sheep, matching pimple-grained cloth boards, panelled in blind, title gilt direct to spine. Folding route map at the rear, front wrapper bound in with steel-engraved vignette of a yurt, images repeats on the title page. Somewhat rubbed, particularly at the spine, now skilfully restored and consolidated, boards mildly mottled, corners softened, lightly browned and with foxing throughout, heavier front and back, light hygroscopic tide-mark in the tail margin, remains very good.

first edition of this important and uncommon account of Struve’s troubled embassy to Bokhara, the repercussions of which forced the khanate’s capitulation to Russian rule. Just sev-en copies on OCLC. Lieut.-Col. Tatarinov of the Corp of Mining Engineers was a member of the mission sent to Muzaffar, emir of Bokhara to renegotiate friendly relations following the impris-onment of Bokharan emissaries by the military governor of Turk-estan Mikhail Grigorievich Chernaiev. “In mid-October [1865] Cherniaev dispatched an embassy to the emir, led by Court Coun-cillor K.V. Struve of the foreign ministry, to negotiate the reestab-lishment of friendly relations and trade. At Bokhara the Russians found envoys gathered from Kokand, Khiva, Shar-i Sabz, and Afghanistan. An anti-Russian coalition seemed to be in the off-ing. In November Muzaffar arrested not only the Struve mission but all other Russians in Bokhara as well” (Becker, Russia’s Protec-torates in Central Asia, p. 30). After a certain amount of posturing and counter-posturing, including the replacement of Cheniaev as governor, an expedition led by General von Kaufman finally annexed Bokhara, and freed the members of the Struve mission, this an extremely unusual occurrence in the time of Central Asian slaving. This was the first time that the territories of modern Uz-bekistan and Tadjikistan fell under Russian rule. Tatarinov’s nar-

rative covers the entirety of the mission, from the expedition’s departure from Orenburg, to their liberation at Bokhara.

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22 (TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY.) Великиы пут’. Виды сибири и великоы сибирскоы железноы дороги (The Great Way. Views of Siberia and Great Siberian Railroad). Krasnoyarsk: M. B. Akselrod, 1899Landscape folio. Publisher’s mid-blue pebble-grained cloth, bevelled boards, large and striking illustration in colours to the front board, pan-els in blind to the rear board, endpapers with sepia scrolled foliate de-sign. With 124 pages of full-page halftone illustrations from photographs by I. R. Tomashkevich. Cloth slightly rubbed, but the pictorial design still strong, title page a little spotted, some finger soiling to the lower fore-corner, last leaf creased and with some annotations in the lower margin in mauve copying pencil, overall very good.

first edition, first part, all published; decidedly uncommon, five locations only on OCLC, just Smithsonian and Harvard in North America. With the self-explanatory subtitle “From the riv-er Ob to the River Yenisei and Tomsk branch. 124 views of the most important railroads, buildings, cities, villages, views of for-eigners and scenic areas adjacent to the line. etc., with a descrip-tion of them”, this was the first part of a projected series building into a pictorial record of the full length of the line, which by 1898 had reached Khabarovsk on the Russian shore of the Pacific. An unusual provincial production—although printed in St Peters-burg, it was published at Krasnoyarsk, an important junction on the line—this is an attractive promotional item for this remark-able transformative infrastructural project, the construction of the longest railway line in the world.

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23 (TURKESTAN.) WALKER, James Thomas. Turkestan and the Countries between the British and Russian Dominions. Mapped on the Basis of the Surveys made by British and Russian Officers up to 1882. Sixth Edition. Scale 1 inch = 32 miles. Dehra Dún: Office of the Trigonometrical Branch, Survey of India, 18834 photozincograph maps with original outline hand colour, on uncon-nected, untrimmed sheets, each dissected into 8 sections and mounted upon original linen, each 610 × 960 mm (when combined forming a map approx. 1080 × 1830 mm), folding into original grey sand-grain cloth case gilt-lettered “Turkestan” and carrying seller’s blind-stamp of Thacker & Spink, Calcutta. Map in excellent condition, extraordinarily clean and crisp; spine of case sunned, a few old marks and stains.

Very fine example of this rare and impressive Great Game map in its sixth and most important iteration, its four discrete sections, when combined, covering an enormous area of Central Asia ex-tending from the head of the Persian Gulf, in the southwest, up to Lake Balkhash, in the northeast, and from Astrakhan on the Caspian, in the northwest, all the way down to Delhi in the south-east. In between it includes all of modern Afghanistan, Turkmen-istan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, as well as large por-tions of Kazakhstan, Iran, Pakistan, northern India and western China. The map appeared in six progressively updated editions between 1872 and 1883, all printed at the Office of the Trigono-metrical Branch, Survey of India, at Dehra Dún (an edition of 1885 issued by the US Army Office of the Chief of Engineers was based on the edition of 1875). Copac cites copies at Oxford and London Library only among British and Irish institutional librar-ies and OCLC adds just Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

These were the climactic years of the Great Game and this map played an important part in the work of the Afghan Boundary Commission (1885–88), which saw Britain and Russia co-oper-ating to establish the northern border of Afghanistan. Turkestan itself had been the cockpit of a major Russian offensive in 1881 led by the flamboyant General Skobelev, described by Peter Hopkirk in his classic study The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia (1990) as “The Last Stand of the Turcomans”. The map was composed under the direction of Lieutenant-General James Thomas Walker (1826–1896), the distinguished Surveyor General of India 1878–83, and drew on general maps of the Survey of India and Russian maps from the 1870s and 80s, supported by the latest British cartograph-ic surveys including the “Sketch map of the Hazarajat” by Lieuten-ant-Colonel E. P. Leach VC of the Royal Engineers, covering the central highlands of Afghanistan (1882). “Walker’s work as super-intendent of the great trigonometrical survey was as much that of a geographer as of a geodesist. At his office at Dehra Dún explorers were trained, survey parties for military expeditions organized, and Indian surveyors dispatched to make discoveries, while their observations were reduced and combined. Many valuable maps were published, and Walker’s map of Turkestan, compiled using information from his Russian colleagues, went through many editions” (ODNB). In his fascinating study The Pundits: British Explo-ration of Tibet and Central Asia (1990), Derek Waller writes: “Walker had always believed in the swapping of geographical data with the Russians. If they could provide good maps of their frontier areas adjacent to British interests, then he was happy to have them, and to provide his data in return”. This is by far the era’s finest map of the region, presented here in exceptionally attractive condition.

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24 USSHER, John. A Journey from London to Persepolis; Including Wanderings in Daghestan, Georgia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Persia. London: Hurst & Blackett, 1865Large octavo. Largely unopened in the original moderate blue moroc-co-grained cloth, title gilt to the spine and front board together with pictorial blocks, Circassian marauders to the front, and a caravan of corpses on the way to Kerbelah to the spine, light brown surface-paper endpapers. Tissue guarded chromolithographic frontispiece and 17 oth-er similar plates. Lightly rubbed, internal binding slightly cracked in the catalogue, pale toning to book block.

first edition. “The following pages have been arranged from notes originally written without any view to publication. The jour-ney of which they are a narrative was undertaken by the author and friend solely for purposes of pleasure and amusement . . . the chief object of his journey was to penetrate into the mountains of Daghestan, so long the scene of the unequal conflict between Schamyl and the Russian Power” (Preface). Ussher’s narrative also includes an account of visits to Persepolis and Pasargadae. A handsome book, with a heavy text block which is frequently interspersed with plates, consequently extremely uncommon in such striking original cloth.Ghani, p. 379; Wilson, p. 233

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25 (UZBEK; ARABIAN NIGHTS.) Alf leila wa leila turki bit-tasavvur [One Thousand and One Nights in Turki, with illustrations]. Tashkent: Asia Typ by Ghulam Hasan Arifdjanov, 1332 ah, 1914Large quarto (347 × 221 mm). Later pale blue floral silk brocade cloth. With 35 half-page illustrations, including one in gilt depicting a scene from “the

tale of the fisherman and the genie”, decorative chromolithographed title page. Somewhat rubbed, extremities frayed, lightly soiled, spine sunned, book block browned, some splits, chip and repairs, red pencil crayon and pencil annotations in Russian throughout, remains very good.

first edition of the Arabian Nights in the Uzbek language. This very scarce edition is illustrated with scenes from the narrative, in the style of earlier Persian editions. The text is written in the Uzbek version of Turkish (known at the time as Turki), using Arabic script Rik’ah style with Persian influence. Arabic script was used for Uz-bek till 1930. This edition was published in Tashkent by Typogra-phy Asia (1908–18) on the steam-driven lithographic press of Gu-lam Hasan Arifdjanov (1874–1947), the first establishment to print in the Uzbek language; incunabula includes a “Divan” of Turkish poems and the anthology “Majalis al-Nafais” (“Assemblies of the Distinguished Men”) by the Uzbek poet Ali-Shir Navoi (1441–1501).

£8,500 [128945]

First modern account of Khiva

26 (UZBEKISTAN.) Кхива, или географическое И стати-стическое описание Кхививнского ханства, состоя-чего тепер в воыне с Россиеи (Khiva, or a Geographical and Statistical Survey of the Khanate of Khiva, presently at War with Russia). Moscow: Universitetskaia tipographiya, 1840Octavo (235 × 140 mm). Modern half calf, marbled boards, to style, title gilt direct to the spine, narrow bands, double rule in blind to spine and corner edges, grey marl endpapers. Attractive grey original wrappers bound in. Two folding etched plates (opening 305 × 230 mm), one showing the Khan in his yurt, the other the city gate. Front wrapper neatly repaired, no loss, faded pre-revolutionary stamps on the title page, some spotting through-out, mild damp-staining in the tail margin, one leaf with slight loss from the lower corner, professionally repaired, overall very good.

first edition. Extremely uncommon, no copies traced on OCLC. The first attempt to describe khanate of Khiva as an individ-

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ual entity, without reference to its neighbouring states. Issued at the time of Perovsky’s disastrous campaign which was intended to free Russian slaves in the khanate, it was no doubt as a useful refer-ence for officers. Perovsky was ill-prepared for the worst winter on record, and the expedition was forced to turn back with casualties of some 1,000 from a complement of 5,000. In the meantime Cap-tain Shakespear had “persuaded the khan to release the Russian slaves into his care—416 in all, including 18 women and 11 chil-dren. With a Khivan escort, Shakespear led them across the de-sert to Fort Aleksandrovsk on the Caspian and thence to Orenburg on 1 October, where he was received with acclamation” (ODNB). Friendly relations with Russia were subsequently resumed and the establishment of a permanent base at Fort Aralsk rendered mili-tary opposition futile, leading Ali Kuli Khan to concentrate on the development of his domain. He built the magnificent madrassah that bears his name and the Tosh Hauli Palace, and extended the caravanserai by the addition of an indoor market. Khiva finally fell to General Kaufman in 1873 when Russia tightened its grip on its central Asian protectorates. An attractive and timely intelligence report on Khiva, part of present day Uzbekistan, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

£6,500 [120924]

A celebration of Uzbek agriculture

27 (UZBEKISTAN.) Узбекскаиа ССР на всесоиузноы сел-скохозиаиственноы выставке 1939 года (Uzbek Soviet Republic on the All-Union Agrarian Exhibition of 1939). Moscow: Goskinoizdat, 1940Quarto. Wire-stitched in the original dark pink cloth over bevelled boards, decoration in gilt to the spine, title and decoration in gilt and

white to the front board, green endpapers with Uzbek/Soviet roundel design, pink silk hinges. Title page in dark pink and black, two leaves of heavy paper-stock with decorative embossing, that on the second leaf forming a frame for a tipped-in colour-printed plate of bucolic feasting, profusely illustrated from photographs, full-page portraits. Ink stamps of a private library to the title page, recto and verso, and to the last leaf only, slight soiling and rubbing to the boards, spine a touch frayed head and tail, but overall very good.

first and only edition, one of 4,000 copies; uncommon, just six copies traced on OCLC, all in the United States. A celebration of the Uzbek contribution to the Agrarian Exhibition (1939-41) at the VDNKh (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Econo-my) in Moscow. The various republics were represented by care-fully planned pavilions, drawing on local design elements, while stressing the advances made under communism. In 1958 the show was recreated as a permanent exhibition, the Uzbekistan pavilion being based on the original design, the ornate gazebo of which is featured on the front board of this book. The pavilion re-mains one of the cultural centres for Uzbek presence in Moscow. The book is broadly dedicated to agriculture in Uzbekistan as a whole, rather than solely to the contents of the exhibition, lead-ing the reader through the typical produce of the region: cotton, silk, and wine. Designed by Evgeny Isaakovich Kogan (1906–1983), a Ukrainian graduate of VKhUTEIN—Vysshiye Khudozhestven-no-Tekhnicheskii Institut (the Higher Art and Technical Institute). Kogan was trained in the book arts by the renowned book designer and illustrator Dmitry Mitrohin and Vladimir Favorsky, sometime rector of the institute. Kogan is probably best known for his work as an illustrator. An unusual survival, the heavy boards and wire-stitched construction of which, mean that this highly attractive contribution to the documentation of an important exhibition is rarely encountered either commercially or institutionally.

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28 (UZBEKISTAN.) VÁMBÉRY, Hermann [Ármin]. Путеше-ствие по среднеы Азии. Описание поиездки из Тегерана через Туркменскуиу степь по восточному берегу Кас-пиискаго мориа в Цхиву, Букхару и Самарканд, совер-шеннои в 1863 году [Travels to Central Asia. A Description of the Trip from Tehran through the Turkmen Steppe along the Eastern Shore of the Caspian Sea to Khiva, Bukhara and Samarkand, which was completed in 1863]. St Petersburg, 1865Octavo (247 × 159 mm). Contemporary quarter sheep, brown peb-ble-grained boards, title direct to the spine. Extensive folding regional route map (opening 428 × 695 mm), coloured in outline, covers the area from the Caspian Sea in the west, Yarkand in the east, the Aral Sea in the north, and Bokhara in the south. Somewhat rubbed, particularly at the spine, boards mottled, corners bumped, light browning throughout, pale tidemark through the first half, but overall very good.

first russian edition of Ármin Vámbéry’s Travels in Central Asia, published in English the previous year; distinctly uncommon, OCLC locates one copy only (New York Public Library). One of the most popular accounts of travel in the region, its publication coincides, perhaps not entirely fortuitously, with Russia’s steady penetration. Born Hermann Bamberger, or Wamberger, to a poor Jewish family in Hungary, Vámbéry showed an early and prodigious talent for lan-guages. “By the age of 16 he had mastered Hungarian, Latin, French and German, and was making good progress with English, the Scan-dinavian languages, Russian, Serbian and other Slavic languages” (Howgego). He was fascinated by Ottoman culture and his patron Baron Joseph Eötvös found him a position as a private language tu-tor in Constantinople. In 1861, with a grant of 1,000 florins from the academy he set out on his travels; disguised as a Sunni dervish un-der the name Resit Effendi, he travelled across the Caspian, through the Kara Kum desert to Khiva, where he had two audiences with the khan. Crossing bandit-infested territory, Vámbéry reached Bokhara where he remained for three weeks, avoiding detection by the suspi-cious Emir despite a lengthy “interrogation”, and leaving laden with gifts. From Samarkand he passed through Kerki to Herat “which he found in ruins after a recent Afghan attack”, and where he had an interview with the new ruler, the 16-year old son of the Afghan king. He reached Tehran in January 1864 having joined a caravan of pil-grims en route to Mashhad, and travelled directly to London where he was treated as a celebrity, the first European to have undertaken such an expedition. From the opening of previously closed Foreign Office files in 2005, it emerged that Vámbéry had been employed as a British agent to report on Russian activity in the region. On his return to Hungary he was made Professor of Oriental Languages at Budapest, a position he held until his retirement in 1905, publishing an account of his travels and a series of highly influential regional and linguistic studies.Howgego III V1.

£1,750 [121759]

“The noblest square in the world”

29 (UZBEKISTAN.) VVEDENSKII, I. View of Samarkand—Greater Eid, Registan during morning prayer. [Moscow?:] 1894–7

Original photograph (224 × 165 mm) on printed card mount (c.305 × 204 mm) with decorative border, title on mounted printed slip and in Arabic manuscript beneath, additionally captioned verso; now window-mount-ed, framed in handmade dark wood frame with gilt slip, UV resistant per-spex. Mount slightly browned, label chipped, but the photograph retain-ing excellent contrast, very good.

This wonderfully lively view, numbered 74 in Vvedenskii’s series of Samarkand scenes, shows crowds gathering before the Ulugh Beg Madrasah, food-sellers under improvised canopies thronged by celebrants in picturesque bekasab chapans, with part of the facade of the Tilya Kori Madrasah visible in the background. Vvedensky “worked in Samarkand in the 1890s. His activities reached a peak between 1894 and 1897 . . . The Turkestan Region . . . published in St Petersburg in 1913, ascribed Vvedensky’s signed photographs to N. Petrovsky, an educationalist and amateur photographer who worked in Samarkand before 1904. His contemporaries said he was unsurpassed in photography. However, the photographs in Russia included in this album doubtless belong to Vvedensky, whose name undeservedly went into oblivion” (Vitaly Naumkin, Samarkand: Caught in Time, Great Photographic Archives, 1992, p. 9). Contemporary commercial presentation of this highly evocative image of the famous public gathering place which, following his visit in 1888, Lord Curzon called “the noblest square in the world”.

£3,500 [128897]

An informed argument against the annexation of Khiva

30 VESELOVSKY, Nikolay Ivanovich. Очерк Историко-Ге-ографическикх Сведениы о Кхивинском Кханстве от Древнеышикх Времен до Настоыащего [An Outline of Historical-Geographical Information on the Khanate of Khiva from Ancient Times to the Present Day]. St Peters-burg: Panteleyev Bros., 1877

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ers) (1740–1790s), and the Qungrat dynasty (c.1804–1870s). The author pays particular attention to Russo-Khivan relations, and the establishment of the protectorate in 1873, concluding with his thoughts about the final annexation of the khanate.Veselovsky was the first archaeologist to excavate Afrasiab, the an-cient part of Samarkand, and to compile detailed descriptions of Sa-markand’s outstanding architecture: his expedition of 1895 resulted in comprehensive descriptions, drawings and drafts of the Bibi-Kh-anym mosque and the Gur-e-Amir mausoleum. Later in his career, Veselovky was also responsible for the excavation of a number of the most notable kurgans in Southern Russia and Ukraine—the Solokha, Kostromskaya and Maikop kurgans—from which came some of the finest examples of Scythian art, including the Solokha comb and the famous gold stag shield plaque from Kostromskaya.

£7,250 [117826]

Octavo (242 × 153 mm). Recent green half morocco to style, marbled boards; title gilt direct to the spine, raised bands, compartments gilt with an Islamic style panel, all edges sprinkled sepia. Folding genealogical table of the Qun-grat khans at the rear. Title page lightly browned, and with two small repairs, the table and errata page neatly lined with tissue, but overall very good.

first and only edition, uncommon, with just seven loca-tions on OCLC. A detailed and lucid historical overview of the Khanate of Khiva, part of present-day Uzbekistan, written by the renowned Russian orientalist and archaeologist Nikolay Ve-selovsky (1848–1918). The present work was his first published book, and was based on his master’s thesis in the faculty of ori-ental languages at Saint Petersburg Imperial University, where he had specialised in Arabic and Turkic languages. The book is di-vided into three main sections explicating the chronology of the Kwarezm Empire and later Khanate of Khiva. A brief summary of its ancient history is followed by more thorough studies of Uzbek rule (fifteenth century to 1745); the rule of the Inaks’ (tribal lead-

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The irrigation of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan—the Soviet agricultural exploitation of Central Asia

31 ZINSERLING, Vladimir. Орошение на Аму-Дарие (Irrigation on the Amu Darya). Moscow: The Management of Hydraulic Works in Central Asia, 1927Octavo. Wire-stitched in the original brown cloth, bevelled boards, title in gilt to spine and front board, linen hinges. Title pages in Russian and English, 48 illustrations from photographs to the text, over 50 sketch maps, some full-page, numerous tables to the text, two coloured fold-ing graphs. Just a little rubbed, spine lettering oxidised, the spine itself slightly creased, marginal browning of the text, but remains very good.

first and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author in purple ink on the title: “To Academician S. G. Stru-milin. Much esteemed Stanislav Gustavovich, in sending you this book of mine I ask that you also accept my deepest apologies for the fact that it was written in pre-collectivisation era, and in my technical suggestions I was forced to use scarce economic base due to the ascetic economy of the time. With deepest regard the author. 28/XI/1947”. This is a superb association copy of this im-mensely detailed logistical study towards large-scale irrigation

schemes for the agricultural exploitation of the extensive steppes of Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. Stanislav Strumilin (1877–1974) was one of the most important Soviet economic theorists of the time. A Bolshevik from 1899, he was crucial in the development of the Soviet planned economy. “The expedient marshalling of economics to salvage politically determined measures, which characterised his considerable output, was exemplified during the earliest phase of the Soviet system, ‘War Communism’” (The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics). With 2,000 copies printed, the book is now rare, no copies traced on OCLC.The author, Vladimir Zinserling (1884–1954), was an interesting figure. A widely travelled and versatile scientist, he spent his youth working on American ships plying the Pacific and Atlantic, later finding employment in California and Colorado as an engineer where he developed a specialism in irrigation. In the 1920s, under the pressure of five-year plans, collectivisation and headlong in-dustrialisation, research was begun into massive schemes for the effective irrigation of Central Asia, Zinserling pursuing the pos-sibilities of the Amu Darya, the legendary Oxus. These schemes were partly realised from the 1930s to the 1950s resulting in a boom in Central Asian agriculture. The present work provided the scien-tific and economic background for these developments, the Amu Darya being used to create two major irrigation channels, but with drastic consequences today. “The Soviet plan to maximise one eco-system service—fresh water—at the cost of many others proceed-ed, and the 1930s saw the construction of a system of irrigation canals. Crop production rose as irrigated areas in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan jumped from 6.4 million acres to 15.9 million acres over two decades, employing millions of people in the region. But with its major inflows being diverted for irrigation, the Aral Sea began shrinking in the 1960s. By 2005, it had lost more than half of its surface area, exposing nearly 30,000 km2 of lake bed, and nearly three-quarters of its volume” (Bennett, “Disappearance of the Aral Sea”, World Resources Institute, retrieved 04/10/2017).

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C H I N A & S O U T H - E A S T A S I A

32 AH FONG PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO. The Sino-Japanese Hostilities 1937; [together with] The Sino-Japanese Hostilities Shanghai 1937. Index. Shanghai & Wei-Hai-Wei: Ah Fong Photographer, 819 Nanking Road, Aug.–Nov. 19372 volumes (album & index), landscape octavo. Original black sand-grained cloth cord-backed binder, red silk tie, large gilt block to the front board showing Shanghai under assault by Japanese ‘planes, ships and tanks, large images of bombs and shells superimposed on the silhouette of the skyline of the Bund; the 12-page index, stitched in printed grey wrappers, lettered in black on the front panel. The first with 201 tipped-in silver gelatin photos, all numbered in white ink above the image keyed to the printed index, frontispiece photo (88 × 127 mm) of dead and burned soldiers unlisted in index, nearly all of the rest are 63 × 83 mm, a number of night scenes colour-tinted in vivid red, two panoramic photos, one in red, sized 83 × 203 mm. Album slightly rubbed, minor edge-wear, re-mains very good; index with soft crease to front panel of wrappers, minor toning to fore edges, ownership inscription of “J. D. Willmouth, Shang-hai, China, August, 1937–January, 1938” to front panel.

first edition of the complete set of 200 silver gelatin photo-graphs issued by the renowned Ah Fong Photography Studio, recording the brutal siege and conquest of Shanghai by the Jap-anese at the opening of the Second Sino-Japanese War. In his award-winning study of the conflict – China’s War with Japan, 1937–1945: The Struggle for Survival (2013) – Rana Mitter refers to the Bat-tle of Shanghai as turning “China’s most open, lively and cosmo-politan centre . . . into a charnel house”. Extremely uncommon: OCLC records a copy with just 100 prints at Cornell, and another similar in the National Library of Australia; IWM have listings for three copies within individual archives, but none with an image count, with the presence of the folded index mounted inside the front boards, rather than the loosely inserted stitched index as here, suggesting that they are copies of the shorter version; BL has a copy of the 200-item index in the India Office Collection.Following the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–5) in which Japan had conquered and absorbed Manchuria, hostilities had sporad-ically flared and intensified in the region. The sometimes shock-

ingly brutal images gathered here include a panorama of the Bund with the USS Augusta and HMS Cumberland in port evacuating foreign nationals; the burning of Chapei in October, 1937; Japa-nese Marines in action; casualties from the Pantheon Theatre; Chinese troops in combat with tanks; Chinese snipers; bomb-ing on Paoshan Road; Markham Road; the burning of Chapei, Pootung, and Kiangwan; Japanese heavy bombers; Red Cross transporting the wounded; American Marines; and the Japanese “Victory March” through the International Concession with the photos taken outside of the British Consulate. An excellent copy of this extremely elusive and historically im-portant publication.Jonathan Hay, Notes on Chinese Photography and Advertising in Late Nine-teenth-Century Shanghai, pp. 95–96; Dorothy Perkins, Japan Goes to War: A Chronology of Japanese Military Expansion (1997), pp. 127–135

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Superb colour plates of a hunting tour through the Far East

33 ANDRÁSSY, Manó. Reise in Ostindien: Ceylon, Java, China und Bengalen. Aus dem Ungarischen übersetzt. Pest: Hermann Geibel, 1859Elephant folio (595 × 425 mm). Original green half morocco, matching morocco-grain cloth sides, flat bands within gilt rules to spine, second compartment lettered in gilt, titles and pictorial vignette gilt to front cover, white moiré cloth endpapers, cloth hinges. Hand-coloured tinted lithograph frontispiece and 15 similar plates by V. Adam, Eugene Ciceri. H. Clerget & Bayot, J. David, J. Laurens, and Bachelier after Andrássy and printed by Lemercier in Paris (all with tissue guards), wood-engraved title vignette, similar illustrations throughout the text. Engraved bookplates of the French financier and politician Adolphe d’Eichtal (1805–1895); and with the publisher’s imposing large engraved label. Binding skilfully re-furbished, customary general pale foxing. A very good copy.

first illustrated edition, the first in German, of this out-standing account of big-game hunting in Asia, originally pub-lished in Hungarian in 1853. Count Manó Andrássy (1821–1891, his name given here as Emanuel Andrásy) was a traveller, collec-tor, painter, and caricaturist who participated in his country’s rev-olution in 1848. He fled to England during the Austrian invasion the following year and thence travelled east. He later returned to Hungary, built mansions at Parnó, Betlér and Szulova, and played a leading role in the “regulation of the Tisza” river (concluded 1880). In 1857 he published Hazai vadaszatok es sport Magyaroszagon [Domestic Hunting and Sport] in Hungary which, like Reise in Ostindien, is a superbly illustrated volume. The plates here depict elephant hunting in Ceylon, rhinoceros, crocodile and deer hunt-ing in Java, tiger-stalking near the Ganges, street scenes in Hong Kong and Calcutta, dancers at the courts of Nazim, the Nawab of Bengal, and Murserabat, and an Arab encampment near Suez. Rare: six copies only traced in institutional libraries world-wide (Danish Union Catalogue, Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek,

Leiden, Leipzig, National Library of India, and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin); perhaps five institutional copies traced for the first edition, published in Hungarian in 1853, and none in commerce.Nissen ZBI 111; not in Abbey, Czech, or Tooley.

£15,000 [127337]

34 (BRITISH NORTH BORNEO COMPANY.) Views of British North Borneo with a Brief History of the Colony, compiled from official records and other sources of information of an authentic nature. With Trade Returns, &c., showing the progress and development of the chartered company’s territory to the latest date. London: William Brown & Co., 1899Small landscape quarto. Original red fine diaper cloth, title gilt and crest and motto of British North Borneo Company to front cover. 2 col-our maps, half-tone photographs throughout by company officers. Cov-ers toned and marked with black ink spills in a few places, text block browned, old pencil inscription at head of title. A good, clean copy.

first edition of this uncommon and extensively illustrated com-memorative publication produced by the North Borneo Company (1881–1946). Alongside a brief summary of the history and geogra-phy of the territory, the company advertises the “progress” that it was making, particularly in the areas of trade and railway construc-tion. The book is, in large part, an advertisement to investors who are urged to apply to the Company’s offices in Leadenhall Street for land and concessions. Illustrations include “The first train in North Borneo, 3rd February, 1898” (the train was named “Pro-gress”), “Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee, June 22nd, 1897”, “The Sultan of Sulu and Suite” and “Chinese mummers” as well as por-trait photographs of 38 prominent British officials.

£650 [129630]

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The Old China Hands

35 (CHINA.) Photograph album of service in China with the US 15th Infantry Regiment, 1929–32. China: 1929–32Landscape quarto (280 × 370 mm). Chinese commercial album of pale brown sheep, coloured images on covers (front showing the famous Nine Dragon Screen, Beihai Park, Beijing and lettered “1930–1932 Tientsin, Chi-na”, back showing a full-length portrait of a Chinese warrior), cord ties through punched holes with white metal eyelets, coloured Chinese pin-ups on pastedowns. 104 pp. black heavy stock paper leaves (each with tissue guard), 655 corner-mounted original photographs (with red, black or mar-bled pink ornamental mounts) measuring between 45 × 65 mm and 215 × 280 mm, numerous postcards, photo postcards, postage stamps.

Wonderfully engaging, wide-ranging and extensively-captioned visual record of China as seen through the eyes of a soldier in the US 15th Infantry Regiment (“The Old China Hands”), based in Tientsin (Tianjin) between 1929 and 1932, a period of bloody turbulence in China. This enthralling album encompasses many aspects of China, from the well-documented street life that al-ways fascinated the visiting Westerner (peddlers, barbers, gam-blers, shoemakers, the deformed bound “lotus feet” of Chinese women, decapitated heads of criminals hung from lamp posts) to personal photographs. The album opens with a fine formal photograph of G Company and there are, scattered through-out the volume, images of the unit on parade, at the rifle range, mounting guard duty (including “comedy guard”), on train-ing exercises (“wall scaling”, “wire laying”, “rickshaw racing”), “recreation park stands during ball game between Japanese and Chinese civilians”. Another aspect of a soldier’s life overseas is “hidden” beneath a colour illustration of Beijing’s Nine Dragon Screen: the names of some 13 “floozies” with names such as “Ro-sie Hot Pants”, “The Merry Widow” and “Cock Eye” and personal attributes ranging from “Dirty Neck” to “Good Looking”. To-wards the end of the album there is a fine series of some 100 can-did smaller images (measuring 60 × 60 mm) taken in and around

Beijing (clearly photographed in the winter as infantrymen are pictured wearing fur hats and greatcoats) showing the astrolabe at the Ancient Observatory (Guguanxiangtai), scenes in the com-plex of the Forbidden City and on the Sacred Road leading to the Ming Tombs. At this time Tientsin (Tianjin) was divided into “concession territories”: through an agreement with the Qing dynasty, Japan, Britain, the US, and a number of European pow-ers (France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Italy, Austria-Hungary) administered different sections of the city. The US 15th Infantry were originally stationed in Tientsin (Tianjin) in 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, and served there until March 1938. This long service gave rise to their nickname of “The Old China Hands” and the adoption of the Chinese dragon on the unit insignia. A fascinating archive of both original and commercial photo-graphs that gives an engrossing view from the perspective of a serving soldier during a period of violent upheaval and historic change in modern China: a period that foreshadowed the gather-ing storm of the Second World War.See Alfred E. Cornebise, The United States 15th Infantry Regiment in China, 1912–1938 (2004); Cornebise, The United States Army in China, 1900–1938: A History of the 9th, 14th, 15th, and 31st Regiments in the East (2015); Finney, The Old China Hands (1961); Philip R. Abbey, The Fifteenth Infantry Regiment Line-age and Historical Narrative (1999).

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Second opium war, US marines, and baseball

36 (CHINA; SECOND OPIUM WAR.) [Manuscript title:] “Log of a Cruise in the U.S. Sloop of War Cyane. 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854” [continued to 1860]. Small folio (342 × 207 mm), commercial logbook, 70 pp. of manuscript entries on pale blue ruled paper, divided into four sections separately paginated. Contemporary quarter sheep, marbled sides. Housed in a custom made brick-red cloth solander box. Much of spine missing, front board holding on cords, internally in very good condition.

An enthralling and richly detailed journal of a decade at sea with the US Navy during the 1850s, recording back-to-back cruises on three sloops-of-war, seeing action in three different arenas: on the Cyane, which shelled Greytown, Nicaragua (1854); the Preble during the Paraguay Expedition (1858) – a flexing of muscle by the US Navy that concluded peaceably; and the Battle of Antón Lizardo during the Mexican War of Reform (1860). However, the centrepiece is the two-and-half year cruise on the Levant with the East India Squad-ron, seeing sharp action during the Second Opium War. The Levant played a key role in the reduction of the Chinese Barrier Forts along the Pearl River in southern China (modern day Zhujiang River, separating Macau and Hong Kong) in a series of daring assaults involving the US Marine Corps, in what has been described as “an impressive proto-amphibious operation” (Allan R. Millett, Semper Fidelis: The History of the United States Marine Corps, 1991, p. 85).The log-keeper was Nantucket-born sailmaker Daniel Coffin Brayton (1829–1904), who came from a family of sailmakers who trained at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. As an interesting aside, he is cited as having played several baseball games for the Brooklyn Atlantics in 1855 and 1856 (see Base Ball Founders: The Clubs, Players and Cities of the Northeast that Established the Game, 2013, p. 129), and in the entry for 19 October 1855 he notes “Played Base Ball with Club”. Brayton is an observant sailor and his narrative is pithy and often witty. The journal of each cruise is preceded by a list of the officers assigned to the ship, commissioned and warrant-ed, and a tabular summary of ports visited, dates of arrival and departure, days under sail and distance travelled. His journal is in diary form, with none of the usual hourly entries of wind and sea, or records of daily latitudes and longitudes. Rather, each entry covers many dates with occasional lengthy observations. This indicates that Brayton may have drawn up this logbook with an eye to posterity, from notes made on the various cruises. The USS Levant, a second-class sloop-of-war, was part of the US Navy’s East India Squadron, 1855–58, and was in Chinese waters when the Second Opium War broke out between Great Britain and the Chinese empire in October 1856. His gripping account could eas-ily be quoted in extenso but here follows some salient entries:

Nov 16: Steamer Com For [Kum-Fa] (in the employ of our Squad-ron) took us in tow, we proceeded on our way up Junk River [Pearl River]. The Portsmouth ahead in tow of a steamer. 4 p. m. we struck on a rock, where we remained hard and fast – one hour. The Forts opened fire on the Portsmouth, we could not assist her, she returned the fire, at dark all firing stopped. We hauled our ship ahead of, or inside of the Portsmouth nearer to the Forts. 90 men from the San Jack [flagship San Jacinto] came on board of us. Capt. Bell of the San J took charge of our ship in the absence of Capt. Smith. Lieut. Carter, Master Bowen & Captain Simms of the Marines came on board. Lewis 1st Lieut. Of the San Jack took charge of the Powder Division, temporarily. [“Brevet Captain John D. Simms commanded the combined force of some sixty Marines and sixty sailors, one of the first instances of a Marine officer commanding a landing party” (Millett, p. 85).]No 19: Everything ready for a fight.Nov. 20: At 7 a.m. opened fire on Fort No.1 continued to fire one hour & a half. The forts (4 of them) fired briskly. Called away all boats, in a few minutes 11 boat crews landed near Fort No. 1, in 30 minutes from the time of leaving ships, the fort was taken. Changed our fire to Fort No. 2, to the left. Evening. All boats returned with any quantity of Flags and articles of war from the enemy. Two shots came through our ship’s side, one on the Spar & the other on the Berth deck, shots cut away rigging, spars and done much damage to the decks. One man wounded.The Levant returned to the Unites States sixteen months later via Manila, Shanghai, and Cape Town. The following narratives of cruises on the Cyane and Preble are full of similar detail and in-cident. This fascinating logbook—contemporaneous with Mel-ville’s writing of Moby Dick—is eloquently illustrative of American “gunboat diplomacy” on the world stage, brought to life by the observations of a keen-eyed and entirely engaged sailor.

£9,500 [127365]

37 (CHINA; AUTOMOBILE CLUB.) CROW, Carl (ed.) China Highways. Organ of the Automobile Club of China. Shanghai: Automobile Club of China, 1934–19362 volumes, octavo. First: in publisher’s green sand-grain cloth, title gilt to spine and front cover, green rexine endpapers, all 8 numbers of vol. I with pictorial covers, bound together. Second: half maroon cloth, with red moiré-finish cloth sides, all 12 numbers of vol. II and first 4 volumes of vol. III bound together without pictorial covers. Several double-page coloured road maps of Chinese cities, half-tone photographs tipped in throughout. Several double-page coloured road maps of Chinese cities, half-tone pho-tographs tipped in throughout. Spines a little rubbed, boards of volume I a little bowed, slight browning to interior of both volumes. A very good set.

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first editions, an unbroken run of 24 numbers (May 1934 - April 1936) of this very scarce journal, publication of which ceased in July 1937; OCLC shows only one location (Maryville College, Tennessee) and Stanford has a broken run of 18 numbers. The editor, Missouri-born Carl Crow moved to China in 1911 and, af-ter the First World War, made his name as a prominent publisher and advertising man, editing the Shanghai Evening Times. The arti-cles, often written by Crow, give advice for people touring China by car including interesting sights, Chinese history and routes. Crow also gives detailed road logs for drivers, sometimes sent in by enthusiastic readers. The Automobile Club of China was “very active in its endeavours to safeguard the rights and interests of motorists” (Vol 1. no. 1, p. 27) and its membership included many of China’s elite, such as General Wu Te-Chen, the prominent banker Tsuyee Pei, and politician Chengting T. Wang, who served as Chinese ambassador to America 1936–38. Crow left Shanghai for New York just three days after the Japanese invaded in August 1937 and the journal ceased publication.Paul French, Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand, 2006.

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38 (CHINDITS.) Collection of material relating to Wingate’s Chindits and their campaigns in Burma. [Various places and dates, 1940s–1980s]Superb collection of material concerning the Chindits, includes Wingate’s Report on the Operations of 77th Brigade; the original MS of Hedley’s book Jungle Fighter; a number of SEAC Chindit publications; a small trove of piec-es from the collection of a serving Chindit officer, including intelligence re-ports, some excellent press photographs, and a remarkable original “panic flag” – the escape map, neckerchief, signal flag carried by the Chindits; the privately produced Chindits Old Comrade’s Association appreciation of Wingate; to-gether with a group of Chindit memoirs. These last are not the best copies in all cases, but most of the major books are here including a signed copy of Fergusson’s The Wild Green Earth, Anthony Brett-James’s copy with his pithy notes, and one of Patrick Boyle’s MS note-books used in the composition of Jungle, Jungle Little Chindit. Overall very good.

Named after the temple-guard leogryphs of Burma, the Chin-dits were a special forces group formed by the enigmatic and charismatic Orde Wingate (1903–1944), one of the greatest early exponents of unconventional warfare. In two campaigns – Op-eration Longcloth, an exploratory expedition into Japanese-held territory by a force of just 3,000 beginning in February 1943, and Operation Thursday of March 1944, which was the second largest airborne operation of the Second World War – this mixed force of British, Burma Rifles, Hong Kong Volunteers, Gurkhas and West African troops were instrumental in eroding the Japanese grip on Burma. This collection contains some extremely uncommon contemporary material; personal effects of a serving officer; to-gether with a significant group of the memoirs written by partic-ipants. A detailed listing of the collection is available on request.

£7,500 [65880]

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39 DOOLITTLE, Rev. Justus. Vocabulary and Hand-book of the Chinese Language. Romanized in the Mandarin Dialect. Foochow: Rozario, Marcal and Company, 18722 volumes, octavo. Original black buckram, spines relaid, retaining the majority of the original cloth, titles to spine in gilt, edges patterned red. A touch of wear to tips, cloth discreetly furbished, professional rein-forcement to hinges, light toning to contents, a very good, uncommonly bright, set.

first edition of this comprehensive English-to-Chinese vo-cabulary phrase book. Rev. Justus Doolittle (1824–1880) was a US missionary, Chinese scholar and numismatist who wrote exten-sively on Chinese culture and religion, publishing a number of articles in the China Mail. This work features an expansive Eng-lish-to-Chinese dictionary in volume I, and a general handbook, containing additional phrases and miscellaneous guides to Chi-nese language and culture, in volume II, including a chapter on Chinese coinage based on his own collection. provenance: from the library of Albert Ephriam André (1877–1944), with ownership stamp to front pastedown of volume I and his extensive annotations to the text, predominately in volume II. André was likewise a US missionary, working in Fancheng from 1899 until 1901, returning in 1902 until 1907. His annotations are in both English and Mandarin, and are mainly to be found in sections on religion, including Buddhism and local heresies. In a number of places the annotation appears to be a phonetic spell-ing of the correct Chinese pronunciation. André later returned to the US and became curator of the Oriental Department at the Brooklyn Museum.

£2,500 [129232]

The first definitive European work on the Chinese empire

40 DU HALDE, Jean Baptiste. A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet: Containing the Geography and History (Natural as well as Civil) of those Countries. London: T. Gardner for Edward Cave, 1738–412 volumes, folio (440 × 260 mm). Untrimmed in half sheep trade binding, marbled boards, black morocco labels, numbering in black in the third compartment, that of volume I flaked away. With 64 maps, plans, plates – 42 of them folding, including the large “General Map” frontispiece to volume I, hand-coloured in outline – and illustrations to the text. Some-

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what rubbed with some stripping at the spines, and loss at heads and tails, scuffing of the boards, corners broken down; book blocks variably browned, and with some short marginal splits, and a handful of longer tears with japanese tissue repairs, some paper loss in a couple of cases, but no loss of text; overall very good in largely unrestored contemporary condition, and imposing thus.

second and most complete english edition of Du Halde’s encyclopaedic survey, originally issued in parts. A cornerstone of any collection of books on China, first published in French in 1735; the first English edition published the following year contained just 19 plates and 4 maps; the translator was Richard Brookes (f. 1721–1763), a “physician and author . . . [&] indus-trious compiler” who “has left scant evidence of his life, except numerous compilations and translations on medicine, surgery, natural history, and geography . . . He was at one time a rural

practitioner in Surrey, and at some time before 1762 he travelled in both America and Africa” (ODNB). His principle translations are the present work and The Natural History of Chocolate (1724) from the French of the enigmatic D. de Quélus.This,”the first definitive European work on the Chinese empire” (Hill), was compiled by Du Halde, Jesuit former confessor to the duc d’Orléans, from the accounts, published and unpublished, prepared by 27 Jesuit missionaries during their travels. This ex-haustive work not only provided valuable information on Chinese political institutions, education, language, medicine, science, customs and artefacts – importantly it is one of the earliest Eu-ropean sources on Chinese ceramics – but also marked the first appearance of 43 maps by Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville, internationally recognised as “the finest cartographer of his time” (Moreland & Bannister). Drawn from recent surveys com-missioned by the Emperor Kang-hi from the Jesuits, these maps represented an immense improvement on existing knowledge and are considered by Tooley to be “the principal cartographic authority on China during the 18th century”. For certain remote parts of northern China, Mongolia and Tibet, this work was the only adequate reference until the technological revolution in surveying in the 20th century. The work also contains the first separate map of Korea, together with a previously unpublished account of that country by Jean-Baptiste Régis (d. 1738).The work also has considerable interest in terms of the early ex-ploration of America. du Halde was the first to publish the epon-ymous Vitus Bering’s account of his 1728 traverse of the Strait, “Account of Travels of Capt. Beering into Siberia”, together with the equally important “Map of Capt. Beering’s Travels from To-bolskoy to Kamchatka”, which is based on Bering’s manuscript map, and contains the first representation of any part of Alaska, St Lawrence Island. These manuscripts had come to Du Hale via a circuitous route. Bering, a Dane who had risen in the ranks of the Russian navy, was sponsored on his expedition by Peter the Great, and when he finally returned to St. Petersburg in 1730, five years after Peter’s death, his account was sent as a gift to the King of Poland, who in turn “gave them to Du Halde with permission to do with them ‘as he saw fit’” (Hill). Du Halde was uniquely well placed to write such a study. For over thirty years he was the editor of Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, the correspondence of Jesuit missionaries worldwide, and without leaving Paris he succeeded in synthesising this highly influential representation of China. Numa Broc has described it as “more than a compilation, the Description is a totality on China, a kind of encyclopaedia [plus qu’un ouvrage composé, la Description est une somme sur la Chine, une sorte d’Encyclopédie]”. Du Halde’s China was timely in that it offered the philosophers of the Enlight-enment a yearned for vision of an “enlightened despotism”, the work consequently being quoted more than twenty times in the great Encyclopédie, and described by Voltaire as “the most com-plete and best description of China in the world”. A wonderfully preserved, wide margined example of this ground-breaking work of 18th-century encyclopaedism.Cordier, Sinica I 50; Cox I, p. 355; Getty, China on Paper, 8 (first French); Hill 498 (third English); Howes D-546; Lada-Mocarski, Books on Alaska, 2; Lust 15; Moreland & Bannister, Antique Maps; De Backer & Sommervogel IV 37; Tooley, Maps and Mapmakers, p. 107; Wroth, Early Cartography of the Pacific, 91.

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41 GRAHAM, Robert Blackall. Photographic Illustrations, with a Description of Mandalay & Upper Burmah Expeditionary Force, 1886–87. By a Cavalry Officer. Birmingham: A. Pumphrey, Photographic Publisher, 1887Quarto (287 × 214 mm). Later red half morocco, old marbled boards, black morocco label. Title page printed in red and black, lithographic plan of Mandalay, and 59 albumen prints (100 × 133 mm) mounted on thin card leaves, rectos only, within red ruled borders, with accompany-ing letter-press text. Contemporary ownership inscription of H. H. Day, together with his bookplate, later bookplate of noted military bibliophile Mark Dineley. A little rubbed, boards slightly soiled, light browning throughout, the mounting leaves slightly rippled and with some margin-al soot-streaking (see below), the majority of the prints remain strong, a few a little faded, and one somewhat spotted, overall very good.

first and only edition. Extremely uncommon photographic record of the Third Anglo-Burmese War: Copac locates BL and SOAS only, OCLC adds just 8 further copies worldwide. A printed slip from the publishers explains that on 8 December 1887 their premises had been subject to “a serious fire . . . the contents have suffered very considerably”, which almost certainly explains the scarcity of the book, and also the sooting at the page edges (rele-vant clipping present here). The war was the last between the Bur-mese and the British fought during the 19th century. Following the Second Anglo-Burmese War, Lower Burma had been annexed to Britain, the Konbaung Dynasty retaining sovereignty only of ter-ritories described as Upper Burma. At the conclusion of the third war, Burma was formally annexed to Britain, becoming a province of India. Graham explains that he had originally intended his pho-tographs for his “own satisfaction”, but “later on, when I found so

many of my friends were anxious to secure copies, which I had not the time to print, it struck me that they would probably be glad to obtain a Series, as a memento of Burmah, if I could get them done at a moderate price” (“preface”). The pictures “are necessar-ily small, as they were taken by apparatus capable of being carried by an Officer in the field, the negatives being on Eastman’s paper”. An interesting selection of images; views in and around Manda-lay – the Palace, Merchant Street, Kyaung on Mandalay Hill, the Cemetery – together with a series of locations on the Irrawaddy including one of an Irrawaddy Flotilla Company steamer and flats; local “types” – wayside food sellers, a bishop and priests, Burmese dacoits, silk sellers in the King’s Bazaar; and group portraits of Army officers and British officials .Col. Graham (1838–1918) was born in Agra and joined the 7th Bengal Cavalry in May 1856, seeing action with them in the Indian Mutiny and in the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1880). In Burma he was mentioned in despatches, and received the medal and clasp.

£5,000 [96617]

42 HELMAN, Isidore Stanislaus Henri. Abrégé historique des principaux traits de la vie de Confucius célèbre philosophe chinois Orné de 24 estampes in 4o. Gravées d’après des dessins originaux de la Chine envoyés à Paris par le P. Amiot missionnaire à Pékin et tirés du cabinet de Mr. Bertin. Paris: Chez l’auteur, et chez M. Ponce, [1788]

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Large folio (416 × 283 mm). Contemporary green quarter calf, spine let-tered and decorated in gilt and in blind, blue marbled paper sides, vellum tips, marbled endpapers. Engraved throughout. Light wear to extremi-ties, opening spread a little browned, the occasional spot or light foxing elsewhere, chiefly marginal, a very good copy.

first edition, large paper copy, one of an unstated number, originally priced 18 livres, and very much larger than the 12-livre quarto copies usually met with. Helman made the engravings illustrating the life of Confucius from a set of drawings sent from China to Paris by Jean-Joseph-Marie Amiot (1718–1793), the French Jesuit missionary. The text is also engraved.

£3,500 [128821]

43 HORSBURGH, James. Instructions nautiques sur les mers de l’Inde. Paris: Imprimerie administrative de Paul Dupont, 1861–24 parts in 3 volumes, quarto (272 × 208 mm). Contemporary red hard-grained half morocco professionally refurbished, spines with raised bands, scrolling gilt foliate decoration and gilt lettered direct, red mo-rocco-grain cloth sides, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. Scattered foxing, some gatherings lightly toned, two gatherings in vol. I bumped at fore edge with concomitant light creasing to leaves. A very good set, complete with half-titles.

Third French edition, revised and expanded from the editions of 1824–27 and 1837–39. Rarely found complete, this attractive set in-cludes the highly elusive third volume in two parts (here bound to-gether). This is the final French iteration of Horsburgh’s highly im-portant work, published under the auspices of the Dépôt général de la marine. The Nautical Magazine for 1874, reviewing the latest re-cension of Horsburgh’s Directory, was level-headed but heartfelt in its praise: “That the ‘India Directory’ . . . through its eight editions, became a ‘great book,’ is an undoubted fact . . . No other work em-braces so great a scope as this one, and to enable the mariner to sail over one-half the seas, for which it is a guide, he must possess

himself, if he has not this book, of books sufficiently numerous to form a small library. ‘The East India Directory,’ although a fair sized book, is multum in parvo, and the possession of it conduces to confidence in the mind of the mariner by the knowledge that all that is necessary is contained in the one book”. OCLC locates only one complete set of this third edition, at the Bibliothèque nation-ale de France, with no sets appearing on auction records.A highly qualified team of editors was assembled for this recen-sion, including the hydrographic engineers Xavier Estignard (1821–1884?), Benoît Darondeau (1805–1869), who was part of the French circumnavigation in La Bonite in 1835–36, and Charles-Gus-tave-Prosper, le Vicomte Reille (1818–1894) who, before embarking on a political career, had joined the French navy in 1838, serving as ensign and lieutenant. The senior partner in the enterprise was the highly experienced Vice Admiral Fortuné Joseph Le Prédour (1793–1866), who had served in the Napoleonic Wars, became Director of the École Navale, and commander of the French contingent during the Anglo-French blockade of the Rio de la Plata in 1847.Brunet VI 19759.

£6,250 [127581]

44MARTIN, R. Montgomery. China; Political, Commercial, and Social; in an Official Report to Her Majesty’s Government. London: James Madden, 18472 volumes, octavo (215 × 131 mm). Contemporary full calf by Bickers & Son, richly gilt spines, red and green morocco twin labels, two line gilt border on sides with corner rosettes, gilt edge roll, marbled edges and endpapers. With 3 folding maps: China (hand-coloured in outline); Ja-pan & Korea; Chusan (modern day Zhoushan); 4 statistical folding ta-bles. Eton leaving inscription (dated 1867) on preliminary blank in vol. I: “Francis Henry Hodgson from his friend & schoolfellow Charles S. Mu-nay”; Hodgson (1848–1930) was an Anglican priest whose diary, kept as a boy while sailing to England from Australia in 1860, is at the National Li-brary of Australia; with a sepia-toned albumen print portrait of he whom we assume to be Hodgson on the facing page. Joints and corners rubbed, vol. II chipped at head of spine, head of front joint split, light abrasions to sides, endpapers foxed. A very good, clean set, handsomely bound.

first edition, published in the wake of the First Opium War (1839–42). A very attractive set of this important work by the Dublin-born writer and civil servant Robert Montgomery Martin (c.1802–1868), who served as treasurer of Hong Kong: “His ten-ure was brief and controversial. Concluding that Hong Kong was unsuitable as a base for British operations in the East, Martin left his post in 1845 to present his views to the government. This was considered an act of resignation, a view which Martin contest-ed, unsuccessfully, for three years” (ODNB). Martin was an early opponent of the opium trade and “spoke admiringly of the strict stance adopted by Qing officials, and compared their restrictive attitude to the laissez-faire spirit of Hong Kong. Martin used cus-toms statistics showing a steady increase in the tonnage of im-ported opium as evidence that China was falling victim to a for-eign threat . . . Martin was also the first to consider the slave trade ‘merciful’ in comparison with the opium trade, a view repeated by Karl Marx in 1858 and upheld by historians in the People’s Republic of China to this day” (Dikötter, Laamann, Xun, Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China, 2004, pp. 96–97).

£850 [129925]

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An indispensable primary source for Sarawak’s history

45 MOULTON, John Coney. Notes from the Sarawak Gazette. Curator of the Sarawak Museum (1909–1915). Sarawak: At the “Sarawak Gazette” Office, 1915Octavo. Original green cloth, bound and varnished against termites by the “Sarawak Gazette” Office (with their ticket dated 1 Feb. 1915), gilt lettered spine and front cover, manila brown endpapers, edges speckled red. Bookplate of William George Smith incorporating Malay motifs; Java Head bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. Slight rubbing to spine ends, a touch of wear to tips, faint discolouration to cloth, contents lightly toned; a very good, exceptionally bright, copy.

first and only edition, collecting 15 articles first printed in the Sarawak Gazette between January 1910 and October 1914. Re-cords of its articles such as this comprise “an indispensable pri-mary source for Sarawak’s history” (Leong). Decidedly uncom-mon, only two copies traced institutionally on both Copac and OCLC (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Oxford). These “notes” are grouped under the headings of Expeditions, Nature Notes, Bi-ographies, Review, and Rainfall Notes, and include a long para-graph on Roman Catholic missionary activity in the region omit-ted from the initial Gazette publication “as the censor ordered it to be cut out” (p. 58). John C. Moulton (1886–1926) was a British Army officer, ento-mologist and ornithologist. From November 1908 until January 1915 he served as the curator of the Sarawak Museum, Kuching. While there Moulton established the still active Sarawak Museum Journal, one of the earliest scientific journals in the region, with the intention of promoting scientific knowledge and history of the island of Borneo. The articles collected here create a fasci-nating miscellany on Sarawak history, politics, flora and fauna. Yuen Kok Leong, Letters From the Past (2017).

£3,750 [127425]

46 RUSCHENBERGER, William Samuel Waithman. A Voyage round the World; including an Embassy to Muscat and Siam, in 1835, 1836, and 1837. [Together with] ROBERTS, Edmund. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat; in the U.S. Sloop of War Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, during the Years 1832–3–4. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard,[second work:] New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837–82 volumes, octavo (220 × 134 mm; 215 × 138 mm). Uniformly bound in black half morocco, title gilt to spine, flat bands sparingly tooled, mar-bled sides and endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Half-title bound in to the first-named. Contemporary booklabels of P. C. Brooks, perhaps Peter Chardon Brooks, New England merchant and underwriter, who made his fortune in the East India trade. Very slight shelf-wear, both volumes with some foxing, but overall a very handsome pair.

first editions; individually uncommon, perhaps Ruschen-berger the more so, and together here offering a very full record of important early American trade negotiations in the Middle and Far East. A naval surgeon, “Ruschenberger sailed . . . to the East for the purpose of obtaining information and negotiating and securing treaties of friendship and commerce with Eastern Pow-ers. Rushenberger describes his journey to the dominions of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, to Ceylon, India, Java. Siam, Cochin China, the Bonin Islands, the Hawaiian Islands, California, and Mexico” (Hill). The principal in the negotiations with these for-eign powers was to be Edmund Roberts who had “formed an in-timate acquaintance” with the Sultan of Oman when on a trading expedition to Zanzibar in 1827, and had persuaded his “kinsman through marriage, Senator Levi Woodbury . . . [Andrew] Jack-son’s secretary of the navy” to promote the embassy (DAB). Although not noted in the title, Roberts’s work contains around 120 pages of close description of the culture and business prac-tices of China. Ruschenberger has a 75–page section specifically

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on “The dominions of the Sultan of Muscat”, which at the time included “all the coast and islands of the Persian Gulf including the pearl fishery and islands of Bahrain, as far as Sinde, on the eastern side” (p. 82). This section, one of the most extensive in the literature of this period, also provides information on the ear-ly tribal history of the Bahrain region, Gulf trade, and Sultan’s alliance with the Indian Navy against the “Joassames” (now the ruling Al Qasimi family of Sharjah). Ruschenberger’s Voyage is also an important Hawaiian source, some of this material being omitted from the London edition of the same year, as also the “aspersions” on the British (noted by both Sabin and Howes).Forbes 1123; Hill, p. 533; Howgego R33; Howes R-514a; Sabin 74197 for the first-named: the latter, Cordier 2113; Forbes 1123; not in Hill; Howgego R19; not in Lust; Sabin 71884.

£4,500 [71560]

47 SOLINUS, Caius Julius. Polyhistor, rerum toto orbe memorabilium thesaurus locupletissimus. Huic ob argumenti similitudinem Pomponii Melae De Situ Orbis. [With:] MARLIANI, Bartolomeo. Urbis Romae topographia. Basel & Rome: Michael Isingrin & Valerio and Luigi Dorico, 1543 2 works in one volume, small folio (298 × 196 mm). Contemporary vellum, manuscript title in ink to spine, four raised bands, blue edges. Collation: Solinus: a6ß4a–d4e4+2f–r4s4+2t–z, Aa–Ff4 ; 2 folding maps, 2 full-page maps, 16 maps in text. Marliani: A6A–B4C–L6; 5 full-page illustrations (partly folding) including the double-page Palatino map of Rome, 18 oth-er woodcuts in text; woodcut printer’s device on titles and colophon leaf. Binding lightly rubbed and marked, boards sprung, scattered foxing; the Marliani complete with the colophon leaf carrying the Doricos impres-sive woodcut device of Pegasus. A superior copy.

Second edition of Caius Julius Solinus’s Polyhistor, published with the three books of Pomponius Mela’s De situ orbis, the “only an-cient treatise on geography in classical Latin . . . Written about 43 or 44 ce, it remained influential until the beginning of the age of exploration, 13 centuries later” (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Solinus’s work, composed in the 3rd century ce, was originally entitled Collectanea rerum memorabilium but revised in the 6th cen-tury under the present title and was popular in the middle ages. The Solinus includes a folding map of “Asia Maior”, with an early depiction of China and South East Asia and the second iteration of “the earliest representation of the north-west coast of America on a printed map” (Burden), marked as “terra incognita”. It is bound with the first illustrated edition, second issue (with woodcut device on title page) of Marliani’s Urbis Romae topograph-ia, one of the most celebrated early guides to Rome, illustrated with superb engravings of the city’s most important sites. The important folding map cut by the calligrapher and wood engraver Giovanni Battista Palatino, probably designed by Marliani him-self, appears here for the first time, and “set the stage for many separately published maps of the ancient city which came soon after” (Jessica Maier, Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City, 2015, p. 120).Adams 1394 & 611. Burden, The Mapping of North America, 11.

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48 THOMSON, John. Illustrations of China and its People. A Series of Two Hundred Photographs, With Letterpress Description of the Places and People Represented. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873–744 volumes, folio. Publisher’s half morocco, dark green pebbled cloth sides, covers with gilt titles and gilt vignettes of the Confucian Temple at Peking, spine gilt, edges gilt. With 218 photographic views and portraits by Thomson on 96 collotype plates, each with guard and leaf of descrip-tive text. Ownership signature of J. M. Walford to front free endpapers of first 2 volumes. A few marks to cloth, an excellent set.

first edition, deluxe issue in a variant publisher’s binding. “My design in the accompanying work is to present a series of pictures of China and its people, such as shall convey an accurate impression of the country I traversed as well as of the arts, usages, and manners which prevail in different provinces of the Empire. With this intention I made the camera my constant companion of my wanderings, and to it I am indebted for the faithful reproduction of the scenes I visited, and of the types of races which I came into contact” (Thomson, introduction). The Scottish photographer and travel writer, John Thomson (1837–1921) captured some of the most outstanding images of China during the 19th century, beginning at Singapore in the 1860s,

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where his brother was established in business. He then travelled to Cambodia, obtaining permission from King Mongkut to pho-tograph the temples at Angkor and Phnom Penh, and the results were published in his first major work, The Antiquities of Cambodia (Edinburgh, 1867). Returning to the Far East in late 1867, he vis-ited Vietnam and then set up a studio in Hong Kong. “Between 1870 and 1872 he [Thomson] undertook four distinct journeys, up the north branch of the Pearl River, up the River Min to the area around Foochow (Fuzhou), to Peking (Beijing), and finally up the great Yangtze (Yangzi) River. The photographs taken on these journeys form one of the most extensive photographic surveys of any region taken in the nineteenth century. The range and depth

of Thomson’s photographic vision mark him out as one of the most important travel photographers” (ODNB). The present vol-umes, published on his return to London in 1872, established his reputation as a photographer, traveller and authority on China.The first two volumes were printed apparently in an edition of only 600 copies, a restricted run that was increased to 750 copies for volumes 3 and 4; the volumes were sold for £3 3s. each, a sub-stantial amount at the time, which reflects the high standards of production.Parr & Badger I, 32.

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49 THORBECKE, Ellen. Shanghai. With Sketches by Schiff. Shanghai: North China Daily News & Herald Ltd, 1941Octavo. Original pictorial boards, titles in white to spine and front cover, illustrated endpapers. With the dust jacket. Printed in colour throughout with numerous illustrations by Schiff supplementing the text, and full page black and white photographic reproductions by Thorbecke. Rub-bing to extremities, faint offsetting to endpapers, very light toning to contents; else a near-fine copy in the jacket with lightly sunned spine, nicks to spine ends, tips, and edges, a couple of short closed tears to head of front panel, another to foot, and another to foot of rear panel.

first edition, first impression, of this uncommon light-hearted guide to life and culture in Shanghai during the 1930s, when it was dubbed “The Paris of the East”. Ellen Thorbecke (1902–1973) was a Dutch photojournalist who moved to the Repub-lic of China in 1931 when her husband, Willem Thorbecke was ap-pointed Dutch Ambassador to the Republic. Ellen wrote numerous articles for Dutch and German newspapers detailing her travels in the region, and in 1934 she was commissioned to write her first of a number of photo books, Peking Studies, with her friend Friedrich Schiff, a successful Austrian cartoonist living in Shanghai.

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50 WEBB, John. An Historical Essay Endeavoring a Probability that the Language of the Empire of China is the Primitive Language. London: for Nath. Brook, 1669

Octavo (169 × 105 mm). Modern half calf to style, morocco label, marbled sides. Large folding engraved map of China, title printed in red and black. With the errata leaf p3 at end but without final blank. Foxe Point book-plate. A couple of early leaves creased and dusty at upper outer corner where turned down as placemarkers, a very good copy.

first edition of this influential treatise proposing Chinese as the original language, and one of the earliest books in English discussing Chinese culture in any depth. The rare folding map of China, often lacking, derives from that included by Purchas in his Hakluytus Posthumus, 1625, an extract of one obtained by a Captain Saris at Bantam. Purchas reports that the original map was more than a yard square. The map is changed in several respects for pub-lication here, including the addition of an inset of a king of China, and the crest and name of Edmund Squib at the bottom left.The architect John Webb, a pupil of Inigo Jones, argued that Noah could be identified with the legendary king Yao; that he had with-drawn from the tribes whose languages were confounded at Babel long before that point in biblical history, and that he had built the Ark in China, landed it there, and bequeathed to China the lan-guage spoken by Adam, preserved to Webb’s day in modern China as the language of the court. Webb’s view of Chinese script was strongly influenced by not only Semedo but also the Jesuit poly-math and hermeticist Athanasius Kircher. Webb was also inspired by John Wilkins’s recent publication on artificial language, arguing that Wilkins, whether knowingly or not, had based the idea of his artificial language on Chinese. Webb’s proposed harmonisation of world history was taken seriously by many; his work was a major spur to the construction of English sinology in the later decades of the 17th century. The work precedes by almost two decades the Paris Jesuit edition of Confucius, published in 1687.Alston III 781; Wing W1202.

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I N D I A & A F G H A N I S TA NRare and superb great game map of Afghanistan

51 (AFGHANISTAN.) Very impressive large map including parts of British India, Russian Turkestan, Bokhara, Persia and Baluchistan. Scale 1 inch = 16 Miles. Reg. No. 152-S. 01. Dehra Dún: Office of the Trigonometrical Branch, Survey of India, 1901Large coloured heliozincographed wall map, 4 sheets (1285 × 1615 mm), dissected into 50 panels and mounted on linen, brass suspension rings at some time removed, folding into a purplish-brown sand-grain cloth map case (263 × 172 mm), paper cartouche label of Edward Stanford, Long Acre. Case a little sunned, only minor wear to extremities. Map in excellent condition.

Rare and very striking wall map of Afghanistan, dated June 1901, compiled under the orders of the Surveyors General of India Ma-jor-General Charles Strahan (1895–99) and Colonel St. George Corbet Gore (1899–1904): Copac and OCLC record copies at only three institutional libraries worldwide (British Library, Wisconsin and Bayerische Staatsbibliothek). Included is a useful list of “Ad-ditional Authorities Consulted”: among them maps of Karatagh-in and Darwaz (1882) by the Russian military topographer P. E. Kossiakoff; Kafiristan (1884) by Surgeon-Major G. S. Robertson; “Map illustrating the Havildar’s and the Mulla’s Routes in Wakhan, Kolab and Darwaz by Captain H. Trotter, RE” (1876, Henry Trotter was part of the Forsyth Mission of 1873–74); Routes in Persia (1893) by Sir Percy Sykes; four Russian maps (two of the Trans-Caspian, “sources of the Amu Dariya” (the Oxus), “Tehran, Askabad, &c”) and the maps of the Pamirs and Upper Oxus Regions (1894) by Ney Elias (1844–1897), an important figure in the Great Game.The present copy has a number of interesting contemporary an-notations showing a certain familiarity with the country, some in red and blue pencil, underlining place names, other pencillings

connecting towns, and the frequent use of a discreet symbol in purple ink that we have not been able to identify, but may be the location of way points or sangars (temporary fortified positions) established by the British; alternatively they may show known or suspected positions of Afghan tribesmen. The most prominent annotation is the manuscript addition of the name “Jani Khel” and an arrow pointing to the area on the map marked as Katawaz (the Pashto name for the town of Zarghun Shar but also the plain to the south of the town). It was a raid by Waziri Mahsuds on the flocks of the Jani Khel tribe that precip-itated the Mahsud Blockade of 1900–1902; the official report of operations notes that a garrison of sepoys was stationed at Jani Khel. “The blockade came into force on 1 December 1900. To en-force the blockade [intended to prevent the Mashuds having any contact outside their tribal area], a line of posts was established between Bannu [highlighted here in red pencil] and Dera Ismail Khan . . . Some eight battalions of infantry, two regiments of cavalry and four sections of mountain artillery were initially em-ployed. Some payments of the fine [imposed by the British] were made but outrages still continued, troops and Militia were killed and rifles and mail stolen. Originally the blockade had been seen as a relatively cheap alternative to a punitive expedition, but af-ter twelve months results were meagre and recourse was had in November 1901 to a number of small mobile columns . . . the col-umns harassed the Mahsuds from all directions simultaneously, destroying defences, capturing men and cattle and destroying grain and crops . . . The tribe eventually sued for peace in January 1902 . . . It was a sad commentary on British policy that no bet-ter method could be found to curb Mahsud intransigence” (Brian Robson, Crisis on the Frontier: The Third Afghan War and the Campaign in Waziristan 1919–1920, 2004, pp. 159–60).See C. Collin Davies, The Problem of the North-West Frontier 1890–1908 (Cam-bridge UP, 1932); East India (North-West Frontier): Mahsud-Waziri Operations (London: HMSO, 1902).

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first and sole edition; fifty-nine individuals are named on the list of subscribers, contributing towards the expense of the litho-graph plates. This is an important early work in the transmission of information about the celebrated Buddhist caves of western India, in particular those at Ajanta, accidentally discovered in 1819, when a British officer, John Smith, stumbled across them during a tiger hunt. In 1844 Major Robert Gill was commissioned by the Royal Asiatic Society to make copies of the wall paintings and Robert Fergusson’s Illustrations of the Rock-Cut Temples of India was published at London in 1845, predating the present work by just two years – although Bird’s study incorporates researches he “had made as early as 1828, [which] firmly proved the Buddhist origin of the cave temples of Salsette, Karli, Ajanta, Ellora and others” (Archer & Lightbown, India Observed, V&A, 1982, p. 126). Bird had original-ly caused outrage when he took a crowbar to some paintings at Ajanta, in an attempt to remove examples for study. This brought a public condemnation from Fergusson. However, “twenty years had brought a notable change of heart [in Bird]. For whereas the James Bird of 1828 defaced Ajanta notwithstanding protest, his own book spoke of ‘the duty imposed on us, as a nation, to pre-serve these relics of ancient art’. Bird was not concerned solely with the caves as memorials to India’s past. Rather, presaging the World Heritage Convention’s criterion that its monuments must possess exceptional universal value, Bird imagined India’s cave temples to be synedoches for its populace’s state of grace” (Richard S. Cohen, Beyond Enlightenment: Buddhism, Religion, Modernity, 2017). Decidedly uncommon on the market; institutionally, Copac cites copies at seven British and Irish libraries, OCLC adding 18 worldwide.

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53 BOURNE, Samuel & Charles Shepherd. Original photographic panorama of the Coronation Park, Delhi Coronation Durbar, 1911. Delhi: Bourne & Shepherd, 19115-part silver gelatin panorama, hinged with linen verso, each panel c.183 × 259 mm, together c.1300 mm, or over 4 foot long. Framed and glazed to style, burlwood frame with gilt slip, conservation mount, UV resistant glass. Short split to one panel at the edge of the linen hinge, repaired verso, else very good.

Spectacular image from the last of the great Imperial Durbars, celebrating the coronation of King George V and his consort Queen Mary. “Edwardian Britain may have been more reticent than resplendent, but in the East in 1911 a fabulous feast of pag-eantry and pomp heralded the dawn of the modern age. India and her 315 million subjects were ‘the brightest jewel in the Im-

52 BIRD, James. Historical Researches on the Origin and Principles of the Bauddha [sic] and Jaina Religions: embracing the leading tenets of their system, as found, prevailing in various countries; illustrated by descriptive accounts of the sculptures in the Caves of Western India, with translations of the inscriptions from those of Kanari, Karli, Ajanta, Ellora, Nasik, &c. which indicate their connexion with the Coins and Topes of the Panjab and Afghanistan. Bombay: Printed at the American Mission Press. T. Graham, Printer, 1847Small folio (370 × 255 mm). Contemporary grey-green bead-grain half cloth, marbled sides. 53 lithograph plates (complete, numbered I–LIII plus unnumbered folding supplementary plate, plate XLIII not issued, complying with copies at Princeton and Harvard), lithographed by F. de Jesus after Lieut. Bird (78th Highlanders) and A. B. Orlebar. Ownership inscriptions of “W. H. Clarke, Rainhill, 1876” to front pastedown, head of title, list of plates and Chapter 1. Spine rumpled, binding a little rubbed, lower fore-corner of plates damp-stained, scattered foxing, a few plates toned, folding plate a little soiled and ragged at fore edge, closed tears into plates XXV and XXXII, overall a good sound copy.

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perial diadem’ when King George V’s coronation as King-Emper-or was held in Delhi. He was the only monarch to visit British India, once as Prince of Wales in 1906 and once to be invested with his imperial title” (Alexandra Henton, “The Delhi Durbar: a Remarkable Spectacle”, The Field, 17 November 2011). The image here shows the immense parade ground, centring on the Royal Pavilion, where the imperial couple were to be crowned, and to the left is the richly-decorated shamiana – the homage pavilion – where they can be seen seated to receive tribute; the whole sur-rounded by the sweep of ornate 12,000-seater stand to the left, and the massive semicircular terraced mound holding around 70,000 local spectators across the centre and right. Founded in 1863, the long-established firm of Bourne & Shepherd were the official photographers for the Durbar, being awarded with the Kaisar-i-Hind medal for their services, a distinction that they retained on their letterhead until their closure in 2016. A striking record of what has been described by historian Nayana Goradia as the “Last Hurrah of the Raj”.

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54 CHERRY-GARRARD, Apsley, Major-General. Indian Mutiny and other Letters. [Lamer House, Hertfordshire: c.1914]Quarto (252 × 194 mm). Early-20th century russet morocco by Bickers & Son, spine gilt lettered direct with blind-ruled panels, blind-tooled panels on sides, front cover gilt lettered, gilt edges, drab grey-green endpapers. With 317 leaves of mimeographed typescript (rectos only), 21 mounted illustrations (mostly original photographs) on 19 sheets. Joints a little rubbed, a few minor abrasions to binding. A note on the rear free endpaper reads: “Apologia: The photos demounted from cards and remounted here-in; the news cuttings sized & remounted; the Flower displayed and all writ-ten up by: Anthony Gardner, OBE, Sept. anno 1963”. In excellent condition.

A remarkable and handsomely presented commemorative vol-ume, one of only six copies assembled for the children of Ma-jor-General Apsley Cherry-Garrard CB (1832–1907), this copy in-scribed “Margaret Ursula Cherry-Garrard from Mother, July 29th 1914”. The Prefatory Note closes with the lines: “The following letters written to his mother and brother and some others to Col. Welby have been put together for his children” (p. vii). Apsley and Evelyn Edith Cherry-Garrard (née Sharpin, 1857–1946) had six children, five girls (Margaret Ursula (1896–1979), Ida Evelyn, Elsie Charlotte, Mildred, and Edith) and one son, the celebrated Polar explorer Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1886–1959), author of The Worst Journey in the World (1922), “a classic of Antarctic literature” (ODNB).

In her highly-acclaimed biography of the polar explorer, Sara Wheel-er gives a memorable description of his father, noting his “gallant-ry in the Mutiny” and distinguished service in South Africa (ninth Xhosa War 1877–79 and Anglo-Zulu War 1879). He “remained an ex-emplary soldier. The one-eyed Field Marshal Lord Wolseley, an out-standing soldier himself, called Apsley Cherry the bravest man he had ever seen” (Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, 2002, pp. 8-10).The highlights here are the two collections of unpublished letters from Cherry-Garrard to his mother, brother (George Charles Cher-ry JP), sister Amy, and Colonel Louis Worthington Wilmer (1828–1923) fellow officer in the 90th Foot who served alongside Cher-ry-Garrard during the Mutiny: the first a group of approximately 46, dated March 1857–May 1860, covering his service in India. The second of approximately 30 letters dated February 1878–Septem-ber 1879, concerning service in South Africa. These are richly-de-tailed letters of real immediacy, written in the field and forming an outstanding record of service life in Victoria’s army. Included here are copies of five original photographic portraits of Cherry-Gar-rard, one showing him with the young Apsley on the staircase of their home at Lamer House, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire (de-stroyed by fire 1951); two pressed flowers captioned “Flowers from the Alum Bagh, picked by Katie Burnside in 1912” (the Alambagh was an area of Lucknow converted to a fortress during the Mutiny and defended by General James Outram during repeated ferocious attacks); swatch of Douglas tartan as worn by the 90th Foot (Perth-shire Volunteeers); some 14 photographs of scenes at Lucknow (largely 105 × 155 mm); three fine group photographs including Cherry-Garrard (in mufti in two images) with officers of various units (140 × 180 mm); related newspaper clippings.

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“A marvelous unvarnished truth”

55 COMBE, Boyce Albert. Letters from B.A.C. (Afghanistan – 1878–80). London: J. Davy & Sons (Dryden Press), 1880Octavo. Original red morocco-grain skiver, smooth spine divided into compartments with a blind double rule, front cover lettered in gilt “Pri-vate Letters”, marbled edges and endpapers. With 3 lithograph plates of battle plans showing dispositions and movements outside Kabul (actual-ly the same plan reproduced thrice). Spine cocked and a little worn, joints partially split but firm, wear to extremities. A very good copy.

first and sole edition of this important eyewitness account of the Second Afghan War, privately printed in a putative edition of just 25 copies, with the ownership inscription of the author’s mother on a preliminary blank: “Eliza Combe, Jan: 1881”. Copac cites copies at only two British and Irish institutional libraries (BL, Oxford), OCLC adds Minnesota.As a captain with the 10th Hussars Combe (1841–1920) was bri-gade-major of cavalry with the Peshawar Valley Field Force, be-fore serving as deputy assistant quartermaster-general attached to the Kabul Field Force. “Combe is posted to General Roberts’s army for the duration of hostilities including the march on Ka-bul, the siege of Sherpur, and Roberts’s famous march to Kanda-har. Combe’s letters [addressed to his brother Charles], October 1871 to October 1880, are attractive for their everyday detail de-scribing the military life of that period. For example a dhoolie carrying a cholera patient was marked with a yellow flag, the dou-ble-barelled Wilkinson pistol adapted to fire the Martini-Henry cartridge was preferred for use against the Afghan, or the great advantages offered by heliographic communication between dis-tant army units. On occasion a trace of cynicism entered Combe’s letters as he questioned political policy, the perks of the senior ranks, and the quickness displayed by army widows at remarry-ing. As private letters to his family, they retain a marvelous unvar-nished truth” (Riddick).Riddick, Glimpses of India, 306.

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56 DALRYMPLE, [Alexander.] Oriental Repertory. London: printed by George Bigg: sold by P. Elmsly, and Mr. Chapman, 1791-[7]

2 volumes, folio (315 × 233 mm), in 8 parts. Recent mottled calf to style, smooth spines richly gilt in compartments, twin red and green morocco labels, decorative rolled borders gilt to covers, marbled endpapers. With 22 engraved maps and plans, 13 of them folding, 7 engraved plates, 3 of them folding, 3 double-sided folding letterpress tables. Blind stamp of the James B. Ford Library, Explorers’ Club, to title pages, vol. I sig. 6G2 and vol. II sig. 4H2. Lacking section titles, vol. 2 general title and index leaves as usual (possibly never issued, see below); title leaf of the Plan of Publication (the one-leaf prospectus found after the vol. 1 title) bound to front of vol. 2 as often: “Introduction to the first number of the Oriental Repertory Vol. II” bound after “Introduction to the third num-ber”. Vol. 1: small hole to lower outer corner of vol. 1 sig. 3N, the text unaffected; p. 375 slightly marked in fore margin, sig. 5Y2 very lightly spotted, tape-repair to lower outer corner verso of the second map of Colonel Upton’s Route from Poona to Bengal, facing p. 498, just touch-ing border, small hole to fore margin of the Plan of Cannanore facing p. 578, not affecting image. Vol. 2: pp. 61, 449 and 561 lightly marked, a few gatherings slightly browned. Otherwise a few trivial marks only. An excellent copy, internally very crisp and fresh indeed.

first edition, first issue, large paper copy, from the stated print-run of 250 copies only, of this valuable compilation of researches into the history, culture, topography, commerce and natural history of India, Burma, Cochinchina, and China. It consists mostly of reports, charts and translations produced by agents of the East India Company, including Dalrymple him-self, nearly all previously unpublished. Copies of this biblio-graphically complex part-work are to be found at the expected institutions in various states of completeness, but in commerce we trace only two first issue copies containing all text and plates (and both lacking the volume II general title, as in the present copy), and one copy of the 1808 reissue.

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Dalrymple (1737–1808) travelled east as a writer to the East In-dia Company, undertaking a number of reconnaissance voyages across the region and concluding a treaty with the Sultan of Sulu. In 1763 he returned to London and worked to promote eastern trade and Pacific exploration, and was notably passed over in fa-vour of James Cook for the Transit of Venus expedition. In 1775 he re-joined the HEIC, for whom he “began to produce a series of charts, navigational memoirs and coastal views for the East Indies navigation, from the Mozambique Channel to China” (ODNB), and was appointed hydrographer to the Admiralty in 1795, where he was tasked with consolidating their collection of charts and plans. He died shortly after his acrimonious dismissal in 1808. Though largely remembered today for his disputes with the HEIC and Admiralty, he “led a life exemplifying service to his country during the age of Enlightenment. His influential role in Britain’s maritime history makes him an outstanding historical figure” (NMS cataloguing of his portrait). Despite the founding of the Asiatick Miscellany by Francis Glad-win in 1785, and the publication of Asiatick Researches by the Asi-atic Society of Bengal, Dalrymple was justifiably confident that there was still a niche in the market. Botanist William Roxburgh

offered papers on the cultivation of pepper in Travancore and a description of the indigo tree for the first number; James Ren-nell submitted a map of the Ava River; and Charles Wilkins per-mitted the first publication of a portion of his translation of the Mahabharata to appear in the second volume. Other important material, much of which Dalrymple appears to have obtained through his own researches, include one Captain George Baker’s account of his embassy to Persaim (now Pathein, Burma) in 1755; “Ensign Lester’s Embassy to the King of Ava, 1757” and the text of the ensuing treaty, a 1753 report on tea-growing in Canton by Frederick Pigot (probably a relative of George, twice president of the Company); and all manner of reports, either unattributed or by various lesser-known HEIC agents, on the Hindu caste sys-tem, Tipu Sultan, the Nair princes of the Malabar coast, “Some account of Cohin-China, by Mr. Robert Kirsop”, cities such as Jai-pur and Agra, imports and exports to and from Macao, Canton, and Japan, and similar subjects.Goldsmiths’–Kress 15633.1.

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57 DEVELIN, Sergeant-Major, Royal Engineers. Views in Chitral. Taken during the Advance of the 3rd Brigade of the Chitral Relief Force under the Command of Brigadier-General W. F. Gatacre. London: Maclure & Co., 1896Landscape quarto. Original red embossed cloth, title gilt to front board. 127 photogravure plates (4 folding). A little rubbed and spotted, particu-larly at the spine, front hinge cracked as often, and a couple of plates sprung, but overall very good.

first and only edition of this fine visual record of the 1895 expedition to relieve the siege of Chitral, an incident of the Great Game that became a considerable cause célèbre. The Russians were making solid advances in the region, pushing across the Khanates of Central Asia and “to British officers stationed on the frontier, and their masters in Calcutta, it looked as though the long feared Russian penetration of the passes had now begun” (Hopkirk, The Great Game, p. 449). The independent monarchy of Chitral was seen as a possible route for the Russians into India; the death in 1892 of the ruler Aman-ul-Mulk II, in the absence of any law of succession, threw the state into chaos, and Britain intervened to ensure sta-bility. In an attempt to establish a secure base for operations, the political agent, Surgeon Major George Robertson, occupied the lo-cal fort, and found himself bottled up there. “The vision of a hand-ful of British officers, with their loyal native troops, holding out against overwhelming odds in a remote and picturesque fortress, brought to mind the recent tragedy in the Sudan” (ibid., p. 492). Develin’s pictorial journal follows the progress of the British relief force from their entry into the Malakand Pass to arrival at Chitral, and includes numerous excellent landscapes, together with group portraits of British and native troops, and of local dignitaries. An at-tractively-produced and sought-after record: uncommon, with only four copies on Copac, to which OCLC adds a further five locations.Bruce 4350; Yakushi D196.

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58 DOROW, Wilhelm. Morgenlaendische Alterthümer. [with:] Die Indische Mythologie erläutert durch drei noch nicht bekannt gewordene Original-Gemählde aus Indien. Weisbaden: L. Schellenberg, 1820-12 volumes, quarto (all published). Original orange fine diaper-grain pa-per-covered boards, smooth spines with gilt fillets, sides with border of del-icate gilt swags and corner ornaments of neoclassical ovals, all edges gilt, sheen-finish blue endpapers. Housed in a custom made blue cloth solander box. With 5 lithograph plates (one folding), 2 large folding facsimiles (one on heavy violet paper and printed in gilt, now somewhat oxidised, in the style of the original). Armorial bookplate (in vol. I) of Gerold Zimmerlin (1856–1942), owner of a spinning mill at Basel. Some rubbing and chipping to extremities, general light toning to letterpress but generally very good and sound, with the original pink printed wrappers for vol. II bound in.

first editions, only two numbers were published, of this rare German periodical devoted to Indian and Assyrian art and archae-ology. Volume I deals with cuneiform tablets and cylinder seals, many from Dorow’s own collection, and the Tibetan written lan-guage; volume II covers Indian and Tibetan mythology and sym-bolism in Indian art. The distinguished German archaeologist Wil-helm Dorow (1790–1845) made excavations in both Germany and at Etruscan sites in Italy before being appointed first director of what was to become the Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn; the Wilhelm-Dorow-Gesellschaft was named in his honour. “In 1820 Dr. Dorow published, at Wiesbaden, Heft I [notebook I]of his Morgenlaendische Alterthümer . . . In it he gives engravings of three cylinders, one of them after Lichtenstein’s ‘Tentamen’ [Helmstadt 1803] and the two others not before published. They are both among the most important cylinders known.. It was brought from Constantinople by Graf Joseph von Schwachheim, who was for eight years Austrian Minister at the Porte, and was given by his heir, through the intervention of Prof. G. C. Braun, Mainz, to Dr. Dorow, in 1819 . . . The other is the even more important cylinder belonging to Dr. John Hine of Baghdad, a copy of which had been

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59 (EAST INDIA COMPANY.) A Directory, and Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1807. In three Parts. Part I. Containing Bengal, Civil, Military, and Medical Establishments, etc. etc. Part II. Containing Bengal Marine Establishment, Bengal Military Widows’ Fund, Bengal Civil Fund, and Government Bank Regulations, etc. etc. Part III. Containing Madras, Civil Military, and Medical Establishments, etc. etc. Ceylon, Civil Establishment, and Bombay, Civil, Military, Medical, and Marine Establishments, etc. etc. Kidderpore: printed at the Orphan Press, 18073 parts in 1 volume, octavo (222 × 146 mm). Contemporary red verti-cal-grain morocco, rebacked retaining most of the original gilt-tooled spine, sides with concentric gilt fillet, rope-twist, scrolling floral and frond rolls, gilt edge roll, marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom made red cloth solander box. Divisional titles with wood-engraved decorative cartouches, wood-engraved head- and tailpieces, 7 folding statistical ta-bles. Craquelure to rubbed and faded spine now stabilised, a few light marks and indentations to boards, extremities rubbed, upper fore-cor-ners refurbished, stab-holes to gutter, occasional foxing, title page slight-

ly soiled, small hole to intersection of folds of plate facing p. 20 in Part I, mild insect damage to edges of pp. 54–7, small paper flaw to top edge of pp. 33–4, old paper repair to p. 54, yet in very good condition.

Highly important and extremely rare primary source for the East India Company during the first full year of Lord Minto’s gover-nor-generalship of Bengal (which in effect gave him “authority over all British possessions in India”, ODNB): no other copy of this or any other iteration traced. This is a richly detailed alma-nac, supplying invaluable information on both the civil, military and medical establishments of Bengal, Madras, Ceylon and Bom-bay. A survival of some consequence, handsomely presented here in a restored presentation binding.provenance: contemporary gift inscription to divisional title of Part I: “Richard Ingram Esq., White Ladies, Worcester. From his sincere friend [initialled but illegible] Febry 20. 1807, Calcutta.” Ingram (d. 1811 aged 63) was the leaseholder of White Ladies on the eastern outskirts of Worcester, the site of the former Cister-cian nunnery of Whitstones. Ingram was born in Covent Garden, educated at Pembroke College, admitted a student at Lincoln’s Inn (21 June 1764), and called to the bar in 1772. His father, Ed-ward Ingram, was a silk mercer and this may give the family a connection with India; the trade of the East India Company in Indian silk was developed and improved during the 1770s.

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60 EYRE, Vincent, Lieut. [Title from original wrapper:] Prison Sketches, comprising Portraits of the Cabul Prisoners, and other Subjects; by . . . Lithographed by Lowes Dickinson. London: Dickinson and Son, [1843]Quarto (215 × 280 mm). Original portfolio of yellow ochre diagonal-ly-combed moiré cloth boards, green diapered cloth hinges, roan patch label to front panel, cream surface-papered flaps still intact; front and rear panel of brown paper wrapper, printed in brown, from a set of the uncoloured issue. 32 lithographs printed on card and sensitively hand-coloured with heightening in gum arabic (most c.166 × 109 mm), mounted on plain card leaves (263 × 216 mm), as issued; 26 portraits and 6 views (one a folding panorama of Bamyan, c.100 × 365 mm). Con-temporary ownership inscription at head of preserved front wrapper “Angerstein”, almost certainly Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. W. Angerstein, Grneadier Guards. Portfolio professionally refurbished, a little soiled, some plates identified by pencil notes at foot of mount leaf or on verso, light foxing and toning to mount cards but the plates themselves bright and attractive.

first edition, the very scarce “deluxe” issue of Eyre’s ex-cellent suite of illustrations; the standard issue, without handcol-ouring, was “adapted for binding up with the journals of Lieut. V. Eyre, and Lady Sale” (from the original wrappers of that issue, present here). Early on in its existence this set of plates had been bound (notches for cords are visible) and tissue guards supplied. Copac cites copies at only five British and Irish institutional li-braries (BL, Oxford, SOAS, Ickworth, Nostell Priory—incom-plete—all of the standard issue); OCLC adds another 11 in librar-ies worldwide; only two complete copies with hand-colouring on auction records.This arresting visual record relating to the disasters at Kabul in 1842, primarily features a series of portraits of key figures pic-tured in Afghan dress but also three views of the caves and giant Buddhas at Bamyan (destroyed in 2001), “the Fort in which Genl. Elphinstone died” and the Kushan-era Buddhist pillar of Minar-i Chakri (destroyed in 1998). In November 1841 Eyre was severely wounded at Kabul. “A treaty for evacuation was ratified on 1 Jan-uary 1842. Eyre, still suffering from his wound, and accompanied by his wife and child, started with the column but they were tak-en as hostages by Akbar Khan. They spent nearly nine months in captivity, with other British captives, moved to different forts,

and suffered many privations. The climate, however, was healthy; the captives held public worship and established a school for their children. Eyre kept a diary and sketched the officers and la-dies. The manuscript was smuggled to a friend in India then pub-lished in England as Military Operations at Cabul (1843). In August the captives were hurried off towards Bamyan in the Hindu Kush, under threat of being sold as slaves to the Uzbeks of Turkestan. They were saved by Pottinger, who on 11 September bought over the Afghan commanding their escort” (ODNB).Not in Abbey.

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61 FLOYER, Ernest Ayscoghe. Unexplored Baluchistan. A Survey, with Observations Astronomical, Geographical, Botanical, etc., of a Route through Mekran, Bashkurd, Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey. London: Griffith & Farran, 1882Large octavo. Original moderate yellow-green cloth, gilt lettered spine, front cover decorated in red and black with the pattern of a traditional Balochi fabric, black surface-paper endpapers. Fine Woodburytype fron-tispiece portrait of the author with his Balochi servant, 4 tinted litho-graph plates, 6 wood-engraved plates, one wood engraving in the text, folding engraved coloured map at end (showing the author’s route). W. H. Smith’s Subscription Library label to front pastedown. Spine neatly re-

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63 GRIGGS, William. 18 Plates of Ornamental Tiles Collected By the Afghan Boundary Commission. London: Griggs & Co. [1894]Small folio. Original green morocco-grained cloth portfolio, front cover titled in silver. 18 chromolithographed plates – (A-D, 46–56, 88–90) – all plates bearing the caption: “Tile: From water colour drawing from the collection of the Afghan Boundary Commission”. Portfolio split at ex-tremities of spine (old tape repair at head), the plates clean, the colours remaining fresh and vibrant. A very good copy.

first and sole edition, extremely uncommon: V&A and BL only in the UK; OCLC adds another ten locations. A striking set of plates of tiles collected by the Afghan Boundary Commission (1884–86), the joint Anglo-Russian project established to set Af-ghanistan’s northern border. A team travelled through Herat, Bala Murghab, Mazar-i-Sharif and then over the Hindu Kush; during the course of their journey they collected artefacts includ-ing textiles, pottery, and coins, of which many were donated to museums in England, including the British Museum and V&A. William Griggs was a dedicated promoter of South Asia art and, in 1884, launched the lavishly illustrated Journal of Indian Art and Industry, which featured contributions from William Morris and John Ruskin. It ran for over thirty years, continuing after Griggs’ death in 1911. Thirteen of these plates appeared in volume V of the journal. Griggs’s printing workshop, which he began in Peck-ham in 1868, proved an ambitious but extremely successful ven-ture. “His pioneering work in the wide diffusion of colour print-ing led a contemporary to claim that, but for his ‘brilliant and painstaking work, chromolithography as a means of illustrating books would be almost a lost art, like that of coloured aquatint’” (ODNB).Charles Edward Yate, Letters from the Afghan Boundary Commission, 1888.

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paired at extremities, some foxing to frontispiece and title, short closed-tear to map, a few informed marginal pencillings, general signs of han-dling yet a good, clean, sound copy.

first edition of this attractively illustrated and important work on Baluchistan. Floyer (1852–1903), a member of the Government Indo-European Telegraph Staff in the Persian Gulf, explored Bal-uchistan between January 1876 and May 1877: as far north as Bam-pur and as far west as Bandar Abbas before crossing Persia via Kirman and Isfahan to Baghdad. In January 1878 he was posted to Egypt and appointed inspector-general of Egyptian telegraphs. “His observations and surveys, published as Unexplored Baluch-istan (1882), describe a journey from Jask to Bampur, a tour in the Persian Gulf, and a journey from Jask to Kerman via Angohran. There are appendices on dialects of western Baluchistan and on plants collected. The volume met with praise from contemporary reviewers and established his reputation as an explorer. It was republished in a new edition as recently as 1980 . . . His contribu-tion lay in his intelligent and well-informed descriptions of Egypt and particularly of Baluchistan, then little known to Europeans” (ODNB). The title is decidedly uncommon in commerce.Not in Atabey or Ghani; Howgego III F22; Wilson p. 72.

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62 GANDHI, Mahatma. Young India 1919–22. With a Brief Sketch of the Non Co-Operation Movement by Babu Rajendra Prasad [with The Trial of Mahatma Gandhi bound in after the main text.] Madras S. Ganesan, 1922Octavo. Publisher’s blue cloth, title gilt to spine, floral endpapers. Ex-tremities a little bumped and rubbed, boards slightly toned, library ticket removed from front cover, publisher’s slip “with the author’s compli-ments” tipped in at front, stamp of the “Manchester Guardian Library” to title page, text block a little toned. A very good copy.

first edition of this anthology of Gandhi’s articles in his week-ly journal, Young India, intended to introduce Gandhi’s writings to a much wider audience. Young India had originally been launched by Jamnadas Dwarkadas and its editorial line opposed Gandhi’s calls for non-cooperation. However, after the Bombay Chronicle was put under British censorship, Gandhi looked for another outlet for his views and became editor of the journal. He turned it from a bi-weekly into a weekly and stopped printing advertise-ments. Its popularity grew vastly from a circulation of less than 2,500 in 1919 to 40,000 in 1922. In 1922 Gandhi was put on trial over the content of three articles in the journal. A summary of the trial, separately published on the Huxley Press in Madras, is bound in at the end of this copy and it reproduces the arguments of Sir T. Strangman, the Advocate-General, against Gandhi. This copy was sent to the Manchester Guardian for review. The paper ran a series of articles by J. T. Gwynn worrying that India would use Home Rule “to get quarrelling among yourself, reducing the country to anarchy” (Gwynn, Indian Politics, pp. 5–6). Later in the 1930s the Guardian’s view hardened. C. P. Scott said Gandhi was “absolutely extreme [and had] only one thing to say to Britain in India – clear out” (Owen, “Facts are Sacred”, Journal of Modern His-tory, 2012, p. 665).

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“Next to Daniell, the most attractive colour plate book on India”

64 GRINDLAY, Robert Melville. Scenery, Costumes and Architecture, Chiefly on the Western Side of India. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1830Folio (400 × 315 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, spine richly gilt in compartments with repeated floral design, double-ruled flat bands between dotted rolls gilt, red morocco label, all edges gilt, marbled sides and endpapers. Engraved title with coloured stipple vignette by J. S. Agar, 36 plates coloured in aquatint on large paper by Reeve, Bently and oth-ers, all after original drawings by Grindlay, Westall, Roberts, Daniel, Stanfield, Fielding and Purser. Interleaves after each plate. “Portico of a Hindoo Temple” plate bound as frontispiece (listed last in Abbey). Joints and extremities very slightly rubbed, some faint toning to morocco at corners, binder’s blanks foxed, occasional light spotting and offsetting to interleaves of which 2 with small chips to top edges, a few plates (“British Residency at Hyderabad”, “Fishing Boats in the Monsoon”, “Entrance of the Great Cave Temple”) with faint marginal smudges and marks with images spared. An excellent copy.

first edition, third issue (the first one-volume itera-tion). Robert Melville Grindlay (1786–1877), also known as the founder of Grindlay's Bank, arrived in India in 1803 and served with the 7th Bombay Native Infantry from 1804–20. After his re-tirement he founded the agency firm of Grindlay’s & Co. and began a career as a talented self-trained artist. Grindlay’s work has been described as “after [the Daniells’s] Oriental Scenery . . . perhaps the

most magnificent ever devoted to India . . . prepared with excep-tional care usual only in the most ambitious books of picturesque views . . . the Westall views are rendered with all the light trans-parency of colour and tone proper to the late eighteenth century” (Archer & Lightbown, India Observed, V&A 1982, pp. 89–90).This copy has the imprint of Smith, Elder & Co. on the single title page; the two contents leaves brought together and without part-titles or sheet signatures; the text-leaves are watermarked

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1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, with a few marked 1842. The work was originally published in six parts of six plates each, of which the first two were published by Ackermann, starting in 1826. Publi-cation was then taken over by Smith, Elder, whose name replaces Ackermann on the remaining 24 plates. “The book therefore ex-ists in three forms: copies in parts or bound from the parts, cop-ies divided internally into two volumes but without the part-ti-tles, the text being a reprint, and copies with one title page only” (Abbey). An attractive copy of this superb work.Abbey, Travel 442, Colas 1334; Tooley (1954) 239.

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65 HARCOURT, Alfred Frederick Pollock. Kooloo – Lahoul – Chumba: an album of over 50 watercolour sketches taken in the Lower Himalayan regions of the Punjab, present-day Himachal Pradesh. 1871–3Folio album (375 × 515 mm). Contemporary dark green half morocco, mid-green morocco-grained cloth, for R. Ackermann, Regent Street, matching patch label, lettered as above to the front board, low bands to the spine with broad gilt rules, paired thick and thin gilt rules to spine and corner edges. With 53 finished watercolours & 1 pencil drawing mounted rectos only on light card mounting leaves within inked line borders; 29 of the watercolours measure approximately 250 × 350 mm, and 17 around 170 × 250 mm, with the remaining 7 in marginally smaller or larger for-mats. The majority are captioned in the image in pencil or colour, all have detailed ink captioning on the mounting leaves. A further 6 watercolours have been loosely inserted. A little rubbed and scuffed, corners through, some minor stripping, leaves lightly browned and slightly rippled, some minor marginal soot-smutting towards the front, the watercolours all in excellent condition, overall very good.

Superbly vivid pictorial record of travels through the Himalayan regions of the Punjab, now the state of Himachal Pradesh. Har-court’s journey took him from present-day Kullu to Killar in Sep-tember 1871; he later visited the hill station of Dalhousie between June and October 1873, with images of excursions to the Beas Val-ley and Rohtang Pass, to Gondla west of Dalhousie, taking in the village of Kugti in the Chamba District in September 1873. The sketches are immediate and detailed, if impressionistic, suggest-ing that they were taken with the intention of working them up as more highly finished images later. Together they convey a telling impression of the rugged, mountainous scenery of this Himala-yan region, many of them also showing built structures, native

houses, villages, and temples, and the numerous precipitously gorge-spanning “joola” rope suspension bridges. The watercolours are unsigned, but have been firmly attributed to Captain Alfred Frederick Pollock Harcourt (1836–1910), Assistant Commissioner in the Punjab from April 1869 to March 1871, involved in action at the relief of Lucknow in 1857. “He clearly delighted in the Punjab Hills, especially Kullu, where he was posted in 1869 and where he found scope for painting landscapes and the local people” (British Library, India Office Select Materials). In 1871 Harcourt published an account of the region, The Himalayan Districts of Kooloo, Lahoul, and Spiti, illustrated with just four lithographs from his draw-ings of local people. The four drawings used for the book are held in the British Library’s India Office Collection, part of their archive of 545 drawings by Harcourt executed between 1861 and 1889. A com-parison of the watercolours in the present album with the digitised images of Harcourt’s work in the British Library collection show similarities of style, palette, the manner in which the sketches are captioned and dated, and in the handwriting of the captions itself.The album, which would have been compiled after Harcourt re-turned to England in 1889, fills chronological lacunae in the British Library holdings among which there is just a single image dating from 1871, and only seven dating from February and October 1873. The BL’s collection of Harcourt’s work was donated by Dunca-Grant, Harcourt being a distant relation. A highly appealing, and previously unrecorded, personal record of the foothills of the Him-alayas in the mid-nineteenth century. A full listing of the captions and dimensions of the watercolours is available on request.Yakushi H45 for Harcourt’s publication on the region.

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Lithographed by “the undoubted technical master of the process”

66 HARDINGE, Charles Stewart. Recollections of India. Drawn on Stone by J. D. Harding, from the Original Drawings. Part I. British India and the Punjab. [Part II. Kashmir and the Alpine Punjab]. London: Thomas M’Lean, 18472 volumes bound as one, elephant folio (550 × 380 mm). Original dark reddish-brown quarter morocco, dark purplish-grey moiré cloth sides, title gilt to spine and front board, single broad gilt rule to spine edges, yellowish-white coated endpapers. Tinted lithographic frontispiece and 25 similar plates lithographed by J. D. Harding (22), Auguste-François Laby (3) and Thomas Fairland (1) after Charles Stewart Hardinge, each accompanied by leaf of descriptive letterpress. Slightly rubbed, some minor repairs to spine, neatly recased, linen hinges, customary foxing throughout (endleaves more heavily affected), text leaves toned; frontis-piece and five other leaves professionally consolidated at the fore edge, overall a very good copy.

first and sole edition, highly uncommon, of this super-lative visual record of India, published in the wake of the First Anglo-Sikh War, which engulfed the Punjab during the winter months of 1845–6. The fine plates are based on drawings made by the young Charles Stewart Hardinge, second Viscount Har-dinge of Lahore (1822–1894), who accompanied his father, Henry Hardinge, to India as private secretary. This naturally afforded him a superb opportunity to make sketches of the country; in fact, Hardinge visited the battlefield of Ferozeshah (fought 21–22 December 1845) within “but a very few hours” of its conclusion. “Owing to his father’s friendship with Sir Francis Grant (1803–1878) [the Scottish portrait painter] and Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Har-dinge was brought up among artistic influences, and was himself no mean painter in watercolours. In 1847 his friends in England published a folio volume entitled Recollections of India, consisting of twenty lithographs from his drawings made in India, particularly interesting for its portraits of Sikh chieftains and views of scenery in Kashmir, then an almost unknown country [and which Har-dinge calls “the far-famed region of romance and poetry”], which he visited in company with John Nicholson (1821–1857)” (ibid.). The exceptional lithographic views were the work of James Duff-ield Harding (1797–1863), described by Michael Twyman as “the undoubted technical master of the process” (Lithography 1800–1850,

1970, p. 196). The portraits were executed by Auguste-François Laby, a fine portraitist who had trained under Jacques-Louis David and who is responsible for the suave and dashing equestrian por-trait of Sikh leader Lal Singh, and Thomas Fairland, whose “work as a lithographic draughtsman was much admired in its day” (ODNB). A full list of plates is available on request.Abbey, Travel, 472; Archer & Lightbown, India Observed, pp. 116 & 157; Bob-ins Collection 252; Tooley 244.

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67 HASTINGS, Warren. A Narrative of the Insurrection which happened in the Zemeedary of Banaris in the month of August 1781, and of the Transactions of the Governor-General in that District; with an Appendix of Authentic Papers and Affidavits. Calcutta: printed by order of the Governor General . . . Charles Wilkins Superintendant of the Press, 1782Quarto (305 × 235 mm). Contemporary half calf, smooth spine ruled in gilt, red roan label, marbled sides. Housed in a custom made blue cloth slipcase and matching chemise. 20th-century collector’s bookplate of Frank J. No-vak III, MD (1920–2007). Bound without the half-title. Small chip to head of spine, joints partially cracked but firm, sides rubbed, superficial wear to board-edges, tips bumped and worn, pale foxing (slightly stronger in the last few leaves), a few minor paper flaws. A very good, wide-margined copy.

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first and only edition of one of the first books printed on the East India Company press at Calcutta, and its first substantial narrative text; it appeared only four years after Halhed’s Grammar of the Bengal Language (Hoogly, 1778), the first book printed in north-ern India. “The narrative refers to the case of Chait Singh, Raja of Benares, who from 1778 onwards (because of the war with France) was obliged to pay additional tribute to the East India Company. After the Raja failed to pay in full in 1780, Hastings sent troops to Benares to put him under arrest but the small British force was massacred by the Raja’s men” (Shaw). “With considerable cool-ness [Hastings] organized military measures to crush the upris-ing and eventually imposed a settlement that fully incorporated Benares into British territory. The episode left, however, a strong impression that Hastings had acted tyrannically as well as subject-ing himself to needless risks” (ODNB). Conscious of this, Hastings writes in a preliminary note: “The following sheets were written to guard the minds of my superiors against the suspicions to which all great political movements are liable”. The work is decidedly uncommon on the market. A most attrac-tive copy in a period binding.Shaw, Printing in Calcutta to 1800, p. 13.

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“To stop a runaway elephant, blindfold him”

68 HAYTER, Charles, Lieut.-Col., & Captain Harvey Kelly, eds. Manual of Packing and Loading Drill; and Other Subjects connected with the Transport of Troops applicable to Field Service. Bombay & Calcutta: At the Education Society’s

Press, Byculla [ for] Thacker, Spink & Co.; Higginbotham & Co., 1883Octavo. Original red cloth, neatly rebacked, title gilt to front board. Mounted albumen print as frontispiece and 33 other similar prints, to-gether with 14 lithographic plates. Boards somewhat soiled and showing signs of damp, endpapers a little mottled, some of the mounting leaves of lighter paper-stock browned, but overall the contents are sound, the frontispiece a little faded, but the others still strong with just a little paste-action related fade at the margins, certainly about very good.

first and only edition, rare: OCLC locates the BL copy sole-ly; apparently there is a copy in the National Library of India, together with an otherwise unrecorded edition of 1886 but no copy traced at auction. A remarkable photographically illustrat-ed handbook for transport officers serving in India. The well-il-lustrated, concise instructions cover the employment of mules, bullocks, camels, and elephants, and the humane approach sug-gested in the introduction is followed up with the inclusion in Chapter XI, “Veterinary Treatment in the Field”. The advice “to stop a runaway elephant, blindfold him”, however, would seem to be of somewhat limited utility. The photographic images por-tray the various pack animals under a wide range of loads, attend-ed by their native handlers, and in a few cases with an armed, red-coated sergeant standing by. The lithographic plates show in detail the employment of the various knots, lashings and at-tachments required in the packing and loading processes. It is unlikely that any two serving officers of the time could muster comparable experience in the field to that of the authors, both men having long and distinguished service histories.Authoritative, fascinating, and decidedly uncommon.

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69 HOLLINGBERY, William. A History of His Late Highness Nizam Alee Khaun, Soobah of the Dekhan. Arranged as follows: I. Geographical and Historical Observations, on the Present and Former State of the Dekhan. II. Memoirs of Nizam Alee Khaun’s Predecessors, in four sections: viz. 1st. — History of Asoph Jauh, Nizam-ool-moolk, Translated by Henry Vansittart. 2d. — History of Nasir Jung, 3d. — History of Nasir Jung, and Moozuffur Jung, 4th. — History of Sallaubut Jung, down to April, 1754. Epitomised from Orme, with Notes, by the Author. III. History of Nizam Alee Khaun. In two Parts. Part 1st. Translated from the Persian, Part 2d. Compiled from Authentic Documents, with an Appendix. Calcutta: printed by J. Greenway, Hurkaru Press, 1805Quarto (262 × 204 mm). Original drab pale brown wrappers. Housed in a custom made brown cloth morocco-backed solander box. Woodcut tailpieces. Spine frayed, wrappers lightly spotted and creased, some pale water-staining, two discreet old paper repairs to both wrappers, upper fore-corner of rear wrapper chipped, a few other shallow chips to extrem-ities, corners of first and last few leaves bumped, bottom cord perished but the book block held firmly by top two cords, yet this remains a re-markably well-preserved copy, internally clean, the good quality paper crisp and strong.

first edition of this very scarce account of the Deccan and its rulers, the area of southern India that included the state of Hy-derabad, with a focus on the life of the ruler Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II (1734–1803), who had recently assisted the British in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War, which concluded with the death of Tipu Sultan at Seringapatam in 1799. The list of subscribers re-cords 134 copies only; Copac cites copies at only two British and Irish institutional libraries (BL, Oxford), OCLC adding just seven world-wide; no copies traced at auction.“One of the earliest instances of historical writing conceived in the midst of the struggle against the French and the ruling house of Mysore in southern India is William Hollingbery’s History . . . In many ways his was a ‘firsthand’ account, Hollingbery having served at the British Residency at Hyderabad and also in the em-bassy led by Malcolm to the kingdom of Persia . . . [his] History is a compilation of several accounts, including the Persian chronicle of Ferishta and the works of Orme and Henry Vansittart, as well as original documents, but the main purpose of the narrative is to provide the context and explanation for the British military cam-paigns: Mughal power wanes in the south because of the ‘fatal error’ of emperor Aurungzeb’s destruction of the smaller Muslim kingdoms in his failed attempt at military conquest, leading to the rise of the Marathas and other predatory regimes such as Hy-der [Ali] in Mysore, which not only employ European soldiers in their armies but seek the assistance of the French as rivals to the British. The prominent points of the history are the English alli-ance with the Nizams (once provincial governors of the Mughals) against the threat of Tipu Sultan, war against the Marathas, the eventual destruction of the French subsidiary force and thus the Jacobin threat in southern India, and the great subsidiary treaty with Hyderabad, a cornerstone of Wellesley’s new pax Britannica” (Sudipta Sen, Distant Sovereignty: National Imperialsim and the Origins of British India, 2002, pp. 49–50).

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70 HONIGBERGER, Johann Martin. Thirty-Five Years in the East. Adventures, Discoveries, Experiments, and Histori-cal Sketches, relating to the Punjab and Cashmere; in Con-nection with Medicine, Botany, Pharmacy, &c. Together with an Original Materia Medica; and a Medical Vocabu-lary, in Four European and Five Eastern Languages . . . Lon-don: L.H. Baillière, 18522 volumes bound as one, octavo. Original brown cloth, gilt lettered spine, ornamental blind stamping to covers and spine, pale yellow coated end-papers. Housed in a custom red cloth solander box. Lithograph portrait frontispiece of Honigberger by Hanhart, 47 lithographed plates (one tint-ed and folding: panoramic view of the Fortress of the City of Lahore). Spine sunned and rolled, some splits in cloth along rear joint, extremities rubbed, old dampstaining to back cover (partially affecting margins of plates), letterpress toned, remains very good.

first edition in english, originally published in Vienna (1851) under the title Früchte aus dem Morgenlande oder Reise-Erleb-nisse, nebst naturhistorisch-medizinischen Erfahrungen. Honigberger (1795–1869), a doctor trained in both conventional and his pre-ferred homeopathic medicine, was born in Krostadt in Romania, left Transylvania in 1815 and travelled through the Middle East, Egypt, Arabia, Persia, and on to India. He arrived in Lahore in 1829 and, having treated Ranjit Singh’s favourite horse for an ulcerated leg, gained the confidence of the Maharaja, becoming court physician, as well as being put in charge of the gunstock manufactory and gunpowder mills. A facsimile plate of the doc-ument of his appointment to these varied positions is included. Honigberger gives observations on the Sikh aristocracy, the An-glo-Sikh Wars, provides much on medical practices in West, South

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71 HOUGH, William. A Brief History of the Bhopal Principality in Central India. Calcutta: printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1845Octavo in half-sheets (207 × 130 mm). Contemporary (possibly presenta-tion) russia (front cover lettered in gilt “Bhopal, Maha Muratib, Futteh Jung”), spine with gilt-tooled low raised bands, ruled in gilt and blind, sides with three-line blind tooled border and corner rosettes, blind roll tool turn-ins, drab pale brown endpapers, speckled edges. Housed in a custom made yellow cloth solander box. From the library of the Lords Elphinstone, with their Carberry Tower Library label to front pastedown; the most distinguished scion of that house was Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859), administrator in India. Chipped at head and tail of spine, some repair to joints, some scuffs, light scratches and wear to extremi-ties. A very good copy, with the terminal errata leaf.

first edition of this conspicuously uncommon history of Bho-pal – at the time of publication under the protection of the pres-idency of Bengal – consolidating “all the information to be ob-tained in printed works” (p. v). The lettering on the front cover, rendered in English from the Hindi, “Maha Muratib” (“Dignity of the Fish”) and “Futteh Jung”, were both honorary titles awarded to the Nawabs and Begums of Bhopal; this provenance suggest-ing that copies may have been printed solely for presentation to dignitaries and friends of Hough in India.

From 1819 until 1926 Bhopal was a matriarchy ruled by the Begums. However, during the 1840s there was a dispute over the succession, with the British Political Agent, Lancelot Wilkinson, opposing the rule of women. After various machinations the six-year old Sultan Shah Jehan was finally installed under the regency of her moth-er Sikandar Begum. William Hough (1789–1865) was an officer in the 48th Bengal Native Infantry, saw action in India, Nepal and Af-ghanistan, and was an “authority on military law” (Peter Stanley, White Mutiny: British Military Culture in India, 1825–1875, 1998, p. 38 note a). His Political and Military Events in British India (1853) became the standard textbook on Company rule. Copac cites copies at just five British and Irish institutional libraries, OCLC adds another seven world-wide; no copies traced on auction records.

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72(INDIA.) Authentic Memoirs of Tippoo Sultaun. Calcutta: re-printed at the Hindoostanee Press, by Philip Pereira, 1820Octavo in half-sheets (205 × 120 mm). Contemporary “native” mottled sheep, smooth spine with gilt rope-twist and fillet rules, black moroc-co label, edges sprinkled blue. Housed in a custom yellow cloth slipcase with matching chemise. Wood-engraved bookplate of Christian Hammer (1818–1905), jeweller to the Swedish royal family, who amassed a vast li-brary auctioned in Stockholm 1906–10 (faint library stamp on title verso). Mild craquelure to spine and covers, headcap chipped, short split to head of front joint, joints and extremities rubbed, corners lightly bumped, front inner hinge tender, contents toned, a few light spots and marks. A very good copy.

first hindoostanee press edition, originally published at London in 1799 “for the author”; the Mirror Press of Calcutta issued editions in 1819 and 1820. All first and early editions are rare. “Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 appeared to signal the further possibility of a strategic link-up with India. Until the mat-ter was ultimately resolved by Tippoo’s defeat and death in his fortress at Seringapatam [in 1799], the military threat to East In-dia Company resources and British strategic interests remained a continuing source of anxiety. What was all the more surprising about Hyder and Tippoo’s heroic stature on the late Georgian stage is that the East India Company had set up a series of publi-cations during and after their reign specifically aimed at dissem-inating information about the suffering of British prisoners and influencing their reception amongst the public. For example, the anonymous Authentic Memoirs of Tippoo Sultaun . . . was reprinted in Calcutta in 1820” (David Worrall, Harlequin Empire: Race, Ethnicity and the Drama of the Popular Enlightenment (2007, p. 82).

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73 (INDIA.) “Album of Calcutta Views” Calcutta: c.1870Landscape octavo. Original diagonal-bead-grain blue cloth, covers with blind-stamped arabesque cornerpieces, blue silk ties renewed. Recent

black cloth slipcase and matching chemise. 20 original albumen prints (97 × 138 mm) mounted within two-line green frames on individual card leaves, printed descriptions numbered 1–20 mounted verso. Extremities of spine skilfully refurbished, portfolio slightly marked, pale mottling to flaps, light cockling to mounts, mild finger-soiling to margins and ver-sos, a sliver of fading along some edges of nos. 9, 13, and 16, very shallow chips to inner edges of 14 and 19 and lower outer corner of 17 but overall remarkably well preserved.

Highly appealing portfolio of superior quality, finely-detailed views of Calcutta, showing the principal sites of the city at the height of British rule, presented here in the attractive original portfolio. It has been possible, through the captioning of two scenes, to date the series to around 1870: that for Calcutta Post Office (plate 18) notes that it “has only recently been erected”; work on the Post Office was completed in 1868. Another view shows Sealdah Station, which was operational by 1869. The best known photographic studio operating in Calcutta in the late 1860s was that of Samuel Bourne (1834–1912), who went into partnership with Charles Shepherd in 1865, establishing their Calcutta studio in 1867. Bourne’s work in northern India result-ed in what has been described as “the finest examples of scenic photography ever produced by a single photographer” (lumi-nous-lint.com). A full list of images is available on request.

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74 (INDIA.) A Brief Account of some of the Principal Buildings of Madura. Compiled by E. J. Sewell, MCS, from “The Madura Country,” by J. H. Nelson, MCS, and other sources. Madras: Printed for private circulation on the occasion of the visit of HRH The Prince of Wales [by Higginbotham and Co.], [1875?]Octavo (202 × 135 mm), 20 pp. Presentation binding of contemporary “native” green skiver (ticket of Higginbotham, Madras), three-line gilt panel on sides enclosing an ornamental panel of stylised lilies, all edges gilt, drab brown coated endpapers. Housed in a custom made dove-grey cloth slipcase and matching chemise. Frontispiece and five original se-

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75 (INDIA.) Letts’s Map of India, based on the Grand Trigonometrical Survey executed by the Indian Government, District Maps of the Surveyor General and other Authorities showing the Latest Territorial Acquisitions of the British Empire, and the Independent and Protected States, Railways, Canals, &c. London: Letts, Son & Co. Ltd, 1883Large lithographed wall map (1560 × 1240 mm) with hand-colour (railways and telegraph lines hand-inked), dissected into 56 panels and mount-ed on grey linen, three brass suspension rings verso, folding into a pur-plish-brown sand-grain cloth book-style slip-case (237 × 179 mm), marbled edges, titled India in gilt to the a spine. The case sunned at the spine and a little bumped on the corners, couple of internal paper tape repairs, the map very good indeed, overall an excellently preserved example.

first edition thus. A map with its origins in Stanford’s 1857 1:2,217,600 map “based on the surveys executed by order of the Honourable East India Company”, retaining the circular title cartouche, and including the inset map of the Malay Peninsula, and infographics of the distances and bearings from Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, but without “chronological table of acqui-sitions made to the British Empire in India”. The cut-off point for information on the present version can be approximated from the fact that the Lahore-Peshawar section of the Karachi-Pesha-war line is noted as incomplete (the Attock Bridge not being opened until May 1883), and the extension of the metre-gauge railway from Ajmer to Ahmedabad section of the Rajputana State Railway (opened 1881) is shown as under development. Interest-ingly, this copy has signs that it was hung and used: a scatter of cities large and small have been broadly underlined in vermilion copier pencil, and a couple of locations pencilled in, one being Ajanta, the other unfortunately illegible. An impressive and high-ly attractive piece, we have been unable to trace another copy ei-ther institutionally or at sale.

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pia-toned albumen print photographs mount on heavy stock paper, title and letterpress printed in lilac within a wavy-line border. Neat ownership stamp of “Emily J. Knox” at head of title (we have traced an Emily J. Knox as being a teacher at the National School, Broad Street, London, in 1891–2 and listed in the Practical Teacher’s Art Monthly, vols. VII-VIII, located at the “Royal Albert Schools”, Lancaster in 1905). Some wear to extremities of binding, a little loss of leather at head of rear joint, inner hinges cracked but sound, general light signs of handling. A very good copy.

first and only edition, printed for private circulation to com-memorate the visit of the Prince of Wales to Madura (present day Madurai) on 10 December 1875; this was clearly produced in very small numbers and intended for presentation to high-ranking of-ficials involved with the royal visit: Copac cites copies at BL, Ox-ford and SOAS only among British and Irish institutional libraries; OCLC adds just Minnesota, Wisconsin and University of Basel. We have traced one copy on auction records (1975), described as being bound in “contemporary blue morocco, gilt, Madras”.“The city of Madura lies in the route of the pilgrims to the sacred island of Rameshwaram, and possesses several splendid temples, the most remarkable being that built by Trimal Naik [Thiruma-lai Nayak], the famous Nayak of Madura” (George Wheeler, India in 1876–76: The Visit of the Prince of Wales, London, 1876, p. 156). The fine frontispiece shows the magnificent Meenakshi Amman Temple with elephants and a cluster of local buildings in the foreground. It was here that the Prince of Wales was “sprinkled with gold dust as he entered the temple complex through an impressive gateway, or gop-ura” (Royal Collections online). The plates show three local women, two of sculptural details from one of the mandapas (pillared-halls) of the temple, a multi-storey gopuram (gateway), a view of two gopura. A superb and scarce record with fine photographs, possibly from the celebrated studio of Bourne and Shepherd.

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76 (INDIA; TIBET.) GODWIN-AUSTEN, H. H. [Dropped-head title:] Journal of the Asiatic Society. Part I. – History, Literature, &c. No. II – 1865. Calcutta: Printed by C. B. Lewis at the Baptist Mission Press, 1865Octavo, pp. 51–113 (complete). Original pale salmon-pink printed wrap-pers, neatly rebacked. Housed in a custom made burgundy cloth slipcase and matching chemise. 10 original half-stereo sepia-toned albumen print photographs on 5 leaves,one lithograph plate of symbols on early Indian coins, folding lithograph plate of Buddhist temple at Bakarya Kund, 2 small woodcuts in the text. Neat repairs to front wrapper, closed-tear across back wrapper, mount paper toned, stab marks visible at gutter. A very good copy.

first edition. The key contribution among the five papers printed here is “Description of a Mystic Play, as performed in Ladak, Zaskar, &c.” by the explorer and geologist Captain Hen-ry Haversham Godwin-Austen (1834–1923), “the chief authority in his day on the structure of the Karakoram and other ranges beyond the great Himalayan axis” (ODNB). The photographs are the first taken in this region of northern India: Ladakh (the “land of high passes”) and the Zaskar Range, both in the modern state of Jammu and Kashmir, bordering Tibet. They are the work of

Captain Alexander Brodie Melville of the Bengal Staff Corps, who worked with the Kashmir Survey (1855–63). “He took up photography in about 1861 and his views of Kashmir and Lada-kh were shown to the Bengal Photographic Society in that year, which praised them as ‘very creditable to an amateur photogra-pher, who never touched a chemical before that year, and whose collodion had been subjected to such rough travelling on high mountain ranges’” (John Falconer in From Bombay to Shanghai: His-torical Photography in South and Southeast Asia, 1995). “In 1864 Melville’s photographs of Ladakh reproduced some of the most inscrutable but alluring aspects of Tibetan Buddhist culture for the first time and very probably animated them in hy-per-realist mode for the mandarins of Calcutta. The mystique of Tibetan monks in the elaborate regalia of masked dance would become a leitmotif for future photographers and, by the end of the nineteenth century, one of the most popular collectibles within the print culture of colonial India” (Clare Harris, Photogra-phy and Tibet, 2016, pp. 23–5).Howgego III G27.

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77 (INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY.) DESAI, Bhulabhai J. I.N.A. Defence. Subject People’s Right to Fight for Freedom. Bombay & Delhi Congress Publication Board & I.N.A. Defence Committee, 1946 & [1945?]2 works together, octavo. Publisher’s boards, title in black to spine and front cover. With the pictorial dust jacket, the design adapting the fa-mous image “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima”. Original publisher’s wrap-pers. Both housed in tricolour cloth drop-back box, the colours of the INA flag with spinning wheel device in blue, “I.N.A.” gilt to the spine. Copy in boards: half-tone portrait frontispiece of Desai and one similar plate. Copy in wrappers: half-tone plate with portrait of Desai. Copy in boards: Inscribed on front pastedown “To [illegible] from Aloo. January 1946”. Boards a little rubbed, text block a little browned. A very good copy in the dust jacket, a little chipped and foxed but with only very minor loss to top of spine. Copy in wrappers: lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

Two scarce contemporary editions of the address delivered by the veteran independence activist, Bhulabhai Desai, in defence of the members of the Indian National Army on trial for treason; the INA had formed a rebel government during the war and claimed the right to use military means to gain India’s sovereignty. His speech at the trial became an instant classic: drawing examples from the American Declaration of Independence and Garibaldi’s revolution, as well as quoting extensively from Churchill's argu-ment in favour of rebel movements.

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78 (INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY.) JHAVERI, Vithalbhai K. Freedom’s Battle. I.N.A. in Action, 1942–1945. Bombay: [For the author], 1947Quarto. Original colour lithograph boards, black sand-grained cloth spine. Housed in tricolour cloth drop-back box, the colours of the INA flag with spinning wheel device in blue, “I.N.A.” gilt to the spine. Pro-fusely illustrated in colour. Corner of box bumped, book a little rubbed, but overall very good.

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first and sole edition, very uncommon: OCLC locates just six copies, all in the USA. This attractively illustrated work, pub-lished in the same month that India gained its independence, was issued as a celebration of the Azad Hind (Free India) state and the Indian National Army (active 1942–45). The editor and il-lustrator, Jhaveri, was a prominent Indian nationalist film maker and writer, who was particularly close to Gandhi.The idea of establishing a Free Indian State (Azad Hind) opposed to British rule in the country was conceived at a conference in Tokyo in 1942 and a government was established in Singapore in 1943. The rebel state and its Indian National Army was led by Subhas Chandra Bose from 1943 until his death in a plane crash in 1945. The history of this short lived venture is still controver-sial, in part because of its close ties to the Japanese and Nazi governments. However, after the war, it began to be seen as an important part of the anti-colonial struggle – Bose’s militarism sitting alongside Gandhi’s calls for peaceful resistance.The full-page plates, many in striking chromolithography, show the shifting portrayal of Azad Hind, somewhere between an or-dinary state and an armed rebel movement. Plates of postage stamps and charts of government structure sit alongside more militant statements. Also present is a typescript copy of an arti-cle based on an interview that Bose conducted with the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Hochi, in which he claims that the soldiers of the I.N.A. were “following in the footsteps of earlier Indian mar-tyrs, who have fought the British tyrants for more than a century”.

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79 (INDIAN NATIONAL ARMY.) SAHGAR, Lakshmi & SETH, Amritlal. Jai Hind. The Diary of a Rebel Daughter of India with the Rani of Jhansi Regiment. Bombay: Janmabhoomi Prakashan Mandir, 1945Ocatvo. Publisher’s boards, title and INA device in black to front cover. With the dust jacket. Housed in tricolour cloth solander box, the colours of the INA flag with spinning wheel device in blue, “I.N.A” gilt to spine. With 11 doubled sided plates with half-tone photographs. Boards a little rubbed and foxed, text block mildly toned. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, with a little rubbing and very light chipping.

first edition, scarce, only three locations on Copac (Oxford, Sussex, Cardiff; BL has a second printing). A fascinating and mel-odramatic text, now considered to be the fictionalised journal of a female Indian soldier fighting for the anti-British INA during World War Two, written by Captain Lakshmi (Sahgal), leader of the army’s Rani of Jhansi Regiment, “the first all-female infantry fighting unit in military history” (Hildebrand). Named after the warrior queen of Jhansi who had fought the Brit-ish in 1857, this unit was formed by Subhas Chandra Bose, leader of Azad Hind (Free India), in order to promote the full participation of women in the Indian Independence movement. The author stress-es the willingness of Indian women to sacrifice their lives to bring about the creation of a free India. However, the precise nature of the text is still debated, although it is now generally believed that it was, in fact, a novelisation of the events written by Captain Lakshmi, “the perfect model for the new Indian woman: independent, intelligent, well-educated and beautiful” (Hildebrand, p. 109). Hildebrand, Women at War: Subhas Chandra Rose and the Rano of Jhansi Regi-ment, 2016.

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80 KIRKPATRICK, William. An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul; being, The Substance of Observations made during a Mission to that Country in the Year 1793. London: William Miller, 1811Quarto (287 × 225 mm). Contemporary lightly sprinkled tan calf, red morocco label, low flat bands with triple fillet gilt, compartments with gilt devices incorporating palmette tools, double fillet gilt panel to the boards, edges sprinkled red. Stipple-engraved title page vignette and 14 plates (13 etched or stipple-engraved, one a hand-coloured aquatint), large folding map. Bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst, Lancashire chemist and bibliophile. Spine lightly sunned and slightly chipped head and tail, wear to tips, front joint cracked but holding, light toning to contents, slight rippling to book block, overall very good.

first edition of William Kirkpatrick’s account of his 1792 dip-lomatic mission to Nepal, “leading the first Britons into that kingdom” (ODNB). Kirkpatrick (1754–1812) joined the Bengal In-fantry in 1773 and was the Persian Interpreter with Lord Cornwal-lis in the Mysore War between 1791 and 1792. “Kirkpatrick told Cornwallis’s secretary, Colonel Ross, on 27 October 1792, that the mission went to settle a dispute between Nepal and Tibet and ‘to advance useful knowledge’. Arriving after the dispute ended, he spent three weeks in Nepal, and though he returned to India without concrete benefit, the mission was regarded as a success-ful foray into an unknown land” (ODNB). In this work Kirkpatrick outlines his route to Katmandu, and details the boundary and divisions of Nepal. The appendices contain official papers and letters relating to his mission and the origin of the war between Nepal and Tibet, and include the correspondence of Cornwallis with Tibet during the war.Yakushi (1994) K241a.

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81 KORÖSI CSOMA, Sandór. Essay towards a Dictionary, Tibetan and English. [With:] A Grammar of the Tibetan Language in English. Prepared, under the Patronage of the Government and the Auspices of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Calcutta: printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 18342 works, quarto (271 × 215 mm). Contemporary “native” dark green straight-grain half roan, spines gilt lettered direct and gilt banded, four low raised bands decorated with a foliate roll tool, green pebble-grain cloth sides, red speckled edges. Housed in a custom made green cloth solander box. Bindings with a few scuffs and light abrasions, scattered foxing to endpapers, general light toning and occasional dust marking, Grammar cracked at gutter of title page and rear inner hinge (causing last few leaves to be slightly skewed). Very good copies, with the complete lithographed 40 pp. section (“syllabic scheme” and Tibetan alphabet).

first editions of the first tibetan-english dictionary and grammar, remarkably scarce in commerce, with no cop-ies of the Dictionary appearing on auction records and only three of the Grammar (1955, 1998, and an incomplete ex-library copy in 2017). In addition, this set has an excellent provenance: from the library of Thomas Herbert Lewin (1839–1916), army officer and frontier administrator, with his engraved armorial bookplate in each volume. Riddick remarks that “despite Lewin’s diminutive self-image, as suggested by the title of his memoirs [A Fly on the Wheel or, How I Helped to Govern India (1885)], his life in British In-dia ultimately involved a good deal of adventure and a significant contribution to the administration of Burma” (Glimpses of India 379). A model of the pioneer soldier-administrator, he was also a practised linguist and anthropologist.Sandór Csoma de Korös (1784–1842) studied Oriental languages at Göttingen and after an extraordinary journey by the overland route arrived in Lahore in 1821, traveling for a time with the English

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explorer William Moorcroft, who urged him to take up the study of Tibetan. Under the tutorship of various Lamas throughout Af-ghanistan and Northern India, de Korös became one of the first Europeans to master the language. In 1842 he was planning a jour-ney to Lhasa but contracted malaria and died at Darjeeling.In his biography of the Tibetotologist, de Korös’s countryman and fellow philologist Theodore Duka, notes that James Prinsep, secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, “considered it as one of his most important duties to urge that Csoma’s works should be pushed through the press as rapidly as possible”. He then goes on to cite a letter from Prinsep to the secretary of the Government of Bengal in which he discusses printing arrangements and costs for both the Dictionary and Grammar, and that “500 copies to be struck off ”. In a further letter Prinsep mentions the distribution “of the five hundred copies”, noting that “the author solicits for himself one hundred copies that he may send them to the Uni-versities of Austria, Italy, and Germany”; the remainder to be sent out either by the Asiatic Society or the Society’s booksellers in Calcutta and London (Life and Works of Alexander Csoma de Ko-rös, London: Trubner, 1885, pp. 115 and 123–4). To find copies of both books paired and presented, as here, in uniform bindings, is exceptional.Trubner Catalogue (1882), p. 157 (both titles); Zaunmuller, col. 378 (Dic-tionary only); not in Vancil.

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82 LEITNER, Gottlieb Wilhelm. A Detailed Analysis of Abdul Ghafur’s Dictionary of the Terms Used by Criminal Tribes in the Panjab [sic]. Lahore: Printed at the Punjab Government Civil Secretariat Press, 1880

Quarto, pp. 28. Original green printed wrappers, explanatory label on front cover. Paper frayed along spine, light creasing to covers, final leaf dog-eared and just a little soiled, otherwise in remarkably good condi-tion.

first and sole edition, intended for a very restricted circula-tion: Copac cites copies at only five British and Irish institution-al libraries (BL, Liverpool, Oxford, Society of Antiquaries, and Kipling’s home at Bateman’s); OCLC adds six among interna-tional holdings. The printed cover label states: “This ‘Analysis’ contains all, and corrects almost all, the words and sentences in Abdul Gahfur’s so-called “Dictionary . . . “, a publication which is treated as confidential, because there are appended to it Lists of real or supposed ‘bad characters,’ for the exclusive information of certain Police and other officers. G. W. L.”A fascinating document which elucidates contemporary criminal slang, including: “terms of gamblers”, thieves and pickpockets, “house-breakers, highway robbers of the Sansi class”, Delhi and Punjab “sweepers” (a name derived from their business of collect-ing or sweeping up scraps), thugs, “Pachádha Cattle-robbers”. The original work to which this acts as an appendix is A Complete Dictionary of the Terms Used by Criminal Tribes in the Punjab (Lahore: Central Jail Press, 1879), compiled by Abdul Ghafur (1833–1889), who served as deputy collector in the Bengal Presidency.Few men in India at that time were better qualified for the task of this “detailed analysis” than the remarkable linguist, education-alist and orientalist Gottlieb Wilhem Leitner (1840–1899), born in Pest and raised in Constantinople. His achievements in that country in the fields of both education and scholarly research were very considerable . . . Leitner had always been notable as one of the few Europeans who mixed freely with the native In-dians, treating them as social and intellectual equals” (ODNB).

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83 LOW, Charles Rathbone (ed.) The Afghan War, 1838–1842 from the Journal and Correspondence of the Late Major-General Augustus Abbott. [Edited] by Charles Rathbone Low. London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1879Octavo. Original maroon cloth, gilt lettered spine, decoration to boards in blind, new brown surface-paper endpapers. Map frontispiece (“Plan of Jellalabad”). Binding furbished, extremities of spine and corners consol-idated, grain of spine smoothed, lettering retouched, internally clean. A very good copy.

first and sole edition, uncommon. Abbott (1804–1867) was the eldest of five brothers, four of whom served in India. He saw much field service in the 1820s and 30s: during the First Anglo-Af-ghan War he commanded a battery at the capture of Ghazni, was present during the occupation of Kabul, and was artillery com-mander in the defence of Jalalabad, where “he mounted guns on the defences, constructed carriages for captured ordnance, and, short of ammunition, improvised ‘pebble-grape’ from stones. His artillery supported several successful sorties”, “playing a ma-jor role” when the garrison finally sallied out and defeated their besiegers. Abbott joined Field-Marshall (then, Major-General) George Pollock’s force, accompanying Monteath’s punitive col-umn against the Shinwaris, his guns being decisive at Mazina. He again distinguished himself in actions in August and early Sep-tember and at the battles of Tezin and the Haft Kotal when Akbar Khan was finally defeated. Pollock described Abbott as “the fin-est artillery officer in India” (p. 54). Pollock described Abbott as “the finest artillery officer in India”. This account was compiled by Low from Abbott’s private papers. A handsome, bright copy of this important and well-edited narrative.

£1,250 [127104]

“One of the most talented amateur artists who depicted India”

84 LUARD, John, Major. Views in India, Saint Helena and Car Nicobar. Drawn from Nature and on Stone. London: J. Graf, Printer to her Majesty, 1838Small folio (350 × 250 mm). Contemporary red straight-grained calf, spine with five low raised bands, gilt panelling and scrolling ornamentation in

each compartment, green label, three-line gilt border on sides with corner rosettes enclosing broad panel of scrolling foliate motifs (including acorns and oak leaves), blind ornamental panel, central decorative gilt rectangular panel (green patch label on front cover), two-line gilt rule to turn ins, mar-bled endpapers, gilt edges. Lithographic “architectural” title page, frontis-piece and 59 plates on India paper by and after Luard, printed by J. Graf, Graf & Soret, Hullmandel, Maguire & Co, Maguire, and Lemercier & Co, all with tissue guards. Bookplate of Lancashire-based retail chemist and book collector Robert J. Hayhurst (verso of front free endpaper). A little rubbing to joints and extremities, touch of foxing to margins of plate paper but the images themselves bright and strong. A particularly handsome copy.

first and sole edition of this superb visual record by “one of the most talented amateur artists who depicted India” (Arch-er & Lightbown). A fine association copy: from the library of Major-General Sir Norcliffe Norcliffe, with his gilt arms on the front cover and tail compartment of spine. “Norcliffe (1791–1862) joined the army at the age of 16 as an ensign in the 4th Dragoons [Luard’s regiment in the Peninsular]. He saw action in the Pen-insular War (1808–1814), being severely wounded at the battle of Salamanca on 22 July 1812. Promoted to major in 1821, he exchanged into the 17th Lancers. In May 1823 he transferred to the half-pay list of the 18th Hussars, as he stated, for ‘peculiar private motives’” (National Army Museum, which hold a rath-er dashing full-length portrait of Norcliffe by Henry Wyndham Phillips). With a fine large lithograph portrait of Luard (250 × 215 mm) mounted on the front pastedown and the clipped pencilled caption reading “Portrait of himself – John Luard – by himself – to his friend Norcliffe Norcliffe” (portrait not at the National Portrait Gallery); opposite this a delicate pencil portrait (225 × 188 mm) of Sir Robert Sale, with the note “original sketch by John Luard”, apparently the sketch upon which a lithographed portrait by Richard James Lane was based and published in 1846 – a nicely executed portrait showing “Fighting Bob” Sale, the hero of the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–42), in fatigue cap, facing left.Luard (1790–1875) joined the Royal Navy at the age of 12, serving for five years (1802–07), then in 1809 “obtained a cornetcy without

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purchase in his father’s former regiment [4th Light Dragoons], with which he served through the Peninsular campaigns of 1810–14. Afterwards he served with the 16th Light Dragoons (later lanc-ers) as lieutenant at Waterloo and as captain at Bharatpur in 1825. In India he instructed his regiment in the use of the lance and was reportedly the first to use it in the British army, at Bharatpur. He exchanged to the 30th regiment in 1832, retired as major in 1834, and obtained a brevet lieutenant-colonelcy in 1838 . . . Like others of his family, Luard had much artistic talent” (ODNB). Archer and Lightbown expand on this, noting that “Luard drew the human figure skilfully and was not afraid to give it due prominence. He had a stylish sense of composition, and besides the usual inter-est in the magnificent architecture and ruined monuments and splendid pageantry of India, had a sympathetic eye for much that was often ignored or at least not depicted, Indian armour, figures from humble life, snake-catchers, musicians, pilgrims, for the miserable poverty of the villages and for animals”. Luard’s work as a lithographer is very accomplished. The many fine scenes include several of the siege of Bharatpur (December 1825–January 1826), with one image showing Luard’s 16th Light Dragoons charging with the lance couched. This is a very smart copy with an engaging provenance.Not in Abbey; Archer & Lightbown, India Observed, V&A, 1982, pp. 142–43.

£8,750 [126038]

85 MACKINTOSH, Alexander. An Account of the Origin and Present Condition of the Tribe of Ramoossies. Including the Life of The Chief Oomiah Naik. Bombay: American Mission Press, 1833Octavo in half-sheets (204 × 127 mm). Contemporary dark brown quarter sheep refurbished at foot of spine (pencilled note to front pastedown dating the work to 2006), marbled sides, tips and endpapers renewed, sprinkled

blue edges. Housed in a custom made brown cloth slipcase and matching chemise. Original endpaper tipped-in carrying contemporary engraved ar-morial bookplate (printed on green paper), with the charge of a Bengal tiger passant. Spine rubbed, head of title skilfully restored, small ink-spot at lower margin of pp. 213–27, minor stain to gutter at pp. 236–45 (possibly from a pressed flower). A very good copy, complete with the terminal errata leaf.

first and only edition. “Captain Mackintosh’s remarkable, sympathetic History of the Ramoossies . . . is an invaluable source . . . based mainly on personal information gathered in the campaign against Umaji Naik Ramoshi” (Dossal and Maloni, State Intervention and Popular Response: Western India in the Nineteenth Century, 1999, p. 60). Under the Maratha Confederacy the hunter-gatherer Ramoshi people, also known as the Bedar, were frequently employed as ra-khwaldars, or village watchmen, across the regions of Satara, Pune and Ahmednagar. Following the Maratha defeat in 1818, the Brit-ish sought to replace the traditional network of horse and siban-di posts with scattered pickets, and the resulting power vacuum, together with the flawed nature of the watchman system, which tended towards a protection racket, led to the brief ascendancy of outlaw Umaji Naik, who is still fêted today as an early anti-British freedom fighter in the mould of Robin Hood. Mackintosh, a cap-tain in the 27th Madras, was stationed at Pune during Umaji Naik’s uprising. His account is a much-referenced source for modern academic studies; in one such work he is repeatedly praised as a knowledgeable observer with a highly developed awareness of the local cultures which he encountered (Guha, Environment and Ethnici-ty in India, 1200–1911, 2006, pp. 59, 98 et seq.) This first edition is un-common, with only three appearances at auction (representing two discrete copies), and Copac cites copies at just seven British and Irish institutional libraries, OCLC adds another two dozen worldwide.Not in Riddick.

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86 NEWBY, Eric. A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush. London: Secker & Warburg, 1958Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles and star design to spine in silver on pink background. With the photographic dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, 12 photographic plates, and two folding maps. Spine very gently rolled and a little faded at ends, minor rubbing to extremities, glue residue to rear pastedown; a near-fine copy in the jacket with creasing to extremities, nicks to tips and spine ends, two short closed tears to foot of rear panel, tape repair to verso, subsequent faint mark to head of front flap and front panel fold.

first edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “With best wishes, Eric Newby, November 24th 1958”. Loosely inserted is a typed letter signed, as “Eirc” [sic] (dated 11 December 1958), from Newby to the recipient of the book Ross Higgins, and a newspa-per clipping with a related photograph of Newby at the reception discussed in the letter. Ross Higgins was a bookseller in Glasgow, Secretary to the Scottish Branch of the Booksellers Association, and Honourary Secretary of the Scottish Mountaineering Club. Newby’s “hilarious and seminal travel book . . . in which he re-counted his amateurish exploits” (ODNB) details the expedition with his friend Hugh Carless around the Nuristan mountains of Afghanistan, ostensibly to make the first mountaineering ascent of Mir Samir. The work includes a description of their inadequate practice walk in Wales, and an encounter with English explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger.

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87 RENNIE, Surgeon [David Field.] Bhotan and the story of the Dooar War. Including sketches of a three months’ residence in the Himalayas, and narrative of a visit to Bhotan in May 1865. London: John Murray, 1866

Octavo. Original green cloth, relined, gilt titles and tooling to spine, blind ornamental panel to covers, red coated endpapers. Frontispiece with tis-sue guard, vignette title page, 3 engraved plates from photographs, 5 en-gravings in the text, large folding map of Bhutan. Binding furbished (let-tering retouched, colour to rear endpaper gutter retouched). Spine very lightly toned, negligible signs of shelfwear, a couple of small marks to cloth, top edge dust toned, slight staining to endpapers, tiny closed tear to head of map stub as usual, professional repair to closed tear to verso of map, a very good, fresh, copy.

first edition of this account of the British attempt in 1864–5 to annex from Bhutan the territory known as Duars, in order to stop what they claimed were incursions into India from Bhutan. Ren-nie, who participated in the conflict as a military surgeon, wrote this work on his four-month voyage back to England with the in-tention of introducing Bhutan to a European readership. The work includes an account of the war alongside observations on the ge-ography, food and drink, history, religion, languages, and people of the country, and comments on contemporary medical practice.

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provenance: ownership inscription of The Times journalist Hen-ry Annesley Woodham (1813–1875) to the front pastedown. This work was relevant to Woodham’s professional interests where “he had various specialisms: India, iron-clad ships (perhaps oddly for a clergyman), and foreign affairs” (ODNB). An uncommon work, with ten copies traced institutionally in the UK.Riddick 499.

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88 SALT, Henry. Twenty-Four Views in St. Helena, the Cape, India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt. London: William Miller, 1 May 1809Large folio (751 × 534 mm). Original marbled boards, with red morocco patch title label to the front cover, rebacked and recornered in red moroc-co to style, title gilt direct to spine, wide, flat bands with geometric pan-

els, compartments ornately gilt with foliate arabesque rolls and roundels. Uncoloured sepia aquatint title incorporating dedication, and 24 aquatint views by D. Havell, J. Hill and J. Buck under the supervision of Robert Havell, with fine, original hand-colour. On thick paper watermarked J. Whatman 1824. Bookplate of Thomas Swinnerton Armiger, one of the founders of the Hunterian Society, to front pastedown. Sides lightly rubbed, light toning and a few trivial marks chiefly in fore edge margins, a very good copy with fine hand-colouring throughout.

first edition, with plates watermarked 1824. Having failed in his original ambition to be a portrait painter, Salt set out on an eastern tour in June 1802 as secretary and draughtsman to Vis-count Valentia. “He visited India, Ceylon, and the Red Sea, and in 1805 was sent by Valentia on a mission into Abyssinia, to the ras of Tigré, whose affection and respect he gained, and with whom he left one of his party, Nathaniel Pearce. The return to England in 1806 was made by way of Egypt, where he first met the pasha, Mehmet Ali. Lord Valentia’s Travels in India (1809) was partly writ-

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ten and completely illustrated by Salt, who published his own 24 Views in St Helena, India and Egypt in the same year” (ODNB). In emulation of a successfully proven format, the work was pub-lished “in the same size and style as Daniell’s Series of Oriental Scen-ery”, according to an advertisement in the text which is very occa-sionally found with this work but which, Tooley opined, “is not im-portant and the work is usually to be found without it.” Very often the two Egyptian plates, offering fine views of Cairo and the Pyra-mids, being rather larger in image size than the other subjects, are found trimmed with slight loss of image. This is not the case here. Abbey Travel 515; Howgego, I, S6; Tooley 440.

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89 SLEEMAN, Sir William Henry. Ramaseeana. Or a Vocabulary of the Peculiar Language used by the Thugs, with an Introduction and Appendix, Descriptive of the System pursued by that Fraternity, and the Measures which have been adopted by the Supreme Government of India for its Suppression. Calcutta: G. H. Huttmann, Military Orphan Press, 18362 volumes in 1, octavo (215 × 130 mm). Contemporary calf presentation binding for Hatchard & Son, rebacked with the original gilt spine laid down, sides with French fillet border enclosing broad elaborate pan-el made up of gilt curlicues and foliate motifs, gilt anthemion roll to turn-ins, pale green moiré silk doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt.


Housed in a custom made pale green cloth solander box. 3 lithographed folding genealogical tables and folding appendix (“Calendar of Prison-ers”). Bookplate of Miss K. F. Townley Balfour of Fairy Hill, Rostrevor, Ireland (designed by Edith Greene, dated 1893). Superficial craquelure to slightly rubbed and darkened spine, light rubbing to joints and extrem-ities, tips a little worn, touch of foxing to title page and folding plates, closed tear to gutter of 3S2 (final leaf ) skilfully repaired on recto with japanese tissue. A very good copy.

first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the initial blank, “Presented to the Honourable Arthur H. Cole M. P. as a small token of his very sincere regard & esteem, By the Author”, and on the title page, “Arthur Cole, from his friend Col Sleeman”. An excellent Indian association for this key text: Cole (1780–1844), a son of the 1st earl of Enniskillen, was secured an

East India Company writership by Lord Cornwallis in 1801. He ac-companied John Malcolm, political resident at Mysore, on an em-bassy to the Marathas in 1805, and greatly advanced his career by suppressing a serious rebellion in the area in 1809. He succeeded Malcolm as resident in 1812 and remained in post until 1827.“Between 1825 and 1835 [Sleeman] served as magistrate and dis-trict officer in various parts of what became the Central Provinces (later Madhya Pradesh) . . . Sleeman’s most memorable achieve-ment was the extirpation of thuggee. The thugs were professional hereditary murderers who worshipped the Hindu goddess Kali and preyed in organized bands on innocent travellers . . . At first Sleeman received little support in his anti-thuggee campaign, but this changed in 1835 when Lord William Bentinck became gov-ernor-general. He made Sleeman head of a commission for the suppression of thuggee and dacoity (1839–42). During the next two years Sleeman investigated and repressed criminal organi-zations in upper India. Between 1826 and 1840 more than 14,000 thugs were hanged, transported, or imprisoned for life. Much de-pended on Sleeman’s painstaking collection of evidence regarding thuggee . . . They were segregated in confinement in Jubbulpore, where they and their families were taught trades . . . By 1848 thug-gee had virtually ceased” (ODNB). Sleeman’s book is remarkable as both a work of ethnography and a record of extraordinary personal achievement. It is today highly uncommon on the market, with four copies traced at auction in the last 50 years; this copy was part of the celebrated travel library of Quentin Keynes, sold at Christie’s in 2004 (Part IV, lot 104). An extremely attractive association copy.

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90 SMYTH, George Carmichael. A History of the Reigning Family of Lahore, with some Account of the Jummoo Rajahs, their Seik Soldiers and their Sirdars. With notes on Malcolm, Prinsep, Lawrence, Steinbach, McGregor, and the Calcutta Review. Calcutta: W. Thacker and Co., 1847Octavo (209 × 134 mm). Contemporary linen-grain brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, red edges. Housed in a brown cloth solander box. Fold-ing frontispiece (plan of Lahore, lithographed by Ballin’s Lithographic Press), 5 similar plates of portraits of Sikh princes, double-sided folding genealogical table. With the errata leaf. Spine gently rolled, short split to foot of front joint, lower outer corners slightly worn, variable browning (different paper stocks), occasional spotting, sometimes heavy but the paper remaining strong, contemporary manuscript signature practice to verso of errata leaf. A very good copy.

first edition, presentation copy from the author, in-scribed on the front free endpaper: “Capt. J. Wood Collins, with the Editors kind regards—July 31st 1865”. Collins (d. 1866) joined the 78th Foot (Ross-shire Buffs) in 1821 and shipped to India in May 1842. The subscribers’ list records 311 copies.Smyth served with the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry and “had been in India for twenty-six years and could claim to be well-informed” (Khurana, British Historiography on the Sikh Power in the Punjab, p. 96). He explains in his introduction that he was encouraged to write the book by George Broadfoot, at the time Agent to the Governor-General of the North West Frontier, an appointment which “was partly the cause and partly the result of the convic-tion that a war with the Sikhs could no longer be avoided,” the purpose of the work being to promote the idea of the inevitability of conflict. The First Anglo-Sikh War (1845–1846) broke out be-fore Smyth could complete the book; Broadfoot had been killed at Ferozeshah (1845), so the context at the time of its publication was inevitably entirely altered. Smyth’s personal experiences of the war were such that he “wrote his account of the proceedings of the British with the same acid pen as he had used against the

Sikhs. This rendered the book ‘infamous’, but at the same time it went a long way to exposing the hollowness of the British victory in the First Anglo-Sikh War”. Smyth was thorough in his research, he had spoken with Broadfoot on the subject, obtained transla-tions of a number of indigenous sources, and had read Malcolm, Prinsep, Lawrence, and Steinbach, also being “conversant with some of the leading journals.” But his main source were “the notes of a Captain Gardner [Alexander Gardner, Gordana Khan] of the Sikh Artillery, who has for several years past supplied im-portant information to the British Government” (Introduction). As a document of the development of British understanding of the Sikhs it remains an important historiographical source. Car-michael Smyth has a claim to great notoriety in being the man whose action in insisting on the issue of the new cartridge cases at Meerut in 1857 struck the first sparks of the Indian Mutiny. A scarce and highly desirable contemporary source on Anglo-Sikh relations.

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91 (SOVIET-AFGHAN WAR.) ESPOSITO, Vincent J., Brigadier-General (ed.). The West Point Atlas of American Wars. Vol. I: 1689–1900. Vol. II: 1900–1953. Compiled by the Department of Military Art and Engineering, the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 19642 volumes, landscape folio. Original grey buckram-backed black cloth boards, title in gilt on false black spine labels, and debossed to front boards together with the West Point arms embossed in gilt. Text printed in blue, numerous maps in grey with dispositions in red and blue. A little rubbed, spine panels flaked to the point of illegibility, front endpapers a little soiled, the book block of the second volume burst at the bottom edge, and the boards split, by the penetration of a stray round, overall in sound “relic” condition.

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A remarkable copy of this classic work, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To His Royal Highness Prince Brigadier Abdul Wali on the occasion of your visit to The United States Military Academy, D.V. Bennett, Major General, USA, 11 March 1968”. The set was presented as a memento to the Sandhurst-trained deputy commander of the Afghan army, also the son-in-law of King Zahir Shah, on his visit to North America in 1968–9, and subsequently liberated by a Russian soldier as a souvenir of the “Russian invasion of ”/”intervention in” Afghanistan in 1979 with his inscription beneath: “Found on entry to the army headquar-ters by Chief Lieutenant Breusenko, Kabul, December 1979 [our translation]”. An evocative vestige from this endlessly troubled region, emblematising the period often referred to as the Soviet Union’s Vietnam War. The work was first published in 1959.

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92 STACY, Lewis Robert. The Narrative of Lieutenant Colonel L. R. Stacy. Whilst in the Brahooe Camp, inducing the Submission of Naseer Khan, only Son of the Late Meer Meerab Khan, Khan of Khelat; and in the Subsequent Operations of General Nott’s Army in its March to and its Return from Cabul. Serampore: from the Serampore Press, 1844Octavo in half-sheets. Original dark green fine-diaper cloth, spine ruled in blind and lettered in gilt, sides with large ornamental blind-stamped panel, yellow surface-paper endpapers. Housed in a custom made red quarter morocco slipcase and matching chemise. Spine slightly cocked, superficial fraying to extremities of spine, short splits to joint-ends, a few marks to sides, tips bumped; early 20th-century bookseller’s catalogue description (William George’s Sons) mounted to front pastedown, front hinge partially cracked at gutter of title page, but remaining firm, a few trivial spots to contents, pp. 160–1 slightly marked and abraded in gutter, contemporary neat corrections following the printed errata. A very good copy, complete with the errata leaf.

first and only edition, scarce, “printed — though not pub-lished — for private circulation among [the author’s] friends”; clipped bookseller’s catalogue description present here states that only 20 copies were printed, a number corroborated by Uni-versity of California (Berkeley) and Bodleian. Apart from these copies, only two other locations are cited by OCLC among in-ternational libraries (British Library, Calgary), and this is the only copy traced in commerce. Stacy, of the 43rd Bengal Native

Infantry, served as interpreter during treaty negotiations with the Khan of Khelat, which safeguarded British lines of commu-nication during Nott’s invasion in May 1842. His account “does not profess to give a general view of the proceedings beyond the Indus, or of the military movements of the army to which Col. Stacy was attached, but is confined to those transactions in which [the author] was personally engaged” (preface). Stacy also wrote another account, entitled Narrative of Services in Beloochistan and Affghanistan, which is far more common; the present work must rank as one of the rarest first-hand accounts of the First An-glo-Afghan War and its aftermath.provenance: from the library of Brigadier General Harry Bid-dulph, Royal Engineers (1872–1952; DSO 1917, invested CMG and CB 1919), with his ownership inscription dated 1942 to front pastedown. Biddulph was appointed Director of the Works and Buildings, Air Ministry, in 1928. He was the author of Early In-dian Campaigns and the Decorations Awarded for Them (1914). His fa-ther was General Sir Robert Biddulph (1835–1918), noted military administrator who was at Lucknow in 1857, and was later com-mander-in-chief, Gibraltar (1893–1900).Not in Riddick (but Riddick 149 for the author’s Narrative of Services in Be-loochistan and Affghanistan).

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93 [TAYLOR, William.] Madrasiana by W. T. Munro, Philomath [pseud.]. Madras: Caleb Foster, Foster Press, 1868Octavo. Original purple diagonal wave-grain cloth, title gilt to spine. Spine sunned and a little rubbed, a few gatherings a little loose but hold-ing, touch of foxing to prelims yet a very good copy.

first edition, presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Colonel Macdonald from the Author, Madras 24 Jany. 1871”. Forty-three subscribers, including a Rev. R. C. Macdonald, headed by Lord Napier (six copies), took a total of 51 copies, although the publisher’s note states that “particulars of sub-scription from the interior [of India] have not been received in time”.This is an engaging eyewitness guide to Madras, interspersed with some amusing digressions (“Charm of Duelling”, “Anthropol-ogists – Species not changeable”), the first two parts devoted to ecclesiastical and civil buildings, the last two to a plethora of sub-jects ranging from “Sinaiitic Inscriptions”, “The Sphinx Riddle” and “Harbour Project at Madras” to a short repudiation of Huxley’s theory on the “Monkey origin of Man” (pp. 267–68). The author was the orientalist and missionary the Reverend William Taylor, who was involved in the cataloguing of the celebrated collection of local manuscripts assembled by the military engineer and survey-or Colin Mackenzie (1753–1821). Scarce, Copac cites just two cop-ies among British and Irish institutional libraries (BL, Scotland), OCLC adds one other (Bibliothek der Franckeschen Stiftungen).

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94 (THOMAS, George.) FRANCKLIN, William. Military Memoirs of Mr. George Thomas, who by Extraordinary Talents and Enterprise, rose in the Service of the Native Powers in the North West of India. Calcutta: Printed for the Author at the Hurkaru Press, 1803

Quarto (262 × 201 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, neatly rebacked with the original, slightly sunned, spine laid down, new red morocco label, compartments gilt with fleur-de-lys corner pieces, central lozeng-es, double fillet panel gilt to the boards, floral edge-roll, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed. Housed in a burgundy flat-back cloth box by the Chelsea Bindery. Portrait frontispiece, the bust portrait stippled-en-graved, finished in ink and wash, elaborated with a banderolle, support-ing trophy of arms and standards, and framing laurel wreath surmount-ed by an eagle holding the suspension ring of the portrait in its beak, folding map, hand-coloured in outline, and a folding lithographic plate of the Qutb Minar. Errata slip mounted verso of the last leaf of text. A little rubbed at the extremities, particularly on the joints, light browning throughout, the folding plate slightly brittle as often, with old splits pro-fessionally repaired, “the third leaf in sig. L (p. 77–8), potentially signed L2, seems to be a cancelled leaf and non-extant. Text continuous” (BL Reference collection collation) – it has been suggested that the missing text contained remarks derogatory to the Sikhs and was struck at the sug-gestion of the governor-general, Richard Wellesley – remains very good.

first edition, preceding the London edition, published in octavo, by two years. Born in Tipperary, Thomas arrived in Ma-dras in 1781, possibly as a deserter from the Royal Navy. He be-gan learning his trade as a freelance with “the Kanara Poligars, a group of armed chieftain-bandits. Thomas subsequently joined the Nizam of Hyderabad’s army as a private, and there learned his trade as a soldier. He gathered around him a personal bodyguard, nicknamed the Irish Pindaris, after the feared Indian mercenar-ies” (ODNB). He was employed by the Begum Sumru of Sirdhana, then by Appa Khande Rao, the Maratha governor of Meerut, leav-ing Rao in 1797 to join Bapu Sindhia, governor of Saharanpur. “In the fluid situation before the East India Company imposed its rule, and when large areas of land were left virtually ungoverned following the collapse of the Mughal empire, Thomas conceived the extraordinary idea of making himself ‘King’ of Lahore by conquering the Punjab. He marched his troops into Hariana in 1797 and easily captured the towns of Hissar and Hansi. He found the latter, an ancient fort, inhabited by one fakir and two lions. He stabilised an area of 120 miles by 50 miles in Hariana and re-

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populated Hansi . . . At the height of his fame that year Thomas described himself as ‘dictator in all the countries belonging to the Sikhs south of the Sutlej’ and claimed to hold his land on be-half of the British government” (ibid.). Shortage of money forced Thomas to seek reemployment as a mercenary and he was igno-miniously defeated by French-led combined Mahratta, Jat and Rajput force. He died of fever in 1802. The orientalist William Francklin (1763-1839) had served with the Bengal army having been commissioned as an ensign in 1783. “By 1814 he had risen to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in both his regiment and the Bengal army. On being invalided on 1 Oc-tober 1815 he was made regulating officer at Bhagalpur.” He also “enjoyed a considerable reputation as an orientalist,” and “was a member, and during the later years of his life, librarian and mem-ber of the council, of the Royal Asiatic Society” (ibid.).

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95 WARD, William. A View of the History, Literature, and Mythology, of the Hindoos: including a minute Description of their Manners and Customs, and Translations from their Principal Works. Serampore: Printed at the Mission Press, 18182 volumes, quarto ( 257 × 200 mm). Contemporary tree calf, smooth spines compartmentalised with gilt quadruple rules and dotted roll tool, gilt central motif of lyre, ribbon and floral sprig, red and black skiver twin labels, gilt edge roll, blue speckled edges. Housed in a green cloth slip-case and matching chemise. Corners only lightly bumped, shallow scor-ing to boards, minor shelfwear, general light creasing, some gatherings lightly toned, paper flaw in blank margin at I2 and 3E1 (vol. I), pale mar-

ginal dampstaining to last few leaves in vol. I. A superior set complete with half-titles.

second edition, “carefully abridged, and greatly improved”, first published as Account of the Writings, Religion, and Manners, of the Hindoos (1811), both editions issued by the Mission Press that Ward laboured so hard to establish and both are decidedly un-common on the market. In India, the journalist and missionary William Ward (1769–1823) was mainly concerned with the estab-lishment and running of the press at Serampore. Despite his on-erous duties in connection with the press, alongside his mission-ary work, Ward was also the author of a number of publications, of which the present is “much the most important . . . Although Ward did not mince his words in his condemnation of ‘Hindoo idolatry’, he did comment favourably on the literary and philo-logical achievements of Hindu scholars, and in later versions modified somewhat the harshness of his strictures on Hinduism. Despite some serious inaccuracies, Ward’s work remains without parallel as a detailed account by a European observer of Hindu society and religion in early nineteenth-century Bengal” (idem).provenance: familial presentation inscriptions on each title page by Jan Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854) to his father Wulff Lazarus. Nathaniel Wallich was the Danish surgeon who became one of the East India Company’s greatest botanists. Appointed superintendent of the Botanic Garden in Calcutta in 1817 “he at once distinguished himself by his great activity in collecting and describing new plants, causing them to be drawn, and dis-tributing specimens to the chief European and North American gardens and herbaria” (ODNB). This is a highly appealing set of this important and uncommon early work of South Asian anthro-pology, unusual in being so handsomely bound and with such an attractive provenance.Lowndes X, p. 2839.

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96 (WELLESLEY, Richard Colley, Marquess.) The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence of the Marquess Wellesley, K. G. during his Administration of India. Edited by Montgomery Martin. London: John Murray [vol. I], Wm. H. Allen [vols. II–V], 1836–75 volumes, octavo (220 × 130 mm). Contemporary maroon half roan, spines gilt lettered direct, blind-tooled Vitruvian scroll to flat raised bands, blind-tooled scrolling foliate decoration to sides and corners, mar-bled sides, red speckled edges. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Welles-ley (with facsimile signature) by E. Finden after Samuel Laurence from the bust by Nollekens, 2 folding maps (general map of India hand-colour-ed in outline, another with block colour showing battles and sieges), 2 lithograph battle plans (“Plan of the Attack upon the North-west Angle of Seringapatam 1799”, Battle of Deeg (1804) with hand-coloured dispo-sitions). Engraved Egremont bookplate of either George Francis Wynd-ham (1786–1845), 4th earl, or George Wyndham (1789–1869), to whom Petworth and its estates passed; Egremont bookplates partially imposed over engraved armorial bookplates of the duke of Sussex. Scattered fox-ing, partial dampstaining to frontispiece. An attractive set.

first edition, presentation copy from wellesley to prince augustus frederick (1773–1843), Duke of Sussex, in-scribed on a preliminary blank in vol. I: “To His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex K. G. &c &c &c with Lord Wellesley’s Humble Duty, Wellesley March 30th 1836” (signature partially shaved by the binder). Wellesley and Sussex were both prominent Freema-sons, Augustus Frederick being English Grand Master from 1813–43: “during the mid-nineteenth century, most of the Muslims in-itiated in British lodges in India belonged to the royal families of collaborating or recently conquered princely states. In 1836, the English Grand Lodge recognised the admission of the ambas-sador from the Kingdom of Oudh, which Wellesley had brought

into the subsidiary alliance system in 1801. Early in the next dec-ade, the Duke of Sussex took part in the initiation of several Indi-an princes. Such initiations demonstrated how useful the broth-erhood could be in strengthening the power and influence of the expanding British Raj” (Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs, Builders of Empire: Freemasonry and British Imperialism, 1717–1927, 2007, p. 221).This set is accompanied by the rare 6 pp. printed “Extract of Des-patches of the Court of Directors [of the East India Company], to the Governor-General of India” (dated 25 October 1836), stitched as issued and addressed in manuscript to Sussex; this mentions that the Company “have deemed it right to furnish our Governments with the means of consulting so valuable a Work”, the despatch of an initial “Thirty Copies of Volumes I and II” and that a further 15 copies will be sent to the Presidencies of Madras and Bombay.“The most brilliant part of Wellesley’s career was unquestiona-bly his government of India. He must be regarded as one of the three men who consolidated the empire of which Clive laid the foundation. In many respects he resembled Dalhousie more than Hastings; but the difficulties which he was called upon to encounter were greater than those which confronted Dalhousie . . . As a member of a constitutional government such as that of Great Britain he was somewhat out of place owing to his auto-cratic habits and the contempt which he felt, and did not attempt to conceal, for the failings of his less able colleagues. Mackintosh called him ‘a sultanized Englishman’” (DNB). Presentation sets are most uncommon and this is a highly ap-pealing one in a very pleasing contemporary binding with a com-pelling provenance.

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97 BLANCHARD, Henry P. A Visit to Japan in 1860 on the U.S. Frigate “Hartford” and a return from China in the U.S.S. frigate “Niagara” to Aden and thence via the Red Sea and Europe to the United States. San Francisco: Women’s Co-Operative Printing Union, 1878Octavo. Original green cloth, alternative title “At Sea and Ashore” in gilt on front cover within black ornamental frame. Collector’s bookplate, ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Binding a little rubbed, text block lightly toned. A very good copy.

first and only edition, uncommon. Blanchard was a US consul in China in the 1850s and an early American visitor to Japan, which had recently been opened to the West by the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce, brokered by Townsend Harris, about whom Blanchard is somewhat scathing: “our minister lives at Jeddo [Edo], in a state of inebriety and immorality, which, with the advantage of seclusion from his countrymen, affords him additional ground for refusing to invite or see them” (p. 7). Elsewhere he writes: “No nation are like them. Their streets are clean and neat. Military stations are frequent, and double sword officers are constantly passing by. But the customs of the people are antagonistic to our own as much as possible. For instance, we visited in our walks, public bath-houses, where men and wom-en, old and young, were promiscuously bathing together” (p. 10). From Japan he travelled west to Aden and then to Italy. In the 1870s Blanchard was Henry B. Williams’s partner in the San Francisco based “Williams, Blanchard & Co.”, shipping and com-mission merchants in the China Trade and an officer in the San Francisco Port Society. In 1878 he published these letters with the “Women’s Co-Operative Printing Union”. Established by Agnes Petersen, and later taken over by Emily Pitts, this union was “the first permanent foothold for woman printers in San Francisco” (Levensen, Women in Printing: Northern California, 1857–1890, 1994).

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98 DOEFF, Hendrik Herinneringen aan Japan. Harlem: François Bohn, 1833Octavo (228 × 127 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, re-backed with the majority of the original spine, with original green moroc-co label laid down. Japanese bookseller’s ticket, binding a little rubbed, corners worn, tan-burn from corners to endpapers, pale marginal toning, overall very good.

first edition, presentation copy from the author, in-scribed on the front free endpaper: “Zyne Excellentie Den Heere Minister von Staat Baron H[endrik] Fagel van den auteur” (“His Excellency the Lord Minister of State Baron H. Fagel from the author”). The recipient, Hendrik Fagel the younger, served suc-cessively as commissioner, minister, and ambassador to London during the Napoleonic period. After the invasion of the Nether-lands by the French revolutionary army in 1794–5 he was trapped in England and obliged to sell his family library, “one of the most important private libraries in early modern Europe . . . the auc-tion, for which Christie’s had produced an elaborate catalogue (two volumes, containing almost 10,000 lots), did not take place, because in February/March 1802 the governors of the Erasmus Smith Schools in Dublin put in a successful bid for the entire collection on behalf of Trinity College” (Fagel collection website, retrieved 24/09/2018); with the attractive later bookplate of Jacob Fagel. Hendrik Doeff (1794–1837) was commissioner of the Dutch East India Company’s (VOC) trading post at Dejima from 1803 to 1817 and his book is an important record of Dutch-Japanese relations during this turbulent period, which was marked by strenuous efforts by the English, Russian and French to break the Dutch trade monopoly, his narrative including accounts of the Phaeton and Golovnin Incidents. Fluent in the language, Doeff also of-fers unusual insights into Japanese culture. Following the fall of Batavia to the British in 1811, he operated in more or less com-plete isolation, using his time to produce the first comprehen-sive Dutch-Japanese dictionary; “for several years, thus separated from the rest of the world, without sight of sail or the receipt of dispatch from Europe, he devoted to this undertaking his long experience, his talents, and his diligence” (The Quarterly Review, July 1836, p. 416). Doeff is also celebrated as the first westerner to publish haiku. An attractively provenanced copy of this uncom-mon and unusual memoir of the sakoku period in Japan.Cordier, Japonica, 488; Tiele, Bibl. 318.

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Golovnin’s rescue from Japanese captivity

99 (GOLOVNIN, Vasily Mikhailovich.) RIKORD, Petr Iva-novich. Записки Флота Капитана Рикорда о Плавании Его к Японским Берегам в 1812 и 1813 Годакх и о Сно-шениякх с Японтсами (Notes of Fleet Captain Rikord concerning his Voyage to Japan’s Shores in 1812 and 1813, and his Relations with the Japanese). St. Petersburg: Naval Press, 1816Quarto (262 × 196 mm). Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, label to spine. 4 folding copper-engraved maps and plans after Rikord, show-ing the ports of Edermo (modern Erimo) and Hakodate, with details of the special facilities built for the negotiations; and an aquatint portrait of Takadaya-Kahei. Bound without the half-title as often. Spine rubbed, and professionally restored, corners renewed, first 15 leaves with some slight erosion at the fore-corner of the tail margin, but overall a very good copy. 19th-century engraved bookplate of M. N. and N. M. Muraveyvikh, recording presentation by K.F. Muravyev, together with 20th-century col-lector’s plate of S.P. Fortinskii to the front pastedown.

first edition of this primary source for an important sequence of events in the early history of Russo-Japanese relations, de-cidedly uncommon. It also relates to the continuation of the researches begun on the first Russian circumnavigation, 1803–1806, undertaken under the patronage of the Russian-American Company, and jointly commanded of Ivan Krusenstern (1770–1846) and Nikolay Rezanov (1764–1807). “In 1807 Golovnin was commissioned by the Russian government to survey the coasts of Kamchatka, the Russian American colonies and the Kuril Is-lands” (Howgego).

The book describes in detail the rescue operation organised by Capt. Peter Rikord (1776–1855) aboard the Imperial Russian sloop Diana, to free Vasily Golovnin and his crew from Japanese internment in Hakodate. The Golovnin incident (1811–1813) had brought Russia and Japan to the brink of war. In 1808–11 the Russian sloop Diana, under the command of Vasi-ly Golovnin with Peter Rikord as second-in-command, was dis-patched as the second official Russian circumnavigation, tasked with the exploration and surveying of the Russian Far East, Kam-chatka and Alaska. On his return from Russian America in 1810, Golovnin began charting the Kuril Islands, and during his short landfall on the island of Kunashir, he, along with two of his of-ficers and four crewmen, were taken prisoner, transported to Hokkaido and kept in prison there, near the town of Matsumae, for over two years. A peaceful solution to the conflict became possible only as a result of the friendly relationship between Pe-ter Rikord, who organised and led three rescue missions, and the prominent Japanese businessman and public figure Takadaya Kahei (1769–1827). This work offers an informal, yet informative personal narreative of Golovnin’s capture and rescue. Golovnin later wrote a popular account of the experiences; both accounts being translated for an English edition in 1818. The plates depict the views of the harbours and ports of Edermo (modern Erimo) and Hakodate, plans of the special facilities built for the negoti-ations, and a portrait of Takadaya Kahei. Rikord’s book supple-ments the book by Golovnin, titled Captivity in Japan during the Years 1811, 1812, 1813.Howgego, II, G15; Whittaker, Russia Engages the World, pp. 113–4 & p. 189

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100 ISHIZU, Risaku. The Mineral Springs of Japan. Tokyo: Imperial Hygienic Laboratory, 1915Octavo. Original sage green cloth, title to black cloth labels to spine and front board. 77 plates (one colour), and 3 maps. Original publisher’s post-card loosely inserted. Binding very lightly rubbed, maps a little browned. A very good copy.

first and only edition. Outside America OCLC shows only four locations in Japan and Taiwan, and Copac lists no copies in the UK and Ireland. This comprehensive study of Japan’s hot springs was “compiled as an exhibit in the Panama-Pacific Inter-national Exposition in 1915, in order to make known to the world the general conditions of Japanese mineral springs” (p. v). The exposition was held in San Francisco to celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal. This book detailed the locations, mineral contents and radioactivity of Japanese spas as well as observa-tions and summer retreats. It is attractively illustrated with maps and half-tone photographic plates and includes an impressive chromolithographic plate of “the principal mineral waters bot-tled for sale and export” showing bottle designs that are striking-ly reminiscent of the designs of Apollinaris and Perrier bottles.

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101 (JAPAN; SWORDMANSHIP.) Hinokami Magokoro-Ryu kan (Hinokami Pure Heart Style Scroll). Japan: 1804Manuscript scroll (178 × 4064 mm), attached to polished turned wood dowel, original gilt patterned blue wrapper/leader lined with gold-flecked unryu paper. Elegantly executed calligraphic text, illustrated throughout with wonderfully expressive stylised figures in red ink demonstrating the various kamae in attack and defence, with both katana and waki. Lightly browned, some small chips and splits to the edges, no loss of text or image, silk wrapper worn and with some splits, but the whole remains attractive and usable, very good.

Highly attractive scroll, described as an “aide memoire”, show-ing the basic kamae or postures, and the attacking moves to be made from them, as taught by the “Pure Heart” or “Sincere” school connected with Shin Shin Ryu martial arts. The sequen-tial moves are indicated by multiple blade positions around the core figure, the sequence of movements indicated by numbers. The text also addresses the philosophical aspect of kamae, mental preparedness, as well as providing the genealogy of transmission from Masayuki Unsho through Mataueomon Nisshin to Masa Aki Abe, Echizen no Kami. The date of the transmission of this information is given as 1799, the scroll itself dated 1804. A later 19th-century German library label attributes the scroll to Abe.

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102 (JAPAN.) Gokachu goa iinryu (Banners and other symbols of Daimyo houses) – a 19th-century manuscript record. Koka 4, 1847Oblong octavo (143 × 200 mm). 48-page original manuscript text, pro-fusely illustrated, most designs coloured, and all of the banners, flags, kites, pennants, and coats annotated. Punch-sewn in deep blue covered thin card wrappers with paper manuscript label to the front panel. Wrap-pers rubbed and creased, pale toning of the book block, some finger-soil-ing at the fore edge and a few persistent but minor worm-tracks, remains nonetheless very good, and highly attractive.

A wonderful illustrated late Edo-period manuscript detailing the proper disposition of the mon – crests – used by various of the houses of the daimyo – feudal knights – on their banners, paper lan-terns, pole-arm flags, and more. The manuscript frequently shows the daimyo kamon known as maruni chigai takanoha incorporating two crossed hawk feathers which was the crest of the Kubo and Hidaka families amongst others, but also more generally symbolic of the samurai class itself. The manuscript opens with various styles of nobori – long narrow flags attached to poles, most often employed to identify military units on the battlefield; a number of different uma-jirushi – the massive banners designating the commander; sashimono – the small banners worn on the backs of ashigaru foot soldiers, and Samurai; together with symbols on standards, paper lanterns, and pennants. The Koka nengo, or year name, was created to commemorate the fire at Edo Castle in Tenpo 15, and was re-tained through the first year of the accession of Emperor Komei, who was the last Edo Emperor from 1846 through 1867.

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“We hoisted our color & opened fire” – eyewitness account of the first encounter between the US Navy and Japanese vessels

103 (JAPAN.) PEARCE, Walter. [Manuscript title:] Abstract Log of “USS Wyoming” maintained by Ensign Walter Pearce. At sea: 1861–64Quarto (338 × 218 mm), approx. 160 pp. Commercial ledger book, brown hessian over boards, green marbled endpapers. Housed in a custom made green quarter morocco slipcase and matching cloth chemise. Spine missing but covers firmly attached, edges of binding reinforced with tape, covers rubbed and stained, generally toned internally and with some light signs of handling, a few leaves loose, otherwise in very good condition.

Fascinating Civil War naval log maintained by Ensign Walter Pearce during service aboard the USS Wyoming and incorporating his important eye-witness account of the action in the Shimon-oseki Straits on 16 July 1863, the first clash between the US Navy

and Japanese vessels. The log includes a detailed original pen and ink sketch map of the engagement at Shimonoseki (180 × 230 mm, mounted on another leaf and tipped in), showing the lo-cation of Japanese batteries and the positions and manoeuvring of vessels. The entry for 15 July is accompanied by two coloured pencil sketches of flags flown by ships of the Choshu domain, one at the fore (the daimyo’s own flag) and the Hinomaru (“circle of the sun”) flown at the peak. The album closes with an itinerary of the Wyoming’s ports of call and a contemporary copy of a photo-graphic portrait of Pearce in his uniform, taken from an “original made in 1864”: a holograph note gives his ladder of promotion from master’s mate to acting ensign and finally acting master.At the opening of the Civil War the Wyoming, a wooden-hulled screw sloop, was anchored at San Francisco. Initially operating off the California coast and protecting Union whaling interests against Confederate incursions, she was in South American wa-ters throughout the first half of 1862 before being issued orders to proceed to the Far East in search of Confederate commerce raiders, in particular the celebrated CSS Alabama, which, howev-er, successfully evaded the Wyoming. The posting to the Far East sphere of operations brought the Wyoming into conflict with the isolationist policies of the Japanese emperor. “In accordance with the Emperor Komei’s ‘Order to expel barbarians’ [11 March 1863], the Shimonoseki-based Choshu clan under Lord Mori began to attack western shipping in the Shimonoseki Straits. During June and early July, Lord Mori’s warships and coastal artillery fired on US, French, and Dutch vessels. The USS Wyoming was then sent into the straits and was also attacked. It retaliated by bombarding shore batteries, sinking two Japanese warships and damaging an-other” (The Encyclopaedia of Warfare: Imperial Wars 1815–1914, 2013). Pearce’s journal begins on 26 October 1861 with his appointment as Acting Master Mate, reporting for duty at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In early November he ships out for the Far East, adding to his log extensive detail of supplies and munitions garnered for the voyage: hammocks, cannon, cartridges, rope, fishing tackle, shovels, sewing notions (small accessories), socks, blankets, ink, pencils, reams of paper, sugar, apples, shaving brushes, and much more. Sailing via Honolulu, Manila and the Ladrones (present-day Mariana Islands), for the rest of 1862 and into the first half of 1863 the Wyoming patrolled the Pacific. In early 1863 the Japanese gov-ernment issued the famous ‘Order to expel barbarians’. For most of May, June, and July 1863, the Wyoming lay at anchor off Yokoha-ma. On 25 June 1863 the American merchant steamer Pembroke was fired on by Japanese ships and shore batteries while anchored off

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Shimonoseki. The Wyoming left Yokohama on 13 July and by the 16th was in action, Pearce giving a detailed and gripping account of the brief engagement: “At 5:10 got underway & steamed toward the Straits of Simona Saki. At 9 went to general quarters, loaded the pivot guns with shell, and cleared ship for action. At 10:45 am entered the Simona Saki Straits & beat to quarters. On entering 3 signal guns were fired from the batteries on shore on the star-board hand, immediately two shots were fired at us from the 1st battery . . . upon which we hoisted our color & opened fire in return with 11 in shell from Pivot guns & solid shot from our Broadside guns, the starbd . . . In passing thro’ the straits we engaged 4 bat-teries. One steamer, one bark, & one brig (all flying the Japanese colors at the peak & flag of Prince Choshoe [Choshu] at the fore) were lying in the straits, they also opened fire on us which we re-turned. After passing all the batteries & vessels, we returned & en-gaged them a second time . . . At 12:10 stopped firing and steamed out of the straits having been one hour & 10 minutes under fire.” The Wyoming was hit hard during the battle and put into Yokoha-ma “nursing damage to her funnel and rigging, having plugged the

damage from the eleven Choshu shots that had pierced her hull” (John Denney, Respect and Consideration: Britain and Japan 1853–1868 and beyond, 2011, p. 156). The log concludes with the return of Wy-oming to the Philadelphia Navy Yard in July 1864, the ship having completed a circumnavigation of the globe.Pearce soon transferred to the Union ironclad New Ironsides, described as the most powerful ship in the US Navy. In an in-tense 16-page autograph letter (blue paper, split at lateral fold) addressed to “My own dearest Rose”, Pearce gives a meticulous account of the First Battle of Fort Fisher (23–27 December 1864), North Carolina, which ended in a Confederate victory. This is accompanied by a small sketch map in blue pencil showing the position of Confederate batteries. An evocative and important log that records the first encounter between American and Japanese naval forces, a brief engagement but one that foreshadowed the titanic struggle that, within 80 years, would engulf the Pacific.

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104 (JAPAN.) Daimyo scroll. [Title in English:] Flags of the different Daimios of Japan. Japan: c.1870Scroll (180 × 400 mm). Original polished bone jikugi (central cylindrical rod), pale brown silk tie. With 88 hand-coloured woodblock flags on pa-per, text in English and Japanese. Exterior a little darkened otherwise in remarkably good condition.

Highly attractive and distinctly uncommon early Meiji-period scroll showing the flags of 29 daimyos (feudal lordships) and giving details of annual revenue (recorded in kokus of rice, approximate-ly 280 litres, originally defined as enough to feed one person for one year), provinces, capitals of their respective territories (or han), and the cadet branch of each clan, illustrated with flags for each, both the o-uma-jirushi (“great standard”) and ko-uma-jirushi (“lesser standard”). The scroll opens with the Hinomaru (“circle of the sun”) and imperial chrysanthemum mon (or crest) above the standards of the Tokugawa shogunate (three hollyhock leaves within a cir-cle). The sixteen-petalled Imperial Chrysanthemum Crest was first recognised as the exclusive emblem of the imperial household in 1868; the Hinomaru was adopted officially in 1854: “Japan had no national flag until 1854, when upon a petition by the lord of Sat-suma han, Shimazu Nariakira, the bakufu [military government] determined that Japanese ships should fly a white flag bearing the Rising Sun emblem in order to identify themselves as Japanese. In 1870 the Meiji government, following the late Tokugawa prece-dent, decreed that Japanese ships ought to use the Rising Sun flag as the national flag” (Takashi Fujitani, Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan, 1998, p. 49). The British Museum notes that the flags are presented here “on western-style horizontal flags mounted on flag poles” and not in the Japanese manner.This is a fascinating record dating to the advent of the Meiji Res-toration (1868), which curtailed the power of the daimyos: “On pa-per, the abolition of the old domains (and with them, the daimyo as well) and the creation of the new administrative units called prefectures seemed to be in 1868 the most politically dangerous [of the Meiji reforms]. Great care and planning went into this reform announced in 1871 lest the daimyos fight [it]” (Louis G. Perez, The History of Japan, 1998, p. 98).Among British and Irish institutional libraries Copac cites only the copy at the Society of Antiquaries of London, OCLC adds Harvard

(both this and the SoA copy bound in book form); we have traced a copy at the British Museum (catalogued as “Flags of the different Daimyos of Japan”) which survives as a scroll; only one entry on auc-tion records (2013), apparently the present copy. A superb survival from the period of the opening of Japan, perhaps intended for the tourist market when foreign trade was being established, in effect acting as a guide to the leading families of Japan.

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The arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan

105 (JAPAN; PERRY EXPEDITION.) YOSHIMORI, Utagawa, as “MIKI KOSAI”. Ikoku Ochiba-kago (A Basket of Fallen Leaves from Foreign Lands). Tokyo: Bigakudo, 1854Octavo (177 × 117 mm), 20 double-folded leaves (unnumbered). Original Japanese “pouch” or “stab” binding (fukuro-toji), jade green embossed wrappers with overall stylised cloud pattern incorporating a roundel im-age (possibly of Fujin, the Shinto wind god). Housed in a custom made dark blue slipcase with rounded gilt-lettered spine and matching chemise by the Chelsea Bindery. 17 colour woodblock illustrations, 2 double-page colour maps. Minimal peripheral wear and scattered worm holes to the fragile binding, worm-trails throughout sympathetically restored. An ex-cellent, bright copy.

first edition of the first book to record the arrival of Commo-dore Perry in Japan, the rarest and finest of the printed books devoted to the opening of Japan to the West. It was published under the imprint of Bigakudo, “presumably a name assumed by one of the leading wood-block printers of the time, as the Shogu-nate government did not permit the circulation of publications of this kind” (Contemporary Japan, volume 22 (1954), p. 242). The anonymous author used the pen name of “Ingakudo”, meaning “Unknown Scholar”. “When Commodore Perry in 1853 succeeded in bringing his boats to the forbidden coast and actually stepped on the soil of Japan, the audacity of his venture created a tremendous upheaval in the coun-try. He had been sent with a letter from President Fillmore, which suggested that ports should be opened for trade between the two countries. The Japanese suspected, however, that the arrival of the US Navy, albeit with only four ships, meant an attempt to attack and conquer the islands. But the commodore, who had studied the customs and traditions of the Far East as thoroughly as it was possible at this period, succeeded by firmness, inscrutability, and impressive pomp to break the resistance of the Japanese . . . During the brief stay of the American ships in July 1853 and again during the four and a half months of 1854 that they were in Japanese wa-ters, the American visitors were under constant close observation by the Japanese. Not only was every move they made reported to the governor of the province, but artists were sent to the harbour to make sketches of the invading barbarians and their boats. The sketches served two purposes. The first was to create a lasting his-torical record for the archives, and the second was to give accurate information to the shogun in Edo of the invaders and their military equipment” (Renata V. Shaw, “Japanese Picture Scrolls of the First Americans in Japan” in Graphic Sampler, Library of Congress, 1979).

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A number of illustrated scrolls and sketchbooks were produced for presentation to the shogun; Shaw continues: “The Library is fortunate to have acquired along with the scrolls a small printed book that utilizes the drawings, but in a more finished and detailed form. Entitled Ikoku Ochiba Kago (A Basket of Fallen Leaves from Foreign Lands) . . . and published . . . probably soon after Perry negotiated the treaty with the Japanese [Treaty of Kanagawa, 31 March 1854]. After a discussion of world geography and the position of the Jap-anese Islands in relation to North America, the author presents a map of that continent and then a map of Edo Bay with the forts of defence and the distances from shore to shore clearly marked. He continues with a list of Japanese defence encampments and the names of local lords assigned to man the fortifications. Among the illustrations are several that are familiar because of their appear-ance on the ‘first landing’ scrolls: woodcuts of two American ma-rines and two officers, the hats and caps, the musical instruments, and the woodcut of the Susquehanna [Perry’s flagship], a lively and colourful double-page illustration”.

Little is known of the artist Utagawa Yoshimori (1830–1885), born Taguchi Sakuzo, although other accounts give his family name as Miki and his “studio name” (or dogo) as Ikkosai (perhaps giv-ing rise to his pen name here as “Miki Kosai”). He was a pupil of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, one of the last great masters of the uki-yo-e style of woodblock printing. He contributed over a dozen prints to the celebrated series “Scenes of Famous Places along the Tokaido Road” (Tokaido meisho fukei), also known as the “Pro-cessional Tokaido” (Gyoretsu Tokaido), and designed over thirty books, many of songs and humorous poetry. His beautiful and striking illustrations for A Basket of Fallen Leaves, aside from those mentioned above, include portraits of Commodore Perry, his son, Commander Henry A. Adams, and presents given to the Japanese, including a small steam locomotive. The work closes with the Japanese text of Perry’s message to the Emperor. It is decidedly scarce: not located on auction records or Copac, and OCLC cites just three copies among international holdings (Harvard, Brigham Young, Claremont Colleges).

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The earliest record of the introduction of golf to Japan

106 (JAPAN; GOLF.) WHITE, Cyril T. H. Commonplace book containing documents relating to cruises on the China Station and elsewhere. 1890–1906Quarto (330 × 197 mm). The text block of a late 19th-century commercial ledger book recently rebound in mid-brown quarter sheep, dark green morocco label, dark blue cloth sides, marbled edges. Approx. 140 leaves, containing a range of ephemeral material, some remarkable shipboard printings, a number of quite well-finished watercolours of the Mediterra-nean, China and Japan.

A naval officer’s commonplace book from the last years of the 19th century containing rare ephemera, notably two printed doc-uments of 1897 relating to the Hakodate Golf Club. These both predate the accepted date for the foundation of the “first golf club in Japan”, at Kobe in 1901. Hakodate, on the northern island of Hokkaido, was the first Japanese port opened to foreign trade following the signing of the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854, and became a significant harbour on the China Station.Received wisdom has it that the history of golf in Japan “can be traced to Ryoichiro Arai, a Japanese businessman in the silk trade, who travelled to the United States and first played golf in 1900 at the Northfield Links, which later became the Atlantic City Golf Club. During his travels back and forth to Japan, he brought word of the game to his native country, especially after he was

given his own set of golf clubs in 1902 by Andrew Carnegie, after they met at Pinehurst [North Carolina]” (Mallon & Jerris, Histor-ical Dictionary of Golf, 2011, p. 158). The club regularly cited as be-ing the first in Japan was established at Kobe by the British tea trader Arthur Hesketh Groom (1846–1918), who built a summer house near the summit of Mount Rokko, located between Kobe and Osaka. “Groom’s involvement with Rokko-san didn’t end with his weekend getaways. In 1898 he and a group of like-mind-ed mountaineers . . . perhaps motivated by the establishment of the Royal Hong Kong Golf Club a few years earlier, set about to build a few links on leased land not far from his cottage. After three years of clearing rocks and underbrush without the bene-fit of modern equipment, by the fall of 1901 they had completed their first four holes. Word soon spread, and the growing num-ber of golfers prompted the addition of five holes and the official establishment of the Kobe Golf Club on February 27, 1903, with Groom serving as Honorary Secretary” (Kobe Golf Club online, retrieved 17.08.18). The two pieces here are both headed “Hakodate Golf Club”, they are “Rules for Golf Competition, to be played off on Saturday, 4th Sept., and following days” – this is dated “3.9.97” and gives a print run of 30 copies; the other (dated 15 September 1897) gives details of a “meeting of the Committee held on board HMS Immor-talité, on 12th September, 1897, Captain Chichester in the Chair, the principal matter under consideration was whether the Golf Club could assist the Polo Club by giving up a portion of the links for Polo” – showing that the club was already established by 1897 – and going on “The place that had lately been used for Polo, and which had been suggested as a site for links, although easy to get at for horsemen, is difficult for persons walking, or rickshaws . . . The accounts of the Club were also placed before the Committee, and it was found that after the payment of all expenses, viz: buy-

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ing grass cutting tools, &c, wages to green keeper, and a present to the owner of the ground, a balance of 15dols. [Hong Kong] remained . . . A Vote of thanks was tendered to Captain Trotman for the great trouble taken by him in getting the links in working order”. Both of these are signed J. A. Keys as honorary secretary. The collection was apparently assembled by Lieutenant-Com-mander Cyril T. H. White RN (b. 1888); the album retains a card signed “Cyril T. H. White, Royal Navy”. White served on HMS Fauvette, Mediterranean Fleet, in 1915, and as lieutenant on HMS Irresistible. He was a keen philatelist, elected a member of the Roy-al Philatelic Society in 1917 (see The London Philatelist, vol. XXVI), and clearly had an interest in naval ephemera. The contents can be divided into two groups, printed ephemera and manuscript, of which a more detailed list is available on request. A highly engaging, multifarious assemblage, including material that re-writes the story of golf in Japan, a country that now boasts the second highest number of golf courses (second only to the Unit-ed States) and around 10 million people playing the game.

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107 (JAPANESE MARTIAL ARTS.) Two ryu scrolls, of the Slow Killing School. Nan Setsu Ryu, 10 March 18052 scrolls (171 × 1651 mm and 171 × 2260 mm). Both wrapped in contem-porary Japanese tissue consistent with the late Edo period, and preserved in recent Japanese style dark blue silk folding case, bone toggle closure. Both scrolls have been professionally restored, laid down on Japanese tis-sue and given a lead of stout brown felted paper with gold silk ties, and attached to black lacquered wooden dowels, very good.

These original late-Edo period martial arts manuscripts are for the Slow Killing School, an offshoot of the Yoshin-ryu – School of

the Willow Heart – founded by the physician Akiyama Shirobei Yoshitoki in Nagasaki in 1632. These teachings have subsequent-ly become highly influential in jujutsu. Original techniques integrated Chinese concepts of the development of qi, and of kyusho-jutsu atemi – vital points striking – which derived from a complex conception of body mechanics. The first scroll details the philosophy of the school, illustrated by a pair of globes and a superb portrait of Marici, a deva associated with light and the sun, but adopted by the samurai in the 8th century as a tutelary deity. The second incorporates illustrations of actual techniques, with images of sword-bearing samurai together with tengu armed with a straight-bladed Chinese-style sword. The various ryu of bujutsu quite rightly guarded their secrets jealously, so teaching scrolls like the present example are extremely uncommon.

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The chief source of western knowledge of Japan

108 KAEMPFER, Engelbert. De Beschryving van Japan, behelsende een verhaal van den ouden en tegenwoordigen staat en regeering van dat ryk . . . Uyt het oorspronkelyk Hoogduytsche handschrift, nooit te vooren gedrukt, in het Engelsch overgezet, door J. G. Scheuchzer, Lidt van de Koninklyke Maatschappy . . . onder het opzicht van den Ridder Hans Sloane. Amsterdam: Jan Roman de Jonge, 1733Folio (347 × 209 mm). Contemporary mottled calf professionally refur-bished at head and tail of spine and corners, spine richly gilt with stylised sunflowers and scrolling foliate motifs, compartments bordered by a saw-tooth roll, gilt tooled on the raised bands, red morocco label, mar-bled and combed edges. Engraved allegorical title by Jan Caspar Philips and 48 plates and maps (complete); title page printed in red and black, text in double-columns. Contemporary armorial bookplate (signed “M. A.”) of Henri-Joseph Vleys, seigneur de Ten Doele (1703–1759), ennobled in 1730 by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. A particularly attractive copy, clean, well-margined and in an appealing period binding.

Second Dutch edition, following the first of 1729; Kaempfer’s His-tory of Japan was first published in London in 1727. Born in West-phalia, Kaempfer graduated in 1676 with a doctorate in languages, history and medicine from Cracow, spending the following four years at Königsberg studying medicine and natural science. In 1681 he moved to Uppsala and two years later was chosen to ac-company Ludwig Fabritius’s embassy from Charles XII to Russia and Persia. At Esfahan Kaempfer decided not to return with the rest of the party, but instead obtained employment with the Dutch East India Company and headed south for Bandar Abbas, where for two years he was surgeon at the Dutch factory. In 1688 he set sail for the East passing through Muscat, the Malabar and Coro-mandel coasts, Cochin and Quilon, arriving in Batavia in Octo-ber 1689. “After spending the winter studying the natural history of Java he took a vessel to Japan as physician to the Dutch trading factory there. En route the vessel called at the Dutch factory in Siam, where Kaempfer visited Ayuthaya and Bangkok. On 24.9.90

he arrived at the Dutch factory of Deshima in Nagasaki, Japan, the only Japanese port at that time open to foreign trade” (Howgego). In 1691 he set out with the head of the factory on his first journey to the Imperial court at Edo, receiving an audience with Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. He made a second similar trip in 1692 be-fore leaving Japan and returning to Batavia, eventually sailing for Europe some time in 1693. “His adroitness, insinuating manners and medical skill overcame the habitual jealousy and reticence of the natives, and enabled him to elicit much valuable information” (Ency. Brit.). By 1695 he had established himself as a physician in his home town of Lemgo, where he remained until his death in 1716. In his lifetime he published nothing of his travels in the Far East, although the present account was written shortly before his death, and it was not until his natural history collection and lit-erary remains were purchased by Sir Hans Sloane in 1723–5 that this account was translated by Johann Gaspar Scheuzer and pre-pared for publication. Thereafter this encyclopaedic description of Japanese flora and fauna, religion and customs, government and industries remained “the chief source of Western knowledge of Ja-pan” (Landwehr) for over a century, being translated into all major languages and reprinted on numerous occasions.Cordier, Japonica, p. 418; Garrison-Morton 6374.11 (“Kaempfer’s illustrat-ed accounts of Japanese acupuncture and moxibustion are among the best of the 17th century”); Howgego, I, K1; Landwehr, VOC, 531 (first Dutch edition); see Nissen BBI 1019 note; Wellcome III:376.

£8,750 [124565]

“A compelling book, written with knowledge and insight . . . [which] paints a picture of a rich Japanese culture”

109 OVERMEER FISSCHER, Jan Frederik van. Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk (Contribution to the knowledge of the Japanese Empire). Amsterdam: J. Müller & Comp., 1833

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Quarto (284 × 226 mm). Publisher’s deluxe binding of pinkish-red calf by vom Rath of Amsterdam (with his leather label), spine with three pairs of double flat bands, gilt lettered direct and decoratively gilt tooled in com-partments, sides elaborately gilt tooled (outer border in imitation of the border of the original wrappers), corners with a motif resembling the mitsudomoe (the threefold tomoe, widely used in Shinto), central decorative gilt block incorporating a Greek key border enclosing the government and imperial seals of Japan (paulownia and chrysanthemum), gilt edges, bright green endpapers, original wrappers bound in. Frontispiece and 14 hand-coloured lithograph plates heightened with gum arabic (with tissue guards). Spine sunned, back cover partially faded, a few light abrasions, scattered light foxing internally, paper flaw at corner of pp. 177–8. A par-ticularly attractive copy.

first edition, in the preferred deluxe hand-coloured issue, of this important ethnographic work on Japan. Overmeer Fisscher (1800–1848) formed an important collection of Japanese art and artefacts that was known throughout Europe but finally bought by the Dutch Royal Cabinet of Rarities in 1832, becoming one of the foundational collections of the National Museum of Ethnol-ogy. Fischer was originally stationed at Deshima, rising steadily through the ranks of the civil service to become warehouse master. For some time he had been amassing a collection of Japanese arte-facts and petitioned King William III to purchase the assemblage but this only came about through the intervention of the German botanist Philipp Franz von Siebold, who worked extensively in Ja-pan, who recommended its purchase. “[It is] a compelling book, written with knowledge and insight . . . [and] paints a picture of a rich Japanese culture. The court journey of 1822 [to Edo] is han-dled extensively. The Dutch account of its relationship with Japan is presented by descriptions of life on Deshima and in Nagasaki. In the spirit of the 18th century tradition of travel reports, Overmeer Fisscher added a description of the sea voyage from Java to Japan. The book was first and foremost a descriptive ethnographical study of Japan, though with a modest title. It had some of the character-istics of a monograph, including a ‘who and what’ in Japanese. It

could also be read as an informative work about the collection pro-viding information about various types of objects and the places of production. This is no small accomplishment . . . as an amateur ethnographer he was brilliant, and together with Cock Blomhoff and Von Siebold, laid the foundations for the study of Japan in the Netherlands” (Rudolf Effert, Royal Cabinets and Auxiliary Branches: Or-igins of the National Museum of Ethnology 1816–1883, 2008, Chapter 3).Bobins Collection 300; Cordier 489–90; Landwehr 385.

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110 PASKE-SMITH, Montague. Western Barbarians in Japan and Formosa in Tokugawa Days. 1603–1868. Kobe: J. L. Thompson & Co., [1930]Large octavo (252 × 176 mm). Contemporary half vellum, green hand-made paper sides, paper spine label, tan handmade paper endpapers, original cloth covers bound-in at rear. Housed in a custom green cloth solander box. Folding colour frontispiece, 30 plates with tissue guards, 3 folding colour plates, 2 folding black and white plates, large folding col-our map of Nagasaki as it was in 1802 and three folding supplements in cloth pocket at rear. Collector’s bookplate of Japanese bookplate scholar and author, Cliff Parfit. Two small marginal pencillings at p. 30, old tape repair to short closed-tear at head of pp. 227–8, minor foxing to fore edge; else a near-fine copy.

first and limited edition, one of 500 copies. A handsomely produced and richly illustrated history of foreign involvement in Edo period Japan and Formosa (Taiwan). Paske-Smith was a Ca-nadian-born British diplomat who joined the Foreign Service as a translator in 1907. Whilst in Japan he worked on several English language histories and guides to the region. This is an uncommon work, with just six copies traced institutionally in the UK.

£650 [129310]

111 (RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR.) LYNCH, George & Frederick Palmer. In Many Wars. [Tokyo:] Tokyo Printing Company, [1904]Octavo. Original silk covered card wrappers with white silk cord ties, titles to front cover in gilt, large illustration printed to silk to front cover, blue coated endpapers. Frontispiece and six plates. Slight loss to cloth at spine ends, small tear to cloth at join of spine and rear cover, cloth lightly soiled, dampstain to rear cover and endpaper, front cover illustration and gilt crisp and fresh; an exceptionally bright copy of this fragile production.

first edition of this remarkable collection of 49 war corre-spondent’s tales, with the signatures of 39 of the correspondents on rice paper pasted beneath their submission. The idea for the book was conceived of by a group of war correspondents waiting to be sent to the front line with the Japanese Army. Each corre-spondent offered a short article recounting their most exciting war story to date, and the entire proceeds of the final collection were donated to Teikoku Gunjin Yengokwai, an organisation which provided aid to those serving in the army and navy.

Most prominent among the contributors is Jack London; in “A Camera and a Journey” (p. 123), he recounts the misadventure in Moji which led to his arrest for unauthorized photography, a five yen fine, and the subsequent confiscation of his camera.BAL 11883; Anne Nishimura Morse, A Much Recorded War: The Russo-Japanese War in History and Imagery (2005).

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112 SATOW, Ernest. A Diplomat in Japan. The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period. With illustrations and plans. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1921Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles to spine in black, central crest of the Tokugawa Shôguns in black to front cover within single ruled black frame. With the dust jacket. Photographic frontispiece, 6 photographic plates and 2 two-page maps. Spine lightly browned, light foxing to spine, covers and edges; a very good copy in the foxed jacket with small chip to head of front panel and a small patch of glue residue to foot of spine.

first edition, first impression of this “minor classic” (ODNB), detailing Satow’s first diplomatic stay in Japan, 1862 to 1869, during which time governance of the country was changing from that of the Tokugawa shogunate to the restoration of Impe-rial rule. Sir Ernest Satow (1843–1929) had “an almost unprece-dented proficiency” in Japanese (ibid.), was one of the founding members of the Asiatic Society of Japan and in that country is recognised as perhaps the most important foreign observer of the Bakumatsu and Meiji periods.

£650 [129169]

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T H E M I D D L E E A S TThe emergence of the modern Gulf states

113 (ADMIRALTY.) Instructions for the Guidance of Her Majesty’s Ships of War Employed in the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: for Her Majesty’s Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, 18922 volumes, octavo (236 × 150 mm). Contemporary black half calf, dark blue cloth sides (vol. I morocco-grain, vol. II watered), spines gilt in com-partments, raised bands, buff endpapers, edges speckled red. Occasional blind-stamps of the Barbados Corporation. Slightly rubbed overall, ex-tremities bumped, vol. II sunned along head of front board, spotting to endleaves of vol. I, a few pages finger-marked in the margins not affecting text. A very good copy.

first edition of this rare handbook for British sailors, re-printing in full the texts of each treaty signed between the Gulf shaykhdoms and the British from 1820 to 1847. These Instructions were published in light of the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference of 1889–90; the year of publication was also that of the Exclusive Agreement. This is one of 500 copies printed; a printed issue-slip tipped to the title page of volume I appearing to indicate that a maximum of 250 copies were actually issued in the first instance. Just six copies are now traced in libraries worldwide.

The first agreement is the General Treaty with the Friendly Ar-abs, signed at Ra’s al-Khaymah in 1820 (p. 144). Arab signatories include “Sheik Shakbool”, that is Tahnun b. Shakhbut, shaykh of the Bani Yas and ruler of Abu Dhabi from 1818 to 1833, “Sultan bin Sugger”, or Sultan bin Saqr al-Qasimi, ruler of Sharjah, and the “Sheik of Dubey”, who in later agreements is named explicitly as Maktum bin Bati, who announced the independence of Du-bai from Abu Dhabi in 1833 and founded the Maktum dynasty. The treaty binds the Arab shaykhdoms to aid the British against piracy in the Gulf, illustrating that the British, despite their na-val supremacy, found their interests genuinely threatened by the activities of Arab sailors in the region. A further set of agree-ments, signed in 1838, with the chief of Abu Dhabi now known as “Khaleefa ben Shakbool”, gives the British the right to detain and search any ships entering their ports which are suspected of car-rying slaves. The final set of treaties, agreed with the various Gulf shaykhs over the course of 1847, including the chief of Bahrain, Muhammad bin Khalifah bin Subman, gives licence to British cruisers to seize any ships suspected of involvement in the slave trade. In all this is a rare and highly important document of the formation of the modern Gulf States.

£7,500 [104970]

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114 ALLEMAGNE, Henry-René d’. Du Khorassan au pays des Backhtiaris. Trois mois de voyage en Perse. Paris: Hachette et Cie., 19114 volumes, quarto (317 × 247 mm). Modern light brown half cloth, mar-bled sides, brown morocco labels, original wrappers bound in front and back. With 255 plates, the majority in high quality photogravure (47 coloured), a number chromolithographic and pochoir, many colour-pro-cess printed from photographs on stiff brown card mounts, with cap-tioned tissue guards, 960 images throughout text. Light shelf wear to spines and tips, half-title vol. 1 chipped and reinforced at margins, title page similarly reinforced head and foot, first 10 or so leaves with light damp stain and cockling in lower margin, all volumes with light marginal browning. A very good set.

first and limited edition, number 115 of 250 copies on vé-lin from the edition of 510. D’Allemagne was “one of the most important specialists of the decorative arts from the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th” (Dictionnaire Critique des Historiens de l’Art). This superbly produced work was based on his fourth trip to Persia, made in 1907, having been asked by the French government to investigate the archaeological monuments of the region. His account turned into this “monumental work” of four richly illustrated volumes that are “a feast for the eyes [and] a most instructive source of information” (Review, Biblio-thèque de l’école des chartes, 1913). The first two volumes comprise an encyclopaedic description of the culture and arts of Persia; the second two an account of his journey from Ashkabad to Enzeli on the Caspian, via Tehran and Ispahan. The final volume also in-cludes a reflection on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution that was in progress during his travels.

£5,000 [127314]

115 (ARABIAN NIGHTS.) [Persian:] ‘Alf leila wa leila bi farsi (One thousand and one nights). Bombay: Fath al-Karim, 1308 H, 18912 volumes bound as one, quarto (314 × 225 mm). Early 20th-century pat-terned cloth. Title page with floral ornament, 35 half to full-page illustra-tions and decorations in Persian style, Nastaliq Persian script lithographed from the calligraphy of Nesar Ahmad ibn Hafez Niaz Ahmad Barelvi. Some-

what rubbed, a little rubbing with minor loss at tips of back cover, text block lightly browned, sporadic worming, text minimally affected.

first edition published by the Fath al-Karim press in Bombay, one of 1,600 copies printed. The first printed edition of the Arabi-an Nights in Persian and with lithographic illustrations appeared at Tehran in 1855. “The Persian translation of the Arabian Nights experienced some seven illustrated editions between 1272/1855 and 1320/1902” (Encyclopaedia Iranica), though the majority were based on the 1855 edition. This Bombay edition is illustrated with a different suite of scenes, albeit similar in style to the 1855 ver-sion. Fath al-Karim printing house, owned by the philanthropist Kazi Abdul Karim Porbandari, was known for its promotion of book production in Arabic, Persian, Hindu, Malay and other lan-guages and donated a number of books in 1897 to start Bombay’s Karimi library. Fittingly bound in cloth printed with a modernist, almost Orphist, take on the vibrant, florally rosetted chintzes so popular in South and Central Asia.

£6,000 [128964]

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116 BELGRAVE, James H. D. Welcome to Bahrain: A Complete Illustrated Guide for Tourists and Travellers. [Together with contemporary decorative cigarette case]. Stourbridge: Printed in England by Mark & Moody Ltd., and Published by James H.D. Belgrave, 1954Octavo. Original pictorial light card wrappers. Leather covered brass cig-arette case, camel and rider embossed on front and map of Bahrain on back, internal elasticated straps. Portrait frontispiece and 16 other plates, 2 folding coloured maps (city of Manama and Guide Map to the Bahrain Islands), one full-page plan (Bahrain and its Neighbours). Wrappers a little rubbed, text block toned. A very good copy. Leather on cigarette case slightly mottled, some tobacco flecks and marks on the interior, consid-erable flex left in straps, very good condition.

Second edition of the first guide solely dedicated to Bahrain, fol-lowing the first of 1953. The author, known as Hamed to local Bahrainis, was the son of Sir Charles Belgrave, who contributed the cover design of a dhow enclosed within a string of pearls, and was financial advisor to the ruling shaikhs of Bahrain (1926–57). Sir Charles was reputedly the first westerner to use and advocate the name “Arabian gulf ”, in the journal Soat al-Bahrain (Voice of Bahrain) in 1955. This copy is accompanied by an attractive period cigarette case, carrying a nicely detailed map of Bahrain and a rep-resentation of the Umayyad-era al-Khamis Mosque; the “Pat[ent] Gesch[ültz]” label on the inside indicates German manufacture.Not in Macro.

£1,500 [129685]

A most remarkable work of the highest value

117 BURTON, Richard F. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855–63 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, title gilt to spines, spine dec-oration and panelling to the boards in black, terracotta surface-paper endpapers with advertisements to pastedowns. 15 plates of which 5 chro-molithographs (including the famous portrait of Burton as “The Pilgrim”

mounted as frontispiece to vol. 2), 8 single-tint lithographs, engraved plate of “Bedouin and Wahhabi Heads”, 4 maps and plans (3 folding). Rubbed overall, spines darkened and rolled, headcaps and joints expertly restored, a few small marks to sides, light wear to bumped tips, and oc-casionally to board-edges, scattered mild spotting, pale foxing to a few plates, generally restricted to the margins only, pale tide-mark to upper outer corner of vol. II frontispiece, vol. II sigs. Z7–8 roughly opened along fore edge, the text unaffected, vol. III sigs. H4–5 loose at foot, held by upper cords. A very good copy.

first edition. Forbidden to non-Muslims, less than half a doz-en Europeans were known to have made the hajj, or pilgrimage, to the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina and lived, and of those only the Swiss explorer J. L. Burckhardt had left a detailed account. Burton made the pilgrimage in complete disguise as a Muslim native of the Middle East, an exploit of linguistic and cul-tural virtuosity which carried considerable risk. During the sev-eral days that Burton spent in Mecca, he performed the associat-ed rites of the pilgrimage such as circumambulating the Kaaba, drinking the Zemzem water and stoning the devil at Mount Ara-fat. His resulting book surpassed all preceding Western accounts of the holy cities, made him famous and became a classic of trav-el literature, described by T. E. Lawrence as “a most remarkable work of the highest value”.provenance: contemporary ownership inscription (front free endpaper vol. 1) of noted Anglo-Indian judge and educationalist Herbert M. Birdwood, dated Bombay 1859, with his later inscrip-tion presenting the book to one Edward J. Webb, Ahmedabad, 31 October 1861. Birdwood (1837–1909) arrived in Bombay in 1859 after completing his education in England. One of his early postings was as an assistant collector in Ahmedabad. Between 1892 and 1897 he was judicial and political member of the exec-utive council of the governor of Bombay, during which time he served briefly as acting governor of the presidency in the brief interval between the departure of Lord Harris and arrival of Lord Sandhurst.Abbey Travel 368; Gay 3634; Howgego IV B95; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 111; Penzer, pp. 49–50.

£8,750 [119481]

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118 BURTON, Richard Francis. The Guide-Book. A Pictorial Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. (Including some of the More Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Mohammed, the Arab Lawgiver). London: Printed for the Author by William Clowes & Sons, 1865Octavo. Original green glazed paper wrappers, author and title printed in black to front panel within single rule border with quatrefoil corners. Housed in green cloth folding case, title gilt to the spine. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, with tissue guard as issued. Wrappers somewhat rubbed and lightly soiled, chafing at the spine edges, some lateral cracks to the spine and a little chipping at head and tail, small inked paper pri-vate library shelfmark label to the verso of front wrapper, three out of four of wrapper corners creased but holding, remains a very good copy.

first edition of one of Burton’s most elusive and desirable works, categorised by Penzer as “exceedingly scarce”. This pam-phlet was prepared by Burton to accompany an exhibition of “dis-solving views” worked up from his own sketches, commissioned for the Royal Polytechnic Institution in Regent Street. “During the early Spring of the present year . . . [I was] informed through the Honorary Director [John Henry Pepper] that they desired me to prepare, from a work which I published some ten years ago, a Pic-torial Representation of a “Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina”. It became, therefore, my duty to the public to see that the scenic and optical illustrations should show as much of nature as art would permit” (A Word to the Reader). Under Pepper the Royal Polytechnic Institution had become a remarkable establishment, “a reposi-tory for inventions, a pioneering venue for the popularisation of science, but at the same time a place of popular entertainment, famous for its screen-based extravaganzas and stage-based illu-sions . . . It is tempting to separate the various strands making up the Polytechnic’s programmes and consider each of them in iso-lation, but in reality the divisions were not always as clear-cut as might be imagined. Spectacular dissolving views and mechanical magic lantern effects might accompany a lecture on the mysteries of spectrum analysis, while a topical lecture on the horrors of the

Indian Mutiny required elaborate sound effects after the manner of a stage melodrama” (Brooker, “The Polytechnic Ghost” in Early Popular Visual Culture, V, 2, July 2007, p. 189). Perhaps unsurprisingly Burton finds a place in the midst of the culture of Victorian spec-tacular theatre. Burton’s wife describes the exhibition, and at least one of its effects: “‘On the 17th of May the Polytechnic in London opened with an account of Richard’s travels in Mecca, and a dis-solving view of Richard’s picture in uniform. It was arranged by Mr. Pepper of “Pepper’s Ghost,” and a quantity of little green pam-phlets with the lecture were sold at the door” (The Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton I, p. 398). Historically perhaps the most important aspect of this text is that it presented Burton with an opportunity to correct “the curious mistakes in my first two editions”, as well as to offer a description of the main rites connected with the hajj, to-gether with an account of the life, death, and burial of Mohammed. This is a well-preserved copy of a great Burton rarity, with just three locations showing on Copac: British Library, King’s Col-lege London, and the Pitt Rivers collection at Cambridge. OCLC adds eight further.Casada 39; Penzer p. 76; Spink 37.

£25,000 [127210]

119 CARTWRIGHT, John. The Preachers Travels. Wherein is set downe a true Journall to the confines of the East Indies, through the great countreyes of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hircania and Parthia. With the Authors returne by the way of Persia Susiana, Assiria, Chaldaea, and Arabia . . . Also a true relation of Sir Anthonie Sherleys Entertainment there . . . London: printed [by William Stansby] for Thomas Thorppe, and are to bee [sic] sold by Walter Burre, 1611

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Small quarto (174 × 130 mm). Later polished tree calf, red morocco labels, raised bands, placed and dated in gilt at foot, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Title within typographical border, woodcut floriated initials and headpieces. Without blank leaf A4. Early 20th-century bookseller’s ticket of Myers & Co., recent collector’s bookplate of Howard Knohl. Front joint neatly repaired, small pale stain to title page, some unobtrusive margina-lia, occasionally trimmed a little close, just shaving signature of K3, but the margins generally good, overall a very good copy.

first edition. John Cartwright, identified on the title page as “sometimes student in Magdalen College in Oxford”, is invariably referred to as “The Preacher” after the title of this book; his name is often listed as being employed by the Levant Company in that capacity. Yet one of the oddest features of his fascinating travel tale is that Cartwright never once makes mention of preaching, either in any of the places to which he went or to any congrega-tions. In fact he may well have been travelling solely to satisfy his desire for sight-seeing. If so, Cartwright’s travels offers evidence that the notion of travel simply out of personal interest, not tied to either commerce or diplomacy (or earlier, to pilgrimage), had been in occasional existence some time before it was firmly es-tablished in the 18th century.Cartwright probably left England in April 1600, and travelled to Aleppo via Sicily, Zante (Xakinthos) and Crete. At Aleppo, where he was welcomed by the consul, Richard Colthurst, he met John Mildenhall, then in the employ of Richard Staper, a mem-ber of the newly formed English East India Company, who was in Aleppo, on his way there. Having stayed in Aleppo for some two months, the two Englishmen travelled together for part of the way, members of a caravan of some 1,000 people. “After sep-arating from Mildenhall, Cartwright proceeded to Esfahan and continued to travel widely in the Middle East” (Howgego). The text also includes a brief account of the experiences of Anthony Sherley, the famous English adventurer whose own account of Persia was not published until 1613. Cartwright appears to be the first Englishman to have been to all four key sites of antiquity in the Near East: Babylon, Nineveh, Persepolis, and Susa.Bell C95; Howgego I, C58; Macro, Bibliography of the Arabian Peninsula, 686.

£22,500 [128759]

120 DAPPER, Olfert. Naukeurige Beschryving van Asie: behelsende de Gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, of Klein Asie: beneffens eene volkome Beschrijving van gansch Gellukigh, Woest, en Petreesch of Steenigh Arabie. Amsterdam: Jacob van Meurs, 16802 parts bound in 1, folio (317 × 194 mm). Contemporary vellum, title inked on spine, three-line blind tooled border on sides enclosing a large ara-besque blind stamp, red speckled edges. Letterpress title printed in red and black; engraved pictorial title, 12 double-page engraved view (2 fold-ing), 3 double-page maps, 22 half-page plates. Bookplate of Heyse-Tak; front board has “sprung”, 19th-century repair to fore edge of engraved title. An attractive copy in a contemporary binding.

first edition of Dapper’s Asia Minor and Mesopotamia; a German edition followed in 1681. The Dutch physician Olfert Dapper (1639–1689) never travelled to visit the lands he wrote about, instead com-piling extant translations and other eye-witness accounts to produce lavish and encyclopaedic books for the northern European reader-ship. He was meticulous in using hundreds of published sources and several unpublished ones for each of his books. In this sense his work is indispensable to modern scholarship, as it reflects manu-script sources that have since been lost.Central to the contemporary appeal of Dapper’s works were the engravings, which ranged beyond the geographical interest served by maps and views. Clothing, eating habits, religious beliefs, court ceremonies, and judicial practices were all subjects discussed by travellers and missionaries in letters and travel books and were reproduced by Dapper. The plates (here in excellent strong im-pressions) include superb views of Baghdad, Abydos, Ephesus, Smyrna, Magnesia, Muscat, and Mecca. Among the half-plates are attractive botanical subjects, including the coffee tree (p. 62 in the second part). Aracadian Library 8342; Atabey 322 (counts 16 plates but one of these is an additional botanical plate not called-for in the collation); Macro 805; this edition not in Blackmer.

£6,000 [100075]

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121 GRABAR, Oleg; Gülru Necipoglu; et al. (eds.) Muqarnas. An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. New Haven & Leiden Yale University Press & Brill, 1983–2015Octavo and quarto. 32 volumes and 5 supplements in original grey and red cloth and the dust jackets (except vols. 3 & 4 which were not issued with dust jackets). Vols. 1 & 2: titles colour to spine, all others title gilt to spine and front covers. Illustrations in colour and black and white. Oak-land Community College library stamps and tickets to vol. 1, some nicks to the top of the cover of vol. 2. A very good set.

first editions, a few issues signed by contributors and editors, including several by the founding editor, Oleg Grabar. This journal aimed to “provide a regular vehicle for scholarship and critical es-says on Islamic art . . . and to make scholarship and discussions as widely available as possible, especially in Muslim countries” (vol. 1, p. ix). was founded in 1983 and still runs; “in a highly specialised field with relatively few and short-lived or sporadic journals, the regular annual publication of Muqarnas . . . has been exceptional indeed. Today few would question the major impact of the journal” (vol. 30, p. 7). This collection also includes five of the thirteen sup-plements issued by the journal: Sinan’s Autobiographies by Howard Crane and Esra Akin, Mir’at al-Quds (Mirror of Holiness): A Life of Christ for Emperor Akbar by Pedro Moura Carvalho, Timurid Art and Culture by Lisa Golomek and Maria Subtelny, Album Prefaces and Other Docu-ments on the History of Calligraphers and Painters by Wheeler Thackston, and Islamic Architecture in Cairo by Doris Behrens-Abouseif.

£3,000 [127347]

122 HAMILTON, Robert Edward Archibald. Diary of a Journey in Central Arabia (1917). [No place: for the Author, c.1918]Small folio, pp. [ii], 30 (paper watermarked “Original Cream Laid Kent”). Contemporary pale green buckram. Housed in a green quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Illustration in the text at p. 3 (small line drawing of an Arab well). Boards slightly bowed, a touch of wear to corners. A very good copy.

first edition, privately printed and remarkably scarce. We have not been able to locate another copy in any institutional li-brary, either in Britain and Ireland or internationally; only two copies have appeared at auction. The official version, which was printed for the British Government in May 1918, is of comparable scarcity: Copac cites only the copy in the India Office Records at the British Library.Hamilton provides an important first-person account of private talks with Abdulaziz, giving a vital insight into his plans for the Al Saud just 13 years before the unification of Saudi Arabia. Ham-ilton’s description of his route through north-western Najd is also of great value. Robert Edward Archibald Hamilton (from 1934 Hamilton-Udny, 1871–1950), 11th Lord Belhaven and Stenton (succeeded to the ti-tle 1920), was an Indian Army officer, before serving in Mesopo-tamia (1915–18) during the Great War, where he was mentioned in despatches. He is alluded to extensively by Philby in The Heart of Arabia (1922) and pictured in Arab garb, alongside Fahad of the Royal Bodyguard, photographed at Riyadh. Hamilton was Politi-cal Agent in Kuwait when he was chosen to be part of the British Mission to Riyadh, the capital of the Al Saud. It was his task to travel ahead of the other two officers, St John Philby and Lieu-tenant-Colonel F. Cunliffe-Owen, and to engage Abdulaziz in preliminary discussions. Gertrude Bell refers to this “important mission” and that “their report had been received shortly before I left for Cairo” (see Letters, II p. 520). Hamilton was fully aware of his primary objective, “to discover a plan for his [Abdulaziz’s] effective co-operation with us and the Shereef in the work of ex-pelling the Turks from the Peninsula” (p. 19). Hamilton builds a formidable picture of Abdulaziz and, impor-tantly, of his ambitions for the creation of an “Empire of Ara-bia” controlled by the Al Saud. With some prescience, Ham-ilton stresses Abdulaziz’s growing interest in the Ikhwan, a Wahhabi-revivalist movement which later spearheaded Al Saud expansion. After three weeks and two days in Riyadh, Hamilton departed on 5 December with a pair of oryxes – gifts from Abdulaziz to George V. His account of the return journey is comparatively short, but not without interest, ending with his return to Kuwait, ill and exhausted, on 28 December.

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123 KORF, Feodor Feodorovich. Воспоминания о Персии (Reminiscences of Persia), 1834–1835. St. Petersburg: Gutten-berg, 1838Octavo. Original pale blue printed wrappers. Housed in a black cloth flat back solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers rubbed, soiled and chipped, now restored at the spine, and small piece missing from the

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first and only edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front cover, “To the Russian Academy, present-ed by the Author, 17 Nov. 1838”. It is notably uncommon; OCLC records just six locations worldwide. The book was never trans-lated or republished in Russia. The author, Russian writer and journalist Fyodor Korf (1803–1853), describes his service as Sec-ond Secretary of the Russian Embassy in Tehran in 1834–5, un-der count Ivan Simonich (1794–1851), Russian plenipotentiary in Persia 1832–38. Korf went to Tabriz (north-western Iran), the res-idence of Mohammad Mirza Qajar (1808–48), at the time heir to the throne, travelling via Georgiyevsk (in modern-day Stavropol Krai in the North Caucasus), Yekaterinodar (Krasnodar), Vladika-vkaz, Tiflis (Tbilisi), Erevan, and Nakhchivan. When Mohammad ascended to the throne as shah, Korf followed him to Teheran, after 6 months returning to Russia via Tabriz. Overall Korf was not impressed by the country, “When I crossed the Persian bor-der, nobody asked me for my passport, nobody cared who I was, where I came from or went and why, that is not fashionable here. I have to confess that this first, disorderly impression, when I got to know Persia, was not very favourable for the country. Disorder! Can there be anything worse than disorder?” (p. 78). The book contains telling anecdotes of court life including an account of Korf ’s official audience with the shah, together with tales of his grandfather and predecessor Fathali Shah Qa-jar (1772–1834), his father, crown prince of Persia Abbas Mirza (1789–1833), and of Sir John Campbell (1799–1870), British Envoy to Persia in 1830–5. Korf also recounts the details of court mach-inations attending the succession, the unsuccessful coup d’état by Ali Mirza Qajar, Fathali’s son, and of the removal and execution of Mirza Abu’lg-Qasem Qa’em-Maqam Farahani, the prime min-ister, on the shah’s direct orders in 1835. There are topographical notes on Tabriz and environs, Quazvin, Tiflis, Yerevan, and much on the sights of Teheran – the shah’s palace, city bazaars, canals,

caravanserais, the ruins of the house of Alexander Griboyedov, Russian ambassador to Persia who was murdered by the mob in Teheran in 1829 following the ratification of the punitive Treaty of Turkmenchay, concluding the Russo-Persian War of 1826–8 – together with observations on Russo-Persian trade, the Persian army, native medicine, the celebration of public holidays – Now-ruz, Kurban Bayrami, Mourning of Muharram – and the epidem-ic of plague and cholera in Teheran and Tebriz. A fascinating eyewitness account, by an acute observer, of the state Persia as it opened to outside influences.

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124 LABORDE, Léon de. Voyage de l’Arabie pétrée. Par Leon de Laborde et Limont, publié par Leon Laborde. Paris: Giard, 1830Folio (575 × 400 mm). Contemporary green half morocco, marbled sides ruled in gilt, gilt-tooled flat bands to spine forming compartments, ti-tles direct to second gilt, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Engraved calligraphic title page with lithographic vignette mounted on india paper, 45 engravings to the text, and 69 plates comprising 101 discrete images: 44 single lithographs, mounted, of which the El Oueber plate hand-coloured; 10 plates with 2 lithographs to single mounted sheet, 3 plates of 2 lithographs, one mounted and other direct to the plate; 3 plates with multiple lithographs, 3 double-page lithographic plates, 4 engraved plates containing multiple images including map with Labor-de’s route in colour, and large folding engraved map to rear. Armorial bookplate of Scottish collector John Waldie of Hendersyde (1781–1862) with his hand-numbered shelfmark label to front pastedown. Joints and board edges skilfully restored, morocco sunned to tan in places, front free endpaper creased, pale tide-mark to gutter of a few early leaves, light spotting to half-title and folding map and to margins of a small number of plates, only encroaching on a few of the unmounted images, hinges of double-page plates sometime reinforced. An excellent copy, internally bright and fresh, with rich impressions of the plates.

first edition of “an important work” (Blackmer), extensively illustrated with lithographs, and including a lengthy introductory essay on different aspects of the region, including travel, pilgrim routes, and trade. In 1826 the 17-year-old de Laborde (1809–1869) travelled with his father across Asia Minor and Syria to Cairo, where he met the engineer Louis Linant de Bellefonds (1799–1883), then in the service of Muhammad ‘Ali Pasha. The two Frenchmen decided to set up an expedition to the site of Petra with a view to making drawings of the monuments there, and travelled by way of Suez and Mount Sinai in local dress. The Mamluk Sultan Baybars

visited Petra towards the end of the 13th century, but no westerner visited the city until Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. Burckhardt was followed by Irby and Mangles in 1817 but Laborde was the first traveller to spend enough time in the area in order to record his ob-servations in the form of plans, views and maps, which remained the only visual representations of Petra available to Western schol-ars until Roberts’s Holy Land (1842–5).Blackmer 929; not in Abbey, Atabey or Burrell.

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With two autograph letters from Lawrence

125 LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph. London: Jonathan Cape, 1935Quarto. Original tan quarter pigskin on brown buckram boards, gilt ti-tle to spine, gilt crossed swords device to front cover, marbled endpa-pers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Housed in a fleece-lined brown cloth solander box. With a portrait frontispiece, 53 plates and 4 folding maps. A few marks to box, trivial wear and soiling to spine. A superior copy.

first trade issue, limited edition, number 535 of 750 cop-ies, from the library of Richard Meinertzhagen (1878–1967), with his armorial bookplate and two accompanying autograph letters signed by Lawrence. The letters are from Southampton, dated 1934, and elegantly decline invitations. Lawrence predicts his upcoming “infinity of leisure”, which was to begin in March 1935, and promises to “mitigate it by spending some hours in your company”. He adds that he is “sad at losing the R.A.F. which has kept me out of idleness for the last twelve years. It remains to see if I can deserve to own all my own time, thereafter.” Lawrence was to die on 19 May 1935.Meinertzhagen has made a single but telling note in this copy, on the colophon: “pp. 562–566 are the truth. RM”. These pages com-prise Chapter 103 where Lawrence embarks on his remarkable and fascinating essay in self-analysis, discussing his “craving to be liked”, his “terror of failure”, and how his “contempt for my passion for dis-tinction made me refuse every offered honour.” “To put my hand on a living thing was defilement. . . I had a longing for the absolution of women and animals, and lamented myself most when I saw a soldier with a girl, or a man fondling a dog, because my wish was to be as superficial, as perfected; and my jailer held me back”. This is a compelling association copy, bringing together two men who shared a room at the Colonial Office during Meinertzhagen’s time as military adviser there in 1921–4. Earlier Meinertzhagen had been chief intelligence officer to the Egyptian Expeditionary Force that advanced into Palestine, where he conceived a success-

ful ploy known as the Haversack Ruse: “In October 1917 the Turks held an entrenched front from Gaza to Beersheba. Sir E. H. H. Allenby (later first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo) misled them as to which flank he was about to attack, in part through a blood-stained haversack full of papers dropped by Meinertzhagen on reconnaissance: a classic of practical deception” (ODNB).Lawrence’s published praise for Meinertzhagen is ambivalent. In Seven Pillars he describes him as a man “whose hot immoral hatred of the enemy expressed itself as readily in trickery as in violence. . . so possessed by his convictions that he was willing to harness evil to the chariot of good. . . who took as blithe a pleasure in deceiving his enemy (or friend) by one unscrupulous jest, as in splattering the brains of a cornered mob of Germans. . . abetted by an immensely powerful body and a savage brain”.Since Meinertzhagen’s death in 1967 his reputation has taken a more sustained battering, his published diaries dismissed as fic-tions, his ornithological discoveries doubted, and claims made that he was an uxoricide.O’Brien A041.

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Lawrence of Arabia’s sumptuous, privately-printed account of his role in the Arab revolt, one of 170 complete copies

offered for sale

126 LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph. [London: Privately printed by Manning Pike and H. J. Hodgson,] 1926Quarto (252 × 187 mm). Original dark green full morocco by Roger de Coverly & Sons, title gilt to the spine, five bands with five small gilt dots equally spaced, double fillet panels to the compartments, similar pan-els to the boards with star and drawer-handle roundels to the corners, centre-tool of a lozenge with writhen strapwork, top edge gilt, the others uncut, single fillet gilt edge-roll and to the turn-ins, pictorial endpapers after Kennington. Housed in a green quarter morocco book-style drop-back box, pale grey cloth, title gilt to the spine, pale grey cloth chemise. With 66 plates printed by Whittingham & Griggs, including frontispiece portrait of Feisal by Augustus John, many coloured or tinted, 4 of them double-page, by Eric Kennington, William Roberts, Augustus John, Wil-liam Nicholson, Paul Nash and others, 4 folding colour-printed maps, that is 2 maps duplicated, rather than the 3 called for by O’Brien, laid down on linen, 58 illustrations in text, one coloured, by Roberts, Nash, Kennington, Blair Hughes-Stanton, Gertrude Hermes and others. Histo-riated initials by Edward Wadsworth printed in red and black. Very light shelf-wear, headcap just slightly pulled, frontispiece map a touch rolled at the fore edge, internally very clean and fresh, only the occasional leaf with a pale hint of foxing, overall an extremely bright copy in a very at-tractive binding.

one of the cranwell or “subscriber’s” edition of 211 copies, this one of 170 “complete copies”, inscribed by lawrence on p. XIX, “Complete copy. 1.XII.26 TES”, with one manuscript correction to the illustration list, a “K” identi-

fying Kennington rather than Roberts as the artist responsible for “The gad-fly”. This copy is in the usual state, with page XV mispaginated as VIII and as often without the two Paul Nash il-lustrations called for on pages 92 and 208; nor does it have the Blair Hughes-Stanton wood engraving illustrating the dedicato-ry poem found in only five copies. However, it does include the “Prickly Pear” plate, not called for in the list of illustrations. In a letter to George Bernard Shaw he described it as an effort to combine ‘record of fact’ and ‘work of art’, “to make history an imaginative thing” (Karachi, 7/5/28), as Lawrence James, in his ODNB biography of him puts it, Lawrence created, “a personal, emotional narrative of the Arab revolt in which [he] reveals how by sheer willpower he made history. It was a testimony to his vi-sion and persistence and a fulfilment of his desire to write an epic which might stand comparison in scale and linguistic elegance with his beloved Morte d’Arthur and C. M. Doughty’s Arabia Deserta. Subtitled ‘A triumph’, its climax is the Arab liberation of Damas-cus, a victory which successfully concludes a gruelling campaign and vindicates Lawrence’s faith in the Arabs. In a way Seven Pil-lars is a sort of Pilgrim’s Progress, with Lawrence as Christian, a fig-ure sustained by his faith in the Arabs, successively overcoming physical and moral obstacles”. In all this is a superb copy of Law-rence’s sumptuously-produced account of his role in the Arab Revolt, his “big book”.O’Brien A040.

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127 LE BRUYN, Cornelius. Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales. Amsterdam: Les Freres Wetstein, 17182 volumes, folio (330 × 206 mm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, skilfully rebacked with the original spines laid down, new red and green labels, spines gilt in compartments, edges sprinkled red. Allegorical frontispiece by Picart, portrait of Le Bruyn by G. Valck after G. Kneller, 114 plates, 14 of them folding, and 57 double-page, and 43 full-page showing 491 views, 3 folding maps, engraved headpiece and 44 illustrations, half-titles bound in, titles printed in red and black. From the library of the Earl of Camden, armorial bookplates and press-marks to the front pastedowns. Slightly rubbed on the boards, light toning, but a very good set.

first edition in french of one of the principal accounts of Russia published during the 18th century, originally issued in Dutch (Amsterdam, 1711). Cornelis de Bruyn, the Dutch traveller and painter, also known for his account of his journey through the Levant, was the first traveller to whom the tsar gave permis-sion to make drawings of the towns and villages in the Russian provinces, and the superb engravings are from on-the-spot draw-ings by the author. The book is arguably the best authority for costumes of the era in the countries visited, for the Assyrian an-tiquities of Persepolis at that time, and for the views of cities and their natural history. His account also “details the route taken by Everard Ysbrants Ides, the Russian ambassador to China, and contains an account of his encounter with William Dampier at

Batavia. In 1714 De Bruyn published a pamphlet discussing the differences between his engravings of Persepolis and those of Chardin and Kaempfer. His remarks [are] appended to the sec-ond part of his travels” (Howgego).Brunet III, 911; Cox I, p. 251; Schwab 345.

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128 (MÜTEFERRIKA, Ibrahim, trans.) KRUSINSKI, Judas Thaddeus. [Title in Ottoman Turkish:] Tarih-i seyyah der beyan-i zuhur-i Agvaniyan ve sebeb-i inhidam-i bina-i devlet-i Sahan-i Safeviyan (A Traveller’s Chronicle Concerning the Emergence of the Afghans and the Cause of the Collapse of the Safavid Dynasty). Istanbul: Dar al-Tiba’ah al-Ma’murah, 1142 ah (1729 ce)Octavo (215 × 152 mm). Contemporary dark red quarter morocco, mar-bled sides, catch-title (Tarih-i Agvan) to bottom edge in black ink. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Four Ottoman ownership stamps to ff. 1 and 21, later (1189 AH) ownership inscription to f. 1 by “Ahmad”, possibly the owner of the seal directly be-low; additional inscriptions to f. 66 and verso of final blank. Minor loss to head and foot of spine with short split to head of front joint, earlier leaves with very faint damp-staining to bottom edge and slight finger-marking to bottom corners, very occasional light spotting to margins as usual, minute worm hole to gutter ff. [7]–10 and 72–97, old repair to f. 97v. with no loss of text, neat double incision to fore edge f. 66, ink-smudge to f. [5] r. and margin of f. 39 to no loss, f. 95 misbound between ff. 93 and 94. Overall a nice, crisp copy. A scarce title in a pleasing contemporary binding, this copy bearing several distinct Ottoman ownership seals yet with little real sign of wear.

first edition in turkish, printed with Arabic types, of this eyewitness account of the Afghan invasion of Persia in 1722 by Father Judasz Thaddeus Krusinksi (1675–1756). It was first pub-lished in French as Histoire de la dernière révolution de Perse (Paris, 1728). Krusinski, “the best known of the Polish Jesuits active in Iran” in the early 18th century, lived in Isfahan from 1707 to 1728 and again in the 1740s, serving as court translator, ambassador of French kings Louis XIV and XV, and intermediary between the Safavids and the Papacy (Encyclopaedia Iranica). The Afghan inva-sion saw the Safavid ruler Shah Sultan Husayn executed and the

capital Isfahan sacked, precipitating the eventual downfall of the once-great empire in 1736 following a brief period of Safavid reconquest. Originally composed in Latin, Tarih-i seyyah was translated into Turkish by the Ottoman diplomat Ibrahim Müteferrika and be-came only the third text to be printed on his new printing press, the first press established under Muslim auspices. Following a long struggle against conservative religious sentiment, Mütefer-rika was finally granted permission for his project by Sultan Ah-met III in 1729. The first book printed was Kitab-i Lügat-i Vankulu, an Arabic–Persian–Turkish dictionary based on the Sihah of al-Jawhari, with the second being Katib Çelebi’s Tühfet ül-kibar fi esfar

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il-bihar (Concerning Naval Expeditions), followed by the present title in the same year. The press was discontinued in 1742, with the consequence that any such “Turkish incunabula” are uncommon.Burrell 165 for the first edition and 448 for the first in English. Not in Blackmer or Atabey.

£12,500 [100191]

129 PEAKE, Frederick Gerard, El Fariq. A History of Trans-Jordan and its Tribes. Amman: [For the Author,] 1934

2 volumes, foolscap quarto. Original brown cloth-backed sand-coloured printed card wrappers. Mimeographed typescript, rectos only, 15 tribal pedigrees printed in red and green, 3 of them folding, one loosely insert-ed. Just a little rubbed, edges foxed, overall very good.

first edition. It is extremely uncommon; there are just eight locations on OCLC, no copy in the British Library, and just two copies traced at auction. Major-General Frederick G. Peake, CMG, CBE (1886–1970), known as Peake Pasha, was a British Army and police officer, and founder and commandant of the Arab Legion Trans-Jordan. He fought alongside T.E. Lawrence in the First World War, and later Lawrence described Peake in a letter of 1929 as ‘a very good fellow. He has stuck splendidly to three or four thankless jobs, and made a deal out of them. A hot, impatient soul, too.’ (Brown, T.E. Lawrence: The Selected Letters, p. 413). The first volume is a history of Transjordan from pre-his-tory to 1933. The second volume is an ambitious work and the product of considerable research and effort. He worried that the current generation was no longer interested in “listen[ing] to the poems and legends of the wars, deeds and loves of their tribal heros” and were more concerned with politics, newspapers and “new amusements [like] the gramophone” (p. 274). Peake feared that “the history of the Tribes of Transjordan is rapidly being forogtten.” With the help of a team of local Jordanians he com-piled a comprehensive list of the tribes of the region and their histories, from an intriguing group of Egyptians who settle in the towns of Sahab and Zizia after trouble with Ibrahim Pasha up to the genealogy of the Hashemites, who trace their lineage back to Noah. It includes a history of the tribes of Transjordan, sev-eral tables and genealogies, short essays on each tribe, and a de-tailed index. This copy bears the ownership inscription of “G. V. Fowler, Aboukir, Egypt, Aug. ‘34”, probably Group Captain Ivor G.V. Fowler AFC, who was posted to R.A.F. Depot, Middle East, Aboukir in September 1933.

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“One of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing” – a subscriber’s copy of the beautifully

hand-coloured deluxe issue

130 ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia. London: F. G. Moon, 1842–45 & 1846–496 volumes, folio (610 × 442 mm). Contemporary red half morocco by George Orrock of Edinburgh (with his stamp on front free endpapers and gilt stamp in tail compartment of spines), richly gilt spines with five dou-ble raised bands, dark red vertical bead-grain cloth sides, gilt edges, mar-bled endpapers, red cloth hinges. 6 hand-coloured tinted lithographed vignette titles and 241 tinted lithograph plates by Louis Haghe after Da-vid Roberts, in the scarcest form, with original hand-colour, cut to the edge of the image and mounted on card in imitation of water-colours, as issued, mounted on guards throughout; plain lithographed portrait of Roberts by and after Charles Baugniet, printed list of subscribers in vol. 1 of Holy Land, engraved map of Holy Land (vol. III) and of Egypt (vol. II). Bindings a little rubbed, some abrasions and marking to sides, cus-tomary scattered foxing internally bright and fresh. A most attractive set.

first edition, in the preferred deluxe format with ex-quisite hand-colouring, of “one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing . . . the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph” (Abbey Travel). A subscriber’s copy, by descent from John William Robert Kerr, seventh marquess of Lothian (1794–1841), “the Most Noble the Marquis of Lothian” (as he is styled on the list of subscribers, where he heads the pha-lanx of noblemen). From the atelier of the prestigious Edinburgh bookbinder George Orrock, with his gilt stamp, which appears, rather in the French manner, in the tail compartment of the spines. Roberts’s work was published in three formats between 1842 and 1849, with the present deluxe coloured-and-mounted issue offered at triple the price of the simplest format.Before he left for Egypt Roberts had discussed publication of his views with the engraver Finden, but on his return both Fin-den and the publisher John Murray, who was also approached, baulked at the risks involved in a publication of the size and gran-deur envisaged. However, Francis Graham Moon – “a self-made man from a modest background” (ibid.) – accepted the chal-lenge; it was “undoubtedly the most costly and lavish, and poten-tially risky, publishing enterprise that Moon had ever undertak-en. Investing £50,000 in the project, he exhibited the drawings across England and by 1841 had raised an enormous subscription list for the lithographs, which were executed by Louis Haghe,

one of London’s leading lithographers” (ibid.). Roberts acknowl-edged that Haghe’s work was hardly less important than his own, complimenting his “masterly vigour and boldness”. The eminent historian of lithography, Michael Twyman, comments that the burdensome nature of tinted lithography – the plates “involving at least two stones, many three, and a few even more” – may even have prompted Haghe’s early retirement as a lithographer. The Reverend George Croly (1780–1860), poet and well-known con-tributor to Blackwood’s and The Literary Gazette, was engaged to edit the text from Roberts’s journal. In a dramatic gesture, the litho-graphic stones for the original large format work were broken at an auction of the remaining plates in December 1853, so that the originals could never be reproduced.“A. J. Finberg, writing in an Introduction to English Watercolours in 1919, regarded Roberts as ‘the most skilful draughtsman of his time’ after Cotman and Turner. ‘Cecil B. De Mille admired the work of David Roberts’, wrote Waldemar Januszczak in a review in the Guardian in 1986. ‘His pictures are determined to take your breath away. The artist tries every pictorial trick in the book, from the dramatically plunging perspective to the lonely ruin on a hill’” (ibid.). No publication before this astonishing work had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the region.Abbey, Travel 385 & 272; Bobins I, 160; Tooley (1954) 401 & 402.

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131 TAVERNIER, Jean Baptiste. Les Six Voyages . . . en Turque, en Perse, et aux Indes. Pendant l’espace de quarante ans . . . Premiere . . . [and] Deuxieme Partie; [together with] Recueil de plusieurs Relations Et Traitez singukliers & curieux de J. B. Tavernier . . . [Amsterdam?:] suivant la copie imprimée à Paris, 1679

3 volumes, duodecimo (153 × 92 mm). Late 18th-century red straight-grain morocco, title gilt direct to spine, flat bands, triple fillet gilt panels to com-partments, French fillet panels with rosette cornerpieces to boards, single rule edge-roll, all edges gilt, French blue and cream silk head- and tail-bands, French blue silk page-markers, marbled endpapers, gilt palmette roll to turn-ins. Vol. I with engraved half-title and 9 plates, all but one fold-ing; vol. II with 25 plates, of which 19 are folding, illustration to the text; Re-ceuil with portrait frontispiece and 8 folding plates, double-folding map of Japan and folding map of Tonkin. (Copies have been recorded recently with 42, 44, and 45 plates, this copy has all of those listed in the plate lists, and a considerable number in addition, where multiple images on the same sub-ject are indicated.) Book labels of Sefik E. Atabey to the front pastedowns. Some very slight rubbing to the joints, corners, head- and tailcaps, light toning, occasional spotting, a few small marginal tears, no loss of text, map of Japan slightly torn on a fold, but overall an extremely pretty set.

first small format edition, following the quarto firsts of Les Six Voyages (1676) and Recueil (1678); a beautifully presented set of this highly desirable edition of the voyages of this “most famous among the ‘business travellers’” (Speake). Tavernier (1605–1689) made six trips to Asia in search of fine jewels – the 112 carat diamond that he purchased at Golconda became Louis XIV’s famous French Blue, and was later re-cut to reappear as the notorious Hope Diamond – and his records of business practices, commodities and currencies must have been carefully studied by all who were planning expeditions to the East. However, he was also a man of wide ranging interests and keen observation, studying the history, politics, religions and cultures of the countries that he visited, and giving excellent accounts of, among other things, the practices of Hinduism; the history of the Moghul empire; and the workings of the Ottoman

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£10,000 [70570]

132 TURNER, William. Journal of a Tour in the Levant. London: John Murray, 18203 volumes, octavo. Original buff paper-covered boards, printed paper la-bels to spines. Housed in a black cloth flat-back solander box. 22 plates, 6 of them hand-coloured, 5 of these being aquatints, of which 2 are folding panoramas – Zante and Smyrna – and one being a double-sided facsimi-le, 2 folding maps, illustrations to the text. All half-titles present. Slightly rubbed, some minor chips at the heads and tails of the spines, spines mildly creased, upper joint of volume III starting, two leaves in volume I badly opened with slight marginal loss, and a few others leaves with minor splits, but overall an exceptional set.

first and only edition of what Atabey describes as “this im-portant work” and Blackmer a “very interesting work.” Turner’s “chatty” account includes observations on local manners and customs; an account of a meeting and conversation with Ali Pa-sha; and lengthy descriptions of two visits to Cyprus. It is decid-edly uncommon, exceedingly so in boards.Turner’s father was a friend of George Canning, the book’s dedi-catee, who obtained a clerkship in the Foreign Office for William in 1809. In 1811 he was attached to the embassy of Robert Liston and accompanied him to Constantinople. Turner “remained in the East for five years, and during that time visited most parts of the

Ottoman empire, as well as the islands and mainland of Greece. While in Asia Minor he endeavoured to emulate Leander and Lord Byron by swimming the Hellespont, and, failing in the attempt, palliated his ill success by pointing out that he had tried to swim from Asia to Europe, a far more difficult feat than Byron’s passage from Europe to Asia” (ODNB). Byron responded in a letter to John Murray, and Turner “in a counter-rejoinder, overwhelmed his ad-versary with quotations from ancient and modern topographers.” In 1824 he returned to Constantinople as secretary to the Brit-ish embassy, and for 18 months during Stratford Canning’s ab-sence was minister-plenipotentiary. In 1829 he was appointed envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to Colombia, a post from which he retired from the service after nine years. He died in 1867.Abbey, Travel 375; Atabey 1251; Blackmer 1687; Hilmy II, p. 297.

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