Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

Clive Farahar & Sophie Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 102
1083.SEYMOUR (H.D.) Russia on the Black Sea and
Sea of Azof: being a Narrative of Travels in the
Crimea and Bordering Provinces; with notices of the
Naval, Military, and Commercial Resources of those
countries, folding map, 3 plans, 2 folding, frontis. &
1other plates, spine darkened, 1855 [3720]£125
1084.SHARPE (A.P.) Spotlight on Hawaii, maps, plates,
1944 [CF8074] £16
AHistory right up to the Second World War.
1085.SHINICHIRO (Takakura) The Ainu of Northern
Japan A Study in Conquest and Accumulation,
frontis map, 88 pp. 4to, American Phil. Soc.
Philadelphia, 1960 [CF10230] £60
1086.SLADEN (Douglas) In Sicily 1896-1898-1900,
numerous maps, plates and text illusts. teg, 2 vols
thk. roy.8vo, modern hf. green morocco, 1901
[CF5155] £375
A detailed and consistently enthusiastic account of a
world “unaltered from the days of Dionysius. If you want
to understand Ancient Greece, go to Sicily.”
1087.SLATIN (Rudolph C.) A Fine Signed Cabinet
Photograph Head and Shoulders in Military
Uniform, Decorations, edges slightly scuffed,
signed and dated “Rudolph C. Slatin London 10th
March, 1899” [11452] £750
Slatin Pasha, the Anglo-Austrian administrator in the
Sudan, having surrendered to the Mahdi and used to try
to make Gordon surrender Khartoum, was imprisoned for
11 years. On the morning of January 26th 1885, hours
after the fall of Khartoum he was shown the severed head
of Gordon. It was not until after Sir Reginald Wingate
enabled his escape in 1895, that he wrote his famous work
“Fire and Sword in the Sudan” 1896, sub-titled “a
personal narrative of of fighting and serving the
dervishes”. He was honoured by Queen Victoria.
1088.SLEEMAN (Col. Sir James) From Rifle to Camera
The Reformation of a Big Game Hunter, with an
introduction by the distinguished Big Game
Photographer Major A. Radclyffe Dugmore,
numerousm plates, [1947] [11364] £35
From first Tiger in 1907 to last Tiger in 1937 and
subsequent years of shooting with a camera, the author is
remarkably enthusiastic.
1089.SMITH (Arthur H.) Village Life in China A Study
in Sociology, numerous plates, small snag at the base
of the upper cover, 1900 [CF10213] £30
The author was a Missionary.
1090.SNAILHAM (Richard) The Blue Nile Revealed,
The Story of the Great Abbai Expedition 1968, maps
&diags, coloured and black and white plates, 1971
[11131] £30
This expedition sponsored by the Army, the Royal
Geographical Society and the Daily Telegraph, explored
gorges of, and navigated all 500 miles of the Great Abbai,
part of the Blue Nile that flows from the highlands of
North-West Ethiopia into the Sudan.
1091.SOMERVILLE (William) William Somerville’s
Narrative Of His Journey’s ToTheEastern Cape
Frontier And To Lattakoe 1799-1802 With a
Bibliographical Introduction and Map and a
Historical Introduction and Notes by Edna and Frank
Bradlow, folding map, plates, Van Riebeck Society,
Second Series No. 10, Cape Town, 1979 [7037]£30
BOOK PRINTING AGREEMENT
1092.SONNERAT (Pierre) and PIERRES (Philippe
Denys, Printer in Ordinary to Louis XVI)
Agreement, in French with translation, on the
printing of Sonnerat's famous "Voyage to the East
Indies and China", in 4to and8vofromthesame
setting of type, (the 4to with plates), specifying the
size of type for text and notes, the quantity of paper
and cost of printing per copy, Sonnerat is to supply
the paper, some copies to be on 'papier d'hollande',
he undertakes "to pay in cash to the said Monsieur
Pierres every week half the price of each sheet that I
shall be offered unspoilt; and the remaining half ...
after the last sheet of the said work is run off, in
negotiable bills whose term shall not exceed the
space of 1 year", with 5 autograph requests to
Pierres by Sonnerat to send consignments of both
formats to M. Froullé, the binder, and to Mme Canu,
some for stitching, most for binding, totalling several
hundred sets, on separate slips 5" x 7½", annotated
by the printer and dated 7th November 1782 - 20th
February 1783, the agreement 2 sides folio and
conjugate blank, Paris, 6th July 1782 [11206]£1,250
Afascinating document, in an attractive clerk hand, and a
masterpiece of a concise agreement, down to the cost of
drying and gathering the sheets when run off. In an
autograph addition, Sonnerat agrees that Pierres is to
take 9 extra copies at the subscription price, as well as the
2allowed him "by the regulations".
In the first slip Sonnerat asks that 62 quartos on holland
paper, be given to "the bearer to allow time to have them
bound", presumably the most expensive of the
subscription copies.
1093.SOOTHILL (Lucy) APassport to China Being the
Tale of Her Long and Friendly Sojourning amongst
aStrangely Interesting People, with a Foreword by
Her Daughter Lady Hosie plates, 1931 [7674]£36
China 1882-1911.
1094.SOUTH AFRICA. Cape of Good Hope, Cape
Town, Port Elizabeth, East London, Kimberley, etc.
13 hand tinted photolithograph panoramas 18¼ x 5
ins. & 52 hand tinted photolithograph plates, 4 to a
page each 4 x 6¼ ins. some with text on verso, 6
separate pages of text, cushioned cloth front cover
with inset photolithograph a little worn, rubbed,
internally very bright, G. B. & Co, P.O. Box 1018,
Cape Town, c.1902 [11374] £1,200
With the conclusion of the Boer War, South Africa was
keen to attract not just visitors but settlers. This rich and
elaborate example of the photographers art, shows the
towns and country at its brightest and most sophisticated.