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103 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL 1095.SHACKLETON (Edward) Nansen The Explorer, 2maps, plates, dw. faint spotting on title 1959 [10716] £50 1096. ST. ANDRÉ (H. Pouget de) La Colonisation de Madagascar sous Louis XV d’après la Correspondance inédite du Comte de Maudave, some occasional foxing, cr.8vo, contemporary hf. red morocco, slight wear, Paris, 1886 [8106]£135 1097. STANDING (Herbert F.) The Children of Madagascar, map and numerous plates, sm.8vo, original pictorial cloth, c.1880 [7653] £30 1098.SPARRMAN (Anders) Anders Sparrman Travels In The Cape 1772-1776 A Voyage to the Cape Of Good Hope towards the Antarctic Polar Circle Round the World and to the Country of the Hottentots and the Caffres from the year 1772-1776, folding map, plates, 2 vols, Van Riebeck Society, Second Series No.6, Cape Town, 1975 [7038]£55 1099.STANLEY (A.P.) Sinai and Palestine in connection with their history, new edition, 7 coloured maps, some folding, 5 other maps and plans in the text, some slight wear, 1889 [CF4116] £35 1100.STANLEY (Edward) Address Delivered on board H.M.S. “Rattlesnake” by Edward Stanley, D.D. late Bishop of Norwich. On November 29, 1846, being the Sunday before the Departure of H.M.S. “Rattlesnake” for Australia and New Guinea, under the Command of the Late Captain Owen Stanley R.N. 7 pp. stitched as issued, inscribed on the title “Chas. Jas. Card HMS “Rattlesnake”,” some slight soiling, 1850 [CF6893] £350 Not in Fergusson or the British Library. Card was on the “Rattlesnake” as a Clerk “Unpassed”. The “Rattlesnake’s” job was to survey the Torres Straits between Cape York and New Guinea. The death of his father was the final straw which lead to the death of Captain Owen Stanley. The pressure of his work and the severity with which he took his responsibilities, refusing to delegate, led to his early death at the age of 39 in March 1850. 1101.STANLEY (H.M.) The Exploration Diaries of H.M.Stanley Now first published from the original manuscripts edited by Richard Stanley and Alan Neame,ep maps, plates,illusts, dw, 1961 [7040] £30 1102.STARK (James H.) Stark’s History and Guide to Barbados and the Caribbee Islands, containing a description of everything on or about these islands of which the visitor or resident may desire in formation, including thier history, inhabitants, climate, agriculture, geology, government and resources, 2 folding maps, plates, original decorative cloth, Boston & London, 1903 [10755] £120 1103.STEDMAN (Capt. J.G.) Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam in Guiana on the Wild Coast of South America from the Years 1772 to 1777, [with introduction and notes by J.A. van Lier,] folding map, plates, some folding, 2vols, 4to, buckram spines, preserved in slip cover, [1796], REPRINT Imprint Society, Massachusettes, 1971 [CF7734] £85 1104.STEPHEN (Sir George) A Third Letter to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, &c. &c. &c. on the Plans of the Society for the Civilization of Africa, ii +32pp. stitched as issued, [1840] [10559] £35 CHINA CHOP BOOKS 1105.STEAD (Alexander) A Collection of over 362 Printed Samples of Silk Wrappers or “Chop Marks” with Manuscript Over Markings, and Romanised Translation in Manuscript on the opposite page, 213 pp. with 15 pp manuscript index, contained in 2 notebooks 9 x 3½ & 8 x 3 ins. straight grained morocco, slight wear, one clasp missing, Shanghai, 1872 [11235] £1,250 Stead was an agent for C.J. Skeggs & Co. who advertised themselves as “Public Silk Inspectors and Commission Agents” operating from Shanghai. The silk industry of Shanghai grew up during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) when 70 percent of the cultivated acreage was given over to the production of silk and cotton. By the middle of the 18th century there were more than 20,000 people employed as Spinners. After 1842 and the Chinese defeat by the British, the city was, under the Treaty of Nanking, opened up to Foreign Trade. Shanghai soon became China’s leading Port. By 1860 it accounted for about 25 percent of the total Shipping Tonnage entering and leaving the country. The average turnover at this time, of Chinese Silk was in excess of £15 million. In 1884 Skegg’s & Co in a circular, estimate that that seasons crop would run to 60,000 bales of raw silk. However the trade declined towards the end of the century, giving way to a more industrial base. BROOKLYN INCUNABLE 1106.STEPHENS (James Wilson) An Historical and Geographical Account of Algiers: Containing a Circumstantial and Interesting Detail of Events relative to The American Captives, taken from their own testimony, Second Edition, folding engraved frontis, slightly browned and offset on title, some occasional spotting, sm.8vo, contemporary sheep, neatly rebacked, Brooklyn, 1800 [10621] £350 Sabin 91535 “One of the first books printed in Brooklyn”. The First Edition was printed in Philadelphia in 1797. Since the War of Independence, American Merchant Ships were left to the mercy of the Algerians without benefit of protection from the British Navy. 1107.STEVENSON (R.L.) Valima Letters, being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890- October 1894, FIRST EDITION, text maps, an original etched frontis. portrait by William Strang, 2 other plates, buckram, spine sunned, 1885 [3519] £50
Clive Farahar & <strong>Sophie</strong> Dupré, XV The Green, Calne, Wilts, SN1 8DQ, Tel: (01249) 821121 104 1108.STRUTT (William) Victoria the Golden Scenes, Sketches and Jottings from Nature... Melbourne, Victoria 1850-1862, with a narrative by Marjorie Tipping, numerous colour plates, oblong folio, original cloth, Library Committee, Parliament of Victoria, 1980 [11416] £55 Aselection of reproductions of the drawings in 43 folios of the original album. Strutt was prolific and a good artist. 1109. STOOKE (G. Beresford) Notes on the Economic Situation in Rodrigues, 12 pp. original printed wrapper, Port Louis, 1934 [CF3532]£20 1110. STOCK (Eugene) The History of the Church Missionary Society Its Environment, Its Men and Its Work, folding maps, plates, some little foxing, 4 vols thk.8vo, 1899-1916 [CF3526]£250 1111.SUTHERLAND (Capt. [David]) ATourUpThe Straits From Gibraltar to Constantinople. With The Leading Events In The Present War Between The Austrians, Russians, And The Turks, To the Commencement Of The Year 1789, Second Edition, Corrected, xlvii + 372 pp. faint stain on eps. tree calf, lacking label, some slight wear, Printed for the Author 1790 [10777] £475 1112.SWELLENGREBEL Briefwisseling Van Hendrik Swellengrebel Jr. Oor Kaapse Sake 1778-1792 Uitgegee met inleiding en aantekeninge deur dr.G.J.Schutte, illusts, Van Reibeck-Vereniging, Tweede Reeks Nr.13, Kaapstad, 1982 [7042]£25 THE GLORY OF SWITZERLAND 1113.SWITZERLAND. ACollection of 26 handcoloured aquatints, 1 uncoloured, 2 wash drawings, 1 watercolour, 9 uncoloured lithographs, of city and country scenery, domestic scenes and of children playing, together 38 items, trimmed, with ink borders, mounted on thicker paper, titled by hand, between 12½ x 9 ins.& 8 x 6¼ ins. some occasional spotting affecting the uncoloured prints, contained in a magnificent oblong folio crushed red morocco album, gilt border of acorns and oak leaves, central gilt cartouches, gilt dentelles, preserved in the original canvas sack, c.1830 [11381] £14,000 This is one of the most elaborate and sumptious Souvenir Albums of the Grand Tour that we have seen. The exquisite watercolour of cows garlanded, with bells, some with elaborate headdresses of dolls representing milkmaids and cowboys, being led by amourous couples, and bringing up the rear is a cart loaded with melons. The wash drawings show William Tell and his son about to be captured by Gesslers soldiers, and the other, three “Der Schweizerband” swearing and oath. The city views are of Geneva, Montreux, Lugano and Berne. Every view has the brightness and freshness of the day it was made, having been protected in an album, not exposed to light or dust. Also with the canvas sack the binding has received minimal wear and has the brightness it had when it was bound. 1114.SWANN (Alfred) Fighting the Slave-Hunters in Central Africa A Record of twenty-six years of Travel and Adventure round the Great Lakes, Second Edition with new Introduction by Norman R. Bennett, folding map, plates, dw, 1969 [10703]£30 1115.SYMONDS (F.Addington) The Johannesburg Story, plates, dw. 1953 [10781] £20 1116.SZRYMA (Col. Lach ed.) Revelations of Siberia. By aBanished Lady, 2 vols, spines faded, 1852 [CF5108] £145 1117.TALFOURD (T.N.) Supplement to “Vacation Rambles,” consisting of Recollections of a Tour through France, to Italy, and Homeward by Switzerland, in the Vacation of 1846, sm.8vo, spine sunned, 1854 [11407] £50 Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd 1795-1854, was a judge, writer and Member of Parliament. 1118.TALVAS (Georges) Madagascar Depuis l’occupation française Journal d’un administrateur, cr.8vo, original printed wrappers, Paris, 1939 [CF8107] £25 1119.TASMANIA. The Van Dieman’s Land Almanac for the Year 1832, engraved title, hand coloured plate of signals, sm.8vo, limp binders cloth Hobart Town, Edited and Printed by H. Melville, Elizabeth Street, with an additional stamp of Smith and Elder, London, 1832 [10759] £550 1120.TAZIEFF (Haroun) South from the Red Sea, plates, 19<strong>56</strong> [CF7867] £18 The author went with Jacques Cousteau to explore the Red Sea bed, and an attempt to penetrate Arabia. He also gives and account of climbing the Volcano Nyiragongo and travels between lakes Tanganyika and Rudolf 1121.THAILAND. AFulland True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That hapned lately in the Kingdom of Siam In the East Indies. Giving a particular Account of the Seizing and Death of the Late King, and of the Setting up of a New One. As Also Of the putting to Death of the King’s only Daughter, His Adopted Son who was a Christian, his two Brothers And of Monsieur Constance, his great Minister of State, and Favourer of the French. And of the Expulsion of all the Jesuits, Missionary Priests, Officers amd Soldiers of the French Nation out of that Kingdom, that endeavoured to bringit under the French Domination. Being the Substance of several Letters writ in Octob. 1688. and Febr. 1689 From Siam, and the Coast of Coromandel. Never before published in any language, and now Translated into English, (iv) + viii + 22 pp. title margin trimmed at outer edge affecting a few letters, sm.4to, wrapper, 1690 [11379] £450 Wing 2324. After the Embassy’s of M. de Chaumont and Father Tachard, the anonymous author gives account of further letters from Siam about affairs there.
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