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673. BEASLEY (W.G.) The Basis of Japanese Foreign
Policy In the Nineteenth Century, 26 pp. original
printed wrappers, SOAS, 1955 [CF5283] £15
674. BECHTOLD (Fritz) Nanga Parbat Adventure A
Himalayan Adventure, trans. from the german by
H.E.G. Tyndale, 3 maps, numerous plates, roy.8vo,
1935 [CF7310] £40
The quality and composition of the photographs is on a
par with any of Pontings work on Scotts Last Expedition.
675. BECKINGHAM (C.F.) & G.W.B. Huntingford
trans. & eds. Some Records of Ethiopia 1593-1646,
Being Extracts from the History of High Ethiopia or
Abassia by Manoel de Almeida Together with
Bahrey’s History of the Galla, numerous maps, some
folding, frontis, Hakluyt Society, Second Series
CVII, 1954 [CF4231] £80
676. BELINOS (Mrs.S.C.) Twenty Four Plates
Illustrative of Hindoo and European Manners in
Bengal, [with a new introduction by Nisith Ranjan
Ray,] 24 coloured plates, folio, dw. 1832, REPRINT
Calcutta, 1979 [10989] £50
Reprint of one of the rarer Indian Colourplate Books.
677. BELL (Sir Gawain) An Imperial Twilight, maps,
plates, Presentation Copy from the Author to “Tish”
Young 1989 [10525] £20
The author was the last Governor of Northern Nigeria,
and in his later years spent time in the Middle East, Aden,
Oman and Southern Arabia, and South Pacific.
678. BELLO (Alhaji Sir Ahmadu) My Life, folding
map, plates, dw. Cambridge, 1962 [11129] £25
The author became the Premier of the Northern Region of
Nigeria. Having lived through the whole period of British
Occupation and finally into Independence and Self
Government.
679. BENGAL. Bay of Bengal Pilot, Comprising the
Southern and Eastern Coasts of Ceylon, the Eastern
Coast of India, the Coast of East Pakistan, the Coast
of Burma, and the Western Coast of Thailand from
Pakchan River to Ko Phuket; also the Andaman and
Nicobar Islands, ninth edition, folding map, plates,
HMSO, 1966 [CF7656] £30
680. BERNAL (Juan Llabrés) Breve Noticia de la
Labor Científica del Capitán de Navío Don Felipe
Bauzá y de sus Papeles sobre América 1764-1834
Publicada con motivo del centenario de su muerte,
portrait, 76 + 1 pp. sm.8vo, wrapper with printed
label, edges frayed, on upper cover, Presentation
Copy Inscribed from the Author on fep, Palma,
Majorca, 1934 [11386] £50
Bauza was a native of Palma, but spent most of his life
abroad. His Library, mostly Americana listed here,
appears to have been given to the British Library. He
died in London.
681. BERNATZIK (Hugo Adolph) Gari-Gari, The Call
of the African Wilderness, folding map, plates,
pictorial cloth, faint stain at base of spine, 1936
[CF7616] £50
AJourney down the Nile to Khartoum, and from there
onward to the Kenyan border, the Nuer country.
682. BESSON (Maurice) The Scourge of the Indies,
Buccaneers, Corsairs, & Filibusters, from Original
Texts and Contemporary Engravings, numerous
maps and plates, some coloured by hand, 4to,
Limited to960 copies, 1929 [CF4853] £75
Portraits of Montbars, Peter Legrand, Montauban,
Chevalier de Grammont, Nau l’Orlonnais, Ravenuau de
Lussan, Ducasse, Cassard, Dulaien, Thurot, d’Albarade.
683. BIBLE. Ko Te Kawenata Hou O To Tatou Ariki O
Te Kai Whakaora O Ihu Karaiti. He Mea
Whakamaori I Te Reo Kariki, [Maori New
Testament], small marginal worm holes on title and
3pages, not affecting text, hf calf, Rana, 1852
[10762] £120
684. BISHOP. Roe (Michael ed.) The Journal and
Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-
West Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New
South Wales, large folding map, 5 other, frontis. of a
page from the Journal, Hakluyt Society Series 2, vol
CXXI, 1966 [CF3980] £75
685. BISSOONDOYAL (U.) & S.B.C. Servansing eds.
Slavery in South West Indian Ocean, Moka,
Mauritius, 1989 [10795] £30
686. BLAKE . Powell (J.R. ed.) The Letters Of Robert
Blake, together with Supplementary Documents,
portrait, some slight soiling, Navy Records Society,
[CF7539] £45
687. BLAND (J.O.P.) & E. Backhouse. China Under
the Empress Dowager, Being the History of the Life
and Times of Tzu Hsi, Compiled from State Papers
and the Private Diary of the Comptroller of Her
Household, map, numerous plates, thk.roy.8vo,
spine faded, slight wear 1910 [CF7385] £75
688. BLOFELD (John) King Maha Mongkut of Siam,
portrait frontis. plates, The Siam Society, Bangkok,
1987 [CF6800] £20
689. BOASE (T.S.R. ed.) A.W. Lawrence et al. The
Cilician Kingdom of Armenia, ep. maps, numerous
plates, Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh, 1978
[CF4517] £20
690. BOLTON (Melvin) Ethiopian Wildlands, map,
plates, some coloured, dw, 1976 [CF8224] £20
691. BRANDT (Conrad) Stalin’s Failure in China,
1824-1927, 1958 [CF4148] £25