Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

85 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL
801. FOSCO (Maraini) Meeting with Japan, ep maps,
numerous plates some in colour, text illusts. roy.8vo,
1959 [CF4642] £25
802. FRASER (Douglas C.) Impressions - Nigeria 1925,
folding map, plates, occasional spotting, 1926
[CF10334] £40
The author travelled extensively in Nigeria, from Lagos he
went as far north as Kaduka, and as far east as Yokala.
He describes the wood trade and the game which he
inevitably shoots.
803. FOUNTAIN (Paul) The Great Mountains and
Forests of South America, second impression,
portrait frontis. plates, buckram, spine a little faded,
1904 [CF8073] £50
804. FRASER (Mary Crawford) ADiplomat’s Wife in
Japan, Sketches at the Turn of the Century, edited by
Hugh Cortazzi, portrait frontis. coloured plates, dw,
1982 [11411] £20
Sir Hugh Cortazzi, former British Ambassador to Japan,
has edited this work down to four-fifths of its original
length. In the preface he says “That the great sprawling
capital of Japan was once the attractive collection of
gardens that Mrs. Fraser described is still difficult for me
to imagine.”
805. FRASER (Maryna) Johannesburg Pioneer Journals
1888-1909, Edited by Maryna Fraser, illusts, plates,
Van Riebeck Society, Second Series No.16, Cape
Town, 1985 [CF6963] £25
806. FRASER (Mrs. Hugh) A Diplomatist’s Wife in
Japan, Letters from Home to Home, fourth edition,
numerous illusts. pictorial cloth gilt, 1904
[CF7878] £55
807. FRIEDMAN (Herbert) Birds Collected by the
Childs Frick Expedition to Ethiopia and Kenya
Colony, Part 1. Non-Passers,Part2.Passers,text
maps, 2 coloured frontis’s, plates, text illusts.
original printed wrappers, vol 1 frayed, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, 1930-37 [CF8200] £65
808. FULLER (Robert H.) South Africa at Home,
plates, some occasional spotting, c.1910
[CF10215] £25
The author was Headmaster of Dale College, King
Williamstown.
809. FÜLÖP-MILLER (René) The Mind and Face of
Bolshevism, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION,
numerous plates, some in colour, thk roy 8vo, small
repairs to upper hinge & head of spine, 1927
[10896] £125
Awell illustrated treatment of Bolshevism including art
and theatre.
810. FÜRER-HAIMENDORF (Christoph von ed.)
Caste & Kin in Nepal, India & Ceylon,
Anthropological Studies in Hindu-Buddhist Contact
Zones, text maps, plates, dw, 1979 [10887] £20
ROYAL COPY
811. GALLI (H.) La Guerre en Extrème-Orient, Russes
&Japonais, text maps, and numerous illusts. many
printed in colour, 2 vols thk. roy.8vo, contemporary
morocco spines, teg, from the Library of Don
Carlos, King of Portugal, with his monogram and
crown onspines, Paris, nd [CF3562] £350
812. GARDINER (Robin) & Dan Van Der Vat. The
Riddle of the Titanic, numerous plates, dw. 1995
[10872] £18
The authors thesis that the Titanic was replaced by her
sister ship the floored Olympic is tantalizing.
813. GARRETT (Edmund) The Garrett Papers, Edited
with an introduction by Gerald Shaw, plates, Van
Riebeck Society, Second series No.15, Cape Town,
1984 [CF6966] £25
814. GAUNT (Mary) Alone in West Africa, ep maps,
plates, some occasional spotting, small corner
repaired of the last page, not affecting text. thk.8vo,
pictorial cloth, gilt, [1912] [11220] £145
This was the first of Mary Gaunt’s intrepid adventures
begun at the age of forty. Like Mary Kingsley before her
she was no great admirer of the Missionary and their
efforts. Described in Jane Robinson’s Wayward Women
as “down-to-earth, sympathetic, observant, tenacious and
adventurous”,- narrative crackles with character & style.
815. GEDDIE (John) The Lake Regions of Central
Africa A Record of Modern Discovery, 2 maps,
numerous plates, cr.8vo, original pictorial cloth,
1892 [11265] £65
First published in 1881, this edition, uncut and unedited
from the first, is in the Nelson’s “Our Boys’ Select
Library” Series.
816. GEORGE (Henry) Protection or Free Trade, an
Examination of the Tariff Question with Especial
Regard to the Interests of Labour, Second Edition
[but] FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, cr.8vo, 1887
[CF5052] £30
George was one of the most influential and carismatic
Political Econonmists of his period in America. His
fundamental doctrine was the equal right of all men to use
the earth. Protection or Free Trade was one of his best
known and influential works.
817. GERINI (G.E.) Chulakantamangala The Tonsure
Ceremony as Performed in Siam, plates, 4to. printed
wrappers, 1895, The Siam Society Reprint,
Bangkok, 1976 [CF6806]£25
818. GILES (Herbert A. trans.) Chuang Tzu, Mystic,
Moralist, and Social Reformer, Second Edition,
revised, some slight wear, Bernard Quaritch, 1926
[10647] £55
Chuang Tzu was a Chinese philosopher and teacher from
third and fourth centuries B.C.