Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

89 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL
875. HUXLEY. T.H.Huxley’s Diary of the Voyage of
H.M.S. Rattlesnake, edited from the unpublished
Ms. by Julian Huxley, folding map, coloured frontis.
12 plates, 1935 [CF7775] £75
The East Coast of Australia, New Guinea, the Louisiade
Archipelago. He arrived in Mauritius on May 4th 1847,
his 22nd. Birthday. He describes Port Louis “The town is
remarkably clean but not without a certain Rio flavour
about it.”
876. HUXLEY (Elspeth) Their Shining Eldorado A
Journey through Australia, folding map, text maps,
plates, 1967 [CF7306] £35
877. HUXLEY (Elspeth) ANewEarthAnExperiement
in Colonialism folding map, 2 others plates, dw.
1960 [10564] £25
Describes a Revolution in the daily lives of six million
Africans as they forsake their ancient communal
traditions for a Western Individualism - she tells of the
remarkable transformation of rural Kenya by carving it
into tens of thousands of individually owned
smallholdings.
878. INDIA. The Spirit of the Press and the Proprietors
of India Stock, shewn in Extracts from the Leading
Newspapers and Magazines, and the Debates at the
India House, relative to the Compensations to be
granted to the East India Company’s Maritime
Service; together with Testimonials from the
Presidents of the Company’s Factory at China; to
which is prefixed the Dissent of John Forbes, Esq. a
Memeber of the Court of Directors, iv + 88 pp.
disbound, 1834 [CF4084] £50
879. INDIA. Bartholomew’s Contour Motoring Map of
India Showing the Main Trunk Touring Roads,
coloured folding map on canvas, 5 x 3ft 8 ins,
c.1910 [10867] £65
880. INDIA. Punjab, District Rawalpindi, folding
coloured map on canvas, 22 x 16 ins. Published
under the direction of Col. S.G. Burrard, [Calcutta]
1911 [10868] £20
881. INDIA. Cuch Behar a chromolithograph print of the
Maharajah from Vanity Fair, 14 x 8¼ ins. small tear
in upper right hand corner not affecting image, Dec.
26th. 1901 [11376] £85
882. INDIA. “Jodhpore”, a chromolithograph print by
“Spy” from Vanity Fair, 12½ x 7¼ ins. Aug 27th.
1887 [11377] £125
Aswaggering caricature in a yellow jewelled turban.
883. IRVING (John Treat) & J.F McDermott, ed.
Indian Sketches taken during an Expedition to the
Pawnee Tribes [1833], University of Oklahoma,
Norman, 1955 [CF7787] £25
GARIBALDI IN NAPLES
884. JAMES (Edwin) ALS to Oliveira, concerning his
meeting with Garibaldi 4 pp. 8vo, signs of mounting,
Naples, Saturday Sept. 8, [1860] [11152] £175
“Amidst the enthusiasm of the whole population
Garibaldi entered this city yesterday, I was with him &
had gone to join him at Eboli... & had two interviews with
him... No pen can describe the enthusiasm of the people
her but Ifear excess on the part of the people. We go on
to Rome at once - a provisional Government will be
formed at once & the feeling of the people for Annexation
to Piedmont is strong.”
Having conquored Sicily, Garibaldi & his Risorgimento
forces entered Naples on the 7th of September 1860. He
then declared himself Dictator of the Two Sicilies and
after a battle on the Volturno, he held a plebiscite which
enabled him to offer this part of a United Italy to Victor
Emmanuel II of Piedmont Sardinia.
Edwin John James (1812-82) barrister and sometime
actor, engaged for the Palmer poisoning case of 1856 and
in the trial of Dr. Bernard for conspiring with Orsini to
assasinate Napoleon III in 1858. In the autumn of 1860
he visited Garibaldi’s camp and was present at the
skirmish of Capua, and was a champion of his cause in
England.
885. JAMES. Laughton (John Knox ed.) Journal Of
Rear Admiral Bartholomew James, 1752-1828,
frontispiece, 3 plates, some faint spotting, Navy
Records Society, Vol. VI, 1896 [CF7245] £65
886. JAPAN. The Russo Japanese War, folding maps,
numerous chromolithograph plates and other illusts.
10 parts in 3 vols, folio, hf. russia, hinges of vol. 1
cracked, some other slight rubbing, Tokyo, 1904-05
[CF3812] £550
887. JAPAN. Dai Nippon Koku Zenzu [Complete Map
of Japan] hand coloured in outline, inset map of
Hakaido, 2 city plans,folded, some small tears
repaired, 64 x 60 ins. original cloth covered boards,
Bureau of Geography, Tokyo, Meiji 16, 1883
[11142] £950
GEOLOGICAL MAP
888. JAPAN. Dai Nippon Koku Zenzu [Complete Map
of Japan] hand coloured Geological Areas, with a
colour key added in manuscript, with text in
Japanese and English, inset map of Hakaido & 2 city
plans, folded, some small tears and worm holes
repaired, 64 x 60 ins. original cloth covered boards,
Bureau of Geography, Tokyo, Meiji 16, 1883
[11143] £1,450
889. JAPAN. The Industrial Japan: 1957, Special
Number of the Japan Trade Monthly (No 134),
numerous illusts. 248 pp. woven silk cover in fine
unfaded condition,designed by Isao Kondo “Four
Seasons of Japan”, 4to., made by Tatsumura Artistic
Textile, Dentsu Advertising Ltd. Tokyo, 1957
[11399] £50