Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

91 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL
908. LANMAN (Charles) Adventures in the Wilds of
North America edited by Charles Richard Weld,
FIRST EDITION, cr.8vo, 1854 [CF4785] £75
Sabin 38912.
909. LATORRE (E.C.) Atlas de Mapas Antiguos de
Colombia siglos XVI a XIX, Second Edition, 60
plates some in colour, signatures on ep, folio, dw.
stained, Bogota, 1977 [10939] £75
910. LAWRENCE (T.E.) The Letters of T.E.Lawrence
Edited by David Garnett, maps, plates, thk.8vo,
1938 [CF4227] £25
911. LAWRENCE (T.E.) Seven Pillars Of Wisdom, a
triumph, FIRST PUBLICLY PRINTED EDITION,
4 folding maps, numerous portraits and plates,
sm.4to, small dent on spine, 1935 [CF6983] £75
This edition is almost a complete reprint of the Private
Edition of 1926 lacking only the coloured plates. However
this edition has three extra portraits not in the earlier
edition.
912. LAWRENCE (T.E.) Revolt in the Desert, fourth
impression, map, portrait frontis, and other portrait
plates, 1927 [11403] £30
913. LAYMAN (Rear Admiral C.H.) & Jane
Cameron. The Falklands and the Dwarf, The Cruise
of H.M.S. Dwarf in the Falkland Islands 1881-1882,
ep map, illusts. dw. Chippenham, 1995 [11424]£50
The book is about the Royal Navy’s attempt to enforce a
conservation regime on brutal and unprincipled sealers,
through the letters of Commander Sir William Wiseman,
leader of the expedition.
914. LEE (Ida) Captain Bligh’s Second Voyage to the
South Sea, 17 plates and maps, spine faded, signed
on the hf. title by the author “Ida Marriott”, together
with aletter presenting this copy of her book to the
editor of “The Field”, 1920 [11126] £75
915. LEES (Lady) AFewDays in Belgium and Holland,
An Idle Book for an Idle Hour, cr.8vo, original
cloth, a little soiled, 1872 [CF4804] £25
916. LEETE (F.A.) & G.C. Cheyne. Regulation of
Rivers Without Embankments as applied in the
Training Works at the Headwaters of the Rangoon
River, Burma (locally known as the Myitmaka
Training Works), 10 maps, 3 folding, 36 plates, 9
full page diagrams, roy 8vo, some little fading,
Presentation Copy from Author, 1924 [10855]£85
The training refers to the consolidation of the rivers in
flood and allowing logging, the floating of teak logs down
to the saw mills.
917. LEICHHARDT. The Letter of F.W. Ludwig
Leichhardt Collected and Newly Translated by M.
Aurousseau, 1 folding & 10 other maps, portrait
frontis, 3 vols, Hakluyt Society, Series II, CXXXIII,
CXXXIV, CXXXV, 1967-68 [CF4810] £170
Scientific exploration in Australia.
918. LESLIE (Alex ed.) The Arctic Voyages of Adolf
Erik Nordenskiöld 1858-1879, 4 maps, 3 folding,
numerous woodcuts in the text, prize calf, gilt spine,
1879 [11078] £120
919. [LEVER (Charles)] The Confessions of Con
Cregan: The Irish Gil Blas, 12 plates by H.K.
Browne, slight wear at hinges, 1856 [CF3453] £50
920. [LEWIS (J.D.)] Across the Atlantic, 1851
[CF3461] £95
Sabin 134. Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Newport,
Baltimore & Washington.
921. LING (Ling Chien) Selections from the Hung-Sueh
Sketches, First Series, numerous illusts, vi + 96 pp.
some occasional spotting, cr.8vo, green silk
wrappers, upper cover printed in gilt, sewn as issued,
Shanghai, 1879 [11290] £50
Photolithographed from the original Chinese Edition with
brief translations in English by the Tien-Shih-Chai
Photolithographic Works.
The author was born in 1791, after graduating, became a
“civil officer in the Imperial Court”, and in 1843 became
High Commisioner of the Yellow River. These anecdotes
range from descriptions of Temples, Libraries and
Palaces, to his efforts during War with the English.
922. LINKE (Lilo) The People of the Amazon, map,
plates, dw. some faint stains at fore-edge, 1963
[10941] £12
923. LINSCHOTEN. A Double Paged Copper
Engraving showing the boats of Chinese Mandarins,
plates 32 & 33 from J.H. van Linschoten’s Discourse
of Voyages to the East and West Indies, 10 x 12½
ins. some small marginal tears, a little browning,
1598 [CF10285] £200
924. LIONNET (Guy) The Seychelles, 3 maps, dw.
1972 [CF8240] £28
925. LISTER (R.P.) Marco Polo’s Travels, In Xanadu
with Kublai Khan, the exciting story of the man who
discovered a fabulous oriental kingdom of China and
the court of the great Khan, ep maps, illusts, plates,
some coloured, roy. 8vo,dw, 1976 [CF6986] £20
926. LISTOWELL (Judith) The other Livingstone, ep
maps, illusts, dw. 1974 [CF8072] £30
The story of four men who played a crucial part in David
Livingstone’s discoveries which he attempted to surpress.
927. LITTLE (T. Homer) et al. Maryland Geological
Survey Anne Arundel County, 4 separate large
folding maps, 3 text maps, 9 plates, roy. 8vo, John
Hopkins Press, Baltimore 1917 [10860] £35
928. LIVINGSTONE David Livingstone Family Letters,
1841-1856, Edited with an introduction by
I.Schapera, 2 vols, dw, 1959 [CF6987] £55