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Exploration And Discovery, 1576-1939 The Library Of Franklin Brooke-Hitching Part 4, Q-Z
30 September 2015 • London
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Sale Number: L15412
350 lots
1051. Narrative of an expedition to the shores of the Arctic Sea. London: T. & W. Boone, 1850
Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1052. Snow huts, sledges, and sledge journeys. [London, 1875]
Estimate: 600 – 900 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1053. The History of Java. London: Black, Parbury and Allen, 1817
Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1054. The Discoverie of the large, rich and beautiful Empire of Guiana, with a relation of the great and golden citie of Manoa (which the Spaniards call El Dorado) and the provinces of Emeria, Arromaia, Amapaia, and other countries, with their rivers, adioyning. Performed in the yeare 1595. London: Robert Robinson, 1596
Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1055. Sir Walter Rawleigh his apologie for his voyage to Guiana [bound in: Judicious and Select Essayes and observations]. London: T.W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1650
Estimate: 800 – 1,200 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1056. The Great Plateau. Being an account of exploration in Central Tibet, 1903, and of the Gartok Expedition, 1904-1905. London: Edward Arnold, 1905
Estimate: 500 – 800 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1057. A Journal of Voyages and Travels… published for the benefit of the author’s orphan daughter. London: Harvey and Darton, 1822
Estimate: 1,500 – 2,500 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1058. Remarks, &c. upon the causes which produce diseases amongst new raised troops upon long voyages, &c. London: T. and J. Egerton, 1788
Estimate: 300 – 400 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1059. On the rate of travelling as performed by camels. [London: The Royal Society, 1791]
Estimate: 400 – 500 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1060. By Desert Ways to Indian Snows. London: Unicorn Press, 1932
Estimate: 250 – 350 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1061. Narrative of a residence in Koordistan, and on the site of ancient Nineveh; with journal of a voyage down the Tigris to Bagdad and an account of a visit to Shirauz and Persepolis. London: James Duncan, 1836
Estimate: 800 – 1,400 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
1062. Private journal of the surveyor attached to Messrs. Frank and Alexander Jardine's Overland Expedition to Cape York. Brisbane: G. Wight, Guardian Office, [1867]
Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
BIDDING IS CLOSED
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