Travel, Atlases, Maps and Photographs
17 May - 24 May 2022 • London
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1 Mercurio geografico. Rome, 1692, contemporary vellum
2 Neptune François.... Paris, 1693 [but Amsterdam, 1700]
3 Abraham Ortelius | Theatrum orbis terrarum. Antwerp, Christoffel Plantin, 1584, 3 parts in one
4 Claudius Ptolemaeus and Giacomo Gastaldi | La Geografia.... Venice, 1548
5 Giovanni Maria Pujati | Introduttione alla geografia.... Rome, 1766, manuscript, contemporary vellum
6 Louis Renard—Reinier and Josua Ottens | Atlas van Zeevaert en Koophandel door de Geheele Weereldt. Amsterdam, 1745
7 John Seller | A Pocket Book containing ...Arithmetick, Navigation, Astronomy.... London, [1676], 8vo, calf
8 Johannes and Gerard van Keulen | De Groote nieuwe vermeerderede Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Waereld, 1708 (1709)
9 John Wallis | Wallis's complete voyage round the world. A new geographical pastime. London, 1796, a geographical game
10 Wang Zhiyuan after Huang Shang | T'ien wên t'u [A Map of the Stars]. 1247 (stele), ?late nineteenth century (rubbing)
11 Douglas Carruthers et alia | Letters and postcards to Colonel Bailey, including letters relating to Tibet, 1904-1947
12 Captain James Cook and Captain James King | Troisième Voyage de Cook with Cartes et Figures. Paris, 1785, 5 volumes
13 Earl of Dunmore | Scenes in Many Lands: Arctic to Equator. [c. 1897], original cloth
14 Paul Jones | Memoires de Paul Jones. Paris, 1798, original boards
15 Vincent Lunardi—S.F. Fores (pub.) | The enterprizing Lunardi's Grand Air Balloon, September 23rd 1784
16 Ship's Log—William Alms | Captain's log of HMS Monouth, 1783-84, including an account of the Battle of Cuddalore
17 Charles Butler | The feminine monarchie, or history of bees. Oxford, 1634, later burgundy leather
18 Archibald Thorburn | British Birds, 1915-18, 5 volumes, including supplement
19 Norway | Collection of 53 glass stereoviews of a voyage to Norway, c. 1897
20 Polish Government in Exile | The mass extermination of Jews in German occupied Poland. London, 1942
21 Rome—Domenico Amici | Raccolta delle principali vedute di Roma. 1835, red cloth gilt
22 Afghanistan—Sahibdad Abdulla | A collection of 38 photographs of Afghanistan. Kabul, c. 1919-1933
23 Badia y Leblich | Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey. 1816, 2 volumes
24 Demetrius Cantemir | The history of the growth and decay of the Othman Empire. 1734, folio, contemporary calf
25 Charles Henry Spencer Churchill | Mount Lebanon. A Ten Years' Residence. London, 1853, 4 volumes
26 Constantinople | Two large photograph panoramas of Constantinople from opposite sides of the Golden Horn, 1880s
27 Constantinopole—Mehmet Vedat Tek | Three architectural plans for Topkapi Palace, 1325AH [1907]
28 Vladimir P. Davidov | Atlas ... [Russian text: Views in the Ionian Islands and Greece]. St Petersburg, 1839
29 Dubai and Abu Dhabi | Photographs of Sheikh Shakbut Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi, with a Gulf chart and letter relating to the USS Duxbury Bay visit, 1959
30 Egypt and Aden—Zangaki and others | Collection of 25 photographs of views and portraits, c. 1880s
31 Greece—Moritz Guiot | Zur Erinnerung meines Aufenhaltes in Hellas, [Greece, 1834-1835]
32 Greece—Zographos | Collection of 12 matt photographs, c. 1930s
33 Greece—William Walker | Two watercolours of Greece: a view of Argos; and view of Corinth and the Acro, [c. 1803]
34 Greece—William Stillman | View of the Acropolis from the Musaeum Hill, [1870], carbon print
35 Greece | Twelve glass stereoviews of Mount Athos, c. 1900
36 James Hamilton | Sinai, the Hedjaz, and Soudan.... London: Richard Bentley, 1857, red half morocco
37 Jerusalem—Braun and Hogenberg | hand-coloured engraved view of Jerusalem, 1575 or later
38 Jerusalem—James Graham | Photograph of the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem, 1850s
39 Jerusalem—James Graham | Three photographs of Jerusalem, 1850s
40 Jerusalem—Félix Bonfils, attributed to | Photograph panorama of Jerusalem, c. 1880
41 Jerusalem—Deliverance of Jerusalem | Form of Service commemorating the Deliverance of Jerusalem. December 1917
42 Kuwait | The Story of Kuwait, 1957 with The Oil of Kuwait, 1965, together 2 volumes
43 Lawrence of Arabia—Thomas Lowell | With Lawrence in Arabia, Kodak Cinegraph 16mm. film reel, 1927
44 Lepanto—Balthasar Jenichen | Warhaftige conterfettung der grossen galleen so von neuen zu Venedig.... 1571
45 Levant | Reise der Orientalischen Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, sommer 1894. Meiningen, [1894]
46 Mecca | Painting of Mecca showing the Kaaba and the Masjid al-Haram, 1290 AH [1873]
47 Mecca—al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaffar | Photograph of the Haram al-Sharif and Kaaba at Mecca, c. 1887
48 Mecca—Duca Pacha | Mouvement général du pèlerinage du Hedjaz.... Constantinople, 1902, folio, original wrappers