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Auction No 373, Category: Travel

9 Lots (displaying 1 - 9)

Tour Guides for Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co 1926 (ink inscription front cover) and The Grey Cars Ltd

Lot: 21

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £66
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Tour Guides for Bristol Tramways & Carriage Co 1926 (ink inscription front cover) and The Grey Cars Ltd (1930s); plus fine Bus Timetables for Southdown 1953 and Bournemouth Corporation 1954-55 (three different) with folding maps. Fair to VF (6)

William Hugh Dalton (Ed.) "The New and Complete English Traveller", A. Hogg, [1794], folio, half-leather, very worn;

Lot: 120

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £100 - £120
SOLD £40
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William Hugh Dalton (Ed.) The New and Complete English Traveller, A. Hogg, [1794], folio, half-leather, very worn; generally clean internally; collated as complete with engraved frontispiece,51 plates (many with several views), 18pp of 2 to 4 engraved maps; final 20 leaves damp-stained; few plates torn & need repair; some pages with small tears and other small faults; hole in margin of plate facing p.100. Comprises iv,[4],696,[12]pp.

Marius Maxwell "Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa", The Century Co., 1924,

Lot: 122

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £100
SOLD £86
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Marius Maxwell Stalking Big Game with a Camera in Equatorial Africa, The Century Co., 1924, folio, large paper copy, No.402 of 550, signed by the author on limitation page; quarter cloth, gilt, VG; fine internally with all photo-plates. 

Gerald Portal "The British Mission to Uganda in 1893", Edward Arnold, 1894, 1st Edn;

Lot: 123

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £28
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Gerald Portal The British Mission to Uganda in 1893, Edward Arnold, 1894, 1st Edn; and Samuel Baker Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Macmillan, 1874, 1st Edn, 2 vols; complete with all plates & maps, the latter with few plates remounted; some scattered foxing to Ismailia; all nicely rebound with modern gilt leather titles. (3)

John Roscoe "Twenty-Five Years in East Africa", 1921; Henry M. Stanley "My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories"

Lot: 124

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £125
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John Roscoe Twenty-Five Years in East Africa, 1921; Henry M. Stanley My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories, 1893; Flinders Petrie Ten Years Digging in Egypt, 1892; W.P.Taylor African Treasures, 1932; Worthington Inland Waters of Africa, 1933; and 4 other African titles; mostly first editions, original cloth, a few recased, fair to fine. (9)

Frederick Boyle "To The Cape For Diamonds", Chapman & Hall, 1873, First Edn, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth,

Lot: 125

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £60 - £80
SOLD £42
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Frederick Boyle To The Cape For Diamonds, Chapman & Hall, 1873, First Edn, original blind-tooled & gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers, the spine repaired with the gilt backstrip relaid; fine internally, folding map, 415pp

The Marquis of Lorne "A Trip to the Tropics", 1867, gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers, fine internally;

Lot: 126

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £44
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The Marquis of Lorne A Trip to the Tropics, 1867, gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers, fine internally; Madame de Genlis Manuel du Voyageur, 1816, rebound in modern leather, two leaves damaged; James Best Forest Life in India, 1935; The Journal of Jacob Roggeveen, 1970; Freya Stark autobiographical works (4), etc. Varied condition. (13)

Marchioness of Londonderry "A Journal of a Three Months' Tour In Portugal, Spain, Africa &c." London, 1843,

Lot: 127

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £36
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Marchioness of Londonderry A Journal of a Three Months’ Tour In Portugal, Spain, Africa &c. London, 1843, octavo, original gilt cloth, faded, front panel slightly scuffed; fine internally with four lithographed plates including frontispiece portrait, two plates tipped in; 94pp including preface and list of subscribers.         

R.C. F. Schomberg "Unknown Karakoram", Martin Hopkinson, 1936, First Edn., original gilt cloth,

Lot: 128

  • Auction Date: Wed 10th Jan 2018 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £70
SOLD £66
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R.C. F. Schomberg Unknown Karakoram, Martin Hopkinson, 1936, First Edn., original gilt cloth, recased with new endpapers; fine folding map in rear pocket; 244pp plus photo-plates.