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  1. DUFTON, Henry.

    Narrative of a journey through Abyssinia...

    London, Chapman & Hall, 1867.

    First edition recounting the author’s...

    £850

  2. DURHAM, Arthur E. 

    Transverse Section of Wood (Salisburia). 

    Circa 1870s. 

    A rare and attractive microphotograph of...

    £1100

  3. GARDINER, John Smallman. 

    The Art and the Pleasures of Hare-Hunting. ...

    London: Printed by R. Griffith … 1750. 

    First edition, scarce, of this eloquent...

    £1250

  4. [MARABOTTA, Cattaneo.] 

    Vita della serafica S. Caterina da Genova. 

    Genoa, Tipografia Frugoni, 1832. 

    Rare first edition thus, an attractive...

    £185

  5. TALIANI, Giuseppe. 

    Orologi riflessi, per mezo di un picciolo...

    Macerata, Filippo Camacci, 1648. 

    Only recorded edition, rare, of this work...

    £950

  6. SA‘DI, Abu ‘Abd Allah Musharrif al-Din (Adam OLEARIUS, translator). 

    Persianischer Rosenthal.  In welchen viel...

    Schleswig, Johann Holwein for Johann Nauman...

    Rare first illustrated edition, and the...

    £6500

  7. GREENE, Graham. 

    A burnt-out Case. 

    London, Heinemann, [1961]. 

    Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition...

    £275

  8. DICKENS, Charles. 

    The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club...

    London, Chapman & Hall, 1837. 

    First edition, first issue.  The Pickwick...

    £2000

  9. [SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert].  BODDAERT, Pieter.

    Epistola ad … Hier. Dav. Gaubium …...

    Amsterdam, apud M. Magerum, 1772.

    First and only edition of Boddaert’s...

    £500

  10. [PRAYERS.] 

    Récueil de plusieurs prieres.   

    Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire...

    Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century...

    £450

  11. BAIKIE, William Balfour.

    Narrative of an exploring voyage up the...

    London, John Murray, 1856.

    First edition recounting an expedition...

    £175

  12. BAKER, Samuel White.

    The Albert N’yanza, great basin of the...

    Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and London,...

    Third edition, recounting Samuel White...

    £125

  13. MELLAND, Frank Hulme, and Edward H.

    Cholmeley. Through the heart of Africa:...

    London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1912.

    First edition recounting the 1910 journey...

    £100

  14. WILSON, Charles Thomas and Robert William FELKIN.

    Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan ...

    London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle &...

    First edition of this account of Sudan...

    £250

  15. WILLOUGHBY, John Christopher.

    East Africa and its big game. The narrative...

    London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1889.

    First edition, signed by the author. ‘Willoughby...

    £200

  16. THOMSON, Joseph.

    To the central African lakes and back:...

    Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881.

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £850

  17. COWPER, Henry Swainson.

    The hill of the graces. A record of investigation...

    London, Methuen & Co., ‘1897’ [c. 1901].

    First edition, later issue, a nice copy....

    £60

  18. TRISTRAM, Henry Baker.

    The great Sahara: wanderings south of the...

    London, John Murray, 1860.

    First edition of this ‘interesting record...

    £125

  19. GRANT, James Augustus.

    A walk across Africa or domestic scenes...

    Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood...

    First edition. Grant (1827-1892) was invited...

    £350

  20. MADOX, John.

    Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia,...

    London, Richard Bentley, 1834.

    First edition. An ‘account of travels...

    £450