26th Oct, 2022 9:30

Books & Works on Paper
 
Lot 101
 

Africa.

Africa.-

A collection of 19 volumes, including:

Spilsbury (F. B.) Account of a Voyage to the Western Coast of Africa; performed by his Majesty’s Sloop Favourite, In the Year 1805, First Edition, 9 uncoloured aquatint plates, 3 folding, occasional spotting and offsetting, modern quarter morocco gilt, new endpapers, Richard Phillips, 1807;

Riley (James) Loss of the American Brig Commerce, wrecked on the Western Coast of Africa in the Month of August, 1815. With an account of Tombuctoo, and of the hitherto undiscovered city of Wassanah, First Edition, large folding map of Africa, short closed margin tear, some spotting, new endpapers, modern quarter calf, John Murray, 1817;

Thompson (James) A New, Improved, and Authentic Life of James Allan, the Celebrated Northumberland Piper…, ‘Woodland Cottage’ in ink on title, 6 plates including frontispiece, offsetting, bookplate on front pastedown, new endpapers, modern half morocco gilt over marbled boards by P. B. Sanford, extremities rubbed, Newcastle, Mackenzie and Dent, 1828;

Stanley (Henry M.) In Darkest Africa or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria, 2 vols., First Edition, frontispieces, 27 plates and 2 folding maps, both with short tears, signatures to endpapers, scattered spotting, vol. I worn, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1890;

With 2 volumes of The Pictorial Edition of The Life and Discoveries of David Livingstone, and 12 others, v.s. (19)

Sold for £750

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