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Collection of works including Crimean War narratives, 18th-19th century
Maundrell, Henry. A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697. The Fourth Edition, to which is now added an Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. Oxford; at the Theater, 1721. 8vo, [12] 145 [9] 10 pp., contemporary panelled calf, 15 engraved plates including folding views of Aleppo and Baalbek, ownership inscriptions ‘J. S. 1735’ and ‘Patrick Shee … 1909’ to front free endpaper, early ownership inscription ‘Viscountess Kingsborough’ to title-page, contemporary marginal annotation to p. 136, spine defective at head; Cordiner, James. A Voyage to India. Aberdeen: A. Brown and Co., 1820. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘To Sir James Gordon Bart of Letterfourie, as a small mark of respect and esteem from the author’ on the retained initial blank, 8vo, xi 17-315 [2] pp., 20th-century half morocco, edges untrimmed, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf to rear; Sandwith, Humphrey. A Narrative of the Siege of Kars. London: John Murray, 1856. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard, folding lithographic plan, folding engraved map, 32 pp. advertisements, engraved bookplate of Lord Kinnaird to front pastedown, cloth slightly marked and dust-soiled, remnants of old labels to both pastedowns, a few spots to frontispiece; Robinson, Frederick. Diary of the Crimean War. London: Richard Bentley, 1856. First edition, 8vo, original red pebble-grain cloth, spine rolled; Knight, William. Oriental Outlines or a Rambler's Recollections of a Tour in Turkey, Greece, and Tuscany. In 1838. London: Sampson Low, 1839. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘Mr Serjeant Shee, with the authors compliments’ on the initial blank, 8vo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece and vignette title-page; Sale, Lady [Florentia]. A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, 8vo in 12s, contemporary red half morocco, 2 lithographic plans (one folding, this with partial split to one fold and small handling tear to inner fold), joints rubbed, front joint split at head and foot; and 15 others (these not collated, including, William Simpson, The Campaign in the Crimea, 1855, original cloth, tinted lithographic plates; Calthorpe, Letters from Head-Quarters, 1857, second edition, 2 volumes, later red half calf gilt; J. Harris, publisher, The Traveller, 1820, second edition, contemporary blue-green calf gilt, engraved plates; Dominique Bohours, The Life of St Francis Xavier, Dublin, 1812, contemporary marbled sheep; and others) (23)
From the library of the Gordon family of Letterfourie, Moray, Scotland (many works with bookplate).
Collection of works including Crimean War narratives, 18th-19th century
Maundrell, Henry. A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697. The Fourth Edition, to which is now added an Account of the Author's Journey to the Banks of Euphrates at Beer, and to the Country of Mesopotamia. Oxford; at the Theater, 1721. 8vo, [12] 145 [9] 10 pp., contemporary panelled calf, 15 engraved plates including folding views of Aleppo and Baalbek, ownership inscriptions ‘J. S. 1735’ and ‘Patrick Shee … 1909’ to front free endpaper, early ownership inscription ‘Viscountess Kingsborough’ to title-page, contemporary marginal annotation to p. 136, spine defective at head; Cordiner, James. A Voyage to India. Aberdeen: A. Brown and Co., 1820. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘To Sir James Gordon Bart of Letterfourie, as a small mark of respect and esteem from the author’ on the retained initial blank, 8vo, xi 17-315 [2] pp., 20th-century half morocco, edges untrimmed, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece, advertisement leaf to rear; Sandwith, Humphrey. A Narrative of the Siege of Kars. London: John Murray, 1856. First edition, 8vo, original cloth, wood-engraved frontispiece with tissue-guard, folding lithographic plan, folding engraved map, 32 pp. advertisements, engraved bookplate of Lord Kinnaird to front pastedown, cloth slightly marked and dust-soiled, remnants of old labels to both pastedowns, a few spots to frontispiece; Robinson, Frederick. Diary of the Crimean War. London: Richard Bentley, 1856. First edition, 8vo, original red pebble-grain cloth, spine rolled; Knight, William. Oriental Outlines or a Rambler's Recollections of a Tour in Turkey, Greece, and Tuscany. In 1838. London: Sampson Low, 1839. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed ‘Mr Serjeant Shee, with the authors compliments’ on the initial blank, 8vo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece and vignette title-page; Sale, Lady [Florentia]. A Journal of the Disasters in Affghanistan, 1841-2. London: John Murray, 1843. First edition, 8vo in 12s, contemporary red half morocco, 2 lithographic plans (one folding, this with partial split to one fold and small handling tear to inner fold), joints rubbed, front joint split at head and foot; and 15 others (these not collated, including, William Simpson, The Campaign in the Crimea, 1855, original cloth, tinted lithographic plates; Calthorpe, Letters from Head-Quarters, 1857, second edition, 2 volumes, later red half calf gilt; J. Harris, publisher, The Traveller, 1820, second edition, contemporary blue-green calf gilt, engraved plates; Dominique Bohours, The Life of St Francis Xavier, Dublin, 1812, contemporary marbled sheep; and others) (23)
From the library of the Gordon family of Letterfourie, Moray, Scotland (many works with bookplate).
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