- 130
Baker, Samuel White
Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 GBP
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Description
- A collection of 7 titles, comprising:
- paper
Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866, 2 volumes, 2 maps (one folding), 15 plates, original pictorial green cloth, [Czech (Africa) p.10], folding map repaired, recased
Cyprus as I saw it in 1879. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879, half-title, engraved frontispiece, [2] + 40pp. publisher's catalogue dated August 1879, original pictorial green cloth [Cobham-Jeffery, p.3], [Denham Court Library, bookplate], minor spotting
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, half-title, 6 lithographed plates, 24pp. advertisements dated September 1855, modern green half morocco, [Abbey, Travel 415]
Ismalia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: MacMillan and Co., 1874, 2 volumes, 52 (of 53 plates), 2 maps (one folding), 55pp. advertisements dated October 1874, original pictorial green cloth, [Czech (Africa) p.11], hinges starting
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamram Arabs. London: MacMillan and Co., 1867, 2 maps (one folding), 24 plates, original pictorial blue cloth, [Hilmy I p.50], rebacked retaining parts of original spine
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854, half-title, 6 lithographed plates, contemporary red half calf, without advertisements, spine sunned
Wild Beasts and their Ways. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890, half-titles, 27 plates, 59pp. advertisements dated February 1890, original pictorial maroon cloth, [H.P. Fane, bookplates, signatures; Cawthorn, Hutt & Son, label on upper cover of each volume], light rubbed and bubbling, spine in vol.2 repaired at foot
All FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo, (10)
Cyprus as I saw it in 1879. London: Macmillan and Co., 1879, half-title, engraved frontispiece, [2] + 40pp. publisher's catalogue dated August 1879, original pictorial green cloth [Cobham-Jeffery, p.3], [Denham Court Library, bookplate], minor spotting
Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, half-title, 6 lithographed plates, 24pp. advertisements dated September 1855, modern green half morocco, [Abbey, Travel 415]
Ismalia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: MacMillan and Co., 1874, 2 volumes, 52 (of 53 plates), 2 maps (one folding), 55pp. advertisements dated October 1874, original pictorial green cloth, [Czech (Africa) p.11], hinges starting
The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamram Arabs. London: MacMillan and Co., 1867, 2 maps (one folding), 24 plates, original pictorial blue cloth, [Hilmy I p.50], rebacked retaining parts of original spine
The Rifle and the Hound in Ceylon. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1854, half-title, 6 lithographed plates, contemporary red half calf, without advertisements, spine sunned
Wild Beasts and their Ways. London: Macmillan and Co., 1890, half-titles, 27 plates, 59pp. advertisements dated February 1890, original pictorial maroon cloth, [H.P. Fane, bookplates, signatures; Cawthorn, Hutt & Son, label on upper cover of each volume], light rubbed and bubbling, spine in vol.2 repaired at foot
All FIRST EDITIONS, 8vo, (10)