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Lots 1-46: The Farhoumand Collection | Lots 252-262: From a private collection on Eastern Art and Religions

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Africa.- Johnston (Sir Harry H.) The Uganda Protectorate, 2 vol., first edition, colour frontispieces and plates, illustrations (many full-page), ...

Africa.- Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, later issue, folding engraved frontispiece, engrave...

Africa.- Livingstone (David) Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa, first edition, later issue, folding wood engraved frontispiece, en...

Africa.- M'Leod (John) A Voyage to Africa with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People, first edition, 4 etched plates, pre...

Africa.- Roberts (David) Sketches in Egypt & Nubia, limited edition, plates and illustrations, original half morocco, rubbed, housed in original c...

Africa.- Roberts (David) Sketches in Egypt & Nubia, plates and illustrations, original half morocco, housed in original slipcase, short tear, a li...

Africa.- Schillings (C.G.) In Wildest Africa, first American edition, frontispiece, illustrations (many full-page),  previous owner's ink signatur...

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) How I Found Livingstone, first edition, half-title, mounted albumen frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 5 maps...

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol., first edition, portrait frontispieces, plates (lacking one), 7 maps only (of 1...

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) In Darkest Africa, or the Quest Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, 2 vol., first edition, frontisp...

Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, ...

Bees.- Herrod-Hempsall (William) The Bee-Keeper's Guide, second edition, illustrations, advertisements at end, original pictorial paper wrappers, ...

Birds.- Allouse (Bashir E.) Birds of Iraq, 3 vol., text in Arabic and English, plates and illustrations, short tear into text of one ff., original...

Birds.- Brooke (R. K.) South African Red Data Book - Birds, illustrations, original paper wrappers, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Pre...

Birds.- Timur Mirza (Husam al-Daulah) The Baz-Nama-Yi Nasiri: A Persian Treatise on Falconry, one of 500 copies, translated by Lieut.-Colonel D. C...

Britain.- Booth (Charles) Life and Labour of the People in London, 7 vol., linen-backed folding maps, spotting and staining, original boards, mott...

Cambridge.- Willis (Robert) & John Willis Clark. The Architectural History of the University of Cambridge and of the Colleges of Cambridge and Eto...

Chess.- Stratagems of Chess, second edition, frontispiece, illustrations, scattered spotting, abrasion mark to front free endpaper where signature...

Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) The Second World War, 6 vol., first edition, half-titles, folding maps, previous owner's ink signature to front fr...

Cosway (Richard), John Downman & Henry Edridge. Photographs of a Private Collection of Portrait Drawings of the English School, plates, captioned ...

Crests and Monograms.- Album of Crests and Monograms, c.85pp. of numerous crests and monograms, some with manuscript captions, many surrounded by ...

Culpeper (Nicholas) The British Herbal and Family Physician, engraved title, 52 hand-coloured engraved plates and 3 plates only (of 5), spotting a...

Darwin (Charles) The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, first edition, second impression, 7 plates (2 folding), one trimmed, laid down and...

Dumas (Alexandre) The Three Musketeers, 2 vol., edition de luxe, one of 750 copies, translated by William Robson, illustrations by Maurice Leloir ...

Erotica & Sex.- Davenport (Jack) Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction, near contemporary calf-backed boa...

Erotica & Sex.- Fischer (H. C.) & Dr. E. X. Dubois. Sexual Life during the World War, first edition, half-title, faint spotting at beginning and e...

Germany.- Scrap Album from a Trip to Germany, c.90 snapshots, postcards and cuttings, most captioned by hand, some captions a little faded, some t...

Greene (Graham) The Virtue of Disloyalty, one of 300 copies, original paper wrappers, a little toned, slight bumping to edges, Hatfield, Stellar P...

Huxley (Julian) Evolution: the Modern Synthesis, first edition, signed and inscribed by author, half-title, original cloth, small paper label to s...

India.- Beaton (Cecil) India, first edition, half-title, full-page illustrations, small hole in text to 'Introduction', previous owner's ink inscr...

India.- Iqbal (Sir Mohammed) Poet of the East and Chughtai, text in English, Urdu and Persian, tipped-in colour plates, illustrations, previous ow...

Indonesia.- Man-Fong (Lee) Paintings and Statues from the Collection of President Sukarno of the Republic of Indonesia, 4 vol only (of 5, lacking ...

Kipling (Rudyard) Toomai of the Elephants, first edition, frontispiece, illustrations, pp.33-34 with small marginal hole, scattered faint spotting...

La Calprenede (Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de) Pharamond: or, the History of France. A Fam'd Romance in twelve parts, translated by J. Phillips, t...

Middle East.- Photograph Album of the Middle East, c.290 vintage photographic prints, most captioned by hand, blank spaces where one or two remove...

Middle East.- Fraser (James) The History of Nadir Shah, formerly called Thamas Kuli Khan, second edition, engraved frontispiece, folding engraved ...

Moore (John Hamilton) The Practical Navigator; being a complete epitome of navigation, engraved frontispiece and 8 plates, scattered spotting and ...

Public Schools.- Wykehamists who Died in the War 1914-1918, 2 vol., half-titles, tipped-in photographic plates, scattered spotting and staining, o...

Royalty.- Skelton (Sir John) Charles I, hand-coloured frontispiece heightened with gold, plates, captioned tissue-guards, illustrations, scattered...

Stonehenge.- Jones (Inigo) The Most Notable Antiquity of Great Britian, vulgarly called Stone-Heng, on Salisbury Plain, Restored, 3 parts bound as...

Sussex.- Horsfield (Thomas Walker) The History and Antiquities of Lewes and its Vicinity, 2 vol., folding lithograph frontispiece and engraved fro...

Wallace (Edgar) The Four Just Men, first edition, half-title, previous owner's ink signature to front free endpaper, lacking folding frontispiece ...

Windsor.- Law (Ernest) Vandyck's Pictures at Windsor Castle, one of 60 copies signed by author, half-title, 30 plates, tissue-guards, scattered sp...

World.- Lawrence (T.E.) Seven Pillars of Wisdom, first trade edition, frontispiece, plates and maps, scattered spotting, original buckram, slight ...

World.- Wilson (Sir Charles) Picturesque Palestine, 5 vol. including supplement, frontispieces, additional engraved titles, plates and illustratio...

Yorke (Philip, Earl of Hardwick) Athenian Letters: or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, 2 vol., half-title to vol....

Africa.- Baker (Sir Samuel White) The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources, 2 vol., first edition, engrav...

Africa.- Burton (Sir Richard Francis) The Memorial Edition of the Works, 7 vol., half-titles, one engraved portrait frontispiece, 35 plates (most ...

Africa.- Stanley (Henry Morton) Through the Dark Continent, 2 vol., first American edition, frontispieces, plates, illustrations (some full-page),...

Atlases.- Le Sage (A.) Atlas Historique, Généalogique, Chronologique, et Géographique, presentation copy from the author, ?lacking title, 17 doubl...

China.- Audemard (L.) Les Jonques Chinoises, vol. I-VI (of X), illustrations, some pencil annotations in French and Mandarin, otherwise internally...

China.- Huc (M.) The Chinese Empire, 2 vol., second edition, lacking folding map, spotting to first and last few ff., near contemporary calf, gilt...

Europe.- World War II.- Vlaanderen (André) L'Europe en Sept 1939, serio-comic map of Europe, lithograph with full original hand-colouring, no. 19 ...

Germany.- Munske (Hilde) Mädel im Dritten Reich, half-title, plates, scattered faint spotting, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, rubbed, abr...

Greece.- Beny (Roloff) An Aegean Note-Book, one of 50 deluxe copies, signed by the artist and with each of the 20 lithograph prints also signed, c...

Greece.- Pouqueville (F. C. H. L.) Voyage de la Grèce, 6 vol., second edition, half-titles, 33 lithographed and engraved plates, plans and maps on...

Hungary.- Speed (John) The Mape of Hungari..., carte-a-figure map, eight costumed figures to the vertical margins, four oval vignettes of principa...

Levant- Lamartine (Alphonse de) Souvenirs, Impressions, Pensées et Paysages pendant un Voyage en Orient, 4 vol., first edition, vol. 1 and 3 each ...

Levant.- Turner (William) Journal of a Tour in the Levant, 3 vol., first edition, half-titles, 21 engraved or aquatints plates only (of 22), of wh...

Mountaineering.- Himalayas.- Ruttledge (Hugh) Everest 1933, first edition, frontispiece, plates, 4 maps (3 folding), previous owner's ink signatur...

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