antiquarian rare books: travel & exploration,
atlases, maps and others
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Bronckhorst, Netherlands
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Hundreds of adventurous travel stories outside Europe,
by land and sea, ego documents,
most in first published edition
and in original or contemporary binding.
recent additions:
Russell, William Howard
A Diary In The East During The Tour Of The Prince And Princess Of Wales
London, George Routledge And Sons 1869 first edition
8vo, original publisher’s cloth, traces of use/age with small repair. xv, [1 errata], 650, [6 ads.] with 6 chromolithographed plates including frontispiece and many wood engravings in the text. Only scattered minor foxing. Scarce.
In November 1868 Prince Albert Edward (later King Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra of Wales embarked on HMS Ariadne for a 7 month tour, during which the royal couple travelled along the Nile and visited the antiquities of Egypt prior to inspecting the newly constructed Suez Canal. The Prince and Princess also visited Constantinople, the battlefields of the Crimea and Greece. Journalist Russell accompanied the couple.
€ 320
Trollope, A. (Anthony)
Reis door Australie en Nieuw Zeeland
Leiden, D. Noothoven van Goor 1875 first Dutch edition 2 volumes
8vo, modern maroon half leather with marbled boards and endpapers. iv, 452; iv, 408 pages with 2 lithogaphic frontispieces.. Very good copy.
Dutch translation of “Australia and New Zealand” 1873. Famous Victorian novelist Trollope not only wrote many successful novels, but also some books about his travels. In 1871 Trollope made his first trip to Australia to visit his son. He spent a year and two days "descending mines, mixing with shearers and rouseabouts, riding his horse into the loneliness of the bush, touring lunatic asylums, and exploring coast and plain by steamer and stagecoach". He visited the penal colony of Port Arthur and its cemetery, Isle of the Dead.
€ 230
(Collins, Wilkie)
The Woman in White
London, Chapman and Hall 1859-1860 “All the year round”
8vo (24 x 16 cm), old cloth boards with a repaired spine. 135 leaves and 4 tipped-in paragraphs. Complete. Rather primitive binding, traces of age and use. Rare.
Collection of leaves – like a scrapbook- containing the first ever printing of this novel as serialised anonymously in the issues 31 to 70 of “All The Year Round” (November 26, 1859 - August 25, 1860) a weekly journal conducted by Charles Dickens. Throughout the volume are numerous areas of pasted paper overlays that conceal any text that is not part of the novel. Overlays vary in size, sometimes covering an entire page verso. Together with the four tipped-in smaller paragraphs of text the novel is complete. The Woman in White was published with corrections in three-volume form on 15 August 1860, 10 days before the final installment appeared in All the Year Round. Its initial run of 1,000 copies sold out on the day of publication and the next run of 1,350 copies sold out in a week. It was a blockbuster. What Collins may not have anticipated was the way that his appeals to the popular imagination would continue to reshape The Woman in White long after the serial edition had ceased its run. In his preface to the first volume edition, Collins informs readers that the text has been “carefully revised”. Not only is this book a pre first edition, but it also contains the original text without corrections.
€ 950
