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2:00 AM PT - May 19th, 2005

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Viewing beforehand on Tuesday 17 May from 9.30am to 5.30pm Wednesday 18 May from 9.30am to 8.00pm Thursday 19 May from 9.30am to 10.3am Bloomsbury House 24 Maddox Street London W1 S1PP United Kingdom

Travel, Topography, Natural History, Space

547 items

Lot Description Estimates
(GBP)
1A
Lot 1A
first edition, half-title, maps, plates, original


Abadie (Maurice) Les Races du Haut-Tonkin de Phong-Tho à Lang-Son...

100
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150
2A
Lot 2A
being an account of the Abor Expedition, the Mish


Hamilton (Angus) In Abor Jungles, being an account of the Abor...

100
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150
3A
Lot 3A
folding maps, some in pocket at beginning, foldin


Little (Capt. W.R.) [Parliamentary Paper.] Report of the Abor...

200
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300
4A
Lot 4A
folding maps, some in pocket at ends, plates, ex


Official Account of the Abor Expedition 1911-1912, folding maps...

300
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400
5A
Lot 5A
first edition, advertisement leaf at end defectiv


Adye (General Sir John) Indian Frontier Policy: An Historical...

150
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200
6A
Lot 6A
...Jammu and Kashmir, Sikkim, Assam and Burma, fi


Aitchison (C.U.) A Collection of Treaties, Engagements and Sanads...

150
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200
7A
Lot 7A
with A List of the Plants by J.F.Duthie and A Not


Alcock (A.W.) [Parliamentary Paper.] Report on the Natural History...

150
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200
8A
Lot 8A
1963 ? Grey (C.) European Adventurers of Northern


Alder (G.J.) British India's Northern Frontier...

180
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220
9A
Lot 9A
The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrap


Kloss (C.Boden) In the Andamans and Nicobars: The Narrative of a...

150
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200
10A
Lot 10A
with Report of Researches into the Language of th


Man (Edward Horace) On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman...

150
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200
11A
Lot 11A
first edition, inscribed by the author on front f


Portman (Maurice Vidal) Notes on the Languages of the South...

200
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300
12A
Lot 12A
2 vol., first edition, signed presentation copy f


Portman (Maurice Vidal) A History of Our Relations with the...

200
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300
13A
Lot 13A
first edition, errata slip tipped in, 5 lithograp


Anderson (John) A Report on the Expedition to Western Yunan via...

1,500
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2,000
14A
Lot 14A
under Colonel Edward B.Sladen and Colonel Horace


Anderson (John) Mandalay to Momien: A Narrative of the Two...

150
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200
15A
Lot 15A
first edition, New York, 1921; Camps and Trails i


Andrews (Roy Chapman) Across Mongolian Plains, first edition, New...

80
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120
16A
Lot 16A
6 hand-coloured lithographed plates by A.Millot,


Babault (Guy) Mission Guy Babault dans les Provinces Centrales de...

150
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17A
Lot 17A
first edition, half-title, plates, 7 double-page


Bacot (Jacques) Le Tibet Révolté vers Népémakö, la Terre promise...

100
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150
18A
Lot 18A
signed by the author on title, illustrations, 6pp


Bagot (H.C.) A Handbook for the Skier in India, signed by the...

60
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80
19A
Lot 19A
[Yakushi B35], 1946; No Passport to Tibet, [Marsh


Bailey (Lt.-Col. F.M.) Mission to Tashkent, [Yakushi...

120
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180
20A
Lot 20A
first edition, F.M.Bailey's copy with 2 A.Ls.s. (


Bailey (F.M.).- [Bethell (Leonard Arthur)], "Forepoint...

200
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300
21A
Lot 21A
edited by Edward G.Hawke, first edition, F.M.Bail


Bailey (F.M.).- Elwes (Henry John) Memoirs of Travel, Sport, and...

100
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150
22A
Lot 22A
signed and inscribed by the author to Irma & Eric


Bailey (F.M.).- O'Connor (Lt.-Col Sir Frederick) On the Frontier...

150
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23A
Lot 23A
A History of the Relations which have subsisted b


Bailey (F.M.).- Younghusband (Sir Francis) India and Tibet, A...

500
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700
24A
Lot 24A
with an introduction by H.H.Risley, first edition


Bengal Government Secretariat. The Gazetteer of Sikhim, with an...

400
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600
25A
Lot 25A
first edition, folding map in pocket at front, li


Biddulph (Major John) Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh, first edition...

600
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800
26A
Lot 26A
first edition, half-title, frontispiece and numer


Bird (George W.) Wanderings in Burma, first edition, half-title...

250
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350
27A
Lot 27A
with a narrative of the exploration of its upper


Blakiston (Thomas W.) Five Months on the Yang-Tsze; with a...

150
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200
28A
Lot 28A
translated by C.B.Pitman, 2 vol., first edition i


Bonvalot (Gabriel) Across Thibet, translated by C.B.Pitman, 2 vol...

200
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300
29A
Lot 29A
11 papers bound in 2 vol., some maps and plates,


Botanical Survey of India. Records..., 11 papers bound in 2 vol...

150
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200
30A
Lot 30A
2 vol. in 1, frontispiece, 2 folding maps and fol


Bourne (F.S.A.), H.Neville and H.Bell. Report of the Mission to...

200
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300
31A
Lot 31A
2 vol., 11 mounted actual photographs, tissue gua


British Burma Gazetteer (The), 2 vol., 11 mounted actual...

400
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600
32A
Lot 32A
1910 ? Macartney (Lady) An English Lady in Chines


Broomhall (Marshall) Islam in China: A Neglected Problem...

150
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200
33A
Lot 33A
Being the Account of a Journey Overland from Siml


Bruce (Major Clarence Dalrymple) In the Footsteps of Marco...

200
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300
34A
Lot 34A
browned, title and first few leaves wormed with v


Burma Fisheries Manual (The) containing the Burma Fisheries Act...

80
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120
35A
Lot 35A
[one of 200 copies], presentation copy from the a


Burma in World War II.- Wingate (Brig. O.C.) Report on Operations...

800
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1,200
36A
Lot 36A
[Yakushi B657], 1937; First Russia, then Tibet, [


Byron (Robert) The Road to Oxiana, [Yakushi B657], 1937; First...

200
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300
37A
Lot 37A
A Record of Travel and Exploration in North-West


Carruthers (Douglas) Unknown Mongolia: A Record of Travel and...

500
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700
38A
Lot 38A
[1914] ? Dunbar (George) Frontiers, 1932 ? Bower


Casserly (Maj. Gordon) Life in an Indian Outpost, [1914] ? Dunbar...

200
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300
39A
Lot 39A
3 vol., vol.1 text, vol.2 plates and a third volu


Chemin de Fer du Yunnan, 3 vol., vol.1 text, vol.2 plates and a...

400
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600
40A
Lot 40A
first edition, portrait and 22 plates, illustrati


Christopher (Sydney A.) Big Game Shooting in Lower Burma, first...

150
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200
41A
Lot 41A
first edition, plates and illustrations, 6 colour


Clark (Robert Sterling) and Arthur de C.Sowerby. Through...

250
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350
42A
Lot 42A
signed presentation copy from the author toW.G. a


Collis (Maurice) Last and First in Burma (1941-1948), signed...

200
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300
43A
Lot 43A
2 vol., third edition, 1883; The 'Overland' to Ch


Colquhoun (Archibald Ross) Across Chrysê, being the Narrative of a...

150
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200
44A
Lot 44A
first edition, half-title, wood-engraved plates,


Colquhoun (Archibald Ross) Amongst the Shans, first edition...

150
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45A
Lot 45A
or, an overland journey from China towards India,


Cooper (T.T.) Travels of a Pioneer of Commerce in Pigtail and...

100
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46A
Lot 46A
first edition, lacking half-title and with 3 tint


Cooper (T.T.) The Mishmee Hills: an account of a journey made in...

100
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150
47A
Lot 47A
first edition, 30 folding maps mounted on leaves,


Couchman (Capt. G.H.H.) [Parliamentary Papers.] Report on the...

200
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300
48A
Lot 48A
spotted, original pictorial cloth, gilt, 1912 ? L


Crosthwaite (Sir Charles) The Pacification of Burma, spotted...

200
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300
49A
Lot 49A
[cf.Marshall 756-7] with Hay (Capt. W.) On the Va


Cunningham (Capt. Alexander) Journal of a Trip through Kulu and...

100
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150
50A
Lot 50A
[Herbert H63], 1923 ? Slater (Robert) Guns throug


Curle (Richard) Into the East: Notes on Burma and Malaya, [Herbert...

200
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300
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