1. Bushby, John / [Maori Village Travels] –

Round the World from North to South with Rod & Camera / Collection of three Volumes of printed and manuscript travelogue (reads like a logbook) / Travel Diary. Volume I – Privately printed, luxury photoalbum from the year 1907 – 1908 with 142 pages of printed photographs of a trip through Canada, Alaska South Sea Islands (Suva, Fiji), Tonga, New Zealand with several photographs of a trip on S.S.Manuka (Union Steam Ship Company) with images of life on board and of the trip to Maori Villages, Rotoiti, Tu Moana, Cape Horn, Rio de Janeiro, Teneriffe, Hunting, Fishing, Camping etc. / Volume II: Manuscript Volume in an easy decipherable hand of a trip on the steamer “Pretorian” from Liverpool on July 30th, 1903 to New York, Maryland, then on to Vancouver and Japan with excellent travel descriptions and list of costs of lodging in Yokohama, Kyoto, Nagasaki etc. / Volume III: Continues the Travelogue to Singapore, Siam, Java, Japan, Hawaii (Honolulu and back to California) – With extensive listing of costs for Passage, Hotels etc. in New York, Honolulu, Hongkong, etc. This Volume with longer descriptions of Hong Kong etc.

Daere (Cumberland), Privately printed and original manuscript, 1903 – 1908. Octavo. Volume I – 142 pages / Volume II (Manuscript) – 89 pages / Volume III (Manuscript) – 185 pages. Original Hardcover and flexible red leather. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Magnificent account with exact and vivid descriptions of localities and the technique of the trip and its expenses. Ticket Prices, Hotel Costs, Voyage costs from Harbour to Harbour etc. etc. Unpublished account of a british merchant family’s private (Cotton Merchant) trip around the world.

2. [Connemara] Anonymus [Bowden-Smith, Richard].

Fly Fishing in Salt & Fresh Water. With Six Plates, representing artificial Flies, etc. [Handcoloured]. [With a special chapter on Flyfishing in Connemara – Fly-Fishing Lough Ina, near Clifden, in Bertraghboy Bay, at the Skyard Rocks, at Deer Island and off the Isle of Mweenish and the Isle of Arran].

First and only edition. London, John van Voorst, 1851. Octavo. VIII, 74, (1) pages plus VI plates (including the frontispiece) of which V plates are beautifully handcoloured. Hardcover / Original publisher’s blindstamped cloth. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. With some fraying to two pages. Unbelievably rare edition with the excellent handcoloured plates in fresh colours and overall excellent condition.

3. [New York] Hall, Edward Hagaman.

A Guide to the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City of New York.

Tenth Edition. New York, The Laymen Club of the Cathedral, 1931. 12 x 17 cm. 142 pages with 42 illustrations. Frontispiece photograph of North Elevation of the Cathedral. Original softcover with illustrated front cover. Binding a little shaky with some pages loosened / Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by preowner on front endpaper.

4. Squire, Charles / Mackenzie, Donald A. / Moncrieff, A.R. Hope.

Celtic Myth & Legend / Indian Myth & Legend / Myths of Babylonia & Assyria / Classic Myth & Legend / Romance & Legend of Chivalry / Teutonic Myth and Legend / Egyptian Myth and Legend / Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe /

Eight volumes. London, Gresham Publishing, c. 1910-1918. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. Celtic Myth & Legend: XIV, 450 pages / Indian Myth & Legend: XLVIII, 463 pages / Myths of Babylonia & Assyria: XXXIX, 537 pages / Classic Myth & Legend: XVI, 443 pages / Romance & Legend of Chivalry: XII, 439 pages / Teutonic Myth & Legend: 469 pages / Egyptian Myth & Legend: 404 pages / Myths of Crete & Pre-Hellenic Europe: LIV, 361 pages // Original Hardcovers decorated with Celtic symbols in black and gilt on green boards. With Illustrations in Colour and Monochrome. This set in unusually excellent good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Myth and Legend in Literature and Art].

5. Editors Of Look.

Look at America – The Country You Know – And Don’t Know.

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, [1930]. 23 cm x 30.9 cm. 341 pages. With many black and white photographs throughout. Features 8 colour photographs. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only very minor foxing and fading to edges. Very minor fading to gilt title on spine and front cover. Minor dampstain to page edges. With illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Impressive pictorial book with an intimate insight into American history, life and culture. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

6. United States – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876).

Boston – With Beautiful Vignettes of Boston, the State House and Bunker Hill’s Monument.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Illustrated and Engraved by J. Watkins London & New York, John Tallis & Company, 1851. Plate Size: 32.5 cm x 26 cm. Sheet Size: 37.2 cm x 27.2 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

7. Holland – Schenk, Petrus. (1660-1711).

Belgii pars Septentrionalis Communi Nomine Vulgo Hollandia Nuncupata Continens Statum Potentissimae Batavorum Reipublicae seu Provincias VII Foederatas.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Amsterdam, Schenk, [c.1700]. Plate Size: 58 cm x 46.5 cm. Sheet Size: 60.2 cm x 51.7 cm. Original map. In good- condition. Browning evident as is a tear near lower centre fold. Some inked underlining to place names. Minor inked numeration in margin at top right corner. Slight crease on verso sheet. Discreet duplicate stamp from library in Poland on reverse.

8. America / Latin America / North America / USA / Canada – Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 – 1876)

North America – with Vignettes and illustrations of Cossacks, Esquimaux [sic] Inuit Dog-Sledge, Mount Hekla, Beavers, Falls of Niagara, Convoy of Diamonds, Ancient Monument in Mexico, North American Indians, Wapiti Dear.

Original steel engraving / Vintage map. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin. Partly hand-coloured. London & New York, J & F. Tallis, 1851. Plate Size: 24.2 cm x 35.4 cm. Sheet Size: 27.4 cm x 37.5 cm. Vintage 19th century map in very good condition.

9. America – Ortelius, Abraham. (1527 – 1598).

Culiacanae, Americae Regionis, Descriptio – Hispaniolae, Cubae, Aliarumqe Insualrum Circumiacientium Delineatio.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Antwerp, Ortelius, [1579]. Plate Size: 49.3 cm x 35.3 cm. Sheet Size: 53.1 cm x 42 cm. Original map. Very good condition, with some signs of browning to the outer margins only. Slight creasing to the top right coner of map. Professionally repaired tear to lower centre fold, barely noticeable given the quality of the workmanship. Latin text on reverse.

10. Americas – Homann, Johann Baptist. (1664 – 1724).

Americae Mappa generalis.

Original hand-coloured engraving. Nürnberg, Homann, 1746. Plate Size: 53 cm x 46 cm. Sheet Size: 56.3 cm x 50 cm. Original map. Very good+ condition. Expertly restored map with reinforced edges. Faintest traces of the professional repairs barely evident such is the quality of the restoration.