Search Results: Titles starting with A from Henry Sotheran Ltd.

London, Palestine Exploration Fund, 1889. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers; pp. vi, [7]-51, folding frontispiece plan, wood-engraved illustrations in the text; contained in the Quarterly Statement of the Palestine Exploration Fund, July, 1889; spine of wrappers a little chipped, otherwise fine. First edition of this archaeological examination of the ancient settlement in the north eastern corner of modern Jordan. Following his engineering studies in Stuttgart Schumacher worked as the chief engineer of the Province of Akko, in which position he was responsible for the design of many buidings and civil engineering projects, including the Damascus-Haifa railway. His outstanding achievement was the survey of Golan, Ajlun and the Hauran, supported by the Palestine Exploration Fund, founded in 1865, the oldest exploration society of the Levant, who hold him in such high esteem that their logo is a reproduction of the gilt-stamped vignette on the front cover of Schumacher's later Northern 'Ajlûn.

1802. London, Printed by A. Strahan … For T. Cadell, Jun., and W. Davies, 1802. 4to. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco lettering-piece to spine; pp. xxvii, [2, errata], 332, 58 (Appendixes); one large folding map, 14 engraved plates; initially, the map and a few plates carefully cleaned, minimal spotting in places, a very good, entirely uncut and complete copy. First English edition. Sauer was secretary to the Billings' expedition, in which Sarychev also participated (his separate account was published in Russian in the same year). Billings sailed to the Behring Strait, touching land both on the Chukchi peninsular and in Alaska. Most importantly, the expedition explored the Aleutian islands. The present account, which complements Sarychev's, was compiled by Sauer from official reports. Chavanne 3988; Lada-Mocarski 58; Ricks' Alaska Bibliography p. 192.

Edinburgh, Archibald Constable, 1822. Two articles in two complete issues of The Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine (Nos. XI and XIII, January and July 1822) in 8vo and the original printed wrappers; pp. 107-111, one engraved map; 71-75, one engraved plan; the January issue with a little waterstaining towards the end affecting the map; otherwise very good, clean and largely unopened. First editions. Francis Hamilton was a Scottish surgeon and botanist who joined the East India Comapny and Captain Michael Symes' political mission to Ava in Burma, the first attempt of Britain to reach out towards the secluded kingdom. Both articles describe and reproduce maps received by Hamilton from a slave at Amarapura. He then discusses discrepancies between different native Burmese maps and relates them to Western geographical methods.

1851. [Gillingham, Kent, B. Scott], to be had at the Proprietor only [1851]. Small 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth; spine lettered in gilt; spine and boards ornamented in blind; top and outer edges uncut; pp. [viii], 255; some rubbing to extremities; a few marks to boards; bookplates to front paste-down and fly-leaf, as well as contemporary gift inscription to fly-leaf; occasional light spotting; a good copy. First edition, very rare. 'An Account… by Her Majesty's Sloop "Columbine," Commander John C. Dalrymple Hay; Steam Sloop "Fury," Commander J. Willcox; and Hon. E. I. Co.'s Armed Steam Vessel "Phlegethon," G. J. Neblett, Esq., Commander.' (title). Scott details 'several darings acts of piracy committed in the immediate vicinity of the British colony of Hong Kong, during the early part of the year 1849' (p. 1). Part of the backdrop of this anti-piracy campaign was the British opium trade. This rarity is one of the earliest published primary sources on the the British… Read More

1789. London, Printed For Captain Wilson; And Sold By G. Nicol, Bookseller To His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1788. 4to. Slightly later full calf, spine with raised bands, lettered and ornamented in gilt, boards with gilt-ruled double fillets and gilt-stamped anchors in the corners, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers (see below); pp. xxvii, [1], 378, two stipple-engraved portraits, engraved folding map, engraved folding panorama, 13 engraved plates (including one map, and one further portrait); hinges, head and tail of spine expertly restored; light wear to extremities; very minor spotting to the paper in places only; a very good and wide-margined copy; provenance: slightly later armorial bookplate of George W. Galloway with his motto Higher inside front cover. Second edition, corrected, published shortly after the first, which needed an errata leaf at the end. In 1783 the Antelope, commanded by Capt. Henry Wilson, ran onto a reef near one of the Palau Islands, a previously unexplored group, and was… Read More

[Christchurch], Whitcombe and Tombs, [c. 1946]. Small 4to. Original illustrated wrappers; pp. 63; illustrated after photographs; wrappers a little frayed, otherwise good. First edition, very rare. 'A Leander-class light cruiser, HMS (later HMNZS) Achilles displaced 7270 tons, measured 555 ft (169 m) in length and was capable of 32 knots. It was armed with eight 6-inch (152 mm) guns in four turrets, four 4-inch (102 mm) secondary guns and eight 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes, and also carried a seaplane. Following its role in the Battle of the River Plate, Achilles underwent repairs in Auckland before escorting troop convoys and operating against Japanese forces in the southwest Pacific. During operations with US Navy forces off Guadalcanal on 5 January 1943, the ship was damaged by a Japanese air attack that killed 13 crewmen. While undergoing repairs in Portsmouth in June that year, an accidental explosion killed several dock workers and caused further damage. In 1945 Achilles joined the British… Read More

1957. The Rank Organization, 1957 Collection of 47 vintage black-and-white single weight reference photographs (4 images duplicated) from the UK release of the 1957 British film noir, most with mimeograph description leaves and studio stamps on the verso. Accompanying the set is a 2-page press release (1 leaf ditto-style mimeograph, the other a carbon). Included are 32 photos sized 8 x 10 inches, 8 photos sized 7.5 x 9.5 inches, 3 photos sized 8.5 x 7.5 inches, 1 photo sized 8.75 x 7.25 inches, one photo sized 9 x 7.5 inches, and one photo sized 9.25 x 7.25 inches. 11 of the photographs have a rubber stamp at the verso reading "Copyright Pictorial Press"; 10 have a blue "Pictorial Press" stamp along with a ditto-style mimeograph description on a leaf affixed to the verso; 2 have the blue stamp, the mimeo description leaf, plus a new yellow "Pictorial Press" sticker; 2 have the blue stamp, the mimeo description leaf, plus a second "Atlantic Press" rubber… Read More

1976. Lexington Kentucky: The Anvil Press, 1976. 8vo., original linen-backed marbled paper-covered boards by Sallie Ruff. With 8 mounted line drawings by Fritz Kredel, handcoloured by Harriet McDonald Holladay. Bookplate of noted private press collector Norman J. Sondheim. A near-fine copy. First edition, limited edition of 58 copies designed by C.R. Hammer and printed on Shogun paper by Arthur Graham at the Anvil Press. With original Prospectus. In the Hebrew Bible, Samson was given immense strength to aid him against his enemies and allow him to perform superhuman feats. His Ten Feats of Strength and Heroism included the killing of the lion, the burning of the fields, the escape from ropes and the killing of 1,000 Philistines, amongst others illustrated here.

Reprinted by 19 Fd Svy Regt. RE Feb 48 from pulls dated 1930. Large lithographic map in four colours, measuring c. 80 by 106 cm; previously folded. Based on the original survey carried out from 1891 to 1894 by the Surveyor General of India, this map had been printed first in 1914. - Scale 1 inch to 4 miles.

1907. London; T. Fisher Unwin. [1907]. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth pictorially decorated in black, light blue and yellow and lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, top edges blue, pictorial endpapers, fore- and lower edges untrimmed; pp. [iv], 7-245 + [vi] (publisher's catalogue); with 70 glorious illustrations in line by Pogany; a very nice copy of a scarce book, in view of the pagination possibly lacking a half-title and other prelim leaf,, externally with some light rubbing and faint dulling to spine cloth; front endpapers with a little offset-browning in two vertical strips at inner gutter, rear endpapers with similar offset browning and a vertical strip of adhesive tape to inner lower board; internally clean; scarce First edition. No copies located on the commercial market at the time of cataloguing

London, Harrap, [192?]. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red, front cover illustrated in green and red; pp. 312, [2], plates after photographs, illustrations in the text after drawings by Miss A. G. Peck; light marking to cloth, a little offsetting from endpapers and frontispiece (resulting in light spotting to title-page; a very good copy. Scarce first UK edition. In 1924 Seabrook travelled to Arabia and enjoyed the hospitality of various tribes of Bedouin, Druze and the Kurdish Yezidi. In the first part of the book, Seabrook seeks out Mithqal Al-Fayez and lives with him and his tribe for several months. When the topic of religion came to them in conversation, Seabrook admitted to Mithqal that he didn't believe in the Trinity, but rather in the oneness of god, and that god sent many prophets including Muhammad; on hearing this, Mithqal asked if William would like to enter Islam and William agreed, with him repeating the Shahada after Mithqal shortly after. In this slightly overlooked… Read More

London: George G. Harrap and Co., Ltd., 1936. Small 4to. Publisher's original vellum, with raised bands to spine, lettered in gilt; ornamentation and paired fillets in gilt to boards; top edge gilt, others untrimmed; marbled endpapers; in the publisher's marbled slipcase, with paper label to spine, lettered in black; pp. 314; with 12 plates, including the frontispiece; very light sunning to spine and upper edge of slipcase, with a few marks to board; a little offsetting from plates, else an exceptionally bright and clean copy. First edition of a print run limited to 525 copies, this no. 431, signed by the illustrator Stephen Gooden.

1811. Amsterdam; E. Maaskamp, Auprès du Palais. [1811]. 4to. Finely and handsomely bound in half tan Regency calf over marbled boards, the spine with 5 raised bands exquisitely and extravagantly decorated in gilt in compartments with a repeating scroll-tool design, lettered direct in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges, housed within a custom-made beige cloth-covered fall-down-back box with green cloth label lettered in gilt; pp. [58]; with fine stipple-engraved, and hand-coloured, allegorical frontispiece of the Muse of Drawing by Louis Portman after Jacques Kuyper, together with 20 other fine, and exquisite, engraved plates with detailed and expert hand-colouring throughout; a wonderfully pleasing copy; externally fine; recently expertly, and invisibly, rejointed at upper board by the peerless Charles Gledhill, internally also preserved in exceptionally crisp state with occasional very light, and inoffensive, browning and spotting (almost exclusively confined to text pages) and some of the… Read More

2002. Köln, Taschen, 2002. Imperial folio. (500 x 345 mm). Preserved in a fall-down-back box; pp. 564, lavishly illustrated throughout in colour and duo tone. All colour illustrations are colour-separated and reproduced in Aniva, the finest reproduction technique available today, which provides unequalled intensity and colour range. The duotone illustrations are made with Novatone, a special treatment for black and white images that produces exquisite tonal range and density. Total edition limited to 2500 copies, each signed and numbered by Riefenstahl. This one of 200 copies marked AP (Artist's Proof). Trilingual text English, French and German. Edited by Angelika Taschen. Interview of Riefenstahl by Kevin Brownlow. Publisher's commentary volume laid-in.

1992. London, Thames and Hudson, 1992. 8vo. (176 x 110 mm). Original photo-illustrated boards, negligible traces of light wear to the extremities; 70 photographs, of which 40 are in colour; very light marking to front cover, a near-fine copy of a fragile photobook. First edition. In the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War the artist Sophie Ristelheuber spent months taking aerial photographs of the scars left in the landscape by the conflict. PARR, Martin and Gerry BADGER. The Photobook Vol. II. p. 168.

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co., [1929]. 8vo. Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. xvii, [3], 332, portrait frontispiece, 8 plates after photographs; binding a little darkened and marked, occasional toning and spotting internally, previous bookseller's pencil notes to endpapers; a good association copy (see below). First edition of these memoirs by an Irish aristocrat and soldier in the Boer War, who served during the Easter Uprising, and was a Pacifist. In 1913 he even considered militant support for the Suffragettes. 'In 1913, as the suffragette movement escalated, Sylvia Pankhurst's East London Federation intermittently fought the police in the East End. She appealed for an ex-army man to help them with 'drilling'. Vane responded, and in November assumed the title of 'leader' of her 'People's Army' and 'People's Training Corps'. He did little, then withdrew to Italy' (ODNB). Although he published an anti-war pamphlet in 1914 he served as major in the 9th service battalion of the… Read More

Lauingen, Leonhard Reinmichel [colophon], 1582. Small 4to. 1830s German marbled boards with two contrasting gilt-stamped lettering-pieces; pp. [xvi], 487, main title printed in red and black and with woodcut, two sectional titles each with woodcut; light wear to extremities, internally only a little spotted, one gathering browned, a few traces of worming to the last leaves, a few 19th-century marginal restorations; a good copy of a great rarity; provenance: 1830s bibliographical annotations in ink to endpapers; upper outer corner of rear endpaper cut away, Cyrillic collectors stamp, dated 1861 on blank verso of the last leaf. Very rare first edition of an early detailed travelogue of the Levant, written by a Augsburg merchant's employee, a medical doctor well versed in Arabic, natural history and pharmacological texts who had traveled Lebanon, Syria, Kurdistan and modern Iraq, including a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 1570s. Rauwolf's employer was the Augsburg merchant Melchior Manlich, who had… Read More

London, Unwin Hyman, [1987]. 8vo. Original boards with illustrated dust-wrapper (not price-clipped); pp. 224; plates after photographs, illustrations in the text; front fly leaf with faint spot; otherwise very fresh and clean. First edition, inscribed by a large number of contributors to the collection of commemorative essays written by the fellow climbers of Alan Rouse who died on K2 in August 1986, after having reached the summit. This had been the first successful British ascent and a severe storm killed Alan, Julie Tullis and three of the mountaineers. The library of the British Mountaineering Council is named in honour of Alan Rouse. The front fly-leaf is filled with the signatures of the following contributors and mountaineers, Geoff Birtles, Susan Rose, Deborah Sweeney (Alan's girlfriend), Dennis Hay, Rab Carrington (with his typical RAB signature), Nick Parry, Paul Nunn and others. Provenance: Nat Allen's copy signed and dated October 22nd 1987, the day the book was launched at a civic… Read More

Riga, C. Schulz, [1880s]. Concertina-folded photographic album (oblong small 8vo) with 16 original photos mounted on carton, publisher's captions in ink in German, cloth joints, extending to a length of 330 cm (height 9 cm) and folding back into the original grey cloth folder, covers ornamented in blind, lettering and coat-of-arms in gilt on upper boards; these a little rubbed; a few joints repaired, internally only occasional light spotting. The album opens with two double-page panoramas, before detailing mainly the commercial architecture of the 19th century, as well as the theatres and the busy harbour. The city of Riga was an important Baltic trading place, now the capital of Latvia, with a population composed of mainly Germans, Jews and Russians. 'Carl Anton Schulz was born February 21, 1831 (d. 1884) and was schooled as an artist. His sons also joined him in his photography business - Oskar, with a studio in Libau ..., Arthur, in Dorpat (Tartu, Estonia); and Eduard in Riga - the pictures of… Read More

[Tehran, Central Council of the Celebration of the 2500th Anniversary of the Founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great, 1971]. Large folio. Original blind-stamped blue cloth, spine lettered in yellow, dust-wrappers (this a little bubbled and with minor marginal tears and rubbing); pp. 70, [2], 34 tipped in colour illustrations; well preserved, and printed on thick high-quality paper. First facsimile edition, limited to 5000 copies, 'published in commemoration of the Celebration of the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great'. The national epic of Persia, written by the man who single-handedly saved the Persian language from being wiped out by Arabic at the beginning of the 11th century CE. - Text in Farsi, English, French and German. 'The value of the manuscript lies not in its text but in the artistry that went into its production. It was under Bāysonḡor, himself a connoisseur and a capable calligrapher (a sample of whose hand has survived in an… Read More