Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1938
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/48
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    221 Renefort (S. de) RELATION du PREMIER VOYAGE de la COMPAGNIE des INDES ORIENTALES en L’ISLE de MADAGASCAR ou DAUPHINE, |2mo., contemporary calf, Paris, 1668 £1 ls Includes an account of the author’s return voyage, descriptions of St. Helena and Ascension, his capture and detention in England. 222 Renshaw (B.) VoyaGE to the Cape of Goop Hope . . . with Travels into Egypt, through the Desert, etc., second edition, EN- LARGED, portrait, cr. 8vo., half cloth, Manchester, c. 1818 18s Thirty-nine pages are devoted to notes on the Cape, where the author was stationed from 1796-1801. 223 Rhodes (Rt. Hon. Cecil J.) Lire of, by Sir L. Michell, dlusts., 2 vols, 8vo., cl., 1910 15s 224 Roberts (A.) The ADvENTuRES of Mr. T. S., an English Merchant, taken prisoner by the Turks of Argiers [Algiers] and carried into the Inland. Countries of Africa . . . whereunto is added a Relation of the Chief Commodities of the Countrey and of the actions and manners of the people, |2mo., contemporary sheepskin, 1670 £4 Fine crisp copy, except for slight contemporary defect in one leaf. 225 Robinson (Rev. C. H.) HAvusALaNpb, or Fifteen Hundred Miles through the Central Soudan, map and illusts., cr. 8vo., cl., 1897 6s 226 Robley (A. J.) A SELECTION of MADEIRA FLOWERS, 8 FINE and LARGE COLOURED PLATES, with descriptions, folio, cloth, 1845 £5. 227 Rogers (Capt. Woodes) A CRUISING VoyAGE round the WorRLD : first to the South Sea, thence to the East Indies, and homewards by the Cape of Good Hope, 1708-11, SECOND EDITION, corrected, copper-plates and folding maps, 8vo., contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, 1726, FINE COPY £10 ** Rogers arrived in Cape’ Town on December 27, 1710, and gives ‘a short description of the Cape of Good Hope,’ He remarks of the Dutch, ‘ their form of government, their industry and neatness, is justly to be admired and imitated.’ ’’ &c.—Mendelssohn. 228 Rooke (Major H.) TRAVELS to the Coast of ARABIA FELIX . . . a Short account of an Expedition undertaken against the Cape of Good Hope, 8vo., calf, rebacked, 1783 £1 10s Account of the expedition under Commodore Johnson sent to attack the Cape in 178]. The expedition captured a Dutch fleet in Saldanha Bay, but it was thought inadvisable to attack the French fleet in Table Bay. The author was highly impressed with the value of the Cape as a Colonial possession. Roscoe (J.) Reports of the MACKIE ETHNOLOGICAL EXPEDITION into. East AFRICA, 8vo., cl., as under :— 229 BakiTaRA or BANyoro, map, plan and 42 plates, 1923 £1 5s. 230 The BANYANKOLE, map and 3] plates, 1923 15s. 231 The BaGEsu, map and 32 plates, 1924 £1
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