Sales catalogue: Francis Edwards

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/5/16
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    THE GUIANAS—continued. 421 Im Thurn (Everard F.) Among the Inp1ans of Gutana: being Sketches, chiefly Anthropologic, map and 53 allusts., 8vo., hf. calf, 1883 £1 The Borany of the RorAIMA ExprpiTion of 1884: being Notes on the Plants observed, by EK. F. im Thurn, with a List of the Species Collected and Determinations of those that are New, by Prof. Oliver (communicated by Sir J. D. Hooker), with 20 plates, 4to., hf. cl. (Trans: Linn. Soc.), 1886 15s 423 McConnell (F. V.) and J. J. Quetcu.—Botany of Mount Roraima in BritisH GuIANA, with 14 plates, 4to., hf. cl. (Trans. Linn. Soc.), 1900 £1 424 Nouvion (V. de) Exrrarr des AuTEURS et VOYAGEURS qui ont écrit sur la GuYANE, suivis du Catalogue bibliographique de la Guyane, 8vo., hf. mo- 422 rocco, 1844 8s 425 Palgrave (W. G.) Durcn Guiana, plan and map, 8vo., hf. calf, 1876 8s 426 Premium (Barton) Ercut Yrars in BritisH GuiANa : being the Journal of a Residence, 1840-48, 8vo., cl., 1850 14s 427 Raleigh (Sir Walter) Brevis & ADMIRANDA DESCRIPTIO REGNI GUIANAE .... ex quibus lodocus Hondius tabu- lam, geographicam adornavit, First LATin Epirion, 10 /eaves, with folding map and 6 plates, sm. 4to., brown morocco, Noribergae Impensts Levint Hulsit, 1599 #140 BEST EDITION, witH THE IMPORTANT PLATES AND FOLDING MAP, which were not issued in the English edition. Both the Huth and Britwell Court Libraries had the English version, but only the Huth Cellection had this edition, which realised £90 [in 1918]. Since then no copy has occurred for sale, and apart from the Huth copy, no other has occurred for over 30 years. Our copy has the two blank leaves (not in the Huth copy), and is an extra- ordinarily FINE AND TALL COPY, measuring 72 by 64 in. 428 Discovery of GurIANA in 1597, with Notes by Sir Robert H. Schom- -burgk, map (stamp on title), 8vo., cl., Hakluyt Soc., 1848 £35 10s 429 Rodway (James) Guiana: British, Dutch and French, map and 36 illusts., 8vo., cl., 1912 10s 430 Roth (Walter E.) Inquiry into the AnrmIsmM and FoLKLoRE of the GuIANA INDIANS, 2/lusts., folio, cl., Wash., 1915 £1 431 Sack (Baron Albert von) NArrativrE of a VoyaGE to SURINAM, of a Resi- dence there, 1805-07 . . .. Return by North America (Boston, New York, &e.), engraved title, map and plates, 4to., hf. morocco, 1810 15s 432 Schomburgk (Richard) Travets in British Guiana, 1840-44, trans. and edited by Walter E. Roth, wzth 10 folding maps and Sull-page tllustrations, 2 vols, roy. 8vo., cl., Georgetown, 1922- 23 41 15s This is the first transiation from the original German edition of 1847-48. ~The Editor ana Translator (Author of ‘‘ N. Queensland Ethnology”) considers that Schomburgk’s Travels deserve a place in the highest rank of works on South American travel and adventure. BOTANICAL REMINISCENCES in BRITISH GUIANA, Svo., hf. morocco, Ade- laide, 1876 8s 434 Schomburgk (Robt. H.) Description of Bririsu GuIANA: its Resources and Capabilities, Present Condition, &c., map, Svo., original wrappers, 1840 10s 435 Slave Rebellion, 1822.—Rerrorr of Procerprnes against Rev. J. Smiru, of DEMERARA, Condemned to Death for assisting in a Rebellion of Negro Slaves, 8vo., cl., 1824 16s 436 Smith (Rev. John, ‘‘ The Demerara Martyr”) Mrmorrs of, by Edwin Angel Wallbridge, 8vo., hf. calf, 1848 6s 433
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