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

Hong Kong: Privately Printed by the Victoria Printing Press, [n.d. c. 1935]. 8vo. Original midnight blue leather, titled in gilt; illustrated title-page, numerous black and white photographs and cartoons throughout; a very good copy with some rubbing to the extremities and offsetting to the endpapers. First edition. A record of the Third Commission of H.M.S Suffolk on China Station, with visits to such places as Hong-Kong, Bali, Darwin, Borneo, Manila, Nanking Nankow, Singtao, Kobe, & Nagasaki. HMS Suffolk was a County class heavy cruiser of the Royal Navy, and part of the Kent subclass. She was built by Portsmouth Dockyard, launched on 16 March 1926, and commissioned on 25 June 1928. HMS Suffolk, like her sister ships, served on the China Station, save for reconstruction, until the outbreak of the Second World War The author of this log, R.G. Howard was Instructor Lieut-Commander on the Suffolk. "This book is the outcome of a request to keep a record of the Third Commission of H.M.S.… Read More

London, Riddle & Couchman, Reproduction assisted by Messrs. Elliott & Fry's Photo, March 3. 1890. Image size 40 x 37 cm (paper size 56 x 42 cm); one horizontal fold, a few very faint spots; otherwise clean and well-kept. This fine and large portrait of the celebrated African explorer is based on a photo produced by Barnett & Fry's photographic establishment, the leading Victorian commercial portrait photographers, and finely printed in terracotta on a light yellow toned background. It is probably the largest not painted Stanley portrait, and we were unable to locate it in any museum or gallery, including the National Portrait Gallery. Not even Fry's photo seems to be known. The date was printed on a tiny label, in terracotta as well, and pasted into the lower right corner. Provenance: After his marriage to Dorothy ('Dolly') Tennant Stanley decided that the couple must have a country home, and 'plunged into house hunting with something of his old vigor' (Bierman, Dark Safari, p. 350).… Read More

London, James Burns, 1876. 8vo. Original publisher's cloth (worn, endpapers renewed); pp. xii, 580; spotting in places; a rare survival. First edition. Duguid was a Glasgow spiritualist medium who at séances produced automatic paintings in complete darkeness. Of course he was exposed as a fraud but continued to perform.

1966. The Trianon Press, 1966. 80 leaves. Large, unbound folio in stiff, glassine covered wrappers, housed in large, vellum box, stamped with gilt lettering on front, back, and spine, with double clasp closure. Includes two extra sets of coloured plates, one on Japanese Nacre hand-made paper, and one on Arches Grand Velin, a set of uncoloured plates on Arches Verge paper, a series of progressive stages in the hand-stencil colouring of a single plate, three each of the original guide-sheets and stencils, and two proof states of the frontispiece. In addition, there is an original illustration from "An Only Kid". Fine condition. One of 10 copies numbered A to J, with this being J. Signed and stamped with the artist's cypher on the frontispiece. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) enjoyed a long career as a social realist artist and left wing visionary. Widely recognized for his murals, paintings, commercial illustrations and photography, he collaborated with Diego Rivera and undertook commissions for the… Read More

1966. Paris: The Trianon Press, 1966. 80 leaves. Large, unbound folio in stiff, glassine covered wrappers, housed in large, vellum box, stamped with gilt lettering on front, back, and spine, with double clasp closure. Loosely inserted foam cushions at front and back of box. Includes an extra set of the coloured plates, an extra set of the uncoloured plates, and a proof state of the frontispiece in paper folders, enclosed in a linen portfolio with ties. Very clean copy. One of 20 copies numbered I to XX, this being VII. Signed and stamped with the artist’s cypher on the frontispiece. Ben Shahn (1898-1969) enjoyed a long career as a social realist artist and left wing visionary. Widely recognized for his murals, paintings, commercial illustrations and photography, he collaborated with Diego Rivera and undertook commissions for the Farm Security Administration. Perhaps his most famous work, the Jersey Homesteads Mural, has also been linked to the Haggadah and the themes of slavery, the struggles… Read More

1867. London, Edward Moxon & Co., 1867. 8vo. Original terracotta cloth, lettered and ornamented in gilt; pp. [iv], 403; with a folding map; light rubbing to extremities; cloth a little marked, very light spotting to map and a little offsetting to title-page; otherwise a very good copy of a great rarity. First edition, very rare. With a folding map with the author's route in red. This text, of Pollington's travels, is an 'almost exact transcription of a diary, kept during the interval between August 1865 and April 1866' (Preface). Presented here is the author's own voice in its entirety, with 'no after thoughts; no descriptions of the origins of peoples, or the former state of places,' with nothing extracted from encyclopaedias, it is purely Pollington's own account. The author also adds, 'the names of places and persons are in almost every sense spelt phonetically' (Preface). Viscount Pollington had been the travelling companion with Kinglake in the Ottoman Empire in the 1830s and some of… Read More

London, John Murray, 1840. Small 8vo. Original salmon ribbed cloth, lettered in gilt, ruled in blind; pp. vi, xxxvi, 392, four folding maps (including plan of Constantinople), light fading and minimal rubbing to cloth, otherwise very clean and fresh. First edition of an early title in John Murray's series on Hand-Books for Travellers, after the initial one for Travellers on the Continent (first, 1836 or 38, second edition 1839), written by John Murray himself. This guide book was based on and compiled from the leading authorities and travellers of the 1830s. John Murray III had studied geology and mineralogy in Edinburgh in 1827. 'In the following year Murray embarked on his career in the family publishing house at 50 Albemarle Street, London. Visits to the continent from 1829 prepared the way for his first major publishing initiative. Struck by the difficulty of obtaining the kind of information he wanted, he filled notebooks with history, architecture, geology, and practical details. On his return… Read More

1918. [London], Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division, November, 1918. 8vo. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt; pp. 556; a very good and clean copy. Second, considerably enlarged edition (the first edition of 1916 had 360 pages). After Townshend's catastrophic defeat at Kut in April 1916 the Mesopotamia Commission of Inquiry was set up, and the Admiralty was convinced that only good intelligence about the available infastructure, man and animal power, as well as mineral and agricultural resources in still Ottoman Iraq was vital for a possible advance into these territories. These handbooks correct existing sources of information and maps, and analyze the country's physical and economic geography. Interesting in this considerably enlarged second edition is the much extended section on Oil and Bitumen. 'In the southern and central parts of this area there are extensive belts of country where the presence of oil is known or suspected' (p. 59). COPAC lists only three complete sets in British… Read More

[New York, Ardlee] for Headquarters, Army Air Forces, April, 1945 [cover title]. 12mo. Original wrappers, printed in yellow and black; pp. [2], 84, [2, for notes], sketch maps in the text, one folding map at the end; front cover with a little abrasion and number in ink; overall a good and clean copy. First edition, rare, of information for US soldiers on Eastern China and Taiwan. The booklet covers the topography, climate, natural history, soil conditions, a history of the peoples of the region, the 'social order', belief systems and customs, industry and commerce, transport and communications. Among the dos and don'ts for American soldiers about to liberate these parts of China from Japanese occupation is the advice 'Don't judge Chinese by their appearance (the Chinese have had hard times). Professors, students, government officals and professional men may look pretty seedy, but under the externals they are cultured persons' (p. 82).

1937. [London], Published by Authority and Compiled by R.L. German, Malayan Civil Service, [1937]. Square 8vo. Original cloth-backed printed boards; pp. [iv], 201; portrait of Sir Thomas Shenton Thomas, numerous illustrations from photographs, one sketch map, one folding geological map, one large folding map in pocket at rear; edges of boards a little worn, else a very good copy with contemporary engaved armorial bokplate and ownership inscrition on opposite fly-leaf. First edition. Includes sections on the history of the British in Malaya and on the big game to be had there, as well as dealing with all aspects of the country and the Straits Settlement. Provenance: Oval stamp Civil Affairs Services inside front cover, as well as a printed label A poisonous insecticidal solution has been used in binding this book.

[London, Preedy's], 1924. 8vo. Original red printed wrappers, wire stitched; pp. 48; highly illustrated (including advertisements); wrappers a bit darkened in places, staples oxidized, internally very good. First edition published on the occasion of the British Empire Exhibition. A very rare monograph on the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world.

London, IPC, 1948. 8vo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in red, IPC logo in red on front cover; pp. viii, 152, plates after photographs, sketch maps (including one of Lebanon and Syria), folding map at rear, genealogical chart of the Hashemite house; bookplate of the British Council in Baghdad, stamp of the British Institute in Baghdad on oppsote fly-leaf; erased presentation inscription above; a very good copy of a rare and important work. First edition. A regional guide book on all aspects of the countries and peoples, issued for staff of the IPC.

1870. London, Bradbury, Agnew and Co. Ltd. [c. 1870] Large 8vo. Sometime rebound in half red morocco over marbled paper covered boards, raised bands, gilt lettering and hunting motifs to spine, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, marbled endpapers; pp. xvi, 578, hand coloured illustrations by John Leech; very good. Later edition. More caperings and whimsy from the catastrophic Mr Jorrocks, with illustrations by John Leech.

1894. London, F.V White & Co., 1894. 8vo. Original green cloth, decorated in red to upper and lower covers, and gilt to spine; pp. [4], ii, [2], 314, [2]; some fading to covers and minor wear, occasional foxing throughout and offset to endpapers, clear text and binding sound, a very good copy of a scarce book. First edition. Collected short stories from writer of supernatural horror Hume Nesbit. Nesbit was fond of ghoulish supernatural themes driving ordinary people to desperate (and usually tragic ends). The stories in this volume include "The Demon Spell," "A Face at the Window" and "The Odic Touch", amongst others. The eponymous Haunted Station is counted amongst his most popular stories, and is frequently reprinted in horror anthologies. Nesbit was also a keen artist (though he enjoyed less popular success in this field) and he provided the frontispiece for this volume, which depicts a haunted moonlit seascape from the story "An Ocean Dream". Ghost… Read More

[London?], Printed in the Yeare 1647. Small 4to. Disbound, pp. [2], 6, a little toned, but very clean and crisp. Very rare sole printing. In the summer of 1647 (one exisiting copy is known to be dated by hand July 1st) the war (which in the end killed a higher proportion of the British population than the First World War) had dragged on for almost five years and Parliament was gaining the upper hand, mainly by installing the County Committees, staffed by loyal men. These functionaries collected the taxes Parliament needed, rounded up horses and supplies for the army, and carried out any other commands Parliament sent out. This and the growing power of the army (and taxation for its maintenance) led to support for the Royalist cause and Charles I. This call to arms specifies the grievances against the Parliamentarian committees and denounces their brutality. The people rising up were not so much in favour of the king, but his rule was considered less unpleasant and burdensome than Parliament. And… Read More

Hartford, Conn., American Publishing Company, 1887. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover with Beecher's facsimile signature in gilt, ornamented in blind, patterned endpapers; pp. [ii]-xii, [4], [13]-670, lithographic plates, steel-engraved portrait-frontispiece with loose tissue guard, light spotting to frontispiece and title, otherwise near-fine. First edition of the substantially enlarged version (first, and shorter, 1883). Beecher, brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, was an effective American nineteenth century orator, noted for his support of the abolition of slavery and the suffrage of women, as well as his friendship with some of the century's most famous writers, including Henry Thoreau, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman. Among his many daring exploits were the Beecher Bibles, trunks of guns sent to abolitionist settlers for self defence, marked as Bibles. In 1863 Lincoln had sent Beecher on an extensive lecture tour to Europe, where he shifted popular support away from the… Read More

1888. London, George Bell and Son, 1888. Small 4to. Original boards lettered in brown and red, ornamented in red, patterned endpapers; pp. xxviii, [2], 66, portrait frontispiece with tissue guard and portrait of Anandibai Joshee, printed slip pasted in at the beginning dtating thet the proceeds of this book will gor to towards a Training house for the education of High-Caste Hindhu women, especially of child-widows, additional wood-engraved portrait of the author from a newspaper pasted onto tissue guard, 1880s ownership inscription to front fly-leaf; light rubbing and discolouration of boards, even light toning to paper, as usual, a very good copy. First English edition. A very rare and important work which had come out first in 1887 in the US in a rather shabby edition, which has never been found in a good state of preservation. This is the first book by an Indian woman to deal with the dark side of Hindu society, child marriage, sexual violence, slavery, and wife murder. Pundita Ramabai was an… Read More

1908. Macmillan and Co. 1908. 8vo. Rebound in contemporary polished calf, spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; folding map, illustrations by Arthur B. Connor; spine discoloured, otherwise a very good copy. First edition.

1897. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1897. 8vo. Original maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. xxxvi, 730. [2], [8, advertisements]; spine faded and a bit spotted, light foxing to endpapers, apart from few spots, a very good copy internally; ownership inscription to fly-leaf. Scarce first revised edition. This is the main work by the French Catholic missionary (1765-1848) who lived for some thirty years in India, attempting to convert people to Catholicism. He dressed and lived in the Hindu manners and wrote the best book on the subject for much of the 19th century. The East India company had bought the Abbé's manuscript in 1816, and published it. This edition however, is based on the author's later revisions and additions.

London, RGS, 1935-38. Two volumes, small 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt, volume I retaining the rarely seen dust-wrappers (price-clipped) pp. vii (illustrated advertisements), viii, 448, , xi, 470, xviii (illustrated advertisements); xv, 472, [6, illustrated advertisements including one colour plate], xvii (illustrated advertisements), maps and charts (some folding, two of constellations in rear pocket of volume I), illustrations in the text; a very good copy of a rare title. This publication aims at putting travel and exploration onto scientific footing. Volume one deals with topography, mapping, surveying and practical astronomy, volume two with equipment, logistics, nutrition, meteorology, photography, geology and glaciology, natural history and anthropology. - Both volumes together are rarely encountered. Provenance: Volume two with collector's stamp G. Carmichael Low, dated 1938, on front fly leaves. George Carmichael Low (1872-1952) was a pioneer, and contributor to the (Royal)… Read More