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TRAVEL & EXPLORATION Offered here are books from the collection of Professor Raymond. R. and Adi Inskeep, his wife. Professor Inskeep [1926 -2003] was a renowned excavating and teaching Archaeologist. He had a disproportionately large and lasting effect on Archaeology in South Africa, despite spending only twelve years there as an academic at Cape Town University. Born in Brighton and not furthering his schooling beyond 14 he saw war-time service in Africa (having sight of the pyramids in Egypt). After service his interest in archaeology grew and he was encouraged to apply for a mature students scholarship to study at Cambridge, which although hard fought, he was successful. Much of his subsequent field work was carried out in Africa. It was there in 1963 that he met Adi, who was then a curator at the Johannesburg Geological Museum. They married 2 years later and remained in South Africa. Increasingly unhappy with the continuation of Apartheid, the Inskeep returned home, with Raymond taking up a post as assistant curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. He remained active their until retiring while in full charge of the Museum in 1994. While in Oxford he taught and supervised students and became a Fellow of Merton College. Prof. Inskeep wrote widely, mostly on his first love, Africa, but he was a man of wide interests stretching well beyond the intellectual , and included bookbinding, and anything related to books. His career was a very remarkable one. To have left school at 14 (wishing to save his parents the burden of the costs implicit in grammar school) and to have lectured at both Oxford and Cambridge, as well as being made Professor of archaeology at Cape Town University, is a great tribute to the man. (Source - The Times Obit. 14/8/03)

1. LANE, Rose Wilder. The Peaks of Shala - Being the record of certain wanderings among the hill tribes of Albania. London: Chapman & Dodd, Ltd. 1924 - First edition, second impression. 4to, folding panoramic plate, 9 further half-tone plates and map, acf. 224pp. Publishers plain end-leaves and green cloth, lettered in red to spine and cover, with small decorative roundel to the later. Internally a good, clean copy with an ink stamp of an early owner to the verso of the panoramic plate, the lower margin of the final leaf and the foot of the rfep. Feps tanned. Some light fading to the spine and loss of definition to the lettering. Minor wear to cover. An American travel writer, journalist and novelist, Wilder [1886 - 1968] was one of the founders of the American Libertarian Movement. In her early twenties, Lane, conscious of her limited formal education read voraciously, taught herself several languages and began to write. She states of this work that, ‘ [i]t should be read as the adventures in it were lived, with a carelessly curious mind, a taste for strange peoples and unknown trails, and a delight in the unexpected’.

Scarce on the market and here offered complete. £95

2. COTTINEAU, Rev. Denis Louis of Kloguen Cottineau’s History of Goa - A Rare Work Long out of Print, But now Republished for a Souvenir of the Exposition of Goa - November-December 1910. Bombay: B. X. Furtado & Sons. 1910. 18cms, title, preface, large folding plan ‘A Figurative Plan of the City of Goa’, original title [An Historical Sketch of Goa, The Metropolis of the Portuguese Settlements in India, with an Account of the present state of that celebrated City etc Undertaken and Dedicated to His Excellency the Honourable Major-General Sir John Malcom etc by the Late Reverend Denis L. Cottineau de Kloguen. Madras: Printed by William Twigg. 1831]. [2], 120, iv pp. Buff paper cover lettered in dark brown to cover. Protective clear sleeve. Text leaves evenly lightly toned. Map very good. Cover bleached to a place brown, possibly from an original green. The 1831 printing was the first English edition of the work on the city of Goa on the west coast of India, focusing primarily on the influence of the Portuguese colonialists. It also provided an account of the life of Cottineau a French cleric. That edition is very scarce and expensive. The 1910 edition offered is itself scarce and a rare reprinting. Neither COPAC nor WORLD CAT. show any copies of this edition. £295

3. GARNETT, Lucy Mary Jane - Turkish Life in Town and Country, with twenty-two illustrations. London: George Newnes [1904] 4to, half-title, frontis, title, viii, 228, [4]. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Twenty two half-tone photographs. Top edge gilt. Light brown cloth over boards, colour printed view and gilt lettering to cover, gilt lettering to spine with colour printed Turkish flag. Very slight dustiness to cover edges otherwise a fine copy. Lucy Garnett (1849 - 1934) was celebrated for her interest in travel and folklore, particularly for her work in Turkey. This volume was succeeded by a second title, ‘Turkish People’ in 1909, this being by far the scarcer of the two. £90

4. HEARN, Lafcadio - Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan - in Two Volumes, London: Osgood, Mcilwaine & Co. 1894. 8vo, Vol. I: x, [2], 342; Vol. II, [6] 343 - 699.pp 4 full page line drawn plates. Uniformly bound. Top edge gilt. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Pale green cloth with stylised cherry blossom in pink and white to upper cover. Gilt lettered to cover and spine. Both volumes have an ex lib's plate to the upper pastedown -‘Ex libris LINDLEY’ a lion rampant facing left with eight crosses surrounding in white on black ground. Vol. I has on the ffep a period gift inscription and short poem in ink signed ‘ [indistinct] Botha’ with two Japanese red ink seals. Some brown clothes to this and the rear end-leaves. No textual markings. Vol.II has a single red ink seal. Both volumes have a small Cape Town booksellers ticket to the lower spine edge of the upper pastedown. Text block neatly cut to both volumes. There is some wear to the bindings, particularly on the corners which are rounded with some opening. All spine ends are a little frayed. There is very slight staining to the head of Vol. II, not affecting the printed parts.

This is the First UK Edition which COPAC shows to be a scarce imprint outside the British Library.

£125

5. LEGEY, Dr. Francoise - The Folklore of Morocco -[Translated from the French by Lucy Hotz] Preface by Marshall Lyautey - Illustrated. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1935 8vo, 277, [3] pp. 25 half-tone plates acf. Plain end-leaves. Navy cloth, gilt to spine. Lacking ffep. Internally clean and fresh. Spine light faded. The French original was first published in 1925. This is the first English publication. A RARE copy.

£65

6) TAMBIAH, H.W. - The Law and Customs of the Tamils of Ceylon Tamil Cultural Society of Ceylon - 1954. 8vo, xii, 180pp. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Pale blue cloth, lettered in black to cover. This copy is formerly a reference copy for the Commonwealth Relations Office and bears an embossed name to the upper margin of the cover and a white accession number to the foot of the spine. There is an ink stamp to the title and another to the verso. Otherwise this is a very good clean copy, with just light fading to the spine. This is a RARE work written by an Advocate of the Supreme Court of Ceylon, endorsed in a Foreword by the Chief Justice. COPAC shows only four copies held. £95

7) ENRIQUEZ, Major Colin Metcalfe (Theopilus) - A Burmese Wonderland - A Tale of Travel in Lower and Upper Burma. Calcutta and Simla: Thacker, Spink & Co. 1922. 8vo, frontis, title, dedication leaf, ix, [4], folding map part coloured, 265pp. 16 full page plates in all, acf. Publisher’s black end-leaves. Green cloth gilt lettered to cover and spine. Without marks of past ownership. Internally very clean. Cover unevenly light faded with a few pale spots to spine. Upper inner joint split. Enriquez was a Major in the 3-70th Kachin Rifles and Divisional Recruiting Officer in Burma at the time this book was published, this being the first edition. COPAC records 3 copies only, with the book being very scarce in the

8) AL-SHAHI, Ahmed - Themes from Northern Sudan - London: Published for the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies by Ithaca Press. 1986 8vo, 152pp, including a double page map of Sudan. Plain end-leaves. Black boards, gilt lettered spine. Green dust wrapper, lettered in white to cover and spine. Clear protective sleeve. Al-Shahi holds a Doctorate in Social Anthropology from Oxford University and carried out field work with the Shaygiyya tribe in northern Sudan over a two year period. He has subsequently lectured at Universities, both in the UK and Sudan, in addition to publishing on Sudan and the Middle East. An ‘as issued’ copy.

£50

market.

£55

9) TUBIANA, Marie-Jose & Joseph - The Zaghawa from an Ecological Perspective - Foodgathering, the pastoral system, tradition and development of the Zaghawa of the Sudan and the Chad. Rotterdam: A.A. Balked. 1977 8vo, 119pp, including double page map of the area inhabited by the Zaghawa. Plain end-leaves. Orange cloth, grey lettered to spine. An as published copy. £45

10) FOLLIOTT-STOKES, Allen.G -The Cornish Coast and Moors Illustrations from photographs by Alex Begbie, John C. Douglas, and the Author. London: Greening & Co.. 1912. First Edition. 8vo, 367pp, 151(approx.) half-tone plates. Publisher’s plain endleaves.Green cloth over boards, gilt lettered to cover and spine. Play green d/w black lettered to cover and spine, with a small rock illustration in black to the foot of the spine. Very tidy condition with marks of past ownership. A small level of handling marks and a little rubbing to cloth on the joint. The dust wrapper is complete and in very good condition housed in a clear protective sleeve. A surprising scarce work, especially in the d/w. COPAC shows only 7 copies

£45

11) TOYNE, Stanley .Mease. - Sark - A Feudal Survival - Windsor: The Shakespeare Head Press. 1959. illustrations by S. J. Roper 8vo, half-title, line drawn map verso, title (part printed in red), dedication, contents with addenda slip tipped in at the gutter, foreword, 41pp. 2 further full pages of reproduced drawings in black. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Bright blue cloth, gilt to spine. Pale blue dust-wrapper lettered and illustrated in black to cover in a clear protective sleeve. As issued copy very attractively designed, printed and illustrated. ‘Stan’ Toyne [1881 - 1962] was a school master and cricketer. He turned out for Hampshire twice, with the matches 23 years apart! He batted (total runs, 17) and bowled a slow underarm, clearly ineffective as he took no wickets in either match. COPAC list only 8 copies.

£50

12) CACHEMAILLE, J. L. V. - The Island of Sark - Edited by Laura E. Hale. London: A. G. Reynolds & Co. Ltd. 1928 - First Edition. 8vo, 306pp, frontis plate. Publishers plain end-leaves. Apple green cloth. Black single line border to boards with central crest to upper cover. Black lettered spine. A classic work by the Reverend James Cachemaille, who adopted Sark as his home, translated from the French. Overall a good copy. Some diffuse browning to half-title and rfep., but otherwise clean and without signs of past ownership. Cloth a little faded on the upper cover and slightly more so at the spine. Top edge dusty. Very rare in the market and COPAC showing only 6 copies.

£95

13) BIEBUYCK, Daniel, Lega Culture - Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy among a Central African People - Los Angeles: University of California Press. 1973. 26cms, xxii, [2], 288pp, 110 plate section. Plain end-leaves. Brown cloth, black lettered to spine. Black dust wrapper with white lettering, repeated to spine, and colour illustration. D/w in clear protective sleeve. Biebuyck carried out extensive field research in the Eastern part of the Republic of Zaire and used this experience to inform his analysis of the Lega people, but also to study the bwami association within the Lega, it being a semi-secret society that places high regard upon moral integrity in social engagement. Expensive in the market. This is a mint copy.

£90

14) GILMOUR, James, More about the Mongols - Selected and Arranged from the Diaries and Papers of James Gilmour by Richard Lovett. London: The Religious Tract Society. 1893 First Edition. 18cms, vii, [2], 11-320pp, [2] adverts. Period plain end-leaves. Mid-green cloth over boards, black lettering to spine. This is a very good copy. Without marks of previous ownership. A small booksellers stamp to the foot of the upper pastedown. Slight age toning to the leaves at the edges. The advertising leaf is quite brown spotted. Minor rubbing to the spine ends and corners. A small impression just peircing the spine close to its foot. Gilmour [1843 - 1891] served the London Missionary Society in China and Mongolia in advancing the Protestant Christian cause. Where religion had taken hold at all it was the Buddhist faith. The territory in which he roamed was extensive, between China and Siberia, running from the Sea of Japan on the east to Turkestan on the west, a distance of roughly 3,000 miles; and from Asiatic Russia on the north to the Great Wall of China on the south, some 900 miles. In the middle of this large terrain was the mighty Gobi Desert. A quite fearsome undertaking for an individual without a faith. £90

15) MEAKIN, Anette M.B. - In Russian Turkestan - A Garden of Asia and its People. - With 16 full page illustrations. London: George Allen. 1903 18.5cms, xvi, [2], 316pp. ills. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Red cloth over boards. Black lettered to cover and spine. A VERY RARE copy of the FIRST EDITION. Slight age toning to the text and the odd place brown spot. More browning to the feps. Dusty top edge. Light rubbing to the covers with a few black spots to the rear. The spine has faded to brown and the spine ends are beginning to open. There is a signature, John J. Tyson in ink to the front paste-down. Overall a good copy. £350

16) ILLION, Theodore - In Secret Tibet - In disguise amongst lamas, robbers, and wise men. A key to the mysteries of Tibet. London: Rider & Co. [1937] 18.5cms, x, [2], 13-190pp. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Pale blue cloth over boards, black lettered to spine. Dust wrapper a blue/grey to upper cover with a full size head and shoulders of the author, lettered in red. Spine faded, lettered in red. Rear with adverts, lettered in blue on off-white ground. Internally very clean. A neat early ink inscription to the ffep, otherwise without marks of past ownership. The dust wrapper is in a clear sleeve but has some rubbing and small chips to the extremities. the spine has faded to a pale grey and there is some moderate dustiness to the rear. This is a RARE title; COPAC showing 6 copies. It is scarce in the market, there being no copy offered in the D/W. Mr. Illion was the first Westerner to walk unaccompanied and in disguise across Secret Tibet. He was brought into contact with remarkable magicians, hermits and wise men who have lived to an incredible age. He also saw the Lung-gom-pas, who when induced in a trance are able to fly along at fifteen miles per hour, barely touching the ground in doing so. He also kept close company with nomads and bandits. An extraordinary work. £195

17) CARRIER, Else Haydon - Water and Grass -A Study in the Pastoral Economy of Southern Europe. London: Christophers. First and sole edition1932. 21.5cms, xi, [1], 434pp, 3 diagrams and 4 maps, 3 of which are folding. Publisher’s cream end-leaves. Maroon cloth over boards, gilt school crest to upper cover and lettering to spine. The physical area studied here includes Spain & Portugal, the Balkans, Pyrenees, the French Alps and the Central Plateau of France. It provides detailed bibliography, Glossary, place names and pastoral terms. Offered in near mint condone internally, there being a short inscription in ink to the head of the ffep. The binding is very good just with a little fading to the spine. COPAC has only 4 copies and the work is extremely scarce in the market. £195

18) HANUM, Djavidan - Harem Life London: Noel Douglas. 1930 First Edition. 18.5cms, 335pp. Blue top edge. Publisher’s cream end-leaves. Quarter bright blue cloth, gilt to spine. Sides of a plan blue paper, as published. Very pale blue dust wrapper, text to the upper flap, portrait of the author and black lettering to upper cover, with a rear cover of the publisher’s adverts. Internally clean with the odd brown spot, generally light in colour. The binding is fine. The dust wrapper is in a clear sleeve. There is minor loss to the head of the spine, just affecting the lettering, otherwise it is very good indeed. An account of a Hungarian Countess of her live as the second wife of Abbas Hilmi II, otherwise known as Khedive of Egypt. She is portrayed as a woman both of physical attractiveness and of intelligence, stultified and degraded by the extreme monotony of the Harem. This is an un-common title, both in collections and on the market where there is no other copy known in the dust wrapper, here more than usually important in that it has an image of the rather doleful author. £85

19) LORIMER, Emily Overend - Language Hunting in the Karakoram. London: George Allan & Unwin Ltd. 1939 First and sole edition. 22cms, half-title, frontis, title, 310pp, folding map, [2]. 23 photographic illustrations. Publishers plain endleaves. Orange/brown cloth over boards. Orange lettered on black ground to spine.Yellow dust wrapper, black lettered and with photograph to upper cover. Spine lettered in black, rear cover adverts. Living in the far north of India in a most remote part of the Karakoram, on the borders of Afghanistan and Chinese Turkestan were a self-supporting peasant people, the Burusho of Hunza. The form of life was entirely unsophisticated, but the social organization was such that there was no crime and the author and her husband lived for a year amongst them and were the first westerners to learn their difficult language. The beauty of the Karakoram is described along with the adventurous journey through the high mountains to get there. Internally very clean and with no signs of past ownership. The dust wrapper in a clear protective sleeve has a few short closed edge tears and very minor loss at the spine ends. Not price clipped. This book is RARE and there are no copies in the market with the D/W. £45

20) UXBOND, F.A. - Munda - Magyar Maori - An Indian Link Between the Antipodes - New Tracks of Hungarian Origin. London: Luzac & Co. 1928. First Edition. 8vo, xii, 432pp, appendix II [2], appendix III (Some Maori Types) [8pp plates]. Plain end-leaves. Dark blue cloth over boards, gilt to spine. An extremely RARE work. COPAC shows only two copies (in the British Library and the National Library, Scotland) equally scarce in the market. Internally some light browning, generally an even toning which is light. The title has a signature in blue ink, ‘Vew Bino London’, there are brackets around the authors name on the title and some annotation in the same ink and hand, although these are not long or numerous. There are also some pencil annotations, mainly to the margin, but again not through out the book. The binding is very good; a few spots to the cover and some light edge wear, with a little lifting of the cloth in one spot on the rear board. A VERY GOOD COPY, ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES. £450.

21) HEISSIG, Walther - The Religions of Mongolia - Translated from the German edition by Geoffrey Samuel. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1980. 21.5cms, xii, 146pp. map and 17 drawings within the text. Orange boards, gilt to spine. Brown lettering and image on green ground dust wrapper. Brown lettered to d/w spine. Clear protective sleeve. Hissing concentrates his study upon those beliefs and concepts which belong to the non-Buddhist folk religion of the Mongols. Effectively a mint copy very clean and fresh indeed. Curiously it has a primitively sketched face in purple to the ffep which is unclear whether it is printed or added by a period owner. There are no other signs of past use. Very light fading to the d/w spine. An excellent copy.

£35

22) STALEY, John - Words For My Brother - Travels Between the Hindu Kush and the Himalayas. Karachi: Oxford University Press. 1982. 21.5cms, xviii, 287pp, 16 plates, 7 maps and 6 figures. Publisher’s white end-leaves. Bright blue cloth over boards, silver to spine. Dark green ground d/w with colour photograph and pink & white lettering to cover, similar lettering to spine. Clear protective sleeve. This is a sympathetic account of travel in a visually exciting part of the world where the world’s greatest mountain ranges - the Himalayas, the Karakoram and the Hindu Kush meet in a ‘wild tumult of stupendous peaks’. The peoples who live in the valleys between have adapted to their environment in their own way, but it also stems in part from many ancient source as Staley discovered; Central Asian, Persian, Indian, Tibetan, Greek, Islamic, Hindu and ‘shammanistic’. Staley also comments on the social organisation of the peoples he meet and of their introduction to British India in the nineteenth century. This is a close to fine copy. Internally clean and crisp with no signs of past ownership, there is one modest crease to the d/w from the edge of the fore-edge of the cover on to the upper flap, but this is not serious. Although COPAC shows 6 copies the work is very RARE in the market. £50

23) FURER-HAIMENDORF, Christoph von. - The Naked Nagas. London: Methuen & Co. 1939. First Edition. 22cms, xiv, [2], 243pp, 38 illustration, including photographs and a map. Publisher’s off-white end-leaves. Very pale green cloth over boards, red lettered to spine. The author lived amounts the Naga people on the borders between Assam and Burma seemingly comfortable with their head-hunting tradition and the instability of their relationships. he looks at their lives from a human perspective and is less concerned with scientific of anthropomorphic study. This copy is internally clean, without signs of past ownership. The cover shows some light handling marks and the spine is a little darkened. A good,plus copy. £25

24) KING, P.D. - Law and Society in the Visigothic Kingdom. Cambridge: At the University Press. 1972. First Edition. 22cms, xiv, 318pp. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Black cloth covered boards, gilt to spine. Orange dust wrapper, lettered in black to cover and spine. At the time of writing Mr. King as a lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Lancaster. The jacket introduces his book in this way: ‘ The Kingdom of the Visigoths, embracing at its fullest extentPortugal and part of Southern France as well as virtually the whole of Spain, boasted the most sophisticated civilisation to be found in any of the Romano-barbarian states created out of the ruins of the Western Empire’. The period covered is the 5th Century. Royal government, the law, its breaches, the Church, family and society more generally are all areas covered. This is a copy without signs of past ownership, being very clean and tidy within a clear protective £25 sleeve. The d/w has been clipped. Near fine.

25) EDWARDS, Chilperic - The Oldest Laws in the World - Being an Account of the Hammurabi Code and the Sinaitic Legislation with A Complete Translation of the Great Babylonian Inscription Discovered at Susa. London: Watts & Co. 1906 21cms, 64pp. Cream end-leaves. Green cloth boards, gilt to spine. Hammurabi was the 6th Babylonian king and ruled for 42 years. The Code was discovered at Susain Khuzestan (modern Iran) by French archaeologists in 1901. It sets out the Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia (near East) and is dated roughly to 1754 B.C. It is the oldest deciphered writing of significant length known, consisting of 282 laws with scaled punishments for transgression. Edwards describes the discovery of the Code and explains the nature of the legal system it provides as well as setting out its text and offering his own notes on it. This is a near fine copy, quite possibly in a later binding, though not recent, and would appear to have been professionally undertaken. The opening blanks show two signatures; that of ‘Oney M. Gericke’ and that of ‘R R Inskeep’ A RARE text, nicely presented.

£30 26) CHARKAS, Moustafa H. - Circassian Customs. Amman? N/d 17cms, 108pp. 13 photographs and map. Publisher’s brown end-leaves. Dark blue paper covered boards, gilt lettering to cover. No details of imprint or date, but likely to be1930/1940’s. Nothing is known of the author, but his seemingly self-assigned task in this small book is to set out the characteristic life of the Circassian people as they were practiced at the time of publication. Their land was in the North Caucasus but this they departed as a result of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, particularly after the Russian-Circassian War in 1864. They are a people of a distinct ethnicity; having their own language, religion - predominantly Sunni Muslim and a unique culture. This is a very good copy. There are some darker brown patches on the end-leaves, an Arabic inscription to the ffep and a small ink signature to the upper pastedown. The boards are in good condition, though the spine is tender and colour faded. The book has been kept by the last owner in a clear sleeve for protection. This is an EXTREMELY RARE work their being NO COPIES shown by COPAC or WORLD CAT. £75

27) WINGATE, Major. F.R. - Ten Years Captivity in the Mahdi;s Camp 1882 - 1892 From the Original Manuscripts of Father Joseph Ohrwalder (Late Priest of the Austrian Mission Station at Delen in Cordovan) - With Maps and Illustrations by Walter C. Horsley. Revised and Abridged Edition (10th) London: Sampson, Low, Marston & Co. 1893. 19cms, xvi, 471pp, 2 folding maps, [30], [2]. 25 illustration as called for. Plain end-leaves. Red cloth boards. Printed paper label to spine. Father Ohrwalder was a Roman Catholic Priest on mission work in Sudan. The leader of Mahdist forces proclaimed himself the Mahdi (The Guided one) of Islam. Opposed initial by Egyptian forces, and later by the British too, it became a colonial war, named the Sudan Campaign. This is colourfully described by Winston Churchill, a participant, in his book, The River War (1899). Father Ohrwalder set out in brief form his capture and confinement in a German text, translated and built upon by Francis Reginald Wingate. This is a good copy, certainly re-bound professionally, but not very recently. The title page is lightly tanned with some evidence of handling. The foreedge has been strengthened neat with Japanese tissue. Otherwise it is a clean copy, without annotation, suffering just one short closed edge tear to the fore-edge of a leaf. The maps are crisp and well folded. £25 28) GIMBUTAS, Marija - [Ancient Peoples and Places] - The Balts. London: Thames & Hudson. 1963. First Edition. 20.5cms, 286pp. 79 photographs, 47 line drawings and 11 maps. Brown cloth over boards. Gilt logo to cover and gilt lettering to spine. Green d/w, lllust. lettered in black, white and green. The ancient Balts settled between the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea and the upper Volga in the second millennium B.C. They brought to north-eastern Europe and food- producing economy and during the Bronze and Iron Ages played an important role in transmitting the metal cultures to the north and east. So, living in the forested areas and away from major migration routes the Balts preserved archaic forms in language and religion. Offered here is a close to fine copy, suffering only the clipping of the price, in a clear protective sleeve. This being one of the scarcer volumes in the Ancient Peoples series. £75

29) EAST, D.J. - Western Africa; Its Condition, and Christianity the Means of Recovery. London: Houston and Stonemason 1844. First and only edition. 19cms, xi, [1], 400pp. Publisher’s pale yellow end-leaves. Deep mauve cloth over boards, embossed. Gilt lettered to spine. East seeks to draw together experiences of traveller’s missionaries and others, who have dwelt on the horrors of the slave trade and its effects, to provide a general sketch of the moral, social and religious condition of an imprecisely defined area of the continent. This is a VERY RARE early work - COPAC lists only 5 copies. Only one copy in very poor condition is found offered for sale. Our copy has no marks of previous ownership save for three small blue pencil numerals to the head of the ffep. The inner joints are cracked but the boards are holding well on the sewing cords. There is a light mostly even toning to the text leaves. The cloth has lost some of its colour, especially noticeable on the spine. The spine ends are frayed with small loss of cloth. £335.

30) DRUMMOND HAY, John H. - Western Barbary: Its Wild Tribes and Savage Animals. New Edition. London: John Murray. 1891 18cms, vi, 177pp. Publishers pale yellow end-leaves. Purple cloth over boards, embossed and with ‘Murrays Colonial & Home Library roundel in the centre of both. Gilt lettered spine. Drummond Hay made his journey to the North Coast of Africa ostensible to obtain a horse from the traders there for Queen Victoria. He failed in that regard. However such was the impression made upon him of the memorable scene of Arab life and many oddities of character and manners in the various tribes that he thought to write it out. He resided in Tangiers for several years and learned an Arabic dialect, so was able to understand dialogue and to communicate himself. The first edition appeared in 1844, but any nineteenth century edition is not often found. On offer is a perfectly clean copy internally. The upper inner joint is cracked, though not affecting the soundness of the board attachment. General light rubbing to the cover (though the previous own kept it in a clear protective cover) and light fading to the spine cloth and lettering. A very nice copy. £45

31) VAN WYK LOUW, Nicolaas Petrus - Oh wide and sad land - Afrikaans Poetry - In English Translation by Adam Small. Cape Town: Maskew Miller. 1975. First Edition. 21.5cms, [10], 131pp, postscript 9pp. Port. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Brown cloth boards, gilt to spine. Brown dd/w lettered in tan and white to cover, similar to spine. A work published posthumously by, in the opinion of the translator, the greatest ‘professional’ of the Afrikaans. Mr Small describes Van Wyk [1906 - 1970] as ‘a philosophical nationalist all his life; his nationalism, ultimately was completely tolerant’. There are here a selection of 50 poems, printed in Afrikaans, with the English translation on the facing page. Offered is an un-marked FINE copy. This is a very RARE book. COPAC shows only 2 copies [British Library and Oxford University] £45

32) CZAPLICKA, Marya Antonina - Aboriginal Siberia - A Study in Social Anthropology - Preface by R R Marett. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press. 1914. First Edition. 22.5cms, xiv, [2], 374pp, [2] 16 full page black & white photographic plates, folding Ethnological map of Siberia. Publisher’s plain endleaves. Deep red cloth, gilt to spine. Marya Czaplicka [1884 - 1921] ,a Pole by birth, a cultural Anthropologist, studied at Somerville College, Oxford under Robert R. Marett. He encouraged Marya to make use of her skill in the Russian language to make a survey of the literature on the native tribes of Siberia, which became Aboriginal Siberia. At the time of publication Marya had never visited Siberia. However, the quality of the language led to the book becoming and remaining a major reference work in the field. It is now a SCARCE title. COPAC shows but 2 copies. The copy offered is internally clean, with the exception of a small ink signature and date in ink to the head of the ffep: ‘Deneke, May 1916’. There is a trace of browning to the feps. A hint of dampness has led to a slight bleed in the dye of the cloth just visible in the corners of the end-leaves and in a minor crinkling of the plates. The binding is very good with a minor dip in the round of the spine where it has been pressed. £75

33) MALANDRA, William W. (Translated & Edited by) - An Introduction to Ancient Iranian Religion - Readings from the Avesta and Achaemenid Inscriptions. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1983. First Edition. 23cms, xii, 195. Publisher’s cream end-leaves. Maroon cloth over boards, Silver lettered to cover and spine. Professor Malandra was awarded his Doctorate in IndoIranian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Here he provides a pathway for the non-specialist in to Zoroastrianism. An outline is given of the religion in its historical, cultural and its spiritual setting. Material is selected with the reader’s level of knowledge in mind, with commentary, to enable later study of more demanding texts. This is effectively an ‘as published’ copy.

£45

34) GUREVICH, Aaron - Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages Edited by Jana Howlett. Cambridge: Polity Press. 1992. First edition. 23cms, xiii, [3], 247pp.Publisher’s black end-leaves. Black boards, gilt lettered to spine. Grey dust wrapper, lettered in black to cover and spine. Gurevich, a historian of the Middle Ages, has here offered a collection of writings of wide appeal to fellow historians, anthropologists, literary theorists and sociologists. This volume includes a range of topics including practices of gift exchange in Scandinavia, the deities and heroes of Germanic poetry and the image of the Beyond in the Middle Ages. A mint copy.

£25

35) STARR, Lillian A. - Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet - with Forewords by Lord Rawlinson & Sir John Maffey - Edited with an Appreciation by Basil Matthews. London: Hodder and Stoughton [1923] First Edition. 18.5cms, 253pp, 9 plates including frontis and two maps. Publisher’s plain end-papers. Light brown cloth on boards, black spine lettering. The title page refers to Starr as being ‘of Peshawar’. She was, in fact, a volunteer of the Church Missionary Society and did commendable work at the Peshawar Mission Hospital relieving the suffering of tribesmen not only of the North-west Frontier, but from districts beyond in Central Asia. Torah is an area of land between the Frontier of British India and Afghanistan, to Lesser Tibet, situated to the north-east of the Empire, between Kashmir and the ranges of the Himalayas. Documented is her bravery and fortitude in undertaking the rescue of a fellow female missionary who had been seized by Afghan frontier Afridi brigands following their murder of the distressed lady’s mother. This is just one of the several events of which she was witness in that unruly territory. The offered copy has no sign of previous ownership. There is browning to the feps from the boards. A little occasional light spotting to the text. The binding is in very good order. £20

36) WALSHE, W. Gilbert - ‘Ways that are Dark” Some Chapters on Chinese Etiquette and Social Procedure - Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh, Ltd. N/d [1907]

37) BEHESNILIAN, Rev. Krikor - In Bonds - An Armenian’s Experiences. London: Morgan & Scott. n/d Circa 1900. Third Edition.

18.5cms, 276pp. 13 black & white photographs, as called. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Navy cloth over boards, Gilt embossed figures in greeting or parting to cover, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Offered is a copy internally without marks of past ownership. Very clean and crisp. Th e binding is also very good with just a little rubbing at the spine ends and to the fore-edge of the upper cover.

19cms, 63pp, [1]. port., 3 further plates and 1 map. Publisher’s gilt patterned endleaves. Brown cloth over boards, cover lettered in gilt and black with an unusual engraved image in gilt and black, ‘Tarsus, the Birth place of the Apostle, Paul. Previous owners clear protective sleeve.

An extremely RARE title. COPAC shows only 3 copies, and just 1 found for sale when compiling this catalogue. £125

The Rev. Behesnilian was an Armenian subject who returned to his own country as a Protestant missionary and sought to describe the beleaguered and oppressed contain of his own people. This condition dates to the European concern for the Armenian people, often referred to by politicians of the period, and historian later, as the ‘Armenian Question’. The origins of this was the Russo-Turkish War of 1877/78 and the loss of freedoms to the governing Ottoman Turks, and other peoples in the region. This is an extremely RARE title. COPAC lists only 5 copies (only 1 being of this edition) and none have been located for sale. Offered is an excellent copy, without marks of past ownership. Two small spots of browning in the gutter (staples rusting?) SIGNED & INSCRIBED to Rev. and Mrs Hargreaves ‘with the authors best thanks’ signature following - Dec. 27th 1900. £95

38) JAMESON, R.D. - Three Lectures on Chinese Folklore - Delivered before the Convocation of the North China Union Language School March/ April 1932. Peking: North China Union Language School with California College in China. 22cms, 164pp. Errata leaf laid in. Plain end-leaves. Quarter black cloth. Buff paper sides, with printed paper label to cover. The Essays; ‘Prologomena of Chinese Folklore’, ‘Cinderella in China’ and ‘Interpolation: The Fox Wife’ by Jameson [Professor, Department of Western Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University] are added to by some General Notes including contributions by Professor Shirokogoroff on the function and science of Folklore. There is a fairly extensive reading list on folklore in China. Offered is an internally clean copy, without marks of past ownership. The boards of a little rubbed at the extremities, VERY RARE with the Errata. COPAC shows only 7 copies. £50

39) TRAVIS, William - The Voice of the Turtle - London: George Allen & Unwin. 1967. First Edition. 22cms, 203pp.[4]. 14 plates, including coloured frontis & 3 maps. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Bright blue boards with silver lettering to spine. Illustrative d/w, lettered in black (clipped). The jacket flap describes Travis as ‘a merchant adventurer of a type more familiar in Tudor times - tough and resilient in mind and body’. He applies himself to the creation of commercial ventures in far off places - the current work being the story of a turtle canning industry in Somalia. The strange and varied characters drawn to the Horn of Africa are described ‘not by a traveller but by a man living and working with them’. The sea also held its challenges and dangers. Offered here is a very clean crisp copy in like d/w, just very slight rubbing to the joints, but kept in a clear sleeve. A surprisingly un-common copy in collections and more so in the market. £30

40) LE MAY, Reginald - Siamese Tales Old and New - The Four Riddles and Other Stories. London: Noel Douglas. 1930 First Edition. 21.5cms, 192pp, portrait. Publisher's plain end-leaves. Navy cloth, upper cover decorated with a gilt head in profile. Gilt lettered spine. At the time of writing Le May was an adviser to the Siamese Governemnt. He collected here fifteen short tales, translated them into English and has given his 'Reflections' upon them. Offered here is a very good, clean copy, with a touch of spotting to the half-title. A small corner of the ffep nipped off, but without marks of past ownership. Minor edge edge to the binding, Although re-printed the work is un-common in the first edition £32.50

41) SMITH, Arthur H. - Village Life in China - A Study in Sociology - with illustrations. Edinburgh: Elephant, Anderson and Ferrier. 1900 21cms, 360pp, frontis & 28 further monochrome photographic plates. Publisher’s cream end-leaves. Green cloth, decorated with imagery to cover and spine, lettered in gilt to both. This is a very good, clean copy. The front pastedown and ffep have script and a stamp referring to the Inland China Mission. Attractive binding with very little wear. This title was first published in 1899, but is un-common in either edition. £45

42) DE BURGH DALY, Mrs. An Irishwoman in China - Illustrated - London. T. Werner Laurie. N/d [1915] 22cms, xi, 295pp, [5] 48 plates (as called for) including the coloured frontis. This copy professionally rebound in closely matching red cloth, preserving the title panels of both cover and spine. That on the spine quite worn, but legible. Later cream end-leaves. This was evidently a library copy, before being acquired by the Inskeeps. There is an oval stamp to the verso of plates facing pp, 38,90,144 & 238. There are no other marks of that kind save for a few numerals at the head of the title and on the verso. There is intermittent foxing, generally light and occasional, but in a few places moderate. This is a RARE title. COPAC lists only 4 copies. Hard to find. The Inskeeps have noted in pencil on the title, ‘Excellent book’. £65

43) KILBORN, Dr. Omar.L. [Revised by Ruth L. Fraser & J.E. Moncrieff] - Chinese Forms of Politeness. [publisher not identified]. 1926 21cms, 30pp. Pale green paper cover, lettered in black. Clear protective sleeve. This copy is internally clean, save for rusting to the two staples holding the leaves, showing a small area of browning surrounding. The cover is a little dusty. Laid in is a single print sheet listing ‘Publications of the Missionary Training School. Chengdu. Szechwan. J.E. Moncrieff was Director of the Missionary Training School in Chengtu (Chengdu) so it is likely that this booklet was prepared for the use of missionaries and their families. This is a VERY RARE survivor. COPAC shows no copies, while WorldCat has just 1. £75

44) LITTLE, Mrs. Archibald Intimate China - The Chinese as I have known them - With 120 illustrations. London: Hutchinson & Co. 1899. First Edition. 24cms, xv, 615pp, [1]. 120 monochrome plates, many full page. This copy professionally re-bound in closely matching red cloth, with the original lettering panel of the spine retained. Later cream end-leaves. The title and frontis plate re-mounted. Former owner’s name and address in ink to the head of the contents page (v). There are two very feint oval ink stamps (in the lower margins of pp 65 & 225) there is intermittent foxing, in some places beyond mild to moderate and bordering on heavy. A few corners have been folded. However, the book is complete, if defective in appearance. Mrs. Little was responsible for a number of books on her experience in China, she was there with her missionary husband. This First Edition is particularly RARE and offered at a price to reflect its condition. £95

45) QUARITCH WALES, H.G. - Divination in Thailand - The hopes and fears of a Southeast Asian people. London: Curzon Press. 1983 First Edition. 22cms, xii, [1], 145pp, xi illust. Publisher’s plain end-leaves. Buff cloth over boards; gilt to spine. Cream dust wrapper, lettered and illust. black. Dr. Quaritch Wales explains and expounds the idea that the Thai people feel that their lives are ordered by planetary deities, as opposed to planets as cosmic principles. These deities are sometimes acting with other Hindu or animistic devata. The writer makes an important contribution to spiritual understanding, but also to anthropological research. He has written widely on Southeast Asian culture. Offered is a FINE copy in a protective sleeve. Very un-common in the market, certainly in this condition. £45