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60. BUrnaBy, Frederick Gustavus. a ride to Khiva: travels and adventures in central asia ... containing, amongst other information, a series of March-routes, translated from several russian Works. eighth edition. London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter & Galpin, 1877.
£175
8vo (210 x 140mm). original pictorial red cloth, upper board and spine blocked and lettered in black and gilt, lower board blocked in blind, lemon-yellow endpapers; pp. [i]-xviii, [1]-487, [1 (blank)], 1-8 (publisher’s advertisements); folding colour-printed lithographic map bound as a frontispiece and 2 folding colour-printed lithographic maps loose as issued in pockets on the upper and lower pastedowns, small printed publisher’s advertisement on turquoise paper for D. MacKenzie Wallace’s Russia tipped in before frontispiece map; extremities lightly rubbed, skilfully rebacked retaining original, slightly-darkened, spine, occasional light spotting, principally on the fore-edges, frontispiece map and title, small, skilfully-repaired tears on loose folding maps, otherwise a very good, clean copy in the original cloth.
eighth edition. Whilst on leave from the army, Burnaby departed from london for Khiva in november 1875, travelling through russia and central asia during the winter months, enduring extreme cold and frostbite, and evading detection by the russians, to arrive at his destination in January 1876. on his return to england, ‘Burnaby was lionized, and summoned by the queen to dinner at Windsor. he published A Ride to Khiva (1876), which he sold outright for £750. it was a vivid, lively travelogue, proudly British, in which he warned against russian aggressive expansion through central asia towards india, and denounced russian rule as despotic, corrupt, and cruel. the book, vigorously advertised, sold well and was reprinted and translated. his journey and book made Burnaby a celebrity’ (oDnB). as a gauge of the work’s popularity, the preface is dated september 1876, suggesting that the first edition was published in september or october 1876, this eighth edition was reached in the following year, and a fourteenth edition by 1878.
Cf. Yakushi B631a (1877 ed. with this collation).
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61. BUrton, robert. the anatomy of Melancholy. Chatto & Windus, 1883.
£298
8vo, newly bound in half speckled calf over marbled paper boards, spine ruled in gilt, spine with contrasting lettering piece, top edges gilt; engraved frontispiece after that in the original edition; a very nice copy.
62. BUrton, robert. the anatomy of Melancholy. John C. Nimmo, 1893.
£598
8vo (3 volumes). Full polished calf gilt, boards bordered with double- ruled gilt fillets, spine gilt in compartments, contrasting morocco lettering pieces in 2, others with floral gilt design, board edges roll-tooled in gilt, gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; titles printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece after that in the original edition in i; slight foxing to edges, light offsetting in i from frontispiece, nonetheless a handsome, internally fresh set; provenance: from the rothschild library at ascott (engraved library bookplate on upper pastedown).
63. Byron, lord. the Poetical Works of lord Byron. John Murray, 1839.
£998
8vo (8 volumes). Full polished green calf gilt, boards with blind roll- tooled borders enclosed with a gilt floral panel, spine gilt in compartments with contrasting morocco lettering pieces in two, others with gilt panel designs, gilt-ruled board edges, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled; striped silk markers; engraved portrait frontispiece by Finden after t. Phillips retaining tissue guard; slight scuffing to individual volumes, a little foxing endpapers throughout set, otherwise a very good, internally clean set in a handsome binding; provenance: John courtenay, christmas 1842 (gift inscription on his leaving eton on first blank).
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