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31. BONVALOT, Gabriel. Through the Heart of Asia over the Pamïr to India ... Translated from the French by C[oulson]. B[ell]. Pitman. London: William Clowes and Sons, Limited for Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1889.
£950
8vo (255 x 166mm), 2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth, upper boards with black-ruled upper and lower borders enclosing gilt-framed central vignettes blocked in white and blue, lower boards with publisher’s device in blind, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in gilt and black, dark-green endpapers, uncut, most quires in vol. II unopened; pp. I: [2 (blank l., with signature ‘a’ on recto)], [i]-xxii, [1]-281, [3 (blank)]; II: [2 (blank l., with signature ‘II. a’ on recto)], [i]-x, [1]-255, [1 (blank)], [1]-8 (advertisements dated 20 November 1888); 41 plates and illustrations in the text after Albert Pépin, folding colour-printed lithographic map; extremities lightly rubbed and bumped, slightly marked, occasional light spotting, I, R2 with marginal marking, nonetheless a very good set; provenance: ‘AR’ (contemporary monogram booklabels with manuscript pressmarks on upper pastedowns).
First English edition. The French orientalist and explorer Bonvalot (1853-1933) made his first expedition into Central Asia in 1880, and undertook a second journey into the area with Pépin and Capus in Central Asia in 1886-1887: from Samarkand, he explored the head of the Oxus in the Pamirs and descended to the Indus from the Wakhan Valley through Masutj in Chitral. Bonvalot’s account was first published in French
under the title Du Caucase aux Indes à travers le Pamir (Paris: 1889), and this English translation is dated ‘1889’ too (although the preface and publisher’s catalogue at the end of vol. II are both dated November 1888 and the latter announces the work as appearing ‘In December’).
NLS, Mountaineering t088; Perret 0584; Yakushi (3rd ed.) B477b
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32. BOULESTIN, X.M. and HILL, Jason. Herbs, Salads and Seasonings. With illustrations by Cedric Morris.William Heinemann. 1930.
£298
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Small mark on foot of cloth spine, wrapper a little chipped and frayed with a little staining on spine, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. Inscribed by Boulestin to his close friend the artist Jean- Emile Laboureur and his wife, “Aux Laboureurs, cuisiniers, jardiniers, from Perfecteur peut-etre - X.M Boulestin. London 1930.”
From the library of Jean-Emile Laboureur (Sold by Ader Auction House in Paris in July 2012).
33. BOULESTIN, X.M. What Shall We Have to Drink? William Heinemann. 1933.
£98
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper with a design by Laboureur. Frontispiece and title-page vignette also by Laboureur. Dust wrapper with a large chip to front panel and a few smaller chips, otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. From the library of the illustrator Jean-Emile Laboureur (Without any identifying markings or bookplate but from a lot sold by Ader Auction House in Paris in July 2012).
34. BOULESTIN, X.M. Having Crossed the Channel. Illustrated by J.E. Laboureur. William Heinemann. 1934.
£125
8vo., original cloth with dust wrapper. Wrapper a little rubbed and chipped otherwise a very good copy.
First edition. A charming ramble through early 20th century Europe with the famed restaurateur. His accounts of hotels and meals are accompanied by the drawings of his friend Jean-Emile Laboureur
From the library of the illustrator Jean-Emile Laboureur (Without any identifying markings or bookplate but from a lot sold by Ader Auction House in Paris in July 2012).
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35. BOULESTIN, X.M. Myself, My Two Countries. Cassell and Company. 1936.
£298 8vo., original cloth with chipped and rubbed dust wrapper.
First edition inscribed by Boulestin to his close friends Jean Emile and Suzanna Laboureur “a Suzanna et J.E. Laboureur, X.M. Boulestin, 1936”. There are various mentions of Laboureur in the text of Boulestin’s autobiography and a pencil note by Laboureur on p.279 noting the date of a lunch that Boulestin, Laboureur and Walter Sickert had together.
From the library of the illustrator Jean-Emile Laboureur (Sold by Ader Auction House in Paris in July 2012).
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