Search Results: Authors starting with U from Henry Sotheran Ltd.

[St Gallen], Erker, [1988]. Oblong 8vo. Original white cloth with illustrated dust-wrappers; pp. 182, [2], numerous reproductions of watercolours in original size; a very good copy. First edition, presentation copy with long authorial inscription to half-title in pencil. Based on Uecker's train journey through Siberia and Mongolia, this scarce artist's book unites watercolours with texts by Boris Pilniak, in Russian and German.

London, Kegan Paul, 1881. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, rebacked and recornered with red morocco in the 20th century (original backstrip pasted onto additional blank at rear); pp. viii, 399, 47 pages advertisement at the end; a good copy of a scarce book, ownership inscription, dated Amman, Ramadan, 1944, at head of half-title. First edition. 'A syndicate of three, composed of the Hon. Henry Caplin, Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Sandeman, M.P., and Mr. Hazelwood, a director of the Bank of England, agreed to send Major Upton to Aleppo to Mr. Skene, they to go into the desert and choose and secure the horses. It is reported that the final cost of the undertaking was £20,000 ($100,000) … Both Skene and Upton were fine Arabic scholars, besides being excellent horsemen … The results of Upton's visit were written in two books, Newmarket and Arabia, a sketchy statement of early impressions, and a more serious work, Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia, published… Read More

1860. London, Thomas Cautley Newby, 1860. Two volumes in one, as issued. 8vo. Original brick red cloth, gilt, all edges gilt; pp. ix, 402, iv, 455; steel-engraved frontispiece to each volume (by Bartlett; Mount Lebanon views); expertly rebacked, new endpapers, occasional spotting or embrowning only to beginning and end of the massive volume, engraved armorial bookplate inside front cover, else a very good copy of a book usually found in poor condition and not in the beautiful publisher's binding. Very rare first edition. Urquhart was a British politician and diplomat, as well as the author of several books on Turkey, the Middle East and the Great Game. The present work offers details of a journey made in the Lebanon in 1849-50; the initial 180 pages of the first volume is a history of the Druses and the Maronites, the rest of the work is Urquart's Lebanon travel diary. With geopolitics always in mind, and Russia seen as as an expansionist threat, Urquhart observed the state of the Ottoman… Read More

1900. Gurney and Jackson. 1900. 8vo. Original green cloth, map of Ireland blocked in black to front, gilt lettering to spine; pp. xxxii + 419, colour frontispiece, 13 b&w photographic plates, 2 folding maps; a little rubbing to extremities, near fine. First edition. Scarce. A very comprehensive survey of the avifauna of Ireland, dealing with the sightings, distribution and habitats of each bird rather than with descriptions of the birds themselves.

1883. London: J. C. Nimmo and Bain, 1883 & 1884. 8vo., uniformly bound in salmon and green cloth respectively, ruled in gilt; contrasting leather labels to spines; outer edges untrimmed; upper edge gilt; illustrated profusely throughout with stylised illustrative borders by Paul Avril; pp. [xi], 4-138; [vii], 2-143, [i]; lacking the publisher's advertisments to rear; boards a little bumped to corners and rubbed to head and foot of spines; with very minimal splits and loss to cloth; The Sunshade with some small black marks to upper cover; previous ownership inscription to both ffeps; internally a crisp copy. First English editions of these two companion works by Uzanne, and rather whimsical accounts of feminine adornments, via various fans, umbrellas, parasols, gloves, mittens, and fur muffs. Uzanne wrote a number of books on female fashion, with a particular focus on Parisian styles and trends of the late 19th century. L'Éventail or, The Fan was his first major work in this vein, which was… Read More