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First edition. Constable & Co. London. 1930. Octavo. xiii, 179pp. Original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Slightly rubbed, sunned and grazed. BMJ Croonian Lectures cuttings from 1917 carefully tipped in to list of publications. Marginal neat chronological addenda.Provenance:From the libraries of two notable doctors. Signature of "A. Sarwood Fry Maj. IMS. Dera Ghazi Khan January 1932. Wetheral April 1949" to ffep. Neat marginalia in his hand. Quotation in his hand to rfep "Nothing can more fully give justification to a human life than the later realisation that a man was a true prophet, saw clearly, divined correctly and was a fore runner of the truth".Bookplate of J. Colin Dagnall to front pastedown.Augustine Sargood Fry (1890 - 1962) M.B., Ch.M., F.R.C.S. C.I.E. British Army Indian Medical Service. In the first world war he served on the North-west Frontier of India and in South Persia. Surgical specialist in Peshawar, including the Khyber Pass area. He held in turn most of the important civil… Read More

First edition. Christopher Davies. Llandybie. 1969. 36pp. In d/w.

Robert Gerallt Hamlet Jones (1934-1999)

Writer and educationist. His only book of poetry written in English

First edition. John Murray. London. 1853. 8vo. vi, (1), errata slip, 488pp. Chromolitho frontispiece, 3 further chromolitho plates, all with tissue guards, 3 uncoloured plates, folding map, text illus. Later half calf, marbled boards Spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt lettering, rules and motifs, leather label to spine. All edges marbled. New endpapers. Occasional marginal light foxing to plates. Short closed tear to attachment of map. A handsome volume.
John Elphinstone Erskine (1806 - 1887) British Naval Officer and Liberal MP. "In February 1848 Erskine was appointed to the Havannah as senior officer on the Australian station. Soon after his arrival Erskine made a tour of Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, the New Hebrides, the Loyalty Islands and New Caledonia between 25 June and 7 October 1849. With experience of naval anti-slavery operations in the West Indies and the effects of European penetration in the Pacific, he joined the Aborigines Protection Society and became a parliamentary leader… Read More

Originally printed for the Camden Society in 1868, reprinted with the permission of the Royal Historical Society AMS Press. New York. 1968. Octavo. xxxvii, 106pp. Original blue cloth, gilt to spine. A near fine copy.
Sir Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) English courtier and diplomat, polymath, natural philosopher, astrologer, alchemist and leading intellectual described as "The Ornament of this Nation". Not only a founding member of The Royal Society and a promoter of sympathetic magic, he is credited with the invention of the modern wine bottle. He was awarded the Patent of Sealing Wax in Wales and the Welsh Borders. Digby's cookbook included a recipe for capons fed on the flesh of vipers. In 1627 Digby became a privateer, sailing his flagship The Eagle into the Mediterranean to attack, seize and plunder French and Spanish ships that came his way. This journal is the day to day log of the voyage.
William Watkin Edward Wynn (1801-1880) of Peniarth, Antiquary, cataloguer and custodian of the Hengwrt-Peniarth… Read More

First edition. 2 vols. Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, Booksellers to the London Missionary Society. London. 1831. 8vo. xxiv, 566pp, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece, 6 further engraved plates; viii, 568pp, tissue guarded engraved frontispiece, 6 further engraved plates. Later half calf, marbled boards. Spines in five compartments with gilt double rules. Original leather labels relaid to spines. All edges and endpapers marbled. Title page to Vol. I slightly chipped to base. A few short closed marginal tears. Closed tear across tissue guard opposite p515. Occasional spotting. A handsome set. "In 1821 Tyerman and George Bennet of Sheffield were appointed by the London Missionary Society to visit their southern stations. They sailed from London on 2 May in the whaler Tuscan, and, proceeding round Cape Horn, visited Tahiti, the Leeward and Sandwich Islands, and other mission stations in the South Seas. In 1824 they visited New South Wales, and on the way narrowly escaped from Maori in New Zealand.… Read More

First edition. Clarendon Press. Oxford. 1998. Octavo. xiv, 417pp. Near fine in dustwrapper. Signed dedication to ffep from the author. "For Peter Williams, without whose support this would certainly never have been finished".

Little Brown and Co. Boston. 1909. 8vo. xiv, 319pp. Frontis., 27 further plates, folding map. Original cloth, sl. rubbed to top and tail of spine. Bookplate to fep., and small stamp The Oriental Book Store, Pasadena, Ca.
Jeremiah Curtin (1835-1906) Linguist, folklorist, ethnographer, writer. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Ethnology. Curtin made this journey in the year 1900 between the 19 July and 15th September, his object to visit the birthplace of the original Mongol race. Siberia, Lake Baikal, Olkhon, the Buriats, their customs, shamans, rites, myths, folk tales. He died shortly after finishing the manuscript, and this book was published posthumously.