{"title":"Tomos' Highlights","description":"\u003cp\u003eFresh off the desk of our Travel \u0026amp; Exploration specialist Tomos Nutt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etomos@shapero.com\u003cbr\u003e+44 (0)20 7493 0876\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"braddell-singapore-straits-described-1858-first-edition-122590","title":"Singapore and the Straits Settlements Described;","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003ethe earl of carnarvon's copy of a foundational document of singapore\u003c\/h4\u003eRare and important pamphlet that laid the ground work for the establishment of Singapore as an independent colony, and its first constitution, nine years before the Transfer of the Straits Settlements in 1867.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1857 the European merchant class of Singapore, under serious stress from the convict and Indian coolie populations amongst the imminent Indian Rebellion, submitted a petition appealing for direct rule to the British Parliament. In response Thomas Braddell (1823-1891), then a humble East India Company Servant stationed in Malacca with aspirations for the Law, wrote this pamphlet addressing the future of Singapore and potential direct rule. Nine years later Braddell would be named the first Attorney-General of the Colony of Singapore, and many of his suggestions in this pamphlet would be adopted as part of Singapore's first Crown Colony constitution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe pamphlet itself was an important, and timely, piece of statecraft that focussed on one of the main grievances of the previous administration: that of an ineffective legal and judicial framework. The economy of Singapore was relying more and more heavily on independent trade between China and Europe, and theft and gang violence was a considerable barrier to growth. The pamphlet lays out plans for a separate executive council and legislative council, both led by a governor, which was adopted and would go on to underpin the Legislative Assembly of independent Singapore. It also recommends the complete severing of the judicial courts from the colonial government and independent chiefs of justice, a distinction which remains today. There were also smaller suggestions, such as bolstering the police force (in 1850 Singapore had only 12 police officers for a population of 60,000), a separate department of revenue, and the necessity for a dedicated navy. The perspicacity, and the efficiency, with which the pamphlet treats the issues which Singapore faced makes it a document of real importance and authority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOwned by the 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Henry Herbert (1831-1890), who was at the time Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies under Lord Derby and would have been present for the parliamentary debates on the issue of Singapore direct rule in April of 1858. He would go on to be Secretary of State for the Colonies in 1866-7 and 1874-78.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRare. Only 4 institutional copies globally (Bristol, Singapore National Library, Yale, Lambeth Palace), and not in BL. We can trace no other copy appearing commercially.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); preserved front wrapper signed by Earl of Carnarvon, discreet annotations to margins; bound in later paper boards, printed title label to spine, a very good copy; vii, [1], 56 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne hundred years of Singapore. Walter Makepeace, Gilbert E. Brooke, Roland St. John Braddell. 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'An essential inclusion to any collection relating to Australian coastal discovery' (Wantrup).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhillip Parker King (1791-1856) undertook four voyages of coastal surveys of Australia, becoming the first Australian born hydrographer in the process, which combine to account for one of the great scientific contributions to Australian exploration. King extensively added to the mapping of the country and recorded much new information on wildlife and Aboriginal peoples. He had numerous encounters with the Wunambal people, describing their habitations, and the Makassans of Indonesia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe extensive appendix, nearly 400 pages, contains the ethnographic and scientific material with contributions by John Edward Gray (1800-1875), Allan Cunningham (1791-1839), William Sharp MacLeay (1792-1865), Robert Brown (1773-1858), and Dr. William Henry Fitton (1780-1861). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOwned by George Frederick Dickson (1787-1859), noted British merchant and botanist who lived in Argentina for many years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 2 vols, 8vo (22 x 14 cm); 2 folding maps, 10 aquatint plates including frontispieces, 3 line engraved plates including one folding, numerous further in-text wood-engravings including title vignettes, with the often missing half titles, errata leaf for both vols, and final colophon, armorial bookplate to pastedown of vol 2 and remains of bookplate to vol 1, discreet booksellers ticket to vol 1, a few very small marginal stains, one leaf reinserted; contemporary half blue roan, marbled boards, gilt flat spine, all edges speckled red, a little rubbed, a very good untouched copy; xxxix, [3], 451, [1]; vii, [1], 637, [3] pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbbey, Travel 573; Ferguson 1130; Wantrup 207-212.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"KING, Phillip Parker.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56941748781431,"sku":"122446","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/122446.jpg?v=1780556644"},{"product_id":"shackleton-south-1919-signed-presentation-copy-122619","title":"South.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003esigned presentation copy\u003c\/h4\u003eInscribed ' To [-removed-] \/ With grateful remembrances \/ of many kindnesses, from \/ Ernest Shackleton. \/ Jan 1st 1920'. With the pamphlet 'A Centenary Service of Thanksgiving for the Courage and Endurance of Sir Ernest Shackleton cvo and his Men, Friday 20th May 2016, Noon' loosely inserted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProbably the most evocative narrative of the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration, telling of the survival of Shackleton and his crew under the most extreme circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition, second impression; tall 8vo (25.5 x 16.5 cm); signed inscription to front free endpaper, colour frontispiece, 5 maps (1 folding), 87 photographic plates (1 double-page), 2 sketch plans in text, slight toning to edges; publisher's original blue cloth lettered and decorated in silver, a little rubbed, a very good copy; xxi, 376 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks on Ice, 7.8; Conrad p224; Rosove 308.A2; Taurus 105.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"SHACKLETON, Sir Ernest.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56941749240183,"sku":"122619","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/122619_a20ba45a-a34f-4dcc-b7d1-84e569df0834.jpg?v=1780560206"},{"product_id":"thurston-votive-offerings-1906-authors-copy-122242","title":"Votive Offerings in Southern India.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003eauthor's own copy, only 1 of 3 printed\u003c\/h4\u003eThe author's own copy of this rare treatise on Hindu votive offerings. Only three copies were printed, and we can find no record of the other two in any institution, and a copy has never appeared at auction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInscription reads: 'Only three copies \/ issued - for the \/ Princess of Wales, \/ Chief Secretary to \/ Government, and \/ myself. \/ Edgar Thurston \/ 1906.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Princess of Wales at the time was Mary of Teck (1867-1953), wife of George V, shortly before coming Queen, and the Chief Secretary to the Madras Government at the time was the newly appointed Murray Love Hammick (1854-1936), who became Governor of Madras briefly in 1912. Neither of their copies have we been able to locate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdgar Thurston (1855–1935) was the British Superintendent at the Madras Government Museum from 1885 to 1908. He wrote extensively on Indian natural history and archaeology, such as in this work, and anthropology and ethnology, of which his most important is his great seven volume work Castes and Tribes of Southern India (1909). 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After arriving in Muscat and travelling up the Gulf to Basra plans to investigate a potential overland route from the Euphrates was foiled by local wars and disease outbreaks. Stocqueler was forced to traverse through Khuzestan, giving accounts of Sheikhs and peoples he saw, and up through the central Zagros mountains and Bakhtiari country, being one of the first Europeans to do so. He records the lands before the mountains as being 'Chabean' or 'Chab' territory, possibly meaning the Sabians mentioned in the Qur'an. He then went round Persia via Isfahan and Tabriz to get to the Black Sea and through Kurdistan and Armenia, and journeyed through Eastern Europe, meeting exiled Polish general Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki in Linz, before finding his way home. Stocqueler covered much untrod ground in European travels, citing the differences of his journey from Mignan, Kinneir, and Porter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 2 vols, 8vo (19 x 12 cm); 2 hand-coloured frontispieces, 1 folding lithograph map, contemporary ownership inscription to front pastedown of vol. 1, touch of spotting to map; full contemporary green morocco, gilt rules and florets to boards, gilt roll to board ends and turn-ins, gilt lettering to spine in four shallow gilt compartments, all edges gilt, upper joint of vol. 1 expertly restored, a fine copy; xii, 263; v, [1], 228 pp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilson, p. 217.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"STOCQUELER, Joachim Hayward.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57001144713591,"sku":"122185","price":7500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/122185_d62d2ece-3193-4674-8acf-97b4651bafa3.jpg?v=1780560544"},{"product_id":"angas-south-australia-1847-first-edition-122956","title":"South Australia Illustrated.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003ein the original parts\u003c\/h4\u003eA fine, fresh copy of Angas's best work, bound in the original parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAngas, born in 1822 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, spent two years from 1843 sketching extensively in South Australia and New Zealand, producing 2 large folio volumes on the respective subjects in 1847.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'South Australia illustrated is without question Angas's greatest and most accomplished work. his views of towns and scenery, of the Aborigines and of the flora and fauna offer an outstanding - if romantic- interpretation of the Australian landscape. It is a rare book... and one that has always been held in high esteem. It must be considered one of the fundamental works in any collection of Australian plate books and no collection can be considered complete without it' (Wantrup).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition; 10 parts in 2 vols, large folio (56.5 x 38.5 cm); hand-coloured lithograph pictorial title, subscription list, 60 hand-coloured lithographs by Angas, Giles, Hawkins, and Wing, after Gill (2) and Angas (58), some very minor marginal repairs to title and a couple text leaves, some very faint spotting to a couple of plates in part 4, all else clean and bright; in the original parts containing all original printed wrappers, bound in modern green cloth, gilt lettering to upper boards and spines, housed in a custom slipcase, a few minor marginal repairs to wrappers, a fine copy in the rare parts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbbey, Travel, 577; Colas 133; Ferguson 4458; Tooley 62; Wantrup pp311-312.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"ANGAS, George French.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57073433248119,"sku":"122956","price":25000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4694\/1233\/files\/122956.jpg?v=1780550402"},{"product_id":"king-narrative-journey-1836-original-boards-122822","title":"Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean, in 1833, 1834, and 1835 under the command of Capt Back.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003erare in original boards\u003c\/h4\u003eThe Trolle-Bonde copy of this arctic rarity in the original boards. 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(Arctic Bibliography).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the library of Count Gustaf Trolle-Bonde's (1773-1855) primary residence at Säfstaholms Slott. 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