author's presentation copy
ROBINSON, Frederick.
Refutation of Lieutenant Wellsted's Attack upon Lord Valentia's (now Earl of Mount Norris) work upon the Red Sea. With comparative diagrams, shewing the inventions of Bruce.
London, G. Norman, 1842.
Robinson claimed that Wellsted in his work Travels in Arabia endeavoured to obtain undue credit for James Bruce at the expense of Lord Valentia: '... I think that I shall be enabled to prove, and that from Lieut. Wellsted's own work, that not until now have the real piracies and fictions of 'Bruce' been fully established'. There were many contemporary critics of Bruce: he wrote his enormous five volume account of his voyages twelve years after his return and did not directly his reference his journals. Frederick Robinson was presumably an officer on board the Minerva during Annesley's journey and could testify to the genuineness of Annesley's accounts as opposed to the allegedly unsubstantiated Bruce. Modern experts find Bruce's accounts totally believable and accurate.
Rare; with no copies appearing at auction in the last thirty years. This copy, of what was likely a very limited number privately printed for presentation, is inscribed on the end-leaf 'William Stride Esq. With the Author's Compliments'.
First edition; 4to; inscribed copy, 7 engraved maps (light offsetting); original brown cloth, faded and worn, a good copy; ii, 17 pp.
Stock code 109219
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Refutation of Lieutenant Wellsted's Attack
VARTHEMA, Ludovico de.
The Itinerary Ludovico de Varthema of Bologna from 1502 to 1508.
1928.
$411.00
DUMAS, Tancrède; BONFILS, Felix; BERGHEIM, Peter; ARNOUX, Hippolyte; QUARELLI, F.
Four albums of photographs of Ottoman Empire:
c. 1860-1880].
Collection of photographic plates shot in Ottoman-Empire-ruled territories of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey by the pioneers of orientalist photography - Dumas, Bonfils, Bergheim, Arnoux and Quarelli.
$20,533.00
