Ending Mar 7, 2024 12:13 EST
Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Several rare works on African slavery
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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HILL, PASCOE GRENFELL. Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel in the Mozambique Channel, in April and May, 1843. London: Charles Gilpin, 1848. Second edition; bound with BURRITT, ELIHU. Voice from the Forge. London: Charles Gilpin: 1848. Three-quarters calf, mauve cloth sides. 6 3/8 x 3 3/4 inches (16 x 8.5 cm); [iv], 58 pp.and vi, 134 pp. respectively. Light wear and soiling externally; bound with the Grenfell work noted first here as the second work in the ensemble. Old ink gift inscription on front paste-down; together with SULIVAN, GEORGE LYDIARD, R.N. Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters... London: Sampson Low [etc.],1873. Stated second edition, bound the same year as the first. Publisher's orange cloth. 8 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches (22 x 13.75 cm); xii, 454, [2], 32 pp. ads, with folding colored map and twelve wood-engraved plates. Light wear, binding probably professionally tightened, internally clean and sound; Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in foreign Countries, relative to the Slave Trade from April 1, 1850, to March 31, 1851. London: Harrison & Son, (1851). Modern half cloth, xxiv, 886 pp.; SWANN, ALFRED J.Fighting the Slave-Hunters in Central Africa. London: Seeley & Co. Limited, 1910. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Near fine.
Offered with a worn ex-library copy (Mechanic's Institute, Swindon) of Captain Philip Howard Colomb's work Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean. A Record of Naval Experiences, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1873, with the folding lithographed map, hand-colored in outline, in a later binding.
Sold for $544
Estimated at $400 - $600
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
[SLAVERY]
HILL, PASCOE GRENFELL. Fifty Days on Board a Slave-Vessel in the Mozambique Channel, in April and May, 1843. London: Charles Gilpin, 1848. Second edition; bound with BURRITT, ELIHU. Voice from the Forge. London: Charles Gilpin: 1848. Three-quarters calf, mauve cloth sides. 6 3/8 x 3 3/4 inches (16 x 8.5 cm); [iv], 58 pp.and vi, 134 pp. respectively. Light wear and soiling externally; bound with the Grenfell work noted first here as the second work in the ensemble. Old ink gift inscription on front paste-down; together with SULIVAN, GEORGE LYDIARD, R.N. Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters... London: Sampson Low [etc.],1873. Stated second edition, bound the same year as the first. Publisher's orange cloth. 8 7/8 x 5 3/8 inches (22 x 13.75 cm); xii, 454, [2], 32 pp. ads, with folding colored map and twelve wood-engraved plates. Light wear, binding probably professionally tightened, internally clean and sound; Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in foreign Countries, relative to the Slave Trade from April 1, 1850, to March 31, 1851. London: Harrison & Son, (1851). Modern half cloth, xxiv, 886 pp.; SWANN, ALFRED J.Fighting the Slave-Hunters in Central Africa. London: Seeley & Co. Limited, 1910. First edition. Publisher's blue cloth gilt. Near fine.
Offered with a worn ex-library copy (Mechanic's Institute, Swindon) of Captain Philip Howard Colomb's work Slave-Catching in the Indian Ocean. A Record of Naval Experiences, London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1873, with the folding lithographed map, hand-colored in outline, in a later binding.
Auction: Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, ending Mar 7, 2024
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Timed Auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Bidding Will Open on February 22 and Close on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold a timed online auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books closing on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am. Explore the world through a fascinating range of offerings featuring maps, Americana, travel, sporting books, literary sets and the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection of Africana.
Esmond Bradley Martin
Esmond Bradley Martin (1941-2018) was educated as a geographer and philosopher. He and his wife Chryssee had an enduring fascination with Africa, and settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in the mid-1970s. He wrote extensively, oftentimes in conjunction with his wife, publishing works including Zanzibar. Tradition and Revolution, Hamish Hamilton, 1978; Cargoes of the east. The ports, trade, and culture of the Arabian Seas and western Indian Ocean, Elm Tree Press, 1978; and many other works on African history and conservation. In the late 1970s, he began extensive research into the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, which included substantial stints incognito posing as a buyer of illicit wildlife products. For a while, he served as special envoy for rhino conservation for the United Nations.
For about thirty years, beginning in the mid-1960s, Esmond Bradley Martin assiduously collected books and manuscripts on Africa and its history, acquiring a phenomenal collection of letters by many of the major English explorers of the nineteenth century, as well as numerous rarities from earlier centuries. He was buying at a time when troves of such material surfaced frequently at English auctions. Doyle was privileged to offer the first selection from his collection in the November 7, 2023 auction. We are pleased to present this second offering of property from The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection.
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