Marsden Grammar Malayan Language 1812, Somerset Maugham First Editions, Milne When We Were Very, Quaint Korea, Madrolle Guide Indo-China Siam Laos

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8vo., First Edition, original pictorial blue cloth, lettered in gilt, rubbed at corners and edges, similar spine, pp. 303, plus 16 pages of publisher's adverts, black endpapers, illustrated with a frontispiece plate of the author, plus full page plates and illustrations in text, an occasional spot or mark but overall a very good copy.

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MacGregor, Surgeon-Major John. Through the Buffer State. A Record of Recent Travels through Borneo, Siam and Cambodia.
Published: London. F. V. White & Co., 1896
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Pictorial Decorated Blue Cloth
Price: U.S.$375

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8vo., First Edition, original decorated blue cloth, similar spine, very minor wear to binding, pp. xv + 290, illustrated with portrait frontispiece of H. R. H. Prince Krommun Damrong of Siam (younger brother of King Chulalongkorn), plus 11 other plates including a map, previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper, stamped name & address on front paste-down and last page, browning to endpapers and some random light spotting, crease to top edge of first 6 leaves, a firm very good copy in a bright and attractive binding.

Recollections of the travels made by Surgeon-Major John MacGregor in Sarawak, Siam, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaya and Burma in 1895. A medical doctor's description from current political issues to the customs and the traditions of native peoples and encounters.

Cordier 907

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MacKenzie, Col. K. P.. Operation Rangoon Jail
Published: Christopher Johnson, London 1954
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original red cloth with dust wrapper
Price: U.S.$65

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8vo., First Edition, original red cloth, pictorial dust wrapper soiled and worn, with small loss to corners and edges and 2 one inch tears, pp. 201, illustrated with 15 full page photographic plates, plus diagrams and a map of Burma, 9 ink underlines to page 111, browning marks to endpapers, a good copy.

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MacLauchlan, Rev. Thomas. A History of the Scottish Highlands Highland Clans and Highland Regiments with an account of The Gaelic Language, Literature, and Music by.... and an Essay on Highland Scenery by the Late Professor John Wilson. Edited by John S. Keltie.
Published: Thomas C. Jack Edinburgh. 1883
Edition:
Binding: Contemporary half blue morocco over green boards
Price: U.S.$495

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Thick 4to., 2 volumes, original half blue morocco over green boards, rubbed and stained, spines gilt tooled in compartments with red morocco title labels, all edges gilt, joints cracked, inner joints re-enforced with tape, pp. xxxvi + 776 & vi + 818 including index, some time recased with new endpapers, illustrated with a series of portraits, views, maps, etc., engraved on steel, clans tartans ( in Colour) with tissue guards, and upwards of two hundred woodcuts, including armorial bearings, vol. 1, tissue guarded frontispiece engraved portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, vol.2 frontispiece colour folding map of Scotland, foxing mainly to 1st and last few pages of each volume, rather heavy to frontispiece plate and title of volume 1, a good firm copy with colour plates of the Scottish Tartan Clans.

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Macpherson, Rev. H.A. Stuart-Wortley, A.J. & Alexander Innes Shand.
The Pheasant = Natural History, Shooting & Cookery.
Fur and Feather Series edited by Alfred E.T. Watson. London. Longmans, Green, and Co. 1895. 8vo., First Edition, original pictorial biege cloth, black endpapers, pp.viii + 265 +pp.24 of adverts, illustrated by A. Thorburn including tissue guarded frontispiece, one inch tear to page 136, a very good copy in a bright binding. U.S. $125

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Madrolle Guide. Indochina Cochinchina Cambodia Annam Tonkin Yunnan Laos Siam with Maps, Plans, Illustrations.
Published: Libraire Hachette Paris London. 1930
Edition: First ? English Edition
Binding: Original gilt lettered stiff red cloth covers
Price: U.S.$180 Sold

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8vo., First ? English Edition, original gilt lettered stiff red cloth covers, light wear, pp. 280 + 6 pages adverts, illustrated with a double page frontispiece map, numerous full page plates and diagrams, text illustrations, Charts and diagrams plus 4 folding plans of Angkor Wat at rear, lacking folding map in pocket at rear, light browning throughout & a mark here and there, overall a good tight copy.

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Maggs Bros: Catalogue 491; Australia and the South Seas.
Maggs Bros. London 1927. 4to., sometime rebound in blue cloth over original pictorial stiff papers wraps, some spotting to endpapers & title, pp. 281 + pp. 11 of indices, numerous full page plates, a superb reference work in good condition. U.S. $245

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Malory's Morte DÁrthur (abridged from) by Alfred W. Pollard. The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
Published: Macmillan and Co., Limited, London 1917
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original gilt tooled and lettered blue cloth.
Price: U.S.$350 Sold

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4to., First Edition, original gilt tooled and lettered blue cloth, spine gilt, minor wear to binding with a few small marks, top edge brown, pp. 509, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with 16 full page colour plates each with a captioned tissue guard, plus 70 black & white full page plates, text illustrations chapter headings and tail pieces, half title partially glued to front paste-down, slight damage at joint to frontispiece tissue guard, contents clean with no foxing or marks, a good to very good copy.

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Mann, Thomas. Confessions of Felix Krull Confidence Man.
London: Secker & Warburg 1955. Translated from the German by Denver Lindley. 8vo., First English Edition, original green cloth front board with small bend crease, in a worn & torn d/w, very small price square cut from inner flap, contents clean, a good copy. U.S. $130

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Marquis de Sade. Sixty Erotic Engravings from Juliette.
Published: Grove Press, Inc. New York. 1969
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original silver lettered black cloth
Price: U.S.$175

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4to., First Edition, original silver lettered black cloth, similar spine, blue marbled endpapers, un-paginated, 3 pages of introduction followed by 60 full page very erotic engravings, a very good copy.

*Note engravings to erotic to display images.

The engravings which appear in the present work were reproduced from a copy of the 1797 edition of l'Historie de Juliette by the Marquis de Sade.

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Marsden, William. A Grammar of the Malayan Language, with an Introduction and a Praxis.
Published: London: Printed for the Author by Cox and Baylis. 1812
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original boards, rebacked in calf.
Price: U.S.$1,450

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4to., First Edition, Original boards, rebacked in calf. in original style, Spine double gilt ruled lines, contrasting gilt lettered black morocco title label, remnants of original back in same style incorporated, pp. (iv), (50), (2), + 226, water mark to first few pages not affecting text, 3 inch tear to top of title page, ink stamp to title and verso, occasional light browning, a good to very good copy, Rare.

William Marsden (1754-1836) British historian, linguist, numismatist and pioneer of the scientific study of Indonesia. For 10 years he resided in Bencoolen (Bangkhulu) in Sumatra where he studied the language and people. In England he was encouraged by Sir Joseph Banks and others of the Royal Society to prepare his material for publication. His comprehensive work "History of Sumatra" appeared in 1783 and in 1812 he published this grammar and a dictionary, which form the basis of all subsequent Sumatran linguistics.

Cordier BI 1405. Vater p. 244.

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Mathers, E. Powys. (with Engravings by Robert Gibbings). A Circle of the Seasons,
A Translation of the Ritu-Samhara of Kalidasa made from various European sources by. Berkshire. The Golden Cockerel Press. 1929. Limited Edition of 500 copies, No. 85, 8vo., original buckram, pp. 28, with 4 engravings by Gibbings, apart from darkened spine, a fine copy. U.S. $180

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Maugham, W. Somerset. The Vagrant Mood.
William Heinemann London 1952. 8vo., First Edition, original gilt lettered red cloth, in a torn and worn d/w, pp.241, internally very good. U.S.$175

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*From Kant to Raymond Chandler; from Zurbaran to "Elizabeth and her German Garden;" from Burke to Augustus Hare; such is the range and diversity of this volume..... (blurb on d/w)

Maugham, W. Somerset. Theatre a Novel
Published: William Heinemann London. 1937
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Blue Cloth, Dust Wrapper.
Price: U.S.$175

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8vo., First Edition, original gilt lettered blue cloth, in its dust wrapper chipped with portions missing from head and tail of spine, pp. 293, blue endpapers, apart from wear to dust wrapper a very good copy.

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8vo., First Edition, original gilt lettered blue cloth, spine gilt, in a chipped and torn pictorial dust wrapper, pp. 293, apart from wear to dust wrapper a very good copy.

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Melville, Herman. Omoo:
A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; being a sequel to the " Residence in the Marquesas Islands" London John Murray 1847. 8vo., First Edition, original blind patterned red cloth slightly rubbed & soiled, rebacked with the remnants of the old spine laid down, new marbled endpapers, pp.ix + 321 + 16 pages of publishers adverts, frontispiece map, ink name & numbers on title, contents clean, a good copy of a rare title. U.S. $300

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Meynell, Francis. Poems & Pieces 1911-1961.
The Nonesuch Press. London 1961. 8vo., Ltd Edition of 750 copies on hand-made paper, light brown boards, black d/w gilt lettered on spine, pp. 57, some random light spotting otherwise a good clean copy. U.S. $175

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Miln, Louise Jordan. Quaint Korea
Published: London: Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 1895
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original Decorated Green Cloth
Price: U.S.$250

8vo., First Edition, original green cloth lettered and decorated with Yin/Yang motif in black & red, binding rubbed at corners & edges with slight soiling, gilt lettered spine with same motif, pp. viii + 306, half title, front free endpaper missing, spotting to endpapers otherwise contents very good.

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Milne, A.A. Once Upon A Time
Published: Hodder and stoughton, London. n.d. (c. 1920)
Edition: First charles Robinson Illustrated Edition
Binding: Original gilt decorated blue cloth
Price: U.S.$150

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8vo, First Charles Robinson illustrated Edition, original gilt pictorial blue cloth, gilt spine, illustrated with color frontispiece, pictorial endpapers, chapter headings and tail pieces plus numerous line drawings in text, pp. 269, some mild spotting mainly to first & last few pages and some very light wear to binding, otherwise a good firm copy of a delightful book.

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Milne, A.A. When We Were Very Young.
Published: London. Methuen & Co. 1926
Edition: 13th Edition.
Binding: Original gilt decorated blue cloth
Price: U.S.$95

Small 8vo., original gilt decorated blue cloth, minor wear, spine gilt, top edge gilt, pictorial endpapers with some browning, small neat name "david"on half title, illustrated by Ernest H. Shepard with full page plates, text illustrations chapter headings and tail pieces, a very good copy.

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Moore, Lt. Joseph. Scene upon the Terrace of the Great Dagon Pagoda at Rangoon, taken near the Great Bell.
Published: London: Kingsbury & Co. and Thomas Clay, [1825].
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original hand-coloured aquatint plate from Moore's: Eighteen Views Taken at or Near Rangoon.
Price: U.S.$ Sold

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First Edition. Plate 14, A beautiful plate from Moore's book 'Eighteen Views taken at & Near Rangoon', an important visual record of the Burmese countryside and scenery, and of the war between the Burmese and British in 1824 to 1826. Original hand-coloured aquatint, 305 x 390 mm, some browning, one or two isolated spots, Rare

Plate 14 marked "Proof".

Following Burmese incursions into British held territory in 1821-1823 (including the successful invasion of Assam), the Governor-General , Lord Amherst, declared war on Burma on February 24, 1824. The British were successful in expelling the Burmese from Assam, but Bandula, the ablest of the Burmese generals, repelled a British detachment at Ramu on the Chittagong frontier. In reply, the British sent an expedition of 11,000 men under Major-General Archibald Campbell and ships under Captain Frederick Marryat to attack Rangoon by sea. The expedition resulted in the capture of Rangoon on May 11, 1824, with the Burmese forces fleeing into jungles of Pegu. Meanwhile, Bandula had been recalled and arrived before Rangoon on December 1 with 60,000 men. He was, however, defeated on December 15 and then retreated to Donabew, where, after a brave defence, he was killed in April 1825. On April 25, Campbell captured Prome, the capital of Lower Burma. The fighting continued sporadically throughout the rest of 1825 and into 1826, until a peace treaty was signed on February 24.

Joseph Moore, a Lieutenant in the 89th Regiment, includes images that begin with the departure of Campbell's invasion force and conclude in July 1824. They are a finely balanced mixture of eye-witness battle scenes with a number of very fine views of countryside and buildings in and around Rangoon.

Abbey Travel II, 404; Tooley 334.

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Moore, Lt. Joseph. View of the Great Dagon Pagoda and ajacent Scenery taken on the Eastern road from Rangoon.
Published: London: Kingsbury & Co. and Thomas Clay, [1825].
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Original hand-coloured aquatint plate from Moore's: Eighteen Views Taken at or Near Rangoon.
Price: U.S.$ Sold

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First Edition. Plate 16, A beautiful plate from Moore's book 'Eighteen Views taken at & Near Rangoon', an important visual record of the Burmese countryside and scenery, and of the war between the Burmese and British in 1824 to 1826. Original hand-coloured aquatint, 305 x 390 mm, some browning, one or two isolated spots, small tear to outer margin, Rare.

Plate 16 in first state with äjacent" in caption.

Following Burmese incursions into British held territory in 1821-1823 (including the successful invasion of Assam), the Governor-General , Lord Amherst, declared war on Burma on February 24, 1824. The British were successful in expelling the Burmese from Assam, but Bandula, the ablest of the Burmese generals, repelled a British detachment at Ramu on the Chittagong frontier. In reply, the British sent an expedition of 11,000 men under Major-General Archibald Campbell and ships under Captain Frederick Marryat to attack Rangoon by sea. The expedition resulted in the capture of Rangoon on May 11, 1824, with the Burmese forces fleeing into jungles of Pegu. Meanwhile, Bandula had been recalled and arrived before Rangoon on December 1 with 60,000 men. He was, however, defeated on December 15 and then retreated to Donabew, where, after a brave defence, he was killed in April 1825. On April 25, Campbell captured Prome, the capital of Lower Burma. The fighting continued sporadically throughout the rest of 1825 and into 1826, until a peace treaty was signed on February 24.

Joseph Moore, a Lieutenant in the 89th Regiment, includes images that begin with the departure of Campbell's invasion force and conclude in July 1824. They are a finely balanced mixture of eye-witness battle scenes with a number of very fine views of countryside and buildings in and around Rangoon.

Abbey Travel II, 404; Tooley 334.

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Morgenthaler, H. O. Matahari, Impressions of the Siamese-Malayan Jungle
Published: New York. George H. Doran Company. 1923
Edition: First Edition.
Binding: Yellow Cloth
Price: U.S.$80

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8vo., First Edition, original red lettered and decorated yellow cloth, light wear, slightly soiled and lettering faded, top edge red, pp.240, illustrated with full page plates, chapter headings and tail pieces, internally a very good copy.

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