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SETON-KARR ( Heywood W. ), FRGS. Ten years travel & sport in foreign lands or

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SETON-KARR ( Heywood W. ), FRGS. Ten years travel & sport in foreign lands or

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Auction Date:2012 Oct 20 @ 11:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
SETON-KARR ( Heywood W. ), FRGS. Ten years travel & sport in foreign lands or, travels in the eighties. Chapman and Hall, 1890SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS, with a frontispiece, pages xi, 445 and (2), 40 adverts, 8vo, original cloth : a nice copy. Seton-Karr (1859-1938), soldier, explorer, game hunter, now best known for the “Seton-Karr Flints”. This second edition, greatly enlarged on the 332-pp of the first edition of 1889, adds an account of his experiences in an ox-waggon in S. Africa, a return journey from Teheran, to Constantinople, from Norsjo in Sweden to the Umeo, of the Canadian Pacific Railway, of Deep Lake in Alaska, from Uleaborg in Finland to St. Petersburg, to his accounts of sport and travel in Norway 1880-81 ; Sardinia and Corsica 1883-5 ; trout fishing in Lapland 1884 ; fishing in Quebec ; hunting in Wyoming in 1885 ; the monasteries of Mount Athos 1885-6 ; Alaska 1886; Finland and Sweden in 1887 ; Kashmir and the Himalayas 1887-8 ; goat hunting in the Cascades of British Columbia, etc.ALSO WITH THIS LOT: RAE ( Wm. Fraser ). Egypt To-Day. The first to the Third Khedive. Richard Bentley & Son, 1892. FIRST EDITION, pages (8), 331, (1, blank), 8vo, original brown coth, gilt, with the armorial bookplate of Francis Charles Needham, 3rd Earl of Kilmorey from Mourne Park, Co Down : a bright, fresh, attractive copy. Rae (1835-1905), Scottish born barrister practising in England. A prolific author, principally of political and economic travel studies, but he also wrote novels and biographies and was a contributor to the original Dictionary of National Biography. (2) LAYARD ( Sir Austen H. ). Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon ; with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert ; being the result of a second expedition undertaken for the Trustees of the British Museum. John Murray, 1853. FIRST EDITION, with 2 folding plates, 3 folding plans, 8 tinted lithographed plates, 1 other plate, 2 folding maps and many full-page and other illustrations, pages xxxiii, (1), 686, (2, adverts), 8vo, original blind-stamped brown cloth, uncut : neat repair without loss to short tear in one folding map, the spine neatly repaired, retaining the original endpapers and flyleaves : a very good copy. The classic account of Layard's discovery of the remains of vast and magnificent palaces of the Assyrian kings. Regarded as one of the best written books on travel in the language.(3)TRAVEL; EUROPE; ASIA; SOUTH AFRICA; AMERICA; ALASKA; CANADA; AFRICA; NORTH AFRICA; EGYPT; MIDDLE EAST; ASSYRIA