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Park (Mungo). The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805..., 1st edition, London: John Murray 1815, half-title discarded, folding engraved map frontispiece, title page torn to margins and lined to verso, occasional dust-soiling and few marks, modern half calf, 4to, together with: Parry (William Edward). Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the years 1819-20, in His Majesty's Ships Hecla and Griper, 1st edition, London: John Murray 1821, 13 plates (including 8 uncoloured aquatint and 5 engraved), 7 engraved maps (4 folding), library ink stamp to title page, all maps and plates and some leaves of text, occasional dust-soiling and few marks, lacking free endpapers, 20th-century half cloth, dust-soiled, 4to, Lawrence (Walter R.). The Valley of Kashmir, 1st edition, London: Henry Frowde, 1895, folding lithograph map, monochrome plates, bookplate, original cloth-backed boards, cloth browned, 4to, D'Orleans (Prince Henri). From Tonkin to India, by the Sources of the Irawadi, January '95-January '96, Translated by Hamley Bent, M.A., Illustrated by G. Vuillier, 1st edition, London: Methuen, 1898, wood-engraved frontispiece and illustrations (some full-page), folding lithograph map, top edge gilt, endpapers renewed, original gilt-blocked dark green cloth, rebacked preserving original spine, extremities rubbed, large 8vo, Prescott (William H.). History of the Conquest of Mexico, with a preliminary view of the ancient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortés, 3 volumes, 1st edition, London: Richard Bentley 1843, engraved portrait frontispieces, 2 folding maps and one plate, plus Prescott (William H.). History of the Conquest of Peru, with a preliminary view of the Civilization of the Incas, 2 vols., 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley 1847, engraved frontispieces, occasional spotting, top edge gilt, late 19th/early 20th-century navy blue half calf by Bumpus Ltd., 8vo (Quantity: 9)