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1. [ABYSSINIAN CAMPAIGN.]쯳pan>Album of 78 original photographs taken during the Abyssinian Expedition, ⯭ Zoulla to Magdala'.쯳pan>Photographers of the 10th Company, Royal Engineers, 1867-8.

78 albumen prints, most approximately 17 x 24.5 cm, some mounted together on linen to form five large folding panoramas, each with a printed title caption in the margin, with a manuscript list of images bound in at the front; some leaves dusty and cockled but generally not affecting the photographs; library blind-stamp to the upper right corner of each image; later blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine.

A complete series such as this rarely appears on the market. More details available on request.




2. [ABYSSINIA / SOMALILAND.]쯳pan>Three fine cartes-de-visite, portraits of East African types.쯳pan>Unidentified photographer, early 1870s.

Three original albumen photographs, each approximately 9.5 x 5.5 cm, laid on card; two minor tears to one image; captioned in a contemporary German hand, ⥳synischer Krieger', 鮠geborener v. Somaly', ᮮ v. Somaly'.ࠠ༯span>ⰼo:p>




3. ADAMS, H. G.쯳pan>Dr. Livingston: his life and adventures in the interior of South Africa: comprising a description of the regions which he traversed; an account of missionary pioneers; and chapters on cotton cultivation, slavery, wild animals, etc., etc.쯳pan>London, Houlston & Wright [1857].

8vo (19 x 12 cm), pp. [ii] xxvi, 293, with a folding map and portrait frontispiece; original red pictorial cloth, gilt; a very good copy. 尼o:p>

First edition. A scarce and early biography of Livingstone, published in the same year as Missionary Travels




4. [AFRICA.]쯳pan>Sketches of the African kingdoms and peoples.쯳pan>London, S.P.C.K., [1860].

Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp. iv, 378, [4] publisher's list, with a folding map and illustrations in the text; a pretty copy in the original blind-stamped cloth; minor split to head of upper joint. 尼o:p>

First edition (a second edition appeared in 1869).쯳pan>A general survey of Africa from Cape to Cairo.




5. [AFRICAN EXPLORATION FUND.]쯳pan>Circular by the Special Committee appointed by the Council of the Royal Geographical Society to administer the African Exploration Fund.쯳pan>London, Edward Stanford for the Royal Geographical Society, [1877].

4to (28 x 21.5 cm), pp. 8, with a large folding map of Africa at the rear, a list of fund subscribers loosely inserted; original blue printed wrappers; wrappers creased, with a few small tears. ᰼/b>

Oates family copy, with the book plate of Robert Washington Oates and another in memoriam of Frank Oates.༯span>An appeal for public interest and funds in the further exploration of Africa.쯳pan>The accompanying map not only illustrates the routes taken by explorers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but also the vastness of the regions remaining unexplored in 1877.




6. [AFRICAN EXPLORERS.]쯳pan>Africa and its exploration, as told by its explorers.쯳pan>Mungo Park, Clapperton, the Landers, Barth, Baikie, Burton, Capello, Stanley, Speke, Schweinfurth, Grant, Nachtigal, Mohr, Iven, Livingstone, Serpa Pinto, Baker, Thomson, Kerr, Emin Etc., Etc.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston and Company, [n.d., but circa 1891].

2 vols., large 8vo (24.5 x 17 cm), pp. xii, 572; xii, 580, with a large folding map, numerous plates and illustrations; some foxing to the fore-edge of volume one; original red pictorial cloth, gilt and black lettering; spines sunned, but generally a very good copy. 尼o:p>

First edition.쯳pan>A compilation of accounts of African expeditions, mainly from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.쯳pan>Mendelssohn (1910), I, p. 7.




7. ALBERTI, Louis (Ludwig).쯳pan>Description physique et Historique des Cafres, sur la c䥍 m鲩dionale de l'Afrique.쯳pan>Amsterdam, Maaskamp, 1811.

2 vols., comprising text volume and plate volume: 8vo (22.5 x 13 cm), pp. xii, [iv], contents list; 255, with a folding map and two hand-coloured plates; later calf; plate volume: oblong folio (44.5 x 59 cm), pp. [iv] title-page and list of plates, with four hand-coloured aquatints, heightened in gum arabic; original marbled paper boards, endpapers possibly later; a very good copy.쯳pan>First French edition (first published in Dutch in 1810 ᠇erman edition, without the plates, was published in Gotha in 1815). ର00




8. ALEXANDER, G. W.쯳pan>Letters on the slave-trade, slavery, and emancipation; with a reply to objections made to the liberation of the slaves in the Spanish colonies; addressed to friends on the continent of Europe, during a visit to Spain and Portugal.쯳pan>London, Charles Gilpin, 1842.

Small 8vo (15.5 x 10 cm), pp. xvi, 176; near contemporary grained morocco, gilt lettering directly to spine, all edges gilt; a very pretty copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>Inscribed on the front free endpaper, ﲤ Ashburton from the Author'. 尼o:p>




9. [ANGLO-BOER WAR.]쯳pan>The efforts of the colonies of the Cape and Natal to avert war.쯳pan>Published in the interests of truth by the South Africa Conciliation Committee. London, printed by the National Press Agency for the S.A.C.C., [1899].

8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. 16; original printed wrapper. ఼/b>




10. [APARTHEID.]쯳pan>Three anti-apartheid pamphlets:쯳pan>a) MENON, K.N., Passive resistance in South Africa. A brief history of South Africa, the circumstances that led to Indian immigration, the gradual development of anti-Indian feling, and the disabilities of non-Europeans resulting in the present Satyagraha movement.쯳pan>New Delhi, Roxy Press, 1952.쯳pan>8vo (21 x 13 cm), pp. 32, with illustrations; original wrappers.

b) ӏUTH AFRICAN', Prisoners of Apartheid.쯳pan>London, Christian Aid, Bluett & Co, circa 1965.쯳pan>8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. 40; original wrappers.쯳pan>

c) MANDELA, Nelson Rolihlahla.쯳pan>I am prepared to die.쯳pan>Second edition.쯳pan>London, Christian Aid, A.G. Bishop & Sons, circa 1965.쯳pan>8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), portrait of Nelson Mandela on the upper wrapper; original wrappers. 弯:p>




11. BADEN-POWELL, Robert Stephenson Smyth.쯳pan>The Matabele Campaign, 1896.쯳pan>Being a narrative of the campaign in suppressing the native rising in Matabeleland and Mashonaland.쯳pan>London, Methuen & Co., 1900.

8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm), pp. 144, with a few illustrations in the text; original yellow printed wrappers; small chips to the foot of spine, otherwise a very bright copy. Abridged from the first edition of 1897.쯳pan>From Methuen's Sixpenny Library series.쯳pan>Mendelssohn (1979) I, p. 108.࠼/span>఼o:p>




12. BAINES, Thomas. Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls.쯳pan>London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xiv, 535, with three folding maps, chromolithograph frontispiece, eight wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text; original maroon-purple cloth, blind-stamped, gilt lettering to spine; small repairs to joints, head and foot of spine, extremities a little rubbed, contained in a recent cloth box.

First edition: presentation copy in the original cloth, inscribed by Baines directly on the half-title, mma Barnet from her sincere friend, T. Baines, Nottingham, August 31, 1866'.쯳pan>True presentation copies of this title are very rare (in recent years contrived examples have been offered on the market as presentation copies, with the signature or inscription being on a tipped-in note only).쯳pan>A classic account of African travel and big game hunting through Damaraland, Namaqualand and Bechuanaland to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls, some of the time accompanied by James Chapman.쯳pan>Czech p. 9; Hosken p. 9; Mendelssohn (1910) I, pp. 69-70; Theal p. 17.




13. BAKER, Samuel White.쯳pan>Isma﬩a.쯳pan>A narrative of the expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. London, Macmillan, 1874.

2 vols., 8vo (22 x 14.5 cm), pp. [vi], 448, 55 (publisher's list); [vi], 588, with two maps and 50 plates; original green cloth, gilt vignette to upper covers; extremities a little rubbed but still a bright set.쯳pan>First edition. 尼o:p>




14. BAKER, Samuel White.쯳pan>Wild beasts and their ways.쯳pan>Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.쯳pan>London, Macmillan & Co., 1890.

2 vols., 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. [xiv], 419; [viii], 379, with a frontispiece in each volume, 25 plates and two vignettes; some scattered foxing; near contemporary, blue half calf, spine gilt, red morocco labels, marbled sides; extremities rubbed, but an attractive copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>A lifetime of hunting experiences.࠼/span> 尼o:p>




15. BALDWIN, William Charles.쯳pan>African hunting and adventure from Natal to쯳pan>the Zambesi including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, &c, from 1852 to 1860.쯳pan>London, Richard Bentley, 1863.

8vo (21.5 x 13 cm), pp. x, 451, with a folding map and 18 plates, illustrations in the text; minor foxing in places; full contemporary calf, spine gilt.쯳pan>Second edition (the first edition appeared earlier in the same year). ఼/b>




16. BAUR, Etienne & Alexandre LE ROY. ﳰan> travers le Zanguebar.쯳pan>Voyage dans l'Oudo鬠l'Ouziguoa, l'Oukw貥, l'Oukami et l'Ousagara.쯳pan>Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1886.

 

Large 8vo (26 x 17 cm), pp. 358, with a map and 45 full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, all edges gilt; ownership inscription to the front free endpaper; spine rubbed and bumped, small splits to the foot of the joints (repaired).쯳pan>First edition (a second edition was published in 1887, a third in 1893 and a fourth in 1899). ఼o:p>




17. BEAVER, Philip.쯳pan>African memoranda: relative to an attempt to establish a British settlement on the island of Bulama, on the western coast of Africa, in the year 1792.쯳pan>With a brief notice of the neighbouring tribes, soil, productions, &c.쯳pan>And some observations on the facility of colonizing that part of Africa, with a view to cultivation and the introduction of letters and religion to the inhabitants: but more particularly as the means of gradually abolishing African slavery. London, For C. & R. Baldwin, 1805.

4to (26 x 21 cm), pp. viii, xv, [i] blank, 500, with a large folding map (some hand-colouring) and two plans; some worming to the lower margin front pastedown, free endpaper and lower margin of the folding map, minor worm-hole to the lower margin of the title-page and few preliminaries; full contemporary tree calf, gilt; upper joint neatly repaired, extremities a little worn.쯳pan>First edition.




18. BEKE, Charles Tilstone. ﳰan>On the Mountains forming the Eastern side of the basin of the Nile and the origin of the designation ﵮtains of the Moon,᳠applied to them.쯳pan>Edinburgh, Neill & Company, 1861.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. 15; a good copy in the original printed wrappers; spine neatly reinforced with cloth.쯳pan>A scarce offprint from the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal. ఼o:p>




19. BEKE, Charles Tilstone.쯳pan>The sources of the Nile: being a general survey of the basin of that river and if its head-streams: with the history of Nilotic discovery.쯳pan>London, James Madden, 1860.

8vo (21 x 14 cm), pp. [xx], 155, [1], with a folding map (repaired tear) original mauve cloth, somewhat sunned, small repair to head and food of spine.쯳pan>First edition, based largely on The Nile and its Tributaries, a paper published in 1846. Beke travelled widely in Abyssinia in the 1840s.쯳pan>఼o:p>



20. BELLASIS, George Hutchins.쯳pan>Views in St. Helena.쯳pan>London, printed for John Tyler, the plates printed by W. B. M'Queen, 1815.

Oblong folio (32.5 x 46 cm), pp. [x], title-page, dedication leaf, list of subscribers, introduction; six hand-coloured aquatint plates, each with a leaf of descriptive text; contemporary half calf, marbled sides, gilt lettering to spine; boards rubbed, minor repairs to joints and spine, a few areas of marbled paper expertly restored. First edition.




21. BELZONI, Giovanni Battista.쯳pan>Original print, a portrait in profile of an Egyptian figure, from a section of an ancient Egyptian wall painting.쯳pan>Circa 1817-20 [with ancient Egyptian colouring].

45 x 33 cm, coloured in brown, yellow and black; signed by Belzoni in pencil in the lower right corner; very small hole and minor tears to the margins, vestiges on the reverse of the print having been tipped in to an album at some time, generally in very good condition, the colour still bright and fresh. ⬰00




22. BENTLEY, William Holman.쯳pan>Pioneering on the Congo. London, Religious Tract Society, 1900.

2 vols., 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. 478; 448, with a large folding map in volume one, frontispiece in each volume, numerous illustrations in the text (some full-page); a very solid copy in recent half morocco, contrasting labels, brown cloth sides, original, cloth upper cover bound in at the rear of volume one. First edition.ࠠ༯span>絼o:p>




23. [BIDDULPH, William.]쯳pan>The travels of certaine Englishmen into Africa, Asia, Troy, Bythnia, Thracia, and to the Blacke Sea. And into Syria, Cilicia, Pisidia, Mesopotamia, Damascus [&c].쯳pan>London, Th. Haveland, for W. Apsley, 1609.

Small 4to (17 cm x 13 cm), pp. [4] address to reader and title-page [16], 143, [1] errata, lacking A3-4 of preface as sometimes found with this particular title (leaves supplied in photocopy, loosely inserted); later black morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>The Boies Penrose copy with his bookplate.ࠠࠠࠠࠠ༯span>




24. BISHOP, Francis.쯳pan>The gold law of the South African Republic, as amended by the Honourable Volksrand in session 1896; also the law of base metals (No. 17, 1895), and the patent law with complete index. Compiled and registered by Francis Bishop.쯳pan>Johannesburg & Pretoria, W. E. Burmester & Co., 1896.

Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp, xvi, 67; ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, and a few annotations to pp. [iv-v]; original blue cloth covers, black lettering, stapled; covers a little creased. 絼o:p>




25. BOXER, Professor C. R. & Carlos de Azevedo. Fort Jesus and the Portuguese in Mombasa.쯳pan>London, Hollis & Carter, 1960.

8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. 144, with a frontispiece, maps, plates and illustrations; original red cloth, dust-jacket; dust-jacket worn at head of spine, but generally a very bright copy indeed.쯳pan>First edition in English (also published in Portuguese in the same year). 尼o:p>




26. BUCHANAN, John.쯳pan>The Shir蠨ighlands (East Central Africa) as colony and mission.쯳pan>London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1885.

8vo (19 x 13 cm), pp. [viii], 260, 24 (publisher's list), with a folding map; repaired tear to the margin of the map; recent half calf, gilt, marbled boards, original cloth upper cover bound in at rear. First edition. ఼o:p>




27. BURCHELL, William.쯳pan>Travels in the interior of Southern Africa.쯳pan>London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1822-4.

2 vols., 4to (27 x 21.5 cm), pp. [x], [i] errata slip, 582; [vii], 648 (half-titles not present), with a large folding map and 20 hand-coloured aquatints, numerous wood-engravings in the text; contemporary tree calf, rebacked, endpapers replaced,쯳pan>all edges marbled, housed in a recent slipcase; boards rubbed.

First edition.쯳pan>Abbey notes that 750 copies of volume one were printed and 500 of volume two. 岣hell's Travels 鳍 generally acknowledged to be unsurpassed by any other item, if we take in to account accuracy, the background knowledge of the writer, new information, illustrations (both for accuracy and beauty), typography and book production' (Kennedy, Africana repository, p. 90).쯳pan>襠most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century쯢> (Mendelssohn, 1910, I, p. 224).쯳pan>Abbey Travel, 327;; Theal pp. 50-1; Tooley 116.




28. BURTON, Richard Francis.쯳pan>First footsteps in East Africa; or, an exploration of Harar.쯳pan>London, Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856.

8vo (20 x 12.5 cm), pp. xlii, 648 (half-title not present), with two maps and four chromolithograph plates; contemporary calf, gilt spine, all edges marbled; head and foot of spine neatly repaired.쯳pan>First edition.




29. CAILLIɬ R鮩.쯳pan>Journal d'un voyage ᠔embuctou et ᠊enne, dans l'Afrique centrale, pr飥d頤'observations faites chez les Maures Braknas, les Nalous et d'autres peuples; pendant les ann饳 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828.쯳pan>Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1830.

3 vols., 8vo (21.5 x 13 cm), pp. [iv], [xii], 475; [iv], 426; [iv] 404, [2], with two maps on one large folding sheet, portrait frontispiece to volume one and five plates (including a folding view of Timbuktu); contemporary quarter calf, spines gilt, marbled boards; skilful repairs to joints; an attractive set.

First edition (the first English edition, in two octavo volumes, was published later in the same year).쯳pan>The plates to the French edition are sometimes bound in a separate atlas volume; in this particular set, they are bound with the text volumes.쯳pan>The first published eye-witness account of Timbuktu by a European traveller.




30. CAMPBELL, Duguld.쯳pan>Ngoi.쯳pan>A story of the slavery of to-day in Central Africa. Told by a rescued slave in his own words.쯳pan>Glasgow, Pickering & Inglis; London, Alfred Holness; New York, D.T. Bass, [n.d., circa 1890].

8vo (18 x 12.5 cm), pp. 32, with half-tone illustrations in the text; original printed wrappers, with additional outer bark-paper wrappers.쯳pan>An apparently unrecorded pamphlet, not in OCLC. 簼/b>




31. CAPELLO, Hermenegildo Carlos de Brito. & Roberto IVENS.쯳pan>From Benguella to the territory of Yacca.쯳pan>Description of a journey into Central and West Africa.쯳pan>Comprising narratives, adventures, and important surveys of the sources of the Rivers Cunene, Cubango, Luando, Cuanza, and Cuango, and of great part of the course of the two latter; together with the discovery of the Rivers Hamba, Cauali, Sussa, and Cugho, and a detailed account of the territories of Quiteca, N'bungo, Sosso, Futa, and Yacca.쯳pan>London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882.

2 vols., 8vo (21 x 14 cm), pp. lii, 395; xv, [i] blank, 350, with three folding maps laid on linen and 22 wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text; some foxing, maps slightly browned; contemporary red half morocco, green cloth sides, library crest blocked in gilt on the upper covers and foot of spines, all edges marbled; a little wear to the head of spine of volume two, otherwise a handsome copy.쯳pan>First edition in English.




32. CARNES, Joshua A.쯳pan>Journey of a voyage from Boston to the West Coast of Africa, with a full description of the manner of trading with the natives on the coast.쯳pan>Boston, John P. Jewett & Co.; Cleveland, Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852.

8vo (19 x 11.5 cm), pp. 479; recent half calf, spine richly gilt, red morocco label; an excellent copy.쯳pan>First edition (a London edition appeared in the following year). ఼/b>




33. CHEVALIER, Auguste.쯳pan>Mission Chari - Lake Chad 1902- 1904.쯳pan>L'Afrique Central Fran硩se.쯳pan>Paris, Augustin Challamel, 1907 [the title-page dated 1907, the upper wrapper 1908].

Large 8vo (27.5 x 18.5 cm), pp. xv, 776, with 6 maps (some folding), frontispiece and 7 plates, illustrations in the text; near contemporary half morocco, mottled paper sides, top edge gilt, upper wrapper retained; extremities a little rubbed.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




34. [COLENSO, Frances E.]쯳pan>WYLDE, Atherton, pseud. ﳰan>My chief and I.쯳pan>Or, six months in Natal after the Langalibalele outbreak.쯳pan>London, Chapman Hall, 1880.

8vo (21 x 14 cm), pp. xii, 327, with a frontispiece portrait of Colonel Durnford and three plates (two lithographs and one photograph); contemporary red half morocco.࠼/span>SOLD




35. COHEN, Chapman.쯳pan>Christianity and slavery. With a chapter on Christianity and the Labour Movement.쯳pan>London, The Pioneer Press, [1918].

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. 95, [1] publisher's list, with two illustrations in the text; original green printed wrappers, portrait of the author on the upper cover.쯳pan>First edition. 尼o:p>




36. [CONGO.]쯳pan>The diary of a Belgian traveller in the Abir region.쯳pan>Cranleigh, C. E. Johnson, Distributed by the Federation for the Defence of Belgian Interests Abroad, [c.1907].

8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. 31, with 14 half-tone illustrations in the text; original grey printed wrappers, black lettering; upper cover a little creased, vestiges of a paper label on the lower cover. 尼o:p>




37. CONTREIRAS, Manoel Jos鍊Martins.쯳pan>A provincia de Angola.쯳pan>Breves considerac峠sobre o seu presente e futuro administrativo, agricola, commercial e financeiro.쯳pan>Lisbon, Ferreira, La B飣are, 1894.

8vo (22.5 x 15 cm), pp. 100; ownership inscription to title page (possibly, a presentation inscription?); original printed wrappers; wrappers chipped and creased.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>An economic and historic overview of Angola. 尼o:p>




38. COSTA, Henrique Cesar da Silva Barahona e.쯳pan>Apontamentos para a historia da guerra da Zambezia 1871践.쯳pan>Prefaciado pelo Conselhueiro Henrique de Barros Gomes. Lisbon, Ferin, Palhares, 1895.

8vo (18.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. 57, with a portrait frontispiece; largely unopened; original printed wrappers; small split to the foot of spine, edges of wrappers browned.쯳pan>First edition. ⰼo:p>




39. CRANWORTH, Lord [Bertram Francis Gurdon].쯳pan>Profit and sport in British East Africa.쯳pan>Being a second editon, revised and enlarged, of ïlony in the Making쳰an style='mso-spacerun:yes'> London, Macmillan & Co., 1919.

8vo (22 x 14.5 cm), pp. xvi, 503, with two folding maps and 33 plates; original green cloth; gilt lettering to spine a little dulled, but cloth still very bright.쯳pan>Second edition (first published in 1912). 絼o:p>




40. CROWTHER, Francis.쯳pan>Notes for the guidance of District Commissioners, Gold Coast Colony. ﳰan>Accra, Government Press, 1916.

8vo (18.5 x 11 cm), pp. 62, interleaved with notepaper; original brown printed wrappers, stapled; staples rusted, small area of fore-edge gnawed.쯳pan>First edition.谼o:p>




41. CROWTHER, Samuel Adjai.쯳pan>Journal of an expedition up the Niger and Tshadda Rivers, undertaken by Macgregor Laird, Esq. in connection with the British government, in 1854.쯳pan>London, Church Missionary House, Seeley, Jackson and Halliday, 1855.

8vo (19.5 x 11.5 cm), pp. xxiii, [i] blank, 234, one folding map; inoffensive ink ownership inscription to upper margin of title-page, some faint underlining in the text; original brown, blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine, minor wear to head and foot of spine.쯳pan>First edition. 絼/b>




42. CROWTHER, Samuel Adjai.쯳pan>[Bishop Crowther's experiences in West Africa.]쯳pan>Experiences with heathens and Mohammedans in West Africa.쯳pan>London, S.P.C.K.; New York, E. & J. B. Young, 1892.

Slim 8vo (17 x 12 cm), pp. 60, 4 (publisher's list); a very good copy in the original blue cloth, black lettering.쯳pan>First edition. 谼o:p>




43. COUDENHOVE, Hans.쯳pan>My African neighbors. Man, bird and beast in Nyasaland. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1925.

8vo (21 x 15 cm), pp. [xvi], 245, with 12 half-tone plates; pp. 234-5 browned where a newspaper article has previously been loosely inserted; original red cloth, gilt lettering, dust-jacket; a near fine copy.쯳pan>First edition (a London edition appeared in 1933). ఼o:p>




44. D'ALBERTIS, Enrico Alberto.쯳pan>Una crociera sul Nilo.쯳pan>Torino, Roma, Milano, Firenze, Napoli, G. B. Paravia e Comp., [1904].

8vo (22 x 15 cm), pp. 228, [1] index, [1] blank, [2] publisher's list, with a map frontispiece, numerous half-tone illustrations in the text; contemporary quarter roan, gilt lettering to spine, pebbled cloth sides; some wear and minor worming to fore-edge of upper board.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>尼o:p>




45. DALE, Godfrey.쯳pan>The people of Zanzibar. Their customs and religious beliefs. London, Universities Mission to Central Africa, 1920.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. 124, [4] publisher's list; a very good copy in the original green cloth, black lettering.쯳pan>First edition. 弯:p>




46. DANIELL, Samuel and William DANIELL.쯳pan>Sketches representing the native tribes, animals, and scenery of Southern Africa, from drawings made by the late Mr. Samuel Daniell, engraved by William Daniell.쯳pan>London, William Daniell & William Wood, 1820.

Small folio (34.5 x 28 cm), pp. [viii], title-page, dedication leaf, introduction, contents list (half-title not present), with 48 plates (uncoloured, soft-ground etchings), each with leaf of descriptive text; some creases to a few plates and text, minor foxing and soiling to preliminary leaves; contemporary half calf, marbled sides, boards and spine worn. First edition.




47. DAVIDSON, John.쯳pan>Notes taken during travels in Africa, by the late John Davidson, F.R.S. F.S.A., &c.쯳pan>Printed for private circulation only.쯳pan>London, J.L. Cox & Sons, 1839.

4to (27 x 22 cm), pp. [vi] half-title not present, 218, with three lithograph plates after sketches by Davidson; a little minor browning; recent half calf, spine gilt.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>A good copy of a rare journal, printed for private circulation only.쯳pan>Not in Abbey, Travel.쯳pan>




48. DESVERGERS, No묮쯳pan>Abyssinien.쯳pan>Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart, 1835.

8vo (22.5 x 14 cm), pp. 56, with 12 plates; original printed wrappers, largely unopened; an extremely good, clean copy.쯳pan>First edition in German (translated from the French by Karl August Mebold). Issued as parts 55 to 57 of the Welt-Gemelde-Gallerie; oder Geschichte und Beschreibung aller L䡮der und Volker, ihrer Religionen, Sitten, Gebr䵣he u.s.w.쯳pan>OCLC records one copy of an 1840 edition (New York Public Library).쯳pan>Fumagalli records an undated French edition only. ఼/b>




49. [DIAMONDS!]쯳pan>The Diamond News and Vaal Advertiser.쯳pan>Pniel [South Africa], Richards, Glanville & Co., 1st ﳰan>& 15th July 1871.

Two newspapers (51x 37 cm), each pp. [4]; somewhat browned and creased.쯳pan>News and advertisements for prospectors and dealers, with numerous references to Klip Drift, Pniel, Du Toit's Pan and Hebron. ఼/b>




50. DU CHAILLU, Paul Belloni,쯳pan>Explorations and adventures in Equatorial Africa; with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals.쯳pan>London, John Murray, 1861.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xviii, 479, [1] blank, 28 (advertisements), with a folding frontispiece, a folding map and 28 plates, illustrations in the text; repaired tear to map; a very good copy in recent dark green half calf, spine gilt, marbled boards.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>఼o:p>




51. DUNCKLEY, Fan. C.쯳pan>Eight years in Abyssinia. The impressions of a British woman resident in Addis Ababa.쯳pan>London, Hutchinson & Co., [1935].

8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. 228, 24 (publisher's list), with a frontispiece and eight plates; a good copy in the original off-white buckram, dust-jacket (dust-jacket creased and a little chipped).쯳pan>First edition.ࠠ쯳pan>尼o:p>




52. EASTON, Mabel.쯳pan>Nyilak and other African sketches.쯳pan>New York & Chicago, Fleming H. Revell Company, 1923.

8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), pp. 95, with three plates; original pictorial cloth, black lettering; minor tear to the upper joint, otherwise a very bright, near fine copyof the first edition. ఼o:p>




53. FALKENSTEIN, Julius August Ferdinand.쯳pan>Album der Deutschen Gesellschaft zur Erforschung Aequatorial-Afrikas.쯳pan>Landschaftlicher Theil in drei Lieferungen, 42 Blatt mit 60 Original-Photographien des Stabsartztes Dr. Falkenstein.쯳pan>Mit erl䵴erndem Text zu den Aufnahmen.쯳pan>Im Auftrage des Vorstandes und der Delegirten-Versammlung der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft herausgegeben von der Kommission, Dr. Max Boehr, Dr. Robert Hartmann, Dr. Henry Lange.쯳pan>Berlin, Im Selbstverlage des Vorstandes der Afrikanischen Gesellschaft, 1876.

Three parts in one volume, oblong 4to (23 x 31.5 cm), pp. [ii] title-page, [iv] map of the Loango Coast, plan of Chinchoxo Station and 25 albumen photographs on 18 loose card leaves; pp. [ii] title-page, [iv], 16 photographs on 12 leaves; pp. [ii] title-page, [iv], 19 photographs on 12 leaves; each part in its original printed wrappers (neatly restored), contained in the original printed boards, cloth spine; spine repaired, boards worn and somewhat soiled.쯳pan>First rare. Extremely rare. SOLD




54. FAWCKNER, James.쯳pan>Narrative of Captain James Fawckner's travels on the coast of Benin, West Africa.쯳pan>Edited by a friend of the Captain.쯳pan>London, published for the proprietor, by A. Schloss, 42 Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, 1837.

8vo (29 x 11 cm), pp. viii, 128; small armorial blind-stamp and unobtrusive ink ownership inscription to the upper right corner of the title-page, ownership inscription of 1879 to front endpapers; original blue silk-covered boards, gilt lettering to upper cover; spine repaired, corners worn.쯳pan>First edition.




55. FEILDEN, Eliza Whigham.쯳pan>My African home. Bush life in Natal when a young colony [1852-7].쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887.

8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), pp. [viii], 364, 32 (publisher's list), with seven plates and two illustrations in the text; section of the half-title torn away (approximately 2 cm of the upper margin); original cloth, gilt lettering; extremities a little rubbed.쯳pan>First edition. ⵼o:p>




56. FERRET, Pierre Victor Adolphe & Joseph Germain GALINIER.쯳pan>Voyage en Abyssinie dans les provinces du Tigr鬠du Samen et de l'Amhara. Paris, Paulin, 1847-8.

4 vols., comprising the text in 3 vols., 8vo (23.5 x 15 cm), pp. xxxviii, 39-526; 540, [1] errata; 536, with 10 wood-engraved plates; ink stamps to title-pages and two leaves in each text volume; contemporary quarter morocco, gilt; head and foot of spines neatly repaired, marbled paper replaced; and an atlas, folio (44 x 31 cm), title-page, with 50 plates (33 zoological plates, 17 botanical plates, 33 hand-coloured), with nine plans and maps (five folding, one double-page); contemporary quarter morocco, marbled paper replaced.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>⬰00




57. FOX BOURNE, Henry Richard.쯳pan>The other side of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition.쯳pan>London, Chatto Windus, 1891.

8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. x, 202, [2] publisher's list; fore-edge a little foxed, without the front free endpaper; original light brown cloth, black lettering; covers a little soiled.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>A scarce account (possibly suppressed in England by Stanley) of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, highly critical of the expedition's leader, H.M. Stanley. 尼o:p>




58. GALLIENI, Joseph-Simon.쯳pan>Mission d'exploration du Haut-Niger: Voyage au Soudan Fran硩s (Haut-Niger et pays de S駯u) 1879-1881.쯳pan>Paris, Hachette, 1885.

Large 8vo (26.5 x 18.5 cm), pp. 627, with two maps (1 folding), I plate opposite p. 4, frontispiece on the reverse of the half-title, numerous illustrations in the text (many full-page); original, red pebbled cloth covers, backed in red morocco, full gilt spine, all edges gilt; a beautiful copy.쯳pan>First edition. 尼o:p>




59. GALTON. Francis.쯳pan>The narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa. London, John Murray, 1853.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. [xvi], 314, with five lithograph plates, two maps on one folding sheet, illustrations in the text; a superb copy in later nineteenth century mottled calf, spine richly gilt, all edges gilt, dark green labels.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>




60. GEHRTS, Meg.쯳pan>A camera actress in wilds of Togoland.쯳pan>The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas.쯳pan>London, Seeley, Service & Co., Limited, 1915.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xx, 311, with a folding map, 32 half-tone plates and two illustrations in the text; original blue pictorial cloth, gilt.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




61. GREY, Theresa (Mrs. William).쯳pan>Journal of a visit to Egypt, Constantinople, the Crimea, Greece &c. in the suite of the Prince and Princess of Wales.쯳pan>London, Smith Elder & Co., 1869.

8vo (20.5 x 14 cm), pp. [viii], 203; original purple cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt; spine sunned.쯳pan>First edition. 尼/b>




62. HALL, Martin J.쯳pan>Through my spectacles in Uganda; Or, The story of a fruitful field.쯳pan>London, Church Missionary Society, 1898.

8vo (21.5 x 16.5 cm), pp. [vi], 104, with a frontispiece and numerous illustrations in the text; ink ownership inscription (dated 1899) to the upper margin of the title-page; original blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettering.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>Tales of travel and missionary work in Buganda; well-illustrated. ఼/b>




63. HANCE, Gertrude R.쯳pan>The Zulu yesterday and to-day.쯳pan>Twenty nine years in South Africa.쯳pan>New York, Chicago & Toronto, Fleming H. Revel Company, [1916].

8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. 274, with a folding map and numerous half-tone plates; original brown cloth, spears blocked in black and white on the upper cover; small ink stamp to the title-page, with a contemporary postcard of a kraal tipped in on the front pastedown; shelf mark to the spine (hand-written in black ink).쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>弯:p>




64. HARRIS, William Cornwallis.쯳pan>The narrative of an expedition into Southern Africa during the years, 1836, and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the Tropic of Capricorn, with a sketch of the recent emigration of the border colonists, and a zoological appendix.쯳pan>Bombay, American Mission Press, 1838.

8vo (20 x 13 cm), pp. [xvi], 406, half-title not present, with a folding map and four lithographed plates; light foxing in places; contemporary half morocco, all edges marbled, marbled paper to boards discreetly replaced.쯳pan>First edition, third issue.




65. HERTZKA, Theodor.쯳pan>Freeland.쯳pan>A social anticipation.쯳pan>London, Chatto & Windus, 1891.

8vo (19 x 13 cm), pp. xxiv, 443, [1] blank, 32 publisher's list; original green pictorial cloth, gilt and black lettering; extremities slightly rubbed.쯳pan>First edition in English of Hertzka's African utopia. 尼o:p>




66. HEUDEBERT, Lucien.쯳pan>Au pays des Somalis et des Comoriens.쯳pan>Paris, Librairie Orientale et Americaine, 1901.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. [iv], 281, frontispiece and full-page illustrations; ﭡge de l'Editeur' stamped in ink on the half-title; near contemporary half morocco, marbled paper sides, gilt lettering, original wrappers retained; a good copy.쯳pan>First edition. 尼o:p>




67. HINDLIP, Lord [Charles ALLSOP].쯳pan>Sport and travel.쯳pan>Abyssinia and British East Africa.쯳pan>London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1906.

8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. 332, with two folding maps and 65 half-tone plates; original purple cloth, lettered in gilt; vestiges of a label removed from the upper margin of upper cover, extremities worn. First edition.఼ࠠࠠo:p>




68. HUGHES, W.쯳pan>Dark Africa and the way out.쯳pan>Or, a scheme for civilizing and evangelizing the dark continent.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. [xvi], 155, [1] blank, [32] publisher's list; some browning throughout; original pictorial cloth, gilt.쯳pan>First edition. ༯b>




69. JANEWAY, Catherine.쯳pan>Ten weeks in Egypt and Palestine.쯳pan>London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr & Co. Ltd, 1894.

8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), pp. viii, 158, with eight plates; original brown cloth, black lettering; a few small marks to the upper cover.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>Inscribed on the half-title, ⯭ the Authoress'. ⰼo:p>




70. JOHNSTON, Charles.쯳pan>Travels in Southern Abyssinia, through the country of Adal to the kingdom of Shoa.쯳pan>London, J. Madden & Co., 1844.

2 vols., 8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xvi, 492; viii, 447, 8 (publisher's list), with a folding map in volume two and a lithograph frontispiece in each volume; recent half morocco, brown cloth sides, spines directly tooled in gilt; a very good copy. First edition.




71. JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.쯳pan>The history of a slave.쯳pan>London, Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1889.

8vo (20 x 15 cm), pp. [xii], 168, with 47 plates; original (paper-covered), pictorial upper cover, original red cloth spine and lower cover; head and foot of spine a little chipped, outer edge of upper cover rubbed.쯳pan>First edition. 尼o:p>




72. KATTE, A. von.쯳pan>Reise in Abyssinien in Jahre 1836.쯳pan>Stuttgart & T鮧en, J. G. Cotta, 1838.

8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. [x], 180 (half-title not present), with a folding map; margins a little browned recent half calf, green cloth boards.쯳pan>First edition (issued as Part XV of Widenmann und Hauff's Reisen und L䮤erbeschreibungen).쯳pan>ﳰan>Fumagalli 166. 尼o:p>




73. [KHARTOUM.] Khartoum and thither.쯳pan>A poem.쯳pan>By a Cambridge undergraduate.쯳pan>Manchester, Heywood & Son; London, H. Vickers, 1885.

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. 64; original green cloth; minor wear to the extremities.༯span>谼/b>




74. [KILIMANJARO.]쯳pan>ROBSON, E. A group of 100 original photographs of Mt. Kilimanjaro.쯳pan>Circa 1940s.

100 original photographs, various dimensions (mostly approximately 15 x 24 cm, some 12 x 17), some with the photographer's ink stamp to the reverse, obson, Nairobi'; photographs bowed but in good condition; unmounted, contained in a custom-made cloth box, gilt lettered label. An unusual photographic record of mountaineering on Mt. Kilimanjaro, from the lush vegetation of the lower slopes to the glaciers and rocky terrain of the upper reaches.쯳pan>A number of images include scenes with porters and roped climbers.




75. KNOX, Thomas W.쯳pan>The boy travellers on the Congo.쯳pan>Adventures of two youths in a journey with Henry M. Stanley 貯ugh the Dark Continent쳰an style='mso-spacerun:yes'> London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1888.

8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. xii, 355, with a frontispiece and wood-engraved illustrations in the text (many full-page); upper right corner of front free endpaper clipped (presumably to remove an ownership inscription), original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering.쯳pan>First London edition (first published in New York in 1887).쯳pan>An authorized adaptation, for boys, of Stanley's Through the Dark Continent (1878).쯳pan>尼o:p>




76. LEJEAN, Guillaume.쯳pan>Voyage en Abyssinie.쯳pan>Ex飵t頤e 1862 ࠱864.쯳pan>Paris, Hachette et Cie, [n.d., circa 1872/3].

Large 4to (35 x 27 cm), pp. [vi], 110, [1] list of contents, [1] blank, with 11 maps on 9 double-page plates; contemporary red quarter roan, gilt, marbled boards; small split to foot of upper joint, spine worn.쯳pan>First edition.




77. LOBO, Jeronimo.쯳pan>A voyage to Abyssinia, By Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese missionary.쯳pan>Containing the history, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical, of that remote and unfrequented country, continued down to the beginning of the eighteenth century⹠M. Le Grand.쯳pan>London, Elliot and Kay, 1789.

8vo, pp. [iv], 500, [2, publisher's list]; contemporary quarter calf, cloth sides; upper joint repaired, some wear to head and foot of spine; internally, a particularly crisp copy.

Second edition of the English translation by Samuel Johnson, author of the Dictionary of the English Language (1755).쯳pan>఼/b>




78. LOWNDES, E. E. K.쯳pan>Every-day life in South Africa.쯳pan>London, S. W. Partridge, 1900.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. 182, [2], 28, with a frontispiece and full-page illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth, gilt.쯳pan>First edition.఼/b>




79. LUKE, Henry Charles.쯳pan>A bibliography of Sierra Leone.쯳pan>Preceded by an essay on the origin, character and peoples of the colony and protectorate. Oxford University Press, 1925.

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. [viii], 230, with a frontispiece, three plates and a folding map; original blue cloth.쯳pan>Second edition. ༯b>




80. MACDIARMID, D. N.쯳pan>Tales of the Sudan. With an introduction by Mrs. Karl Kumm. Melbourne, Sudan United Mission, 1934.

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. xii, 113, with a folding map and nine half-tone plates; original printed paper-covered boards, black lettering; a very good copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>Inscribed on the front free endpaper, ir John Gilmour, Bart., from the writer of this little book, remembering interesting days in the Great Oasis', D. N. MacDiarmid'. 弯:p>




81. MACMICHAEL, Harold Alfred.쯳pan>A history of the Arabs in the Sudan and some account of the people who preceded them and of the tribes inhabiting DᲦur.쯳pan>Cambridge, University Press, 1922.

2 vols., large 8vo (24 x 16 cm), pp. [xxiv], 347; ix, 488, with a large folding map and a folding table in the rear pocket of volume two; a superb copy in the original turquoise cloth, gilt lettering. SOLD




82. MACMILLAN, Allister.쯳pan>The red book of West Africa.쯳pan>Historical and descriptive, commercial and industrial facts, figures and resources. London, W.H. & L. Collingridge, 1920.

4to (27.5 x 21.5 cm), pp. 312, [2], numerous half-tone illustrations in the text; original red cloth, gilt lettering, palm tree blocked in gilt on the upper cover; spine a little sunned and rubbed. First edition. 尼o:p>




83. MADAN, A. C. Kiungani; or, story and history from Central Africa.쯳pan>Written by the boys in the schools of the Universities Mission to Central Africa. Translated and edited by A. C. Madan. London, George Bell & Sons, 1887.

8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), pp. [xiv], 291, [1] blank, 24 (publisher's list), with a folding map and frontispiece; upper margin of title-page trimmed; original blue pictorial cloth; spine worn and a little soiled. First edition. ఼o:p>




84. MALLETT, Marguerite.쯳pan>A white woman among the Masai.쯳pan>London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923.

8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. 288, with 20 half-tone plates; original purple cloth.쯳pan>First edition (a New York edition appeared later in the same year).尼o:p>




85. MARKHAM, Sir Clements Robert.쯳pan>A history of the Abyssinian expedition.쯳pan>With a chapter containing the activity of the mission and captivity of Mr. Rassam and his companions, by W. Prideaux.쯳pan>London, Macmillan, 1869.

8vo, pp. xii, 484, with five folding maps; original green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and upper cover; largely unopened; a fine copy.쯳pan>First edition.ࠠ༯span> ఼/b>




86. MAUD, Philip. Exploration in the Southern Borderland of Abyssinia.쯳pan>London, Royal Geographical Society, May 1904.

8vo (25 x 16 cm), pp. 28, with a large folding map, illustrations in the text; original blue printed wrappers; small splits to spine.ࠠ࠼/span>༯:p>




87. MELLY, Andr鮼span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>쯳pan>Souvenir d'Andr頍elly. Lettres d'Egypte et de Nubie. Septembre 1850 ࠊanvier 1851.쯳pan>Londres, Richard Taylor [Ce livre n'est pas en vente], 1852.

Large 8vo (25 x 17 cm), pp. [vi], 172, with a folding map and 26 lithographed plates (two folding, three coloured) lithographed by Madame Melly after her own drawings; original blind-stamped mauve cloth, rebacked retaining the original spine, lower board a little marked, corners a little worn.쯳pan>First edition, printed for private circulation.




88. MOODIE, John Wedderburn Dunbar.쯳pan>Ten years in South Africa: including a particular description of the wild sports of that country.쯳pan>London, Richard Bentley, 1835.

2 vols., 8vo (21 x 13 cm), pp. [x], 347; viii, 352 (half-titles no present) with a frontispiece in each volume; contemporary half calf, marbled sides, spines panelled in gilt; joints and head of spines repaired.쯳pan>First edition.఼ࠠࠠo:p>




89. MOREL, Edmund Dene.쯳pan>The British case in the French Congo.쯳pan>The story of a great injustice, its causes and its lessons.쯳pan>London, William Heinemann, 1903.

8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), pp. [i], xxii, 215, [38] publisher's list, with a folding map; original black cloth, gilt lettering, image of an African man, blocked in gilt on upper cover; small, repaired tear to foot of upper joint.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




90. MOREL, Edmund Dene. A memorial on native rights in the land and its fruits in the Congo territories annexed by Belgium (subject to international recognition) in August, 1908.쯳pan>Presented to H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.쯳pan>London, The Congo Reform Association, [1909].

8vo (24.5 x 18.5 cm), pp. 55, [1]; library stamp to both covers; original printed wrappers, outer edge of lower wrapper a little chipped.쯳pan>First edition. ⵼/b>




91. MOREL, Edmund Dene.쯳pan>The African problem and the peace settlement.쯳pan>London, Union of Democratic Control, July 1917.

8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. 31; original printed wrappers, black lettering; wrappers creased, staples rusty. 弯b>




92. MOREL, Edmund Dene.쯳pan>Red rubber.쯳pan>The story of the rubber slave trade on the Congo for twenty years, 1890-1910.쯳pan>Manchester & London, National Labour Press, [1919].

8vo (20.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. [xx], 225, with a portrait frontispiece and two maps (one folding); original printed wrappers; spine sunned and a little worn.쯳pan>Revised edition (first published in 1906). 尼o:p>




93. MULLENS, Joseph.쯳pan>Twelve months in Madagascar.쯳pan>London, James Nisbet, 1875.

8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), pp. [xvi], 334, with four plates and seven illustrations in the text; contemporary half calf, pebbled cloth sides, spine쯳pan>elegantly tooled in gilt; minor wear to extremities.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>谼o:p>




94. M'WILLIAM, James Ormiston.쯳pan>Medical history of the Expedition to the Niger during the years 1841-2, comprising an account of the fever which led to its abrupt termination.쯳pan>London, John Churchill, 1843.

8vo (22.5 x 14 cm), pp. viii, 287, with a folding map, frontispiece, two plates and one illustration; an attractive copy in recent dark green half calf, gilt, red morocco label, marbled boards.쯳pan>First edition.




95. MYERS, Arthur Bowen Richards. Life with the Hamran Arabs.쯳pan>An account of some officers of the Guards in the Soudan during the winter of 1874-5.쯳pan>London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1876.

8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), pp. xvi, 355, with a frontispiece and four plates; some foxing, particularly to the margins of the plates; contemporary half morocco, all edges marbled; extremities rubbed, library crest blocked in gilt on the upper board and lower spine (no internal markings).쯳pan>First edition of a sporting tour in the Sudan.쯳pan>尼o:p>




96. PATTERSON, John Henry.쯳pan>In the Grip of the Nyika.쯳pan>Further adventures in British East Africa.쯳pan>London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1909.

 

8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. [xvi], 389, [2] publisher's list, with a map and numerous illustrations; original blue cloth, gilt; extremities slightly rubbed.쯳pan>First edition.ࠠ쯳pan>尼o:p>




97. POWER, Frank.쯳pan>Letters from Khartoum written during the siege, by the late Frank Power.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885.

Small 8vo (17 x 11 cm), pp. 119; contemporary brick red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, facsimile Gordon telegram from the original printed wrapper pasted in as a frontispiece; minor rubbing to extremities, otherwise a very good copy.쯳pan>Second edition. ఼/b>




98. PRICE, George Ward.쯳pan>With the Prince to West Africa.쯳pan>London, Gill Publishing Co. Ltd., 1925.

8vo (18 x 12.5 cm), pp. 228, frontispiece, numerous illustrations in the text; free endpapers pasted down; original purple cloth; cover a little bowed.쯳pan>First edition. ༯:p>




99. PRICHARD, Helen M.쯳pan>Friends and foes in the Transkei.쯳pan>An Englishwoman's experiences in the the Cape Frontier War of 1877-8.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1880.

8vo (19 x 12.5 cm), pp. xvi, 296, with a frontispiece, original brown cloth, gilt lettering, corners bumped, but still a good copy.쯳pan>First edition. 絼o:p>




100. RANKIN, Daniel J.쯳pan>The Zambesi Basin and Nyassaland.쯳pan>London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1893.

 

8vo (19.5 x 12.5 cm), pp. [vii], 277, with three folding maps and 10 plates; original brown cloth, gilt lettering; spine very slightly rubbed.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




101. RASSAM, Hormuzd.쯳pan>Narrative of the British mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia; with notices of the countries traversed from Massowah, through the Sood⮬ the Amhⲡ, and back to Annesley Bay, from Magdala.쯳pan>London, John Murray, 1869.

2 vols., 8vo (21 x13.5 cm), pp. xvi, 320; x, 360, with a large folding map, a frontispiece in each volume, four plates (three folding); some foxing to the endpapers and preliminary leaves, contemporary half calf, pebbled cloth sides, gilt; library crest blocked in gilt on the upper covers (no internal markings); an attractive copy.쯳pan>First edition.༯span>




102. RICARDS, James David.쯳pan>The Catholic Church and the Kaffir.쯳pan>A brief sketch of the progress of Catholicity in South Africa, and the prospects of extensive Catholic missions on the point of being founded for the natives of British Kaffaria.쯳pan>London, Burns and Oates; Dublin, M.H. Gill & Son, sold for the benefit of the Catholic Native Mission in South Africa, [1880].

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. [ii], 127, [1] list of subscribers and alms, with a one-column article about Dr. Ricards pasted in at the title-page; original blind-stamped purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine; a very bright copy.쯳pan>First edition.ࠠ쯳pan> 尼o:p>




103. RICHARDSON, James.쯳pan>Travels in the great Sahara, in the years of 1845 and 1846.쯳pan>Containing a narrative of personal adventures, during a tour of nine months through the desert, among the Touaricks and other tribes of Saharan people including a description of the oases and cities of Ghat, Ghadames, and Mourzouk.쯳pan>London, Richard Bentley, 1848.쯳pan>

2 vols., 8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. xxxii, 440; xii, 482, with a frontispiece in each volume, one plate, a folding map in volume two, illustrations in the text; contemporary calf, elegantly rebacked, spine richly gilt, contrasting labels, all edges marbled; edges of boards a little rubbed. First edition.쯳pan>George Adamson's copy (husband of Joy Adamson).




104. RUSSELL, Henry & William GATTIE.쯳pan>The ruin of the Soudan.쯳pan>Cause, effect and remedy.쯳pan>A resum頯f events, 1883-1891.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1892.

8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. [xxviii], 407, with three folding maps (two in the rear pocket) and 11 plates; original cloth, gilt; bright copy of the first edition. 尼o:p>




105. SCHNEIDER, Theophil.쯳pan>Auf dem Missionspade in Deutsch-Ostafrika.쯳pan>Von Sansibar zum Kilimandscharo Reise-bericht gewidmet den Deutschen Katholiken.쯳pan>M㴥r, Kreuz und Schwert, [1899].

4to (27 x 19.5 cm), pp. 115, [1] advertisement, with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text; contemporary inscription and library stamp to the reverse of the frontispiece; ownership inscription and original paper covered boards, palm tree blocked in green and brown on the upper cover; covers a little marked, corners worn.쯳pan>First edition.ࠠ࠼/span>఼o:p>




106. SCHYNSE, August Wilhelm.쯳pan>Mit Stanley und Emin Pascha durch Deutsch Ost-Afrika; Reise-Tagebuch.쯳pan>Koln, J. P. Bachem, 1890.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xxviii, 88, [8] publisher's list; contemporary ink stamp to outer margin of title-page; black paper-covered boards, neatly rebacked, vestiges of a paper label to the spine and head of boards; corners worn.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




107. [SIERRA LEONE.]쯳pan>A group of eight early photographs of Sierra Leone.쯳pan>Circa 1860s.

Eight original albumen prints (each approximately 10.5 x 15.5 cm), mounted on loose paper sheets, captioned in a contemporary hand below; rich tones, in excellent condition.




108. SORELA, Louis. Les possessions espagnoles du Golfe de Guin饮쯳pan>Leur pr鳥nt et leur avenir.쯳pan>Paris, A. Lahure, 1884

8vo (23 x 15 cm), pp. 46, with a folding map; original yellow cloth, lettered in gilt; covers a little worn and soiled, small split to head of lower joint.쯳pan>First edition. ⰼ/b>




109. [SOUDAN.]쯳pan>Travels of an Arab merchant in Soudan (The black kingdoms of Central Africa).쯳pan>I. Darfur. II. WadaSpan style='mso-spacerun:yes'>쯳pan>Abridged from the French by Bayle St. John.쯳pan>London, Chapman & Hall, 1854.

8vo (19.5 x 12.5 cm), pp. xvi, 336; ink library stamp to the title-page and two other leaves, largely unopened; original brown, blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine; small chips to the head and foot of spine, otherwise a good copy.쯳pan>First edition in English. ఼o:p>




110. [SOUDAN.] Bryce's war maps: Egypt and the Soudan. Compiled from the latest surveys. London, Ontario, William Bryce [n.d., but c. 1885].

Folding map, printed on paper, 37.5 x 25.5 cm; original brown card covers, black lettering, with portraits of General Gordon and the Mahdi printed on the lower cover; very crisp condition. ఼o:p>




111. [SOUDAN.]쯳pan>AASHER, Ben, pseud.쯳pan>A nomad in the South Sudan.쯳pan>The travels of a political officer among the Gaweir Nuers.쯳pan>London, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1928.

8vo (22 x 12.5 cm), pp. 296, with a folding map and 12 half-tone plates; a very good copy in the original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt.쯳pan>First edition. 尼/b>




112. SPEKE, John Hanning.쯳pan>Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile.쯳pan>Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood, 1863.

8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. [xxxi], [1] blank, 658, with two maps (one folding), 25 engraved plates and illustrations in the text; minor foxing in places; an attractive copy in contemporary marbled boards, neatly rebacked, spine gilt.쯳pan>First edition.




113. [STANLEY, Henry Morton.]쯳pan>Authorized souvenir programme of the Henry M. Stanley lecture tour through the United States and Canada.쯳pan>Under the management of Major J. B. Pond, Everett House, New York.쯳pan>Comprising in all one hundred lectures.쯳pan>Season of 1890-1. [c.1890-1].

Large 8vo (26 x 18 cm), pp. 24, original printed wrappers; spine split at head and foot, margins of wrapper a little browned. ఼o:p>




114. [STANLEY, Henry Morton.]쯳pan>Bust of H.M. Stanley, explorer and politician. ﳰan>Stoke-on-Trent, 頳tyle='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'>R & L' [Robinson & Leadbeater], circa 1890-1900.

19 cm high, Parian ware, with the maker's mark and title stamped on the rear; in excellent condition. 尼o:p>




Also:

115. [LIVINGSTONE, David.] Bust of David Livingstone, explorer and missionary.쯳pan>Salford,  [John Derbyshire], early 1870s [pre-1876].

19 cm high, pressed glass, the maker's mark (initials ' inside an anchor) and the title incorporated in the base; the base and shoulders a little chipped. ఼o:p>




116. STATHAM, John Charles Barron.쯳pan>With my wife across Africa by canoe and caravan.쯳pan>London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co. Ltd., [1924].

8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. 325, with three maps and numerous half-tone plates; original green cloth, black lettering, dust-jacket; an extremely good copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>쯳pan>尼o:p>




117. STIGAND, Chauncy Hugh.쯳pan>In the land of Zinj. Being an account of British East Africa, its ancient history and present inhabitants.쯳pan>London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1913.

8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. xii, 351, with a large folding map in the rear pocket, 22 half-tone plates; a very good copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. ﳰan>఼o:p>

First edition. The Signet Library copy, with bookplate.쯳pan>




118. STREATFEILD, Frank N.쯳pan>Kafirland: A ten months' campaign.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1879.

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. xii, 320, with a frontispiece; blue bookplate to front pastedown; original pictorial cloth, gilt; a very bright and attractive copy.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




119. TREMEARNE, A. J. N.쯳pan>The tailed head-hunters of Nigeria.쯳pan>An account of an official's seven years' experiences in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of the native tribes.쯳pan>London, Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 1912.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. 342, [10], 16 (publisher's list), with a folding map and 32 half-tone plates; unobtrusive ink ownership inscription to the upper margin of the title-page; original orange cloth, gilt lettering; very minor rubbing to extremities.쯳pan>First edition. ⵼/b>




120. [TRITTON, Joseph.]쯳pan>Rise and progress of the work on the Congo River.쯳pan>By the Treasurer. London, Baptist Missionary Society, Alexander and Shepheard, 1884.

8vo (19 x 12 cm), pp. [iv], 63, with a folding map and 10 plates; original brown cloth, gilt lettering; a very good copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>絼o:p>




121. WATTS, Christopher Charles.쯳pan>Dawn in Swaziland.쯳pan>London, Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1922.

8vo (18 x 12.5 cm), pp. viii, 127, [1], frontispiece portrait of the former Queen of Swaziland, 15 half-tone plates; original blue cloth, gilt lettering; a near fine copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>༯:p>




122. WESLEY, John.쯳pan>Intshumayelo ezilishumi linantlanu ezicathulweyo kwezika- Rev. Johane Weslie, ziguqulwe kokwamangesi ngu- Rev. E. J. Barrett [Fifteen sermons by the Rev. John Wesley, translated into Kafir by the Rev. E. J. Barrett].쯳pan>Erini [Grahamstown], Ishicilelwe ngesishicilelo sabafundisi [printed at the Wesleyan Mission Press], 1877.

12mo, pp. 179; contemporary half calf, gilt bands to spine, maroon cloth sides, humayelo' blocked in gilt on the upper cover, all edges speckled; spine and corners rubbed and a little dry, old paper library label to lower half of spine (but no internal markings); a very good copy. ఼/b>




123. WILSON, Charles Thomas & Robert William Felkin.쯳pan>Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivingston, 1882.

2 vols., pp. [xii], 372, [32] publisher's list; [viii], 379, with three folding maps in the rear of volume two, frontispiece in each volume and illustrations in the text (a few full-page); a very good copy in the original pictorial cloth.쯳pan>First edition.




124. WILSON, George Herbert. A missionary's life in Nyasaland. London, Universities' Mission to Central Africa, [1920].

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. 93, [3], with two full-page maps, four plates and two illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, black lettering.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




125. WINWOOD READE, William.쯳pan>The Martyrdom of Man.쯳pan>London, Tr & Co., 1872.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. viii, 544; some foxing to the endpapers and preliminary leaves; near contemporary red half morocco, red cloth sides, all edges marbled; extremities slightly rubbed.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>An important free-thinking history of the world, heavily influenced by the work of Charles Darwin, H. W. Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace.




126. YOUNGHUSBAND, Ethel.쯳pan>Glimpses of East Africa and Zanzibar.쯳pan>London, Long, 1910.

8vo (21.5 x 14 cm), pp. 320, with a folding map and 36 half-tone plates; a good copy in the original blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine; extremities a little bumped and rubbed.쯳pan>First edition. ఼/b>ࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠ



127. [ZANZIBAR.] GAUME, Monseigneur.쯳pan>Su魡, or the little African slave who was buried alive. Translated, and with a preface, by Lady Herbert.쯳pan>London, Burns, Oates, and Company, [1880].

Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp. 135, [2] list of Gaume's works; original blue cloth, gilt lettering; small tear to head of upper joint; fore-edge of upper cover stained, extremities generally a little worn.쯳pan>First edition in English.ࠠࠠࠠ࠼/span>絼/b>ࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠ




128. ZUCCHELLI, Antonio.쯳pan>Relazioni del viaggio e missione di Congo nell'Etiopia inferiore occidentale.쯳pan>Nelle quali li descrive distintamente tutto cio, che di notabile e occorso di vedere, ed operare al sudetto P. Missionario, si ne lunghi viaggi da lui fatti, come pure nell'esercizio della missione.쯳pan>Venice, Bartelemeo Giavarina, 1712.

Small 4to (20.5 x 15 cm), pp. [xviii], 438, [42] indices, [1] errata, [1] blank; pagination mis-numbered at pp. 90-1 as usual; old repair to the first leaf of the dedication; a good copy in contemporary vellum, gilt lettering directly to spine; corners a little bumped, upper board bowed.쯳pan>First edition.




129. [ZULULAND.]쯳pan>Folding map of Zululand. Compiled from the most recent information.쯳pan>Compiled and lithographed at the Intelligence Branch, Qr. Mr. Genls. Dept.쯳pan>28th July, 1879.

Folding map in eight sections, hand-coloured, laid on linen, 68 x 93 cm; damp-stain to reverse linen in four sections (but not affecting the map); contained in contemporary paper-covered boards, linen spine (35.5 x 25 cm), paper label on upper cover, ﲥign Office' stamped below label, shelf mark to upper board.



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AFRICAN LANGUAGES





130. ANDERSON, W. G.쯳pan>An introductory grammar of the Sena language, spoken on the lower Zambesi.쯳pan>London, S.P.C.K., 1897.

Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp. 61; a very good copy in the original light blue cloth, black lettering. First edition.఼ࠠࠠ/b>




131. BELLON, Immanuel.쯳pan>Tshi lessons for beginners, including a grammatical guide and numerous idioms and phrases.쯳pan>Basel, for the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, 1913.




132. BURT, T.쯳pan>Swahili grammar and vocabulary.쯳pan>London, S.P.C.K., 1910.

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. 252; original green cloth, black lettering.쯳pan>First edition. 쯳pan>尼/b>




133. CRAVEN, Henry & John BARFIELD.쯳pan>English 㯮go and Congo ꅮglish dictionary.쯳pan>London Harley House, Bow, 1883.

8vo (18 x 11.5 cm), pp. xii. 248, 19, with several leaves of blank notepaper at rear; original mauve pebbled cloth sides, neatly rebacked, retaining the original red morocco label, gilt, all edges speckled; corners a little worn.쯳pan>First edition.ⰼ/b>ࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠࠠ࠼/span>




134. FOULKES, H. D.쯳pan>Angass manual. Grammar and vocabulary.쯳pan>London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr & Co. Ltd., 1915.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. xviii, 313, [1] blank, [1] advertisement; original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; minor rubbing to head and foot of spine.쯳pan>First edition.༯span>༯b>




135. KIRK, John William Carnegie.쯳pan>Notes on the Somali language.쯳pan>With examples of phrase and conversational sentences.쯳pan>London & New York, Henry Frowde, 1903.

Small 8vo (14 x 9 mm), pp. xii, 83; original beige cloth covers, with folding flaps, gilt lettering.쯳pan>First edition. ༯b>




136. KISBEY, Walter H.쯳pan>Zigula exercises. Compiled for the universities mission to Central Africa.쯳pan>London, S.P.C.K., 1906.

Small 8vo (16.5 x 10 cm), pp. 96; original blue cloth, black lettering.쯳pan>Second edition (first published in 1897). ఼o:p>




137. LAST, Joseph Thomas.쯳pan>Grammar of the Kag堬anguage, Eastern Equatorial Africa.쯳pan>London, S.P.C.K., 1886.

Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp. [iv], 147; cancelled library stamp of the Church Missionary Society to the front free endpaper; original brown cloth, black lettering; a very good copy. First edition. ⰼ/b>




138. MAPLES, Chauncy.쯳pan>Collections for a handbook of the Makua language.쯳pan>London, S.P.C.K., [1879].

Small 8o (16 x 10 cm), pp. xii, 100; with a few pencil annotations throughout, original decorative brown cloth, gilt.쯳pan>First edition. 尼/b>




139. MIGEOD, Frederick William Hugh.쯳pan>The Mende language containing useful phrases, elementary grammar, short vocabularies, reading materials.쯳pan>London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr, 1908.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. 271l original olive green cloth; spine sunned.쯳pan>First edition. ༯b>




140. PILKINGTON, George Lawrence.쯳pan>A hand-book of Luganda.쯳pan>London, S.P.C.K., 1917.

Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp. 95, with a folding table; original light blue cloth, black lettering. ﳰan>

Later edition; first published in 1892. 弯b>




141. MADAN, Arthur Cornwallis.쯳pan>Senga Handbook.쯳pan>A short introduction to the Senga dialect as spoken on the lower Luangwa North-Eastern Rhodesia.쯳pan>Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1905.

Small 8vo (17 x 11.5 cm), pp. 100; a very good copy in the original orange cloth, black lettering. First edition. ﳰan>⵼/b>




142. PARKER, G. W.쯳pan>A concise grammar of the Malagasy language.쯳pan>London, Tr & Co., 1883.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. 66, with a large folding table; an excellent copy in the original maroon cloth, black and gilt lettering. First edition. 弯:p>




143. SCHLENKER, Christian Frederich.쯳pan>An English-Temne dictionary or K'ᦡ ka as'�tra atr'᮴r tra-y�lis re as'�tra-t魮e atra-bekane-e.쯳pan>Printed for the Church Missionary Society, London, 1880.

8vo (21 x 13 cm), pp. viii, 403, [1] corrigenda; some worming, mainly to the margins of the preliminary and final leaves; recent half caࠠ࠼/span>lf, red morocco label, marbled boards.쯳pan>First edition of the first true Temne dictionary. 尼/b>




144. SCH֎, James Frederick.쯳pan>Vocabulary of the Haussa language.쯳pan>Part I. English and Haussa.쯳pan>Part II. Haussa and English.쯳pan>And phrases, and specimens of translations to which are prefixed the grammatical elements of the Haussa language.쯳pan>London, Church Missionary Society, 1843.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. [vi], v, [i], 30, [2] blank, 190; two library stamps to the margins of title-page; recent half calf, gilt, red morocco label, marbled boards.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>尼o:p>




145. SCH֎, James Frederick.쯳pan>Grammar of the Hausa language.쯳pan>London, Church Missionary Society, 1862.

8vo (21.5 x 13.5 cm), pp. [ii], xiv, viii, 234; original brown cloth, gilt lettering to the spine; covers a little sunned and marked. First edition. ఼/b>



146. SMITH, Edwin W.쯳pan>Ila made easy. Kasenga, Book Room of the Baila-Batonga Mission; London, W. A. Hammond, [1914].

Small 8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp. 96; original grey cloth, black lettering.쯳pan>First edition. 絼/b>



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FAR EAST & ASIA





147. ALCOCK, Rutherford.쯳pan>The capital of the Tycoon.쯳pan>A narrative of a three years' residence in Japan.쯳pan>London, Longman, Green Longman, Roberts & Green, 1863.

2 vols., 8vo (21.5 x 13.5cm), pp. [xxxii], 469; x, 539, with two folding maps and 16 lithographed plates, illustrations in the text; some foxing to endpapers; full contemporary prize binding, contrasting leather labels, spines richly gilt; a few small ink marks to boards, otherwise a superb copy of the first edition.



148. BEACH, Harlan Page.쯳pan>Dawn on the hills of T'ang.쯳pan>Or, China as a mission field.쯳pan>London, Student Volunteer Missionary Union, 1898.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. xx, 175, with a folding map; original blue cloth, gilt lettering; covers slightly bowed. First edition (a U.S. edition appeared in the same year). 尼/span>



148. BEATO, Felice.쯳pan>An album of twenty four cartes-de-visite of Japanese portrait studies.쯳pan>Circa 1862-3.

24 hand-coloured albumen prints, each approximately 85 x 55 mm (laid on original cards approximately 105 x 60 mm), most with the original printed labels pasted on reverse; contained in a contemporary embossed leather album, metal clasps, edges and decoration, all edges gilt; upper joint cracked. SOLD




148. BERNARD, Henri.쯳pan>Matteo Ricci's scientific contribution to China.쯳pan>Peiping, Henry Vetch, 1935.

8vo (21 x13 cm), pp. [iv], 108, with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text; original green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dust-jacket (head and foot of dust-jacket chipped); a very good copy.쯳pan>First edition in English. 尼o:p>




149. BIGG, G. Sherman.쯳pan>The Anglo-Indian's health abroad and at home.쯳pan>London, Adlard & Son, 1887.

Small 8vo (16 x 10.5 cm), pp. viii, 168, [2] publisher's list; original cloth, gilt lettering; a near fine copy.쯳pan>First edition. ⰼ/b>




150. BICKERSTETH, Mary Jane.쯳pan>Japan as we saw it. London, Sampson, Low, Marston; New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xvi, 354, with a folding map, one photogravure plate at p. 161 and numerous illustrations in the text (20 full-page); original blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettering; a beautiful copy.쯳pan>First edition.༯span>఼o:p>




152. BISHOP, J. F., Mrs [Isabella L. BIRD].쯳pan>The Yangtze Valley and beyond.쯳pan>An account of journeys in china, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-tze of the Somo territory.쯳pan>London, John Murray, 1899.

8vo (23 x 16 cm), pp. xv, 557, with a folding map and numerous half-tone illustrations; original green cloth, red cloth labels, gilt lettering; corners bumped.쯳pan>First edition. 絼o:p>




153. BURTON, Richard Francis.쯳pan>Sind revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian Army; railroads, past, present, and future.쯳pan>London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1877.

2 vols., 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm), pp. [x], 343; [iv], 331 (half-titles not present); full contemporary calf, spines gilt, all edges marbled; minor area of discoloration to the head of spine, vol. II, a very attractive copy of the first edition.




154. DAVIS, Francis.쯳pan>Sketches of China; partly during an inland journey of four months between Peking, Nanking, and Canton; with notices and observations relative to the present war.쯳pan>London, Charles Knight & Co., 1841.

2 vols., 8vo (19.5 x 12 cm), pp. xii, 316; viii, 322m [2] advertisements, with a folding map; original blind-stamped cloth, gilt; repaired splits to spines.쯳pan>First edition.ࠠ༯span>尼o:p>




155. DAVIS, Francis. China: a general description of that empire and its inhabitants; with the history of foreign intercourse down to the events which produced the dissolution of 1857. . . . A new edition, revised and enlarged༯span>London, John Murray, 1857.

2 vols., 12mo (19 x 11.5 cm), pp. xx, 480; viii, 428, with numerous wood-engraved illustrations; a very good crisp copy in 19th century half morocco, all edges marbled; spines a little sunned, from the library of the earls of Ducie, with 壩e' lettered in gilt at the foot of each spine. Presentation copy. 尼o:p>




156. DE GARIS, Frederic.쯳pan>Their Japan.쯳pan>Being brief descriptions of noteworthy phases of Japanese life, of many of the customs, festivals, arts and crafts of the Japanese ᬳo descriptions of the principal places usually visited by tourists, besides places away from쯳pan>the well-trodden trails.쯳pan>Yokohama, Yoshikawa, [n.d., circa 1935].

8vo (16 x 22.5 cm), pp. vii, 205, numerous illustrations in the text, ink ownership inscription to the front free endpaper; a fine copy in the original silk covers, with the original folding case, with silk and bone ties.쯳pan>First edition. 㰼/b>




157. FOUCAUX, Philippe Edouard.쯳pan>Grammaire de la langue Tib鴡ine.쯳pan>London, Imprimerie Imp鲩ale, 1858.

8vo (20.5 x 13 cm), pp. [xxx], no half-title, 231; a little browning in places, front free endpaper replaced; contemporary black roan, gilt bands to spine; covers a little rubbed, small area of loss to spine. ఼o:p>

The first true publication in French on Tibetan grammar. Foucaux was a leading authority on Tibetan culture and language; he published several other works on Sanscrit and Tibetan Buddhism. Cordier BS 2933.




158. GOUAN, Prof. Antoine.쯳pan>Description du Gingko Biloba, dit noyer du Japon.쯳pan>Montpelier, Delmas, 1812.

8vo (21 x 14.5 cm), pp. [ii], [12], with a folding plate illustrating gingko leaves and seeds; a little foxed; sewn, unbound and uncut, partly unopened.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>An extremely rare pamphlet devoted entirely to the Gingko (or Ginan) tree.ࠠ༯span>




159. GUIGNES, Joseph de.쯳pan>Le Chou-king, un des livres sacr鳠des Chinois, qui renferme les fondements de leur ancienne histoire, les principes de leur gouvernement & de leur morale. Ouvrage recueilli par CONFUCIUS. Traduit & enrichi de notes, par Feu Le P. Gaubil, missionaire ࠬa Chine.쯳pan>Paris, N. M. Tilliard, 1770.

4to (25 x 19 cm), pp. [ii], cxliv, 474, [2]; a little light browning in places; full contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt, all edges red, handsome marbled endpapers; some wear to the head of spine and fore-edges of boards.쯳pan>First edition in French; translated from the Chinese text by Father Gaubil in Peking.




160. HALLS, John James.쯳pan>Two months in Arrah in 1857.쯳pan>London, Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860.

Small 8vo (17 x 10.5 cm), pp. [vi], 99; original blind-stamped cloth, lettered in gilt; a very good copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>Presentation copy. ఼/b>




161. HARTSHORNE, Anna.쯳pan>Japan and her people.쯳pan>Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates, 1902.

2 vols., 8vo (20 x 13 cm), pp. x, 377; vi, 374, with a folding map and 50 plates; pictorial cloth, gilt, blue cloth dust-jackets; a near fine copy.쯳pan>First edition. ఼/b>




162. HEARN, Lafcadio.쯳pan>In ghostly Japan.쯳pan>Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1899.

8vo (19 x 12 cm), pp. [xii], 241, [2] publisher's list, with four plates; original blue pictorial cloth, gilt; a bright copy.쯳pan>First edition (a London edition appeared in the same year). 尼o:p>




163. HEARN, Lafcadio.쯳pan>Japan: an attempt at interpretation.쯳pan>New York, Macmillan, 1904.

8vo (19.5 x 13 cm), pp. vi, 549, [2] publisher's list, frontispiece; an extremely bright copy in the original brown cloth, gilt and black lettering.쯳pan>First edition, fourth printing. ⵼o:p>




164. HITCHCOCK, Alfred M.쯳pan>Over Japan way.쯳pan>New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1917.

8vo (20 x 13.5 cm), pp. xii, 274, with numerous half-tone plates; original green cloth, gilt; a near fine copy.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




165. [INDIA.]쯳pan>A. U.쯳pan>Overland, inland, and upland.쯳pan>A lady's notes of personal observation and adventure. ﳰan>London, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, 1873.

8vo (19.5 x 13 cm), pp. viii, 342, [2] publisher's list, with six plates plus illustrations; original decorative cloth, gilt; a very good copy.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




166. MAC RITCHIE, David.쯳pan>The Aﮯs.쯳pan>Leiden, Verlag Von P. W. M. Trap; Paris, Ernest Leroux; New York, E. Steiger & Co.; Leipzig, C.F. Winter'sche; London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Tr & Co., 1892.

4to (33 x 25 cm), pp. xiv [with the half-title] 69, [1] blank, [1] errata, [1] blank, with 19 chromolithograph plates (two large folding) and 12 illustrations in the text, original wrapper bound in at front; some damp-staining to wrapper and half-title; a very good copy, partly unopened, in half calf, spine gilt, marbled boards.쯳pan>First edition SOLD




167. McDOUGALL, Harriette.쯳pan>Sketches of our life at Sarawak.쯳pan>London, S. P. C. K.; New York, E. & J. B. Young and Co., [1882].

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. vi, 250, 6 (publisher's list); frontispiece,쯳pan>map and three plates; original olive green pictorial cloth, gilt and black lettering. First edition. ఼o:p>




168. PATTON, Emily S.쯳pan>Japanese topsyturvydom. Tokyo, T. Hasegawa, [1896].

(19.5 x 16.5 cm), pp. [ii], 38, printed in colour on Japanese cr갥 paper; some wear to the silk spine, but still bright; housed in a recent cloth box. 絼o:p>




169. RIDEAL, Lilla.쯳pan>Snapshots from the East.쯳pan>London, Wightman & Company Ltd., Old Westminster Press, 1920.

8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. 126, with half-tone illustrations in the text; a good copy in the original purple cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt; lettering slightly rubbed. 絼o:p>




170. SHEFFIELD, Frank, Lieut.-Colonel.쯳pan>How I killed the tiger. Being an account of my encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger.쯳pan>With an appendix containing some general information about India. ﳰan>Published for the author, 1st Cadet Battalian, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment), Pond Street, Hampstead, 1902.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xi, 114, with two frontispieces and 24 half-tone plates; original red pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine; spine slightly sunned, upper cover a little discoloured, but generally a good copy.쯳pan>Second edition (first published earlier in the same year). 尼o:p>




171. SIRR, Henry Charles.쯳pan>China and the Chinese: their religion, character, customs, and manufactures: the evils arising from the opium trade: with a glance at our religious, moral, political, and commercial intercourse with the country.쯳pan>London, Wm. S. Orr, 1849.

2 vols., 8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xvi, 447; viii, 443, with a lithographed frontispiece in each volume (hand-coloured), illustrations in the text; a very good copy in the original brown cloth, pictorial spines, gilt. First edition.ࠠ࠼/span>




172. [AINU.] STARR, Frederick.쯳pan>The Hairy Ainu of Japan.쯳pan>Iowa City, State Historical Society of Iowa, 1905.

4to (26.5 x 18 cm), pp. 5; original printed wrappers; an excellent copy. 弯b>




173. THOMAS, Joseph Llewelyn. Journeys among the gentle Japs in the summer of 1895.쯳pan>With a special chapter on the religions of Japan.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston, 1897.

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. x, 266, 32 (publisher's list), with a photogravure frontispiece and a folding map; bookplate and inscription in Welsh on the front free endpaper; margins a little browned throughout; a good copy in the original green cloth, cranes blocked in blind on the upper cover; gilt lettering.쯳pan>First edition. Presentation copy. ఼o:p>




174. WRIGHT, M. J.쯳pan>Three years in Cachar.쯳pan>With a short account of the Manipur massacre.쯳pan>London, S. W. Partridge & Co., [1895].

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. xiii, [i] blank, 188, with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text (some full-page); a near fine copy in red cloth, gilt and black lettering. First edition. 尼o:p>




175. VAREN, Bernhard. Descriptio regni Japoniae cum quibusdam affinis materiae, ex variis auctoribus collecta et in ordinem redacta per Berhardum Varenium.쯳pan>Amsterdam, Elzevir, 1649.

2 parts in one volume, 24mo (10 x 5.5 cm), pp. [xlvi], 287; [viii], 320, with an engraved title (fore-margin cropped) and a folding letterpress table; some contemporary annotations in ink, including contents list on the free endpapers; wormhole in last few leaves, but a very good copy in contemporary vellum, housed in a morocco-backed, folding cloth box. 㰰



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MIDDLE EAST





176. BEGUM, Nawab Sultan Jahan.쯳pan>The story of a pilgrimage to Hijaz.쯳pan>Calcutta, Thacker, Spink & Co., 1909.

8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. 360, 29 half-tone illustrations; a very good copy in contemporary morocco, gilt; minor rubbing to extremities.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>尼/b>




177. BEKE, Charles Tilstone.쯳pan>The Late Dr. Charles Beke's discoveries of Sinai in Arabia and of Midian. Edited by his wife.쯳pan>London, Tr & Co., 1878.

Large 8vo (24 x 17 cm), pp. [xx], 606, with a folding map and 16 plates; later calf spine, retaining the central panels of the original pictorial cloth boards retained; cloth a little stained, corners worn.쯳pan>First edition. 尼o:p>




178. BERNATZ, Johann Martin.쯳pan>Pal䳴ina.쯳pan>New album of the Holy Land, 50 views [title in English, German and French].쯳pan>Stuttgart, T.F. Steinkopf, 1868.

Small oblong 4to (21 x 28 cm), pp. [iv] title-page, preface, with an engraved frontispiece and 47 tinted lithograph plates, a folding panorama of Jerusalem, and two photographic plates (views of Damascus and Beirut), each plate with a leaf of descriptive text; original pictorial cloth, gilt, morocco spine; corners worn. ఼/b>




179. BISHOP, Isabella [BIRD, Isabella].쯳pan>Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan including a summer in the Upper Karun Region and a visit to the Nestorian Rayahs.쯳pan>John Murray, 1891.

2 vols., 8vo (20 x 13 cm), pp. xiv, 381, [2] publisher's list; [viii], 409, with two folding maps and 36 illustrations (some full-page); extremities a little rubbed, small ink stain to the spine of volume two, but generally a good copy.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




180. BROWN, Adna.쯳pan>From Vermont to Damascus.쯳pan>Returning by way of Beyrout, Smyrna, Ephesus, Athens, Constantinople, Budapest, Vienna, Paris, Scotland and England.쯳pan>Boston, George H. Ellis, 1895.

8vo (19.5 x 14 cm), pp. [viii], 209, with 16 half-tone plates; original green cloth, gilt lettering; extremities a little rubbed.쯳pan>First edition. 谼o:p>




181. BURCKHARDT, John Lewis.쯳pan>Travels in Arabia.쯳pan>London, Henry Colburn, 1829.

2 vols., 8vo (22.5 x 14 cm), pp. xxii, 452; iv, 431, [2] publisher's list, with a map and four plans (folding); original boards, paper labels to spines; upper joint of vol. II cracked, head of spines chipped, small ink stains to upper covers, upper hinge of vol. II repaired.쯳pan>Second edition (first published in quarto format, earlier in the same year).




182. BURCKHARDT, John Lewis.쯳pan>Notes on the Bedouins and Wahᢹs, collected during his travels in the East by the late John Lewis Burckhardt.쯳pan>London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831.

2 vols. bound as one, 8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. [x], 382; iv, 391, [1] advertisement, with a folding map; recent half morocco, cloth sides.쯳pan>Second edition (first published in quarto format in 1830).




183. BURTON, Richard Francis.쯳pan>Personal narrative of a pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah.쯳pan>Longman, Brown, Green and, Longmans, 1855-6.

3 vols., 8vo (21 x 13 cm), pp. xiv, [i] errata, 388; iv, 426; x, [i] list of plates, 448; with 13 lithographed plates (seven coloured), four maps and plans (3 folding), illustrations in the text; contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, spines richly gilt; very good set.쯳pan>First edition.




184. BURTON, Richard, Francis & Charles F. Tyfwhitt DRAKE. Unexplored Syria.쯳pan>Visits to쯳pan>the Libanus, the TulŬ Safᬠthe Anti-Libanus, the Northern Libanus, and the 'Alᨮ쯳pan>London, Tinsley Brothers, 1872.

2 vols., 8vo (20.5 x 13 cm), pp. [xviii], 360;[vi], 400, half-titles not present, with a folding map and 21 plates (some folding), illustrations in the text; frontispiece to volume II water-stained, some foxing to the preliminaries; later quarter morocco, top edges gilt.쯳pan>First edition.ࠠ࠼/span>




185. IBRAHEEM, Meezra Mohammad.쯳pan>A grammar of the Persian language.쯳pan>To which are subjoined, several dialogues; with an alphabetical list of the English and Persian terms of grammar; with an appendix, on the use of Arabic words.쯳pan>London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1841.

Large 8vo (25 x 16.5 cm), pp. [iv], [x], 268, [1] errata; contemporary half calf, black morocco label, marbled boards; spine worn, upper joint a little cracked쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




186. [KAY, Henry Cassels.]쯳pan>Yaman.쯳pan>Its early medi涡l history by Najm Ad-din �ah Al-Hakami.쯳pan>Also the abridged history of its dynasties by Ibn Khaldun. And an account of the Karmathians of Yaman by Abu ⤠Allah Baha Ad-din Al-Janadi.쯳pan>The original texts, with translation and notes by Henry Cassels Kay. London, Edward Arnold, 1892.

8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. xxv, [i], 358, [3] blank, followed by the original Arabic text; original ivory buckram, spine darkened, covers a little discoloured.쯳pan>First edition. 尼/b>




187. LAMMENS, Henri.쯳pan>La Syrie, pr飩s historique.쯳pan>Beyrouth, Imprimerie Catholique, 1921.

2 vols. bound in one, 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. [ii], [x], 279; [iv], 277; contemporary black quarter morocco, marbled sides, gilt tooling to spine.쯳pan>First edition. ⵼o:p>




188. LA ROCQUE, Jean de.쯳pan>A voyage to Arabia the happy by the way of the Eastern Ocean, and the streights of the Red-Sea: perform'd by the French for the first time, A.D. 1708, 1709, 1710. Together with a particular relation of a journey from the port of Moka to the Court of the King of Yemen, in the second expedition, A.D. 1711, 1712, 1713.쯳pan>Also, an account of the coffee-tree, and its fruit.쯳pan>Likewise an historical treatise of the first use of coffee, and the progress it afterwards made both in Asia and Europe; how it was introduced into France, and whence it came to be so generally received at Paris. London, G. Strahan, 1726].

12mo (15.5 x 9.5 cm), pp. xii, 312, with a folding map and three folding plates of the coffee tree; the first and last gatherings heavily browned, title page a little brittle; nineteenth century half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, red morocco label; boards rubbed.쯳pan>First English edition (first published in French in Paris and Amsterdam, 1716).




189. LAWRENCE, T. E.쯳pan>Revolt in the desert.쯳pan>London, Jonathan Cape, 1927.

8vo (23 x 16 cm), pp. [iv], 446, with a folding map and 16 plates; original buckram, gilt lettering to spine.쯳pan>First edition, first impression. ⍊style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>120




190. MONTAGUE, Edward P.쯳pan>Narrative of the late expedition to the Dead Sea.쯳pan>From a diary by one of the party.쯳pan>With incidents and adventures from the time of the sailing of the expedition in November, 1847, till the return of the same in December, 1848.쯳pan>Philadelphia, Carey and Hart, 1849.

8vo (19 x 12 cm), pp. xxiv, 336, with a folding map; light foxing throughout; original blue, blind-stamped cloth; spine sunned and rubbed.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




191. MOODIE, J. W.쯳pan>Thirty-five days' march through Palestine, Syria, and Egypt.쯳pan>Glasgow, John J. Rae, 1888.

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. 70, frontispiece, title-page vignette and illustrations in the text; original blue cloth, gilt lettering.First edition. 簼o:p>




192. STACE, E. V.쯳pan>An English-Arabic vocabulary for the use of students of the colloquial.쯳pan>London, Bernard Quaritch, 1893.

8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. [i] blank, iii-viii, 218, 6 (publisher's list); a very bright copy in the original blue cloth, gilt lettering.쯳pan>First edition. ఼o:p>




193. THESIGER, Wilfred.쯳pan>The Marsh Arabs.쯳pan>Longmans, 1964.

8vo (21.5 x14 cm), pp. [xiv], 242, with numerous maps and plates; original green cloth, dust-jacket. First edition.쯳pan>Signed by the author on the title-page.ࠠ࠼/span>఼o:p>




194. THESIGER, Wilfred.쯳pan>Arabian Sands.쯳pan>Longmans, 1959.

8vo (22 x 14.5 cm), pp. [xviii], 326, folding map in the rear pocket and numerous plates; original paper covered-boards, dust-jacket, a very good copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>Signed by the author on the title-page. ⵼o:p>




195. TOZER, Henry Fanshawe.쯳pan>Researches in the highlands of Turkey; including visits to Mount Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and other remote tribes.쯳pan>With notes on the ballads, tales, and classical superstitions of the modern Greeks.쯳pan>London, John Murray, 1869.

2 vols., 8vo (18.5 x 13 cm), pp. xii, 397; viii, 390, folding map and eight plates, illustrations in the text; contemporary green calf prize binding, crest blocked in gilt on the upper covers, red morocco labels to spines, all edges marbled; an attractive copy.쯳pan>First edition.ࠠ쯳pan>఼o:p>




196. WARBURTON, Eliot.쯳pan>The crescent and the cross; romance and realities of Eastern travel.쯳pan>London, Henry Colburn, 1845.

2 vols., 8vo (20 x 12.5 cm), pp. xvi, 389, [i] blank, 24 (publisher's list); viii, 433, [i] blank, 2 (publisher's list), with a lithograph frontispiece in each volume; original cloth; spines sunned, head and foot of spines slightly rubbed, minor ink stains to the upper cover of volume two.쯳pan>First edition. 尼o:p>



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MISCELLANEOUS VOYAGES & TRAVELS





197. BLIGH, William. A voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of his majesty, for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in his majesty's ship the Bounty, commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh.쯳pan>Including an account of the Mutiny on board the said ship, and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew, in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies. . . Published by permission of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.쯳pan>London, George Nichol, 1792.

4to (29.5 x 23 cm), pp. [x], 264, with a portrait frontispiece of Bligh, seven plates and charts; a little spotting and offsetting on the frontispiece and plates and charts, a minor tear in the margin of one plate, contemporary ownership inscription on the upper margin of the title-page; full contemporary calf, joints cracked but strong. First edition.




198. EDGCUMBE, Edward Robert Pearce.쯳pan>Zephyrus. A holiday in Brazil and on the river plate.쯳pan>London, Chatto & Windus, 1887.

8vo (17.5 x 12 cm), pp. [vi], 242, 32 (publisher's list, dated July 1887), with a map and illustrations in the text; minor foxing to the preliminaries; original pictorial cloth. First edition. ﳰan>఼o:p>

First edition. The narrative of쯳pan>a British banker's travels in Brazil.쯳pan>Includes a chapter on slavery; the author notes that whilst Brazilian slaves were gradually being emancipated, there was still a population of almost one and a half million in the country.




199. SCOTT, David.쯳pan>To the West Indies and back.쯳pan>One Hundred days.쯳pan>Being a narrative of a visit to the churches connected with the Church of Scotland in Jamaica, Grenada, St. Vincent and British Guiana.쯳pan>Motherwell, Meikle, [1908].

8vo (18 x 12 cm), pp. xii, 109, with a frontispiece and map, pictorial wrapper bound in at front; original blue cloth, gilt lettering; a very good copy. First edition.ࠠ쯳pan> ⵼o:p>




200. SINCLAIR, Isabella (Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.)쯳pan>Indigenous flowers of the Hawaiian islands.쯳pan>London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1885.

Small folio (38 x 28 cm), pp. [vi], with 44 chromolithograph plates after paintings by Mrs. Sinclair, each with a leaf of descriptive text; original green pictorial cloth, flower blocked in gilt on upper cover; a very bright, attractive copy.쯳pan>First edition.쯳pan>The first colour-plate book devoted entirely to Hawaiian flowering plants. SOLD






 
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