TRAVEL & EXPLORATION
1. [ACCRA / GOLD COAST.]
An original photograph of 'Odumasi
Agri[cultural] Show, Nov. 1912. The Hon. Mate Kole, Chief of Krobo country
wearing medal and chain presented for Kumasi Expedition'. Silver print, 11.5 x
16 cm, in very good condition. £80
2. AGATE, William.
Diary of a tour in South Africa. Paisley,
printed for private circulation by Alex Gardner, 1912.
8vo (21.5 x 17 cm), pp. 214, with numerous
half-tone plates; contemporary quarter morocco, blue, pebbled cloth sides;
spine sunned but still a good, solid copy with bright gilt lettering to spine.
First edition. £250
3. ARCHBELL, James.
A grammar of the Bechuana language. Graham's
Town, Meurent and Godlonton, 1837.
8vo
(22 x 14 cm), pp. xxii, 82, [1] errata; half-title present, manuscript notes on
the front endpapersm, half-title and errata leaf; original paper boards,
rebacked; boards somewhat soiled and rubbed First edition of the first
grammar of the Bechuana language. £350
4. [ASHANTI / GOLD COAST.]
An original printed advertisement for
'The Lion Troupe of Ashantee Warriors. The wonders of the World', appearing at
the Canterbury Hall, Westminster Bridge Road. London, Phillips Bros., circa
1890. 18 x 12.5 cm. £80
5. ASPINALL, Algernon.
A wayfarer in the West Indies. London,
Methuen & Co., 1928.
8vo
(19 x 13 cm), pp. [xii], 244, 8, with numerous half-tone plates, map endpapers;
original purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine; cloth sunned, especially on spine.
First edition. Includes Antigua, Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, St. Thomas, St.
Lucia, the Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Martinique.£125
6. ASPINALL, Algernon.
A wayfarer in the West Indies. London,
Methuen & Co., 1928.
8vo
(19 x 13 cm), pp. [xii], 244, 8, with numerous half-tone plates, map endpapers;
original purple cloth, gilt lettering to spine; cloth sunned, especially on
spine. First edition. Includes Antigua, Jamaica, Barbados, Bahamas, St.
Thomas, St. Lucia, the Virgin Islands, Trinidad and Martinique. £125
7. BAKER, Samuel.
Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society.
Vol. X. No. 1. London, 14th December 1865.
8vo (21 x 14 cm), pp. 4 (advertisements), 29, with
a folding map; original blue printed wrappers; a very good copy. Baker's first
printed account of his discovery of the Albert Nyanza; printed the year before
his two-volume work, The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile (London,
1866). £100
8. BARROW, A. H.
Fifty years in Western Africa: being a record of
the work of the West Indian Church on the banks of the Rio Pongo. London
& Brighton, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1900.
8vo
(18 x 12 cm), pp. 157, with a map in the text; original black cloth, gilt
lettering to spine. First edition. £200
9. BEAUFORT, Emily A. [Vicountess Strangford].
Egyptian sepulchres and
Syrian shrines, including a visit to Palmyra. London, Macmillan and Co.,
1874.
8vo
(18.5 x 13 cm), pp. [xii], 546, [40] publisher's list; bookplate removed from
the front pastedown; original pictorial cloth, gilt; spine discoloured, small
chip to foot of spine. New edition (first published in 1861). £100
10. BEHESNILIAN, Krikor. In bonds: an Armenian's experiences. London,
Morgan & Scott, [n.d., circa 1900].
8vo
(19 x 12 cm), pp. 63, [1], with four half-tone plates and a map at p. 6; some
browning throughout; original green pictorial cloth, gilt lettering; a good
copy, partly unopened. First edition. The Rev. Behesnilian, an Armenian by
birth, studied at New College, South Hampstead for three years and was ordained
at Whitefield's Tabernacle in Tottenham Court Road in October of 1892. He then
returned to Cilicia and became a “Travelling Evangelist”, in fact the first
missionary to be sent by English Christians to Armenia. He administered to
remote Christian communities and, together with his wife, provided some basic
medical services, not only to Christians, but also on occasion to Jews and
Muslims. OCLC lists three copies only: California State University, UCLA and
the University of Leeds). £200
11. [BELGIAN CONGO.]
A superb album of 143 original photographs of the
Belgian Congo. Unidentified photograher, Societe Anonyme de Cultures au
Congo Belge, 1920s. Oblong folio (40 x 50 cm), containing 43 silver prints
(each 12 x 17 cm) laid on 18 card leaves; contemporary boards, cloth sides,
brown morocco corners, lettering on the upper cover, 'S.A. de cultures au Congo
Belge'; neatly rebacked, covers rubbed. £3000
12. BOUSFIELD, Leonard. Sudan doctor. London, Christopher
Johnson, 1934.
8vo
(20.5 cm), pp. 201, with half-tone plates; original blue cloth; dust-jacket; a
good copy. First edition. £30
13. BOYCE, William B.
A grammar of the Kaffir language. Grahamstown,
Wesleyan Mission Press, 1834.
Quarto
(20 x 28 cm0, pp. [vii], [I] blank, 54; original brown cloth, gilt lettering to
spine, minor repairs to the spine; a very good copy indeed. First edition of
the first published Xhosa grammar. £3000
14. BRIGG, Arthur.
“Sunny fountains” and “golden sand:” pictures of
missionary life in the “dark continent”. London, T. Woolmer, 1888.
8vo (17 x 11 cm), pp. 255, with illustrations in
the text (some full-page); original red cloth, gilt; spine somewhat faded.
First edition. £50
15. [BRITISH EAST AFRICA, RHODESIA & SOUTH
AFRICA .] A
photographic record of an African Journey. 3 photograph albums. SOLD
16. BROADBENT, Samuel.
A narrative of the first introduction of
Christianity among the Baralong tribe of Bechuanas, South Africa. London,
Wesleyan Mission House, 1865. First edition. SOLD.
17. BRODE, H.
British and German East Africa. Their economic and
commercial relations. London, Edward Arnold, 1911.
8vo
(21.5 x 14 cm), pp. [xvi], with 173, [2], 24 (publisher's list) with a folding
map and eight plates; vestiges of a bookplate on the front free endpaper;
original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, covers a little dust-soiled.
First edition. £100
18. BURTON, Richard.
The land of the Midian. Revisited. London, C.
Kegan Paul & Co., 1879. 2 vols., 8vo, original cloth. First edition. £1500
19. BUXTON, M. Aline.
Kenya days. London, Edward Arnold & Co.,
1928.
8vo
(22.5 x 15 cm), pp. [xii] 242, with a folding map and eight half-tone plates;
original black cloth, gilt lettering; minor mark to upper cover. Second
edition. £50
20. [BURMA.]
An original albumen photograph of the Hairy Family
of Burma. Circa 1880s. £600
21. CAILLIE, Réné Auguste.
Travels through central Africa to
Timbuctoo; and across the great desert, to Morocco, performed in the years
1824-1828. London, Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830.
2 vols., 8vo (21 x 13 cm), pp. viii, 475; xiv,
[ii], 501, with 6 plates (including a folding view of Timbuktu) and two folding
maps (repaired tear to one map); contemporary half calf, marbled sides, spine
gilt; recently rebacked; a good copy. First edition. The first eye-witness
account of Timbuktu by a European traveller. Lukach 192; Playfair Morocco
557. £1500
22. [CALCUTTA IMPRINT.]
The Oriental Sporting Magazine. Edited
by Raymond. No. 1, volume the first. December, 1855. Calcutta, R. C.
Lepage & Co., [1865].
8vo (24 x 16 cm), pp. 94, with two albumen print
(photographs) plates; original printed wrappers, spine repaired. The first
issue of a magazine for Indian horse racing. £100
23. CANDLISH, John.
Letters written from abroad by the late John
Candlish, M.P. Printed for family perusal only. Sunderland, Printed by
William Duncan, 1885.
8vo (20 x 12 cm), pp. 89; original blue cloth, gilt
lettering; a very good copy indeed. First edition. £300
24. [CENTRAL AFRICA.]
An original flyer for The Central African
Exhibition, held at 54 Pall Mall, London. 25.5 x 20 cm, at some time folded in
half, but in good condition. £50
25. CHAILLÉ LONG, Charles.
Central Africa: naked truths of naked
people. An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka
Niam-Niam. West of the Bar-El-Abaid (White Nile). London, Sampson Low,
Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876.
8vo
(21 x 14 cm), pp. xvi, 330, with a Woodburytype frontispiece portrait of the
author; folding map, plates and illustrations; recent brown half morocco,
marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. First London edition. £600
26. CHALLAYE, Félicien.
Au Japon et en Extrême-Orient. Paris,
Armand Colin, 1905.
8vo
(19 x 12 cm), pp. [x], 267, [3]; original yellow printed wrappers; minor wear
to wrappers. £75
27. CHANEL, Joseph.
Voyage au Kilima ndjaro. Paris, Extrait du Bulletin
trimestriel de l'Association des anciens Élèves de l'École des hautes Études
commericiales, [n.d., but circa 1897].
8vo (23 x 15 cm), pp. 196, [1], with numerous
half-tone illustrations in the text; contemporary quarter calf, pebbled cloth
sides, gilt lettering directly to spine. First edition. The author travelled
from Mombasa to Kilmanjaro. £150
28. CHANLER, William Astor.
Through jungle and desert. Travels in
Eastern Africa. London, Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896.
8vo
(24.5 x 16.5 cm), pp. xiv, 535, with two folding maps loosely inserted at rear,
portrait frontispiece and numerous illustrations; original blue cloth, image of
a lion blocked in gilt on the upper cover; small tears and chips to the head
and foot of spine. First edition. Presentation copy: inscribed on the
front pastedown, 'Tripoli, May 24th (the day of my arrival from
Murzuk). To my friend William Coffin, U.S. Consul at Tripoli from the author,
Wm Astor Chanler'. The narrative of Chanler's travels to East Africa, to
Lake Tana and Kenya, with Lieutenant Ludwig von Hölnel. £950
29. CHARMES, Gabriel.
Five months at Cairo and in Lower Egypt.
Translated from the French of Gabriel Charmes by William Conn. London,
Richard Bentley, 1883.
8vo
(18 x 13 cm), pp. viii, 359; original green pictorial cloth, all edges gilt;
slight rubbing to extremities but still a good copy. First edition. £150
30. [CHINA.]
A guide to Tientsin. Tientsin, Presented by the
Astor House Hotel Ltd, [n.d., circa 1900].
8vo
(20 x 14 cm), pp. [ii], 18, with additional leaves of advertisements and
unpaginated text, with a large folding map of the city and five half-tone
plates (all images of the Astor House Hotel); original printed wrappers. A
rare and interesting piece of ephemera, distributed by the Astor House Hotel to
its guests, describing the principal foreign concessions (French, British,
Japanese, German and Russian) and, all major place of interest in the native
city. £100
31. CLARK, Thomas Blake.
Omai, first Polynesian ambassador to
England. The true story of his voyage there in 1774 with Captain Cook; of how
he was feted by Fanny Burney, approved by Samuel Johnson, entertained by Mrs
Thrale and Lord Sandwich and painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Honolulu,
University of Hawaii Press, 1969.
8vo
(24 x 19 cm), pp. [vi], 114; a very good copy in the original paper-covered
boards, cream buckram spine. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. £15
32. COLLINS, Perry McDonough.
A voyage down the Amoor: with a land
journey through Siberia, and incidental notices of Manchooria, Kamchatka, and
Japan. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1860.
8vo (20 x 13 cm), pp. [iv], 390, [2] publisher's
list, with a photo-lithographed frontispiece; original cloth, gilt lettering; a
very good copy. First edition. £275
33. [CONGO.]
A collection of 63 glass magic lantern slides of
the Belgian Congo. Circa 1900-1920s.
Glass lantern slides, each 8.5 x 10 cm, identifying
paper labels; contained in two wooden boxes, paper index pasted to the lid of
each box; very good condition. £350
34. COOK, Albert Ruskin.
A doctor and his dog in Uganda.
London, The Religious Tract Society, [1903]. 8vo (18 x 12 cm), p. 162,
with seven half-tone plates; original brown cloth, gilt lettering; an excellent
copy. First edition. £150
35. COUPLAND, Reginald.
Livingstone's last journey. London,
Collins, 1945.
8vo
(22 x 14 cm), pp. 271, with numerous illustrations; a very good copy in
original brown cloth with dust-jacket. First edition. £40
36. CROUCH, Archer P.
On a surf-bound; or, cable-laying in the African
tropics. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington,
1887.
8vo
(19 x 12.5 cm), pp. xii, 338; upper portion of half-title missing, some
browning to half-title and title-page; a good copy in the original maroon
cloth, black and gilt lettering. First edition. An account of travel in West
Africa, whilst the author was involved in a six-month cable-laying expedition,
from the English settlement of Bathurst on the River Gambia, terminating at the
Portuguese town of St. Paul de Loanda. Contains descriptions of Accra and
Lagos. £325
37. [DAGESTAN].
Four original albumen photographs of remote
locations in Dagestan by Roinov. Circa 1870s. £800
38. D' ANETHAN, Baroness Mary.
Fourteen year of diplomatic life in
Japan. Leaves from the diary of Baroness Albert d'Anethan. With an
introduction by H.E. Baron Kato. London, Stanley Paul & Co., 1912.
8vo
(22.5 x 14 cm), pp. 471, [1] blank, 48 (advertisements), full-page illustrations
in the text; original blue cloth, armorial crest blocked in gilt on the upper
cover, silt lettering to spine. First edition. £100
39. DAVY, André.
4000 miles of adventure. Down the Nile by canoe. London,
Robert Hale Limited, 1958.
8vo
(20.5 x 13 cm), pp. 191, with numerous plates; original brown cloth, gilt
lettering, dust-jacket; small chips to head of dust-jacket, otherwise a very
good copy. First edition. £35
40. DENNETT, R. E.
At the back of the black man's mind. Or, notes on
the kingly office in West Africa. London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1906.
8vo
(21 x 13.5 cm), pp. [xvi], 288, with 22 half-tone plates; original green cloth,
gilt lettering; spine darkened, corners a little rubbed. First edition. £80
41. DENON, Baron Dominique Vivant.
Travels in upper and lower Egypt, in
company with several divisions of the French Army, during the campaigns of
General Bonaparte in that country and published under His Imperial patronage. Translated
by Arthur Aikin. London, Printed for T. N. Longman and O. Rees, Patterson Row
and Richard Phillips. 71, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1803.
3
vols. (2 vols. text plus atlas); text: 2 vols., quarto (26 x 21 cm), pp. viii,
[I-xvi] preface, [vi] contents list, 17-343, with a vignette at p. 252; [viii],
320; atlas: small folio (43 x 27 cm), containing 61 plates and maps (some
folding), as called for in the list of plates; full contemporary calf,
contrasting morocco labels, edges tooled in gilt, all edges speckled; some
rubbing to boards, joints neatly repaired, one label on spine of vol. II
replaced; a very grand, handsome copy, with a baronial crest in the centre of
all boards. First enlarged edition in English £2500
42. DHASP, Jean.
Le Japon contemporain (notes et impressions). Paris,
Maison Quantin, 1893.
8vo (18.5 x 12 cm), pp. 344, with a folding map;
original printed wrappers; a very good copy. First edition. Cordier, Japan
650. £125
43. DIDIER, Charles.
500 lieues sur le Nil. Paris, L. Hachette et
Cie, 1858.
12mo
(17 x 10.5 cm), pp. [viii], 378, [2]; small ink library stamp to the
half-title; contemporary red, pebbled cloth boards, neatly rebacked in red
morocco, gilt; a very good copy. First edition. From the author of Séjour
chez le Grand-Cherif de la Mekke and Cinquante Jours au Désert,
both published in Paris in 1857. Didier travelled to Sennậr, Khartoum
and the White Nile. £200
44. DIDIER, Charles.
Cinquante jours au désert. Paris, L. Hachette
et Cie, 1857.
8vo
(16.5 x 11 cm), pp. [vi], 308, [1]; small blind-stamp to the upper right corner
of the title-page; contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards; a very good
copy. First edition. Travels from Jeddah to Suakin and Kassala in 1854. £200
45. DU FOURNET, Louis Dartige.
Journal d'un commandant de La Comète.
Chine – Siam – Japon (1892-1893). Paris, Librairie Plon, 1915.
8vo (18 x 11 cm), pp. [vi], 301, with numerous
plates; original printed wrappers. £75
46. DUYVENDAK, J. J. L.
China's discovery of Africa. Lectures
given at the University of London on January 22 and 23, 1947. London,
Arthur Probsthain, 1949. 8vo pamphlet, pp. 36, [I], plates; original
wrappers. £50
47. [EGYPT.]
A history of the operations of the British armies
in Egypt, landing of Bonaparte to the restoration of the Ottoman power; to
which is prefixed an ample description of the moral and physical state of that
county, with remarks on its political importance, with a sketch of its history,
previous to the epoch of the French invasion. By several gentlemen, members of
the literary and philosophical society in Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle
upon Tyne, Printed by K. Anderson, in the Side, 1809.
2
vols., 8vo (21 x 13.5 cm), pp. 708; 752, with two folding maps, a frontispiece
in volume I, one folding plate and illustrations in the text; preliminaries
browned in places; contemporary half calf, marbled sides, gilt, red morocco
labels, all edges marbled; joints repaired, extremities rubbed. First edition. £350
48. ELTON, J. Frederic.
Travels and researches among the lakes
and mountains of Central Africa. From the journals of J. Frederic Elton,
F.R.G.S. Edited and compiled by H. B. Cotterill. London, John Murray,
1879.
8vo
(22x14 cm), pp. xxii, 417, [1] blank, 32 (publisher's list), with a folding
map, plates and illustrations; recent blue half morocco, blue cloth sides, gilt
lettering directly to spine. First edition. £750
49. FALCONER, J. D.
On horseback through Nigeria. Or life and travel
in the Central Sudan. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1911.
8vo
(21 x 13 cm), pp. 312, [6] publisher's list, with a folding map and 32
half-tone plates; some scattered foxing; original maroon cloth, image of a
horse in a boat blocked in gilt on the upper cover, gilt lettering. First
edition. £250
50. FARROW, Stephen S.
Faith, fancies and fetich, Or Yoruba
Paganism. Being some account of the religious beliefs of the West African
Negroes, particularly of the Yoruba Tribes of Southern Nigeria. London,
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1926].
8vo
(19 x 13 cm), pp. [xii], 180, with numerous half-tone plates; original blue cloth,
gilt lettering. First edition. £150
51. FELKIN, Robert William.
On the geographical distribution of some
tropical diseases, and their relation to the physical phenomena. Edinburgh
and London, Young J. Pentland, 1889. 8vo (22.5 x 14 cm), pp. 54, 7, with
16 folding maps; original, green pebbled cloth. Inscribed by the author. £150
52. FOX BOURNE, Henry Richard.
The other side of the Emin Pasha
Expedition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1891.
8vo (19 x 130 cm), pp. x, 202, [2] publisher's list;
original light brown cloth, lettered in black; covers soiled; lower board and
head of spine repaired. First edition. An extremely scarce account of the Emin
Pasha Relief Expedition, highly critical of the expedition's leader, H.M.
Stanley. £380
53. FYFE, George.
The cruise of the 'St. George' to see the world.
Wellington & Salop, [1893].
8vo (21 x 14 cm), pp. [iv], 233, [1] blank, [6]
appendix, with a folding map at the front and 6 plates; original blue cloth,
gilt; a very bright copy. First edition. The St. George sailed from
Southampton in 1891 to Aden, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canton, Japan, Canada,
Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Monte Video & Buenes Aires. £150
54. GARWOOD, Alfred Edward.
Forty years of an engineer's life at
home and abroad. With notes by the way. Newport, A.W. Dawson Ltd., [n.d.,
circa 1900].
8vo
(21 x 14 cm), pp. 222, 8 (appendix), with numerous half-tone plates; a very
good, bright copy in the original pictorial cloth, gilt. First edition.
Garwood, a railway engineer, had been employed in Russia for a number of
years. He subsequently relocated to Egypt where he was employed by the
Khedive, Ismail Pasha. Following the Khedive's death, he continued to work for
his son, Thewfik Pasha. He became Managing Director of the Public Works
Company of Egypt and was also involved in the Suakim-Berber Railway project. £250
55. GAUNT, Mary.
A broken journey. Wanderings from Hoang-Ho to the
island of Saghalien and the upper reaches of the Amur River. London, T. Werner
Laurie Ltd., [1919].
8vo
(21. 5 x 14 cm), pp. xii, 295, with 16 half-tone plates; endpapers browned;
original blue cloth with dust-jacket; a few chips to dust-jacket. First
edition. £130
56. [GOLD COAST].
Atlas of the Gold Coast. Accra, Gold Coast
Survey Dept., [1927]. Small folio, 24 maps and graphs. £350
57. [GORDON of Khartoum.].
Life of General Gordon. From the author
of 'Our Queen', 'New World Heroes' Etc. London, Walter Scott, 1884.
8vo
(18 x 12 cm), pp. viii, 319, [1] blank, [16] publisher's list, with a
Woodburytype portrait frontispiece of Gordon; without the front free endpaper;
original pictorial cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt. First edition. £50
58. [GORDON OF KHARTOUM.] M'Gonagall, William.
A poem composed in memory of General
Gordon, the Hero of Khartoum. Dundee, William M'Gonagall, March 1895.
28.5 x 22 cm; a broadside printed in memory of
General Gordon who died on 26th January 1885. M'Gonagall had
previously penned poems to mark the battle of El-Teb and the death of Prince
Leopold. £200
59. GRAY, Major William & Staff
Surgeon Dochard. Travels
in Western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20 & 21, from the River Gambia,
through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam. Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the River
Niger. London, John Murray, 1825.
8vo
(21 x 13 cm), pp. iii-xvi (half title not present), 413, with a portrait
frontispiece, 9 aquatint plates., 4 lithographed botanical plates and a folding
map; contemporary half calf, spine gilt, marbled boards. First edition. £750
60. HAILE SELASSIE, Emperor of Ethiopia
[1892-1975]. Autograph
letter written and signed in Ethiopic to Sir Reginald Wingate, British High
Commissioner in Egypt. 14th December 1917. £2800
An important and early letter written by the then
heir apparent to the throne of Abyssinia, to General Reginald Wingate 'Pasha',
strengthening his own position by developing greater ties with the British.
[In translation], 'Some time ago I wrote you a letter and handed the same to
Major Pearson for transmission to you. I mentioned that I intended sending my
photograph as a token of friendship but, rather than send it by post, I awaited
the opportunity of sending it by someone who was going to Egypt…and I am
sending same by the British Vice-Consul, Mr. Zaphiro. I am also sending
certain presents to His Majesty King George V and should be indebted to your
Excellency if you would facilitate their being sent on to London. Ras Tafari
Makonnen… 24th Haddar' 1910, with stamp, on paper headed with the
embossed Lion of Judah, with the original envelope, also with embossed lion.
61. [HAKODATE, HOKKAIDO.]
Five postcards of streetscenes in
Hakodate, Japan. Circa 1900-10. In very good condition, unused. £50
62. HAWKER, George.
The life of George Grenfell. Congo missionary and
explorer. London, The Religious Tract Society, 1909.
8vo
(21 x 13. 5 cm), pp. xvi, 587, [1] blank, [8] publsiher's list, with a folding
map at the rear, portrait frontispiece and numerous plates, four maps in the
text; a very good copy original green cloth, gilt lettering. First edition. £150
63. HAY, Alexander Rattray.
Saints and savages. Brazil's Indian
problem. London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1921].
8vo (17.5 x 11cm), pp. viii, 91, with 15 half-tone
plates (including a folding panorama of the Matto Grosso Plateau; original grey
cloth, black lettering, image of a Bororo Indian Chief blocked in black on the
upper cover; a good copy. First edition. £75
64. HEARN, Lafcadio.
Glimpses of unfamiliar Japan. London, Osgood,
McIlvaine & Co., 1894.
2
vols., 8vo (21.5 x 13 cm), pp. [xii], 342; [iv], 343-699; original, green
decorative cloth, gilt lettering. First London edition (the first U.S. edition
appeared in Boston in the same year). Hearn's insights to the religions,
superstitions and ways of thought of the Japanese people. £200
65. HOLMES, T.
Heart and thought. Memories of eastern travel. Bolton,
J. W. Gledsdale, 1887.
8vo
(17.5 x 11 cm), pp. [xvi], 324, [1] blank, [1] hints for travellers in the
East, with a folding map; original green cloth, gilt lettering. First edition:
an unusual imprint, for private circulation. The author travelled to
Egypt, Palestine, Syria and the Levant in 1885. £200
66. HOME, Gordon.
The people of Egypt. Painted by Lance Thackeray.
With an introduction by Gordon Home. London, A. & C. Black, 1916.
8vo (22 x 155 cm), pp. vi, 10, with 32
colour-printed plates, plus 32 plates of uncoloured illustrations on the
interleaves, with an additional illustration pasted on to the front pastedown;
original pictorial cloth; a good copy. Second edition (first published in
1910). £25
67. [HONG KONG / MACAO/ SINGAPORE / CHINA.]
A collection of 130 glass magic
lantern slides. Unidentified photographers, circa 1890. Each
approximately 8 x 8 cm, some coloured, many captioned on paper labels;
contained in two wooden slide boxes. £400
68. IRBY, Charles Leonard & James MANGLES.
Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria, and
the Holy Land; including a journey round the Dead Sea, and through the country
East of the Jordan. London, John Murray, 1845.
8vo (17 x 11 cm), pp. viii, 150; recent grey
boards, paper spine and printed label; small ink stamp to the upper right
corner of title-page. Later edition (first published privately in 1823). £50
69. IRELAND, Rev. William.
Historical sketch of the Zulu mission,
in South Africa, by Rev. William Ireland: as also of the Gaboon Mission, in
Western Africa. Boston, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, [1864/5].
8vo
(23.5 x 14.4 cm), pp. 32, with maps printed on the endpapers; original printed
wrappers; wrappers almost detached but text still tightly sewn. First
edition. £350
70. IRONMONGER SOLA, W. E.
Klondyke: truth and facts of the new El
Dorado. London, The Mining and Geographical Institute, [n.d., but 1897].
Large
8vo (27 x 19 cm), pp. [x], 102, with numerous half-tone plates and four maps
(one folding); original green cloth, image of a skeleton holding a bag of gold
and pick-axe blocked in gilt on the upper cover; some soiling to upper covers.
First edition. £150
71. IRONS, W.
The settler's guide to the Cape of Good Hope and
Colony of Natal; compiled from the original and authentic materials, collected
by W. Irons, Secretary of the Cape Town Mechanics' Institution. With some
additional notices of those colonies, and remarks on the advantages they offer
to emigrants. London, Edward Stanford, 1858.
8vo (16 x 10 cm), pp. [xvi], 230, [2] publisher's
list, with a folding map; original mauve cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover;
title written in ink on spine, spine sunned, upper joint neatly repaired.
First edition. £375
72. ISENBERG, Karl Wilhelm & Johann Ludwig
KRAPF. Journals of the
Rev. Messrs. Isenberg & Krapf, missionaries of the Church Missionary
Society, detailing their proceedings in the kingdom of Shoa, and journeys in
other parts of Abyssinia, in the years 1839, 1840, 1841, and 1842. To which is
prefixed, a geographical memoir of Abyssinia and south-eastern Africa, by James
M'Queen, esq., grounded on the missionaries' journals, and the expedition of
the Pacha of Egypt up the Nile. London, Seeley, Burnside and Seeley, 1843.
8vo
(21 x 13.5 cm), pp. xxvii, [95], 529, [1], with two folding maps; a good copy
in the original blue cloth, gilt lettering to the spine. First edition. Very
scarce. SOLD
73. [JAMAICA.] A group of 24 stereoviews of
Jamaica. New York
etc, H.C. White, 1904. £225
74. [JAPAN.] De Beauvoir, Ludovic Marquis de.
Pékin, Yeddo, San
Francisco. Voyage autour du monde. Paris, E. Plon et Cie, 1874.
8vo
(18 x 12 cm), pp. [iv], 359, [1] list of plates; four colour maps and 15
plates; later cloth spine, marbled sides, gilt lettering to spine. Later
edition, first published in 1872). £30
75. [JAPAN.]
A large and finely executed Japanese watercolour of
a Western main in traditional Japanese costume. Unidentified artist, circa
1870s. £3000
76. JENNINGS, Samuel.
My visit to the goldfields in the South-East
Wynaad. London, Chapman and Hall, 1881.
8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. [xii], 82, with eight plates;
original yellow-gold cloth, black cloth; covers a little darkened. First
edition. £275
77. JOHNSON, T. Broadwood.
Tramps round the Mountains of the Moon
and through the back gate of the Congo State. London, T. Fisher Unwin,
1912.
8vo
(19 x 12 cm), pp. [xxiii], [1]-316, with numerous half-tone plates; original
pictorial cloth, college arms blocked in gilt on the lower board. Second
impression (first published in 1908). Travels in Uganda and the Congo. £75
78. JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.
Livingstone and the exploration of
Central Africa. London, George Philip, [1913].
Small 8vo (17 x 11.5 cm), pp. viii, 372, with a
frontispiece, map endpapers; original red cloth, gilt lettering to spine;
extremities a little worn. Second edition. £25
79. JOTTRAND, Émile.
Indo-Chine et Japon. Paris, Plon, 1909.
8vo
(11.5 x 18 cm), pp. [iv], 348, with three maps; contemporary quarter calf,
mottled paper sides, gilt spine, red morocco label; an attractive copy. First
edition. £200
80. KELTIE, J. Scott.
The story of Emin's rescue as told in Stanley's
letters. Published by Mr. Stanley's permission. New York, Harper &
Brothers, 1890.
8vo
(20 x 14 cm), pp. 176, with a double-page map, two full-page illustrations
(portraits of Emin Pasha and Stanley); original red cloth, black lettering;
some discoloration to the upper, spine sunned. First U.S. edition. £100
81. KLUNZINGER, C.B.
Upper Egypt: its people and its products. A
descriptive account of the manners, customs, superstitions, and occupations of
the people of the Nile Valley, the desert, and the Red Sea Coast, with sketches
of the natural history and geology. London, Blackie and Son, 1878.
8vo
(22 x 14 cm), pp. xv, 408, with a frontispiece and illustrations in the text;
original brown cloth, decorated in black and gilt, an excellent copy. First
edition in English (translated from the original German edition, 1877). The
English edition contains illustrations not present in the original. With a
preface by Georg Schweinfurth. £225
82. [LEBANON / SYRIA.] [BRACEBRIDGE, C.]
Notes to sketches in Syria, November
1833. Coventry, Henry Merridew, [n.d.. but text dated August, 1835]. 8vo (22
x 13.5 cm), pp. 18, original plain wrappers. First edition. £100
83. LEYLAND, John. Adventures in the far interiors of
South Africa, including a journey to Lake Ngami and rambles in Honduras. London,
George Routledge and Sons, 1866.
8vo
(19 x 13 cm), pp. [viii], 282, [2], appendix, with several plates in the text;
original green cloth, gilt lettering; a bright copy. First edition. £600
84. [LIVINGSTONE.]
The life and explorations of Dr. Livingstone.
Compiled from reliable sources. London & Newcastle on Tyne, Adam &
Company, [n.d., circa late 1870s].
Small
8vo (17 x 11 cm), pp. 324, with a folding map, frontispiece and four plates;
very pretty copy in a contemporary calf prize binding, dark blue calf, spine
richly tooled in gilt, all edges gilt; extremities a little rubbed. First edition.
£100
85. [LIVINGSTONE.]
The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of
London. Volume the twentieth. 1850. Part I. London, John Murray, 1850.
8vo
(22 x 14 cm), pp. [iv], lxxii, 160, [2] advertisements, 16 (publisher's list),
with maps and plates; original blue printed wrappers; a very good copy. Pages
138-142 contain an early letter from Livingstone (his name is still spelt
'Livingston'), sent from the Missionary station at Kolobeng and detailing his
expedition to Lake Ngami, undertaken in June of 1849. Pages 143-51 contain
William Cotton Oswell's account of the same expedition. With a full-page map
of the expedition route. £100
86. [LIVINGSTONE, David.]
A mourning card for David Livingstone,
'Sacred to the Memory of Dr. Livingstone, (the Great African Explorer,) Born
March 17th 1817, Died near Kabendee, May 4th, 1873,
interred in Westminster Abbey April 18th 1874'. Circa 1873. 7.5
cm x 11.5 cm, embossed paper, text and border printed in black. £200
87. LIVINGSTONE, David.
Family letters 1841-1856. London,
Chatto & Windus, 1959. 2 vols., 8vo, original blue cloth,
dust-jackets. First edition. £55
88. LLOYD, A. B.
Uganda to Khartoum. London & Glasgow, Collins, [1911].
Small
8vo (15 x 10 cm), pp. 350, with a frontispiece and several plates; text block
somewhat browned as usual; original red cloth. Second edition. £35
89. LUGARD, Frederick Dealtry.
The rise of our East African Empire Dealtry. Early efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda. London, William
Blackwood, 1893.
2
vols., 8vo (22.5 x 15 cm), pp. [xx], 563, [i] blank, 32 (publisher's list; [x],
682, with a folding map in the pocket of vol. I, 7 other maps, numerous plates
and illustrations; original pictorial cloth; repairs to head and foot of
spines. First edition. £800
90. MADAN, A. C.
Swahili (Zanzibar) grammar. Oxford, Clarendon
Press, 1905.
8vo (16.5 x 11 cm), pp. 62; original printed
wrappers. First edition. £30
91. MANDELA, Nelson.
I am prepared to die. London, Christian Aid
pamphlet, circa 1965. Original printed wrappers. Second edition. £75
92. MANNING, Samuel.
The land of the pharoahs, drawn with pen and
pencil. Revised and partly re-written by Richard Lovett. With a supplementary
chapter on recent discoveries by Professor Flinders Petrie. London,
Religious Tract Society, 1897.
4to
(27.5 x 19 cm), pp. 192, with numerous illustrations; original pictorial cloth,
gilt; a very bright copy. Second edition (first published in 1887). A
general, profusely-illustrated guide to the major archaeological sites of
Egypt. £50
93. [MAP.] ARROWSMITH, John.
An original manuscript map of
Central America “to illustrate the papers of Capt. Bird Allen R.N.” Circa
1841. £550
94. MARTIN, W. A. P. style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family: A cycle of Cathay. Or China, South and North. With
personal reminiscences. New York, Chicago & Toronto, Flemming H.
Revell, 1897.
8vo (20 x 14 cm), pp. 464, with a folding map, 15 plates and numerous
illustrations in the text; original red pictorial cloth, gilt and yellow
lettering. Second edition. £50
95. McCOAN, J.C.
Egypt as it is. London & New York,
Cassell Petter & Galpin, [1880].
8vo
(21 x 15 cm), pp. [xvi], 433, [1] blank, [14] publisher's list, with a folding
map; a a very good, bright copy in the original green pictorial cloth, gilt. First
edition. The author resided for may years in the Levant and travelled to Egypt
on several occasions. A description of the state of Egypt in 1877 (economy,
judicial system, agriculture, industry, populations, cities, public works
etc). With a chapter on the Soudan, with reference to Samuel Baker. £180
96. McDERMOTT, P. L.
British East Africa or IBEA. A history of the
formation and work of the Imperial British East Africa Company. Compiled with
the authority from official documents and the records of the company. London,
Chapman and Hall, 1893.
8vo
(20.5 x 14 cm), pp. xvi, 382, [2], with a folding map and two plates; some
scattered foxing; original brown cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt; minor
rubbing to extremities. First edition. £375
97. [MEDALS.] SOLD
98. MILLER, D. M.
Central Africa revisited. A 16,000 mile tour
throughout the fields of the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya, Tanganyka, Uganda,
Congo, Sudan and Egypt. London & Edinburgh, Marshall, Morgan &
Scott, Ltd., [n.d., circa 1920].
8vo
(18 x 12 cm), pp. 121, with 16 half-tone plates; original cream cloth, dark
brown lettering, dust-jacket (small chips to upper edge); a very good copy.
First edition. £50
99. MILLIGAN, Robert H.
The Fetish folk of West Africa. New
York, Chicago, Toronto, London & Edinburgh, 1912.
8vo
(20.5 x 14 cm), pp. 328, [2] publisher's list, with 16 half-tone plates;
original pictorial cloth, red and gilt lettering; a little rubbed. First
edition. £150
100. MISSIONARY COLLECTION BOXES.
A pair of original missionary collection
boxes. Circa 1890s & early 20th century.
Two wooden boxes, each approximately 9 x 15 x 6.5
cm, with the original printed labels pasted to the sides, coin slot on the top,
pivoted door underneath (for emptying out the coins). Missionary boxes were
placed in churches, community buildings and shops to raise money for overseas
missions. The two examples here were used for collecting donations for the
Universities' Mission to Central Africa and, the London Missionary Society. £175
101. [MOFFAT, Robert.]
Rivers of water in a dry place. Or,
from Africaner's Kraal to Khama's city. London, Religious Tract Society, [circa 1880s].
8vo
(18 x 11 cm), pp. 224, with a portrait frontispiece of Robert Moffat and illustrations
in the text; a good copy in the original brown cloth, gilt and black
lettering. Revised edition (first published in 1863). £100
102. MOLLIEN, Gaspard Theodore.
Travels in Africa, to the sources of
the Senegal and Gambia in 1818. London, printed for Sir Richard Phillips,
and Co., 1825.
8vo
(21.5 x 13 cm), pp. ix, [1] blank, 128, with a folding map and three plates;
some foxing; recent blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. An Abridged account
of Mollien's travels, translated from the French (the first London edition
appeared in 1820). £50
103. MOORE, Francis.
Travels in the inland parts of Africa: containing a
description of the several nations for the space of six hundred miles up the
River Gambia… to which is added, Capt. Stibbs's voyage up the Gambia in the
year 1723, to make discoveries. London, printed by Edward Cave for the
author and sold by J. Stagg, 1723.
8vo
(19 x 11.5 cm), pp. xi, xiii, 305, 86, [4], 23, with 11 plates and a folding
map; with a contemporary manuscript letter bound in at the front; contemporary
calf, rebacked. First edition. £1250
104. MORGAN, John.
Reminiscences of the founding of a Christian
Mission on the Gambia. London, Wesleyan Mission House, 1864.
Small
8vo (16.5 x 10 cm), pp. [iv], 124; original purple cloth, gilt lettering to
spine; covers a little rubbed. First edition. £400
105. MORSE, Ira H.
Big game hunting in Africa. Seven months in the
Veldt. [Privately printed by the author and distributed by] The Warren
Museum, New Hampshire, [circa 1936].
8vo
(21.5 x 15 cm), pp. 59, [1], with illustrations in the text; original printed
wrappers. First edition. £50
106. MOUNTAINE, William.
The Seaman's Vade-Mecum, and defensive
war by sea, containing the proportions of rigging, masts and yards, weights of
anchors, sizes and weight of cables and cordage. The exercise of the small
arms, bayonet, granades and great-guns, duty of officers, &c…. London,
Mount and Page, 1744.
12mo in sixes, pp. ix, [2] contents, [1]
advertisement, 263, [1] blank, with three folding plates; some very light
offsetting to the initial leaves, small dampmark to the fore-edge of gathering
B (pp. 13-24), just touching the text, very slight marginal worming to pp.
49-54, else a good copy in full contemporary calf, sides with gilt rule border,
spine ruled gilt in compartments, red edges; small burn hole to the upper
board, corners slightly bumped, but still an attractive copy with the
contemporary ownership inscription, David Burnell: his book' to the front and
rear endpapers. Rare first edition of a work that saw eight editions by 1783.
ICA lists the 1761 edition only. £1250
107. MUNDY, Rodney.
Narrative of events in Borneo and Celebes, down to
the occupation of Labuan; from the journals of James Brooke, Esq., Rajah of
Sarawak and Governor of Labuan. Together with a narrative of the operations of
HMS Iris. London, John Murray, 1848.
2 vols., 8vo (22.5 x 14.5 cm), pp. [xx], 375, [3];
[xii], 395, 16 (publisher's list), with 5 folding maps, 18 plates; original red
cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt; repaired to the joints, spines a little
cockled. First edition. £1000
108. NASSAU, Robert Hamill.
Fetichism in West Africa. Forty years'
observation of native customs and superstitions. London, Duckworth &
Co., 1904.
8vo
(21 x 14 cm), pp. xix, 389, with a map and 12 half-tone plates; front free
endpaper replaced; original dark olive green cloth, gilt lettering to spine and
upper cover; small repaired splits to the joints, boards rubbed. First edition
of the most important of the early studies of Fetich culture. £150
109. NITOBE, Inazo.
Bushido, the soul of Japan. Tokyo, The Student Company, 1905.
8vo
(19 x 13 cm), pp. xiv, 177; original dark green cloth, gilt lettering to
spine. Author's edition, revised and enlarged. £25
110. OSBORN, Captain Sherard.
A cruise in Japanese waters. Edinburgh
& London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1859.
8vo (19 x 12 cm), pp. [iv], 210, 16 (publisher's
list); endpapers replaced, text a little foxed and browned in places; original,
green, blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering; minor tear to the head of the upper
joint. First edition. £150
111. PADDOCK, Judah.
A narrative of the shipwreck of the Oswego,
on the coast of South Barbary, and of the sufferings of the master and the crew
while in the bondage among the Arabs; interspersed with numerous remarks upon
the country and its inhabitants and the peculiar perils of that coast. London,
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.
Quarto
(27.5 x 21 cm), pp. xvi, 372; small repair to the lower right corner of the
title-page, some soiling to the outer margins particularly the preliminary
leaves; contemporary half calf; neatly rebacked, marbled boards; covers worn
and rubbed. First edition. £300
112. PIERSON, A. T.
Seven years in Sierra Leone. The story of the work
of William A. B. Johnson, missionary of the Church Missionary Society from 1816
to 1823 in Regent's Town, Sierra Leone, Africa. London, James Nisbet &
Co., [1897].
8vo (18.5 x 12.5 cm), pp. 252, [4] publisher's
list; bookplate removed from front pastedown; a near fine copy in the original
brown cloth, gilt lettering. First edition. Rev. Johnson was born in Hanover
Germany; after training in London, he was posted to Sierra Leone where he
taught and preached with his wife. £125
113. PUCKLER MUSKAU, Prince.
Egypt under Mehemet Ali. London,
Henry Colburn, 1845.
2
vols. bound as one, 8vo (19.5 x 13 cm), pp. xxiv, 323, [1] blank; vii, [1]
blank, 374, [1] erratum; original green, blind-stamped cloth, spine richly
decorated in gilt; upper joint neatly repaired; minor wear to the head and
foot of spine. First edition. £500
114. RANKINE, W. Henry.
A hero of the dark continent. Memoir
of the Rev. Wm. Affleck Scott. Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood
& Sons, 1896.
8vo
(19 x 12 cm), pp. xii, 313, [1], 32 (publisher's list), with six plates and a
sketch map and illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, lettered in
black and gilt; a superb copy. First edition. An excellent biography of the
Scottish medical missionary, stationed at Blantyre in British Central Africa;
Scott travelled extensively in the Shiré highlands but died of fever in 1895 at
the age of thirty-three. £150
115. RANSOME, J. Stafford.
Japan in transition. A comparative
study of the progress policy, and method of the Japanese since their war with
China. London & New York, Harper & Brothers, 1899.
8vo (23 x 14.5 cm), pp. [xx], 339, with three
folding maps, plus one map in the text, with numerous plates and illustrations;
original blue pictorial cloth, gilt lettering; a bright copy. First edition. £280
116. REYNOLDS-BALL, Eustace A.
The city of the Caliphs. A popular
study of Cairo and its environs and the Nile and its antiquities. London,
T. Fisher Unwin, 1898.
8vo
(20.5 x 14 cm), pp. [viii], 334, with a frontispiece and 19 plates; original
cream cloth, image of the Sphinx and Great Pyramid blocked in gilt on the upper
cover; some staining to the lower cover, spine discoloured. First edition. £30
117. RIVAZ, Cecil Arthur Glencairn.
Indian small game shooting for novices.
London, Horace Cox, 1912.
8vo (20.5 x 13 cm), pp. [viii], 140, [4]
advertisements', with 11 plates; a good copy in the original green cloth, gilt
lettering; minor tear to head of spine. First edition. £50
118. ROCHECHOUART, Le Cte. Julien
de. Excursions autour
du monde. Les Indes. La Birmanie, La Malaise, Le Japon, et les Etats-Unis. Paris,
E. Plon, 1879.
8vo
(18 x 11 cm), pp. [vi], 282, [2], with eight plates; original printed wrappers;
spine rebacked, with the title written in manuscript on the spine. First
edition. £50
119. ROSE, A. Evelyn.
Egypt, impressions of a first visit. Kirkcaldy,
privately printed, 1904.
8vo (20 x 12.5 cm), pp. [viii], 52, with a
frontispiece and illustrations in the text; a very bright copy in the original
green cloth, gilt lettering to upper cover. First edition. A privately
printed account of a visit to Egypt in February 1903. £75
120. ST. JOHN, James Augustus.
Egypt and Nubia, their scenery and their
people, being incidents in history and travel, from the best and most recent
authorities, including J. L. Burckhardt and Lord Lindsay. London, Chapman
and Hall, [1845].
8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. [viii], 472, [8] publisher's
list, with numerous illustrations in the text; upper hinge discreetly repaired,
very minor damp stain to the upper and outer edge of the front endpapers;
original dark brown cloth, blind-stamped, gilt lettering; a very good copy.
First edition. £150
121. [ST. HELENA.]
A pair of original photographs of Plantation House
(Governor's residence) and Longwood House (Napoleon's residence). Circa
1870s.
Albumen prints, each approx. 15 x 18 cm, laid on
card leaves. £100
122. SATOW, Sir Ernest. A diplomat in Japan. The inner history
of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and
the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the
events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that
period. London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1921.
8vo(21.
5 x 13.5 cm), pp. 427, [4] publisher's list, with seven plates and two plans in
the text; bright copy in original yellow cloth, black lettering. First
edition. £300
123. [SEYCHELLES.]
A group of six original photographs of Mahe and
other locations in the Seychelles. Unidentified photographer, 1904.
Silver prints, laid on once card leaf, each image captioned below in a
contemporary hand. £250
124. [SHERER, Joseph Moyle.]
Scenes and impressions in Egypt and in
Italy. London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
8vo (21 x 13 cm), pp. [iv], 452; ink library stamp
to the final leaf; recent buckram, morocco label, gilt lettering.
First edition. From the author of Sketches in India, and Recollections
of the Peninsula. £100
125. SICKERT, William [Walter].
Original etching entitled, 'In
Damascus'. Undated. 9 x 6 cm (on sheet 19.5 x 13 cm), signed 'Will
Sickert' and titled below the image. £750
126. [SLAVERY.]
An original photograph of a freed African slave,
Biskra, Algeria. Original albumen print in cabinet card format, 6.5 x 10.5 cm.
Unidentified photographer, circa 1880. £200
127. SMITH, Arthur Henderson.
Village life in China. A study in
sociology. New York, Chicago & Toronto, [n.d.].
8vo (20.5 x 14 cm), pp. 360, [8] publisher's list,
with 16 half-tone plates; an excellent copy in the original pictorial cloth.
Fourth U.S. edition (first published in New York in 1899). £50
128. SMITH, James.
A pilgrimage to Egypt. An account of a visit to
Lower Egypt. Aberdeen, John Avery & Co., 1897.
8vo
(21 x 14 cm), pp. x, 341, with two maps, (one folding), and 40 plates, plus
numerous illustrations in the text; without the rear free endpaper, repaired
tears to the front free endpaper, upper hinge cracked; original green pictorial
cloth, all edges gilt. First edition. £100
129. SMITH, Ronald.
Stanley in tropical Africa. His travels, heroism
and discoveries and gallant relief of Emin Pasha, including the narrative of
the Livingstone Search Expedition, of the journey through Equatorial Africa,
and that of the founding of the Congo Free State. London, Ward, Lock and
Co., 1890.
8vo
(18 x 12 cm), pp. viii, 196, [20], with a frontispiece, a folding map and
numerous plates (one folding) and illustrations; original blue pictorial cloth,
decorated and lettered in black and gilt; a good copy. Second edition (first
published appeared earlier in the same year).
130. [SOUDAN.]
An original advertisement / programme for Charles
Neufeld's lecture entitled, 'Twelve Years' Captivity in Khartoum', held at St.
James's Hall, London, on Tuesday, October 10th 1899. Pp. 3, with
two half-tone portraits of Neufeld in the text; previously folded. £50
131. [SOUTH AFRICA.]
Gleanings in Africa; exhibiting a faithful and
correct view of the manners and customs of the inhabitants of the Cape of Good
Hope, and the surrounding country. London, Albion Press, 1806.
8vo
(21 x 12.5 cm), pp. xxi, [I] blank, 320, [2] binder's directions and
publisher's list, with a large folding frontispiece and nine plates;
contemporary tree calf, rebacked preserving the original spine, spine tooled in
gilt. £1000
132. SPEKE, John Hanning.
Journal of the discovery of the source
of the Nile. Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood, 1863.
8vo (21 x 13 cm), pp. [xxxi], [I] blank, 658, with
two maps (one folding), 25 engraved plates and illustrations in the text;
recent green half morocco, spine gilt. First edition. A classic title of
African travel literature. £1100
133. STANLEY, Henry Morton.
In darkest Africa. Or the quest,
rescue, and retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. London, Sampson Low,
Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890.
2
vols., 8vo (29 x 23 cm), pp. xvi, 529; xvi, 472, with three folding maps,
numerous plates and illustrations in the text; original pictorial cloth, gilt;
excellent, bright copy.
First edition. Stanley's own account of the Emin
Pasha Relief Expedition. £500
134. STANLEY, Henry Morton.
The autobiography of Henry Morton
Stanley. London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co. Ltd., 1909.
Large
8vo (24 x 15 cm), pp. [xviii], 551, [1], with a folding map at the rear, 16
plates and one facsimile letter (folding); upper hinge repaired with paper;
original blue cloth, decorated and lettered in gilt; minor rubbing to
extremities but overall good copy. First edition. Edited by Stanley's wife,
Dorothy, and published posthumously (Stanley died in 1904). £100
135. [STANLEY, Henry Morton.] QUILTER, Harry.
Mr. H. M. Stanley: as leader and
comrade. Extract from the 'The Universal Review', [n.d., circa 1890].
4to (27.5 x 18 cm), pp. 313-65; bound in
contemporary cloth, gilt lettering to spine; neat repairs to head and foot of
spine. A contemporary commentary on the controversy surrounding Stanley's Emin
Pasha Expedition. £75
136. [STANLEY, Henry Morton.]
A stereoscopic view of 'Stanle and Major
Bartelot in their tent on the Upper Congo'. Liverpool, New York, Chicago,
Toronto, Ottawa, Underwood & Underwood, circa 1890s. 9 x 18 cm. £50
137. STANLEY, Henry Morton.
Through South Africa. Being an account
of his recent visit to Rhodesia and the Transvaal, Cape Colony, and Natal.
Reprinted, with additions from “South Africa”. London, Sampson Low, Marston
and Company, 1898.
8vo
(18.5 x 12 cm), pp. [xxii], 140, with a folding map and 12 plates; original
yellow cloth, black lettering; covers worn and a little stained. First
edition. £75
138. [STANLEY, Henry Morton].
A carte-de-visite of H.M. Stanley in his
explorer's outfit. London, E. Moses, early 1870s. Albumen print laid
on card, 10 x 6.5 cm. £120
139. STEWART, Duncan. A practical Arabic grammar.
London, John W.
Parker, 1841.
8vo
(22 x 14 cm), pp. 302, [2] blank, 16 publisher's list; ownership inscription to
front free endpaper; original blue, blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering; minor
rubbing to extremities. First edition. £150
140. STOCK, Eugene.
The story of Uganda and the Victoria Nyanza
mission. London, Religious Tract Society. 1892.
8vo
(18 x 13 cm), pp. 223, [1], 16 publisher's list, with a folding map and 15
full-page illustrations; original green cloth, gilt lettering. First edition. £75
141. STOPES, Marie.
A journal from Japan. London, Blackie &
Sons, 1910.
8vo
(22 x 15 cm), pp. xiv, 280, with a portrait frontispiece and seven plates;
original cream cloth, lettered in gilt, a chrysanthamum blocked in gilt and
orange on the upper cover, top edge gilt; a very good copy. First edition.
Signed by the author. £200
142. LINCOLN TANGYE, H.
In new South Africa: Travels in the
Transvaal and Rhodesia. London, Horace Cox, 1896.
8vo
(21 x 14 cm), pp. viii, 431, with a frontispiece and 14 half-tone plates,
illustrations in the text; original blue pictorial cloth; gilt lettering, image
of a waggon blocked in gilt on the upper cover; very minor wear to extremities,
otherwise a very good, bright copy. First edition. An account of travels in
the Transvaal and Zambesia. The illustrations are after photographs by the
author. £275
143. TEICHMAN, Eric.
Travels of a consular officer in North-west China.
Cambridge, University Press, 1921.
8vo
(24 x 16 cm), pp. [xiv], 219, with numerous half-tone plates and four maps (two
folding in rear pocket; original cloth boards; recent morocco spine, gilt
lettering. First edition. £280
144. THOMPSON, R. Wardlaw.
My trip in the John Williams. London,
London Missionary Society, 1900.
8vo
(20 x 16 cm), pp. [xii], 208, [4] advertisements, with numerous illustrations
in the text; original, red pictorial cloth, gilt and black lettering; spine a
little sunned. First edition. An account of a voyage on board the John
Williams, a missionary vessel which toured the remote islands of the
South Seas (including Kwato, Kapakapa, Waga Waga, Killerton, Suau, Isulailai,
Bererubu, Maopa, Kalo, Vatorata, Maiva, Jokea, Murray, Darnley, Maer,
Tupuselei, Alofi, Rarotonga, Mutalau, Mauke, Aitutaki, Apia, Samao and
Tutuila). £80
145. TOWNSEND, Rev. Henry.
Memoir of Henry Townsend, late
C.M.S. missionary, Abeokuta, West Africa. Compiled from his journals by his
brother, Mr George Townsend of Exeter. With a preface by Eugene Stock, Esq.,
Editorial Secretary of the Church Missionary Society. London, Marshall
Brothers; Exeter, James Townsend, [1887].
8vo
(18 x 12 cm), pp. [xvi], 186; with a frontispiece, a double-page plate at p.
125 and illustrations in the text; original cloth, gilt lettering; small
repaired split to the upper joint. First edition. £275
146. [TRAVEL LITERATURE.]
Analyses of new works of voyages and
travels, published during the last six months in Great Britain. London,
printed for Richard Phillips and Co., 1819.
8vo (21.5 x 12.5 cm), pp. [iv], 100; recent brown cloth,
gilt lettering to spine. Condensed analysis, with excerpts of the latest
important travel narratives. Includes Bowdich's Mission from Cape Castle to
Ashantee, Fitzclarence's Journal of route across India and
Macmichael's Journey from Moscow to Constantinople. £50
147. TREMEARNE, A. J. N.
The tailed head-hunters of Nigeria. An account of an officials seven years' experiences in the Northern Nigerian pagan belt, and a description of the manners, habits, and customs of the native
tribes. London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912.
8vo (22 x 14 cm), pp. 342, [10] publisher's list,
with a folding map at the rear, 38 half-tone illustrations on 32 plates and two
illustrations in the text; some foxing; original cloth, decorated and lettered
in gilt; minor rubbing and bumping to extremities. First edition. The author
served in West Africa for ten years, in the army, then as a police officer and
finally in a judicial capacity. £275
148. TREVES, Sir Frederick.
The tale of a hospital. London, Paris,
New York & Melbourne, Cassell & Company, 1900.
8vo
(19.5 x 16 cm), pp. viii, 109, [3] blank, [8] publisher's list; with 14 plates;
contemporary, green roan, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover, a very good
copy indeed. First edition. An account of the field hospital which for three
months followed the Ladysmith Relief Column. £150
149. TROUP, J. Rose.
With Stanley's Rear Column. London, Chapman
& Hall, 1890.
8vo
(22.5 x 15 cm), pp. [xii], 361, [40], with 14 plates; original green cloth,
gilt lettering; some minor markings to covers. Second edition. An account of
the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition by one of Stanley's officers, published
posthumously and with the authorisation of Stanley. £200
150. [UGANDA RAILWAY / BRITISH EAST AFRICA.]
An album of 108
original photographs compiled by a member of the Church family, possibly Arthur
Church. William D. Young & various other photographers, circa
1899-1905. SOLD
151. [VARENIUS, Bernhard.]
A compleat system of general
geography: explaining the nature and properties of the earth; viz its figure,
magnitude, motions, situation, contents and division into land and water,
mountains, woods, deserts, lakes, rivers, &c. With particular accounts of
the different appearances of the heavens in different countries; the seasons of
the year over all the globe; the tides of the sea; bays, capes, islands, rocks,
sand-banks, and shelves. The state of the atmosphere; the nature of
exhalations; winds, storms, tornados, &c. The origins of springs, mineral
waters, burning mountains and, mines, &c. The uses and making of maps,
globes, and sea-charts. The foundations of dialling, the art of measuring
heights and distances; the art of ship-building, navigation, and the ways of
finding the longitude at sea. Originally written in Latin by Bernhard
Varenius, M.D. Since improved and illustrated by Sir Isaac Newton and Dr.
Jurin. And now translated into English; with additional notes, copper plates,
an alphabetical index, and other improvements. Particularly useful to students
in the universities; travellers, sailors, and all those who desire to be
acquainted with mixed mathematics, geography, astronomy, and navigation, by Mr.
Dugdale. The whole revised and corrected by Peter Shaw, M.D. London, Printed for
Stephen Austen, 1736.
2
vols., 8vo (19.5 x 12 cm), pp. xxiv, 528, xvi, 529-898, [14] index, with a
frontispiece in volume I, 12 plates; contemporary calf, all edges tooled in
gilt and blind; neatly rebacked, covers rubbed. Third edition in English (earlier
editions appeared in 1733 & 1734; the original Latin text was published in
1650). £375
152. VISSEQ, Alexandre.
Dictionnaire Fiot, ou dictionnaire de la
langue du Congo. Paris, Maison-Mère, 1889.
8vo
(16 x 11 cm), pp. iv, 156; contemporary marbled boards, pebbled cloth spine,
printed paper label to spine; minor wear to extremities. First edition. OCLC
lists six copies only of the first edition. £400
153. WALTON, William Heward Murray.
Scrambles in Japan and Formosa.
London, Edward Arnold & Co., 1934.
8vo
(22 x 14 cm), pp. 304, with two folding maps at the rear, one full-page map in
the text and numerous half-tone plates; a very bright copy in the original
purple cloth, gilt lettering very crisp, dust-jacket; a few small chips and tears
to the dust-jacket. First edition; scarce in the dust-jacket. The Rev. Walton
was a missionary in Japan, now often referred to as the 'father' of Japanese
mountaineering. £500
154. WEATHERHEAD, H.T.C.
Uganda: a chosen vessel. A missionary
study text-book on Uganda. London, Church Missionary House, 1911.
8vo
(18.5 x 12 cm), pp. 62, [2] appendix, with a map frontispiece and eight plates;
original printed wrappers, black lettering; spine sunned. First edition. With
interesting illustrations, including the Uganda Railway. £50
155. WELLSTED, J. R.
Travels to the city of the Caliphs, along the
shores of the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean. Including a voyage to the
Coast of Arabia, and a tour on the island of Socotra. London, Henry Colburn,
1840.
8vo
(22.5 x 14 cm), pp. xvi, 405, [3]; viii, 347, [5], with a frontispiece in each
volume and one folding map; recent brown half morocco, cloth sides, gilt
lettering. First edition. £2800
156. WERNER, A.
The language-families of Africa. London, S.P.C.K, 1915.
8vo
(17 x 11 cm), pp. 149, with a folding map at the rear and a folding table;
original brown cloth, gilt lettering. First edition. Covers the five families
of African languages (Sudanian, Bantu, Hamatic, Bushman and Semitic). £40
157. [WEST INDIES.]
Map of the West India Islands and Central American
States. London, Edward Stanford, [n.d., circa 1900]. Folding map (54 x
72 cm), in 18 sections, laid on linen, contained in the original blue cloth
boards, printed paper label on upper cover, small oval ink stamp to the printed
label on the upper cover, 'British Cotton Growers Association”. £150
158. WINWOOD READE, William.
The African sketch-book. London,
Smith, Elder & Co., 1873.
8vo
(19.5 x 13 cm), pp. [xii], 483; [viii], 528, with plates and maps (two
folding); original, green pictorial cloth, gilt; small repairs to head and foot
of spines, spines cockled, extremities a little worn. First edition. Contains
the 'map of African literature' (vol. II, p. 528). £275
159. [ZANZIBAR.]
Visitor's book for the British Residency at Zanzibar, October 1928 to November 1931.
Oblong quarto (20 x 26 cm), containing 45 leaves of signatures, the remaining leaves
blank; contemporary black calf, gilt lettering and crest blocked in gilt on the
upper cover. A wonderful survival; a record of visitors to the British
Residency, an exotic mix of the great and the good of East Africa, including
missionaries, bishops, travellers and Sultans. £400
160. [ZANZIBAR.]
An original photograph panorama of Zanzibar town,
taken from a rooftop near the Sultan's palace. Unidentified photographer,
circa 1890s. Original silver print, 74 x 13 cm, in four sections; some
creases and small repaired tears; mounted and framed. £1500
161. Original photograph
of a fetish priest and a young girl. Benin,
Unidentified photographer, 1909. 14 x 11.5 cm, albumen print. £250