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CONTENTS Select Highlights..............................................................................................3 Alphabetical listings...........................................................................10 Addendum of 40 Recent Acquistions.........................................................................55 Select Index.............................................................................................................70

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The Edition De Luxe of Stanley's Great Narrative In Darkest Africa - A Handsome Copy Signed by Stanley - Published in London - 1890 Stanley, Henry M. IN DARKEST AFRICA, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (London and New York: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington for Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890) 2 volumes. Edition de Luxe. One of a limited edition of 250 numbered copies signed by Stanley on the reverse of the halftitle. With 6 etchings and 150 woodcut illustrations and 3 folding maps. Each of the etchings are signed in pencil by the artist. Large 4to, contemporary three-quarter brown morocco and with vellum covered sides, gilt lettered on the spines, gilt lettered and with gilt flag vignette on the upper covers, t.e.g. and all edges untrimmed. xv, 529; xi, 472 pp.

Index in each volume. A lovely example of this rare set, the bindings unusually fresh with the morocco and vellum in an especially good state of preservation, extremely fresh and clean internally. Only a light bit of aging to the vellum, quite unusual in this condition. $9500.

VERY SCARCE LIMITED EDITION OF ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE WRITINGS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPLORERS OF THE DARK CONTINENT. “By 1885 Stanley had become deeply interested in the schemes of Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Mackinnon, chairman of the British India Steam Navigation Company, for establishing a British protectorate in East Equatorial Africa, and it was believed that this object could be furthered at the same time that relief was afforded to Emin Pasha, governor of the the Equatorial Province of Egypt, who had been isolated by the Mahdist rising of 1881-1885...Instead of choosing the direct route Stanley decided to go by way of the Congo, as thereby he would be able to render services to the infant Congo State, then encountering great difficulties with the Zanzibar Arabs established on the Upper Congo” (EB).

Stanley and Tippoo Tib, the chief of the Congo Arabs, entered into an agreement for the latter to assume governorship of the Stanley Falls station and supply carriers for the Emin relief expedition, and then travelled up the Congo to Bangala together. They parted ways at Stanley Falls and Stanley started his trip toward Albert Nyanza, leaving a rear-guard at Yambuya on the lower Aruwimi under the command of Major E.M. Barttelot.

Stanley’s journey to Albert Nyanza became a hazardous 160-day march through “nothing but miles and miles, endless miles of forest” that claimed the lives of over half of Stanley’s men from starvation, disease, and hostility of the natives. Finally upon the arrival at Albert Nyanza, Stanley achieved communication with Emin but was troubled by the nonarrival of his rear-guard. He retraced his steps back to Yambuya to find that Tippoo Tib had broken faith, Barttelot had been murdered, and the camp was in disarray and only one European was left. Stanley again set out for Albert Nyanza, where Stanley, Emin Pasha, and the survivors of the rear-guard began the return journey to Zanzibar by way of Uganda, a trip during which he discovered the Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori), traced the course of the Semliki River, discovered Albert Edward Nyanza and the great southwestern gulf of Victorian Nyanza. Of Stanley’s original 646 men, only 246 survived.

This account of his adventures was wildly popular and published in six languages. This particular edition is extremely scarce in such excellent condition.

EB.

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The Rarest of Them All - The True First Issue Burton’s Lake Regions of Central Africa - 1860 - London Burton, Richard F. THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA: A Picture of Exploration (London: Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1860) 2 volumes. First edition. With 12 chromo-xylographic tinted plates, 22 woodcuts and one folding map. Large 8vo, very handsomely bound in fine period style three-quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spines beautifully gilt tooled with panel designs, gilt ruled and stippled compartments between gilt ruled raised bands, two compartments with contrasting labels of red and green morocco lettered and ruled in gilt, end-leaves marbled, t.e.g. xvii, 412; vii, 468. A handsome set, internally clean and fresh, all quite solid, the period style bindings are very fine. $6500.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION of a book which to this day is considered one of Burton’s very best. Burton returned to Africa, after his expedition to Harrar, to undertake an exploration of the “then utterly unknown Lake regions of Central Africa.” His stated intention was to correct certain geographical errors (of which there were many at that time) concerning Africa and to survey as fully as possible the resources of Central and intertropical Africa. But the real reason he wanted to venture into that unknown wilderness was to find the Jebel Kumri, the fabled “Mountains of the Moon,” and to find the source of the Nile river.

Burton and Speke first stopped at Zanzibar, then explored the coastal regions around Mombassa, and returned to Zanzibar, from whence they set out for Ujiji--about a thousand miles inland, on the shore of the relatively unknown Lake Tanganyika. It took seven and a half months to arrive, and when there they explored the lake ineffectually due to their wretched physical condition and the unwillingness of the natives and Arab traders to assist them. Upon the point of the direction of flow of a certain river attached to the lake--whether it flowed into, or out of, the lake--they received conflicting information from locals.

They returned to Kazeh, two-hundred and sixty miles east, where they recovered somewhat their health, and Burton sent Speke alone to investigate a large lake that the Arab traders had said lay fifteen or sixteen marches to the north.

Speke visited the lake briefly, obtained some vague information from the locals, and decided he had discovered the true source of the Nile, a decision that “would affect men’s careers and lives and lead to his own death,” as Edward Rice puts it (p. 310). After Speke’s return from the side-trip, the expedition returned to Zanzibar.

This expedition into Central Africa was perhaps the most taxing of Burton’s career; his journey to the Holy Cities of Arabia was a cakewalk by comparison as far as physical hardships were concerned; and the storm of geographical controversy that greeted him upon his return to London, where he found that Speke had published his erroneous conclusions and attached all the glory of the expedition to himself, left Burton “disgusted, desponding, and left behind in the spirit and in the flesh,” according to his old friend, Alfred Bate Richards.

Burton returned to Africa, after his expedition to Harrar, to undertake an exploration of the “then utterly unknown Lake regions of Central Africa.” His stated intention was to correct certain geographical errors (of which there were many at that time) concerning Africa and to survey as fully as possible the resources of Central and intertropical Africa. But the real reason he wanted to venture into that unknown wilderness was to find the Jebel Kumri, the fabled “Mountains of the Moon,” and to find the source of the Nile river. Penzer, p. 65.

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The Most Trustworthy Account of the Cape - 1785 Andrew Sparrman’s Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope Scarce & Important First Edition - Illustrated Extensively Sparrman, Andrew. A VOYAGE TO THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, TOWARD THE ANTARCTIC POLAR CIRCLE AND ROUND THE WORLD; BUT CHIEFLY INTO THE COUNTY OF THE HOTTENTOTS AND CAFFRE,FROM THE YEAR 1772-1176, (London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, Pater-Naster-Row, 1785) 2 volumes. First Edition. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece to Vol. I plus 9 other engraved plates including 2 of Hottentot subjects and 7 of natural history subjects and a large folding map. 4to, contemporary polished calf unrestored, the spines beautifully gilt decorated within very elaborate panel designs of the period, separated by multi-ruled gilt bands and with contrasting red and green morocco title and numbering pieces gilt, gilt tooled board edges. xxviii, 368; viii, 350; errata page. A very handsome set in rare contemporary binding, joints split, cover to Vol. I nearly detached, all easily refurbished by order, some mellowing to text occasional, evidence of old worm tracks to a some of the border edges of some plates. $7500.

RARE CONTEMPORARY BINDING ON THIS VERY IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND ONE OF THE EARLIEST WORKS ON THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE AND THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN CONTINENT AND THE SOUTHERN OCEANS. “An enthusiast in the study of natural history from his youth, the author was overjoyed to be enabled to proceed to the Cape, ... with the Royal East India Company” In 1772, Sparrman was invited to join Captain Cook”s expedition on the Resolution and sailed with him until 1775. Once back on the Cape he undertook an expedition to the interior. This trip has been described in Mendelssohn as the “most trustworthy account of the Cape Colony and the various races of people then residing in it, that has been published in the eighteenth century.” His account of Cook’s voyage as well as his exploration in Africa are described within.

Included is brief glossary of Hottentot language and full page plates of indigenous animals.

Mendelssohn, Vol. 4; Spence 1146; renard 1516; Hill p. 279.

Dapper’s Great Work - Description de L’Afrique - 1686 With Splendid Maps and Views from the Great Atlases Published in Amsterdam - 1686 - The First in French Dapper, Olfert. DESCRIPTION DE L’AFRIQUE... (Amsterdam: Traduite du Flamand, 1686) First edition of the French printing. With a great profusion of superb engravings including the very large folding map at the beginning of the book and the other fine copper plates as called for including 14 double page maps, 28 double page plates, 55 text views plus the very elaborately engraved pictorial frontispiece. Folio, bound in full contemporary calf, armorial crest in gilt on both covers which are bordered with double gilt fillet lines, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, gilt emblematic centre tools, morocco lettering label gilt. iv, 534, (22) pp. A pleasing and unrestored copy, bright and clean and very well preserved copy internally, a touch of foxing occasionally, the original binding with some edge-wear and rubbing, spine rubbed from use, hinges cracking but with the cords strong and tight. Collated complete. $11,500.

RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THIS MONUMENTAL WORK. Dapper’s most sought after series of travel which covers the entire continent: the Islamic North (from Morocco to Egypt), Abyssinia, Central and Southern Africa, and Madagascar, Malta, the Canaries and other islands of the African coast. The work contains “a [great] number of fine maps and engravings showing the flora and fauna, views of various towns and antiquities, costumes and local scenes” (-Hamilton) The fine double-page plates include views of Cairo, an illustration of a caravan marching out of Cairo to Mecca, the Pyramids of Egypt, a view of the Royal Palace of Morocco, a plan of Tangier, a plan of Capt. Kempthorn’s engagement in the Mary-Rose with several men-of-war, views of Tunis and Tripoli, views of the castles of Mina and Cormantine, views of Lovango and Luanda and the Cape of Good Hope, views of Forts Nassau and Orange, a view of Pike Mountain on Teneriffe, a plan of Malta, and others..

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Joannis Leonis Africani - De Totius Africae Descriptione The First Book of Africa - The First Book by an African The First Latin Printing - 1556 - Printed in Antwerp Africanus, Johannes Leo, [Leo, John]. JOANNIS LEONIS AFRICANI, DE TOTIUS AFRICAE DESCRIPTIONE, LIBRI IX... (Antwerp: Johannes de Laet, 1556) First Edition of the Latin translation of this seminal book by Hasan ben Muhamed el-Wazzanez-Zayyati (1485-1552), known by his Latin name Johannes Leo Africanus. Engraved title-page with the vignette and woodcut initials. 8vo, late 17th or early 18th century French polished calf, the covers with single fillet line at the borders, elaborately decorated in gilt on the spine within compartments separated by double gilt fillet lines, red morocco lettering label gilt, period marbled endleaves, edges stained red, armorial bookplate. 332 pp. A very fine copy, text very bright and clean, a touch of very occasional toning, hinges strong and sound, the binding in very pleasing and well preserved condition. $18,500.

VERY IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION OF THE PRIZED LATIN TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST GREAT WORK ON AFRICA. During the years 1511-1517 Leo Africanus traveled to Fez, Morocco, Tunis, and across the Sahara Desert to Timbuktu. He visited the native states on the Upper Niger to Kario, Houssa, Bornou and Lake Chad. He also made a voyage to Constantinople and Egypt and then crossed the Red Sea to Arabia. He was subsequently captured by the Venetians and presented to Pope Leo X whose name Leo he adopted as his surname. The Pope persuaded him to translate the Arabian manuscript account of his travels into Italian. The account was then translated by Floreanu into Latin. This is generally considered to be the first book published in Europe by a person of primarily African descent.

Harris’s Splendid Folio of African Fauna One of the Most Important South African Works Harris, Captain W. Cornwallis. PORTRAITS OF THE GAME AND WILD ANIMALS OF AFRICA (London: W. Pickering, 1840[-1843]) First edition, large-paper issue, and issue with the addition of vignette engravings. Additional lithographed title-page with handcolored vignette after Harris by F. Howard, 30 superb hand-colored lithographed plates after Harris by Howard, all plates are backed with linen, 30 uncolored lithographed tailpiece vignettes at the end of each section. Elephant folio (Approx. 21” x 16”), handsomely bound in contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards, the spine with tall gilt ruled raised bands creating 6 compartments, three of which are lettered in gilt, gilt ruling on boards, a.e.g. Additional title, titlepage and last three leaves of text with some expert repair, one plate with expert repair affecting some of the image (mostly just sky), occasional and much smaller closed edge tears also neatly repaired, mild or typical spotting, some minor old staining, binding firm and very attractive and with some light rubbing to the morocco extremities. $25,000.

“ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT AND VALUABLE OF THE LARGE FOLIO WORKS ON SOUTH AFRICAN FAUNA” (Mendelssohn I, p. 688), based on Harris’ hunting expedition of 1836-37. Monumental and one of the grandest works on big game ever published. “In addition,” Mendelssohn continues, “to the beautiful coloured engravings which render this work almost the most highly prized of the books relating to South African animals, every plate is accompanied by an exhaustive chapter upon the characteristics of the animal represented, as well as by a short sketch of its personal appearance, &c., and numerous engravings in the letterpress illustrate the notes” (pp. 688-89).

This copy with the List of Subscribers, which according to Tooley (247) is almost always missing. Additionally, the black and white vignettes at the end of each section, which are based on Harris’ own trophies, are only found in this issue. This is a scarce and magnificent work.

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James Bruce’s Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile First Edition - Five Volumes Quarto - 1790 Edinburgh - Full Contemporary Russia Gilt - A Fine Set Bruce, James, of Kinnaird. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, IN THE YEARS 1768, 1770, 1771, 1772, AND 1773... To which is prefixed , a Life of the Author. (Edinburgh: J. Ruthven for G.GJ. and J. Robinson et al, 1790) 5 volumes.

The first edition, Edinburgh imprint, sometimes called “the best edition” (Cox). With 53 very finely engraved plates, and maps and charts, including 3 very large folding maps.

4to, beautifully bound in very handsome contemporary full polished russia. The covers are decorated with a fine tooled gilt framework around all edges, the spines are gilt ruled and decorated with gilt lettering, board edges gilt ruled, gilt tooled turn-ins, marbled end-leaves and with fine antique engraved armorial plates. A very fine and desirable set, the paper fresh and clean and the text-blocks as solid as could be, the bindings are very handsome with only minor evidence of use or age at the extremities, beautifully preserved and showing far less use or age than is typical, a bit of cosmetic tenderness to the hinges of a few volumes but these are still sturdy and strong, and the folding maps are in excellent condition. $14,500.

HIGHLY IMPORTANT EARLY EXPLORATION INTO AFRICA AND A RARE EDITION IN FULL CONTEMPORARY CALF WITH ORIGINAL SPINE PANELS AND WITHOUT REPAIRS. With time on his hands and at the urging of a friend, Bruce composed this account of his travels on the African continent, including comments on the history and religion of Egypt, an account of Indian trade, a history of Abyssinia, and other such material.

Although Bruce would not be confused with “a great scholar or a judicious critic..., few books of equal compass are equally entertaining; and few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveller” (DNB). “The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography” (Cox II, p. 389.)

Bruce was one of the earliest westerners to search for the source of the Nile. In November of 1770 he reached the source of the Blue Nile, and though he acknowledged that the White Nile was the larger stream, he claimed that the Blue Nile was the Nile of the ancients and that he was thus the discoverer of its source.

The account of his travels was written twelve years after his journey and without reference to his journals, which gave critics grounds for disbelief, but the substantial accuracy of the book has since been amply demonstrated.

A cornerstone to any collection of Africana, this is one of the earliest and greatest illustrated works on the seminal discoveries to be made on the continent over hundred year period.

Philip Sclater’s Great Illustrated Work The Book of Antelopes - With 100 Hand-Coloured Plates London - 4 Volumes Handsomely Bound - 1894-1900 Sclater, Philip Lutley and Oldfield, Thomas. THE BOOK OF ANTELOPES (London: R. H. Porter, 1894-1900) 4 volumes. First edition.

With 100 hand-colored lithographed plates by Joseph Smit after Joseph Wolf. 4to, handsomely bound for the publisher and thus signed, in three quarter dark-green morocco over marbled boards, the spines lettered in gilt between raised bands. A beautifully preserved set of this important work. All plates are in excellent condition, the textblock is clean and fresh, the bindings in very good order, with only light aging, spines bright and fine. $17,500.

A SUPERB AND IMPORTANT WORK IN THE OEUVRE OF AFRICAN AND NATURAL HISTORY PRINTING AND WRITING AND ARTISTRY. The perfect marriage of scientific knowledge, written and visual description. A very scarce book, particularly in such fine condition. Sclater was the Secretary of the Zoololgical Society of London.

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Wit and Wisdom From West Africa A True Rarity in the Richard Burton Ouevre First Edition - Printed in London - 1865 Burton, Richard F., compiler. WIT AND WISDOM FROM WEST AFRICA; A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1865) First edition. 8vo, handsomely bound by Frost and Company in three-quarter crimson morocco over cloth covered boards, the spine with blind ruled designed raised bands and gilt lettering, t.e.g. xxxi, 455 pp. A very attractive and well preserved copy, the text block very clean and in a pleasing state of preservation, the binding fine and sturdy with the spine panel gently aged to a very attractive and warmer crimson. $5850.

A RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THIS BOOK by Burton, being a collection of 2268 proverbs and sayings from the Wolof, Kanuri, Oji, Ga or Accra, Yoruba, Efik or Old Calabar, and Mpangwe languages. They offer outstanding evidence of accumulated folk wisdom, many worded with pith and sparkle. Burton’s purpose in making this collection of literary and oral compositions available was to offer “a practical acquaintance with the language[s]” and to introduce “the reader to some extent into the inward world of Negro mind and Negro thoughts; and this is a circumstance of paramount importance, so long as there are any who either flatly negative the question, or, at least, still consider it open, ‘Whether the Negroes are a genuine portion of mankind or not’...Such specimens may go a long way towards refuting the old-fashioned doctrine of an essential inequality of the Negroes with the rest of mankind, which now and then shows itself, not only in America, but also in Europe.”

Across East African Glaciers - The First Ascent of Kilimanjaro One of the Most Important Books on Mountaineering in Africa An Unusually Handsome Copy - London - 1891 With Myriad Engravings and Illustrations Throughout Meyer, Hans. ACROSS EAST AFRICAN GLACIERS. AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ASCENT OF KILIMANJARO. Translated From the German by E.H.S. Calder (London: George Philip & Son, 1891) First edition.

With the publisher’s very rare announcement slipped in. 19 illustrations in the text, 12 photogravures, frontispiece chromolithograph in colours, 8 tipped-in photographs, and three colour fold-out maps. 4to, publisher’s very handsome original olive green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated on the upper cover in gilt and with overall pictorial representations of the mountain and indigenous peoples silhouetted in colours, the spine with colour decorations and pictorial silhouette of climbing equipment, t.e.g. others uncut. xx, 404 pp. A very bright, handsome, very pleasing copy of this important and quite scarce book. Only very minimal evidence of age, the cloth in unusually nice condition, text very bright and clean and with very little mellowing. An unusually nice copy. $9500.

IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY PRIZED BOOK. One of the most important books on mountaineering in Africa.

Kilimanjaro stands over 18,000 ft and has two peaks---Kibo and Mawenzi.

This book documents the first successful ascent of Kibo peak, the highest peak in all of Africa. This book is exceedingly rare in condition such as our copy and one of the most sought after books on mountaineering. It is greatly sought after in the African oeuvre.

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The Opening of Central Africa to the Western World Mungo Park’s Travels in the Interior Districts Africa With Journal of a Mission to the Interior 1799 and 1815 Park, Mungo. TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA: Performed Under The Direction And Patronage Of The African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With An Appendix, Containing Geographical Illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell [with,] JOURNAL OF A MISSION TO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA... (London: Printed for John Murray, 1799 and 1815) 2 volumes. Rare First Edition of each volume. With engraved portrait frontispiece of Park, finely engraved plates and folding maps throughout. 4to, handsomely bound in three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spines with raised bands bordered with gilt fillet lines, compartments of the spines with handsome gilt-work, decorations and lettering on a red morocco label in one compartment, t.e.g.. xxviii, 372, [xcvii]; cxxx, [1], 219 pp. A very handsome set presented in fine bindings, the text very bright and clean, plates and maps all in good order. $5950.

A RARE AND ELUSIVE SET OF THE FIRST EDITION PRINTINGS OF EACH VOLUME AND A VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND COPY OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND SEMINAL WORK OF AFRICANA. The African Association of London’s previous four expeditions to explore the Niger river had failed by the time they charged Park, a Scotsman, with the commission to explore the Gambia, Senegal, and Niger rivers in 1795. He covered well over 100 miles before he fell ill in 1797 and returned back to England. His unaffected style and natural sense of storytelling in the subsequent publication of his adventures make this one of the most popular accounts of African exploration. He returned to Africa in 1805 to search for the source of the Niger in a canoe, and met great hardships both on the river and with the natives that eventually cost him his own life and the life of his men.

Hoskin’s Travels in Ethiopia - Rare First Edition Scarce and Highly Important in Original Cloth - 1835 Also a Book of Considerable Beauty and Quality Hoskins, G. A. TRAVELS IN ETHIOPIA, Above the Second Cataract of the Nile; Exhibiting the State of That Country, and its Various Inhabitants, Under the Dominion of Mohammed Ali; and Illustrating the Antiquities, Arts, and History of the Ancient Kingdom of M... (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835) First edition. With a folding map and 54 lithographic plates including the frontispiece after Hoskins and Bondoni, 8 of which are double page, 4 are coloured chromolithos, and 2 are coloured by hand, also with numerous wood engravings within the text. 90 illustrations in total. 4to, in the original near black dark green cloth, bordered in blind on both covers and with pictorial gilt designs of Egyptian statuary on the top cover and spine, gilt lettered on the spine, edges untrimmed. xix, 367. A handsome copy, well preserved and clean with just a bit of minor toning to the page edges, sometime very skillfully rebacked preserving all of the original decorated cloth spine, board edges with minor wear and mellowing, the folding map backed with linen for support, endpapers matching the originals renewed. $5500.

SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. A cornerstone work, Hoskins was the first European to describe and illustrate the antiquities of Meroe and one of only a tiny number of explores at the time to have ventured above the Second Cataract. He also spent a year in upper Egypt studying its monuments and journeyed extensively into the Nubian and Ethiopian deserts.

It was Hoskins intent to prove that Meroe was the seat of learning from where the arts and sciences of Egypt, and then ultimately Greece and Rome, derived their origin. This account contains detailed studies on the arts and education in these regions. The fine lithographs in this volume were the first collection of illustrations of the region’s antiquities.

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Boyd Alexander’s Last African Diaries and a Memoir - 1912 An Important Tribute in the Very Fine Original Cloth 1 [Africa Exploration]; Alexander, Herbert; [Boyd Alexander]. BOYD ALEXANDER’S LAST JOURNEY, With a Memoir (New York: Longman’s Green, 1912) First edition, the original sheets printed in England, with Longman’s added to the title-page for American distribution. Illustrated numerous black and white plates from photographs, two maps, one folding. 8vo, publisher’s original royal blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated with gilt sun-rise vignette on upper cover. vii, 296 pp. An unusually handsome, fine, bright, and clean copy, the text also beautifully preserved, near pristine.

THE LAST DIARIES OF A FAMED AFRICAN EXPLORER, PLUS A MEMOIR BY HIS BROTHER, RARE IN SUCH NICE CONDITION. Boyd Alexander was the famous author of FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE, a detailed and enthralling history of a scientific expedition into Africa from 1904-1907 that covered 5,000 miles almost entirely by water, a remarkable achievement in its day. However, the expedition ended with death for two of the three party leaders, and Alexander’s publication of the journey’s account was his monument to his fallen comrades.

This book continues the story of Boyd Alexander’s life through the diary entries he kept with the intention of writing another book of what turned out to be his last journey. He died tragically in Africa in a skirmish with the natives before it could be completed. The entries were compiled and edited by his brother, Herbert, who declares them to be “like looking at the studies for a picture that the artist has not lived to paint. It may be that there are parts that are over-laboured in the details and awaiting the simplifying sweep of the brush, while there are others in vital places left vague for the decisive master-strokes; but all are drawn with an eye most careful for the truth, and would have enriched even though they might never have shown in the finished work” (58). Complete with a short memoir by his brother of Boyd Alexander’s life from childhood to his last days, this work is a touching tribute compiled for Alexander’s “friends and admirers as a record of his last work, for which he gave his life” (57). $295.

Letters From Burton, Speke, and Others of the Period Limited Edition Printed for the Roxburghe Club 2 [Africa, Search for the Nile Source; Burton, Richard Francis; Speke, John]. THE SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE: Correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and others, from Burton’s Unpublished EAST AFRICAN LETTER BOOK; Together with Other Related Letters and Papers in the Collection of Quentin Keynes, Esq. Now Printed for the First Time.

Edited, with a Biographical Commentary, by Donald Young; and with a Preface by Quentin Keynes. (London: The Roxburghe Club, 1999) First edition, LIMITED, dedicated and presented to the members of the Roxburghe Club by Quentin Keynes. This is one of only 80 copies of the second and scarcer issue, the first issue consisting of 400 copies.

The second issue is from the same print run as the first and is only distinguished by a 2002 notation on the colophon page at the end of the work. With a tipped in photo of Burton as frontispiece, a tipped in reproduction of a letter from Speke to Burton and a folding map. 4to, publisher’s original dark green cloth, with covers and spine decorated in blind, gilt lettering on the spine and a gilt native vignette on the upper cover. xxxi, 207 pp. A pristine copy, as mint.

AN EXCITING COLLECTION OF LETTERS NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME, PRODUCED EXCLUSIVELY FOR MEMBERS OF THE ROXBURGHE CLUB. This collection of letters spans the years between 1854 and 1864 and documents an important and dramatic chapter in the quest to solve the mystery of the Nile River. The letters also chronicle the decline in the relations between the two explorers, culminating in Speke’s tragic death the day before he and Burton were to participate in a public debate. These two explorers were the first to make a dent in mapping out the “uncharted void” of the Nile’s source, and disagreed to the bitter end in their conclusions on this matter.

Many of these letters have been directly transcribed from Burton’s East African “Letter Book,” which he used to draft all his official correspondence from Somalia, Zanzibar, and the lake regions of central Africa between 1854 and 1859, to keep notes on his travel arrangements and supplies, as well to file official communications from his sponsors, the East India Company and the Royal Geographical Society, together with originals of letters of introduction and correspondence from friends and traders. Burton was known to have kept a number of these books, but the East African one is the only one that has survived. To have all these letters published together in this format allows for a unique opportunity to read Burton’s correspondence from this period in sequence. A fine copy of this important work. $200.

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Important French Missionary Work in South Africa The Coillards in Zambesi - Influencing the Map of South Africa 3 [Africana, Zambesi, Coillard]; Mackintosh, C.W. COILLARD OF THE ZAMBESI, The Lives of Francois and Christina Coillard, of the Paris Missionary Society, In South and Central Africa (1858-1904) (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909) First edition, third impression. With a sepia frontispiece portrait, 77 photographs, and a large folding map. 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine which is also pictorially decorated in black, yellow and blue, the upper cover handsomely lettered and with multiple pictorial decorations in black, yellow and blue. xix, 484. A very handsome copy of this scarce title, clean and bright inside and out.

VERY SCARCE IN SUCH FINE CONDITION. An intimate and sympathetic dual biography of two French missionaries in South Africa.

Distilled from copious journals and letters, the book describes the aims and difficulties of their mission with warm human interest. The book is filled with remarkable photographs throughout.

“The life of Francois Coillard might be written from several points of view. He influenced the map of South Africa and the natives far and wide. He deeply stirred the Reformed Churches of the Continent. But possibly his life will prove to have told most profoundly upon his fellow-labourers in the world-wide mission-field; he was pre-eminently the missionary’s missionary. He did not lay claim to be an original thinker, a scientific observer, or a great commander and organizer, yet all who met him felt they were in the presence of genius-the genius of insight, of sympathy, and devotion. He and his wife stand forth as types of those pioneer days which are past for ever. Besides the power of action, both had the power of feeling and expression to an unusual degree, and that is why their history has been deemed worth recording.”-preface. $195.

From the Niger to the Nile Boyd Alexander’s Harrowing Adventures Two Volumes in Sparkling Condition 4 Alexander, Boyd. FROM THE NIGER TO THE NILE (London: Edward Arnold, 1907) 2 volumes. First edition. With over 200 illustrations and maps, some folding. 8vo, original red ribbed cloth, gilt-lettered on upper covers and spines. xv, 358, 2 folding maps; xi, 420 including appendices and index, 16 pp ads. A bright, clean and excellent set, the cloth vivid and fresh and fine, the text clean and fresh, the hinges strong and sturdy.

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. A detailed and enthralling history of a scientific expedition into Africa from 1904-1907 that ended with death for two of the three party leaders. The publishing of this book was Alexander’s monument to his fallen comrades “who lie in the earth too far away for many to read the records over their graves.”

The expedition covered 5,000 miles almost entirely by water, a remarkable achievement in its day. The survivors suffered countless ordeals including disease, hunger, and harsh weather conditions. The stories include meetings with different tribes, cannibalism, encounters with animals, slavery, elephant hunting and descriptions of local geography. The numerous photographs complement the account, with their variety and clarity in execution.

A fascinating account. $950.

Very Rare True First Edition of a Cornerstone Text Charles Andersson - The Okavango River - 1861 - London A Narrative of Travel, Exploration and Adventure 5 Andersson, Charles John. THE OKAVANGO RIVER: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861) First edition. With a steel-engraved portrait vignette title page and 16 other engraved illustrations as called for. 8vo, handsomely bound in half tan calf over boards, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, black morocco lettering label gilt. [xxi], [iii], 364 pp. A very nice copy, with only very light mellowing to the extremities.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS CORNERSTONE TEXT. A very scarce volume in first edition format, it was written five years after his LAKE NGAMI, and is a record of Andersson’s hunting adventures though Namaqualand and Damaraland (present day Namibia). “Andersson intended to explore these countries right up to the Cunene or Nourse River, but the difficulties of the expedition, though encountered with indomitable courage, proved to be insuperable, and he had to turn back. He obtained, however, much valuable information, and his success as a hunter and collector was unique in this part of the continent. The coastline of South-West Africa is carefully described, and there is an interesting account of the once-famed guano island, Ichaboe” (Mendelssohn I, p. 42). $2850.

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Frederick Arnot’s Garenganze First Edition in the Sienna Cloth Binding 6 Arnot, Frederick Stanley. GARENGANZE; or Seven Years’ Pioneer Mission Work in Central Africa. (London: James E. Hawkins, c.1893) Early printing formated as the first and very possibly the first edition with an amended title-page. Illustrated with twenty drawings by the author, and an original coloured folding map prepared by the Royal Geographical Society. 8vo, original sienna cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the covers and spine in classic Victorian style. x, 274. Index. A handsome, clean and bright copy.

SCARCE AND A CLASSIC WORK of Victorian area discovery and exploration during the opening of Africa. “This (is the) story of seven years of pioneer mission work in the heart of the Dark Continent...it is a son’s letter to his mother and the home group; and it is a story of strictly pioneer work, for he undertook to cross the continent by foot. The journey, undertaken in an apostolic spirit, was marked by that savour of the supernatural which is so sweet to the believer...The book is a revelation of passion for the soul.” (preface to the third edition) $295.

The First Successful Voyage Up the Niger River An Important Account - William Baikie - First Edition Narrative of an Exploring Voyage Up the Rivers - 1856 7 Baikie, William Balfour. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORING VOYAGE UP THE RIVERS KWO’RA AND BI’NUE (Commonly Known as the Niger and the Tsadda) in 1854 (London: John Murray, 1856) First edition. With a folding map, a large folding plan of the steamship “Pleiad”, a frontispiece engraving of said steamship, and a vignette titlepage. 8vo, very handsomely bound to correct period style in three quarter tan calf over marbled boards, the spine with gilt ruled raised bands and contrasting red and green morocco labels lettered and ruled in gilt, a.e.g. xvi, 456 pp. including appendices. A fine copy, internally with only the lightest of occasional spotting or toning, fresh and clean, the binding in excellent order, all plates in very appealing condtion.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN FINE CONDITION. RARELY ENCOUNTERED THUS. Baikie was member of the government-sponsored Niger expedition of 1854, joining on as a surgeon and naturalist aboard the iron screw schooner “Pleiad. After the death of its captain, Baikie assumed command of the ship. Under his command, the exploratory steamship made the first successful navigation up the Niger and its principal tributary, the Benue, traveling over two hundred and fifty miles of previously uncharted water. The book is an important and detailed description of the travels complete with appendices relating to medical, natural history, commercial, geographical, philological, ethnological matters, it is also an exciting and well written narrative. Perhaps the most important of Baikie’s many observations was that of the value of quinine in preventing malaria, not a single one of the Europeans under Baikie’s command on the “Pleiad” died of fever.

NCBEL III 1670; National Maritime Museum I 232; $1150.

By One of the Great African Explorers - Sir Samuel Baker The Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia Tracking the Sources of the Blue Nile - A Very Fine Copy 8 Baker, Sir S[amuel].W. THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs (Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott & Co. and MacMillan and Co., 1868) First edition, American issue, made from the first edition English sheets with the title page rendered for the American market. Illustrated with 24 black and white plates from original sketches by Sir S.W. Baker, and with two coloured maps, one full page and one folding in pocket at rear. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt. [xxiiii], 596, including index. A very fine, handsome and very bright copy, highly uncommonly so, the text is pristine, the hinges are perfect and the green cloth is exceptionally fresh with no fading whatsoever and only the most trivial evidence of shelving at the edges.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE SEMINAL WORKS ON THE EXPLORATION OF THE NILE SOURCES, THIS COPY IS EXCEPTIONAL IN ITS FINE CONDITION. Baker, Burton, and Speke had by this time finally proved (or so they thought) that the source of the White Nile lay in the Lakes Albert and N’yanza.

In this volume Baker traces his discovery of the sources of the lower Nile in the Atbara River and the Blue Nile in Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia and Somalia). “The value of the work of exploration during this fourteen months’ journey and of the observations proving the Nile sediment to be due to the Abyssinian tributaries was publicly recognised by... [the] Royal Geographical Society. Baker had also during the period gained for himself experience as an explorer, mastered Arabic, and acquired the use of astronomical instruments.” (DNB). Samuel Baker’s discovery of the Albert Nyanza, the origin of the Nile, was fundamentally one of the most significant discoveries of the 19th century and certainly the most important of Baker’s long and illustrious career.

The first editions of Baker’s works are becoming increasingly difficult to procure. This copy, so bright and clean and well preserved is highly unusual.

The importance of the debate over the source of the Nile, combined with Baker’s very readable writing style, made his books enormously popular, with the result that they were reprinted a great many times over the following years. $1250.

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Sir Samuel Baker and The New Discoveries in Africa - 1874 The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia A Copy Handsomely Bound at the Time in Fine Red Morocco 9 Baker, Sir Samuel. THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA AND THE SWORD HUNTERS OF THE HAMRAN ARABS (London: Macmillan, 1874) A very early printing in one volume format, issued shortly after the original printing. With a Frontispiece colour map, 24 wood-engraved plates from the author’s own sketches and a colour folding map. 8vo, very handsomely presented in a contemporary binding of three-quarter red morocco over red pebbled cloth covered boards, the spine with gilt stippled raised bands multi-ruled in gilt, additional gilt work at the head and tail, gilt lettering in one compartment, endpapers and page edges marbled. xix, 413, 44 pages of ads.

A fine and very handsome copy in all, internally unusually bright and fresh, free of foxing and very clean, the binding sturdy and very well preserved, the spine bright and with very little evidence of age or use.

SCARCE, AND ONE OF THE SEMINAL WORKS ON THE EXPLORATION OF THE NILE SOURCES. THIS COPY VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND. Baker, Burton, and Speke had by this time finally proved (or so they thought) that the source of the White Nile lay in the Lakes Albert and N’yanza. In this volume Baker traces his discovery of the sources of the lower Nile in the Atbara River and the Blue Nile in Abyssinia (present day Ethiopia and Somalia). “The value of the work of exploration during this fourteen months’ journey and of the observations proving the Nile sediment to be due to the Abyssinian tributaries was publicly recognised by... [the] Royal Geographical Society. Baker had also during the period gained for himself experience as an explorer, mastered Arabic, and acquired the use of astronomical instruments.” (DNB).Samuel Baker’s discovery of the Albert N’yanza, the origin of the Nile, was fundamentally one of the most significant discoveries of the 19th century and certainly the most important of Baker’s long and illustrious career.

The importance of the debate over the source of the Nile, combined with Baker’s very readable writing style, made his books enormously popular, with the result that they were reprinted a great many times over the following years. $550.

Explorations for the Sources of the Nile - 1872 Sir Samuel Baker’s Highly Important Albert N’Yanza A Very Handsome Copy in Period Red Morocco 10 Baker, Sir Samuel W. THE ALBERT N’YANZA, GREAT BASIN OF THE NILE, AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE NILE SOURCES (London: Macmillan and Co., 1872) A very early edition, one of the earliest in one volume format. With 34 illustrations, including 12 full-page plates and with a map printed in colours. 8vo, very handsomely presented in a contemporary binding of three-quarter red morocco over red pebbled cloth covered boards, the spine with gilt stippled raised bands multi-ruled in gilt, additional gilt work at the head and tail, gilt lettering in one compartment, endpapers and page edges marbled. xxvii, 499 pp. A fine and very handsome copy in all, internally unusually bright and fresh, free of foxing and very clean, the binding sturdy and very well preserved, the spine bright and with very little evidence of age or use.

A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. This is Sir Samuel Baker’s account of his discovery of the last great source of the Nile, Speke and Grant having established Lake Victoria N’yanza as the source of the White Nile and Bruce discovering the source of the Blue. The waters of Victoria N’yanza flow into the basin of Albert N’yanza, which Speke and Grant were not permitted to visit, and the latter adds the accumulation of its watershed to the former to create the great White Nile, flowing massively from Albert N’yanza.

The importance of the debate over the source of the Nile, combined with Baker’s very readable writing style, made his books enormously popular, with the result that they were reprinted a great many times over the years. $495.

Sir Samuel Baker’s Ismailia - 1874 The Suppression of the Slave Trade in Central Africa 11 Baker, Sir Samuel W. ISMAILIA: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt (London: Macmillan and Co., 1874) 2 volumes.

First edition. Illustrated with over 50 engraved plates and with one full page colour map and one large folding colour map. Tall 8vo, very handsome contemporary full polished calf, the covers diced within rolltooled borders accomplished in gilt, the spines with raised bands richly decorated with center and border designs within fine full gilt decorated compartments,dark morocco labels lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt tooled edges and turn-ins. vii, 447; viii, 588 including geographic notes, appendix and index. A fine and handsome set, internally unusually fine and fresh, the maps and plates in excellent state, the bindings solid and attractive with only very minor evidence of age.

A CLASSIC WORK BY ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT AFRICAN EXPLORERS OF HIS TIME. The scarce and rarely found account of the Khedive of Egypt’s expedition, which Baker commanded, to suppress the slave trade in Central Africa. It was one of the first practical steps taken for the purpose. In his early exploits in Africa Baker had been an eyewitness to the horrors and misery caused by the trade. He was determined in his attempt to

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bring it to an end.

Samuel Baker was prolific in his writing about Africa. His works on the basin of and search for the sources of the Nile are among the most important writings ever penned about the Dark Continent and he ranks with Burton, Speke and Grant in importance as an African explorer. $1450.

First Edition - Sir Samuel Baker The Search for the Source of the Nile The Albert N’yanza, Great Basin of the Nile - 1866 - London 12 Baker, Sir Samuel White. THE ALBERT N’YANZA, GREAT BASIN OF THE NILE, AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE NILE SOURCES (London: Macmillan and Co., 1866) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with 2 maps, one of which is a large fold-out, portrait frontispiece, 14 fine plates, and 23 illustrations within the text. 8vo, original green cloth gilt lettered and decorated on spines, with gilt-decorated pictorial upper covers ruled in gilt. xxx, 395; xi, 384 pp. A very nice and handsome set, the forest-green cloth is bright and clean, the text block is unusually clean and fresh, hinges tight, endleaves well-preserved and original, the spine panels with inner cloth support expertly and near invisibly accomplished.

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Baker’s account of his discovery of the last great source of the Nile, Speke and Grant having established Lake Victoria Nyanza as the source of the White Nile and Bruce discovering the source of the Blue. The waters of Victoria Nyanza flow into the basin of Albert Nyanza, which Speke and Grant were not permitted to visit, and the latter adds the accumulation of its watershed to the former to create the great White Nile, flowing massively from Albert Nyanza.

The first editions of this important work are becoming difficult to find. The importance of the debate over the source of the Nile, combined with Baker’s very readable writing style, made his books enormously popular, with the result that they were reprinted a great many times over the following years. $1450.

Very Scare Africana Barrow’s Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa 13 Barrow, John. TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, In Which are Described the Character and the Condition of the Dutch Colonists of the Cape of Good Hope, and of the Several Tribes of Natives Beyond its Limits: The Natural History of Such Subjects as Occurred in the Animal, Mineral, and Vegetable Kingdoms; and the Geography of the Southern Extremity of Africa, Comprehending Also a Topographical and Statistical Sketch of the Cape Colony: With an Inquiry into its Importance as a Naval and Military Station as a Commercial Emporium; and as a Territorial Possession (London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1806) 2 volumes. First Edition with the handcoloured decorations. Second and Best Edition overall with additions not found in the one volume first edition and with the handcoloured plates, charts and plans not found in the first edition. With the 8 finely coloured aquatint plates by S. Daniell in Vol. I and with 9 folding charts and plans including the large folding map and 8 other maps and charts of which three are handcoloured, in Vol. II. 4to, bound in handsome three-quarter dark calf over marbled boards in contemporary style, the spines with raised bands gilt ruled, numbered in gilt in two compartments and with red morocco labels lettered in gilt. xvi, 427; (4), 372 (2, directions for placing the plates), (2 ads) pp. A very handsome copy, the text-block and plates in very nice condition. A few folds supported, the aquatint handcoloured plates all very nicely preserved. A clean and pleasing copy.

A VERY HANDSOME COPY OF THE SECOND AND BEST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. HANDCOLOURED AQUATINT PLATES BY S. DANIELL AND HANDCOLOURED MAPS AND CHARTS ARE PRESENT IN THIS EDITION FOR THE FIRST TIME. “Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, FRS, FRGS, LL.D was an English statesman who, through the interest of Sir George Leonard Staunton, to whose son he taught mathematics, was attached on the first British embassy to China from 1792-94 as comptroller of the household to Lord Macartney. He soon acquired a good knowledge of the Chinese language, on which he subsequently contributed interesting articles to the Quarterly Review; and the account of the embassy published by Sir George Staunton records many of Barrow’s valuable contributions to literature and science connected with China.

Although Barrow ceased to be officially connected with Chinese affairs after the return of the embassy in 1794, he always took much interest in them, and on critical occasions was frequently consulted by the British government.

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In 1797 he accompanied Lord Macartney, as private secretary, in his important and delicate mission to settle the government of the newly acquired colony of the Cape of Good Hope. Barrow was entrusted with the task of reconciling the Boers and “Kaffirs” and of reporting on the country in the interior. On his return from his journey, in the course of which he visited all parts of the colony, he was appointed auditor-general of public accounts.

He decided to settle in South Africa, married Anne Maria Trüter, and in 1800 bought a house in Cape Town. But the surrender of the colony at the peace of Amiens (1802) upset this plan. His writings on his travels and studies in southern Africa are the subject matter of the book here offered. And it is one of the great early works on South Africa.

He returned to England in 1804, was appointed Second Secretary to the Admiralty by Viscount Melville, a post which he held for nearly forty years. He enjoyed the esteem and confidence of all the eleven chief lords who successively presided at the Admiralty board during that period, and more especially of King William IV while lord high admiral, who honoured him with tokens of his personal regard. In his position at the Admiralty, Barrow was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of discovery, including those of John Ross, William Edward Parry, James Clark Ross, and John Franklin.

Point Barrow in Alaska is named for him. He is reputed to have been the initial proposer of St Helena as the new place of exile for Napoleon Bonaparte following the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.

Barrow was a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1821 received the degree of LL.D from the University of Edinburgh. A baronetcy was conferred on him by Sir Robert Peel in 1835. He retired from public life in 1845 and devoted himself to writing a history of the modern Arctic voyages of discovery (1846), as well as his autobiography, published in 1847.

Besides the numerous articles in the Quarterly Review already mentioned, Barrow published among other works: A Voyage in Cochinchina (1806), Travels in China (1804), Travels into the Interior of South Africa (1801-1804 and 1806, Lives of Lord Macartney (1807), Lord Anson (1839), Lord Howe (1838), The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: (1831) Its Cause and Consequences, a report about the mutiny on the Bounty.

Abbey Travel 322; Mendelssohn I.88-89; Sutton pp.101 & 106, and No. 58; Tooley 85; Gay 2996; Prideaux p.327. $4500.

Travels and Discoveries in Africa 1849-1855 Henry Barth’s Great Work on the Expeditions A Fine Set in Handsome Bindings - First Edition 14 Barth, Henry. TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA: BEING A JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE AUSPICES OF H. B. M.’S GOVERNMENT, IN THE YEARS 1849-1855 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1857-59) 3 volumes. First American edition. With a folding map in color and over 200 full page and textual wood engravings. Thick 8vo, in handsome Harmattan bindings of three quarter morocco over marbled boards in correct period style, the spines with simple yet elegant blind ruled raised bands and gilt lettering in three compartments, marbled endpapers, handsewn endbands and flies renewed. xxvii, 30-657; xiii. 16-709 adverts; xvi, 18-800 pp. A very handsome set of this scarce work, the bindings as pristine, fine and fresh internally with no foxing and only the slightest of mellowing, the plates also very bright and clean.

SCARCE EARLY FIRST EDITION ISSUANCE OF A SEMINAL WORK IN AFRICANA.This is the detailed account of “one of the most fruitful expeditions ever undertaken in inner Africa. In addition to journeys across the Sahara, Barth traversed the country from Lake Chad and Bagirmi on the east to Timbuktu on the west and Cameroon on the south... he studied minutely the topography, history, civilizations and resources of the countries visited... for accuracy, interest, variety and extent of information Barth’s ‘Travels’ have few rivals among works of the kind. It is a book that will always rank as a standard authority on the regions in question...” -Ency. Brit.

He was the first European to enter Yola and describe the Fulani kingdom of Adamana; he charted the Benue river and disproved the theory that it flowed into Lake Chad...he was the first European to truly submerse himself in African culture and bring back scientific results of lasting value.

The condition of this set is quite remarkable in that most American printings of this era suffered significantly from foxing. This set is a pleasant exception to the rule as the text-block and plates are in very pleasing condition. Ency. Brit. $1650.

J. Bland-Sutton - Man and Beast in Eastern Ethiopia - 1911 Autograph Presentation Copy - First Edition - London 15 Bland-Sutton, J. MAN AND BEAST IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA: From Observations Made in British East Africa, Uganda, and the Sudan (London: MacMillan and Co. Limited, 1911) First edition, WITH AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION FROM THE AUTHOR. Extensively illustrated with over 200 engravings on wood. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth with a gilt vignette on the upper cover, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, t.e.g. xii, 419, including index pp. A handsome and pleasing copy, no foxing to the text other then a hint at the prelims, the cloth clean and well preserved, the gilt bright, the spine mellowed just a tad, only very light rubbing or wear to the extremeties, in collector’s condition.

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SCARCE SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. RARE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. AUTOGRAPHED COPIES APPEAR VERY RARELY ON THE MARKET. The author has inscribed the title-page and has signed his name above the printed author line of the page.

The account of Bland-Sutton’s voyage with Dr. Comyns Berkeley from Mombasa to the Victorian Nyanza and the great Rift Valley, with descriptions of the birds, mammals, reptiles and humans encountered along the way. Wonderful reading for anyone interested in the native cultures or natural history of Africa. $750.

James Bruce’s Explorations in Africa to the Source Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile - A Fine Set Eight Volumes Including the Atlas of Engravings A Rare Survival in Beautiful Contemporary Bindings 16 Bruce, James, of Kinnaird. TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, IN THE YEARS 1768, 1770, 1771, 1772, AND 1773. . . To which is prefixed, a Life of the Author. (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, et al, 1805, 1813) 8 volumes. Very Early Edition in a wonderful state of preservation, the second Edinburgh edition, the second octavo edition.

With 79 very finely engraved plates, maps and charts, including three large folding plates, all housed in the eighth volume of the work. 8vo and 4to, original fine polished mottled calf, with fine and elaborate gilttooled panels between gilt lined bands separating the compartments of the spines, the covers mottled. The atlas and plates volume bound in as the octavos. A beautiful and surprising survival, and a very clean and handsomely bound set in quite excellent condition.

A VERY HANDSOME EARLY SET OF “ONE OF THE MOST SPLENDID NARRATIVES IN THE LITERATURE OF AFRICAN TRAVEL” - Hallet.

It has also been said of Bruce’s writings on Africa, “that few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveler” (DNB). “The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography” (Cox II, p. 389.) Adding greatly to Bruce’s narrative are the wonderful engraved plates of scenery, peoples, antiquities and natural history.

With time on his hands and at the urging of a friend, Bruce composed this account of his travels on the African continent, including comments on the history and religion of Egypt, an account of Indian trade, a history of Abyssinia, and other such material. Although Bruce would not be confused with “a great scholar or a judicious critic..., few books of equal compass are equally entertaining; and few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveler” (DNB). “The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography” (Cox II, p. 389.)

Bruce was one of the earliest westerners to search for the source of the Nile. In November of 1770 he reached the source of the Blue Nile, and though he acknowledged that the White Nile was the larger stream, he claimed that the Blue Nile was the Nile of the ancients and that he was thus the discoverer of its source.

The account of his travels was written twelve years after his journey and without reference to his journals, which gave critics grounds for disbelief, but the substantial accuracy of the book has since been amply demonstrated.

A cornerstone to any collection of Africana, this is one of the earliest and greatest illustrated works on the seminal discoveries to be made on the continent over hundred year period. $3750.

The Great Explorer - James Bruce in Africa Handsomely Bound - The Life of Bruce - London - 1830 17 [Bruce, James; Africa]; Head, Major F. B. THE LIFE OF BRUCE, the African Traveller (London: John Murray, 1830) First edition. With a steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of James Bruce by J. Martin, and two folding maps, one of which is quite large, and a few illustrations within the text. 12mo, handsomely bound in contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, the spine with gilt ruled and stippled raised bands additionally blind tooled, two compartments gilt lettered on contrasting red and black morocco gilt framed labels, marbled endpapers, likely bound for Thomas Miles Restell, benefactor of the Royal Hospital and whose collected antiquities were bequeathed to the British Museum, as his fine engraved armorial bookplate is on the front endpaper. viii, 535 pp. A fine and handsome copy, the text clean and fresh, the binding in excellent state of preservation.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY EARLY BIOGRAPHY OF THE CELEBRATED SCOTTISH TRAVELER, ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND GREATEST EUROPEAN EXPLORERS OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT. It was said of Bruce’s writings on Africa, “that few such monuments exist of the energy and enterprise of a single traveller” (DNB). “The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography” (Cox II, p. 389.)

Bruce was one of the earliest westerners to search for the source of the Nile. In November of 1770 he reached the source of the Blue Nile, and though

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he acknowledged that the White Nile was the larger stream, he claimed that the Blue Nile was the Nile of the ancients and that he was thus the discoverer of its source.

The author, Sir Francis Bond Head, was also no stranger to travel and exploration. Four years earlier John Murray had published his ‘Rough notes taken during some rapid journeys across the pampas and among the Andes’, a book which reveals his talent for graphic description. He was nicknamed “Galloping Head” for his feat in riding twice across South America between Buenos Aires and the Andes; and his demonstration of the military usefulness of the lasso brought him a knighthood from William IV in 1831. $145.

First Edition - John Lewis Burkhardt Travels in Nubia - London - 1819 - A Fine Copy 18 Burckhardt, John Lewis. TRAVELS IN NUBIA. Published by the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. (London: John Murray, 1819) First edition. 3 engraved maps (2 folding) and engraved frontispiece portrait. Large 8vo, threequarter tan calf over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on black morocco label on the spine, gilt tooling between raised bands. xcii, 543. A fine and handsome copy, in unusually pleasing condition.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. John Lewis Burckhardt was born in Switzerland, educated in Leipzig,then moved to England and under the auspices of the Association for Promoting the Interior Parts of Africa, embarked on an incredible journey.

Burckhardt turned out to be the perfect man for the job. He became a master of the languages and customs of the area Disguising himself as a Mohammedan trader from India, he was able to reach people and places in a way that no other westerner had ever been able to do.

His travel took him all over northeast Africa along the Nile and through the desert. He covered Palmyra, Damascus, Lebanon, the Nile as far as Darmahass and the Nubian desert. On a trip to the ruins of Wady Mousa he became the first Westerner to identify the site of the ancient capital of Petria.

A genius of assimilation, he disguised himself and became the first European to record the pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina.

This volume records his travels through Nubia, along the banks of the Nile and through the Nubian desert. Not mearly a geographic record, it is a memoir of the customs, language, sites, sounds and smells of an exotic world. Burckhardt includes glossaries of several different languages, maps of exploration and itineraries of his different travels. Included is a memoir on the life and travels of the author. Burckhardt died in Africa in 1817 and was buried under his assumed name of Ibrahim Ibn Abdullah. $2250.

Very Scarce Africana - First Edition - 1896 Two Campaigns - Madagascar and Ashantee - B. Burleigh 19 Burleigh, Bennet. TWO CAMPAIGNS. MADAGASCAR AND ASHANTEE (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896) First Edition. Illustrated throughout with a profusion of full-page plates and maps. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original pictorially decorated cloth, the upper cover gilt lettered and with pictorial designs of African warriors blocked in silver, red and black, the spine lettered in gilt. x, 555 pp. A very good and well preserved copy of this rare book. Covers well preserved and the designs in good condition, the text-block sound and clean, some light evidence of age or use, still a very pleasing copy of this very difficult to locate book, cracking to the join of the free-fly and pastedown.

Old library label at inner front pastedown.

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH. The history of events in both Madagascar and Ashantee, subjects of general interest as well as military affairs are dealt with in this significant work. The author was present at both campaigns and has been able to add much about the inner side of things that would not have been possible during the engagements and conflicts. $425.

One of Burton’s Most Important Books The Lake Regions of Central Africa - Original Cloth With Folding Map and Many Engraved Plates 20 Burton, Richard F. THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA: A Picture of Exploration (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1860) First Edition, the American Issue published the same year as the London edition. With 35 black and white illustrations, 12 on plates and the remainder in the text. And with a folding map of Zanzibar and the Great Lakes in Eastern Africa, in excellent state. Tall, thick 8vo, publisher’s original burgundy cloth, elaborately decorated in blind on the covers and spine, the spine also gilt lettered. 572, [4] ads pp. A rather exceptional copy of this scarce book. The endpapers and hinges are unusually clean and well preserved, the text-block is solid and tight, and very clean throughout, the map and plates all in excellent condition. The exterior is also extremely fresh, the cloth clean and with no fading, though the gilt on the spine has lost its luster, very minor rubbing to edges and corners but in all quite fine.

RARE FIRST EDITION AMERICAN ISSUE IN EXEMPLARY CONDITION. The standard 1st edition was published the same year by Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts and this 1st American edition was also published in 1860. It contains the same plates as the English counterpart but in this case untinted. This copy with the bookplate of Joseph Johnson Brown, who has inscribed the free-fly J.J.B./ Zanzibar Aug. 11, 1865. Brown was

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associated with the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.

Burton returned to Africa, after his expedition to Harrar, to undertake an exploration of the “then utterly unknown Lake regions of Central Africa.” His stated intention was to correct certain geographical errors (of which there were many at that time) concerning Africa and to survey as fully as possible the resources of Central and intertropical Africa. But the real reason he wanted to venture into that unknown wilderness was to find the Jebel Kumri, the fabled “Mountains of the Moon,” and to find the source of the Nile river.

Burton and Speke first stopped at Zanzibar, then explored the coastal regions around Mombassa, and returned to Zanzibar, from whence they set out for Ujiji--about a thousand miles inland, on the shore of the relatively unknown Lake Tanganyika. It took seven and a half months to arrive, and when there they explored the lake ineffectually due to their wretched physical condition and the unwillingness of the natives and Arab traders to assist them. Upon the point of the direction of flow of a certain river attached to the lake--whether it flowed into, or out of, the lake--they received conflicting information from locals.

They returned to Kazeh, two-hundred and sixty miles east, where they recovered somewhat their health, and Burton sent Speke alone to investigate a large lake that the Arab traders had said lay fifteen or sixteen marches to the north. Speke visited the lake briefly, obtained some vague information from the locals, and decided he had discovered the true source of the Nile, a decision that “would affect men’s careers and lives and lead to his own death,” as Edward Rice puts it (p. 310). After Speke’s return from the side-trip, the expedition returned to Zanzibar.

This expedition into Central Africa was perhaps the most taxing of Burton’s career; his journey to the Holy Cities of Arabia was a cake-walk by comparison as far as physical harships were concerned; and the storm of geographical controversy that greeted him upon his return to London, where he found that Speke had published his erroneous conclusions and attached all the glory of the expedition to himself, left Burton “disgusted, desponding, and left behind in the spirit and in the flesh,” according to his old friend, Alfred Bate Richards.

To this day, “ The Lake Regions” is considered one of Burton’s very best books. Penzer, P. 66. $1450.

Sir Richard F. Burton’s Nile Basin First Issue With the Very Rare Maps Included 21 Burton, Richard F. THE NILE BASIN. Part I. Tanganyika to be Ptolemy’s Western Lake Reservoir. A Memoir Read Before the Royal Geographical Society, November 14, 1864. With Prefatory Remarks. By Richard F. Burton. Part II. Captain Speke’s Discovery of the Source of the Nile. A Review. By James M’Queen (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864) First edition, very scarce. With the three very rare maps, which are seldom found in any copies. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth gilt lettered and decorated in blind on the covers. iv, 195, 4 pp publisher’s catalogue. An especially pleasing, very handsome and bright copy indeed. Small restoration to the head of the spine measuring approximately 1/4” x 9/16”, endpapers expertly renewed to match the original.

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH WITH THE THREE ELUSIVE MAPS. Burton’s contribution, in which he essentially carries out the debate with Speke that would have taken place had not the latter been killed in an hunting accident on the day scheduled for the meeting, occupies the first 65 pages. The remainder is M’Queen’s scathing review of Speke’s claims to the discovery of the source of the Nile. M’Queen’s parting shot sums up the tenor of the whole review: “We truly lament the time that has been lost, and the money that has been spent, without any definite settlement of any material point, and with only the absurd result of finding the source of the great river Nile placed in a narrow ravine, where not a drop of water is to be found, except that which drops from the clouds during the periodical rains--nay, chiefly the fresh water which rushes into this ravine from the flooding of the lake to the northward, and which flood flows in an opposite direction to the current of the true Nile stream!”

Penzer says this title is uncommon even in poor condition, and good copies are scarce. See Penzer, p. 75. $4500.

Wanderings in West Africa - London - 1863 Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton’s First Explorations A Fine Set of the First Edition in Original Cloth 22 [Burton, Richard F.]. WANDERINGS IN WEST AFRICA From Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a F.R.G.S. (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863) 2 volumes. First edition. With a folding map in Volume I and frontispiece plate in Volume II. 8vo, original dark purple-brown lettered and ruled in gilt on the spines, with blind ruled borders on covers. Now in a fine custom made slipcase with divided sections for

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each volume carefully designed to complement the original brown cloth. x, 303; vi, 295. A lovely, fine set, the cloth in excellent condition, Volume II still largely unopened, internally very clean, much better then one normally expects to find.

VERY SCARCE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDINGS, THIS AN UNCOMMONLY BRIGHT AND FINE EXAMPLE. According to Penzer, Burton intended to suppress his name entirely from this work, though our copy does indeed have “R. F. Burton” on the spine. This is a truly fine copy of a book rarely found in such condition.

Burton was appointed consul at Fernando Po in 1861 and he used his post to explore the contiguous areas of Nigeria and Sierra Leone, as well as Madeira and Tenerife. Fascinated by the high incidence of European mortality in West Africa, he believed it possible to render the region “not more unhealthy than the East or West Indies.”

Burton’s publication of the book anonymously as a “Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society” ( F.R.G.S) “may have been a slap at the Royal Geographical Society, for Burton was at odds with the organization’s leadership at the time over the Nile’s sources. The acerbic dedication was ‘to the true friends of Africa- not the “Philanthropist” or Exeter Hall’.

Modern gold-mining in West Africa can be directly linked to this work. “Although it was well known that there was gold on the Gold Coast, nothing was done to develop it, and it was Burton who, in his “Wanderings in West Africa”, drew public attention again to this ancient gold-field.

Penzer, p. 71. $4950.

V. L. Cameron’s Across Africa The Very Scarce First Edition with Additions - 1885 Original Cloth in Collector’s Condition - Large Coloured Map 23 Cameron, Verney Lovett. ACROSS AFRICA (London: George Philip & Son, 1885) The first one volume edition with the “new and original matter and corrected map”. This printing includes three additional chapters not in the first printing. Illustrated with 32 plates and illustrations, 120 woodcuts in the text and a large folding coloured map in a pocket at the end. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original dark blue cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spine. xxviii, 569, including index. A handsome and well preserved copy, the gilt remains very bright, the cloth nice and dark with just a bit of expected aging to the corners and extremities, the hinges with just a tad of age evidence, internally very fresh and in fine clean condition, the folding map in good order.

VERY SCARCE FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION IN COLLECTOR’S CONDITION. THE FIRST EDITION WITH ADDITIONS AND THE CORRECTED MAP. After a naval career that took him to Ethiopia and the slaving areas of East Africa, Cameron was selected by the Royal Geographical Society in 1873 to go in search of Livingstone, and instructed also to make independent explorations with Livingstone’s guidance. Upon learning of Livingstone’s death, Cameron’s European companions turned back but Cameron dedicated his expedition to geographical exploration of the African continent and forged ahead alone, arriving in Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in 1874, where he found some of Livingstone’s papers and sent them back to England. Here he began his quest of exploration with his attempts to discover the “true form” of the south part of the lake, which ended up feeding into the Lukuga river. He went west from there to a town previously visited by Livingstone on the Lualaba river, which he suspected (rightly) was the main source for the River Congo but was unsuccessful in his attempts to prove it. His journeys took him further to the southwest until he reached the coast on November 28, 1875, becoming the first European to cross Equatorial Africa “from sea to sea.”

ACROSS AFRICA is the work for which he is best known, containing the exciting detailed account of this cross-continental journey as well as the author’s suggestions for the opening of the African continent such as utilizing the great lakes in a “Cape to Cairo” connection. Cameron spent the remainder of his life working on commercial development projects in places such as Turkey and the Persian Gulf and writing tales for the young. He also accompanied Sir Richard Burton in his West African journey of 1882 and was joint author of Burton’s TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD. Cameron was killed by a fall from horseback as he returned from a hunting expedition in 1894. This is an important work. E.B. 109. $650.

The Rare First Edition - Important Africana John Campbell’s Travels in South Africa - 1822 With Handcoloured Plates and Large Folding Map 24 Campbell, John. TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Undertaken At the Request of the Missionary Society, Being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of That Country (London: Francis Westley, 1822) 2 volumes in one. First edition. With a hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece to each volume, large hand-coloured folding map and 10 additional hand-coloured, aquatint plates. 8vo, bound in later full leather, the spine plain. xii, 322, [4]; 384 pp. A clean and very well preserved copy, the text-block with occasional mellowing as would be typical. A crisp and pleasing copy in a later leather binding.

IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION. This two volume work is the record of the second tour of inspection that the London Missionary Society asked the Rev. John Campbell to make of its South African missions, the first tour having been in 1815. The tour consisted of two journeys.

The first was undertaken in the company of Rev. Robert Moffat and his wife to Caffraria and the Cape Colony in 1818-19, and the second was in 1821,

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deep into the interior to settlements such as Lattakoo, Mashow, Griqua Town and Kurreechane. Campbell had not planned to venture so far into the interior but upon his reunion with King Mateebe of Lattakoo (with whom he had had good relations on his last visit) he seized the invitation the king offered for a friendly reception by King Kossie of Mashow further north.

Throughout his ten month journey into the northern interior of South Africa and back out again along the River Krooman and the Great Desert, he closely chronicled his experiences in which he included everything from the histories of the native peoples to adventures with marauding bushmen.

Campbell also recorded the effects of Christian influence upon the natives surrounding the mission towns. The preface states that “whilst pious Missionaries are zealously pursuing their grand object--the conversion of the Heathen to Christianity--they are materially contributing to the stores of general Science, and particularly to the advancement of Geographical Knowledge...” Indeed, this work is a valuable look at missionary efforts in South Africa as well as an interesting and important narrative in the history of African travel and exploration. A beautifully illustrated fine first edition.

Mendelssohn 254 (third edition). $1850.

Major Casati - Ten Years in Equatoria and the Return A Luminary Known Well by Emin Pasha and Henry Stanley First Edition - Publisher’s Original Fine Decorated Cloth 25 Casati, Major Gaetano. TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA AND THE RETURN WITH EMIN PASHA. Translated from the Original Italian Manuscript by The Hon. Mrs. J. Randolph Clay Assisted by Mr. I. Walter Savage Landor (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891) 2 volumes.

Scarce first edition. With roughly 150 illustrations, color plates, and 4 folding maps in pocket at rear of Volume I. 8vo, original patterned brickred cloth, adorned with lettering in gilt and black on the spines and upper covers, elaborately decorated with all-over pictorial designs stamped in gilt, black and silver on the upper covers. xxi, 376; xv, 347 pp. An uncommonly nice and well preserved set, the attractive decorated cloth bright and unfaded with only very minor shelf rubbing or light edge wear, very small split to cloth at the upper shoulder of Volume I, internally quite near fine, the occasional toning or spotting much less than is typical.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION WELL PRESERVED IN ORIGINAL DECORATED CLOTH. “Send me a young man, preferably an officer in the army, well acquainted with the art of drawing maps”, with this letter from Gessi Pasha began Captain Casati’s ten year adventure in Africa. During his years there he experienced imprisonment, a sentence to death and daring escape. He also was well known among such African luminaries of the day as Emin Pasha and Henry Stanley. This account, taken from his manuscripts and letters, was somewhat late in publication because his early paper had been stolen by King Chua and had to be rewritten from memory and because Casati remained in Africa for some time to nurse the ailing Pasha. A memorable and historically valuable addition to the African genre. $1250.

From the Author’s Grandson William Chanler’s - Through Jungle and Desert - First Edition One of Finest Reading Books on African Hunting and Travel Profusely Illustrated Throughout - 1896 26 Chanler, William Astor. THROUGH JUNGLE AND DESERT, Travels in Eastern Africa (London and New York: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1896) First edition, the London issue, printed and bound from the American sheets with title-page imprint reversed. A note in the books states that this copy was bought directly from the author’s grandson. Profusely illustrated throughout based on photographs taken from the author, and with one (of two) of the large folding maps that are so frequently missing from the pocket at the end. So many copies have less than the two maps called for that one suspects they weren’t always inserted in every book. Thick 8vo, publishers original navy cloth, with gilt vignette of a lion’s head on the upper cover, gilt lettering to the spine, t.e.g. xiv, 535 pp. An unusually nice copy, the cloth in fine shape with almost no wear and only a light touch of mellowing to the spine panel, still very handsome, the hinges a bit shaken but strong and holding firmly, the text block quite bright and well preserved, solid and sturdy, unobtrusive evidence of old damp to the lower gutter, beginning in the final third of the book and reaching the text only in the final quarter, in all cases very mild.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF A PRIMARY AFRICAN WORK. The work includes a good deal of material on travel and exploration in Africa and is also a very important work on “big game hunting in Eastern Africa. [The] author hunted exhaustively and saw many new species, one of which was named for him. He traveled with Lt. Von Höhnel and had the same guide as Sir Samuel Baker. [Much of his] hunting was between the Tana and Juba rivers. The work is considered one of the finest reading books on African hunting and travelling.” - Ellen Enzler.

From a long line of eminent New York families, the author was a soldier, explorer, and politician who later served as U.S. Representative from New York. He was a friend of Teddy Roosevelt, who he thanks in the preface. He spent three years in Africa and became a fellow of the American Geographical Society, the Royal Geographical Society and the Imperial and Royal Geographical Society of Austria. $595.

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A Very Handsome Copy of the First Edition Churchill’s My African Journey - Original Pictorial Cloth 27 Churchill, Winston. MY AFRICAN JOURNEY (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1908) First edition. First and only issue. Illustrated profusely throughout. 8vo, publisher’s original bright red cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and pictorially decorated in colours across the whole of the upper cover. xiii, 226, 16 ads. A very bright and handsome copy, the text with just a light bit of the inevitable foxing to which the title is prone, much less than is typically fencourntered. The cloth is especially fresh with just a bit of very minor age mellowing.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN VERY PLEASING CONDITION, AND A VERY IMPORTANT WORK OF AFRICANA FROM WINSTON CHURCHILL’S EARLY ADVENTUROUS YEARS. Winston Churchill is, of course, chiefly known for his position as England’s Prime Minister during World War II and his political writings, but in his earlier days his love for traveling and big game hunting had the greatest command of his pen.

He offers this book, “a continuous narrative of the lighter side of what was to me a very delightful and inspiring journey,” in hopes that the British with recently-acquired estates in Africa would have their interest piqued and make the most of what Africa had to offer. It is the companion volume to his earlier African writings, THE STORY OF THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE, THE RIVER WAR, and LONDON TO LADYSMITH. Such bright copies of this book are especially elusive because the pictorial images on the front cover were nearly always effected by rubbing. Another delightful installment of Churchill’s African adventures. $1850.

Churchill’s Great Epic - The River War Handsomely Bound - Military Operations in the Sudan 28 Churchill, Winston. THE RIVER WAR: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1902) The First One Volume and First Edition Revised by Churchill, second edition overall. Portrait of Kitchener frontispiece, several maps and plans. 8vo, in a very handsome mid-century binding of three-quarter navy morocco over blue cloth covered boards, the morocco at the corners and shoulders ruled in gilt, the spine with central gilt tooling within panels ruled in gilt, the compartments separated by gilt stippled raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, endleaves marbled, top edge gilt. xii, 381 pp. A very handsome copy indeed, very well preserved.

THE FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION AND THE FIRST WITH CHURCHILL’S REVISIONS, “the text of which has been used by every reprint to date”. Though somewhat abridged, the material omitted consisting “mainly of personal impressions and opinions, often controversial in character, which, however just, were not essential to the narrative or to a permanent record, and which some indeed may think to have been not the most valuable part of the book.” Includes an additional chapter on the destruction of the Khalifa and the end of the war. Twice as scarce as the first edition: only 1000 copies were printed, as opposed to 2000 of the first.

Churchill’s very important second book, which, like his first, is concerned with the coverage of a significant foreign adventure mounted by England in the later 19th century. THE RIVER WAR relates the exact military operations directed by Lord Kitchener on the Upper Nile from April 1896 to February 1899 which resulted in the re-conquest of the Egyptian Soudan from the Madhdi forces.

To give background for the reader Churchill also provides much information on the general history of the area, the geography and the historic connections between Great Britain and Egypt.

The work is extensively researched but based on firsthand experience. It has been called a brilliant work. Churchill’s epic conflict against fascism during World War II has often overshadowed much of the work of his earlier career and writings. But conflicts such as the Soudan War and the wars in India forged the politics of twentieth century England and this firsthand account by one of the world’s greatest statesmen, orators and writers is invaluable to the study of that history. $1750.

Very Scarce Africana - Hugh Clapperton and Richard Lander Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa London - J. Murray - 1829 29 Clapperton, Captain Hugh; Lander, Richard. JOURNAL OF A SECOND EXPEDITION INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo (London: J. Murray, 1829) First Edition. Illustrated with one full page cartographic plan and a large folding map. 4to, later rebound in plain faux calf. xxiii, (3), 355 pp. A good reading copy of this important book, but without the portrait or title, though with the half-title complete.

FIRST EDITION. “When the late Captain Clapperton made his way to Soccatoo for the first time, in the year 1824, he received the most flattering attentions and every mark of kindness, from Bello, the sultan of the Fellans, as they call themselves, or Fellatas, as they are called by the people of Soudan.

This chieftain may be said to rule over almost the whole of that part of North Africa which is distinguished by the name of Houssa, though he appears to have lost a considerable portion of what his father, Hatman Danfodio, first over; and many of the petty chiefs still continue in a state of rebellion, some of them within a day’s journey of this capital. In the course of frequent conversations held with this chief, at his usual reasoned of Soccatoo, Clapperton was given to understand, that the establishment of a friendly intercourse with England would be most agreeable to him; that he wished particularly for certain articles of English manufacture to be sent out to him to the sea-coast, where there was a place of great commerce belonging to him, named Funda: he also expressed a wish that an English physician and consul should be appointed to reside at another seaport, called Raka; to the former of

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which places, he said, he would dispatch messengers to bring up the articles from England; and to the latter he would send down a proper person to transact all matters of business between the two governments, through the intervention of the English consul; and he made no difficulty in declaring his readiness to adopt measure for putting an entire stop to that part of the slave-trade supposed to carried on by his subjects with foreigners.” -From the introduction. Clapperton was the first European to report direct observation of Hausa countries. Lawson; Gay $475.

Rare First Edition in Exemplary Condition Caille - Journal Historique du Voyage - Paris - 1763 In Fine Period Polished Calf Binding - Gilt Extra 30 De La Caille, M. l’Abbé, [Nicolas Louis]. JOURNAL HISTORIQUE DU VOYAGE FAIT AU CAP DE BONNEESPERANCE; Précédé d’un Discours sur la Vie de l’Auteur, Suii de Remarques & de Réflexions sur Les Coutumes des Hottentots & des Habitans du Cap (Paris: Chez Guillyn, Libraire, 1763) First Edition. With a large folding astronomical plate, folding map of the Cape and other engravings or decorations throughout. Large 12mo, beautifully bound at the time in handsome French antique full polished calf, the spine with fine gilt tooled and decorated compartments incorporating crowns with fishes between gilt decorated raised bands, red morocco label gilt lettered, gilt board edges, page edges red. xxxvi, 380, [4] pp. A very fine copy, unusually so, extremely fresh and well preserved, handsome indeed.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN VERY FINE CONDITION. Caille was an important French mathematician and astronomer.

‘His most important early work lay in surveying the coast from Nantes to Bayonne, then, in 1739, in remeasuring the French arc of the meridian, for which he is honored with a pyramid at Juvisy-sur-Orge. The success of this difficult operation, which occupied two years, and achieved the correction of the anomalous result published by J. Cassini in 1718, was mainly due to Lacaille’s industry and skill. He was rewarded by admission to the Academy and the appointment of mathematical professor in Mazarin college, where he worked in a small observatory fitted for his use.’

“His desire to observe the southern heavens led him to propose, in 1750, an astronomical expedition to the Cape of Good Hope. This was officially sanctioned by Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière. Among its results were determinations of the lunar and of the solar parallax (Mars serving as an intermediary), the first measurement of a South African arc of the meridian, and the observation of 10,000 southern stars.

On his return to Paris in 1754 La Caille was distressed to find himself an object of public attention; he withdrew to Mazarin College, where he worked actively for some years.

Lalande said of him that, during a comparatively short life, he had made more observations and calculations than all the astronomers of his time put together. The quality of his work rivaled its quantity, while the disinterestedness and rectitude of his moral character earned him universal respect. In 1754, de Lacaille was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

The crater La Caille on the Moon is named after him. Asteroid 9135 Lacaille (AKA 7609 P-L and 1994 EK6), discovered on 17 October 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory, was also named after him.” Mendelssohn I, p. 434; for de la Caille: Dictionary of Scientific Biography, VII, pp. 542-545; Chadenat, 5396. Gay, 3132. $1150.

Important First Edition - Handsomely Bound - Denham Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Africa 1822-1824 Published in London in 1826 - Contemporary Binding 31 Denham, Major Dixon and Clapperton, Captain Hugh, and Doctor Oudney. NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824...Extending Across the Great Desert...and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. With an Appendix by Major Dixon Denham and Captain Hugh Clapperton (London: John Murray, 1826) First edition. With 34 fine engraved plates, one of which is hand-colored, 3 sketch maps, 6 engraved vignettes and large folding map of the route. 4to, full contemporary diced calf with blind rolled borders to the coverss, the spine sometime expertly restored preserving most of the original backing which features large central gilt tools in between multi-ruled gilt bands, one compartment with a red morocco label lettered and ruled in gilt, gilt tooled turn-ins xlviii, 335, 269, plates, map and list of illustrations. A fine and handsome copy, internally fresh and clean, plates in fine order with less then typical offsetting, folding map near and with no wear and just a bit of spotting, all very sturdy and solid, binding with restoration and other evidence of age but very handsome and proper.

SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK. Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, traveled from Benioleed, near Tripoli, almost due south to Lake Tchad, with excursions into the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan. Dixon attempted to follow the circuit around Lake Tchad but was unsuccessful. In the meantime, Clapperton and Oudney journeyed west from the lake toward the Niger River, but the doctor only made it about a third of the way and died in Murmur. Clapperton continued west, but was prevented from passing beyond Sackatoo by the local Sultan. He

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and Denham subsequently returned to Tripoli and crossed back to England This narrative is compiled primarily from Denham’s journal, with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk. A final section by Clapperton relates the westward journey from Lake Tchad to Sackatoo and includes an account of Oudney’s death. Among the several appendices are translations from the Arabic of various letters and documents brought back by Denham and Clapperton, including a document relating to the death of Mungo Park; a translation from the Arabic of a geographical and historical account of the Kingdom of Tak-roor, from a larger work composed by Sultan Mohammed Bello of Hausa; vocabularies of Bornou, Begharmi, Mandara, and Timbuctoo; appendices on the zoology and botany of the regions based on samples collected by Dr. Oudney; a note on rock specimens; and a thermometrical journal kept at Kouka in Bornou.

The engravings, after drawings by Denham and Clapperton, are superbly engraved by Edward Finden, one of the finest steel-engravers in England at the time. $2500.

Henry Drummond - A Rare and Important Work - Nyassaland Rare Pamphlet from Excerpts of Tropical Africa Published in London - 1890 32 Drummond, Henry. NYASSALAND, Travel-Sketches in Our New Protectorate Selected from “Tropical Africa” (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1890) First edition. Engraved wrappers. 8vo, skillfully bound in full calf, raised edges, morrocco lettering label gilt, ruled in blind on the upper and lower cover, marbled endleaves, original paper wrappers bound inside. vii, 119 pp. A very fine copy, text essentially pristine, binding very sturdy, the wrappers very well preserved, silk bookmarker.

RARE FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL WRAPPERS BOUND IN. Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical writer and lecturer, who, after attending university began his study for the ministry. During this particular time, he became interested in missionary and other movements of the Free Church of Scotland.

Drummond visited Central Africa in 1883 and discovered he had become famous for a book he published before the trip: NATURAL LAW IN THE SPIRITUAL WORLD. In 1888, he published TROPICAL AFRICA, “a valuable digest of information.” [Ency Britt] Regarding the interest in his work, Drummond states that Africa is known to the modern world in three ways: “ North Africa, where men go for for health; South Africa, where they go for money; and Central Africa, where they go for adventure.” His adventures and findings in Central Africa are what make up this work. $395.

Paul Du Chaillu - A Rare Offering - First Edition - 1861 Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa An Unusually Well Preserved and Pleasing Copy - Rare Thus 33 Du Chaillu, Paul B. EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals (London: John Murray, 1861) First edition.

With 73 black and white illustrations, including a folding frontispiece of a gorilla (the first ever of the animal) and a folding map at the rear. 8vo, in a beautiful binding of full polished natural calf, the spine with compartments decorated with fully gilt panel designs, one compartment with a red morocco lettering piece gilt. xviii, 479 pp. A very bright and uncommonly fresh copy, much nicer then is typically found, internally a very fresh clean copy virtually free of any spotting, the folding map and folding gorilla plate in excellent order.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE FINE POLISHED CALF BINDING. It was on this expedition that Du Chaillu confirmed the existence of that “monstrous and ferocious ape, the gorilla.” His work is one of the seminal pieces of early Central African exploration. Copies of this, his most important work are especially elusive now in such handsome condition. Du Chaillu’s travels to Equatorial Africa were to an area previously unexplored by Europeans--the wooded region bordering the Equator, in the interior of Western Africa. It was on this journey that he was able to observe the habits of several remarkable species of animals found nowhere else and heretofore unknown.

These included the gorilla, and Du Chaillu’s famous engraving was the first published illustration of this remarkable animal. $1450.

First Edition in the Rare Dustjacket Camera Adventures in the African Wilds Dugmore’s Classic Work of Early Wildlife Photography 34 Dugmore, A. Radclyffe. CAMERA ADVENTURES IN THE AFRICAN WILDS; Being an Account of a Four Month’s Expedition in British East Africa, for the Purpose of Securing Photographs from Life of the Game (London: William Heinemann, 1910) First edition.

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Illustrated with a vast profusion of photographs and maps. 4to, publisher’s original full red cloth, gilt lettered on the spine, the upper cover gilt lettered and with a gilt pictorial vignette of a rhinoceros meandering through tall grass. In the rare original dustjacket. xviii, 231 pp. A fine copy in the very rare 1910 dustjacket, clean and unusually well preserved. There is some slight foxing to endpapers as would be typical.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET. Dugmore was one of the first African travelers to pursue photography in lieu of hunting with the gun. He found the study of animals through the lens to be far more useful and interesting than over the barrel of a gun. He felt that photographic hunting was not only a keen sport bu t in itself, provided the greatest possible opportunity for studying the life of wild animals, without closed seasons.

The animal pictures throughout the book are direct photographic reproductions of the original photographs. There has been no retouching or faking of any description, and the great number of photographs were achieved mainly in the wilds of Kenya at the turn of the century. $495.

Sir Charles Eliot - The East Africa Protectorate Scarce First Edition in Unusually Fine Condition 35 Eliot, Sir Charles. THE EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE (London: Edward Arnold, 1905) First edition. Seventeen plates containing thirty-one illustrations and a large folding map of British East Africa. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original dark royal-blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine, ruled in gilt and blind on the spine and covers. xii,334, 16 ads. An unusually nice copy, the cloth fine, remarkably bright, some very light foxing to prelims only.

FIRST EDITION AND A RARE FIND WITH THE ORIGINAL CLOTH THIS BRIGHT AND FRESH. Written by the former H.M. Commissioner for the East Africa Protectorate, this volume chronicles the history and geography of the region, as well as the customs of its native people and its potential as a colony.

“While omitting no aspect of the country which seemed likely to prove interesting, my special object has been to point out the opportunities which it offers for European colonisation and the interesting effect which such a colony may have on the future development of Africa.” [From the author’s preface].

This is a truly bright and handsome copy, with the plates and large folding map in excellent condition. $350.

In Rare Original Dustjacket - Signed by the Author Kintu A Congo Adventure - Elizabeth Engright 36 Enright, Elizabeth. KINTU A CONGO ADVENTURE (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935) First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Written and illustrated by Ms. Enright, who was Frank Lloyd Wright’s niece. 12mo,, original green cloth with paper label to the front cover. Some edge fading, due to the vegetable dyes used in the cloth of the book, otherwise fine in very good p/c dust jacket with some spine fading.

FIRST EDITION, A SCARCE WORK, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR ON THE HALF-TITLE.. Miss Enright studied at the Art Students League and Parsons School of Design in New York. Profusely illustrated in the text, and with some beautiful full page color illustrations rivaling the best work of Miguel Covarrubias. Ms. Enright authored seventeen other books, including a Newbery Medal winner, THIMBLE SUMMER. $150.

The Journals of Major-General Gordon at Kartoum Describing The Siege of Khartoum - First Edition - 1885 37 Gordon, Major General Charles George. THE JOURNALS OF MAJOR-GEN. C. G. GORDON, C.B. AT KHARTOUM. Printed from the original Mss. Introduction and Notes by A. E. Hake (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885) First edition.

With a portrait frontispiece, maps, and 30 illustrations after sketches by General Gordon. 8vo, bound in recent three-quarter black morocco over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands gilt ruled, blind tooled within the compartments, two green morocco lettering labels gilt. lxv, 587, including appendices and index pp. A fine copy, handsome, clean and fresh internally, the binding near as pristine.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. During the siege of Khartoum, Gordon managed to hold the city for over three-hundred days. Daily he watched his compatriots die of war and disease. Left without aid or reinforcements for most of the siege, he was the last Englishman to die there. These are the last of his journals, which he managed to get out of Khartoum before the fall. His final entry: “I have done the best for the honor of my country. Good-bye.”

After his death, Lord Tennyson wrote this epitaph: “Warrior of God, man’s friend, not here below But somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan, Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know This earth hath borne no simpler, nobler man.” $195.

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1864 - Captain Grant’s Walk Across Africa Very Rare Africana - Handsomely Bound - First Edition A Cornerstone Work in the Sourcing of the Nile River 38 Grant, Capt. James Augustus. A WALK ACROSS AFRICA or Domestic Scenes from My Nile Journal. (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1864) First edition. With the folding map contained in pocket in back cover. 8vo, in fine period three-quarter dark green calf and marbled boards, red morocco lettering label gilt, elaborate gilt tooled panels within compartments of the spine, quite handsome. xviii, 452 pp. A very desirable copy indeed, internally exceptionally clean and fresh, the very handsome binding very well preserved indeed, THE RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST ELUSIVE OF THE EARLY AFRICAN EXPLORING BOOKS. James Grant accompanied Speke on his journey across Africa to solve the riddle of the source of the Nile. Meant as a companion to Speke’s account of the journey, Grant explores the “ordinary life and pursuits, the habits and feelings of the natives” and the economic potential of the countries they traveled. In 1864 he was awarded the Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, and in 1866 given the Companionship of the Bath in recognition of his services in the expedition.

Grant would have been with Speke when Speke became the first white man to see the outpouring of the White Nile from Lake Victoria were it not for his contracting an illness, the conditions of which over a period of several months he documents in WALK ACROSS AFRICA. His is likely the first recorded case and first description of Mycobacterium ulcerans infection (Buruli ulcer).

Grant’s gazelle, one of the largest and handsomest of that family in Africa, was named in his honor. $2950.

The Story of the Rear Column - The Relief of Emin Pasha Henry M Stanley and Africa - With Maps and Illustrations First Edition 1890 - James Jameson’s Letters and Journals 39 Jameson, James S. THE STORY OF THE REAR COLUMN OF THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION. By the Late James S. Jameson, Naturalist to the Expedition (London: R.H. Porter, 1890) First edition. With a profusion of fine illustrations, many full page and throughout the text, by C. Whymper from the author’s original sketches, a portrait frontispiece and a fold-out map at end.

Thick 8vo, publisher’s original pale olive-green cloth with pictorial device in gilt on the upper cover and gilt lettering on the spine. xxxii, 45 pp. A pleasing copy, handsome, well preserved, the text-block and maps in excellent condition.

SCARCE. IMPORTANT MAPS AND WELL ILLUSTRATED FROM THE AUTHOR’S SKETCHES AND DRAWINGS. Jameson was a member of Henry Stanley’s expedition to relieve the Emin Pasha and part of the ill-fated rear guard at Yambuya. The Rear-guard was supposed to have resupplied Stanley’s expedition, but disease and the treachery of the Chief Tippu-Tib kept them from making their rondevous with Stanley. By the time Stanley returned to find them, all but one European was dead.

Jameson died of fever.

The rear-guard, now dead and unable to defend itself, was accused of all sorts of wrongdoing and Jameson himself was accused of condoning and perhaps even encouraging cannibalism among the natives. These letters and diaries, edited by his wife are an attempt to rebut the accusations as well a publish the extensive notes that Jameson took on the expedition.

“The Diary abounds with indications of a vigorous, capable, and unflinching personality. His determination and skill in working with and managing the Arabs,... his unmurmuring endurance of toil and hunger in the march through the forest to Banalya-his fearless return march to Stanley Falls in the face of great dangers... these are the doings of a competent and sagacious man, worthy of the part to which he has been appointed.”-Preface. $450.

A Scarce Title in the Central African Oeuvre - 1912 T.B. Johnson - Tramps Round The Mountains Of The Moon 40 Johnson, T. Broadwood. TRAMPS ROUND THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON and Through The Back Gate Of The Congo State (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912) First edition, second impression. Illustrated with 2 maps (1 folding) of the area and with forty-five black and white plates. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine. xxiii, 316 pp. A very fine, very clean and well-preserved copy with just a touch of the typical foxing to the page edges only, the cloth very fresh, rear hinge just a touch shaken.

VERY SCARCE AFRICANA. Johnson was a missionary who worked for 5 years in the kingdom of Toro on the African Equator. He writes with affection and clarity of the customs, religious ideas, and prospects for the future development of Central Africa. The book is profusely illustrated with marvelous photographs of the daily life and interests of the people.

“The story of these rambles about the great mountain range of Central Africa cannot fail to foster interest in this distant outpost of the Empire”-T. Buxton $225.

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Sir Harry Johnston’s Kilima-Njaro Expedition - 1886 A Scarce and Important Work on Equatorial Africa In the Rarely Seen Complete Decorated Cloth Binding 41 Johnston, H.[arry] H.[amilton]. THE KILIMA-NJARO EXPEDITION, A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa and a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Co., 1886) First Edition. With over 80 illustrations including 15 full page plates, 6 maps, 2 of which are folding and two of which are full page plates, and many illustrations in the text by the author. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s original red cloth, upper cover pictorially decorated with a picture of Kilima-Njaro in black and cream and lettered in black, spine lettered in gilt. xv, 572, 36, publisher’s list pp.

A handsome copy in the rarely found original cloth. Some typical mellowing and evidence of age, but the colours and gilt still very well preserved and attractive, the text very clean and fresh, a touch shaken at the hinges. The book is rare in completely original binding.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. Sir Harry Johnston was one of the most popular explorer/authors of his day and this is one his least commonly found works.

After travelling through southern Angola with the Earl of Mayo, Johnston continued to the Congo basin were he secured the support, and became close friends with, Henry Stanley. At that point, the Royal Society commissioned Johnston to undertake a scientific expedition to Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Although Johnston would reach neither of the two peaks he would climb to over 16,00 feet along the “saddle” of the mountain which runs between Kibo and Kimawensi. He gathered a rich collection of plants and insects which were sent back to England.

The expedition also achieved an unexpected but significant political result. Under the auspices of the British Agent and Vice-Consul of Zanzibar, Sir John Kirk, Johnston effected treaties with the chiefs of several local tribes to accept British protection. These treaties would later form the basis of the foundation of the British East Africa Protectorate of 1895. $950.

A Rare Signed and Inscribed Copy of Very Scarce Africana James Johnston’s 4500 Mile Trek Across Central Africa - 1893 First Edition - Reality Versus Romance in Central Africa 42 Johnston, James, M.D. REALITY VERSUS ROMANCE IN CENTRAL AFRICA Being an Account of a Journey Across the Continent From Benguella on the West Through Bihe, Ganguella, Barotse, the Kalahari Desert, Mashonaland, Manica, Gorongoza, Nyasa, Shire Highlands to Mouth of Zambesi on the East Coast (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1893) First Edition, A VERY RARE INSCRIBED AND SIGNED COPY FROM THE AUTHOR. With 50 full page plates of the author’s photographs, the plates are exceptionally well reproduced in photogravure and are remarkably sharp and vivid.

The American edition did not include the plate listed at page 304 but this copy lacks the folding map. Tall 8vo, in the publisher’s original tan cloth, the upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in black and brown, the spine lettered in silver and pictorially decorated in black and brown. 353pp. A very attractive and fresh copy of this rarely encountered book, uncommonly bright with far less than the typical mellowing which affects the tan cloth.

FIRST EDITION AND A VERY RARE INSCRIBED COPY. WE KNOW OF NO OTHER SUCH COPIES WHICH HAVE APPEARED IN COMMERCE IN YEARS. A SCARCE AND EXCEPTIONAL ACCOUNT OF AN AFRICAN JOURNEY THROUGH PREVIOUSLY UNEXPLORED LANDS. The author, a medical doctor, was able to gain access to places and information that would not have been available to others. He states that on his 20 month journey across 4,500 miles mostly on foot that he never once needed to fire a shot in anger, nor did he lose a single native carrier. This in spite of passing through numerous hostile territories and meeting many savage tribes as he traversed the Marotse country and visited the Gonye and Victoria Falls, and continued to Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and Mashonaland. Mendelssohn I, p. 788. $1250.

Sir Harry Johnston’s Great Work on Uganda With Bright Colourful Botanical and Zoological Plates Scarce Africana in the Original Publisher’s Cloth 43 Johnston, Sir Harry. THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1904) 2 volumes. Second Edition. With 48 beautiful color plates, 506 illustrations from drawings and photos, and 9 maps. Large 8vo, publisher’s original navy-blue cloth gilt lettered on spines, with gilt lettering to the upper cover. xxxvi, 470; xiii, 471-1018. A handsome and honest set, internally bright and fine, the cloth is age mellowed but remains dark and attractive and all the gilt work is well preserved. Rear hinge of one volume with cosmetic separation at the pastedown.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION SET, HANDSOME AND WELL PRESERVED. Johnston’s superb description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, language and history of the Uganda territory. Handsomely presented, the books are replete with photographs and illustrations of Uganda at the turn of the century. Copies in cloth are now quite scarce.

Johnston was early on an explorer and traveller to Africa and these volumes are typical of the very best produced writing in travel and exploration of the period.

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Johnston began his travels in Africa at the age of 21 with his 1879-1880 journey to the interior of Tunisa as a student of painting, architecture, and languages. This trip sparked the passion for travel and exploration in the wilds of the African continent that he would spend the next several decades fulfilling.

His journeys and his leadership potential were first brought to the attention of the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association in 1883 when he met H.M. Stanley and traveled with him to the remote river above the Stanley Pool in the Congo, a virgin territory little known to other Europeans at that time. From there his travels and responsibilities expanded rapidly; he was commissioned to lead a scientific expedition to to Mount Kilmanjaro beginning in Zanzibar in 1884, the success of which led to his apopintment as British vice-consul and eventually acting consul in Cameroon and the Niger Delta.

He held a number of government positions through the next 20 years, perhaps best known for his “Cape-to-Cairo” scheme, a phrase coined in the London Times in August of 1888. The plan entailed having British influence in an unbroken line from Alexandria to Cape Town, but was foiled in July of 1890 when the British were forced to give up their sphere of influence north of Lake Tanganyika to the Germans. His later days were spent organizing British administration in Uganda and Liberia as well as writing about his life experiences in Africa. $495.

Sir Harry Johnston on African Colonization One of His Most Elusive Books - A Well Preserved Copy First Edition - Cambridge - 1899 44 Johnston, Sir Harry H. A HISTORY OF THE COLONIZATION OF AFRICA BY ALIEN RACES (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1899) First edition. Illustrated with eight maps in colour by the author and J. G. Bartholomew. 8vo, publisher’s original ribbed green cloth, the spine lettered in gilt and ruled in black, the upper cover lettered in black and with black ruling. xii, [1], 319, 4 pp. A very good, solid and fresh copy of a book difficult to find in nice condition, the book with only minor mellowing or evidence of age, one of the two front free-flies was neatly excised at some point, one remains, not an obtrusive loss.

FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE AUTHOR’S MOST ELUSIVE BOOKS. DIFFICULT TO OBTAIN IN CONDITION. This excellent study was published as part of the Cambridge Historical Series and remains today an excellent book for the study of Colonialism in Africa. It provides a great deal of insight into the present state of Africa. Colonial Administrator Sir Harry Johnston was one of the key players in the “Scramble for Africa” that occurred at the end of the 19th century. He was also the very model of the multi-talented African explorer; he exhibited paintings, collected flora and fauna (he was instrumental in bringing the okapi to the attention of science), climbed mountains, wrote books, signed treaties, and ruled colonial governments. Cambridge could not have found a better author for this study than Harry Johnston. $125.

Sir Harry Johnston on the British Empire in Africa A Handsome Copy of an Important History of Africa First Edition in the Original Textured Cloth 45 Johnston, Sir Harry, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.Sc. BRITAIN ACROSS THE SEAS. AFRICA. A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN AFRICA. (London: National Society’s Depository, [1910]) First Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout with a great many plates (over 200) and with seven maps, six of which are colour. 8vo, publisher’s original varnished blue cloth over textured boards in resemblance to a 3/4 calf binding, the spine with raised bands blind ruled and gilt lettering. xxix, 429 pp. An absolutely excellent copy, the text very fine, the binding bright and handsome with only the most minor of age or evidence of use.

VERY RARE IN THIS CONDITION. AN IMPORTANT BOOK by one of the best of all the authors on Africa. Johnston also wrote important works on Grenfell, Congo, Uganda, Liberia, the Nile, Kilamanjaro and histories of the African peoples. This work was penned to provide a history of the great developments of the British Empire in Africa. Johnston thought that the British had been much more righteous in their dealings with the native races of Africa than many of the other European states. He held high regard for the French in Northern and West Africa and their attempts to enable growth and development of the civilizations, but condemned them for their failures in the Western Congo. He also praised the Germans for bringing trade and wealth to areas of Southwest Africa, the Cameroons and portions of East Africa.

A fine work and a book very profusely illustrated by one of the foremost historians of Africa. $145.

First Edition of Junker’s “Travels In Africa” Recipient of the RGS Gold Medal All Three Volumes in Original Cloth 1875-1886 46 Junker, Dr. Wilhelm. TRAVELS IN AFRICA DURING THE YEARS 1875-1878. [with,] TRAVELS IN AFRICA DURING THE YEARS 1879-1883. [with,] TRAVELS IN AFRICA DURING THE YEARS 1882-1886. Translated from the German by A.H. Keane, F.R.G.S. (London and Philadelphia: Chapman and Hall, 1890, 1891, 1892) 3 volumes. First edition in English of each volume, a complete set of the work. Extensively illustrated with hundreds of illustrations, many being full page, charts and maps throughout all volumes and

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with a large folding coloured map in the second and third volumes. Large, thick 8vo, each volume in the uniform publisher’s original green cloth, ruled in black on covers and spine, pictorial vignettes on the upper covers, spines lettered in gilt. viii, 582; viii, 477,2 ads; viii, 586 pp. A rare complete set of this cornerstone work. The volumes in varied condition as this work was published and sold over time. Volumes II and III are very handsome, fine copies with old unobtrusive Gloucestershire Hartland library numbers on the lower quadrant of the spines, internal labels at the pastedowns and free flies, but otherwise, are exceptionally bright and clean copies of these scarce volumes.

Volume I is a near very good copy with the cloth still bright but with some light rubbing along the edges and extremities caused by use or by shelving, the hinges reinforced neatly with binders’ tape, the text a little shaken but still quite clean

and fresh, this volume without the folding map.

AN IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION SET COMPLETE. Junker remained continuously in Equatorial Africa from 1875 to 1886, leading extensive expeditions from bases in Khartoum and Lado. He was a leisurely traveler and careful observer. His main objective was to study the people with whom he came into contact, and to collect animal and plant specimens. His explorations are extensively recorded in this work, first published in Germany in 1889. Junker charted the course of the Congo and its tributaries during his decade in Central Africa. His investigations of the Nile-Congo watershed successfully combated the then popular hydrographical theories and established the identity of the Welle and Ubangi. Born of German parents in Moscow, he was influenced in his desire to explore Africa by Schweinfurth who drew his attention to the lands south of the Libyan desert, “a region at that time ... still shrouded in the veil of an awe-inspiring mystery”. His fascination with the region led him to make three expeditions over a period of eleven years and he is recognised as one of the great African explorers. Junker received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society in 1887.

Britannica $850.

A Fine Work on African Wildlife - In the Land of the Lion With a Profusion of Impressive Photographs - First Edition 47 Kearton, Cherry. IN THE LAND OF THE LION (London: Arrowsmith, 1929) First Edition, first printing. Illustrated with 88 impressive photos by the author on double-sided plates. 8vo, publisher’s original blue-green cloth, gilt lettered spine, gilt pictorial vignette of a cheetah on the upper cover. 256 pp. A very fine copy, very uncommonly so.

A FINE COPY OF THIS HARD TO FIND FIRST EDITION WITH IMPRESSIVE AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY. Kearton, a prolific wildlife photographer, covers briefly most of the great Central African game in this work--lion, elephant, rhinosceros, hippo, buffalo, crocodile, giraffe, apes and monkeys, leopard and cheetah, snakes, wart-hog, hyena and jackal, antelope, gazelle, zebra, white ant, mongoose, and various birds and other small animals. $195.

Kearton and Barnes-Through Central Africa - First Edition Revealing Photos and First-Hand Accounts 48 Kearton, Cherry and Barnes, James. THROUGH CENTRAL AFRICA From East to West (London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1915) First Edition. With an impressive colour frontispiece, a folding map, 8 fine photogravures and 160 Illustrations from photographs by Cherry Kearton. 4to, publisher’s original navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in blind on the spine, the upper cover lettered and pictorially decorated in blind and tan. xviii, 283 pp. A very handsome and bright copy showing no signs of fading to the binding, and internally quite fresh for the title with only some light intermittent foxing, hinges and textblock all firm and fine.

A VERY SCARCE TITLE AND UNCOMMONLY NICE COPY by Kearton, a prolific wildlife photographer and his writer friend James Barnes.

The book includes the personal story of their year-long photographic safari through East Africa, Uganda and the Congo and the impressive collection of photographs that resulted. Their purpose was to gather photos of animals in their natural settings and motions and not to include any images of dead animal trophies. All of their photos of native life would aim towards being unstaged and truthful. The book successfully achieves the intentions of its creators in recording their fascinating adventures through the course of a year in Africa and in displaying an outstanding collection of revealing photographs. $295.

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A Rare and Important Work - The Far Interior Walter Kerr’s Solitary Journey Through Africa - 1887 Two Volumes in the Original Decorated Cloth 49 Kerr, Walter Montagu. THE FAR INTERIOR: A NARRATIVE OF TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE ACROSS THE ZAMBESI TO THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886) 2 volumes. First edition. With a large number of engraved full page and textual illustrations throughout including a tipped in photograph of the author as frontispiece. Large folding map at the end of Volume II. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth, gilt lettered and pictorially decorated in black, red, and gilt with elaborate pictorial decorations on the upper covers, spines lettered in gilt. xvi, 316; viii, 318 including index, large folding map. A rare set, the covers with some overall mellowing and aging, recased with spine panels renewed, the colour a near perfect match to the original, endpapers renewed. Text-blocks extremely clean and sound and the books very presentable.

A RARE AND IMPORTANT SET OF THIS AFRICAN JOURNEY IN FIRST EDITION FORMAT. Kerr’s two volume account of his solitary explorations through Africa are quite engrossing. Unlike other European explorers, he made his way without a large expedition, and employed local guides as he moved from one tribal region to the next. He was the first white explorer to cross through the territory from Cape Colony to the Lake Regions of Central Africa. He crossed the Zambesi at Tette, passed around the Makanga country, went through Angoni-land, and eventually reached Lake Nyassa. Kerr traveled through the regions south of the Zambesi, and was the first to record his observations of the Makorikori Tribe.

He lived closely with each tribe through his travels and was able to describe their daily life and customs with intimate detail. A fascinating account. $1250.

A Look at the Tribes of South Africa- The Essential Kafir Lucidly Told and Photographed by Dudley Kidd - 1904 50 Kidd, Dudley. THE ESSENTIAL KAFIR (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1904) First Edition. Illustrated with one-hundred fullpage photographs by the author, that used for the frontispiece in colour, and with a fold-out map. 8vo, publisher’s original polished black cloth with elaborate art nouveau decorations in aqua and orange in a vibrant pattern reminiscent of Zulu beadwork with gilt lettering on both the upper cover and the spine, t.e.g. xiv, 436 pp. A very fine, bright and especially handsome copy, the binding in an excellent state of preservation with none of the typical fading to the black cloth or chipping to the colour decorations, the text very clean.

FIRST EDITION, AN EXCELLENT COPY AND A VIVID AND HIGHLY READABLE ACCOUNT. A comprehensive look at the character and spirit of the Kafir people. By Kafir, the author refers to all of the many and varied native tribes of South Africa. Kidd has nicely achieved his goal of writing a “warm-blooded character-sketch.” Native life in all of its aspects is intimately described: Beliefs, Magic, Customs, Mental Characteristics, War, Domestic Matters, and Legal Procedures. The generous assortment of photos by the author depict everyday life well.

“To enable a reader to see the world through Kafir eyes, and to feel it through Kafir finger-tips, it is essential to conserve all the living juices of a strange personality, not fearing to show up the vices and foibles of the native, for it is just these human failings and foibles which touch us with a sense of pathos and endear to us many a friend.”-Kidd. A truly endearing look at a people’s spirit. $295.

A Very Important Early Work of Africana An Exceedingly Scarce Work on the Cape of Good Hope With Superb Large Folding Engraved Illustrations Peter Kolb - Nieuwe Algemene...Van de Kapp de Goede Hoop 51 Kolb, Peter. NIEUWE ALGEMENE BESCHRYVING VAN DE KAAP DE GOEDE HOOP (Amsterdam: Petrus Conradi, 1777) 2 volumes. First edition. With a profusion of superb engraved, large folding plates throughout each volume, 25 in total as called for. Thick, tall 8vo, later full calf with hand-calligraphed spine labels, marbled endpapers. viii, 486 pp; 342 pp. A very fine set, very bright and clean, crisp and in unusually pristine condition, an unopened copy, untrimmed and near as mint. The bindings probably replaced the original printer’s covers, as the set seems just as it might have come from the printer’s tables.

RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF THIS LANDMARK WORK. THE OCTAVO ISSUE WITH THE FOLDING FOLIO PLATES. On the author’s ‘An exact and detailed description of the Cape of Good Hope, containing a very circumstantial account of the present state of that celebrated country, its settlements, harbour, fortress, form of government, extent, and the regions recently discovered in its vicinity; together with an erudite description of the climate and soil of the territory; of its animals, fishes, birds, plants, and herbs; likewise of various prodigies of Nature discovered in the country; to which is added a very accurately compiled account of the Hottentots from the author’s own personal investigations: followed by a remarkable report on their language, religion, manner of living, singular traditions, customs, marriage ceremonies, circumcisions, and education.

Written with strict attention to veracity during a long residence in...the Cape of Good Hope. Excellent folio engravings throughout, all folding and all in excellent condition.’ From Mendolssohn Mendelssohn I, 843-844, Folio Issue of Beschryving. $3750.

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Peter Kolbe - 1743 - Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance A Handsome Copy in Contemporary Binding Beautifully Decorated with Engraved Plates, Maps and Views 52 Kolbe, Peter. DESCRIPTION DU CAP DE BONNE-ESPERANCE, Ou l’on trouve tout ce qui concernce L’istoire-Naturelle due pays; La Religion les Moeurs & les Usages Des Hottentoots, et L’établissement des Hollandois (Amsterdam: Chez Jean Catuffe, 1743) 3 volumes. Early printing in French with the half-titles. 24 engraved plates plus 6 folding views and maps, title page printed in black and red. Small 8vo, handsomely bound in full mottled calf of the period, the spines with raised bands, decorated with gilt panel designs in the compartments, ruled in gilt on two red morocco lettering labels, marbled end-leaves, all edges red. xxiv, 428 + 8 plates; xiv, 262 + 2 plates + 6 folding views and maps; xviii, 320 + 14 natural history plates pp. A handsome copy in a fine period binding, some rubbing to the extremities and a bit of cracking to a few joints, antique library stamps at the titles, text-blocks clean and bright and fresh, plates in very nice condition, withal a pleasing copy.

FINE ISSUE OF THE FRENCH EDITION REPLETE WITH BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED PLATES. “Kolbe had been sent to the Cape of Good Hope with letters of introduction from Nicolas Witsen, Burgomaster of Amsterdam, for the purpose of compiling an all-round description of South Africa and for astronomical and surveying research. He lived and worked at the Cape from 1705 till 1713. Kolbe gives an exact and detailed account of all aspects of life at the Cape, including its geography, climate, flora and fauna, followed by a highly interesting and accurate account of the Hottentots from the author’s own personal investigations, reporting on their language, religion, education and customs. The account on the condition of the colony of the European inhabitants is full of interesting observations not to be found in any other description of the country. Kolbe’s account was first published in German in Nuremberg, 1719.” Gay 3142; Tiele 606; Landwehr, VOC 585; Mendelssohn, pp. 841-5 $1250.

J. Lewis Krapf - Important Writings in Africana - 1860 Travels, Researches and Missionary Labours...Eastern Africa First Edition - Issued in Boston 53 Krapf, J. Lewis. TRAVELS, RESEARCHES, AND MISSIONARY LABOURS, During an Eighteen Years` Residence In Eastern Africa. Together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia and Khartum, and a Coasting Voyage From Mombaz to Cape Delgado. With an Appendix Respecting the Snow-Capped Mountains of Eastern Africa, the Sources of the Nile; the Languages and Literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc., etc. And a Concise Account of Geographical Researches in Eastern Africa Up to the Discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone, in September Last, by E. J. Ravenstein, F.R.G.S (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860) First edition, the American issue. With folding map of East Africa. 8vo, in later full purble-tan calf, the spine toned to wheat, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt and with a black morocco label lettered in blind. xl, 464 pp. Internally a fine copy without a single spot of foxing or soil present, the text block as firm and solid as it is clean and fresh, the later binding mellowed at the spine panel but showing no other signs wear or age, one very small closed tear with no loss to the map.

FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN ISSUE OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK IN ENGLISH BY THE EARLY German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler. Krapf played an important role in exploring East Africa with Johannes Rebmann. They were the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro, of which their descriptions were originally met with disbelief by Europeans till later confirmed.

Krapf’s work in Africa begin in 1836 when he was invited by the Anglican Church Missionary Society to join their work in Ethiopia. From 18371842 he worked in this ancient Christian land. He prepared himself by learning ancient Ge’ez and the Amharic language of the highlands. Landing at Tadjura, Krapf followed the trade route to Shewa where he presented himself to its ruler, Meridazmach Sahle Selassie, and later accompanied the Meridazmach on a military campaign in southern Shewa. Krapf’s pietist background did not help him much to understand and appreciate traditional Ethiopian Christianity, especially their emphasis on saints, liturgy and use of Ge’ez, a language no longer spoken.

This work is presented in three parts. Part one consists of extracts from the author’s journals of travels from Adowa to Ankober, to Shoa, travels south of Shoa, Osmania, Gallas, Massowa, to Zanzibar. Part two contains further travels in Eastern Africa, and Rebmann’s journey to Kadiaro, Jagga, and the author’s journey to Usambara, Ukambani. The third part describes the geography, topography and history of the region. Added to this is E. J. Ravenstein’s appendix which discusses the mountains of Eastern Africa, probable sources of Nile, present literature of Abyssinia, and books on east Africa. $425.

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Le Vaillant’s Travels into Africa - 1790 The Important First Edition of the First Voyage In the Rare Printer’s Boards - Original Deckled Edges 54 Le Vaillant, [Francois]. TRAVELS FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD-HOPE, INTO THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AFRICA, INCLUDING MANY INTERESTING ANECDOTES. With Elegant Plates. Descriptive of the Country and Inhabitants: Inscribed by Permission to His Grace the Duke of Montagu. (London: for William Lane, 1790) 2 volumes. First edition. With 14 elegant copperplate engravings, some folding. There are two plates of giraffes rather than only one as listed and an additional plate of arms opposite page 1. 8vo, in original printer’s boards and untrimmed as issued, very rare as such, the boards of gray paper with contemporary backing of brown calf gilt ruled and lettered in manuscript. xxiv, 376; [vi], 403, errata pp. A fine set in fully original condition as it came from the printer, unrestored and unsophisticated, very scarce such.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT WORK. “Le Vaillant was a French naturalist who traveled in South Africa from 1780 to 1785 when he collected material for his magnificent book on the birds of Africa. His travels were extensive and took him as far as Namaqualand, Bechuanaland, and parts of the Kalahari. His conceit adds a spice of humor to his books” This book relates experiences and occurances of Le Vaillant’s first journey to the Cape, during which he travelled to Algoa Bay and the district then known as “Bruyntes Hoogte” via Mossel Bay, returning through the “Camdeboo” country and crossing the Gamka, Buffalo, and Touws Rivers. It provides an interesting account of South Africa at a time when relatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers, valuable less for its geographical information than for its addition to the knowledge of the natural history of the area. Cox I, p. 390. Mendelssohn p. 889. $1750.

Livingstone’s Great Expedition to the Zambesi To Course the Rivers, Discover the Lakes and Expose the Slavers Scarce First Edition - 1865 - Published in London 55 Livingstone, David and Charles. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES; AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE LAKES SHIRWA AND NYASSA, 1858-1864 (London: John Murray, 1865) First edition. Profusely illustrated with fine cuts throughout, many full page, and one folding of the Falls at Zambesi at the front, large folding map at rear. Thick 8vo, in a fine contemporary binding of have brown calf over maroon pebbled boards, the spine with a simple and elegant single gilt tool beneath gilt ruled gilt lettering, page edges marbled. xiv, 608 pp. A very handsome and well preserved copy, internally very clean and fresh, the folding map with a neat support at the verso where it attaches to the stub, the binding handsome and well preserved.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. “Dr. David Livingstone, the Scottish medical missionary, is known to history as the greatest explorer of his age and a dedicated humanitarian who devoted his life to the eradication of the African slave trade. He was a national hero to his contemporaries and time has confirmed his reputation as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the eminent

Victorians, both in his achievement and in his influence.”

This is the scarce account of Livingstone’s second expedition. “Other explorers we have had whose fame rose as high, but it lasted only for a few years.

The influences of Dr. Livingstone’s life-work, on the other hand, are so far- reaching that his fame is above the passing feelings of the time.” $975.

Livingstone’s Great Expedition to the Zambesi To Course the Rivers, Discover the Lakes and Expose the Slavers The Scarce First American Edition - Original Cloth 56 Livingstone, David and Charles. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES; AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE LAKES SHIRWA AND NYASSA, 1858-1864 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1866) First American edition.

Illustrated with 36 fine cuts throughout, many of which are full page, the frontispiece being double-page plate of the Falls at Zambesi, large folding map at rear with expedition routes in red. Tall 8vo, in the publisher’s original green cloth, more rare than the brown cloth bindings, lettered on the spine in gilt. xxii, 638pp., [6pp. ads]. A fine, handsome and well preserved copy, internally very clean, the folding map near pristine, the binding solid and very well preserved with barely any wear or rubbing at all, the green very slightly mellowed at the spine.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT WORK. The American issue is rarer then the English and the green cloth, though not unseen, is rarer still.

“Dr. David Livingstone, the Scottish medical missionary, is known to history as the greatest explorer of his age and a dedicated humanitarian who devoted his life to the eradication of the African slave trade. He was a national hero to his contemporaries and time has confirmed his reputation as one

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of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the eminent Victorians, both in his achievement and in his influence.”

This is the scarce account of Livingstone’s second expedition. “Other explorers we have had whose fame rose as high, but it lasted only for a few years.

The influences of Dr. Livingstone’s life-work, on the other hand, are so far- reaching that his fame is above the passing feelings of the time.” $495.

The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone The Expanded Edition with Plates Tinted - London - ca. 1876 57 [Livingstone]. THE LIFE AND EXPLORATIONS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, Carefully Compiled From Reliable Sources (London & Newcastle on Tyne: Adam and Co. for John R. Haslam, Nottingham, n.d. [ca. 1876]) First edition thus, the expanded edition with the plates tinted. With a full-page tinted lithographic frontispiece and decorated title-page, and 19 other full-page tinted lithographic plates, map in colour. 4to, handsomely bound in 3/4 English brown-black calf of the period over cloth covered boards, likely a publisher’s upgraded binding made for the Nottingham bookseller, the spine with fully gilt decorated wide raised bands ruled in blind and with double gilt fillet lines at the head and tail, one compartment with red morocco label lettered in gilt, turnovers and corner pieces gilt rolled, endleaves and edges marbled. viii, 632 pp. A handsome copy, internally as pristine but for some spotting at the preliminary leaves as typical, the plates especially bright, the binding strong and sturdy, a very well preserved and attractive copy.

IN VERY WELL PRESERVED AND HANDSOME CONDITION. An early and beautifully produced account of Livingstone’s life and of his many adventures in Africa in a proper and very handsome contemporary binding. The tinting adds magnificently to these dramatic and exciting plates.

Livingstone was one of the greatest national heroes of his day. Much like the American astronauts in the 1960s Livingstone represented for the British people the finest example of their national manhood and a true and courageous explorer of a “last frontier”.

“Dr. David Livingstone, the Scottish medical missionary, is known to history as the greatest explorer of his age and a dedicated humanitarian who devoted his life to the eradication of the African slave trade. He was a national hero to his contemporaries and time has confirmed his reputation as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the eminent Victorians, both in his achievement and in his influence.” - George Martelli $850.

Livingstone’s Last Expedition - 1874 In Original Decorated Cloth - A Set of the First Editions The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa 58 [Livingstone] Waller, Horace.

THE LAST JOURNALS OF DAVID LIVINGSTONE, IN CENTRAL AFRICA, FROM 1865 TO HIS DEATH continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants Chuma and Susi. (London: John Murray, 1874) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and a profusion of engraved plates and illustrations in the text and including two folding maps, one being very large and housed in a map pocket at the end of Volume I. 8vo, publisher’s original deep purple cloth gilt, pictorially illustrated with fine gilt vignettes on the upper covers; gilt lettered spines with ornate vignettes and borders. xvi, 360, 6 ads; viii, 346, 20 ads. pp. A very nice, handsome and well preserved set. The purple cloth with vastly less mellowing to the spine panel than is typical, the text-block is uncommonly fresh with only a few tiny hints of spotting, much less than what is typical, a very solid copy with little wear THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THE LAST JOURNALS OF LIVINGSTONE. The work contains a detailed description of Livingstone’s last expedition, which began in Zanzibar in 1866 and ended with his death on the south shore of Lake Tanganyika in 1873. “The two main objects of the expedition were the suppression of slavery by means of civilizing influences, and the ascertainment of the watershed in the region between Nyasa and Tanganyika. At first Livingstone thought the Nile problem had been solved by Speke, Burton, and Baker, but the idea grew upon him that the Nile sources must be sought farther south, and his last journey became in the end a forlorn hope in search of the ‘fountains’ of Herodotus.” (EB). $1250.

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A Rare Account of Years of Missionary Life in Africa Albert Lloyd’s Uganda to Khartoum - First Edition 59 Lloyd, Albert B. UGANDA TO KHARTOUM Life and Adventure on the Upper Nile. With a Preface by Victor Buxton (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906) First edition, imprint for America using the same sheets and binding as the English first edition. Produced in the U.K. for shipment to America. With 80 illustrations from black and white photographs and a large folding map in colour. Large thick 8vo, in the publisher’s original burgundy cloth, the upper cover lettered in gilt with a large gilt vignette of native children, the spine gilt lettered, t.e.g. xii, 308 pp. An extremely bright and fresh copy, the cloth fine indeed with bright gleaming gilt, the interior with little evidence of use, some very light foxing occasionally appears but is quite minor and typically in the margins.

FIRST EDITION. VERY UNCOMMON AFRICANA, SELDOM SEEN AND RARELY IN GOOD CONDITION. We are aware of only one other copy of the first edition currently in the marketplace and it is in poor condition.

A fascinating and well written account of a Christian missionary’s travels and adventures in Africa. The work is especially well illustrated with many photographs. It depicts many of his most interesting experiences during a long residency in Northern Uganda. “For ten years he has laboured as a missionary in the western parts of the Uganda Protectorate; and last year he returned for the second time on furlough to this country... The natural way of coming home, whether from Toro or Unyoro, would have been by the Victoria Nyanza and Mombasa on the east coast; but with his missionary zeal Mr. Lloyd combines a large measure of that spirit of adventure which is the heritage of Englishmen.” - Preface. $550.

Early Expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza Colonel C. Chaillé Long’s Rare Account Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People - 1877 60 Long, Col. C. Chaillé. CENTRAL AFRICA: NAKED TRUTHS OF NAKED PEOPLE. AN ACCOUNT OF EXPEDITIONS TO THE LAKE VICTORIA NYANZA AND THE MAKRAKA NIAM-NIAM, WEST OF THE BAHR-EL-ABLAD (WHITE NILE). (New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1877) First Edition, American issue. Illustrated from Col. Long’s own sketches including1 photographic MedallionPortrait as frontispiece, 8 xylographed plates, 13 woodcut illustrations, 1 coloured lithographed folding map. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth, ruled in blind with a portrait vignette of an African warrior in gilt on the upper cover, lettered in gilt on the spine. xvi, 330, 6 ads pp. A very bright and clean copy, unusually fine, no evidence of foxing, very slight mellowing, especially well preserved.

AN UNCOMMON TITLE AND RARE IN THIS CONDITION. Long served several years in the Egyptian army under Ismaïl Pacha, the European-educated and “enlightened” Khedive of Egypt, during which time he embarked on these two expeditions west of the White Nile. Within these pages he relates details of his daily journeys, notes on native dress and customs, and narratives of exciting adventures concerning hostile natives, violent weather, sheiks’ palaces, and many other things. It is supplemented nicely by illustrations from Long’s own drawings. This work is seldom seen, particularly in such nice condition. Ibrahim-Hilmy I. 391 $395.

Exceptionally Scarce First Edition - Two Volumes Captain Lugard’s Rise of Our East African Empire - 1893 Early Efforts in Uganda and Nyasaland 61 Lugard, Captain F.D. THE RISE OF OUR EAST AFRICAN EMPIRE, EARLY EFFORTS IN NYASALAND AND UGANDA. (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1893) 2 volumes. The Very Scarce First Edition. With a photogravure frontispiece in volume one and portrait from a photograph as frontispiece for volume two,130 illustrations from drawings and photographs and 13 maps, 5 of which are folding and in colour and 4 others also in color.

8vo, publisher’s original bright red cloth, the boards decorated with pictorial vignettes in gilt and black on the upper covers. The spines lettered in gilt, the upper covers lettered in black. xix, 563 (32 ads); ix, 682 pp.

A fine copy, very bright and a handsome set in the original cloth. The red cloth is typically found badly faded but that is not the case with these volumes which have only a few unobtrusive spots on the upper cover of one volume, the text especially fresh and clean and fine and all maps well taken care of also.

AN UNUSUALLY PLEASING COPY OF THIS VERY SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. Lugard had a varied career as a British soldier, African explorer, and administrator, including commanding an expedition of British settlers against Arab slave traders in Nyasaland. While working for the British East Africa Company, he helped form an elaborate scheme to free slaves held in Zanzibar by Arabs, and then went to Uganda to help end civil disturbances and establish British influence. He went on to hold several high positions in the British administration of Africa as well as becoming Governor of Hong Kong in 1907.

Throughout his African administrations, Lugard sought strenuously to improve the condition of the native races through means such as the exclusion

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of alcohol and the suppression of slave raiding and slavery. In 1892, Lugard went to England to oppose the British abandonment of Uganda and was successful. These two volumes, the first on Nyasaland and East Africa, the second on Uganda, are an historical survey as well as a memoirs of Lugard’s travels in these areas. Keenly aware of Britain’s responsibility in administering these areas, Lugard’s aim “ has been not so much to set forth a narrative of personal adventure, sport, and travel...but rather to place before thinking men subjects of more serious concern, both to ourselves and to the subject races for whose welfare we have made ourselves responsible” (introduction). A beautifully illustrated set of this absorbing narrative. EB $1050.

Signed by Nelson Mandela - Nobel Peace Prize Winner The First Black President of South Africa Long Walk to Freedom - First Edition - First Issue - 1994 His Moving and Inspirational Autobiography 62 Mandela, Nelson. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1994) First edition, first issue, SIGNED BY NELSON MANDELA, and dated by him 5 august, 2000. With 24 pages of black and white photographs and cartographic endpapers. Large 8vo, in the publisher’s original green paper-covered boards backed in black cloth, gilt lettered on the spine and upper cover, in the original dustjacket. 558 pp. A very fine copy, both book and jacket are pristine and as mint.

SIGNED BY THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNING FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA. THE FIRST EDITION ISSUED IN AMERICA IS RARELY FOUND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. “Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.

As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa’s antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality.

LONG WALK TO FREEDOM is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history’s greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela tells the extraordinary story of his life--an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph.” - Publisher. $4500.

Maxwell’s Stalking Big Game with a Camera A Brilliant Photographic Record of the African Wild Fine and Bright in the Original Dustjacket 63 Maxwell, Marius. STALKING BIG GAME WITH A CAMERA IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA, WITH A MONOGRAPH ON THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT. Preface by Sir Sidney F. Harmer, K.B.E., &c. (London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1925) First trade edition and first issuance other than the limited edition. With 113 plates after photographs by the author, many of them folding or panoramic, also with a color folding map. Royal 4to, publisher’s original navy cloth, blindstamped on the upper cover and gilt-lettered and ruled on spine. xxiv, 206, including appendices and index pp. A bright and handsome copy in a fine state of preservation throughout.

FINE FIRST EDITION WORK. This is the first trade edition of this important work first published in 1924 by the Medici Society Ltd. in an imperial quarto edition limited to 550 copies. It retains all of the illustrations, including the magnificent 4 page fold-out close-up photograph of half a dozen advancing elephants. Even the trade edition has become difficult to find in collectible condition. “[It] has been my desire,” Maxwell states in his introduction, “to secure photographic records of incidents in big game hunting, incidents such as are found in the writings of well-known hunters, and to illustrate these experiences by actual photographs wherever and whenever fortune has turned my way, and given me opportunities to obtain an accurate shot with the camera instead of the rifle.”

Maxwell pays his respects to C. G. Schillings and A. Radclyffe Dugmore, pioneers in the field of big game photography. But while these gentlemen attempted to capture game animals in their natural setting, neither was able to capture them with enough detail to satisfy the naturalists. In order to accomplish this Maxwell tried to use a telephoto lens as little as possible and relied primarily on an ordinary lens with a focal length of six to ten inches, a habit which necessitated close proximity to the animals in order to obtain the best shot. The results are stunning. Many of the photos depict animals staring into the camera with tense suspicion, in graceful motion as they flee, or actually charging the camera (and being dropped by bullets when necessary).

Almost all these photos are quite artfully composed, the difficulty of which, under the circumstances, speaks highly of Maxwell’s sense of aesthetics and skill as a photographer. The book also includes an introductory chapter on “A Camera Huntsman’s Equipment” and an appendix on the natural history of the elephant and “Primeval Man and the Pleistocene ‘elephas.’” $350.

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J.G. Millais - Far Away Up the Nile - First Edition A Handsome Copy in Original Cloth - London - 1924 64 Millais, John G. FAR AWAY UP THE NILE (London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1924) Scarce First Edition. 53 illustrations from drawings by the author, by H. R. Millais, and from photographs. Thick Quarto, publisher’s original red cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. xi, [246], 247-254 Index pp. A very bright and handsome copy, the red cloth very well preserved, unusually so, the text clean and fresh with no foxing.

FIRST EDITION OF THESE ILLUSTRATED Tales of hunting and adventure in Egypt and the Sudan, with a bit of history and an account of the peoples thrown in. The author’s skill as a wildlife illustrator and photographer are put to excellent use here. He traveled extensively around the world detailing wildlife, often for the first time. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly exact nature. This work chronicles his last study in Africa, returning to the continent of one of his earliest and most famous works, A BREATH FROM THE VELDT. $295.

John Guille Millais’ A Breath From the Veldt Superbly Illustrated Africana - 1895 Large Folio - A Natural History Masterwork 65 Millais, John Guille. A BREATH FROM THE VELDT (London: Henry Sotheran, 1895) First edition. With a great profusion of full-page plates, textual illustrations and fine full-page gravures. Folio, publisher’s original white polished buckram over boards with pictorial decorations and titling on the upper cover and spine, t.e.g. x, 236 pp. Some foxing to the prelims, otherwise internally bright and clean, externally some wear and darkening to the cloth, sturdy, a very attractive copy.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION AND A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WORK BY MILLAIS. ONE OF THE BEST ILLUSTRATED BOOKS OF AFRICA. “South Africa, with its attraction for the sportsman and the naturalist, has already given birth to so many books by abler pens than mine, that some apology seems necessary for the appearance of these pages. Let me say then at once that though they are occupied in the main with dissertation on, and adventures in pursuit of big game, I have endeavored as far as possible to avoid trespassing on the domain of the standard authorities on this subject. My object has been rather t o supplement from personal observation what is already known of such animals as I came across during a recent tour in South Africa; to present to the best of my ability a true picture of life in that country, whether of man, beat of bird; and to give the sportsmen of that period what help I can as a guide to the hunting grounds and how to work them to advantage.

My drawing will no doubt be disappointing to admirers of the grim and gory, who know the lion only as presented in picture-books, with mane trailing on the ground, claws extended, and mouth full of blood and foam. Exception too may be taken by the uninitiated to the fantastic attitudes of some of the birds and beasts here represented. But that I cannot help. I have drawn only what I have seen, and as I have seen it, and it is not my fault if my subjects declined to display themselves in the approved conventional form.” From the Author’s Preface. $1150.

Scarce and Core Africana Moffat’s Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa 66 Moffat, Robert. MISSIONARY LABOURS AND SCENES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA (London: John Snow, Paternoster-Row, 1842) First edition, seventh thousand. Profusely illustrated throughout with full and partial-page engravings by G. Baxter, including a very finely executed hand-coloured frontispiece and a large folding map of South Africa. 8vo, bound in contemporary beautifully decorated maroon morocco with elaborate arabesque styled gilt and blind decorations on the covers; the spine with dense gilt paneled designs within compartments between raised bands. xvi, 624,12 ads, pp. A clean and handsome copy, very well preserved with only very minor age evidence.

AN UNUSUALLY HANDSOME AND ELABORATELY BOUND COPY OF THIS CLASSIC WORK. The preliminary chapters deal with the opinions of the author on the origin of the Hottentots, and give a synopsis of the early work of the London Missionary Society in South Africa, reference being made to the labours of Drs. Vanderkemp and Philip, and other pioneer missionaries who preceded Mr. Moffat.

The volume gives a valuable account of mission work among the Bechuanas, with notes on the customs of the natives, and a description of the earlier travels of the author and some information is afforded respecting the reformed savage Namaqua chief “Afrikaner”. The appearance in Cape Town of this convert was the cause of much wonder and astonishment, his arrival having been awaited with considerable skepticism by Lord Charles Somerset, who was much struck with this example of the results of missionary enterprise, and who “expressed his pleasure at seeing thus before him one who had been the scourge of the country and the terror of the border colonists.”

An interesting account of Moselekatse and his people is given, and it is remarked that this well-known potentate “seemed anxious to please and to exhibit himself and his people to the best advantage.” There was, however, considerable difficulty m ascertaining the chief’s real character, as no one in his dominions “dared breathe a syllable that was not calculated to set him forth as the best and noblest of beings, immaculate in his actions, the very

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perfection of all that was lovely just, and good.’’ He was very gracious to the missionaries, and appreciated their previous kindness to his envoys, and Moffat gained considerable influence over him, and was instrumental in obtaining his permission to allow a mission station to be established in his country.

There are some particulars concerning Dr. Andrew Smith’s expedition into the interior in I835, and there is an ample account of the labors of the various missionary societies engaged amongst the Bechuanas, Matabeles, Basutos, and other races at this period. A highly important and unusually scarce book in the core collection of the early exploration and settlement of Africa. $950.

Mollien’s Travels in the Interior of Africa - 1820 First Edition With Map and Engravings Handsomely Bound and Presented in Antique Calf 67 Mollien, Gaspard Theodore. TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia, Performed By Command of the French Government, in the Year 1818...edited by T.E. Bowdich, Esq., conductor of the mission to Ashantee. (London: Printed for Henry Colburn and Co., 1820) First edition in English. With a large folding map, stipple-engraved frontispiece and six uncoloured aquatint plates. 4to, antique three-quarter calf over marbled boards, lettered in gilt on the spine. xii, 380 pp.; includes itinerary and vocabulary lists. A very handsome and well preserved copy. Quite clean throughout. A small repair to the lower outside corner of the title-page.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. “It was at first my intention, when I set out for the interior of Western Africa, to explore anew the countries which Mungo Park had visited; but being soon convinced of the impossibility of making discoveries, or even of traveling at all in that quarter, I resolved to strike out a new track; and after penetrating into the continent, I followed a line parallel to the meridian. The regions which I had to traverse in pursuing this direction, were almost unknown, and afforded scope for observations equally numerous and interesting. Thus the result answered my expectations, and I attained, in a great measure, the object which I had in view. Well-informed persons to whom I communicated the notes made in my journal, encouraged me to arrange them and to publish a narrative of the events, which during my enterprize had involved me in so many dangers.

From the following sheets the reader will perceive that the manner in which I was obliged to travel, prevented me from prosecuting my researches so far as I could have wished.” Abbey, Travel 273.

This volume is filled with the author’s descriptions of history, geography, animals, religion, culture and his experiences in tribal kingdoms. Mollien got to know the peoples of various tribes in equatorial Africa, as well as their royalty. $1850.

To the Mountains of the Moon - 1901 - First Edition Rare Africana in the Original Cloth Profusely Illustrated and With Fine Maps 68 Moore, J.E.S. TO THE MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON; Being an account of the modern aspect of Central Africa, and of some little known regions traversed by the Tanganyika Expedition, in 1899 and 1900. (London: Hurst and Blackett, Limited, 1901) Scarce First edition.

With a fine colour frontispiece, a profuse number of black and white illustrations from photographs and sketches by the author (a number folding panorama style), 2 maps (one folding) in black and white, and 1 large folding map in colour. 8vo, original publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, pictorially decorated in black on the upper cover, t.e.g. xvi, 350, folding map,4 pp of ads. A handsome copy of this scarce book, with only light aging to the edges of the cloth, the interior very clean and fresh. Christmas 1904 presentation and contemporary news clipping concerning the conquest of the Mountains of the Moon neatly affixed to the front endleaves.

A very scarce and important work, seldom encountered, ESPECIALLY SO IN SUCH NICE CONDITION. An important work in the history of written Africana, extensively illustrated and narrated in engaging descriptive detail.

This well written account of the Tanganyika Expedition has taken its place amongst the works fundamental to a collection of Central Africana.

Ever since Speke had first visited the shores of the great lake during Burton’s expedition to the region at the source of the Nile, the British had been seeking ever more information as to an exact geographical understanding of the area and the lakes that lay within it. Perplexing problems of the fauna and flora remained unanswered and with them, full knowledge as to the course of the waters throughout the Nile region. Part of Moore’s quest was to answer many of those questions. And in that pursuit he crossed lands still unseen by any explorers and found evidence of fauna, especially in the lakes themselves which led him to the surprising answers to many of the most perplexing scientific questions.

Throughout its journey, the Expedition was able to glean information which was to completely alter the held views respecting the past history of this particular part of the earth. Moore relates at length much of his work on the very wide geographical changes which had ocurred and were still occuring among the lakes and watersheds, owing to the persistence of the geographical disturbances which had formed among other things the modern active volcanoes north of Kivu. $795.

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Rare First Edition of A Seminal Work of Africana Hugh Murray - Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels Published Edinburgh - 1817 - Two Volumes - Period Calf 69 Murray, Hugh. HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF DISCOVERIES AND TRAVELS IN AFRICA, BY THE LATE JOHN LEYDEN, M.D. Enlarged and Completed to the Present Time with Illustrations of Its Geography and Natural History, as Well as of the Moral and Social Condition of its Inhabitants. (Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable & Co., 1817) 2 volumes. Rare First Edition. Illustrated with six maps including a number which are folding. 8vo, bound in three-quarter contemporary calf over marbled boards. xx, 512; viii, 536 pp. Internally a well preserved and pleasing copy. One map with old support to the verso, the hinges are weak and there is bit of wear to the bindings, some wear and loosening at the junction of the free-flies and pastedowns. Labels are partially missing and should be restored. Repairs are easy to acccomplish.

RARE FIRST EDITION. This is a compilation remarkably accurate for the time at which it was written, completed and added to by Hugh Murray.

It is very rarely encountered in first edition format, the second edition being most readily available. It is an interesting resume of what was known about Western and Central Africa at the beginning of the 19th century.” Sir Harry Johnston’s bibliography to Liberia.“Leyden, a doctor and poet, was also a gifted student of Eastern languages and an enthusiast of African adventures. Inspired by Mungo Park’s discoveries he compiled ‘Historical Philosophical Sketch...of Europeans...in Africa’ 1799 which was enlarged to two volumes in 1817 by Hugh Murray. Although he never traveled to Africa, Leyden did spend much time in India as a medical officer. $1450.

Charles New’s Account of Kilimanjaro and East Africa The First European to Reach the Snow of Kiliminjaro With Other Important Ethnological Studies of the Area 70 New, Charles. LIFE, WANDERINGS, AND LABOURS IN CENTRAL AFRICA with an Account of THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ASCENT OF THE EQUATORIAL SNOW MOUNTAIN, KILIMA NJARO and Remarks Upon EAST AFRICAN SLAVERY (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1873) First edition, this the copy of the Mountain Club of Eastern Africa, Uganda, with signed presentation to the members from the Author’s grand nephew affixed to the front pastedown. There are no other institutional or ex-libris markings. With a large folding map with routes in colour and 11 nicely engraved illustrative plates including a portrait of the author as frontispiece. 8vo, original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt and pictorially decorated in black on the upper cover, the spine gilt lettered. xiii, 525, [2] pp. Scarce in original cloth and rarely found in found in acceptable condition, this copy with old expert restoration to the cloth, rebacked with original spine panel preserved, endpapers refreshed, internally very good with more mild toning than is usually found with this title, the spotting only light and occasional, one plate with a closed tear with no loss.

VERY SCARCE, RARE IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH AND STILL MORE RARE IN ANYTHING BUT POOR CONDITION. THE WORK IS KNOWN TO MOST ONLY FROM THE REPRINT OF NEARLY 100 YEAR LATER. THE BOOK RELATES THE FIRST ASCENT OF KILIMINJARO. The author was a missionary, a member of the Livingstone Search and Relief Expedition, and was also an accomplished artist and photographer. The engraved plates in this volume are reproduced mostly from his own sketches and photos.

Of great interest is the author’s account of his attempt to reach the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, with which he became the first European to successfully reach the snow line. New made a thorough study of the environment of the mountain and recovered a large number of native plants from the mountain slopes, which he then gave to Joseph Dalton Hooker from the Kew Gardens in London. New also discovered the crater lake of Jala, the mountain’s only volcanic lake, at Kilimanjaro’s foot to the south-east of Mawenzi. For his geographical exploits was honored by the Royal Geographical Society with a gold chonometer in April 1874. $1350.

Owen’s Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa Rare First Edition - Illustrated With Plates and Maps 71 Owen, Captain W. F. W. NARRATIVE OF VOYAGES TO EXPLORE THE SHORES OF AFRICA, ARABIA, AND MADAGASCAR; Performed in H.M. Ships Leven and Barracouta, Under the Direction of Captain W.F.W. Owen, R.N. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty (London: Richard Bentley, 1833) 2 volumes. First Edition, A Rare Complete Set. Illustrated with 4 large folding maps, 5 full-page lithographed plates and 5 wood-engraved illustrations, complete and original as called for. Tall 8vo, handsomely

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bound in contemporary calf backed marbled boards with calf corner pieces, the spines with wide gilt tooled flat bands between blind stippled compartments, two compartments with gilt lettering. With fine engraved armorial bookplate in each volume of Captain E. N. Norcott, Royal Navy. xxiii, 434; viii, 420 pp. A handsome and very pleasing copy of this scarce and highly sought work, in an excellent state of preservation, the paper clean and still quite fresh with only a touch of occasional foxing, the maps are complete and in surprisingly good order with a few unobtrusive paper repairs at the versos, the spines have been restored with the original back-strips laid down.

FIRST EDITION OF A RARE AND HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BOOK. COPIES COMPLETE AND IN CONDITION ARE ESPECIALLY ELUSIVE. THIS IS A COMPLETE COPY WHICH RETAINS ITS ORIGINAL BINDING. “Owen joined the Royal Navy in 1788. He discoverd the Seaflower Channel off the coast of Sumatra, and explored and surveyed the Canadian Great Lakes. He received in 1822 an appointment by the Admiralty to command a surveying expedition to the coast of Africa, Madagascar and Oman, for which there were, up to the time, no accurate charts of the coastlines. The initial efforts were costly...after 7 months effort, the team returned Cape Town in July 1822 with two-thirds of the officers, and half the crew dead from malaria.

It was Owen who identified the mosquito as the culprit spreading the disease. The second sortie, departing Cape Town in September 1822 suffered a similar fate, with Owen himself falling prey, though this time, the survey work continued. Owen’s flagship, Leven, in company with the brig Barracouta, eventually returned to Cape Town and remained in port until June 1823.

In January 1824 Owen once again sailed, continuing with his tasking to survey the coast of Oman. He began at Ras al Hadd, continuing to Masirah Island and along the coast to Ras Mirba. Finally concluding in 1826, the end result “was a continuous series of charts for the entire West African coast far more definitive in detail than anything that had gone before. Owen’s charts remained in use for nearly a century and his remarks were still being reproduced in the Africa Pilot as late as 1893.”

When it was all said and done, Owen had mapped the entire east African coast from the Cape to the Horn of Africa and had established a one-man protectorate of Mombasa with the aim of disrupting the ‘hellish trade’ in slaves. The British government, honouring its treaty with the Sultan of Oman, did not formally recognize the colony and withdrew the British flag.

Ultimately Owen was forced to shut down under orders from the Crown after only three years. When he returned in 1826, with 300 new charts, covering some 30,000 miles of coastline, over half of his original crew had been killed by tropical diseases. [Howgego]. $3850.

Mungo Park’s Seminal Work - Travels in Interior Africa The Opening of Central Africa to the West - PMM 253 A Handsome Set in Original Period Calf - Two Volumes 72 Park, Mungo. TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an Account of a Subsequent Mission to That Country in 1805. By Mungo Park, Surgeon. To Which is Added an Account of the Life of Mr. Park.

(London: Printed for John Murray, 1817, 1816) 2 volumes. Very Early Octavo Two Volume Printing, “A New Edition”, being the second Murray enlarged edition. With a large folding engraved map to illustrate the journal, the routes shown in colour. 8vo, three-quarter contemporary calf over marbled paper-covered boards, the spines with multi-gilt ruled raised bands, two compartments lettered and ruled in gilt. xx, 560; xvii, cviii, 301 pp. A very fine, handsome and proper set, the text clean and crisp and unpressed, the map in an excellent state of preservation, the bindings very proper and original.

A SCARCE PRINTING AND A VERY PLEASING COPY OF THIS HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND SEMINAL WORK OF AFRICANA, AND A WORK WHICH IS ESPECIALLY SCARCE IN CONTEMPORARY BINDINGS. The African Association of London’s previous four expeditions to explore the Niger river had failed by the time they charged Park, a Scotsman, with the commission to explore the Gambia, Senegal, and Niger rivers in 1795. He covered well over 100 miles before he fell ill in 1797 and returned back to England. His unaffected style and natural sense of storytelling in the subsequent publication of his adventures make this one of the most popular accounts of African exploration. He returned to Africa in 1805 to search for the source of the Niger in a canoe, and met great hardships both on the river and with the natives that eventually cost him his own life and the life of his men.

“Until the publication of Park’s book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa, apart from the northeast region and coastal area...

Park’s TRAVELS had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature, and its scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and on the social and domestic life of the Negroes, have remained of lasting value.

Park’s career was cut short, but he made the first great practice advance in the opening-up of Central Africa.” PMM 253. A rare copy of this milestone Africana.

After the publication of the TRAVELS, Park withdrew to the quiet life of a country physician. He soon became bored with this existence and returned to Africa in 1805. He traveled on the Niger by canoe, but failed to reach the source of the river. He and his companions were killed by natives at Boussa after their canoe foundered on the rapids. PMM 253 (first edition), DNB, this edition not in Howgego) $1350.

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Ethiopia Comprehensively Described in Two Volumes Mansfield Parkyns’ Life in Abyssinia The Scarce True First Edition in Original Cloth 73 Parkyns, Mansfield. LIFE IN ABYSSINIA: Being Notes Collected During Three Years’ Residence and Travels in That Country.

(London: John Murray, 1853) 2 volumes.

First edition. With a frontispiece in each volume, sixteen additional engraved plates 13 illustrations within the text and a folding map.

8vo, original elaborately patterned dark blue cloth with gilt vignettes on the upper covers of Abyssinian shields and weapons, the spines with gilt vignettes of St. George slaying the dragon, gilt lettering and attractive gilt borders at the spine tips. xv, 424; iv, 432 pp., and 16pp. ad catalogue. A very handsome set with only a bit of minor wear or mellowing to the bindings.

Internally, still quite fresh and with far less foxing than is normative to the title, one hinge a little shaken.

THE SCARCE TRUE FIRST EDITION, AND A COPY WITH THE ORIGINAL CLOTH UNUSUALLY WELL PRESERVED. Mansfield Perkyns (1823-1894) traveled to Abyssinia in 1843 and remained among the natives for three years. While there he married a local woman and fathered a child before returning to England in 1846. He was sent to Constantinople as an attaché to the embassy in 1850, and on his return to England in 1853 published this work, which is said to have excited much attention. Life in Abyssinia is treated comprehensively, touching on everything from natural history, social customs and amusements, to personal appearances and anecdotes of character. The author was personally acquainted with one of the most interesting regional rulers of the day, Dajazmach Wube Haile Maryam, ruler of Tigrey, as well as other Tigrean nobles. He provides us with a rare insiders view of Tigrean history from a period just prior to Dejazmach Wube’s defeat and imprisonment.

Parkyns was known in his day as an excellent linguist, and was a member of the Royal Geographical Society, but this book was not well received in its own because Parkyns’ manner of traveling and immersion into local life clashed with the English concept of propriety. But this immersion provides for a far better history and study of the region then one would likely gain from the more typical, and often condescending, writers of the era. Pankhurst, 31. $895.

Slatin Pasha’s Great Account - Fire and Sword in the Sudan Mahdi’s Revolt in the Original Cloth - A Handsome Copy 74 Pasha, Rudolf C. Slatin. FIRE AND SWORD IN THE SUDAN A PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF FIGHTING AND SERVING THE DERVISHES. 1879-1895. (London: Edward Arnold, 1911) Later printing in the maroon cloth binding. 22 illustrations by R. Talbot Kelly who worked under the direct supervision of the author. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, blind frame-work to the covers. xviii, (2),416 pp. A very handsome copy, attractive and bright and well preserved, unusual thus.

“Slatin Pasha was by far the most important of the European prisoners in the Soudan. Before the Mahdi’s victories he held the post of Governor of Darfur, and was in command of large military forces. He fought no fewer than twenty-seven pitched battles before he was compelled to surrender, and is the only surviving soldier who has given an eye-witness account of the terrible fighting that occurred during the Mahdist struggle for supremacy.

He was present as a prisoner during the siege of Khartoum, and it was to his feet that Gordon’s head was brought in revengeful triumph within an hour of the city’s fall.

The narrative is brought up to the time when Slatin Pasha’s marvelous escape took place, and the incidents of his captivity have been so indelibly graven on his memory that his account of them has all the freshness of a romance.

From a military and historical standpoint the book is of the highest value. Slatin Pasha’s various expeditions penetrated into regions as yet almost unknown to Europeans, but destined apparently to be the subject of serious complications in the near future. The map of these regions is believed to be the first authentic one produced. There is also a careful ground plan of Khartoum and Omdurman, which might be of immense service in case of military operations.”-Publishers comment. $100.

Patterson’s The Man-Eaters of Tsavo Splendid First Edition of this Classic Africana 75 Patterson, Lieut.- Col. J. H. THE MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO and Other East African Adventures, with a Foreword by Frederick Courteney Selous (London: Macmillan, 1907) First edition, early issue. With a profusion of illustrations, mostly from the author’s black and white photographs, and a full page map. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated with

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head of a lion on upper cover in gilt. xx, 338. A very bright copy, the cloth uncommonly fresh and completely unfaded, the gilt vivid on both cover and spine, the text clean and well preserved.

FIRST EDITION, EARLY ISSUE OF A MOST SOUGHT AFTER BOOK, WITH A FORWARD BY FREDERIC COURTENEY SELOUS. A classic of man-eater literature, this is Patterson’s account of his battle with lions that harassed the workers building the Uganda railway.

In March 1898 the British started building a railway bridge over the Tsavo River in Kenya. Patterson was leader of the project. During the next nine months of construction, two maneless male Tsavo lions stalked the campsite, dragging Indian workers from their tents at night and devouring them. Crews tried to scare off the lions and built campfires and bomas, or thorn fences, around their camp for protection to keep the man-eaters out, to no avail; the lions leaped over or crawled through the thorn fences. After the new attacks, hundreds of workers fled from Tsavo, halting construction on the bridge. Patterson set traps and tried several times to ambush the lions at night from a tree. After repeated unsuccessful attempts, he shot the first lion on 9 December 1898. Twenty days later, the second lion was found and killed. The first lion killed measured 9 feet 8 inches from nose to tip of tail. It took eight men to carry the carcass back to camp. The construction crew returned and finished the bridge in February 1899. The exact number of people killed by the lions is unclear, but Patterson suggests there may have been 135 victims.

Selous wrote of the work in his good forward that “[he] knew that the author had told his story in a most modest manner, laying but little stress on the dangers he had run when sitting up at nights to try and compass the death of the terrible man-eaters, especially on that one occasion when, while watching them from a very light scaffolding, supported only by four rickety poles, he was himself stalked.... $295.

In The Grip of The Nyika - J.H. Patterson’s Classic Work A Fine Copy of the First Edition 76 Patterson, Lieut.-Col. J.H. IN THE GRIP OF THE NYIKA: Further Adventures in British East Africa (London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1910) First edition, a very early issue, identical to the first issuance printed two months earlier. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs, eight maps in the text, and one full page map. 8vo, publisher’s original navy-blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, pictorial vignette of a native scene in gilt on the upper cover, t.e.g. xiv, 389, 2 ads. A fine and bright copy, internally unusually fresh and near pristine, the cloth with some minor mellowing along the back edges, but the spine uncommonly vivid with no fading and the gilt bright and sharp.

SCARCE IN FINE CONDITION. Somewhat of a companion volume to the author’s MAN-EATERS OF TSAVO, this book gives a plain account of “the trials and adventures which befell me on two recent expeditions through the ‘nyika,’ or wilderness, in British East Africa. “On the first trip there were three of us, and all returned safely to civilization, although dangers were not wholly absent. On the second and longer expedition there were also three Europeans, but, alas! only two got back, the ‘nyika’ having claimed the third; nor was the god of the wilds content with this sacrifice, for, in addition, he claimed several of my native followers.” Includes quite a bit on rhino and lion hunting, as well as other sporting adventures. $295.

A Scarce Piece of Early Africana Capt. Robert Percival - An Account of the Cape of Good Hope First Edition, First Issue - London - 1804 - Quarto 77 Percival, Capt. Robert. AN ACCOUNT OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE; Containing An Historical View of its Original Settlement by the Dutch, its Capture by the British in 1795, and the Different Policy Pursued There by the Dutch and British Governments. Also a Sketch of its Geography, Productions, the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, &c. &c. With A View of the Political and Commercial Advantages Which Might be Derived from its Possession by Great Britain. (London: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin, 1804) First edition, first issue, with the uncorrected state of the headline on page 247. 4to, handsomely bound in antique three-quarter calf over marbled boards to style, the spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, lettered in two compartments in gilt. xii, 339, ads. A very handsome and well preserved copy copy, the binding in very good order, the text clean but somewhat mellowed or lightly darkened by age as is typical with the paper used in the printing of the work.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION BY ONE OF THE EARLIEST TO ENTER THE CAPE UNDER THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF 1795. “Captain Robert Percival (1765-1826) was the first to enter Cape Town in 1795 and he remained there till 1797. Under General Craig, he led the attack on the fortifications of Muizenberg and was the first officer to reach Cape Town.

His narrative affords considerable information respecting the state of the colony at the close of the eighteenth century, it was warmly received at the time. His criticisms of the Dutch settlers, their laziness, inhospitality, and low civilisation, are severe. There is some account of the capture of the Cape and the Dutch fleet in 1795 and the country. Attention is drawn to the value of the Cape as a British possession, and the weakness of the Dutch government which took over the colony from the British in 1803. Mendelssohn II, p.152; S.A.B. III, p.652; DNB p.827; Cat. NHSM I, p.208. $1550.

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John Petherick - Egypt, The Soudan and Central Africa The Rare First Edition in Original Cloth - 1861 An Important Book on Exploring the Nile Sources 78 Petherick, John. EGYPT, THE SOUDAN AND CENTRAL AFRICA. With Explorations From Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator, Being Sketches from Sixteen Years’ Travel. (Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1861) First edition, and WITH THE SCARCE SUBSCRIPTION PAMPHLET appealing for funds for Petherick’s proposed expedition to explore the Nile sources and to aid the Speke and Grant Expedition already in progress, and to further explore the Nile beyond Gondokoro. With a large folding map of the author’s travels. 8vo, original publisher’s textured burgundy cloth, blindstamped decorative borders to both covers, the spine lettered in gilt. [4 page subscription pamphlet], xii, 482, 16 ads. A very desirable copy of this rare first edition, internally very clean, the binding bright and handsome with only light mellowing to the spine and gilt, a bit of expert strengthening to the tips.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF THIS EXTENSIVE WORK OF AFRICAN TRAVEL. Petherick was a well known Welsh traveler in East Central Africa where he had adopted the profession of mining engineer. This work describes sixteen years of his travel throughout Africa. In 1845 he entered the service of Mehemet Ali, and was employed in examining Upper Egypt, Nubia, the Red Sea coast and Kordofan in an unsuccessful search for coal. In 1848 he left the Egyptian service and established himself at El Obeid as a trader and was, at the same time made British Consul for the Sudan. In 1853 he removed to Khartoum and became an ivory trader. He traveled extensively in the Bahr-el-Ghazal region, then almost unknown, exploring the Jur, Yalo and other affluents of the Ghazal and in 1858 he penetrated the Niam-Niam country. Petherick’s additions to the knowledge of natural history were considerable, being responsible for the discovery of a number of new species. In 1859 he returned to England where he became acquainted with John Speke, then arranging for an expedition to discover the source of the Nile. While in England, Petherick married and published this account of his travels. He got the idea to join Speke in his travels, and in this volume is an actual subscription and list of subscribers to raise money to send Petherick to join Speke. His subsequent adventures as a consul in Africa were published in a later work. The first edition of this exciting volume is exceedingly rare, especially in such fine condition. Encyclopedia Britannica. $1150.

Travel and Adventure in Abyssinia Gerald Portal’s Account - First Edition in Cloth 79 Portal, Gerald H. MY MISSION TO ABYSSINIA (London: Edward Arnold, 1892) First edition. A COPY WITH FINE PROVENANCE, being the copy of Brigadier General Bertram P. Portal. With 9 splendid illustrations on full page plates and one folding map. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine and with central gilt pictorial motif of 7 spears and 2 shields on the upper cover. vi, 261, folding map, 2 pages of ads pp. A very handsome copy, the maroon cloth uncommonly fresh and bright and showing very little wear, hinges strong and tight, some of the normal spotting at the prelims.

RARE FIRST EDITION AND AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY. In October 1887 Portal was ordered to attempt a reconciliation between the king of Abyssinia and the Italian government.

To succeed in such a mission was almost impossible, but he made every effort, and showed rare judgement and coolness in travelling through a disturbed country. This is Portal’s personal narrative of his travels and adventures in Northern Africa accompanied by his companions Major Beech and Hutchinson. Traveling under the auspices of the English Mission, he recounts his experiences, many harrowing, while traveling to and from the camp of The King of Abyssinia.

He describes in interesting detail the country and its inhabitants including their appearance, manners, and customs.

“Few people appear to have any idea of the wild and striking beauty of this African Switzerland, and still fewer have much knowledge of the curious habits, customs, and traditions of this most interesting race.”-author.

The first owner of this copy, Brigadier General Bertram P. Portal, was educated at Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and Wellington College, Crowthorne, Berkshire. He gained the rank of officer in 1885 in the service of the 17th Lancers and held the office of Aide-de-Camp to the Governor of Madras between 1896 and 1898. He fought in the Boer War between 1899 and 1902, was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the South African Medal with three clasps and the King’s Medal with two clasps. He was decorated with the award of the Companion, Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.) in 1902, was Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevel Colonel of the 17th Lancers between 1903 and 1907. He fought in the First World War, and was mentioned in dispatches, served as Commander of the Reserve Cavalry Regiment between 1916 and 1918 and was Commander of the Cavalry Brigade between 1916 and 1918 at France $795.

W. Winwood Reade - Savage Africa - Rare First Edition London - 1863 - Illustrated with Engraved Plates 80 Reade, W. Winwood. SAVAGE AFRICA: BEING THE NARRATIVE OF A TOUR IN EQUATORIAL, SOUTHWESTERN, AND NORTHWESTERN AFRICA; with Notes on the Habits of the Gorilla; on the Existence of Unicorns and Tailed Men; on the Slave-Trade; on the Origins, Character, and Capabilities of the Negro, and on the Future Civilization of Western Africa. (London: Smith, Elder and

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Co., 1863) First edition. Illustrated with nine engraved plates, including an extremely early depiction of Gorillas and their nest. 8vo, in a contemporary binding of three quarter dark brown calf over marbled boards, the spine with gilt strapped raised bands ruled in blind and gilt pieces at the head and tail, one black morocco label gilt ruled and lettered, boards and page edges marbled. xv, 587 pp. A solid and well preserved copy of this quite rare and elusive first edition, the textblock clean, the binding handsome and sturdy with only light evidence of age or use, a little toning througout and a very small amount of occasional spotting, all that remains of the folding map is part of the bottom inside corner.

VERY RARE TRUE FIRST EDITION, though the 1864 American and London editions are not uncommon, this 1863 true first edition is extremely difficult to find, this is the ONLY copy we know of currently in the marketplace. AN IMPORTANT BOOK WITH AN EXTREMELY EARLY DESCRIPTION OF THE GORILLA AND ITS HABITS written just a few years after explorer Paul Du Chaillu described the first sighting of a living gorilla by a western explorer.

At the age of 25, using his private funds and with sponsorship from the Royal Geographical Society, Reade departed for Africa, arriving in Cape Town by paddle steamer in 1862. After several months of observing gorillas and travelling through Angola, Reade returned home and published this, his first travel account. Along with the descriptions of the gorillas the book is also notable for its anthropological inquiries, as well as for its exculpatory passages on the slave trade. The author’s own opinion of his work is perhaps somewhat less serious, as he writes, “if I have any merit, it is that of having been the first young man about town to make a bona fide tour in Western Africa; to travel in that agreeable and salubrious country with no special object, and at his own expense; to ‘flaner’ in the virgin forest; to flirt with pretty savages, and to smoke his cigar among cannibals.” $295.

Winwood Reade’s African Sketchbook The Scarce First Edition in Original Cloth - 1873 81 Reade, Winwood. THE AFRICAN SKETCH-BOOK (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1873) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with12 maps and 10 full-page woodcuts.

Large folding map at the end of Volume II. 8vo, original dark green cloth, gilt-lettered and pictorially decorated with vignettes on the spines, the upper covers centrally decorated with black letters and vignette in black and gilt, the borders with multiple rules in black.

Lower cover border decorated in blind. vii, 483; viii, 529, 2 ads. pp. A handsome set of this scarce double-decker in the original cloth. Just a bit of aging and mellowing but uncommonly well preserved just the same.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. Based on three years’ travel in Sierra Leone, Senegambia, Liberia, the Gold Coast, the Slave Coast and “the Negro Republic.“It is not only a narrative of travel I offer to the public”, says the author, “ but a sketch book of African life; and though the texture of the work is light, the labour bestowed upon it has been immense”. Copies of the first edition are especially elusive and very much so in this condition. $1450.

Teddy Roosevelt’s Most Famous Book First Edition - African Game Trails - 1910 A Clean and Handsome Copy 82 Roosevelt, Theodore. AFRICAN GAME TRAILS: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1910) First edition. With more than two hundred illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition and from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. Large, thick 8vo, original olive-green cloth, with pictorial all-over design of elephants in a forest of yellow, grey, and brown on the upper cover, lettered in black on the upper cover and in yellow on the spine. xvi, 529, including appendices and index. A very good copy of the title, the lettering on the spine is faded and the binding with some general mellowing, one hinge a bit tender, internally very clean and still quite fresh.

FIRST EDITION IN THE BEST DECORATED CLOTH BINDING, NOW SCARCE. A fascinating and well written account from one of America’s greatest sportsmen, as well as the 26th President of the United States. This work was the result of Roosevelt’s ten month hunting trip through Central and Northern Africa, begun after leaving the White House in March 1909 and relates the journey from Mombasa through the mountain regions of British East Africa, to Victoria Nyanza, through the Congo and Sudan to Khartoum and on to Cairo via the Nile. As well as being one of the great books on big game hunting, it is also of considerable interest for the natural scientist. $350.

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The Soul of Central Africa - 1922 The Mackie Ethnological Expedition in Original Cloth 83 Roscoe, Rev. John. THE SOUL OF CENTRAL AFRICA, A General Account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition. (London: Cassell and Co., Ltd., 1922) First edition. With 56 photos and a folding map. 8vo, original grey-green cloth with gilt and black pictorial decoration on upper cover, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover lettered in black. xv, 336, including index pp. A very nice and bright copy, internally very fresh and clean.

HANDSOME COPY OF THIS SCARCE AFRICANA. After spending 25 years as a missionary in Africa, Rev. Roscoe was asked to lead an ethnographic expedition back into the heart of the continent. Under the auspices of the Royal Society and financed by Sir Peter Mackie, Roscoe returned to Central Africa and wrote down the customs and lore of numerous tribes of the region, making a vivid record of their culture before their erosion due to Western settlement and influence. Greater awareness of native cultures enabled the European powers ruling Africa to more thoroughly understand the peoples under their control and help institute more effective governments. Included here is a comprehensive selection of photographs documenting tribal customs. An interesting and enlightening work. $245.

1814 - Henry Salt’s Voyage to Abyssinia - First Edition A Report on the State of the Country - With Fine Engravings Handsome in Rare Contemporary Binding - Maps and Charts 84 Salt, Henry. A VOYAGE TO A B Y S S I N I A A N D T R AV E L S INTO THE INTERIOR OF THAT COUNTRY, EXECUTED UNDER THE ORDER OF THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT, IN THE YEARS 1809 AND 1810; in which are included, An Account of the Portuguese Settlements on the East Coast of Africa, visited in the course of the voyage; A Concise Narrative of Late Events in Arabia Felix; and Some Particulars respecting the Aboriginal African Tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt; together with Vocabularies of their respective languages (London: F. C. and J. Rivington, 1814) First edition and with the errata leaf. 37 maps, charts, views, etc., including two vignettes and a very large, multi-folding hand-coloured map of Abyssinia. Large 4to, contemporary diced russia, gilt decorated with double fillet lines and roll tooled borders on the covers, raised bands with gilt decorations to the compartments of the spine, gilt edged boards and turnovers, marbled endleaves, all edges marbled. xii, 506, lxxv index pp. Rare in contemporary binding unrestored, the hinges are cracking and could be refurbished quite well, cords generally sound, a few unobtrusive ex libris markings quite small in nature at the prelims, plates and charts and maps in nice condition, the text crisp and clean and sound.

Salt was sent by the British government to Abyssinia to present gifts to the king, report on the state of the country, and cultivate relations with the tribes along the Red Sea coast. Gay 2683; Blackmer 1479; Ibrahim-Hilmy 208; Mendelssohn IV p. 122 $3950.

The First Journey Across Widest Africa First Edition - A Very Pleasing and Handsome Set Henry Savage-Landor’s Across Widest Africa - 1907 85 Savage-Landor, A. Henry. ACROSS WIDEST AFRICA: An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa as Seen During a Twelve Month’s Journey From Djibuti to Cape Verde (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1907) 2 volumes. First edition. With 160 illustrations from photographs and a large color folding map at rear. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth gilt lettered and ruled on the spines and covers. xv, 396, [4 ads]; xii, 511, [1 ad] pp. A very pleasing, well preserved and handsome set, the cloth clean and very solid, quite fresh but for the lightest evidence of shelving, internally solid and clean, the plates and folding map in excellent order.

SCARCE. This is the account of the first journey taken across Africa at its widest point with “pleasure as its sole object,” covering over 8,500 miles in a space of 364 days. Like much of Savage-Landor’s work, these two volumes have since become fixtures in any collection of Africana. They are

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replete with photographs and descriptions of the circumstances of Africa at the turn of the century. Savage-Landor is known not only for his writings of his African travels, but also his accounts of Tibet, China, South America, Europe, and numerous points in between. A desirable set of this Africana classic. $695.

Superb Photography - In Wildest Africa - 1907 First Edition in the Original Cloth 86 Schillings, C.G. IN WILDEST AFRICA (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1907) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with over threehundred photographic studies direct from the author’s negatives, taken by day and night; and other illustrations. 8vo, in the original brick-red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, the upper covers with portraits of elephants stamped in black and white. xiv, 317; viii, 716 A bright, clean and handsome copy. Interior pages are exceptionally clean and bright, the bindings with just a bit of age evidence, one hinge a bit tender SCARCE WORK BY AN EARLY ANIMAL PROTECTIONIST AND pioneer of nature conservation and animal photography as well as night photography. Schillings was one of the first sportsmen of repute “to stand up before a snobbish public and proclaim that the best sport for a man of cultivated mind is the snapshotting with the camera, rather than the pumping of lead into elephants, rhinoceroses, antelopes, zebras, and many other harmless, beautiful, or rare beasts and birds” (from the introduction). This is a fine and early text and survey of the fauna of the African continent. $225.

Rare First Edition Schon and Crowther Journals Up the Niger - 1842 A Rare Look at Africa from Two Different Perspectives 87 Schön, James Frederick and, Crowther, Samuel. JOURNALS OF THE REV. JAMES FREDERICK SCHÖN AND MR. SAMUEL CROWTHER, Who With The Sanction of Her Majesty’s Government, Accompanied the Expedition Up the Niger, in 1841, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society (London: Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly, 1842) First edition. Illustrated with a large folding map. 8vo, antique three-quarter calf over pebbled cloth, spine with raised bands, lettered in gilt. xxii, 393 pp. A bright, clean and very well preserved copy, the upper hinge cracked through, small loss of calf at the base of the spine.

RARE FIRST EDITION. “In the year 1841 an Expedition, consisting of three Steamers of the Royal Navy, was sent up the Niger by Her Majesty’s Government.”

An intriguing work of early African travel presented in the form of two journals. Samuel Crowther became the first African bishop in the Anglican Church. The ordeal of his captivity by Moslem slave-traders and liberation by the Royal Navy is narrated here in an appendix. Schön was a German missionary and linguist who was active in Sierra Leone. After his participation in the Niger expedition he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Oxford University. $650.

Slatin Pasha’s Great Account Mahdi’s Revolt in the Scarce Maroon Cloth - A Splendid Copy 88 Slatin Pasha, Rudolf C. FIRE AND SWORD IN THE SUDAN. A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes. 1879-1895. Translated by Major F. R. Wingate (London: Edward Arnold, 1896) “Second Edition”, but actually the second issue of the first edition, from the same sheets and identical but for the slug on the titlepage, same year as the first. With 22 illustrations and two folding maps. Large, thick 8vo, in the best publisher’s binding of maroon cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt pictorial decorations on the upper cover, t.e.g. This copy with the Baronial bookplate of Tredegar House, most likely from the time of Godfrey Morgan, 5th Baron and 1st Viscount of Tredegar. xix, 636pp. A beautifully preserved copy, quite uncommonly so, the cloth fresh and solid, the textblock firm and looking unread, only very minor age mellowing and minor bumping or rubbing to the tips and extremities.

RARE AND ONLY THE SECOND ISSUE, RETAINING THE SIZE, FORMAT, AND ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF THE FIRST EDITION. An exceptional copy in the best maroon cloth binding of a book normally found quite well used and rubbed.

The author was Governor and Commandant of the troops in Darfur at the time of the Mahdi’s revolt. The story of the experiences of Slatin Pasha as a ruler,soldier and a captive in the Sudan is one of the most striking of modern times. The return of this distinguished officer, after his disappearance of eleven years and more from what Father Ohrwaler calls “a living grave” and the perilous incidents of his escape and flight, form in themselves an extraordinary tale.” - From the original publisher’s catalogue entry, April 1896 “The authority for all time on the great Mohammedan upheaval in the Sudan which was accompanied by an amount of human slaughter and suffering that defies calculation.”- Contemporary review from The London Times. $695.

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Speke’s Discovery the Source of the Nile - 1863 A Seminal Work in Exploration Original Cloth - First Edition 89 Speke, Capt. John Hanning. JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE (London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863) First edition. Illustrated with 76 black and white plates, including a frontispiece of the author, and 2 maps, one folding. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original sienna cloth lettered and bordered in gilt on the spine, with a gilt vignette on the upper cover, all covers bordered in blind. xxxi, 658 (including appendix), [34 ads]. A handsome and pleasing copy, lightly aged and with far less evidence of use than is normally encountered, very clean and crisp internally. Cloth and hinges in good order, the maps very well preserved, fresh and as pristine, endleaves renewed and corner tips strengthened with new cloth.

THE SCARCE LANDMARK WORK OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION FROM THE FIRST EXPLORER TO DISCOVER ONE OF THE MAJOR SOURCES OF THE NILE. After an expedition into eastern Africa in the company of Sir Richard Burton, Speke returned to England to announce his hypothesis that the Nile issued from Lake Victoria Nyanza.

However, his fellow geographers, including Burton, were skeptical of this claim. Under the sponsorship of Sir Roderick Murchison, President of the Royal Geographical Society, Speke went back to Africa and Lake Victoria Nyanza, and when he returned home he claimed that this time he had found conclusive evidence that the lake was indeed the source of the great river.

This work is his published account of that expedition. It details his day-by-day adventures in his search for the source of the Nile, including myriad accounts of travel experiences such as his enjoyment of courtly life in the native palace in Uganda, expeditions of big game hunting, and, of course, the momentous ascent to the juncture of the lake and the river.

For discovering “conclusive proof” that the Nile issued from Lake Victoria Nyanza, he was awarded a gold medal from the Royal Geographic Society.

His claims, however, were still widely disputed. In 1864, Burton and James McQueen published jointly THE NILE BASIN which firmly disagreed with Speke’s conclusions. Speke and Burton planned a debate on the issue, but the day prior to the meeting Speke was killed in an untimely hunting accident. His work remains a landmark in Africana literature and an enjoyable reading adventure. $1650.

Through South Africa - Original Cloth - 1898 A Very Scarce First Edition by Sir Henry M. Stanley 90 Stanley, Henry. THROUGH SOUTH AFRICA (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898) First Edition, with an American title-page to the English sheets, still incorporating the English ads. With map and several illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original yellow cloth lettered in black on both covers and the spine, and with a pictorial illustration in black on the back cover. [4 ads], xx, 140, [3 ads], pp. A fine copy, probably unused, the textblock clean and fresh, the map never unfolded, the cloth very lightly aged, extremities in fine condition VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION. “This little volume consists of the letters I wrote from Bulawayo, Johannesburg and Pretoria for the journal South Africa, which is exclusively devoted to matters relating to the region whence it derives its title. Each letter contains the researchers of a week.

As the public had already a sufficiency of books dealing with the history, geography, politics, raids and revolts, I confided myself to such impressions as one, who since 1867 had been closely connected with equatorial northern and western Africa, might derive from a first view of the interior of South Africa” From the author’s preface. This is the first edition in book form of the Letters to “South Africa” Newspaper Revised with a New Introductory Chapter. $395.

Stanley’s Congo and the Founding of Its Free State First Edition - Original Cloth - Unusually Bright and Fine Replete with Engravings and Large Maps - 1885 91 Stanley, Henry M. THE CONGO AND THE FOUNDING OF ITS FREE STATE: A Story of Work and Exploration (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1885) 2 volumes. First edition, probably printed in England for Harpers at the same time as the Sampson, Low issue.

Pagination is identical and the setting appears to be as well. Profusely illustrated with over one hundred full-page plates and in-text drawings, multi-folding maps, as well as with very large maps folded into the binding pockets at the rear of the books. 8vo, publisher’s original light green cloth, lavishly decorated with all-over pictorial designs in gilt, red, black, green and other colours on the spines and upper covers. xxvii, 528; x, 483. Index, 12 ads. About as fine a copy as one could hope to see. An unusually nice set of this scarce book.

Very tight and clean copies, probably unused and as pristine, corners, covers, tips, all in excellent condition. Very rare thus.

THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF STANLEY’S IMPORTANT AND POPULAR WORK ON THE FOUNDING OF THE CONGO FREE STATE. This two-volume work of exploration, history, and socio-political-economy is the result of Stanley’s expedition up the Congo River in187984 and his attempts to re-open the interior for King Leopold of Belgium. From this journey came the establishment of the Congo State, the first free commericial state in Equatorial Africa.

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Henry Stanley was one of the most popular figures of the 19th Century. Adventurer, explorer and rescuer-- the public could not get enough of this romantic figure. In true Victorian style, this volume highlights his greatest achievements, his rescues of LIvingstone and Emin Pasha and his aid in establishing the Congo Free State.

Sets of this important work in original cloth have become exceeding difficult to obtain. First editions are now especially elusive. $1850.

Very Scarce and Elusive - Henry M. Stanley - 1874 First Edition - Coomassie and Magdala The British Campaigns in East and West Africa 92 Stanley, Henry M. COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874) First Edition.

Very Scarce. This copy with the bookplate of the Earl of Cromer, Evelyn Baring, longtime British Consul-General in Egypt with his engraved bookplate by Henry Badeley.

With numerous illustrations from drawings

by Melton Prior (special artist in Ashantee of the illustrated London news) and other artists, and two folding maps. 8vo, in a handsome binding of three-quarter crushed light-brown morocco over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands blind ruled, gilt lettered in two compartments and at the tail, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. xiv, 510 pp. A very handsome copy with provenance associated with the British in Africa, the binding in excellent state with just a touch of rubbing to the paper. Internally solid and very clean, a

touch of edge-wear to one of the folding maps and very minor signs of use.

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION, ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TO SECURE IN THE STANLEY OEUVRE. This copy is uncommonly well preserved in a handsome binding of excellent lineage.

COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA is the story of the great British campaigns in East and West Africa. “Coomassie was a town insulated by a deadly swamp. A thick jungly forest - so dense that the sun seldom pierced the foliage; so sickly that the strongest fell victims to the malaria it cherished surrounded it to a depth of 140 miles seaward, many hundred miles east, as many more west, and 100 miles north. Through this forest and swamp, unrelieved by a single novelty or a single pretty landscape, the British army had to march...” Henry Stanley, from his preface. $1350.

Very Scarce Stanley in the Original Publisher’s Cloth First Edition in One Separate Volume - Coomassie 93 Stanley, Henry M. COOMASSIE: The Story of The Campaign In Africa 1878-4, Being the First Part of the Original Volume entitled ‘Coomassie and Magdala’ (London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1896) First Edition in separate form. With numerous illustrations from drawings by Melton Prior (special artist in Ashantee of the illustrated London news) and other artists, and a map. Small 8vo, original maroon textured cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, with triple blind rules on the covers. vii, map, 212 pp. A very attractive copy, with only a touch of mellowing to the spine panel. Internally bright and clean, with occasional partial stamping to four of the page edges.

A VERY SCARCE TITLE A very scarce title in the Stanley oeuvre. Marvelous illustrations throughout with vivid scenes of native life, costume, landscape, and culture.

COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA is the story of the great British campaigns in East and West Africa. Here COOMASSIE is published for the first time in one volume of its own, a complete account of the British Campaign with some superb illustrations. Stanley wrote his description while a Special Correspondent of the New York Herald.

“Coomassie was a town insulated by a deadly swamp. A thick jungly forest - so dense that the sun seldom pierced the foliage; so sickly that the strongest fell victims to the malaria it cherished - surrounded it to a depth of 140 miles seaward, many hundred miles east, as many more west, and 100 miles north. Through this forest and swamp, unrelieved by a single novelty or a single pretty landscape, the British army had to march...” Henry Stanley, from his preface. $395.

How I Found Livingstone The Book That Secured Stanley’s Reputation 94 Stanley, Henry M. HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa, Including Four Months’ Residence With Dr. Livingstone (London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, n.d. (c 1913)) Centenary edition. 19 illustrations and a folding map at the rear. Thick 8vo, original red cloth with pastedown illustration on upper board. Lettered in gilt. lxxix, 552. A fine and

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very bright copy, virtually without fault.

VERY SCARCE. The Centenary edition was published on the 100th anniversary of Livingstone’s birth. HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTON was Stanley’s first book, and the book which secured his reputation. The quest to recover David Livingstone is one of the most famous travel adventures, and manhunts, in history. The oft quoted line “Dr. Livingstone I presume” is from this journey and that scene is recreated in the engraved plate on page 331 of this book. $395.

In Darkest Africa First Edition in Original Decorated Cloth Unusually Fine and Bright 95 Stanley, Henry M. IN DARKEST AFRICA, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890) 2 volumes. First edition. Portrait frontispieces, 36 full page illustrations, over 100 illustrations in text, 2 large color folding maps at front, 1 folding map in text, 1 diagram. 8vo, publisher’s original brick red cloth gilt-lettered and with elaborate pictorial decorations in gilt and black on the spines and upper covers. xv, 529; xv, 472, [2] ads pp. A bright and handsome set, very well preserved. The cloth, gilt and colours all in quite pleasing condition, the bindings showing only mild evidence of age or use, a tight and clean set with the plates and maps in good order and none of the foxing typical to the book.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE WRITINGS OF ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPLORERS OF THE DARK CONTINENT. “By 1885 Stanley had become deeply interested in the schemes of Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Mackinnon, chairman of the British India Steam Navigation Company, for establishing a British protectorate in East Equatorial Africa, and it was believed that this object could be furthered at the same time that relief was afforded to Emin Pasha, governor of the the Equatorial Province of Egypt, who had been isolated by the Mahdist rising of 1881-1885...Instead of choosing the direct route Stanley decided to go by way of the Congo, as thereby he would be able to render services to the infant Congo State, then encountering great difficulties with the Zanzibar Arabs established on the Upper Congo” (EB).

Stanley and Tippoo Tib, the chief of the Congo Arabs, entered into an agreement for the latter to assume governorship of the Stanley Falls station and supply carriers for the Emin relief expedition, and then travelled up the Congo to Bangala together. They parted ways at Stanley Falls and Stanley started his trip toward Albert Nyanza, leaving a rear-guard at Yambuya on the lower Aruwimi under the command of Major E.M. Barttelot.

Stanley’s journey to Albert Nyanza became a hazardous 160-day march through “nothing but miles and miles, endless miles of forest” that claimed the lives of over half of Stanley’s men from starvation, disease, and hostility of the natives. Finally upon the arrival at Albert Nyanza, Stanley achieved communication with Emin but was troubled by the non-arrival of his rear-guard. He retraced his steps back to Yambuya to find that Tippoo Tib had broken faith, Barttelot had been murdered, and the camp was in disarray and only one European was left. Stanley again set out for Albert Nyanza, where Stanley, Emin Pasha, and the survivors of the rear-guard began the return journey to Zanzibar by way of Uganda, a trip during which he discovered the Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori), traced the course of the Semliki River, discovered Albert Edward Nyanza and the great southwestern gulf of Victorian Nyanza. Of Stanley’s original 646 men, only 246 survived.

This account of his adventures was wildly popular and published in six languages. One of the greatest feats in African travel, Stanley traveled thousands of miles in his claims to the great stretches of continental African territory. $1095.

Henry M. Stanley’s Great Narrative In Darkest Africa - An Excellent Set in Original Cloth 96 Stanley, Henry M. IN DARKEST AFRICA, or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890) 2 volumes. First edition, the American issue. Illustrated with portrait frontispieces, 43 full page illustrations, a profusion of illustrations in the text, 3 large color folding maps in pockets, 1 folding map bound within the text block, 1 diagram. 8vo, publisher’s original green cloth lettered in gilt on the spines which also feature gilt busts of Stanley, with gilt and black decoration on the upper covers and Stanley’s signature in gilt. xiv, 547; xvi, 540 including index. An especially fine and bright set in excellent and unusually nice condition. Rare thus.

AN EXCELLENT SET. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION, AND ONE OF THE PRINCIPLE WRITINGS BY ONE OF THE GREATEST EXPLORERS OF THE DARK CONTINENT. The work is the original report to the Emin Pasha Relief Committee and the funding group for the expedition, one of the most important of all African exploratory adventures.

“By 1885 Stanley had become deeply interested in the schemes of Mr. (afterwards Sir) William Mackinnon, chairman of the British India Steam Navigation Company, for establishing a British protectorate in East Equatorial Africa, and it was believed that this object could be furthered at the same time that relief was afforded to Emin Pasha, governor of the Equatorial Province of Egypt, who had been isolated by the Mahdist rising of 1881-1885...Instead of choosing the direct route Stanley decided to go by way of the Congo, as thereby he would be able to render services to the infant Congo State, then encountering great difficulties with the Zanzibar Arabs established on the Upper Congo” (EB).

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Stanley and Tippoo Tib, the chief of the Congo Arabs, entered into an agreement for the latter to assume governorship of the Stanley Falls station and supply carriers for the Emin relief expedition, and then travelled up the Congo to Bangala together. They parted ways at Stanley Falls and Stanley started his trip toward Albert Nyanza, leaving a rear-guard at Yambuya on the lower Aruwimi under the command of Major E.M. Barttelot.

Stanley’s journey to Albert Nyanza became a hazardous 160-day march through “nothing but miles and miles, endless miles of forest” that claimed the lives of over half of Stanley’s men from starvation, disease, and hostility of the natives. Finally upon the arrival at Albert Nyanza, Stanley achieved communication with Emin but was troubled by the non-arrival of his rear-guard. He retraced his steps back to Yambuya to find that Tippoo Tib had broken faith, Barttelot had been murdered, and the camp was in disarray and only one European was left. Stanley again set out for Albert Nyanza, where Stanley, Emin Pasha, and the survivors of the rear-guard began the return journey to Zanzibar by way of Uganda, a trip during which he discovered the Mountains of the Moon (Ruwenzori), traced the course of the Semliki River, discovered Albert Edward Nyanza and the great southwestern gulf of Victorian Nyanza. Of Stanley’s original 646 men, only 246 survived.

This account of his adventures was wildly popular and published in six languages. One of the greatest feats in African travel, Stanley traveled thousands of miles in his claims to the great stretches of continental African territory. This particular edition is extremely scarce in such excellent condition. $950.

Henry M. Stanley’s Great Work In Absolutely Superb Condition - Bright and Clean Through The Dark Continent...the Sources of the Nile...

97 Stanley, Henry M. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT, or the Sources of the Nile Around the Great lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean (New York: Harper and Brothers, [1878]) 2 volumes. The American issue of the first edition, an early printing without the date on the title-page. Numerous illustrations and maps throughout, including 34 full page plates and two very large folding maps in rear pockets of each volume. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original forest green cloth pictorially decorated in an overall elaborate design incorporating vibrant colours and gilt, spines similarly decorated and blocked. xiv, 522; ix, 566 pp. An unusually fine and bright set, remarkably so, internally near pristine, the cloth bright and fresh with no fading whatsoever, the gilt bright as new, trivial splitting at the edges of the map folds only.

ONE OF THE GREAT BOOKS IN THE AFRICAN OEUVRE. THIS COPY IN THE PUBLISHER’S FINE DECORATED CLOTH BINDINGS IN ABSOLUTELY SUPERB CONDITION. After the death of Livingstone, Stanley resolved to return to Africa and finish his work, and also to resolve some of the problems introduced by Burton and Speke. Livingstone had considered it his mission to finish mapping and studying Central Africa, resolve some of the questions about the source of the Nile and to report on the doings of the slave traders, a practice that Livingstone spoke actively against. Criticized even at the time for what many considered his harsh treatment of the native peoples, Stanley did manage to finish what Livingstone had started and open up Central Africa to the west.

When Stanley made his first journey, he was one of a very few white people on the entire continent. Within the twenty years which elapsed after Stanley’s first journey, the continent was being viewed as a commercial, political, and strategic destiny by many of the countries in Europe. A very elusive title now, in the deluxe bindings. $1850.

Henry M. Stanley - Through the Dark Continent - 1890 Core Africana - In Very Handsome Gilt Decorated Full Calf 98 Stanley, Henry M. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT, or the Sources of the Nile Around the Great lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890) The New One Volume edition. Illustrated with 12 engraved full-page plates and with a profusion of woodblocks throughout as well as a folding map of equatorial Africa. Thick 8vo, in a very fine prize binding of full polished green calf, the covers gilt framed and the upper cover with a central gilt emblem, the spine with elaborate and handsome gilt-tooled panels within compartments between gilt stippled raised bands, additional gilt scallops at the tail, one compartment with a maroon morocco label gilt lettered, board edges and turn-ins nicely gilt decorated, endpapers and page edges marbled. xx, 658pp., map. A very handsome and well preserved copy in nicely executed full calf, the hinges tight and strong, the text-block clean with only a little spotting to the prelims and that quite light, the folding map in nice condition.

A VERY HANDSOME PRIZE COPY OF STANLEY’S GREAT WORK. After the death of Livingstone, Stanley resolved to return to Africa and finish his work, and also to resolve some of the problems introduced by Burton and Speke.Livingstone considered it his mission to finish mapping and studying Central Africa, resolve some of the questions about the source of the Nile and to report on the doings of the slave traders, a practice that Livingstone spoke actively against. Criticized even a t the time for what many considered his harsh treatment of the natives, he did manage to finish what Livingstone had started and open up Central Africa to the west. $295.

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Stanley and Africa - First Edition - ca. 1870’s With Striking Colour Illustrations Very Fine Victorian Decorated Publisher’s Binding 99 [Stanley, Henry M.; Speke; Burton; Grant et al]. STANLEY AND AFRICA: Also the Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries of Captain John H. Speke, Captain Richard F. Burton, Captain James W. Grant, Sir Samuel and Lady Baker, and other Distinguished Explorers.

(London: Walter Scott, [ND, c. 1870’s]) First edition. Illustrated with twelve vivid colour plates including a frontispiece and decorated half-title. 4to, publisher’s original red textured cloth with fine pictorial decorations in black and gilt on the upper cover and spine in allover designs, the lower cover stamped in blind. vii, 662, 2 ads. An especially fine, bright and handsome copy, unusual thus, clean within and without, the spine with only very slight mellowing.

FIRST EDITION AND RARE IN THIS CONDITION. This is a very fine general survey of African exploration during the Victorian era, incorporating chapters on Stanley, Speke, Burton and many of the other most important explorers of the period. Much like the astronauts of the Apollo era, these explores in Africa were great heroes of their age and their toils and adventures thrilled readers around the world who were always eager to learn more.

An excellent example of a decorated Victorian cloth binding in fine condition. The colour plates are particularly vivid and striking. $495.

The Autobiography of Henry M. Stanley First Edition - Original Cloth - A Bright Handsome Copy 100 Stanley, Henry; Dorothy Stanley, editor. THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY MORTON STANLEY, G.C.B (Toronto and London: The Musson Book Company Limited [and] Sampson Low, Marston and Co., LTD., 1909) First edition, the Canadian issue from the same sheets as the English issue, printed in Great Britain and with title-pages noting the Musson Company. Bindings identical to the English First Edition. Portrait frontispiece, 16 illustrations from photogravure, and a color folding map at rear. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt on the spine and upper cover, t.e.g. xvii, 551, 1 page of ads. A fine copy, the text block clean and sound, the cloth is very bright and has no fading, only a small bit of mellowing to the tips and corners, the map neatly repaired at the center fold line.

VERY SCARCE IMPRINT OF THIS IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. STANLEY’S CLASSIC AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The first nine chapters are from Stanley’s own pen, though he died before the autobiography was finished. His wife, Dorothy Stanley, finished the book from his journals and notebooks, and some personal letters he sent to her. “I should like to write out a rough draft, as it were, of my life. The polishing could take care of itself, or you could do it, when the time comes. Were I suddenly to be called away, how little, after all, the world would know of me!...But, granted that I know little of my real self, still, I am the best evidence for myself.” - from a letter to his wife. $695.

Rare First Edition of a Great Work on Southern Africa - 1835 Steedman’s Wanderings and Adventures in the Interior A Superior Copy - Pristine and Partially Unopened 101 Steedman, Andrew. WANDERINGS AND ADVENTURES IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA. (London: Longman & Co., 1835) 2 volumes. First edition. Illustrated with early lithographic and wood engravings, being a frontispiece to each volume, engraved vignette titlepage to each volume and ten plates. Also with a fine large folding map. 8vo, in the very rare original publisher’s ribbed dark olive cloth, the spines gilt lettered within an ornate gilt frame. x, 330; v, 358 pp. A very fine and bright set, extraordinarily so and appearing completely pristine and probably mint, most of Volume II remains unopened, the text very bright and fresh, some of the inevitable foxing due to the stock used which is always the case, the cloth still extremely fresh and attractive, the colour rich with no fading, virtually no wear whatsoever, hinges fine, in all a most unusual and superior set.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF A TRULY IMPORTANT BOOK, SELDOM SEEN AT ALL, VERY RARE IN ORIGINAL CLOTH AND IN THIS CONDITION UNHEARD OF. The account of the author’s travels during his ten years of residence in the Cape. “During his expeditions, Mr. Steedman traversed a great part of the Cape Colony and Kaffaria, penetrating the county up to Griqualand West. He was an industrious and able collector and naturalist, and the volumes contain much valuable information respecting the fauna of the country...The work gives many details respecting early travels in South Africa, with sketches of native races, and their history and wars, the pioneer colonists of Natal &c. “ Andrew Steedman came to the Cape Colony from England as an independent 1820 Settler, arriving on the last of the settler ships, the Duke of Marlborough. He subsequently settled in Cape Town and ran a general fitting-out warehouse. The business must have been successful, for it enabled

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him to undertake three major journeys into the interior in search of natural history specimens.

Steedman’s first journey took him to Port Elizabeth by sea and from there to Grahamstown, where he obtained permission from the military to travel beyond the Keiskamma River (into the Ciskei). Travelling on horseback he visited Fort Wiltshire (some 20 km south of present Alice), visited various local chiefs down to Wesleyville (some 30 km south of present King William’s Town), and returned to Port Elizabeth by more or less the same route.

On 18 February 1829 Steedman married Kate P. Rose in Cape Town and remained there for over a year before he set out on his second journey in September 1830. By ox-waggon he travelled to the Great Karoo via the Hex River Valley, on to Beaufort West and Graaff Reinet, and from there via the Kompasberg to Colesberg. After nearly drowning in an attempt to cross the swollen Orange River he returned to Colesberg where he attended the laying of the foundation stone of the Dutch Reformed Church. From Colesberg he proceeded to Cradock and via Glen Lynden (on the Baviaans River east of Somerset East) to Grahamstown. After spending some time there he once again visited the Ciskei, reaching Tyume mission station and re-visiting Fort Wiltshire, where he obtained much information about the local people and their customs from assistant staff-surgeon Nathaniel Morgan. From Grahamstown he returned to Cape Town overland by the established route.

Steedman set out on his third journey in September of 1831 with the intention of reaching Lattakoo (now Dithakong, some 60km north-east of Kuruman), chief town of the Tlhaping, the southernmost Tswana. He sent his ox-waggon on its way and first accompanied a friend to Beaufort West on horseback. From there he travelled to the mission station at Griquatown. Illness prevented him from continuing on to Lattakoo and after recovering he returned to Cape Town in November 1831.

During his travels Steedman collected over 300 animals, including some that had not yet been described, as well as ethnographic specimens. In 1833 he returned to England and arranged an exhibition of his animals in the Colosseum, Regent’s Park, London. Mendelssohn 432; Biographical database of South Africa. $1850.

Animal Life in Africa - First Edition in Original Cloth Early Descriptions of African Wildlife - 1912 A Fine Copy with Intro by Theodore Roosevelt 102 Stevenson-Hamilton, Major J. ANIMAL LIFE IN AFRICA, with a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt (London: William Heinemann, 1912) First edition. 99 black and white illustrations on full-page plates and 6 maps, some folding. 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, lettered in silver on the spine and lettered and pictorially decorated in silver on the upper cover. xvii, 539 including appendix and index.

A very fine and bright copy with just a few blemishes to the cloth, extremely bright with no fading or wear, internally fresh and clean.

SCARCE IN SUCH NICE CONDITION. Written by the warden of Kruger National Park in southeast Africa, this work is grounded in years of observation and experience in the field and covers the descriptions and habits of a variety of different creatures including big game animals, primates, birds, and reptiles. He also includes a few notes on game conservation and hunting tips. The appendix contains a section on the problems caused by the tsetse fly, the carrier of the dreaded sleeping sickness, and the game laws of British possessions in Africa. Features a foreword by Theodore Roosevelt and is profusely illustrated. $395.

Joseph Thomson’s Through Masai Land - 1885 The True First Printing - Rarely Seen - A Handsome Copy Published London - Handsomely Decorated Original Cloth 103 Thomson, Joseph. THROUGH MASAI LAND: A Journey of Exploration Among the Snow-clad Volcanic Mountains and Strange Tribes of eastern Equatorial Africa.

Being the Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society’s Expedition to Mount Kenia and Lake Victoria Nyanza, 1883-1884. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885) The True First Edition, Rarely Seen. With over 60 wood engravings on full-page plates and throughout the text, and two large folding maps printed in colours with one map showing the Masai Country and the course of the expedition from Mombasa, to Mt. Kenia and on to the Victoria Nyanza and the other the geology of the country between Mombasa and the Victoria Nyanza. Thick 8vo, publisher’s handsome original dark green/gray cloth, lettered in gilt and banded in black on the spine and lettered and pictorially stamped and decorated in black and gilt on the upper cover. xii, 583 pp. This is a copy of the rare first printing of the first edition, and as usual with all of the earliest printings, the book shows evidence of age. The cloth has survived well and is strong. The gilt remains quite bright and the decorations are in good order. The heavy text-block has had much less effect on the binding as is typical. At some point, the inside of the spine panel was reinforced adding to the strength of the book. The work has been done very sympathetically and very skillfully so as to be non-obtrusive and barely noticeable.

The original endleaves are preserved and in fine order. The text-block is clean and well preserved and the maps are in quite good order. A very pleasing copy withal and of collector’s quality.

RARE FIRST EDITION. VERY SCARCE AND IMPORTANT AFRICANA. COPIES OF THE FIRST EDITION ARE VERY ELUSIVE AND HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER. Utilizing his persuasive ways and prowess as an explorer to good advantage, Thomson braved the fierce Masai and traveled through previously untrodden territory in present-day Kenya. The results of this expedition were so significant that he was awarded the founder’s

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Medal of the R.G.S. ‘Joseph Thomson (1858-1895; Thomson’s Gazelle) was one of the most colourful and prudent of 19th century African explorers. Born at Penpont (Dumfries and Galloway), Thomson studied at the University of Edinburgh. He joined the Royal Geographical Society expedition to Lake Nyasa (Malawi) in 1878 and because of his keen intellect and surveying ability he was placed second in command on his very first exploration. The leader, Keith Johnson, succumbed to malaria very early in the expedition and Thomson was placed in charge. Keenly aware of his own inexperience and inadequacy in leading the expedition, he asked himself, “should we simply turn back?” - “No! “I feel I must go forward, whatever might be my destiny.” At the tender age of 20 then, he “inherited” an expedition that traversed from the East Coast of Africa all the way to Tanganyika, exploring routes through Kenya and present day Tanzania (1879-84) and first spotted Thomson’s Gazelle, which is named after him. He ended up succeeding on the charge for the journey and thereafter made many more explorations on behalf of the Royal Geographic Society exploring Nigeria (1885) and Morocco (1888). He prided himself on accomplishing notable extended journeys with no bloodshed. Informal in command and full of good cheer, Thomson was a prudent traveler known for long remembered quotations. His personal motto was: “He who goes slowly, goes safely; he who goes safely, goes far.”’ But it was because of the diseases which he contracted on his travels that he died at only 37 years of age, having already proven himself to be one of the most important of all early explorers of the great African continent. This important work of Africana is rarely found in original format and state. $2850.

A Rare First Edition Work with Fine Provenance Joseph Thomson African Explorer - 1896 104 Thomson, Rev. J. B. JOSEPH THOMSON AFRICAN EXPLORER A Biography by His Brother With Contributions by Friends (London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company Limited, 1896) First edition. The Humphrey Winterton copy, a copy with fine provenance.

With six maps in colour, five of which are folding and with 21 illustrations, both on plates and within the text, from various sources. 8vo, publisher’s original ribbed red cloth, the upper cover with gilt vignette of Africa, the spine gilt lettered and ruled. x, [6], 358pp., including bibliography and index. A handsome, bright and clean copy, the red cloth fine and fresh, the text bright and solid, hinges tight and strong.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE WORK, VERY ELUSIVE IN SUCH NICE CONDITION, THIS COPY AS FINE AS ONE COULD HOPE TO SEE. The biography of the Scottish geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa. Thomson’s Gazelle and Thomson’s Falls, Nyahururu are named for him. He is especially well know for avoiding confrontations with indigenous peoples, neither killing any native nor losing any of his men to violence. Cecil Rhodes employed Thomson to explore north of the Zambezi, conclude treaties and gain mining concessions from tribal chiefs on behalf of his British South Africa Company, which had been chartered by the British Government to claim the territory known as Zambezia as far north as the African Great Lakes.

Thomson’s years in the wilds of Africa took their toll on him however, his health deteriorated because of infectious parasites obtained from the water and he died at the age of 37. $325.

The Ban of the Bori - Scarce First Edition Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North Africa 105 Tremearne, Major A. J. N. THE BAN OF THE BORI, Demons and Demon-Dancing in West and North Africa. (London: Heath, Cranton & Ouseley, 1914) First edition. Coloured frontispiece, 60 photographs and 47 figures in text. 8vo, publisher’s original polished tan cloth lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt and black on the spine and upper cover. 497, 6 ads pp. A bright and handsome copy with clean photographs throughout.

FIRST EDITION AND SCARCE.Anthropologist Tremearne spent much of his career studying the people of Africa. Here he discusses the magical spirit world of the Hausa people and the religious customs around demons and the resultant demon dancing. A fine copy of a scarce book. $395.

Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa Tucker’s 1908 Missionary History, First Edition Set 106 Tucker, A.R. EIGHTEEN YEARS IN UGANDA & EAST AFRICA. (London: Edward Arnold, 1908) 2 volumes. First edition.

Illustrated with 60 plates from the author’s own sketches and drawings, some i colour, one folding colour map. 8vo, original dark blue cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on the spines, upper covers lettered in gilt with a gilt vignette. Publisher’s paper file copy label also on upper covers. xvi, 359, 16 ads; xii, 388 (including index). A handsome set, rarely seen in such nice shape, the cloth with only minimal rubbing at the edges or extremities, internally fresh and clean with minor spotting to the prelims only.

This work begins with a brief history of the missionary foundations laid prior to Tucker ‘s arrival and then encompasses the eighteen years that Tucker spent there (1874-1892), much of it as Bishop of Uganda. “Although this work touches, not infrequently, upon events having to do with the political, material and spiritual history, advancement, and development of Uganda and East Africa, it does not profess to be a complete record of them.

It is simply a story of Episcopal Missionary life and work in Equatorial Africa” [preface]. Complete with the hand-drawn and -painted sketches of the native people and environments that Turner is especially well-known for including in many of his writings, this detailed portrayal of missionary life

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and work in the Uganda area at the turn of the century remains a classic travel narrative. $595.

Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa Tucker’s Missionary History in Single Volume Format 107 Tucker, A.R. EIGHTEEN YEARS IN UGANDA & EAST AFRICA. (London: Edward Arnold, 1911) First One Volume Edition, the first New Edition. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and 31 plates from the author’s own sketches and drawings, and a folding colour map. 8vo, publisher’s original wine red cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt on the spine, upper cover with a central tool in blind. xvi, 350, appendix pp. A fine copy, rarely seen in this condition, the cloth with only trivial evidence of age, internally very bright and clean and well preserved, endleaves with a touch of the typical offsetting.

A MOST ATTRACTIVE COPY OF THIS FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION. This work begins with a brief history of the missionary foundations laid prior to Tucker ‘s arrival and then encompasses the eighteen years that Tucker spent there (1874-1892), much of it as Bishop of Uganda. “Although this work touches, not infrequently, upon events having to do with the political, material and spiritual history, advancement, and development of Uganda and East Africa, it does not profess to be a complete record of them. It is simply a story of Episcopal Missionary life and work in Equatorial Africa” [preface]. Complete with the hand-drawn and -painted sketches of the native people and environments that Turner is especially well-known for including in many of his writings, this detailed portrayal of missionary life and work in the Uganda area at the turn of the century remains a classic travel narrative. $110.

A Great Work of African Discovery - 1818 - With Engravings Captain J.K. Tuckey - Expedition to Explore the River Zaire 108 Tuckey, Captain J.K. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE RIVER ZAIRE, Usually called the Congo, in 1816, under direction of Captain J.K. Tuckey, R.N. to which is added the Journal of Professor Smith; Some general observations on the Country and its inhabitants; And an appendix: containing the natural history of that part of the Kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. (London: John Murray, 1818) First edition. Illustrated with the large folding map and 13 engraved plates, of which one is coloured by hand. Large 4to, later antique wine coloured cloth, gilt lettering to the spine, t.e.g. 4ff., lxxxii, 498 pp. A large copy, quite clean and well preserved, crisp and unpressed, the colour plate in good order, some typical mellowing or spotting associated usually with the plates, upper cover detached and easily refurbished on request.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. An attempt to explore the Congo River and to find a link with the Niger and investigate the possibilities for trade on these arteries. Smith from Kew Gardens and other botanists were along to collect plant seeds. Tuckey died on the support ship.

“Tuckey was one of the most observant of travelers. He had served in the Eastern Seas, and made a voyage to Brazil and Port Philip in 1803. Captured on his return voyage, he like Flinders, was detained as a prisoner by the French for several years. He subsequently compiled a valuable work on ‘Maritime Geography’ before setting on the government expedition to explore the Congo, then by many conjectured to be the outlet of the Niger.

The results of this expedition were most disastrous, Captain Tuckey and many others dying within three months after entering the river”.

“An introductory view of African discovery preceeds the narrative of Tuckey and Smith and a series of appendices follow: these include (1) a vocabulary of the Malemba and Embonma languages by Cat. Tuckey. (2) Observations on the Genus Ocythioe of Rafinesque by Dr. Leach. (3) On Sepia and Vermes Testacea with plates.

(4) Observations on Prof. Smith’s collection of plants by Robert Brown, etc.” France Edwards 1902 African Catalogue; Brunet V, 973; DNB. $1850.

A Pristine Copy - Very Rare Africana Von Blomber - Allerlei Aus Sud-Afrika - 1899 109 Von Blomber, P.D. ALLERLEI AUS SUD-AFRIKA (Gutersloh: Druck und Verlad von C. Bertelsmann, 1899) Rare First edition. 8vo, publisher’s original brown polished cloth, elaborately decorated in black and lettered in gilt on the upper cover, the spine lettered in gilt.

184 pp. A pristine copy in exemplary condition, extremely fine indeed.

VERY RARE FIRST EDITION, known only to the bibliographer Medelssohn through the British Museum copy. $1250.

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Rare Africana - Original Cloth and Well Illustrated Von Wissman - Equatorial Africa - 1891 110 Von Wissmann, Hermann. MY SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH EQUATORIAL AFRICA FROM THE CONGO TO THE ZAMBESI, In the Years 1886 and 1887. Translated from the German by Minna J.A. Bergmann (London: Chatto & Windus, 1891) First edition in English With a folding map by F.S.Weller and 89 Illustrations after drawings by R. Hellgrewe and Klein-Chevalier including 32 full page plates.

Thick 8vo, original mustard cloth with pictorial vignettes in black on the spine and upper cover, the spine is also lettered in gilt. xiv, 326.

A clean and handsome copy, sturdy and well preserved with minor age toning to the cloth, primarily at the spine.

RARE AND ESPECIALLY SO IN COLLECTOR’S CONDITION. In the employ of the German government, Von Wissman was sent to investigate and report on the slave-trade in Africa. What followed became one of the most important works by a German on exploration, travel and ethnographic study of Equatorial Africa. “The present publication of my diaries is partly owing to the fact that the terrors incidental to the slave-hunt and the transport of the unfortunate human chattels are illustrated in the following pages and I can only hope that I may be enabled to excite the reader’s interest in, and sympathy for, those nations which still groan under the yoke of barbarism, and which certainly have a right to our help and protection.,” $1250.

Stanley’s Emin Pasha Expedition - 1890 - Very Fine Copy First Edition In Original Decorated Publisher’s Cloth 111 Wauters, A. J. STANLEY’S EMIN PASHA EXPEDITION (London: John C. Nimmo, 1890) First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Stanley, 32 illustrations on plates and a folding map. 8vo, publisher’s deluxe binding of light brown textured cloth with an elaborate gilt vignette on the upper cover and gilt lettering on the spine. 207, (2, index) pp. An unusually fine, handsome, clean and very bright copy. Rare thus.

RARE FIRST EDITION IN ESPECIALLY FINE CONDITION. “Who should be found competent to conduct a caravan made up of numerous and promiscous followers, equally ready to quarrel with nature and with their fellows, yet indispensable for the conveyance along that weary route of the double cargo of victuals, ammunition and supplies?”

“The answer was forthcoming. Then it was that for the fifth time Central Africa was to behold the hero, at once the discoverer and deliverer of Livingstone. Stanley was ready for the task....It is the history of this ever memorable expedition and of the dramatic events that led up to it, together with the important geographical discoveries resulting from it, that forms the subject of the ensuing pages.” $550.

The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway With the Rare Fifth Volume Included “A Monumental Record of African Pioneering” Abundant With Illustrations From Many Sources Including Tipped in Sepia Photograph Portraits 112 Weinthal, Leo (Compiler). THE STORY OF THE CAPE TO CAIRO RAILWAY AND RIVER ROUTE, FROM 1887 TO 1922. (London: The Pioneer Publishing Company, [1923-1926]) 5 volumes in total, 4 being text volumes and the fifth being a portfolio of large folding maps and the index. Scarce First Edition. This set with the rare fourth volume of text as well as the maps and index volume. Magnificently and extensively illustrated including numerous mounted photograph portraits, illustrations from photographs, drawings and engravings, colour plates, panoramas, some folding, reproductions of letters and documents, maps throughout, some folding and 12 very large folding colour maps in pocket of the fifth volume. 4to, in the publisher’s best binding of three quarter brown morocco over green cloth covered boards, the spine gilt ruled and decorated featuring an gilt tool of Africa with the route shown in blind, gilt frameworks in the other compartments and with gilt lettering and volume numbers. xxxvi, 727; xx, 510; xvi, 454; xii, 456, 12; maps, 49 index. A fine and handsome set, internally fresh and clean and appearing largely as new, the bindings handsome with only very minor and expected wear to the tips and edges, hinges on the first two volumes weak as is normal due to the massive text-blocks. From the library of Tanganyika Holdings Limited, London.

FIRST EDITION AND THE RARE COMPLETE SET OF FIVE VOLUMES. A SCARCE AND EXTRAORDINARY MONUMENT TO BRITISH COLONIAL AFRICA. This exhaustive work on one of the most difficult engineering projects of its age is, as stated by J.C. Smuts in the foreword, a “monumental record of African Pioneering”. There are over 2000 pages of text and the illustrations are exceptional in every regard. There are numerous portraits being actual tipped in sepia photographs, colour plates and breathtaking maps. Though the work centers on the railway and river route, it also encompasses virtually every aspect of British exploration, pioneering and development in Africa.

Weinthal has compiled this great work from a list of sources and contributors that would all by themselves constitute a great Africana library. To name just a small percentage of them we find; Winston Churchill, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Johnston, Flinders

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Petrie, Frederick Selous, J.C. Smuts and Francis Younghusband. While the focus stays largely on the route and development of the rail line there is no shortage of information on the native peoples, the game and wildlife, the gold and diamond mining operations, the geography, the cartography and much, much more.

This set is complete with all of the portraits, plates, maps, etc. The list of illustrations in volume 3 references a plate of the mountain gorilla, this plate is always missing, as here and as is correct. We surmise the compilers were unable at the last minute to obtain the rights to reproduce the image from its original source material. $4250.

Uncommon Africana - Original Cloth and Well Illustrated ‘Twixt Sirdar and Menelik - A Soldier’s Last Journey 113 Wellby, Captain M.S. ‘TWIXT SIRDAR AND MENELIK: An Account of a Year’s Expedition From Zeila to Cairo Through Unknown Abyssinia (London: Harper Brothers, 1901) First edition. With numerous black and white drawings, some on plates, including 2 maps. 8vo, publisher’s original brown cloth lettered in gilt, upper board bearing a pictorial decoration of a native in color. xxv, 409pp., 3 ads. pp. An unusually nice, bright and clean copy, unusually well preserved, handsome and sturdy. Rarely encountered in such well preserved condition.

FIRST EDITION AFRICANA RARELY ENCOUNTERED IN SUCH WELL PRESERVED CONDITION. A SCARCE ACCOUNT OF TRAVEL THROUGH UNKNOWN REGIONS OF ABYSSINIA. Captain Wellby was an officer who spent several years serving in British campaigns in Africa prior to the publication of this text. He became well-liked by the Europeans and natives alike, and thus was able to travel relatively unmolested to Egypt by way of the wilds of Abyssinia.

His travel was further facilitated by the efforts of the European-friendly Abyssinian emperor Menelik II, who had taken the British part on a number of occasions in campaigns against hostile natives in the past. On August 5, 1900 Wellby was cornered by enemy troops in South Africa, and rather than surrender, “chose the nobler part,” drew his sword, and was shot and killed, dying with honor. This text is the story of his Abyssinian journey completed just prior to his death. He recounts in detail his daily adventures, writing interesting vignettes on the characteristics of the native soldiers, the ceremonies of Emperor Menelik and the powerful Queen Taitu, the race for water in the midst of a drought, etc. This detailed and well-illustrated work stands proudly as the last testament of a courageous and respected soldier. $695.

Ferdinand Werne - African Wanderings and the Sudan Rare and Important Early Africana - First Edition - 1852 114 Werne, Ferdinand. AFRICAN WANDERINGS; Or Expedition from Sennaar to Taka, Basa, and Beni-Amer, With a Particular Glance at the Races of Bellad Sudan (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852) First edition in English, translated from the German.

Black and white frontispiece map of the region. 8vo, handsomely bound in later half dark navy calf over blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated with gilt bands. xi, 267, [2] ads, pp. A fine and fresh copy with only a touch of mellowing.

RARE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION. “In various respects, Mr. Werne’s ‘Feldzug’ is one of the most curious books of travel and adventure that, for a very long time, has appeared. It has three points of particular attraction and originality. In the first place, the author wanders in a region previously unexplored by Christian and educated travelers, and amongst tribes whose bare names have reached the ears of but a few Europeans. Secondly, he campaigns as officer in such an army as we can hardly realise in these days of high civilisation and strict military discipline, -- so wild, motley, and grotesque are its customs, composition, and equipment, --an army whose savage warriors, strange practices, and barbarous cruelties, make us fancy ourselves in presence of some fierce Moslem horde of the middle ages marching to the assault of Italy or Hungary. Thirdly, during his long sojourn in the camp, he had opportunities such as a few ordinary travelers enjoy, and of which he diligently profited, to study and note down the characteristics and social habits of many of the races of men that make up the heterogeneous population of the Ottoman Empire.” The Translator $325.

Photographic Portraits of the Wild Animals Prince William of Sweden’s Travels in Africa 115 William, Prince of Sweden. WILD AFRICAN ANIMALS I HAVE KNOWN (London: John Lane the Bodley Head Limited, 1923) First edition. Illustrated with numerous fine photographic plates. 4to, in the publisher’s original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on the upper cover and spine. xiv, 309 pp. A very nice copy, very well preserved, the blue cloth fresh with just a little edge rubbing, gilt very bright, internally quite clean with just a little mellowing or spotting to the prelims.

FIRST EDITION AND A lovely large quarto volume that features a profusion of photos of animals in their natural habitats, with a brief (usually one page) description of each. The Prince, cognizant of the rapid development that was overtaking much of wild Africa, sought to preserve a visual record of the wild game of that continent. All of the photos are “in situ,” with the exception of the photographs of the mountain gorilla, which at that time had never been photographed in its natural surroundings. $195.

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Addendum of Recently Acquired Books: An Autobiography by One of the Great African Explorers Sir Harry H. Johnston - The Story of My Life - 1923 First Edition in Superb Condition 1A [Africa]; Johnston, Sir Harry H. THE STORY OF MY LIFE (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill, 1923) First Edition. Illustrated with photographs and paintings throughout. Royal 8vo, publisher’s original maroon polished buckram, the upper cover with facsimile autograph in gilt, the spine gilt lettered and gilt ruled, in the very scarce dustjacket. [4], 504 pp. An especially fine copy, beautifully preserved, the binding and text-block in excellent condition, the dustjacket very fine with a bit of age evidence.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS FINE AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WORK. Harry Johnston spent his life exploring Africa and wrote some of the greatest accounts of all time, including books on Liberia, Uganda and the missionary George Grenfell in the Congo. Two years residence in the Central African region produced his superb description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, language, and history of the eastern portion of British Central Africa, primarily the territories bordering on Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa.

Johnston began his travels in Africa at the age of 21 with his 1879-1880 journey to the interior of Tunisia as a student of painting, architecture, and languages. This trip sparked the passion for travel and exploration in the wilds of the African continent that he would spend the next several decades fulfilling.

His journeys and his leadership potential were first brought to the attention of the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association in 1883 when he met H.M. Stanley and traveled with him to the remote river above the Stanley Pool in the Congo, a virgin territory little known to other Europeans at that time. From there his travels and responsibilities expanded rapidly; he was commissioned to lead a scientific expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro beginning in Zanzibar in 1884, the success of which led to his appointment as British vice-consul and eventually acting consul in Cameroon and the Niger Delta.

He held a number of government positions through the next 20 years, perhaps best known for his “Cape-to-Cairo” scheme, a phrase coined in the London Times in August of 1888. The plan entailed having British influence in an unbroken line from Alexandria to Cape Town, but was foiled in July of 1890 when the British were forced to give up their sphere of influence north of Lake Tanganyika to the Germans. His later days were spent organizing British administration in Uganda and Liberia as well as writing about his life experiences in Africa. He had extensive experience with negotiations in the Liberian republic, a state of 43,000 square miles created in the Western forests of the African continent, and his culminating efforts to organize its administration, finances, and methods of interior development. Sir Harry wrote important early accounts of the Congo Independent State, and always gave an in-depth look at the people and the natural environs and provides an excellent anthropological account of the region of the world with abundant photographs, drawings, and maps. $275.

A Cornerstone African Travel Narrative - First Edition C. J. Andersson - Lake Ngami...Explorations and Discoveries An Unusually Well Preserved Copy in Original State 2A Andersson, Charles John. LAKE NGAMI; or, Explorations and Discoveries, During Four Years’ Wanderings in the Wilds of South Western Africa (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1856) First American Edition, same year as the English edition. With a profusion of illustrations throughout, both in the text and as full-page plates. royal 8vo, publisher’s orginal brown cloth, pictorially illustrated in gilt on upper and lower covers, with blind-tooled borders and center panels. Gilt lettered spine. xviii, 521, (2 ads) pp. A very handsome, unusually well preserved copy in the original and scarce cloth, internally clean.

FIRST EDITION, AMERICAN ISSUE, same year as the English. Not in Abbey. “Few, if any, books give so full and complete an account of Namaqualand, Damaraland, and the Ovampo country, and the description of these countries is absolutely unequaled” (Mendelssohn). Wood draws particular attention to the section on the natural history of the ostrich (pp. 253-69). There is much about hunting, but the work is not in Schwerdt.

Two expeditions are described, one in company with Francis Galton to Nangoro’s Werft in the Ovampo country, the other by himself to Lake Ngami.

Their courage and endurance was phenomenal. Mendelssohn I, p. 41; Wood, p. 192 (both second editions). $495.

Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa - A Cornerstone William Burchell - 2 Volumes - A Fine Set - 1953 3A Burchell, William J. TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (London: The Batchworth Press, 1953) 2 volumes. First edition thus, limited to 1250 copies, reprinted from the original edition of 1822-4 with some additional material and an introduction by I Schapera. Extensively illustrated with fine reproductions of the plates and vignettes from the original edition, including fine full colour plates. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original blue cloth lettered on the spine in gilt. xxix, 381, 3; xvi, 473 pp. A fine set, largely unopened and unread, internally near as mint, the blue cloth mellowed just a bit at the spine panels but the gilt still bright, only very minor evidence of age.

“The most valuable and accurate work on South Africa published up to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, and embracing a description of a large part of the Cape Colony and Bechuanaland at this period... The illustrations in the volumes are characterized by great beauty and accuracy... The work is now extremely scarce, many copies having been broken up in the middle of the nineteenth century for the plates.” - Mendelssohn commenting on the first edition.

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William Burchell travelled in South Africa between 1810 and 1815 making one of the greatest scientific explorations of his day. He collected over 50,000 specimens, and covered over 7000 km, much of which was over completely unexplored terrain. The description of his journey, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, appeared in 1822 and 1824 and is now highly prized and of great scarcity. There is little doubt that a third volume was planned, since the second volume ends long before completion of his journey.

On 25 August 1815 he sailed from Cape Town with 48 crates of specimens aboard the vessel “Kate”, calling at St. Helena and arriving back at Fulham on 11 November 1815. He traveled in Brazil between 1825 and 1830, again collecting a large number of specimens, including over 20,000 insects. The journals covering his Brazil expedition are missing, as are his diaries relating to his later travels. His field note books, detailing his plant collections, survive at Kew, and from those the latter part of his trip can be reconstructed.

His collection of plants, skins, skeletons, insects, seeds, bulbs and fish is considered to be the most extensive ever made in Africa, before or since.

After his death by suicide, the bulk of his plant specimens went to Kew and the insects to Oxford University Museum. He is known for the copious and accurate notes he made to accompany every collected specimen, detailing habit and habitat, as well as the numerous drawings and paintings of landscapes, portraits, costumes, people, animals and plants. $395.

The Travels and Adventures of Sir Richard Francis Burton Eight Important Essays Edited by W.H. Wilkins First Edition - A Very Pleasing Copy in the Original Cloth 4A Burton, Richard F. WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS Edited, with a Preface by W. H. Wilkins... (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1901) First edition, issued in America, but with the English sheets. With a photogravure portrait frontispiece and illustrations

by A.D. McCormick. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue ribbed cloth, gilt lettered and ruled on the spine and with gilt emblematic device on the upper cover, t.e.g., others untrimmed. xiii, 313 pp. A very pleasing and uncommonly well preserved copy, the text fine and bright, very clean, the blue cloth handsome and unfaded with bright gilt, only very minimal age evident at all.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. This posthumous volume of essays reveals Burton “in the aspect in which he was known best to the world--as a traveler and explorer.” Contained within are Burton’s writings on travels and explorations in El Medinah and Mecca, Harar, The Heart of Africa, The City of the Mormons, Dahome, The Congo, Brazil and Syria. Most of the essays were lectures that Burton delivered before a variety of geographical and scientific societies in London, Brazil, Bath, Damascus, and Edinburgh. They serve as a superb introduction for the lay reader to Burton’s travels, and are presented in a much less scholarly format without annotation than his longer works on these subjects.

Originally they were intended to be included in Lady Burton’s Memorial Edition, but she died before its completion. W.H. Wilkens had issued his first edited collection of Burton’s works in the publication of THE JEW, GYPSY, AND EL ISLAM. He was pleased by the success of that publication and set about compiling the materials for this his second volume. It spans works from Burton’s most active periods roughly from 1853-1870. A fine collection, and now a scarce find, the volume consists of eight important essays.

“When all is said and done, the most fruitful years of Burton’s career, the richest in promise and performance, were those that began with the pilgrimage to Meccah and ended with his recall from Damascus. They were the very heart of his life: they are the years covered by this book”. $450.

V. L. Cameron’s Across Africa A Family Inscribed Presentation Copy The Very Scarce First Edition with Additions - 1885 5A Cameron, Verney Lovett. ACROSS AFRICA (London: George Philip & Son, 1885) The first one volume edition with the “new and original matter and corrected map”. This printing includes three additional chapters not in the first printing. This copy with INSCRIBE PRESENTATION from a Lovett Cameron family member. Illustrated with 32 plates and illustrations, some folding, 120 woodcuts in the text and a large folding coloured map. Thick 8vo, in a handsome Relfe Brothers prize binding of full polished chocolate calf ruled on both covers in gilt with gilt corner pieces, the spine very handsomely gilt decorated in elaborate motif with large center tools in compartments between gilt stippled raised bands, one compartment with black morocco label gilt lettered, gilt hashed board edges and gilt tooled turnins, fine marbled endpapers, page edges marbled. xxviii, 569, including index. A handsome and well preserved copy, binding with expert rebacking preserving the original spine panel and all done very discreetly, the text block quite clean and sound with only a bit of minor uniform mellowing, the plates all fresh and fine, the folding map clean and complete but detached and split at a few folds.

VERY SCARCE FIRST ONE VOLUME EDITION IN COLLECTOR’S CONDITION. THE FIRST EDITION WITH ADDITIONS AND THE CORRECTED MAP. THIS COPY ALSO WITH FAMILY PRESENTATION. Inscribed on the fly-leaf is “Henry Baker Cresswell From C. Lovett Cameron/ First Classical Prize. / Mortimer Dec. 18th 1889. This is possibly Caroline, the author’s sister-in-law, who had encouraged his literary career.

After a naval career that took him to Ethiopia and the slaving areas of East Africa, Cameron was selected by the Royal Geographical Society in 1873 to go in search of Livingstone, and instructed also to make independent explorations with Livingstone’s guidance. Upon learning of Livingstone’s death, Cameron’s European companions turned back but Cameron dedicated his expedition to geographical exploration of the African continent and forged ahead alone, arriving in Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika in 1874, where he found some of Livingstone’s papers and sent them back to England. Here he began his quest of exploration with his attempts to discover the “true form” of the south part of the lake, which ended up feeding into the Lukuga river. He went west from there to a town previously visited by Livingstone on the Lualaba river, which he suspected (rightly) was the main source for the River Congo but was unsuccessful in his attempts to prove it. His journeys took him further to the southwest until he reached the coast on November 28, 1875, becoming the first European to cross Equatorial Africa “from sea to sea.”

ACROSS AFRICA is the work for which he is best known, containing the exciting detailed account of this cross-continental journey as well as the author’s suggestions for the opening of the African continent such as utilizing the great lakes in a “Cape to Cairo” connection. Cameron spent the remainder of his life working on commercial development projects in places such as Turkey and the Persian Gulf and writing tales for the young. He

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also accompanied Sir Richard Burton in his West African journey of 1882 and was joint author of Burton’s TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD. Cameron was killed by a fall from horseback as he returned from a hunting expedition in 1894. This is an important work. E.B. 109. $750.

The Rare First Edition - Two Volume Set John Campbell’s Travels in South Africa - 1822 With Handcoloured Plates and Large Folding Map 6A Campbell, John. TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Undertaken At the Request of the Missionary Society, Being a Narrative of a Second Journey in the Interior of That Country (London: Francis Westley, 1822) 2 volumes. First edition. With a hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece to each volume, large hand-coloured folding map and 10 additional hand-coloured, aquatint plates. 8vo, handsomely bound to style in three-quarter calf over brown cloth sides, spines gilt ruled between raised bands, with brown morocco labels lettered in gilt and volume numbers gilt on red morocco labels. xii, 322, [6]; 384. Errata bound into the first volume, pp. A handsome copy of this scarce set. Ownership stamps to the verso of the plates and title-pages not affecting the images, one title page reinforced at the gutter. The colouring is very strong and very beautifully accomplished on all plates.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT EARLY WORK ON SOUTH AFRICA. This two volume set is the record of the second tour of inspection that the London Missionary Society asked the Rev. John Campbell to make of its South African missions, the first tour having been in 1815. The tour consisted of two journeys. The first was undertaken in the company of Rev. Robert Moffat and his wife to Caffraria and the Cape Colony in 1818-19, and the second was in 1821, deep into the interior to settlements such as Lattakoo, Mashow, Griqua Town and Kurreechane. Campbell had not planned to venture so far into the interior but upon his reunion with King Mateebe of Lattakoo (with whom he had had good relations on his last visit) he seized the invitation the king offered for a friendly reception by King Kossie of Mashow further north.

Throughout his ten month journey into the northern interior of South Africa and back out again along the River Krooman and the Great Desert, he closely chronicled his experiences in which he included everything from the histories of the native peoples to adventures with marauding bushmen. Campbell also recorded the effects of Christian influence upon the natives surrounding the mission towns. The preface states that “whilst pious Missionaries are zealously pursuing their grand object--the conversion of the Heathen to Christianity-they are materially contributing to the stores of general Science, and particularly to the advancement of Geographical Knowledge...” Indeed, this work is a valuable look at missionary efforts in South Africa as well as an interesting and important narrative in the history of African travel and exploration.

A beautifully illustrated fine first edition. Mendelssohn $1750.

The Truly Rare First Edition - With Engraved Plates and Map John Campbell - Travels in South Africa - 1815 7A Campbell, John. TRAVELS IN SOUTH AFRICA, Undertaken At the Request of the Missionary Society. (London: Printed for the Author by T. Rutt, and Published by Black and Parry, 1815) First edition. Portrait frontispiece, large folding map and 18 other engraved illustrations. 8vo, contemporary three quarter calf. xv, 582 pp. A handsome copy of this scarce book.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF CAMPBELL’S FIRST JOURNEY WORK. Upon the death of their lead man in South Africa, the Missionary Society of London sent Rev. Campbell out to inspect the state of the missions and make recommendations for the future. Campbell toured the country, meeting not only the natives, but the Boar settlers, of whom he a had a very poor opinion. Near Graaf-Reinet, the party met the celebrated traveler/explorer, Burchelll and later on they journeyed through the Snewburg and “Bushmen’s Country”until they reached Klaar Water, from which place they pushed on for Lattakoo where they made the acquaintance of the king, “Mateebe”, and there is an interesting account of the King and his people. Much information with regard to past events involving the party of Dr. Cowan massacred years earlier and the countries beyond Lattakoo was obtained from the King.

Campbell made contact with several tribes previously unreached and named many rivers, villages, mountains, lakes and other topographical features.

These names have survived by and large. After a journey of nine months, they arrived at the Cape in November 1813 and soon after, the expedition was presented by the governor with a new colony. With a useful appendix of prayers in native languages, short glossary, a list of population and land holdings of the tribes, a list a questions asked at every mission and a new list of regulations created during his trip, a number of sketches and a portrait of the author. The volume contains valuable information and a fine route map.

Mendelssohn did not have a first edition and lists only the third edition. Mendelssohn 254 (third edition). $1500.

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Three Years with Lobengula Cooper-Chadwick’s South African Narrative 8A Cooper-Chadwick, J. THREE YEARS WITH LOBENGULA, and Experiences in South Africa (London: Cassell and Company, Limited, [1894]) First edition. With a large folding map of South Africa. Small 8vo, original olive green cloth with lettering and pictorial design of a native warrior on the upper cover in gilt, red, black, brown, gray and tan, the spine gilt lettered. viii, 160, 21 ads. pp. An unusually nice copy, the text fine and fresh, a little spotting to the ad leaves and map only, the map fullY intact with no splitting or tears, the hinges strong, the green cloth with only the lightest evidence of age, gilt and decorations all bright and vivid.

HARD TO FIND AFRICANA AND THIS COPY IN EXCEPTIONAL STATE OF PRESERVATION. James Cooper-Chadwich served with Sir Charles Warren’s Expedition in South Africa from 1878-81, and with Bechuanaland Border Police in 1885 and with Rhodes’ Pioneers in Mashonaland in 1888.

Lobengula was a powerful warrior in his youth and ruled through terror and kidnap; but in middle age he became obese and ill. Rhodes secured his treaty partly through the services of his doctor who treated Lobengula for gout. When it became clear that Rhodes’ plans included the colonization of his kingdom, Lobengula tore up the treaty and ordered the British out. But his large and disciplined army – Matabele means men of the long shields – was no match for British maxim guns.

Cooper-Chadwich finished this account several years after the fact and after the lost of both of his hands in a gun accident forced his return to England.

This book was written over long intervals with a pen tied onto his arm.

This copy is from the Edward C. Tabler Africana collection. Tabler was a noted author and scholar on South West Africa, Natal, Ngamiland and Rhodesia. His papers are archived at Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library. $395.

Ruwenzori - A Fine Copy of the First Edition Very Scarce and Important Africana 9A De Filippi, Filippo. RUWENZORI, An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi.

With a Preface by the Duke of the Abruzzi. (New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1908) First Edition in English. Illustrated with a vast profusion of illustrations throughout, 32 very fine photographic plates on heavy stock, 5 folding maps and numerous black and white photos. Includes a colour frontispiece, and several large and impressive folding panoramas. 8vo, finely bound in half dark-green morocco over marbled boards, the spine with raised bands and gilt lettered, t.e.g. In a leather-tipped green cloth slipcase. xvi, 408. A fine and handsome copy unusually clean and in excellent order.

FIRST EDITION AND A VERY SCARCE work of Africana. The mountain range of Ruwenzori, is believed to be the mythical Mountains of the Moon told about by Ptolemy. Located in central Africa, these snowy mountains drain into the lakes that feed the Nile, making this the true source of the great river. Perpetually shrouded in mists, Stanley and other explorers thought on first seeing them that a trick was being played upon the eyes.

Many explorers had tried to ascend these peaks but had never succeeded. The Duke’s expedition was the first to truly explore and document the range, finally after nearly half a century, completing the final piece of the Nile puzzle. $1250.

First Edition - Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Africa Denham and Clapperton En Route 1822-1824 Beautifully Presented in Full Speckled Morocco Gilt 10A Denham, Major Dixon, and Captain Hugh Clapperton and Doctor Oudney.

NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824...Extending Across the Great Desert...and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. With an Appendix by Major Dixon Denham and Captain Hugh Clapperton (London: John Murray, 1826) First edition. With 34 engraved plates (one hand-colored), 3 sketch maps, 6 engraved vignettes, and a large engraved route map. 4to, contemporary full speckled calf, covers with gilt roll borders expertly and sympathetically restored at the back in unobtrusive period style to match with red and green morocco lettering labels gilt. xlviii, 335, 269. A very handsome copy in fine condition.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF THIS SEMINAL WORK OF AFRICANA. Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, travelled frm Benioleed, near Tripoli, almost due south to Lake Tchad, with excursions into the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan. Dixon attempted to follow the circuit around Lake Tchad but was unsuccessful. In the meantime, Clapperton and Oudney journeyed west from the lake toward the Niger River, but the doctor only made it about a third of the way and died in Murmur. Clapperton continued west, but was prevented from passing beyond Sackatoo by the local Sultan. He and Denham subsequently returned to Tripoli and crossed back to England This narrative is compiled primarily from Denham’s journal, with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk. A final section by Clapperton relates the westward journey from Lake Tchad to Sackatoo and includes an account of Oudney’s death. Among the several appendices are translations from the Arabic of various letters and documents brought back by Denham and Clapperton, including a document relating to the death of Mungo Park; a translation

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from the Arabic of a geographical and historical account of the Kingdom of Tak-roor, from a larger work composed by Sultan Mohammed Bello of Hausa; vocabularies of Bornou, Begharmi, Mandara, and Timbuctoo; appendices on the zoology and botany of the regions based on samples collected by Dr. Oudney; a note on rock specimens; and a thermometrical journal kept at Kouka in Bornou.

The engravings, after drawings by Denham and Clapperton, are superbly engraved by Edward Finden, one of the finest steel-engravers in England at the time. $2850.

Paul Du Chaillu’s Scarcest Book A Journey To Ashango-Land - First American Edition - 1867 11A Du Chaillu, Paul. A JOURNEY TO ASHANGO-LAND: AND FURTHER PENETRATION INTO EQUATORIAL AFRICA. (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1867) First American Edition. With large folding map, and 23, mostly full-page engraved plates, including an engraved frontispiece and title-page vignette. Thick 8vo, publisher’s original pebbled bright green cloth, upper cover with vignette in gilt, both covers ruled in blind, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. xxiv, 501, 2 ads. An excellent copy. Fresh, clean, bright and strong.

RARE FIRST AMERICAN ISSUE. Du Chaillu’s first travels to Equatorial Africa were to an area previously unexplored by Europeans--the wooded region bordering the Equator, in the interior of Western Africa. It was on this journey that he was able to observe the habits of several remarkable species of animals found nowhere else and heretofore unknown. These included the gorilla, and Du Chaillu’s famous engraving was the first published illustration of this remarkable animal.

In this subsequent work, the intention was to map out the geography in such a way that there would be no mistake as to Du Chaillu’s discoveries. He went through rigorous study, prior to his journey, in the use of instruments which allowed him to fix by astronomical observations and compass bearings, the altitudes and locations of places. He gained in large measure by the support of the Royal Geographical Society both monetarily and academically.

And his scientific observations were enhanced by the Greenwich Observatory inclusions in this volume.

His further studies into the habits of the gorilla of Western Equatorial Africa was of remarkable benefit to scholars and scientists laying a groundwork for the ongoing study of this animal and Du Chaillu was further able to obtain and study live specimens because of his relationships with the indigenous peoples of the region.

Additionally, he paid great attention to a serious study of the indigenous peoples--investigating their political state, customs, cultural legends and so forth. Du Chaillu considered that these peoples were inhabitants of the least developed area of Africa and that a study of them was of immeasurable worth to the developed world. Fine pen and ink drawings have supplemented the text and have been beautifully engraved for presentation here.

Like the author’s first work, this is a remarkable rendering of a great journey. Copies of the first edition are now seldom encountered. Copies in the original cloth are rarer still. $395.

Explorations and Adventures of Equatorial Africa First Announcement of the Discovery of the Gorilla First Edition, American Issue - Paul du Chaillu - 1862 12A Du Chaillu, Paul B. EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1862) First printing in America. With 79 black and white illustrations, including a folding frontispiece of a gorilla (the first ever of the animal) and a folding map at the rear. 8vo, bound in three-quarter brown calf and marbled boards, gilt lettered in a panel of the spine, with gilt tooling and decorated raised bands, marbled edges. xxii, 531 pp. A handsome, well preserved, tight and clean copy with only minor evidence of age.

RARE FIRST PRINTING IN AMERICA. It was on this expedition that Du Chaillu confirmed the existence of that “monstrous and ferocious ape, the gorilla.” His work is one of the seminal pieces of early Central African exploration. Copies of this, his most important work are especially elusive now in such handsome condition. Du Chaillu’s travels to Equatorial Africa were to an area previously unexplored by Europeans--the wooded region bordering the Equator, in the interior of Western Africa. It was on this journey that he was able to observe the habits of several remarkable species of animals found nowhere else and heretofore unknown. These included the gorilla, and Du Chaillu’s famous engraving was the first published illustration of this remarkable animal. $650.

The Lake Regions of Central Africa A Complete and Engaging History of Central Africa In Victorian Cloth Binding - Nicely Illustrated 13A Geddie, John. THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. A Record of Modern Discovery (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881) Scarce First edition. With 32 full page engraved illustrations, many of which are double-page. 8vo, publisher’s original Victorian decorated brown cloth with elaborate lettering and pictorial designs on the spine and upper cover in the motif of native and river scenes in gilt and black. vii, 275pp., [10] ads. An attractive copy, quite clean and fresh and with none of the usual with only some very minor rubbing to the edges of the spine and some cosmetic splitting to the join of the endleaves at the still-firm hinges, the text free of foxing or soiling.

A HANDSOME COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. An early history of explorations of the Nile, the Congo, and the Zambesi River regions, a very nicely written chronicle, now rather scarce. “...Africa is green and flourishing at the heart, however uninviting in the rind; that away in its centre, beyond the pestilential mangrove swamps and tracts of arid sand that almost everywhere girdle its coasts, there are high and delightful countries, full of running streams and far-stretching lakes,

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of rich tropical verdure and abundant animal life.”-Intro. $195.

The Life of George Grenfell Hawker’s Vivid Account of the Great Congo Missionary 14A [Grenfell] Hawker, George. THE LIFE OF GEORGE GRENFELL, CONGO MISSIONARY AND EXPLORER (London: The Religious Tract Society, 1909) First edition. Illustrated with photogravure portrait, maps, and illustrations from photographs. 8vo, publisher’s original dark green textured cloth with gilt medallion and lettering on upper board and gilt lettering on spine. xxvi, 587,8 ads. A fine bright copy, clean and with a minor bit of refurbishment at the front inner hinge.

FIRST EDITION. As a Baptist missionary, George Grenfell first went to Africa in 1875. He was the first to prove the independent nature of the Mubangi, discovered the Ruki or Black River, found himself in contact with actual cannibals and discovered and named Grenfell Falls on the Mubangi.

Meant as a companion volume to Sir Harry Johnston’s; “George Grenfell and the Congo”, this work concentrates on Grenfell’s missionary efforts rather than his explorations. “..it is refreshing to recall the remembrance of this good man, a missionary in the purest sense of the word; who succeeded, as the messenger of peace, in irradiating the immense basin of the Congo by his itineraries and in endowing its geography with fixed points carefully determined by astronomical observations” (from his obituary in the Le Movement Geographic) $175.

Very Rare Africana - H. Rider Haggard’s First Book Cetywayo and His White Neighbors - London - 1882 Original Green Cloth Gilt - A Fine Copy 15A Haggard, H. Rider. CETYWAYO AND HIS WHITE NEIGHBOURS; or, Remarks on the Rcent Events in Zululand, Natal and the Transvaal. (London: Trubner & Co., 1882) First Edition of Haggard’s First Published Book. It consisted of only 750 copies that were printed at the author’s family’s expense. 8vo, publishers original green cloth with gilt decorative device and black lined borders on the upper cover and with gilt lettering and black lined bordering on the spine panel. Housed in a morocco backed foldover case. [xx], [2], 294 pp. A bright, clean and attractive copy with only the merest hint of shelfwear, in especially pleasing condition. Very light cracking at the endleaves.

THE VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF HAGGARD’S FIRST PUBLISHED BOOK preceding KING SOLOMON’S MINES by fully two years.

The book is a critique of the situation in South Africa, where the English colonists had recently (1878-79) quelled an uprising of the Zulus (who wre led by their king Cetywayo). Haggard’s father had pressured him into a job with the colonial staff there, largely to put some distance between Haggard and the girl in England he wanted to marry. Scott1, McKay 1, Whatmore NF1; Allen 11 $2250.

R. N. Hall - 1907 - A Superb Archaeological Work Great Zimbabwe Mashonaland Rhodesia - The Discoveries 17A Hall, F.R.G.S., R. N. GREAT ZIMBABWE MASHONALAND, RHODESIA: AN ACCOUNT OF TWO YEARS’ EXAMINATION WORK IN 1902-1904 ON BEHALF OF THE GOVERNMENT OF RHODESIA (London: Methuen & Co., 1907) Second Edition, with an introduction by Professor A.H. Keane, LL.D., F.R.G.S. Extensively illustrated with over two hundred fine plates, maps. amd plans, a number of which are large and folding. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original red cloth, pictorial decoration and lettering in gilt on upper cover, both covers bordered in blind, spine lettered in gilt with gilt bands at the head and tail. (xliii), 459 pp. A pleasing copy of this elusive book, some light age mellowing to the spine.

SCARCE. This work provides a detailed description of the ruins of Great Zimbabwe--the first given to the world in modern times. Photographs and illustrations profusely included in the book, permit the actual ruins themselves to relate the story of their forgotten past unweighted by tradition, romance and theory. Hall expanded and examined the area of the ruins to 2 miles by 1.25 miles where previously it had been thought to have been confined to 945 yds. by 840 yds.. He also discovered further ruins in the Zimbabwe Valley and in the secluded valleys and gorges in the environs. Huge mounds were explored and extensive recoveries made.

The book is an archaeological work of the first merit. It links Semitic monuments with the hundreds of Rhodesian workings which yielded at least £75,000,000. in their time. $225.

F.L. James - The Unknown Horn of Africa - With the Rare Map Very Scarce First Edition in Original Cloth - 1888 18A James, F. L. THE UNKNOWN HORN OF AFRICA: An Exploration From Berbera to the Leopard River. With Additions by J. Godfrey Thrupp (London: George Philip & Son, 1888) First edition. With a map by W. D. James and Percy Aylmer. Lithographic frontispiece and nine other similar plates, 9 tinted photogravures, 4 botanical lithographs and numerous tinted and plain illustrations throughout the text, narrative illustrations by Rose Hake, and drawings of fauna by K. Keuleman, from specimans collected by E. Lort-Phillips. 8vo, publisher’s original plum coloured cloth, decorated on upper cover with a map of Somaliland in gilt and a pictorial decoration in colours of Somali tribesmen, gilt lettered on cover and spine. xiv, 344 pp., including appendix, notes, and index. A near fine copy with mild toning to the spine panel. Rear inner hinge with binder’s cloth tape.

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A HANDSOME FIRST EDITION BY THE AUTHOR OF THE WILD TRIBES OF THE SUDAN. COPIES OF THE BOOK WITH THE MAP INTACT AND PRESENT ARE VERY SCARCE INDEED. An important work of early exploration in Somaliland. $950.

Sir Harry Johnston - The River Congo - 1884 A Detailed and Useful Guide to the Congo - With Maps

By One of the Most Important African Traveler Explorers 19A Johnston, H.H. THE RIVER CONGO, From its Mouth to Bólobo, With a general history of the natural history and anthropology of the Western basin. (London: Sampson, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1884) First edition. Profusely illustrated with over seventy in-text illustrations, 3 maps of the Congo, and three etchings including one of Ibaka, by the author. 8vo, half brown calf over marble boards, the spine with raised bands, gilt tools, gilt lettering. xvii, 470 pp pliu 32 ads. A handsome copy, text bright and clean, the binding well preserved, gilt shining.

AN IMPORTANT WORK BY JOHNSTON. Includes a well documented account of an early look at the history and anthropology of the Congo. Johnston intended the book to be read as a sort of guide book or introduction to the area.

Johnston was early on an explorer and traveler to Africa and this volume is typical of the very best produced writing in travel and exploration of the period.

Johnston began his travels in Africa at the age of 21 with his 1879-1880 journey to the interior of Tunisa as a student of painting, architecture, and languages. This trip sparked the passion for travel and exploration in the wilds of the African continent that he would spend the next several decades fulfilling.

His journeys and his leadership potential were first brought to the attention of the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association in 1883 when he met H.M. Stanley and traveled with him to the remote river above the Stanley Pool in the Congo, a virgin territory little known to other Europeans at that time. From there his travels and responsibilities expanded rapidly; he was commissioned to lead a scientific expedition to to Mount Kilmanjaro beginning in Zanzibar in 1884, the success of which led to his apopintment as British vice-consul and eventually acting consul in Cameroon and the Niger Delta.

He held a number of government positions through the next 20 years, perhaps best known for his “Cape-to-Cairo” scheme, a phrase coined in the London Times in August of 1888. The plan entailed having British influence in an unbroken line from Alexandria to Cape Town, but was foiled in July of 1890 when the British were forced to give up their sphere of influence north of Lake Tanganyika to the Germans. His later days were spent organizing British administration in Uganda and Liberia as well as writing about his life experiences in Africa. $850.

Sir Harry Johnston - George Grenfell and the Congo Unusually Nice Africana in Original State First Edition - London - 1908 - Two Volumes 20A Johnston, Sir Harry. GEORGE GRENFELL AND THE CONGO. A History and Description of the Congo Independent State and Adjoining Districts of Congoland Together With Some Account of the Native Peoples and Their Languages, the Fauna and Flora; And Similar Notes on the Cameroons and the Island of Fernando Po. The Whole Founded on the Diaries and Researches of the Late Rev. George Grenfell; On the Records of the British Baptist Missionary Society; And On Additional Information Contributed By the Author, By the Rev. Lawson Forfeitt, Mr. Emil Torday, and Others. (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1908) 2 volumes. First edition. With 496 illustrations from photographs and drawings by Grenfell, Johnston and others, and 14 maps, some folding. Royal 8vo, in original dark burgundy cloth, gilt lettered and ruled on the spines, bordered in blind on all covers, t.e.g. xxiii, 496: xx, 497-990. A very handsome, fine, clean and bright set, with only some light evidence of shelving over time.

IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL GILT DECORATED CLOTH. A very scarce set, this is one of Johnston’s most elusive works.

As a Baptist missionary, George Grenfell first went to Africa in 1875. This account is primarily involved with his 1884 exploratory mission up the Kwa, Kwango and Kasai rivers. He was the first to prove the independent nature of the Mubangi, discovered the Ruki or Black River, found himself in contact with actual cannibals, and discovered and named Grenfell Falls on the Mubangi.

This is an important early account of the Congo Independent State. Johnston gives us an in-depth look at the people and the natural environs and provides an excellent anthropological account of this fascinating region of the world with abundant photographs, drawings, and maps. $850.

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Sir Harry Johnston’s Liberia The Scarce First Edition 21A Johnston, Sir Harry. LIBERIA. With an Appendix on the Flora of Liberia

by Dr. Otto Stapf (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1906) 2 volumes. First edition.

Complete with 28 colored illustrations by Sir Harry Johnston, 24 botanical drawings by Miss Matilda Smith, 402 black & white illustrations from the author’s drawings and from photographs by the author and others, and 22 maps, 4 folding. Thick, tall 8vo, publisher’s original dark plum cloth lettered in gilt on spines with gilt emblematic tooling on upper covers, beautifully illustrated endpapers, t.e.g. xxviii,520;xvi,1160,index. An unusually nice set, scarce in such pleasing condition, textblocks very clean, bright and tight, all maps in good order. Very well preserved indeed.

RARE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF WEST AFRICAN TRAVEL LITERATURE. Johnston produced here an exquisite set of books. He was early on an explorer and traveller to the Liberian state and these volumes are typical of the very best produced for writings in travel and exploration of the period. They are among the earliest books written on the new Liberia and present original and comprehensive studies of the landscape, peoples, flora and fauna of the region as well as its political history.

Johnston began his travels in Africa at the age of 21 with his 1879-1880 journey to the interior of Tunisa as a student of painting, architecture, and languages.

This trip sparked the passion for travel and exploration in the wilds of the African continent that he would spend the next several decades fulfilling.

His journeys and his leadership potential were first brought to the attention of the Royal Geographical Society and the British Association in 1883 when he met H.M. Stanley and traveled with him to the remote river above the Stanley Pool in the Congo, a virgin territory little known to other Europeans at that time. From there his travels and responsibilities expanded rapidly; he was commissioned to lead a scientific expedition to to Mount Kilmanjaro beginning in Zanzibar in 1884, the success of which led to his apopintment as British vice-consul and eventually acting consul in Cameroon and the Niger Delta.

He held a number of government positions through the next 20 years, perhaps best known for his “Cape-to-Cairo” scheme, a phrase coined in the London Times in August of 1888. The plan entailed having British influence in an unbroken line from Alexandria to Cape Town, but was foiled in July of 1890 when the British were forced to give up their sphere of influence north of Lake Tanganyika to the Germans. His later days were spent organizing British administration in Uganda and Liberia as well as writing about his life experiences in Africa.

This set of books arose out of his extensive experience with negotiations in the Liberian republic, a state of 43,000 square miles created in the Western forests of the African continent, and his culminating efforts to organize its administration, finances, and methods of interior development. $1050.

Very Scarce First Edition Africana in Fine Condition “Light Thrown Upon the Dark Continent” - 1881 22A Jones, Charles. NEGROLAND: OR, LIGHT THROWN UPON THE DARK CONTINENT. The History of African Exploration and Adventure as Given in the Leading authorities from Herodotus to the Latest Explorers Including Livingston, Speke, Baker, Stanley, Johnston, & Others. (New York: Hurst & Co., 1881) Scarce First edition. With a profusion of engravings throughout, many full-page. Tall 8vo, publisher’s original terracotta cloth, lettered and pictorially decorated in black on the upper cover. The spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt. viii, 496 pp. A superb copy, pristine, very clean, crisp and fresh-- the gilt-work and colouring still bright and very clean.

VERY SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN UNUSUALLY FINE CONDITION. A history of African exploration. Though it does cover some of the earlier explorers, it is primarily the story of 19th century exploration, with a large emphasis on Livingstone, Stanley, Burton and Speke. About a time when African exploration was at its peak, the author has put together a chronological history and attempts to help the reader understand the relationship of the different explorers with one another. Illustrations and information are drawn from the original works by those explorers. $350.

A Highly Prized Work on the Subject The Life of a South African Tribe - First Edition - 1913 The Tonga Peoples of Natal - Profusely Illustrated 23A Junod, Henry A. THE LIFE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBE (Neuchatel and London: Imprimerie Attinger Freres; Macmillan an Co., 1913) 2 volumes. First Edition Illustrated throughout with a profusion of photographs, drawings, plans and a coloured map. 8vo, publisher’s original dark-green cloth, the spines lettered in gilt, the upper cover decorated with a pictorial illustration of a native of the

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region with shield, lance and spear and lettering in gilt. [4], 500; [4], 574 pp. A fine bright and handsome set, tight and clean throughout, the cloth and gilt in very pleasing condition, old library labels at the front pastedown and pocket and library circulation remains at the rear free-fly and pastedown. No other apparent markings. A handsome set withal.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH THE LONDON IMPRINT AS WELL AS THE NEUCHATEL IMPRINT. An important work on the Tonga peoples of greater Natal. The work contains a vast amount of information on the cultural, social and psychological aspects of the people studied.

Photographs and drawings throughout, complement the studious and very observant writings. $350.

Memories of Mashonaland - Scarce First Edition An Unusually Fine and Fresh Copy of This Africana Published in London - 1895 - The Publisher’s Own Copy 24A Knight-Bruce, G.W.H. MEMORIES OF MASHONALAND (London: Edward Arnold, 1895) First edition, unopened. THE PUBLISHER’S OWN FILE COPY. With a photogravure portrait frontispiece. 8vo, publisher’s original navy blue cloth ruled and lettered in gilt on the spine, upper cover lettered in gilt and ruled in blind. Publisher’s own “FILE COPY” label to the upper covers and “FILE COPY” stamp to the half-title. [vi], 242, [6]+32 ads. An unusually fine copy and bright copy, about as pristine as can be expected.

PUBLISHER’S OWN COPY. RARE. The author, the “sometime bishop of Mashonaland,” relates his experiences and observations of the Mashonaland area in Rhodesia including the region’s history, the natives’ customs and daily life, their religion, and he also queries, “Where do missions fail?” The last chapter details the Matabele War of 1893 in which the Matabele tribe, which had been chafing under British imperialism for several decades, finally rose up against the British under their chief Lobengula. In January of 1894, after a number of skirmishes and military confrontations, Lobengula died unexpectedly of fever or complications to a wound (history is unclear as to the exact malady), leaving his armies leaderless and vulnerable.

They were easily suppressed by the British and this particular chapter of the problems in the Matabeleland was closed. Published only a year after the war, this work features the extremely specific details that only eyewitness accounts can produce and provides an exciting and interesting narrative. $850.

First Edition of The Memoirs of Paul Kruger “Uncle Paul” of South Africa - A Handsome Copy 25A Kruger, Paul. THE MEMOIRS OF PAUL KRUGER Four Times President of the South African Republic Told by Himself (New York: The Century Company, 1902) First edition in English, translated from the Dutch by Mr. A. Teixeira de Matos. With a frontispiece portrait.

8vo, publisher’s original purple buckram gilt lettered and decorated with signature facsimile in gilt on the upper covers, the spines lettered in gilt, purple cloth ribbon markers and t.e.g. xiii, 444 pp. A handsome and clean copy, the cloth with only very minor evidence of age.

Internally sound and clean.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN LOVELY CONDITION. The memoirs of “Oom Paul” (Uncle Paul), the four-time elected President of the Republic of South Africa who gained international fame as the face of Boer resistance against the British during the Second Boar War. These memoirs were published while he was in exile in France, having been forced out of Africa during his final term as President due to Lord Roberts’ occupation of Pretoria. Kruger would die while in exile in Switzerland in 1904.

Kruger’s memoirs were dictated to two men, his private secretary and Mr. Piet Grobler, the former Under Secretary of State of South Africa. Also collected here are several documents, speeches, proclamations and dispatches. $75.

Journal of an Expediton to Explore the Course of the Niger Richard and John Lander Chart the River - First Edition Scarce and Early African Exploration - 1832 26A Lander, Richard and John. JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE COURSE AND TERMINATION OF THE NIGER; With A Narrative of a Voyage Down that River to Its Termination (New York: J & J Harper, 1832) 2 volumes. Scarce First American Edition in the original two volumes. With one portrait, two engraved maps, one of which is large and folding, 3 engraved plates and additional engravings throughout the text. 12mo, handsomely bound in period 3/4 calf over marbled boards, gilt lettered, numbered and ruled on the spines. xiii, 384 pp; vii, 337 pp. A pleasing set, the covers quite well preserved with the gilt clean and the edges only slightly rubbed, all inner hinges and endleaves tight and strong. Plates and text-blocks are in good order with occasional and minor mellowing or aging.

SCARCE AND VERY EARLY AFRICANA. Prior to setting out on this mission Richard Lander was already one of the most experience British African explorers of his time. He had been the sole survivor of Clapperton’s second expedition and had made an impressive solo trek to return to the coast with the expedition’s papers and journals.

The earlier French Geographic expedition under Caillié’s leadership had still left one major blank in West African geography - the lower course and termination of the Niger. The British decided to send an expedition to solve this question and Lander, now back in England, was the perfect man for the job. He accepted on the condition that his brother go along with him. John was a composer, not an experienced explorer and was said to be of considerably different temperament then his jovial brother. Yet the partnership was one of the few among British African explorers to survive without so much as a tremor of discontent.

They began their expedition arriving on the African coast in 1830 in baggy Turkish trousers, bright red gowns and outlandishly large straw hats that are said to have caused the local girls to giggle. Nontheless, their mission, though harrowing, was a great success. They first discovered traces of Mungo Park near the Bussa Falls and then set out in leaking punt-like canoes to follow the river. Along their journey they were attacked by native pirates, captured, and then ransomed to an English sea captain who only redeemed them on the promise tthey work as sailors. They did persevere

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through these trials however and in June of 1831, after 18 months of adventure, brought back definite news that the Niger emptied into the Bight of Benin. Severin pp.130-132. $395.

Livingstone’s First Great Expedition - A Fine Copy - 1857 Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - PMM ‘The Most Famous of All Books on Africa’ 27A Livingstone, David. MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA. (London: John Murray, 1857) First edition.

With a black and white folding frontispiece, engraved portrait, 2 folding maps, folding cross section, and 43 black and white illustrations.

8vo, publisher’s original blind decorated brown cloth, the spine lettered in gilt. x, 687 pp. plus 6 ads. A very handsome, clean copy. The cloth in excellent condition, bright and fresh. The inner hinges expertly reinforced, sympathetically and unobtrusively. Internally clean, fresh, tight and sound. An excellent copy.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF PERHAPS THE MOST FAMOUS OF ALL BOOKS ON THE EXPLORATION OF AFRICA. AN IMPORTANT PMM ENTRY. This is the account of Livingstone’s first great expedition (1853-56), during which he explored the Zambesi and its Victoria Falls. One of the most important of all 19th century books on African exploration by one of the greatest explorer/missionaries of all time. “...David Livingstone, the Scottish medical missionary, is known to history as the greatest explorer of his age and a dedicated humanitarian who devoted his life to the eradication of the African slave trade. He was a national hero to his contemporaries and time has confirmed his reputation as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the eminent Victorians, both in his achievement and in his influence.” - George Myrtle This is a very pleasing copy. PMM $1350.

Livingstone’s Great Expedition to the Zambesi To Course the Rivers, Discover the Lakes and Expose the Slavers Scarce First Edition - 1865 - Published in London 28A Livingstone, David and Charles. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES; AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE LAKES SHIRWA AND NYASSA, 1858-1864 (London: John Murray, 1865) First edition. Profusely illustrated with fine cuts throughout, many full page, and one folding of the Falls at Zambesi at the front, large folding map at rear. Thick 8vo, in an attractive period-style binding of full crushed morocco, boards ruled in gilt, the spine with gilt tooled raised bands creating gilt framed compartments, four with central gilt tool and two others gilt lettered, additional gilt lettering at the tail, t.e.g. The original cloth spine panel and upper cover with gilt vignette have been preserved and bound in the rear. xiv, 608 pp. A very handsome and well preserved copy, as fine, internally very clean and fresh, the map in good order and the binding as pristine.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION. “Dr. David Livingstone, the Scottish medical missionary, is known to history as the greatest explorer of his age and a dedicated humanitarian who devoted his life to the eradication of the African slave trade. He was a national hero to his contemporaries and time has confirmed his reputation as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, of the eminent Victorians, both in his achievement and in his influence.”

This is the scarce account of Livingstone’s second expedition. “Other explorers we have had whose fame rose as high, but it lasted only for a few years.

The influences of Dr. Livingstone’s life-work, on the other hand, are so far- reaching that his fame is above the passing feelings of the time.” $950.

From the Congo to the Niger and The Nile A Very Handsome and Elusive First Edition Set The Duke of Mecklenburg’s Journey Through Africa 29A [Mecklenburg; Congo; Niger; Nile] Friedrich, Adolph, Duke of Mecklenburg. FROM THE CONGO TO THE NIGER AND THE NILE. An Account of the German Central African Expedition 1910-1911 (London: Duckworth and Co, 1913) 2 volumes. First edition. With 514 illustrations from photos and drawings, a number of which are in colour, and a folding colour map. 8vo, original brick cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, lettered in black with a small black device on the upper cover. xvi, 241; xii, 285, including index. A very handsome and bright set, some minor foxing on prelims and internally a bit as is usual with the paper, the bindings unusually fine and clean. A very pleasing and very well preserved copy.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN ESPECIALLY NICE CONDITION. Duke Friedrich’s interest in the African interior was piqued by the Central African Expedition of 1907-1908 when he travelled with a staff of scientists studying the flora and fauna around Lake Victoria and Lake Kiwu. In an attempt to increase zoological and botanical knowledge of this little-explored region, he organized another expedition into Central Africa shortly after his return. The principal group in this expedition, including the Duke, travelled up the Congo and Ubangi rivers, up the Gribingi and Shari rivers to Lake Tchad, then down the Logone and Benue rivers to the Niger and the Atlantic; several other members went east to the headwaters of the Nile, and others travelled around the German Cameroons. Extensively illustrated with photographs and drawings, including beautiful water-colours by E.M. Heims. $695.

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Mungo Park and the Niger - One of the Great Explorers Penned by Joseph Thomson- Himself of the Great Explorers First Edition - A Very Pleasing Copy - 1890 30A [Park] Thomson, Joseph. MUNGO PARK AND THE NIGER (London: George Philip and Son, 1890) First Edition. With frontispiece portrait from contemporary engraving, 13 illustrations on plates, seven additional illustrations within the text, and eleven maps, seven of which are folding. 8vo, publisher’s original dark brown cloth styled as a half binding with grained cloth over polished cloth, lettered on the spine in gilt and decorated on the upper cover and spine in black vi, [1], 338, 3 pp. A very fresh and attractive copy, unusual thus, the text fine and fresh, the cloth still very well preserved with bright gilt, front inside hinge neatly reinforced. With discreet blind-stamp at bottom corner of the titlep-age.

A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION WRITTEN ABOUT ONE OF THE GREATEST AFRICAN EXPLORERS BY ANOTHER ONE OF THE IMPORTANT AFRICAN EXPLORERS. The African Association of London’s previous four expeditions to explore the Niger river had failed by the time they charged Park, a Scotsman, with the commission to explore the Gambia, Senegal, and Niger rivers in 1795. He covered well over 100 miles before he fell ill in 1797 and returned back to England. His unaffected style and natural sense of storytelling made his account one of the most of African exploration. Here Joseph Thomson, an accomplished African explorer and author from Scotland as well, provides us with a concise and well written history of Mungo Park’s travels and adventures. $295.

The Rare First Edition in Original Cloth 1891 - T.H. Parke’s Experiences in Equatorial Africa The Army Surgeon’s Journals of the Emin Pasha Expedition 31A Parke, Thomas Heazle, Hon D.C.I. MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition ([London and] New York: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, London for [Sampson Low, Marston & Company, Ltd.] and Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1891) The True, Very Scarce First Edition printed

by Clowes for release in both the UK and America, this copy with the slug for the Scribner’s and original date on the titlepage. Illustrated with 18 black and white plates, including a fronstipiece of the author, and a large colour folding map in a pocket at the rear.

8vo, publisher’s original lightolive green cloth decorated with black multi-lined border decorations in an all-over pattern across both covers, the spine with the same black decorative ruling, full gilt lettering and a handsome gilt vignette, the upper cover with a fine decorative pictorial gilt vignette. xiv, 526 (including index), 32 ads. A handsome and pleasing copy of this very scarce and important work. Only very minimal evidence of use or age, endpapers renewed.

VERY SCARCE AND IMPORTANT FIRST EDITION OF A BOOK RARELY IF EVER FOUND IN FIRST EDITION FORMAT. The saga of Emin Pasha is one of the most enthralling histories of Europeans in Africa. Pasha was born Eduard Schnitzer, a remarkable German physician who converted to Islam and took the name Emin Pasha. He was appointed by Gordon to the post of governor of Equatoria. He became an instant hero in England when, after Gordon’s death and the fall of Khartoum, a letter revealed that he was holding out with a small garrison against the Mahdi’s hordes. A relief mission led by Henry Stanley was quickly formed. This would be Stanley’s last and most dangerous mission, costing the lives of over 400 men.

These are the personal journals of the military surgeon Dr. Thomas Parke who served in this expedition. “Being desirous to give my original impressions of persons and things, I have made no change whatever in the contents of my African note-books... I have inserted, here and there, a few paragraphs containing my views on the principal diseases which I was called upon to treat. The remainder of the text I regard as supplementary, in some measure, to Mr. Stanley’s volumes...” [author’s preface]. A detailed and enthralling narrative of this mission from the medical officer’s point of view. $1250.

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New Light on Dark Africa - A Very Fine Copy - First Edition The German Emin Pasha and Hegemonic Expedition A Counterpoint to Henry Stanley’s Travels in Africa 32A Peters, Dr. Carl. NEW LIGHT ON DARK AFRICA: Being the Narrative of the German Emin Pasha Expedition, its Journeyings and Adventures Among the Native Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza (London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891) First Edition in English, translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken, Ph.D. Profusely decorated with a frontispiece portrait and 32 full-page plates, over sixty illustrations in text from designs by Rudolf Hellgrewe, and a large coloured map in a pocket at the end of the volume. Large, thick, royal 8vo, bound in the publisher’s original beautiful red-clay coloured cloth with lettering and pictorial decorations on the upper cover and spine in gilt, black, blue-gray and white, glossy black endpapers. xviii, 597 pp. A very bright and attractive copy, and unusually so, quite fine and fresh, the cloth especially handsome with no fading and very little evidence of use or age, the text very clean and solid, inner hinges sometime neatly reinforced matching the colour of the cloth.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT BOOK, SELDOM FOUND IN FINE CONDITION. THE VERY ELUSIVE WRITTEN ACCOUNT OF THE EXPEDITION LED BY GERMANY’S COUNTERPART TO HENRY STANLEY. It presents the story of the journey to find Emin Pasha on the Upper Nile, by approaching from Africa s East coast. Peters followed Pigott in exploring the Tana river and gained notoriety by his political activities to secure influence in the interior. Although the expedition was avowedly formed to aid in the Emin Pasha relief effort, the intent was also to extend the sphere of German influence in Uganda and Equatoria. This expedition was not sanctioned by the German government and was regarded by the British authorities as a filibustering exploit. Reaching Uganda in early 1890, Peters concluded a treaty with Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda in favour of Germany. This roused the British ire and occasioned their effort to counteract his activities, and to gain further control over both Kenya Colony and Uganda.

The book is most impressively illustrated, particularly regarding the battles waged between the expedition and hostile tribes. Czech p128. $2250.

Frederick Courtney Selous’ Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Scarce First Edition Africana in Original Cloth - 1896 33A Selous, Frederick Courteney. SUNSHINE AND STORM IN RHODESIA: Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland Both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection Up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force (London: Rowland Ward and Co, 1896) First edition. With 17 illustrations, primarily from black and white photographs and a folding map at rear. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth lettered and decorated in brown on the upper cover and spine, with vivid endpapers printed to look like zebra hide. xix, 290 including appendices and index, 10 publisher’s ads. A clean, fresh and solid copy of a book rarely found in acceptable condition, internally fine and bright, the binding sturdy and solid with the overall toning typical to the light tan cloth. This copy from the Gustavus D. Pope Sportsman’s Library with their label to the inside front paste-down and a partially removed sleeve to the rear paste-down.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS SCARCE WORK BY THE IMPORTANT AND WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR OF AFRICANA. F.C. Selous was already a well-known writer, explorer, and hunter when he published this work about his experiences before and during the 1896 British campaign against the rebellions of the war-like Matabele tribe in Rhodesia.

The members of the Matabele tribe were chafing beneath their British conquest of three years before, and initiated their rebellion with the murder of a number of white settlers. Bulawayo (the largest town in the Western provinces) was threatened, and this put the rest of the country south of the Zambesi into a state of rebellion as the fervor rose. Very fierce fighting between the British and the natives shortly followed, but Rhodes hastened to propose peace talks, and the army shortly went unarmed into the heart of the Matappo hills to meet with native representatives. The interview involved great personal risk for the emissaries, and depended for its success entirely upon Rhodes’ personality and influence over the native races, but luckily it was successful and terminated what promised to be a long and disastrous native war. (EB, 23-24).

When the rebellion broke out, the author and his wife were newly settled on an estate in the Matabeleland. Selous served as an officer in the Bulawayo Field Force, and presents here “some account of every skirmish, which had taken place between the Colonists and the natives in Matabeleland up to the date of the above-mentioned Force. To this I add a short account of my personal experiences in the country during the months immediately preceding the outbreak of the insurrection.” An exciting account of the Matabele campaign of 1896 by a master writer of African exploration literature. $295.

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Frederick Courteney Selous - 1893 Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa A Landmark Work of the Genre - Profusely Illustrated 34A Selous, Frederick Courteney. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA: Being the Narrative of the Last Eleven Years Spent By the Author On the Zambesi and its Tributaries; With An Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the progress of the Gold Industry In That Country (London: Rowland Ward and Co., Limited, 1893) First Edition. Portrait frontispiece, 22 full page plates, 36 illustrations within the text, and a folding colour map. Thick, royal 8vo, publisher’s original apricot cloth lettered in black on spine featuring a gilt vignette of a native hunter, the upper cover decorated with lions in gilt. xviii, 503 pp, plus 4 ads. A very well preserved copy, internally fine and fresh with no spotting, staining or wear, solid and strong, the cloth with minor age mellowing only and still very handsome, the hinges firm. The copy still largely unopened.

SCARCE FIRST EDITION AND AN UNUSUALLY WELL PRESERVED COPY OF THIS SCARCE WORK AND IMPORTANT NARRATIVE. Selous spent eleven years traveling in the interior of South Africa; here he records the hunting adventures he had, relates his experiences among the Boers, gives accounts of the two expeditions sent against the Batauwani by Lobengula, gives an account of the Matabele uprising in Mashonaland, and offers notes on the “bushmen” of South Africa.

As testament to its importance, this work was chosen by Books of Rhodesia for their Gold Series of reprints, but contemporary copies have become very difficult to find. $1250.

The Scarce First Edition - A Very Pleasing Set - 1885 Henry M. Stanley - The Congo and Founding of Its Free State London by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington 35A Stanley, Henry M. THE CONGO AND THE FOUNDING OF ITS FREE STATE: A Story of Work and Exploration (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1885) 2 volumes.

First edition. Illustrated with a profusion of black and white illustrations throughout, both full-page and in the text as well as with fold-out maps including large folding maps in the pockets of the rear of the books. 8vo, publisher’s elaborately decorated pictorial brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and black on the covers and spines. xxvii, 528; x, 483, Index, 32 ads. pp. A very handsome and bright set of this elusive first edition, very well preserved indeed. Some very minor evidence of age or use, but unusually pleasing set of these heavy well produced books.

THE SCARCE FIRST EDITION OF STANLEY’S IMPORTANT AND POPULAR WORK ON THE FOUNDING OF THE CONGO FREE STATE. This two-volume work of exploration, history, and sociopolitical-economy is the result of Stanley’s expedition up the Congo River in1879-84 and his attempts to re-open the interior for King Leopold of Belgium. From this journey came the establishment of the Congo State, the first free commericial state in Equatorial Africa.

Henry Stanley was one of the most popular figures of the 19th Century.

Adventurer, explorer and rescuer-- the public could not get enough of this romantic figure. In true Victorian style, this volume highlights his greatest achievements, his rescues of LIvingstone and Emin Pasha and his aid in establishing the Congo Free State.

Sets of this important work in original cloth have become exceeding difficult to obtain. First English editions are now especially elusive. $1650.

How I Found Livingstone - Stanley’s Classic First Work A Handsome First Edition and First Issue Volume 36A Stanley, Henry M. HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries in Central Africa, Including Four Months’ Residence With Dr. Livingstone (London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Company, 1872) First Edition, First Printing. With an original and very early photographic image of Stanley as a frontispiece with printed signature, 28 full page illustrations, 25 illustrations in the text, 6 maps and plans, including one very large folding map Eastern Central Africa and two others which are also folding. Thick 8vo, in handsome contemporary three-quarter calf over cloth boards, the spine with finely gilt tooled and decorated compartments between stippled and gilt ruled bands, one compartment gilt lettered, t.e.g. xxiii, 736, 8 pp ads. A very good, handsome and solid copy of this truly important book, the text is solid, clean very fresh and virtually spotless, the handsome contemporary binding has some cracking to the hinges, easily repaired if desired, but very little wear, the large folding map with early and neat proper repair.

SCARCE TRUE FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BOOKS OF 19TH CENTURY EXPLORATION, AND THE

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LANDMARK BOOK ON AFRICA THAT SECURED STANLEY’S REPUTATION. The text of the first edition was often reprinted and remains to this day one of the consummate works in the historical interpretation of most important Victorian English forays and explorations of Africa.

The quest to recover David Livingstone is one of the most famous travel adventures and manhunts in history. By 1870, Livingstone had been missing for long enough that it was generally accepted that he had died somewhere in Central Africa. However, James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the “New York Herald,” was convinced that Livingstone was still alive, and dispatched a richly laden H.M. Stanley to find him. Stanley embarked on his quest on March 12, 1871, and after overcoming “innumerable difficulties,” he found a discouraged and disheartened Livingstone at Ujiji on November 10.

Stanley then uttered the oft-quoted line “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” (that scene is depicted on the cover of this book) and helped to renew the good doctor’s hope. The two soon set off on an exploration of the north end of Lake Tanganyika and eventually discovered that the Rusizi runs into it and not out of it. Stanley left Livingstone well-provisioned and spiritually inspired on March 15, 1872 and came back to England and shortly published this “picturesque narrative” of his experiences, helping to secure his reputation as a “leader of men and an explorer of great promise.” Encyclopedia Britannica. $950.

Henry M. Stanley - African Folktales and Legends My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories - 1893 First Edition in Original Cloth - Profusely Illustrated 37A Stanley, Henry M. MY DARK COMPANIONS AND THEIR STRANGE STORIES (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1893) First edition. With 46 black and white engraved illustrations. 8vo, publisher’s original olive cloth pictorially decorated with an image of a lion on the upper cover, and lettered in gilt on the spine and upper cover. viii, 335 pp. A handsome copy with minor wear at the edges.

Internally tight and clean, illustrations still fresh, slightly shaken.

FIRST EDITON. A collection of 19 fables which Stanley heard during his years in the interior of Africa. A tradition developed in which natives would entertain the group before the campfire in the evenings. Here Stanley culls the best of the stories, especially those which seemed utterly indigenous to the area. Most of the stories have a moral and he tried to retain their original local linguistic charm. Some of the stories included in this collection are: “The Creation of Man”, “King Gumbi and His Lost Daughter”, and “The Search for the Home of the Sun.” Writes Stanley in the foreword, “ The following legends are the choicest and most curious of those that were related to me during seventeen years, and which have not been hitherto published in any of my books of travel... As these few, now about to be published, are not wholly devoid of a certain merit as examples of Central African lore, and oral literature, I have thought it best to consider myself only as a translator and to render them into English with as direct and true a version as possible.” $175.

With Three Very Important Autograph Letters The Curse of Central Africa - An Important Association Copy Capt. Guy Burrows Exposes Colonialism in the Congo A Fine First Edition of this Rare and Significant Work With Autographs of Henry M. Stanley, Cloesen and Bullinger 38A [Stanley, Henry M.; Cloesen; Bullinger and Hoffman, Wm.]; Burrows, Capt. Guy. THE CURSE OF CENTRAL AFRICA with which is included “A Campaign Amongst Cannibals” by Edgar Canisius. (London: R.A. Everett & Co, Ltd., 1903) First edition, early impression. A copy with outstanding provenance and an important Association Copy and a Presentation Copy. The Volume is Autographed and Presented by the publisher and signed by the recipient, William Hoffman, himself a noteworthy explorer who accompanied Stanley to Africa. Three historically significant letters are tipped into the volume including one from Stanley himself, which refers directly to Capt. Burrows, the author of the book as well as to the Congo State and the ‘proposal to push the new Railway from Stanleyville East.” A second letter from Lieutenant Cloesen, Chef de Zone and dated Feb. 1893, from Wells River, Central Africa states in part that “The Arabs are in great numbr with plenty of guns, close to Nyangara....Nyangara will try and give them a hiding. WE SHALL HAVE TO MAKE WAR WITH THE ARABS.” The last letter from Bullinger, dated May 25 1899, Mogandjo, Africa, refers to the state of the author’s health: “Awfully glad to hear Burrows is on the mend... please send me 1000 cartridges. I have 110 out emposte & only about 600 odd here. Thanks for the fusils a piston”. Over 100 illustrations from photographs, one sketch map, one colour folding map. 8vo, publisher’s original dark red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, light blue and gilt image of a flag with a large single star on upper cover. xxviii, list of illustrations, 276, appendix, index,18

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(publisher’s list) pp. A sturdy and solid copy with expected evidence of use. The owner was one of the group that accompanied Stanley to Africa and it is clear that he used his books and read them with fervour.

FIRST EDITION, RARE AND IMPORTANT AND A COPY WITH ESPECIALLY INTERESTING PROVENANCE AND WITH THE INCLUSION OF THREE HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT LETTERS LINKING BURROWS WITH BULLINGER, CLOESEN, HOFFMAN AND STANLEY. At the turn of the century, the Congo State in Africa was under the colonial rule of the Belgian monarch King Leopold II. In this orgiastic period of Western imperialism, every major power was scrambling for pieces of the newly opened African continent and their careless footsteps tended to leave smaller forces crushed in their wake.

This book is an exposé written by the disgruntled Belgian ex district commissioner of the Aruwimi district of the Congo Free State bluntly describing the “scandalous rule” of the Belgian government in the Congo, complete with illustrations of natives submitting to Belgian torture and accounts of their excessive forced labour. One of the chapters is a section by former Congo State Service agent Edgar Canisius entitled “A Campaign Among Cannibals” in which (despite its formidable title) the author takes a sympathetic stand on the natives with further descriptions of their floggings and mistreatment at the hands of the Belgians. This interesting and detailed narrative brings the reader closer to imperialistic realities and injustices, devoid of much Euro-centric glossing.

There are a great profusion of Stanley-Hoffman documents in Belgium, the RGS London and the Wellcome Library and in the Africa Museum.

Hoffman remained in contact with Stanley for many, many years and was consistently involved with African affairs during his time in Britain. There is an interesting study of the six pygmies from the Congo who were in Britain 1905-1907 and Hoffman was their interpreter for 15 months. He worked for the Force Publique of the Congo Independent State in the 1890s, and was left £300 in Stanley’s will (1904).

Stanley of course wrote many books on his incursions and discoveries in Africa. He was a significant explorer, one of the first British explorers to open up the vast continent to western travelers and interests. He was a friend and colleague of Livingstone and the discoverer of the Congo and the pioneer who made possible the Congo Free State, and finally an elder statesman active in the affairs of the African continent even into the 20th century.

Among his books are: THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT; THE CONGO. FOUNDING OF THE FREE STATE; IN DARKEST AFRICA; MY KALULU; HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE; MY EARLY TRAVELS as well as many others. $5500.

The Creation of the Modern Nation of Egypt Inscribed by the Author - A Copy With Superb Provenance Given to a Highly Important Official in Africa - First Edition 39A White, Arthur Silva. THE EXPANSION OF EGYPT UNDER ANGLO-EGYPTIAN CONDOMINIUM (London: Methuen and Company, 1899) First Edition, INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR TO SIR GEORGE TAUBMAN GOLDIE, the famous Manx administrator who played a major role in the founding of Nigeria. His role was similar to that of Cecil Rhodes elsewhere in Africa though he lacked Rhodes’ thirst for publicity. With outlines and tables and four large folding maps printed in colour. 8vo, original red cloth lettered and decorated on the spine in gilt, the upper cover with gilt rule and decorated with Arabic symbols. xv, 483, 40 ads catalogue pp.. A very handsome and bright copy, the textblock unusually clean and appearing as pristine, just a hint of very minor and occasional aging, the cloth especially well preserved and bright with no fading and no real wear..

FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO THE HERO OF THE NATIONAL AFRICAN COMPANY SIR GEORGE TAUBMAN GOLDIE, DATED 1899.

“The title given to this book sufficiently indicates its scope. Formerly, in the rampant days of Internationalism, there was a Question in Egypt as to her future destiny. That has now been answered - irrevocably - in the terms of British hegemony. But there remains a Problem, as to the means by which Egypt shall achieve her emancipation from International Control. It is a problem that may be dissociated from the direct issues of the Eastern Question, on which it impinges, because the political future of Egypt is no longer enshrouded in doubt. An inexorable law of History commits her to the protection of the leading maritime Power. The events of the last few years confirm this as the natural solution of the Egyptian Problem. The prospects of the future herald it as the highest destiny for Egypt herself Turkish suzerainty is a myth - a diplomatic fiction. International Control is now an anachronism - a tax upon freedom: blackmail, blood-money.” -the author.” $325.

The History of the Zulu Rebellion - First Edition - 1913 One of the Most Classic Struggles Against Colonial Rule 40A [Zulu; Africa]; Stuart, J. A HISTORY OF THE ZULU REBELLION 1906 and of Dinuzulu’s Arrest, Trial and Expatriation. (London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1913) First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full page plates, illustrations within the text, and a number of maps and plans including a number that are folding, a large folding map at the end of the volume. 8vo, publisher’s original maroon cloth, the spine lettered and ruled in gilt, the covers ruled in blind, t.e.g. xvi, 581 including index pp. A good copy indeed, the text-block tight and in good order, the plates and maps all well preserved, the cloth binding with some rubbing.

FIRST EDITION OF THIS CLASSIC WORK ON THE ZULU REVOLT AGAINST BRITISH RULE. It is a story of the struggles and efforts of one of the bravest tribes in Africa to retain possession of its own land and country and to prevent its military and political subjugation by an alien race.

It is a thrilling but exceedingly sad story. The continuity of the narrative make it read like some tale of adventure in fiction, but the names of the chief actors in the story, together with their statements, the dates of important military and political events, the scenes of battles and the territory of tribes, are given and described with such particularity, that there is little room to doubt the authenticity. $235.

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Select Index.

A

Africanus, Leo 6 Alexander, Boyd 10, 11 Andersson, Charles John 11, 55 Arnot, Frederick Stanley 12

B Baikie, William Balfour 12 Baker, Sir Samuel 13, 14 Barnes, James 28 Barrow, John 14 Barth, Henry 15 Bland-Sutton, J. 15 Bruce, James 7, 16 Burchell, William J. 55 Burckhardt, John Lewis 17 Burleigh, Bennet 17 Burrows, Capt. Guy 68 Burton, Capt. Richard F. 4, 8, 10, 17, 18, 49, 56

C Cameron, Verney Lovett. 19, 56 Campbell, John 19, 57 Casati, Major Gaetano. 20 Cetywayo 60 Chanler, William 20 Clapperton, Captain Hugh 21, 22, 58 Coillard, Francois 11 Cooper-Chadwick, J. 58

D Dapper, Olfert. 5 De Filippi, Filippo. 58 De La Caille, M. l’Abbé 22 Denham, Major Dixon 22, 58 Drummond, Henry 23 Du Chaillu, Paul B. 23, 59 Dugmore, A. Radclyffe 23

E Eliot, Sir Charles. 24 Enright, Elizabeth 24

G Geddie, John 59 Gordon, Major General Charles George 24 Grant, Capt. James 25, 49 Grenfell, George 60, 61

H Haggard, H. Rider 60 Hall, F.R.G.S., R. N 60 (617) 536-4433

Harris, Captain W. Cornwalli 6 Hawker, George 60 Head, Major F. B. 16 Hoskins, G. A. 9

J James, F. L. 60 Jameson, James S. 25 Johnson, T. Broadwood 25 Johnston, James 26 Johnston, Sir Harry 26, 27, 55, 61, 62 Jones, Charles. 62 Junker, Dr. Wilhelm 27 Junod, Henry A. 62

K Kearton, Cherry 28 Kerr, Walter Montagu 29 Kidd, Dudley 29 Kilimanjaro 8 Knight-Bruce, G.W.H. 63 Kolbe, Peter 29, 30 Krapf, J. Lewis 30 Kruger, Paul 63

L Lander, Richard 21 Lander, Richard and John 63 Leonis, Joannis 6 Le Vaillant, Francois 31 Livingstone, David 31, 32, 46, 64 Lloyd, Albert B. 33 Lobengula 58 Long, Col. C. Chaillé 33 Lugard, Captain F.D. 33

M Mackintosh, C.W. 11 Mandela, Nelson 34 Maxwell, Marius 34 Mecklenburg, The Duke of 64 Meyer, Hans 8 Millais, John Guille 35 Moffat, Robert 35 Mollien, Gaspard Theodore 36 Moore, J.E.S. 36 Murray, Hugh. 37

N New, Charles 37

O Owen, Captain W. F. W. 37

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Parke, Thomas Heazle 65 Park, Mungo 9, 38, 65 Parkyns, Mansfield 39 Pasha, Rudolf C. Slatin 39, 44 Patterson, Lieut.-Col. J. H. 39, 40 Percival, Capt. Robert. 40 Peters, Dr. Carl 66 Petherick, John 41 Portal, Gerald H. 41

R Railway, Cape to Cairo 53 Reade, Winwood 41, 42 Roosevelt, Theodore 42 Roscoe, Rev. John 43

S Salt, Henry 43 Savage-Landor, A. Henry 43 Schillings, C.G. 44 Schön, James 44 Sclater, Philip 7 Selous, Frederick Courteney 66, 67 Slatin Pasha, Rudolf C. 39, 44 Sparrman, Andrew. 5 Speke, Capt. John H. 10, 45, 49 Stanley, Dorothy 49 Stanley, Henry M. 3, 45, 46, 47, 48, 4 9, 53, 67, 68 Steedman, Andrew 49 Stevenson-Hamilton, Major J. 50 Stuart, J. 69

T Thomson, Joseph 50, 51, 65 Thomson, Rev. J. B. 51 Tonga 62 Tremearne, Major A. J. N. 51 Tucker, A.R. 51, 52 Tuckey, Captain J.K. 52

V Von Blomber, P.D. 52 Von Wissmann, Hermann 53

W Waller, Horace 32 Wauters, A. J. 53 Weinthal, Leo 53 Wellby, Captain M.S. 54 Werne, Ferdinand 54 White, Arthur Silva 69 William, Prince of Sweden. 54

Z Zulu 69

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