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	BAKER, SAMUEL WHITE: Ismalia. Beraettelse om den af Isamail, Khediv af Egypten, foer undertryckande af slafhandeln i Centralafrika utsaende expedition. Stockholm 1875. Pp. (iv), 398, (2). With 2 maps and 60 illustrations (of which 41 full-page). Contemporary half calf, rubbed. A slightly worn copy. A Swedish edition translated by C.A. Swahn from the English (London 1874). Cf Ibrahim-Hilmy i, p.49. € (euro) 140.00 [Appr.: US$ 210.84 \| £UK 127.5 \| JP¥ 18159] Book number: 15102 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BALSEMAO, EDUARDO AGUSTO DE SÇ NOGUEIRA PINTO DE: Os Escravos. Duas palavras sobre a memoria publicada pel sr. Juiz Carlos Pacheco de Bettencourt, çcerca da abolicao da escrauidao. Loanda, Imprensa do Govérno, 1867. Pp. 15. As issued, loose in modern marbled wrappers. Housed in a matching marbled paper box, quarter morocco, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rare imprint from Loanda (Angola). Printing in Angola started at this press in 1845. € (euro) 1000.00 [Appr.: US$ 1506 \| £UK 910.25 \| JP¥ 129705] Book number: 22035 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BARTH, HEINRICH: 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. Five volumes. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. Pp. xxxvi, 578, adv. 26; xii, 676; xii, 635; xiv, 641, adv. 26; xii, 694, (2). With 15 folding maps, 60 chromolithographed plates protected with tissue guards and numerous illustrations in the text. Small library stamp on verso of title pages and in a few more places. Modern half calf on green cloth, spines with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Spines slightly faded. First English edition, published simultaneously with the German (Gotha 1857-8), of one of the most important works on African exploration. In 1850 Barth, German geographer and historian, joined the British expedition headed by James Richardson setting out from Tripoli across Sahara. The main goal for the expedition was to explore Lahe Chad in sub-Saharan Central Africa. Richardson died not far from their goal Lake Chad and Barth was then designated as leader of the expedition. Barth was different from other explorers because he was interested in the history and culture of the Africans peoples and he scrupulosly studied the topography, history, languages, resources of the countries he visited. This narrative contains a detailed record of his travels and of the countries and tribes along the route with a special interest in regional economics and the impact of slave trade. Barth made detailed maps of the area. A handsome copy. Abbey Travel 274. Gay 207. Hilmy i, p. 53. € (euro) 4800.00 [Appr.: US$ 7228.8 \| £UK 4368.25 \| JP¥ 622584] Book number: 40048 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DU CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI: Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa; with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chace of the gorilla, leopard, elephant, hippotamus, and other animals. London, John Murray, 1861. Pp. xviii, 479, adv. 32. With folding frontispiece of a Gorilla, one folding map (with some tears), 27 full page plates and 45 more illustrations in the text. One leaf with marginal repair (no loss). Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed and neatly restored. Inscribed by the author (to Juhlin Dannfelt dated Stockholm October 30, 1871). First edition of this famous account of the gorilla. Paul Du Chaillu (1835-1903) spent four years on this, his first expedition into Central Africa. He made several important discoveries regarding the natives and animals, and he collected a vast number of specimens of birds, animals and fauna. Hosken p. 63. Kainbacher p. 43. Ibrahim-Hilmy i, p. 194. € (euro) 760.00 [Appr.: US$ 1144.56 \| £UK 691.75 \| JP¥ 98576] Book number: 99584 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAHLGREN, E.W. ETC: Anteckningar af och om svenska Kongofarare. (Ur Ymer 1886). Stockholm 1887. Pp. (ii), 147, (1). With many illustrations in the text. Modern half cloth on marbled boards. Contains lectures and essays by G. Pagels, A. Wester, E. Gleerup, E.W. Dahlgren and E. Ekhoff. Deals with Swedish travellers to Congo; customs and manners of the natives; nature and ethnographical issues. € (euro) 120.00 [Appr.: US$ 180.72 \| £UK 109.25 \| JP¥ 15565] Book number: 16040 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DRUMMOND, H.: Central-Afrika. Stockholm 1890. Small 8vo. Pp. 194. With one coloured large folding map and 8 plates. Old inscriptions on title. Modern half calf. A Swedish translation. € (euro) 60.00 [Appr.: US$ 90.36 \| £UK 54.75 \| JP¥ 7782] Book number: 15069 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DUBEN (DÜBEN, DUEBEN), C. VON: Forskningarna i Central-Afrika. Stockholm 1878. Pp.148. With a large folding map (in a pocket). Cloth. A Swedish translation of the English "Science Primers", mainly published for school use. € (euro) 50.00 [Appr.: US$ 75.3 \| £UK 45.75 \| JP¥ 6485] Book number: 14216 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DE FILIPPI, FILIPPO (EDITOR) / PRINCE LUDWIG AMADEUS OF SAVOY: Der Ruwenzori. Erforschung und erste Ersteigung seiner höchsten Gipfel. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1909. Pp. xii, 471. With one folding coloured map, 2 folding panoramas, 25 full page plates and many textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth. A mint copy of the first German edition. This is a classic mountaineering work of a scientific expedition to the Ruwenzori on the borders of Congo and Uganda in 1906. These snowy mountains drain into the lakes that feed the Nile, making them the true source of the river. Many explorers had tried to ascend these peaks but had never succeded. The Duke's expedition was the first to truly explore and document the range. € (euro) 450.00 [Appr.: US$ 677.7 \| £UK 409.75 \| JP¥ 58367] Book number: 32022 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	LAMAN, KARL EDVARD: Lärobok i Kongospråket (Kikongo). Stockholm, Svenska Missionsförbundets Expedition, 1912. Pp. xxvi, 336, (2). Original red cloth. First edition of this textbook on the Congo language. At the turn of the 20th century the Swedish mission was the largest of all missions in the Lower Congo. The author, a Swedish missionary, came to Congo in 1891 where he worked for six years at the Kibunzi missionary station and later on at Mukimbungu. He published a vast number of linguistic works and he also made a translation of the Bible. € (euro) 160.00 [Appr.: US$ 240.96 \| £UK 145.75 \| JP¥ 20753] Book number: 99576 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	TYPES DE RACES NÉGRES. TYPES DE RACES NéGRES. Prime offerte aux souscripteurs de l'ouvrage les Belges dans l'Afrique centrale. 1891. Bruxelles, P. Maes, 1891. Tall 8vo. Portfolio with 16 chromo-lithographed plates after Belloguet by A. Mertens. Loose as issued. Each protected by tissue guards (one missing). With some marginal stain. Original boards, decorated in gold and black, rubbed and slightly soiled. The plates depict: Le Roi Mpanga; La Sultane de Simbamouenni; Cannibale (environs de Stanley-Falls); Guerrier Vouatouta; Chef Guerrier (Côte occidentale du Lac Tanganika); Au marché de Soma; Saïd Bargash (Sultan de Zanzibar); Le Roi de Tchoumbiri; Ibaka (Roi de Bolobo); Mirambo (Empereur des Rougas-Rougas); Ganchu, Roi Bateké; Le Roi Plenty; Chef Guerrier de l'Ouhha; Chef des Bayanzi; Homme & Femme de l'Ougogo and; Sorcier. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 451.8 \| £UK 273.25 \| JP¥ 38912] Book number: 32011 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	PINTO, MAJOR SERPA: Tvärs genom Afrika. Från Atlantiska till Indiska oceanen genom okända land; upptäckt af den stora Zambesis bifloder o.s.v. Two volumes. Stockholm 1881. Pp. (ii), vi, (ii), 376; vi, (ii), 386. With 9 maps, 24 full page plates and many more illustrations in the text. With the unusual separately published large coloured map, loosely inserted. The map has small tears at fold and one larger one, also at fold (no loss). Publisher's pictorial cloth in printed dustwrappers. Some minor staining. A Swedish edition, translated from the English by C.A.Swahn, of Pinto's account of the Portugese expedition to explore South Central Africa. Cf Mendelssohn p.168. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 451.8 \| £UK 273.25 \| JP¥ 38912] Book number: 99846 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	STANLEY, HENRY MORTON: I det mörkaste Afrika. Emin Paschas uppsökande, befrielse och återtåg. Two volumes. Stockholm 1890. Pp. xv, 559; xiv, 550. With 3 folding maps and 144 illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Top of spines slightly chipped. A Swedish edition of "In Darkest Africa" published by E.W. Dahlgren. € (euro) 220.00 [Appr.: US$ 331.32 \| £UK 200.25 \| JP¥ 28535] Book number: 15005 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	STANLEY, HENRY MORTON: Im dunkelsten Afrika. Aufsuchung, Rettung und Rückzug Emin Pascha's, Gouverneurs der Aequatorialprovinz. Two volumes. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1890. Pp. xii, 515, (1); viii, 480, (8) adv. With two portraits, one folding facsimile letter, 3 maps, 36 full page plates and many more textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Small library stamp verso of titles. First German edition, translated from the English by H. von Wobeser. This narrative is from Stanley's last African expedition. He travelled up the Congo River and crossed central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha. He explored the Semliki River and made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range and completed the journey in Zanzibar in 1889. The facismile letter is only included in the German edition. A great copy. Borst 3873. Kainbacher p. 133. € (euro) 280.00 [Appr.: US$ 421.68 \| £UK 255 \| JP¥ 36317] Book number: 26044 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	STANLEY, HENRY MORTON: Kongo den nya fristaten i de svartes verldsdel. En skildring af forskningsfärder och koloniseringsarbete. Two volumes. Stockholm 1885. Pp. (iv), 404; 368. With two frontispieces, 40 full page plates, 5 folding maps and many more illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. First volume loose in binding. A Swedish edition of "The Congo and the Foundings of its Free State: ... "(London 1885). This expedition commissioned by the Belgian king Leopold II resulted in the establishment of the Congo State, the first free commercial state of Equatorial Africa. € (euro) 140.00 [Appr.: US$ 210.84 \| £UK 127.5 \| JP¥ 18159] Book number: 111117 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.

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	BAKER, SAMUEL WHITE: Ismalia. Beraettelse om den af Isamail, Khediv af Egypten, foer undertryckande af slafhandeln i Centralafrika utsaende expedition. Stockholm 1875. Pp. (iv), 398, (2). With 2 maps and 60 illustrations (of which 41 full-page). Contemporary half calf, rubbed. A slightly worn copy. A Swedish edition translated by C.A. Swahn from the English (London 1874). Cf Ibrahim-Hilmy i, p.49. € (euro) 140.00 [Appr.: US$ 210.84 \| £UK 127.5 \| JP¥ 18159] Book number: 15102 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BALSEMAO, EDUARDO AGUSTO DE SÇ NOGUEIRA PINTO DE: Os Escravos. Duas palavras sobre a memoria publicada pel sr. Juiz Carlos Pacheco de Bettencourt, çcerca da abolicao da escrauidao. Loanda, Imprensa do Govérno, 1867. Pp. 15. As issued, loose in modern marbled wrappers. Housed in a matching marbled paper box, quarter morocco, spine with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Rare imprint from Loanda (Angola). Printing in Angola started at this press in 1845. € (euro) 1000.00 [Appr.: US$ 1506 \| £UK 910.25 \| JP¥ 129705] Book number: 22035 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	BARTH, HEINRICH: 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. Five volumes. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1857. Pp. xxxvi, 578, adv. 26; xii, 676; xii, 635; xiv, 641, adv. 26; xii, 694, (2). With 15 folding maps, 60 chromolithographed plates protected with tissue guards and numerous illustrations in the text. Small library stamp on verso of title pages and in a few more places. Modern half calf on green cloth, spines with five raised bands, ruled and lettered in gilt. Spines slightly faded. First English edition, published simultaneously with the German (Gotha 1857-8), of one of the most important works on African exploration. In 1850 Barth, German geographer and historian, joined the British expedition headed by James Richardson setting out from Tripoli across Sahara. The main goal for the expedition was to explore Lahe Chad in sub-Saharan Central Africa. Richardson died not far from their goal Lake Chad and Barth was then designated as leader of the expedition. Barth was different from other explorers because he was interested in the history and culture of the Africans peoples and he scrupulosly studied the topography, history, languages, resources of the countries he visited. This narrative contains a detailed record of his travels and of the countries and tribes along the route with a special interest in regional economics and the impact of slave trade. Barth made detailed maps of the area. A handsome copy. Abbey Travel 274. Gay 207. Hilmy i, p. 53. € (euro) 4800.00 [Appr.: US$ 7228.8 \| £UK 4368.25 \| JP¥ 622584] Book number: 40048 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DU CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI: Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa; with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chace of the gorilla, leopard, elephant, hippotamus, and other animals. London, John Murray, 1861. Pp. xviii, 479, adv. 32. With folding frontispiece of a Gorilla, one folding map (with some tears), 27 full page plates and 45 more illustrations in the text. One leaf with marginal repair (no loss). Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed and neatly restored. Inscribed by the author (to Juhlin Dannfelt dated Stockholm October 30, 1871). First edition of this famous account of the gorilla. Paul Du Chaillu (1835-1903) spent four years on this, his first expedition into Central Africa. He made several important discoveries regarding the natives and animals, and he collected a vast number of specimens of birds, animals and fauna. Hosken p. 63. Kainbacher p. 43. Ibrahim-Hilmy i, p. 194. € (euro) 760.00 [Appr.: US$ 1144.56 \| £UK 691.75 \| JP¥ 98576] Book number: 99584 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DAHLGREN, E.W. ETC: Anteckningar af och om svenska Kongofarare. (Ur Ymer 1886). Stockholm 1887. Pp. (ii), 147, (1). With many illustrations in the text. Modern half cloth on marbled boards. Contains lectures and essays by G. Pagels, A. Wester, E. Gleerup, E.W. Dahlgren and E. Ekhoff. Deals with Swedish travellers to Congo; customs and manners of the natives; nature and ethnographical issues. € (euro) 120.00 [Appr.: US$ 180.72 \| £UK 109.25 \| JP¥ 15565] Book number: 16040 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DRUMMOND, H.: Central-Afrika. Stockholm 1890. Small 8vo. Pp. 194. With one coloured large folding map and 8 plates. Old inscriptions on title. Modern half calf. A Swedish translation. € (euro) 60.00 [Appr.: US$ 90.36 \| £UK 54.75 \| JP¥ 7782] Book number: 15069 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DUBEN (DÜBEN, DUEBEN), C. VON: Forskningarna i Central-Afrika. Stockholm 1878. Pp.148. With a large folding map (in a pocket). Cloth. A Swedish translation of the English "Science Primers", mainly published for school use. € (euro) 50.00 [Appr.: US$ 75.3 \| £UK 45.75 \| JP¥ 6485] Book number: 14216 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	DE FILIPPI, FILIPPO (EDITOR) / PRINCE LUDWIG AMADEUS OF SAVOY: Der Ruwenzori. Erforschung und erste Ersteigung seiner höchsten Gipfel. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1909. Pp. xii, 471. With one folding coloured map, 2 folding panoramas, 25 full page plates and many textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth. A mint copy of the first German edition. This is a classic mountaineering work of a scientific expedition to the Ruwenzori on the borders of Congo and Uganda in 1906. These snowy mountains drain into the lakes that feed the Nile, making them the true source of the river. Many explorers had tried to ascend these peaks but had never succeded. The Duke's expedition was the first to truly explore and document the range. € (euro) 450.00 [Appr.: US$ 677.7 \| £UK 409.75 \| JP¥ 58367] Book number: 32022 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	LAMAN, KARL EDVARD: Lärobok i Kongospråket (Kikongo). Stockholm, Svenska Missionsförbundets Expedition, 1912. Pp. xxvi, 336, (2). Original red cloth. First edition of this textbook on the Congo language. At the turn of the 20th century the Swedish mission was the largest of all missions in the Lower Congo. The author, a Swedish missionary, came to Congo in 1891 where he worked for six years at the Kibunzi missionary station and later on at Mukimbungu. He published a vast number of linguistic works and he also made a translation of the Bible. € (euro) 160.00 [Appr.: US$ 240.96 \| £UK 145.75 \| JP¥ 20753] Book number: 99576 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	TYPES DE RACES NÉGRES. TYPES DE RACES NéGRES. Prime offerte aux souscripteurs de l'ouvrage les Belges dans l'Afrique centrale. 1891. Bruxelles, P. Maes, 1891. Tall 8vo. Portfolio with 16 chromo-lithographed plates after Belloguet by A. Mertens. Loose as issued. Each protected by tissue guards (one missing). With some marginal stain. Original boards, decorated in gold and black, rubbed and slightly soiled. The plates depict: Le Roi Mpanga; La Sultane de Simbamouenni; Cannibale (environs de Stanley-Falls); Guerrier Vouatouta; Chef Guerrier (Côte occidentale du Lac Tanganika); Au marché de Soma; Saïd Bargash (Sultan de Zanzibar); Le Roi de Tchoumbiri; Ibaka (Roi de Bolobo); Mirambo (Empereur des Rougas-Rougas); Ganchu, Roi Bateké; Le Roi Plenty; Chef Guerrier de l'Ouhha; Chef des Bayanzi; Homme & Femme de l'Ougogo and; Sorcier. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 451.8 \| £UK 273.25 \| JP¥ 38912] Book number: 32011 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	PINTO, MAJOR SERPA: Tvärs genom Afrika. Från Atlantiska till Indiska oceanen genom okända land; upptäckt af den stora Zambesis bifloder o.s.v. Two volumes. Stockholm 1881. Pp. (ii), vi, (ii), 376; vi, (ii), 386. With 9 maps, 24 full page plates and many more illustrations in the text. With the unusual separately published large coloured map, loosely inserted. The map has small tears at fold and one larger one, also at fold (no loss). Publisher's pictorial cloth in printed dustwrappers. Some minor staining. A Swedish edition, translated from the English by C.A.Swahn, of Pinto's account of the Portugese expedition to explore South Central Africa. Cf Mendelssohn p.168. € (euro) 300.00 [Appr.: US$ 451.8 \| £UK 273.25 \| JP¥ 38912] Book number: 99846 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	STANLEY, HENRY MORTON: I det mörkaste Afrika. Emin Paschas uppsökande, befrielse och återtåg. Two volumes. Stockholm 1890. Pp. xv, 559; xiv, 550. With 3 folding maps and 144 illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Top of spines slightly chipped. A Swedish edition of "In Darkest Africa" published by E.W. Dahlgren. € (euro) 220.00 [Appr.: US$ 331.32 \| £UK 200.25 \| JP¥ 28535] Book number: 15005 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	STANLEY, HENRY MORTON: Im dunkelsten Afrika. Aufsuchung, Rettung und Rückzug Emin Pascha's, Gouverneurs der Aequatorialprovinz. Two volumes. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1890. Pp. xii, 515, (1); viii, 480, (8) adv. With two portraits, one folding facsimile letter, 3 maps, 36 full page plates and many more textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Small library stamp verso of titles. First German edition, translated from the English by H. von Wobeser. This narrative is from Stanley's last African expedition. He travelled up the Congo River and crossed central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha. He explored the Semliki River and made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range and completed the journey in Zanzibar in 1889. The facismile letter is only included in the German edition. A great copy. Borst 3873. Kainbacher p. 133. € (euro) 280.00 [Appr.: US$ 421.68 \| £UK 255 \| JP¥ 36317] Book number: 26044 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.
	STANLEY, HENRY MORTON: Kongo den nya fristaten i de svartes verldsdel. En skildring af forskningsfärder och koloniseringsarbete. Two volumes. Stockholm 1885. Pp. (iv), 404; 368. With two frontispieces, 40 full page plates, 5 folding maps and many more illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. First volume loose in binding. A Swedish edition of "The Congo and the Foundings of its Free State: ... "(London 1885). This expedition commissioned by the Belgian king Leopold II resulted in the establishment of the Congo State, the first free commercial state of Equatorial Africa. € (euro) 140.00 [Appr.: US$ 210.84 \| £UK 127.5 \| JP¥ 18159] Book number: 111117 Click here to order or inquire at Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books.