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EGYPT 1929.
David & Charles, Newton Abbot/Hippocrene Books Inc., New York, 1984. Facsimile Reprint of 1929 8th Revised Ed. ccviii + 495pp. + [iii]. 106 maps and plans including several folding, 56 woodcuts. Bookplate, sl. chipped d/w. faded to spine.
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THE ALBERT N’YANZA, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources.
Macmillan and Co., 1866. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xxx + 395pp. + ix + 384pp. Port. frontis., tinted litho. frontis., 2 maps including 1 folding, 12 plates (one not listed), many ills. Some light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, extremities rubbed, dec. gilt ruling and filleting to spines with (modern) gilt lettered labels, spines rubbed with loss across tail of spine of vol. 1.
¶ The discovery of the Albert N'Yanza was the most remarkable feat accomplished in Baker's adventurous career; the work of Speke and Grant was completed and the source of the Nile freed from mystery. D.N.B.
¶ The discovery of the Albert N'Yanza was the most remarkable feat accomplished in Baker's adventurous career; the work of Speke and Grant was completed and the source of the Nile freed from mystery. D.N.B.
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THE LIFE OF EDMUND MUSGRAVE BARTTELOT Captain and Brevet-Major Royal Fusiliers Commander of the Rear Column of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Being An Account of His Services for the Relief of Kandahar, of Gordon, and of Emin From his Letters and Diary.
Richard Bentley and Son, 1890. 1st Ed. xi + [iv] + 413pp. Mounted photographic port. frontis., 2 folding maps, 3 plates. Some very sl. browning, rebound in red half leather with marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine.
¶ After the return of expedition-members to Europe and America, Barttelot's alleged abusive and incompetent behaviour was widely reported. In response, Barttelot's brother, Walter George Barttelot edited the diaries of his brother, defending his reputation and adding some biting comments on Stanley's behaviour.
¶ After the return of expedition-members to Europe and America, Barttelot's alleged abusive and incompetent behaviour was widely reported. In response, Barttelot's brother, Walter George Barttelot edited the diaries of his brother, defending his reputation and adding some biting comments on Stanley's behaviour.
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EGYPTIAN SEPULCHRES AND SYRIAN SHRINES, Including a Visit to Palmyra.
Macmillan and Co., 1874. New Ed. ix + 546pp. + [ii] + 32pp. publ. catalogue (dated September 1874). Unopened, half title and t.p. creased, browning, ex.-libris Oban Scientific & Literary Association, original gilt lettered black tooled red cloth, soiled, corners bumped, spine chipped with remains of label to tail.
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AFRICAN MEMORANDA: Relative to an Attempt to Establish A British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, On the Western Coast of Africa, in the year 1792. With a Brief Notice of the Neighbouring Tribes, Soil Productions, &c. And Some Observations on The Facility of Colonizing that part of Africa, with a View to Cultivation: and the Introduction of Letters and Religion to its Inhabitants: But More Particularly as the Means of Gradually Abolishing African Slavery.
London: Printed for C. and R. Baldwin ..., 1805. 1st Ed. 4to. [viii] + xv + 500pp. Folding section, folding plan, folding map (repaired to verso). Signature DD2 silked, repair at gutter hinge to t.p., faint ink stamp to verso of t.p. and to one margin, light browning, rebound in modern calf backed marbled boards, gilt lettering to spine.
¶ Philip Beaver (1766–1813), naval officer. ODNB ‘... At the end of 1791 Beaver participated in a scheme for colonizing the island of Bulama, near Sierra Leone. He left England for Bulama on 14 April 1792, but the whole affair seems from the beginning to have been conducted without forethought or knowledge. The would-be settlers were, for the most part, idle and dissipated. Beaver found himself at sea in command of a vessel of 260 tons, with sixty-five men, twenty-four women, and thirty-one children, mostly seasick and all useless. When they landed, anything like discipline was unattainable. The party, assembled on shore, had no conception of law, hard work, or discipline. The directors lost heart and returned to England. The command devolved on Beaver, and for eighteen months he attempted to maintain the settlement, but most of the colonists died. The miserable survivors left in November 1793, and went to Sierra Leone, from where Beaver obtained a passage to England, and arrived at Plymouth on 17 May 1794. He published an account of his Bulama experiences [as the above] ...’
¶ Philip Beaver (1766–1813), naval officer. ODNB ‘... At the end of 1791 Beaver participated in a scheme for colonizing the island of Bulama, near Sierra Leone. He left England for Bulama on 14 April 1792, but the whole affair seems from the beginning to have been conducted without forethought or knowledge. The would-be settlers were, for the most part, idle and dissipated. Beaver found himself at sea in command of a vessel of 260 tons, with sixty-five men, twenty-four women, and thirty-one children, mostly seasick and all useless. When they landed, anything like discipline was unattainable. The party, assembled on shore, had no conception of law, hard work, or discipline. The directors lost heart and returned to England. The command devolved on Beaver, and for eighteen months he attempted to maintain the settlement, but most of the colonists died. The miserable survivors left in November 1793, and went to Sierra Leone, from where Beaver obtained a passage to England, and arrived at Plymouth on 17 May 1794. He published an account of his Bulama experiences [as the above] ...’
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BELZONI’S TRAVELS. Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries in Egypt and Nubia. Edited by Alberto Siliotti. Translated by Richard Pierce.
British Museum Press, 2001. Large 4to. 336pp. Over 100 colour and 300 b/w. ills. Illus. e.ps., good in d/w.
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LES PREMIERS COLONS De Souche Européenne dans l’Afrique du Nord. Essair historique sur les origines de certaines populations berbères d’après les documents égyptiens et les écrivains de l’antiquité.
Tunis Imprimerie Rapide (Louis Nicolas et Cie) ..., 1898. Large 8vo. 156pp. French text. Annotations and underlining throughout in several hands, from the Library of Dr James Bynon, bound in modern gilt lettered black cloth.
¶ Extrait de ‘La Revue Tunisienne, organe de l’Institut de Carthage.
¶ Extrait de ‘La Revue Tunisienne, organe de l’Institut de Carthage.
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ALEXANDRIE II. Inscriptions des Factions à Alexandre.
PWN Editions Scientifiques de Pologne Varsovie, 1981. 1st Ed. 4to. French text. 146pp. 74 figures. Chipped and marked d/w. with marginal loss.
¶ From the library of A.J. Mills (Egyptologist). Centre d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l’académie Polonaise des Sciences et Centre Polonais d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne dans la République Arabe d’Égypte au Caire.
¶ From the library of A.J. Mills (Egyptologist). Centre d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne de l’académie Polonaise des Sciences et Centre Polonais d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne dans la République Arabe d’Égypte au Caire.
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A HISTORY OF EGYPT. From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest.
Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. 2nd Ed., Fully Revised. Large 8vo. [xxxii] + 634pp. Colour frontis., 186 figures mainly from photos., 13 maps including 1 folding. Some very light marginal browning, bookplate, top-edge of leaves sl. spotted, ownership signature, original silver lettered dec. light blue cloth, some minor rubbing, spine very lightly browned and sl. bumped.
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TRAVELS IN AFRICA, EGYPT, AND SYRIA, From the Year 1792 to 1798.
T. Cadell ..., 1799. 1st Ed. 4to. xxxviii + 496pp. [Lacking frontis.], 2 folding maps (with tears at hinges), plan. Some light browning, upto pp.100 and pp.420 onwards with light waterstain to leading corner, with the signatures of E.W. Johnson, Pauline Webb and another, ex.-libris Thomas Allnutt, contemporary marbled boards, some surface wear and soiling, rebacked and recornered in speckled calf, gilt ruling and gilt lettered label to spine.
¶ William George Browne (1768–1813). Brown, who contributed important information on the course of the Nile, underwent considerable hardships whilst accompanying the Soudan caravan to Darfur, a country not previously visited by Europeans. The book was received unfavourably due partly to the author's unimaginative though accurate style, but chiefly to his claim that Eastern manners and customs excelled over those in Europe at that time. ESTC T83753.
¶ William George Browne (1768–1813). Brown, who contributed important information on the course of the Nile, underwent considerable hardships whilst accompanying the Soudan caravan to Darfur, a country not previously visited by Europeans. The book was received unfavourably due partly to the author's unimaginative though accurate style, but chiefly to his claim that Eastern manners and customs excelled over those in Europe at that time. ESTC T83753.
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TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD. A Personal Narrative. Volume II [only].
Chatto & Windus, 1883. 1st Ed. vi + 381pp. Chromolitho. frontis., dec. e.ps., contemporary half morocco with cloth boards, some wear, gilt lettered spine.
¶ Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: ‘... an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron, who was the first European to cross central Africa (1873-75) to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River ... Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second ...’ With the bookplate of Ernest Terah Hooley (1859–1947) English financial fraudster. He achieved wealth and fame by buying promising companies and reselling them to the public at inflated prices, but a prosecution exposed his deceitful practices. He was made bankrupt four times and served two prison terms. Hooley was the developer of the world's first industrial park, Trafford Park on the outskirts of Manchester.
¶ Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: ‘... an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron, who was the first European to cross central Africa (1873-75) to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River ... Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second ...’ With the bookplate of Ernest Terah Hooley (1859–1947) English financial fraudster. He achieved wealth and fame by buying promising companies and reselling them to the public at inflated prices, but a prosecution exposed his deceitful practices. He was made bankrupt four times and served two prison terms. Hooley was the developer of the world's first industrial park, Trafford Park on the outskirts of Manchester.
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OUT OF THE CRUCIBLE. Being the Romantic Story of the Witwatersrand Goldfields; and of the Great City which arose in their midst.
Cassell and Co., 1929. Reprint. xiii + 274pp. Port. frontis. and 15 plates by William M. Timlin. Front f.e.p. neatly cut away, torn d/w. chipped and browned.
¶ Inscribed to flyleaf ‘To that very charming artist Miss Gladys Spencer in memory of the defeat she inflicted on me in debate on the evening of June 20 1932 - a little tribute! From Hedley A. Chilvers.’
¶ Inscribed to flyleaf ‘To that very charming artist Miss Gladys Spencer in memory of the defeat she inflicted on me in debate on the evening of June 20 1932 - a little tribute! From Hedley A. Chilvers.’
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RÉPERTOIRE ALPHABÉTIQUE DES PRINCIPALES LOCALITÉS Mentionées dans le Compendium et le Conspectus Floræ Atlanticæ, Avec Deux Carters Botaniques de l’Algérie et des Notices sur ces Cartes.
Paris G. Masson, Libraire-Éditeur, 1882. 2nd Ed. 142pp. + [i]. 2 folding colour linen backed maps. French text. From the Library of Dr James Bynon, some browning to linen, text volume in cloth backed lilac boards with paper title label to spine, enclosed in cloth slipcase, split at tail.
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SEVEN PRIVATE TOMBS AT KURNAH. Edited by Alan H. Gardiner.
Printed at the Charges of Lady Mond and Published by the Exploration Society London, 1948. 1st Ed. Large Folio. x + 59pp. 41 plates including several double page and 4 colour [Lacking plate 29, with an additional plate 23 bound in in its place, binding error]. Light marginal browning, e.ps. lightly spotted, original gilt lettered beige cloth, lower board lightly dampstained, sl. marking, cloth repair to tail of upper board, corners sl. bumped.
¶ From the library of A.J. Mills (Egyptologist). Mond Excavations at Thebes II. In the course of the excavations made by Mond most of the seven tombs were uncovered or cleared, they were situated near the Ramose Tomb.
¶ From the library of A.J. Mills (Egyptologist). Mond Excavations at Thebes II. In the course of the excavations made by Mond most of the seven tombs were uncovered or cleared, they were situated near the Ramose Tomb.
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RUINED CITIES Within Numidian and Cathaginian Territories.
John Murray, 1862. 1st Ed. xiv + [i] + 391pp. + 12pp. publ. list. 8 plates, 4 ills., folding map. Some light browning, dec. e.ps., original blue ribbed with gilt device to upper board, sl. rubbed, some darkening and marking, rebacked with much of spine laid down.
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