ALLEN, WILLIAM & THOMSON, T.R.H.:

A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majesty's Government to the River Niger, in 1841, under the of Command by Captain H.D. Trotter. Two volumes. London, Richard Bentley, 1848.

. Pp. xviii, (ii), 510; viii, 512. With three maps, sixteen engraved plates and many woodcut illustrations in the text. Contemporary full calf, covers ruled in gilt, flat spines richly gilt and with title labels, extremities lightly rubbed, hinges weak but firm, marbled end papers, marbled edges. First edition of an interesting account of the exploration of Niger with information about the natural history of the region and of the different tribes.The British Niger Expedition of 1841 was commissioned by the government to explore the course of the River Niger and make trade treaties with the local rulers to prohibit the slave trade. However, the expedition was forced to end prematurely when most of the crew were struck down with fever. Despite this Commander Allen succeeded in signing three treaties with the most influential potentates on the river. Hess & Coger 6939. De Gramont p.207.

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Book number: 121001

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, exploration, niger, western africa, slave trade, slavery

[WRIGHT, GEORGE NEWENHAM] / ALLOM, THOMAS (Artist):

China; historisch, romantisch, malerisch. Carlsruhe, im Kunst-Verlag, [1843-44].

. Pp. xlviii, 351. Complete with engraved title and 35 steel engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, flat spine decorated in gilt and with title label, gilt and marbled deges, extremities rubbed, binding shaken with front hinge cracked. First German edition, which is an abridgement from the original English (1843). The beautiful steel engravings are made from drawings by Thomas Allom who copied Chinese drawings from Sir George Thomas Staunton's collection and also made use of amateur sketches made by others. A lovely copy. Cordier BS 81. Lust 364. Löwendahl 987.

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Book number: 29050

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chinese, chine, kina, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, travel, voyage, exploration, kina, illustartions

AMADUZZI, GIOVANNI CRISTOFORO (Ed.):

Alphabetum brammhanicum seu Indostanum Universitatis Kasi. Romae, Typis Sac. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide, 1771.

. Pp. (xx), 152. Text in Hindi with interlinear Latin text. Old half green morocco, flat gilt spine. First edition of an important type specimen of the Hindustani language. It includes the Lord's Prayer, the Ave Maria and the Apostles' Creed and treats the language and script used at the University of Kas’ or Benares, in the Indian province of Bihar. The script is rendered in Kaithi characters, a more current form of the Nagari characters, and was written by Cassianus da Macerata Beligatti (1708-91). The types were cut already at the start of the Propaganda Press but not used until a century later. They were first displayed in Georgius' "Alphabetum Tibetanum" of 1759. Birrel & Garnett 12. Updike, Printing Types I, (1951), pp 181-3. Smitskamp PO 206.

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Book number: 13122

Catalogue: South Asia

Keywords: South Asia, asia, asie, asien, orient, east, asiatica, india, east india, south asia, indien, hindustani, hindi, sanskrit, language, langue, linguistic, hindi-urdu

AMERICA.

AMERICA. Några wälmenta råd och upplysningar för swenska utwandrare till Amerikanska staterna. Falun, F.E. Schmidt, 1869.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 60. With one large folding map. Sewn as issued. Original printed wrappers with a very light stamp on front cover. A very nice copy. Third, enlarged edition. Contains information and advice to Swedish emigrants leaving for America.

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Book number: 28017

Catalogue: Americas

Keywords: Americas, americas,north america, travels, voyages, explore, exploration, explorations, expéditions, viajes, viaggio, reisen, nordamerika, amerique du nord

DE AMICIS, EDMONDO:

Morocco, its People and Places. Translated from the thirteenth Italian edition by Maria Hornor Lansdale. Two volumes. Philadelphia, Henry T. Coates & Co., 1897.

. Pp. viii, 253; viii, 226. With one folding coloured map and 50 plates. With minor marginal stain to some of the plates in volume two. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt and with red title labels (partly gone), spines faded. The author accompanied the Italian Minister, the late Commendatore Stefano Scovasso, on his embassy to the Sultan of Morocco. Originally published at Milan in 1876. Playfair 1230.

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Book number: 32006

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, morocoo, marocco, africa, afrique, afrika, travel, exploration, voyage

ANDERSEN, AENEAS :

Berättelse om ängelska beskickningen til China, under Lord Macartney. Stockholm 1796.

. Pp. (vi), 250. Contemporary half calf, hinges cracked (almost loose). Bookplate. An abridged Swedish translation of "A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794" (1795). Based on the German edition Erlangen 1795, translated by Samuel Ödmann. Cf Cordier BS 2386.

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Book number: 7

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, kina, chine, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

[DEAF AND DUMB]. ANDERSON, DUNCAN:

A graduated vocabulary and dictionary for the use of deaf and dumb, comprising about twenty thousand of the most common words in the English language. (Glasgow) London, Griffin, Bohn and Co., 1861.

. Pp. (viii), 96; (iv), 156. Cloth. Duncan Anderson was head-master of the Glasgow Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.

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Book number: 38035

Catalogue: Language

Keywords: Language, deaf and dumb, sign language

ANDERSON, ®NEAS:

A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794; Containing the Various Circumstances of the Embassy, with Accounts of Customs and Manners of the Chinese, and A Description of the Country, Towns, Cities, &c. &c. London, printed for J. Debrett, 1795.

. 4to. Pp. xxiv, 278, appendix (26). Contemporary half calf, flat spine with red title label, worn. Bookplate on front pastedown (Gustaf Bonde). Copy of Ericsberg. First edition of Anderson's account of the first British embassy to Beijing headed by Earl Macartney. Anderson was Macartney's personal servant during the expedition. Partly with some minor staining. Cordier 2386. Lust 497. Löwendahl, Sino-Western Relations, 635.

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Book number: 99694

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, kina, chinese, chine, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration,

ANDERSSON, C.J.:

Sjön Ngami. Forskningar och upptäckter under fyra års vandringar i sydvestra Afrika. Sthlm 1862.

. VIII, 288, 286.295, (6) pp. With one map, 16 steelengravings and many woodcut ills in the text. Cont. half calf, rubbed. Exlibris. A Swedish transl. from the original English edition with the author's own corrections.

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Book number: 18105

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, afrique, africana, travels, voyages, explore, exploration, south africa, ngami, afrique du sud, explorations, expéditions, viajes, viaggio, reisen, southern africa,, southern africa, südafrika, afrique du sud

ANDERSSON, NILS JOHAN:

En verldsomsegling skildrad i bref. Three volumes in two. Stockholm, Samson & Wallin, 1853-54.

. 12mo. Pp. xii, 232; vi, 262; viii, 388. With one folding map. Contemporary half calf, flat spines ruled and lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed and hinges nicely restored of one volume. Bookplate (Carl Gedvard Bonde, Ericsberg). First edition in bookform of a narrative of the first Swedish circumnavigation in the frigate Eugenie. Originally published as articles in the Stockholm newspaper "Aftonbladet" Dec. 1851 - July 1853. Mainly devoted to the natural history, by the expedition's botanist who brought back a large collection of botanical material. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesia 24. O'Reilly - Reitman 1173 (Tahiti). Martin p.36 (Hawaii).

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Book number: 99878

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, travel, voyage, exploration, pacific, america, australia, singapore, hong kong, philippines, mauritius, cape of good hope; Eugenie

ANDERSSON, NILS JOHAN:

En werdensomseiling, utdrag af Magister philos. N.J. Anderssons optegnelser paa en reise rundt jorden med den svenske fregat "Eugenie" i aarene 1851-1853. Christiana 1854.

. Pp. iv, 506. Modern half calf, spine lettered in gilt. An abridged Norwegian edition of Andersson's account of the first Swedish official circumnavigation in 1851-53. This translation is based on the original unrevised edition which appeared in the Swedish newspaper "Aftonbladet". Scarce. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesia, 25. O'Reilly-Reitman 1177.

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Book number: 100122

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, travel, exploration, voyage, circum navigation, eugenie

ANDRÉE, SALOMON AUGUST & STRINDBERG, NILS & FR®NKEL, KNUT:

Andrée's Story. The Complete Record of His Polar Flight, 1897. From the Diaries and Journals of S.A. Andrée, Nils Strindberg, and K. Fraenkel, found on White Island in the Summer of 1930 end edited by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. Translated from the Swedish by Edward Adams-Ray. New York, The Viking Press, 1930.

. Pp. xvi, 389. With front, 8 maps and plans and 30 plates with many illustrations, and 12 plates of photos from the expedition. Publisher's blue cloth, spine faded, back cover with some stain. First American edition of "Med Örnen mot polen" originally published in Swedish in the same year.

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Book number: 100205

Catalogue: Europe

Keywords: Europe, polar, arctic, arktisk, travel, exploration, balloon, expedition, andrée

DAO DUY ANH:

Phâp-Viêt Tú-Diên (Chœ thêm chu Hân) ... Dictionnaire francais-annamite (avec transcription en caractères chinois des termes sino-annamites). Two volumes. Hué, Quan-Hài Túng-Thu, 1936.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. 1958. Text in two columns arranged alphabetically by the French word, followed by the Annamese transcription in Quoc ngu ("national language") and the Chinese character. Contemporary half red calf, spine printed in gilt, somewhat rubbed. A comprehensive dictionary by Dao Duy Anh (1904-88) Vienamese scholar in language and history, as young member of the Revolutionary Party and imprisoned 1929-30.

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Book number: 28139

Catalogue: Southeast Asia

Keywords: Southeast Asia, vietnam, annamese, vietnamese, asia, asien, asie, asiatic, language, linguistic, langue,

ANQUETIL-DUPERRON, ABRAHAM HYACINTHE:

Législation Orientale, ouvrage dans lequel, en montrant quels sont en Turquie, en Perse, et dans l'Indoustan les principles fondamentaux du gouvernement, on prouve, .... Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1778.

. 4to. Pp. (xvi), vi, 312, (38) table. Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands and red title label, extremities worn, spine ends chipped. Small marginal hole to half title and some very light staining to lower right corner of first thirteen leaves. First edition. Devoted to Muslim law, politics and government in Turkey, Persia and India. The author argues that Montesqieu's view of oriental despotism was wrong. Anquetil-Duperron, French scholar and linguist who travelled to India to search for ancient Zoroastrian texts. He acquired and translated almost 200 such manuscripts.

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Book number: 121382

Catalogue: Central Asia

Keywords: Central Asia, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, turkish, turkey, persia, persian, india, inde, indian, oriental, exploration, legislation, islam,

ANSON, GEORGE:

Resa rundt omkring jorden aaren 1740, 41, 42, 43, 44, daa han, saasom chef oefwer en engelsk oerlogs-escadre, war afsaend til Soederhafwet ... Stockholm, L. Grefing, 1761.

. Pp. (xvi), 516, 20. Without endpapers. Contemporary wrappers, slightly worn. A Swedish abridgment. Original published in London 1748. Cf Borba Moraes I, 38.

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Book number: 15078

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, exploration, travels, voyages, navy, naval, military, pacific, explore, , pacifica, england, travel, viajes, viaggio, reisen, pazifik