KOELLE, SIGISMUND WILHELM:

African Native Literature, or Proverbs, Tales, Fables, & Historical Fragments in the Kanuri or Bornu Language, ... and a Kanuri-English Vocabulary. London, Church Missionary House, Salisbury Square, 1854.

. Pp. xiv, errata (ii), 434. Contemporary blind-stamped cloth, title lettered on spine, small marks on spine, small splits to hinges. First edition. Kölle (1820-1902) was a German missionary and pioneer scholar of African languages. His major work "Polyglotta Africana" (1854) initiated serious study of a large range of African languages by European scholars. Zaunmüller p. 219.

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KOTZ, ERNST / SACHAU, EDUARD (Editor):

Grammatik des Chasu in Deutsch-Ostafrika (Pare-Gebrige). Archiv für das Studium deutscher Kolonialsprachen. Band x. Herausgegeben von dem Direktor des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen. Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1909.

. Pp. viii, 79. Contemporary half cloth, original printed front wrapper pasted on upper cover, slightly rubbed. Bookplate. Annotations by a scholar throughout the text. Ernst Kotz was a missionary in East Africa. First edition. Scarce. Not in Vater.

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LANDER, RICHARD & LANDER, 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. Three volumes. London, John Murray, 1833.

. Small 8vo. Pp. lxiv, 272; viii, 321; viii, 354. Half titles missing. With two maps (one large folding), seven engraved plates and some textual illustrations. Contemporary calf, rebacked to style, with title labels, lightly rubbed. Two old photographs pasted in at the beginning of volume two and three.Second edition (first 1832). Richard Lander, the only survivor of the Clapperton expedition, together with his younger brother John undertook a mission in 1830 to explore the course and termination of the Niger River. They travelled from Cape Coast Castle to Acra, Bogâdry, Boussa (Bussa), and further to Yaoorie. Returning to Boussa, they began their descent of the river in canoes, and after some mishaps they eventually reached the mouth of the Niger. Richard was awarded a gold medal upon his return. Cf Gay 2777. Howgego pp. 341-2 (L10).

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LANDOR, ARNOLD HENRY SAVAGE:

Across Widest Africa. An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa as seen during a Twelve Months' Journey from Djibuti to Cape Verde. Two volumes. London, Hurst and Blackett Ltd., 1907.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xvi, 396, (4) adv.; xii, 511. With one large folding coloured map and numerous b/w illustrations, mainly made from photographs. Publisher's cloth, printed in gilt. First edition. Landor was an English painter, writer and explorer who travelled the world. With an assignment to paint Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, Landor took the opportunity to make a trip across Africa. The journey took about a year and he covered eight thousand miles. A beautiful copy.

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DE LANTIER, E.F. (Translator):

Voyages d'Antenor en Grèce et en Asie, avec des notions sur l'Egypte; Manuscrit grec trouvé à Herculanum. I-V in 3 volumes. Paris, Buisson, An viii (1800).

. 12mo. With 5 engraved fronts. Contemporary half calf, rubbed. Head and foot of spine worn o/w a nice copy. Third edition. A fictious voyage. Cf Cioranescu 36879.

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LATROBE, CHRISTIAN IGNATIUS:

Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some Account of the Missionary Settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London, L.B. Seeley, 1818.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), 406. With one folding map, sixteen engraved plates of which twelve are hand coloured aquatints. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine preserved, spine richly gilt with five raised band. Extremities worn and hinges weak. Bookplates. Some light offsetting from plates but overall a lovely copy. First edition. Latrobe was a missionary sent out by the United Brethen to visit the settlements in South Africa, at Genadendal and Groenekloof. The Governor of the Cape had expressed a wish that a third missionary station should be opened, and in order to choose a site Latrobe travelled through a large part of the country up to the Little Fish River. He gives an interesting account of the fauna and flora, and of the farmers who lived a very primitive life. The beautiful aquatint plates, several drawn by R. Cocking, are engraved after sketches made by Latrobe on the spot. Abbey, Travel, 325. Gay 3117. Mendelssohn i, 866-67. Tooley 292.

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LAUGIER DE TASSY, N.:

Historie de royaume d'Alger, avec l'etat présent de son governement, de ses forces de terra & de mer, de ses revenus, police, justice politique & commerce. Amsterdam, Henri du Sauzet, 1725.

. Pp. (xvi), 348, table 24 (of 32). Title printed in red and black. With one folding engraved plate of Alger but without the map. Later marbled boards, cloth spine. First edition. Published many times and translated into many languages. Gay 917. Playfair 220.

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LECLERC, MAX:

Les peuplades de Madagascar. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1887.

. Pp. (iv), 68. With one map "Routes des migrations a Madagascar" and illustrations. Later half cloth, original printed wrappers bound in. Inscribed by the author. Stamp of Societe d'Anthropologie. (Extrait de la Revue d'Ethnographie).

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LEMPRIERE, WILLIAM:

Resa uti Marocco, åren 1789 och 90. I sammandrag. Stockholm, Johan Pfeiffer, 1795.

. Pp. (iv), 258. Partly some minor staining. Uncut copy in modern wrappers, title label on upper cover. Bookplate (Sten von Stapelmohr). Stamps on title. A Swedish abridgment, originally published as "A tour from Gibraltar to Tangier", London 1791. Cf Cox i, p. 391.

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DE LESSEPS, FERDINAND:

Compagnie universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez. Assemblée générale des actionnaires. Rapport de la commission de vérification des comptes. Résolutions de l'Assemblée Générale. Paris, Typographie de Henri Plon, 1869.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. 98. With 2 folding tables and 3 (of 4?) folding engraved maps in colour, loosely inserted, with tears and folds strengthened at the back. As issued, uncut in original printed wrappers, chipped at edges, spine strengthened with tape. The maps are: Plan d'Ismalia; Plan de Suez; and Plan de Porte-Said. The Suez Canal was built under the supervision of Ferdinand de Lesspes, was opened in 1869, and came under British control after 1875.

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Book number: 18060

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LIVINGSTONE, DAVID:

En missionaers resor och forskningar i Syd-Afrika. 2 volumes. Stockholm, E.T. Bergegren, 1860.

. Pp. 384, (4); 3-352, (1). With one portrait, 2 folding maps, 23 tinted lithograph plates and many woodcut ills in the text. Contemporary half calf, title-labels on spines, rubbed. Volume one slightly shaken but o/w a nice copy. Second Swedish edition, translated from the original edition (London 1857).

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LUDOLF (LUDOLPH), IOB:

Historia ®thiopica, sive brevis & succincta descriptio regni habessinorum, ... 1. De natura & indole regionis & incolarum. II. De regimine politico, regum successione &c. III. De statu ecclesiastico, initio & progressureligionis Christianae & c. IV. De rebus privatis, literatura,aeconomia, &c. Two volumes in one. Francfurt a. Main, Joh. David Zunner, 1681 & 1691.

. Folio. Lvs (168); pp. (vi), 30, 632. With titles printed in red and black, three engraved portraits, one engraved folding map, 17 engraved plates (of which many folding, one neatly restored on verso) and two folding tables. Contemporary vellum, title in manuscript on spine, red edges. Old inscriptions on front paste-down. First edition. A handsome copy of this monumental work on Ethiopia dealing with its history, inhabitants, natural history, language and literature. Job Ludolph (1624-1704), a German-born orientalist and linguist, was the founder of Ethiopian studies in Europe and compiled the first dictionaries and grammars of the Amharic language. His historical work is mainly based on Jesuit sources but also on first hand information supplied by an Ethiopian monk, Abba Gregory, whom he met in Rome. The beautiful plates depict different exotic animals, and a few of people. The large map by Christian Ludolph (issued in 1683) is the first published to show the true source of the Blue Nile, at lake Tana. It was a landmark in the cartography of the region and for a long time the mapmakers continued to show the source as the two Ptolematic lakes Zaire and Zaflan near the equator. Two appendixes were published in 1691 and 1694 respectively (not present here). Brunet iii, 1224. Eberet 12480. Gay 2658. Provenance: From the Celsing library at Biby in Sweden. In the middle of the 17th century Ludolph spent a year in Sweden when he met with learned men at Queen Christina's court. Throughout his life he stayed in contact with Swedish scholars and nobility, and after his death his family corresponded with members of the Celsing family.

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MACLEAN, JOHN COLONEL:

A Compendium of Kafir Laws and Customs, Including Genealogical Tables of Kafir Chiefs and Various Tribal Census Returns. Printed for the government of British Kaffraria. Mount Coke, Wesleyan Mission Press, 1858.

. Pp. viii, 168. With three folding tables. Original cloth, paper label (partly chipped) on spine, sprinkled edges. With old inscription. Copy of Knut Olivecrona (1817-1905), renowned Swedish lawyer and philosopher. First edition. Colonel John Maclean (1810-74) was Chief Commissioner of the province known as "British Kaffraria" in South Africa. In 1860 it became a separate Crown Colony with its own administration under Maclean as Lieutenant Governor, and finally re-incorporated into the Cape Colony in 1866. The word Kaffir is derived from the Arabic term Kafir which means disbeliever and historically used as a neutral term for southern African people. This work is a comprehensive account of the natives containing papers and letters by the Rev. H.H. Dugmore, Warner, Brownlee and Ayliff. A fine copy. Mendelssohn i, 960.

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AL-MAHDë AL-HIFNAWI, MUHAMMAD / MARCEL, JEAN JOSEPHE (Transl.):

Contes de Cheykh El-Mohdy, traduit de l'arabe le manuscrit original. Three volumes. Paris, Henri Dupuy, 1835.

. Pp. (ii), 484; (iv), 496; (ii), 508. With 25 engraved plates and many vignettes in the text. Partly with some staining. Contemporary red paper-covered boards, red morocco spines with four raised bands, lettered and decorated in gilt, lightly rubbed. A collection of fables in the same genre as the Arabian Nights translated into French from an Arabic manuscript by Marcel. Jean Josephe Marcel (1776-1854) was a French orientalist and pupil of Silvestre de Sacy. He was commissioned by Napoleon to manage the national printing press in Egypt during the French expedition in 1798-9. After his return he was placed in charge of the l'Imprimerie Impériale in Paris. During his stay in Egypt Marcel received the manuscript of these tales from his friend Al-Mahdi, the secretary general of the Divan of Cairo, who Marcel beleived to be the author. However, this has not been proven and some people beleive that Marcel might be the author himself. The collection comprises two parts: I. "Les dix Soirées malheureuses d'Abd-errahman êl-Iskanderany" (volume one) appeared first in 1829; II. "Séances du Moristan, ou les Révélations de l'Hôpital des Fous du Kaire" (volumes 2 and 3) appeared in 1832-3. Cf Gay 132. 

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Book number: 120155

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MEAKIN, BUDGETT:

The Land of the Moors. A comprehensive description. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1901.

. Pp. v-xxxiv, 464. With one folding coloured map of Morocco and 83 illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, richly gilt. Top of spine slightly chipped. First edition of this important standard work on Morocco and the Moors. It includes a critical bibliography of books on Morocco.

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Book number: 40024

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