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. Third edition. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1799.

. 4to. Pp. iii-xxxviii, 372, (vi) including two pages of music, appendix xcii. Half-title missing and subscriber's list misbound. With engraved portrait, three folding maps and five engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, hinges cracking, rubbed. Published in the same year as the first edition. Mungo Park (1771-1806) was the first European to reach the Niger River. "Until the publication of Park's [first] book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa, apart from the north-east region and the coastal areas. 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". (PMM). Cox I, p. 394. Gay 2788. Ibrahim-Hilmy ii, p. 93. Printing and the Mind of Man 253.

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Book number: 45018

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, travels, exploration, voyage, senegal, gambia, central africa, nigeria, niger, mali,

PFEIFFER, IDA LAURA:

Voyage a Madagascar. Et précédé d'une notice historique sur Madagascar par Francis Riaux. Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1862.

. 12mo. Pp. (iv), lxxxiv, 312. With one folding map of Madagascar. Contemporary marbled boards, morocco spine gilt in compartments and with title printed in gilt, corners worn. Bookplate. A French edition translated from the German (Vienna 1861). Ida Pfeiffer was a popular Austrian woman traveller and her books were translated into several languages. This work covers her last travel which went to Madagascar. It's an informative study of the island including an long introduction about the history and politics. Cf Mendelssohn iii, 662.

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Book number: 99075

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, madagascar, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, travels, voyage, exploration, explore, lady, lady traveller

PIGNORIA, LAURENTIUS (LORENZO):

Mensa Isiaca, qua sacrorum apud aegyptios ratio & simulacra subjectis tabulis aeneis simul exhibentur & explicantur. AND: Magnae deum matris idaeae & attidis initia. Ex vetustis monumentis nuper Tornaci Nerviorum erutis. Parts I-III. Two works in one volume. Amsterdam, Andreas Fries, 1669-70.

. 4to. Pp. (viii), 97, index (11); (viii), 96. With one engraved extra title by A. Blothelingh, 3 engraved title-vignettes, 11 folding engraved plates (one with repaired tear), 9 full-page illustrations and further more vignettes and other illustrations in the text. With some old annotations. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked with original spine preserved. Third and best edition of Pignoria's "Mensa Isiaca", the first notable work of Egyptology (first published as "Vetustissimae tabulae aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum" in 1605). "Mensa Isiaca" or the table of Isis was a elaborated bronze table top discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Isis in Rome in 1525 or 1527 and became one of the most famous Egyptian artefacts known at the time. It is beleived that this bronze table was executed in Rome in the first century A.D. It passed into the possession of Cardinal Bembo, who allowed Pignoria to examine it. Many scholars had different ideas about the function of the "Mensa Isiaca" but Pignoria's explanation was the simplest and most convincing. He believed that it was a representation of sacrificial ceremonies according to Egyptian rites. The illustrations were done by Aeneas Vico. The second work is Pignoria's essay on the Great Mother of Gods, first published in 1623. Blackmer 1312. Gay 1567. Ibrahim-Hilmy ii, 119.

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Book number: 27034

Catalogue: Africa

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PIKE, NICHOLAS:

Sub-Tropical Rambles in the Land of the Aphanapteryx. Personal Experiences, Adventures and Wanderings in and around the Island of Mauritius. London 1873.

. Pp. xviii, 509, (3) + adv 12. With half-title, four folding coloured maps, fifteen full-page plates and further illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, rubbed, spine chipped and lower hinge cracking. First edition of this important work on Mauritius. Includes interesting descriptions of the island including facts about history, geography, government, schools, fishing, sugar cane, corals etc. The author was US consul at Port Louis. Mendelssohn ii, p. 167.

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Book number: 13135

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, africana, afrique, mauritius, travel, exploration, explore, voyage,

POIRET, JEAN LOUIS MARIE.:

Bref om Numidien. I sammandrag. Stockholm, Kongl. Ordens-Tryckeriet, 1792.

. Pp. (vi), 215, (10). Contemporary half calf, title label on spine, worn, top of spine chipped. With library stamps. An abridged Swedish version of Poiret's "Voyage en Barbarie" (Paris 1789), translated and edited by Samuel Ödmann. Cf Gay 463. Cf Pritzel 7233.

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Book number: 218

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PORTAL, GERALD H.:

My Mission to Abyssinia. London, E. Arnold, 1892.

. Pp. viii, 261, 2 adv. With engraved front portrait of the author, 9 plates and one folding map. Publisher's red cloth, gilt, spine faded. Binding slightly shaken. Some foxing to the front and first few lvs. Deals with the geography, social and political matters. Includes descriptions of Massowah, Monkullu and Asmara.

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Book number: 99225

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, abyssina, africa, africana, afrique, afrika, travel, voyages, exploration, ethiopia,