STERN, HENRY AARON:

Wanderings Among the Falashas in Abyssinia: Together with a Description of the Country and its Various Inhabitants. London 1862.

. Pp. viii, 322. With one folding map (small tear) and twenty wood-engravings of which eight are tinted full page plates. Publisher's blue cloth, binding shaken, spine faded. Bookplate. Traces of old erased library stamp on front endpaper. First edition. After his conversion to Christianity in 1840 at the Palestine Chapel in London, Stern travelled widely throughout Asia Minor, working as a missionary to the Jewish communities of Jerusalem, Baghdad, Bussorah and Constantinople. At the request of the London Jew's Society he travelled to Abyssinia (Ethiopia) to conduct a tour of Jewish villages. In 1863 because of a diplomatic dispute in the country he became imprisoned for five years. Fumagalli 242.

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Book number: 26005

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COMPAGNIE GÉNÉRALE TRANSATLANTIQUE (Auto-Circuits Nord-Africains):

Le Grand Tourisme en Afrique du Nord. Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie. L'islam, les ruines antiques le désert. Paris, B. Sirven, (ca 1920).

. Folio. (25.5 x 34.5 cm). Pp. 20. with many illustrations taken from photographs in the text. Original printed wrappers in black and orange. Stamps of a tourist agency in the Hague on front cover and title. Unrecorded. A striking large-format pamphlet advertising motoring tours all over the French-controlled Maghreb. The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique was a French shipping company which in 1919 introduced the first tourist motor car circuit in North Africa.

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Book number: 120869

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrique, afrika, tourist, motor, tours, travelling, travel, exploration, marocco, morocco, algier, tunisia, tunisien, tunis,

TROLLE, HENRIK AF & HÄGG, JACOB:

Minnen och anteckningar från Ångkorvetten Gefles expedition till vestkusten af Afrika och Medelhafvet åren 1864-1865 under befäl af herr kaptenen och riddaren m.m. A. Pettersén. Stockholm, A. Bonnier, 1867.

. Pp. viiix, 323, (5). With frontispiece, 15 plates and 2 coloured folding maps (one of Egypt and one of the voyage). Contemporary half calf, flat spine ruled in gilt, title label. Copy of Ericsberg castle. The Swedish expedition went to the west coast of Africa; Sierra Leone and Liberia and then continued to Smyrna, Alexandria, Cairo and Suez, and returned via Tunis, Cadiz and Seville. First edition of an entertaining account.

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Book number: 100225

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, west africa, liberia, egypt, turkey, africa, afrika, afrique, africana, travel, travels, voyage, voyages, exploration, explore, gefle

LE VAILLANT, FRANCOIS:

Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance. Dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Two volumes. Liege 1790.

. Pp. xxiv, 341; 359. With 12 engraved plates. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, spine gilt and with title labels. lightly rubbed. Bookplate. Le Vaillant made excursions among the Kaffirs and other tribes in Southern Africa, and extended his researches northward beyond the Orange River. This account covers Le Vaillant's first expedition into the interior of South Africa and contains important observations on the natural history of the region and interesting details about the Dutch settlers. The plates depict views, giraffes and, the native people; Hottentots and Kaffirs. Cf Cox p.389. Cf Gay 3118. Mendelssohn i, 889-92. Cf Nissen ZB 2480.

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Book number: 107

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VENTURE DE PARADIS, JEAN-MICHEL / JAUBERT, PIERRE AMÉDÉE EMILIEN PROBE:

Grammaire et dictionnaire abrégés de la langue Berbère, revus par P. Amédée Jaubert. Paris, Imprimerire Royale, 1844.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), xxiv, 236. With French and Arabic text. Uncut copy bound in recent half calf, spine ruled in gilt and with title label. Some foxing throughout, mainly in margins. First edition of this rare work which had been preserved in MSS form at the Bibliothèque Nationale after Venture's death (1799). In 1844 Amédée Jaubert arranged with printing and it was included in "Recueil de voyages et de mémoires, Société de Géographie" (volume 7). Venture, renowned French orientalist and the king's interpreter for oriental languages. He held various positions of dragoman in Syria, Egypt, and North Africa and was chief interpreter to Napoleon on his expedition to Egypt. However, he had not studied Arabic in academic circles. Venture advocated for the need to study oriental languages in order to promote commercial and political relations. The Berber languages are spoken by groups on the North African coast and far down into the Sahara. Venture incorrectly treats it as a single language but nevertheless his work seems to be one of the earliest of importance on the Berber language(s).Comprises an advertisement by Jaubert and a bibliographical note on Venture by Edme François Jomard (a travel companion in the Egyptian expedition). At end a chapter including Venture's itineraries from North Africa in 1788 which are part of Raynal's papers in the Bibliothèque Nationale. They are mainly devoted to geographical observations. Playfair, Algeria, no 1031. Playfair, Morocco, no 660. Irwin, p.138. Not in Vater, Zaunmüller or Zenker.

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Book number: 121107

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, berber, africa, african, afrique, language, langue, linguistic, dictionary, morocco, algeria, arabic, north africa,

VICTORIN, JOHAN FREDRIK / GRILL, JOHAN WILHELM:

Resa i Kaplandet åren 1853-1855. Stockholm, Albert Bonnier, 1863.

. Pp. xvi, 160. With 9 lithographic plates, of which 5 are coloured. Modern boards with original printed wrappers bound in, some staining to first and last few leaves. First edition of this narrative about Victorin's travels in South Africa. Includes interesting information about the fauna, animal life and hunting. Published posthumoulsy by Johan Wilhelm Grill based on Victorin's letters and diary. Not in Mendelssohn. Linnström iv, 794.

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Book number: 99223

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VICTORIN, JOHAN FREDRIK / GRILL, JOHAN WILHELM:

Zoologiska anteckningar under en resa i södra delarne af Caplandet åren 1853-55. Ur den aflidnes papper samlade och ordnade af J.W. Grill. No place or date. (Stockholm? 1858).

. 4to. Pp. 62. With one plate of "Delphinus victorini Grill". Modern marbled papercovered boards. A zoological memorandum by Victorin of mammals, birds and amphibians discovered during his 16 months' visit to South Africa. He stayed at Cape Town, Knysna and Karroo. In 1855 Victorin returned to Sweden with a comprehensive collection but died soon at only 24 years old. His accurate annotations of the collection as well as valuable information from his diary are posthumously edited and published by J.W. Grill, and presented to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1858. (K. Vet. Akad. Handl. B. 2. no. 10).

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Book number: 100127

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WACHTMEISTER, HANS:

Turistminnen. Dagboksanteckningar under resor i Egypten, Algier, Spanien, Canariska Öarne, Madeira. Stockholm, Norstedt & Söner, 1885.

. Pp. (vi), 354. Uncut copy in original printed wrappers, starting to split. Spine slightly chipped at head and foot. Contains the author's diary during his travels to Egypt in 1876; Spain and Algier in 1878 &1880 and; the Canary Islands in 1882. An attractive copy.

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Book number: 37047

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, africana, north africa, egypt, algier, spain, canary islands, madeiram, travel, voyage, exploration,

WADSTRÖM, CARL BERNHARD:

Observations on the Slave Trade, and a Description of some part of the Coast of Guinea, during a Voyage, made in 1787, and 1788, in company with Doctor A. Sparrman and Captain Arrehenius. London, Printed and Sold by James Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard-Street, 1789.

. Pp. (ii), xii, 67. Title page lightly water-stained and restored at upper margin verso without any loss. Somewhat later green half calf, flat spine stamped in gilt, somewhat rubbed, boards with slight discolouration. Small library label on front endpaper. First rare edition. Sabin 100906. Goldsmiths 14021.Carl Bernard Wadström (1746-99), known as the Swedish philanthropist and Swedenborgian who was involved in the British abolitionist movement. In 1787 the Swedish King Gustav III sent Wadström, together with two other Swedes (Carl Axel Arrhenius and Anders Sparrman) to Guinea to investigate the possibility of establishing a Swedish West African colony. Upon Wadström's return he stayed in England to attend a Swedenborgian conference and was drawn into the ongoing English antislavery campaign. He published this work and "An Essay on Colonization" (1794-5) in which he exposed the cruelties of slavery and claimed that the Africans were worth more as trading partners and wage labourers than as slaves. The works won much recognition around Europe. See: Beskow ÒMinne af Öfver-direktören Carl Bernard WadströmÓ (1861). Cf Dahlgren ÒCarl Bernard WadströmÓ.BOUND WITH (Preceded by): [COSTE D'ARNOBAT, C.-P.]: Voyage au pays de Bambouc, suivi d'observations intéressantes sur les castes indiennes, sur la Hollande et sur l'Angleterre. Bruxelles & Paris 1789. Pp. (iv), 358. Barbier IV 1060. AND: WADSTRÖM, C.B.: Précis sur l'établissement des colonies de Sierra Léona et de Boulama. Paris, Ch. Pougens, 1798. Pp. viii, 80 (of 94), missing 14 pages. French edition. Brunet vi, 28428. Gay 2854. Sabin 100907. Quérard X, 464.

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Book number: 100119

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WADSTRÖM (WADSTROM), CARL BERNHARD:

Précis sur l'établissement des colonies de Sierra Léona et de Boulama. A la cote occidentale de l'Afrique. Paris, Ch. Poucens, 1798.

. Pp. viii, 94, errata (1). Uncut copy in later half calf on marbled boards, flat spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Copy of Ericsberg with bookplate of Carl Jedvard Bonde. Translated into French by Charles Pougens. A report about the proper cause that led to the establishment of the colony of Sierra Leona, followed by an account of the attack on the colony by the French squadron in 1794. Further it comprises an extract of a report to the directors of the S.L. Company about the natural history and the commerce in the colony by J. Boys and Adam Afzelius, and a few letters on the political situation by Padenheim and De Stael. A German edition was issued in 1799. Brunet vi, 28428. Dahlgren" "Carl Bernard Wadström" (1919) pp 45-46. Gay 2854. Sabin 100907. Quérard X, 464.

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Book number: 100322

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WALDMEIER, THEOPHILUS:

Tio år i Abessinien, 1858-1868. Jemte förord af D:r L. Karpf. Stockholm, A. Holmberg & Co. för Evangeliska Fosterlands-Stiftelsens förlag, 1870.

. Pp. 128. With one map, 6 lithographed plates and one folding plate with Amharic script. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, rubbed. Ownership signature on front end paper. A Swedish edition of "Erlebniss in Abessinien" (Basel 1869) by a Swiss Protestant missionary who spent 10 years in Abyssinia. Cf Gay 2694.

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Book number: 40009

Catalogue: Africa

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ZETTERSTÉEN, KARL VILHELM:

Den nubiska språkforskningens histoira. (Mit einem résumé in deutscher Sprache). Uppsala 1907.

. Pp. (ii), 24. As issued in original printed wrappers. Zetterstéen, renowned Swedish orientalist who translated the Koran into Swedish in 1917. He went to Egypt in 1906 to study the language of the Nubian people. (K. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala. XI).

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Book number: 99597

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, nubia, nubien, africa, afrika, afrique, africana, languagem langue, linguistic, sudan, nubian