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

Catalogue: Africa

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MEYER, EDUARD:

Geschichte des alten Aegyptens. Berlin 1887. + DUEMICHEN, J., Geographie des alten Aegyptens, schrift und sprache seiner bewohner. Berlin 1879. 2 volumes.

. Pp. VIII, 420 + (4), 322. First 4 lvs loose. With numerous plates, maps and other textual ills. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt with 4 raised bands and title labels, rubbed. ("Allg. Geschichte in Einzeldarstellungen herausgegeben von Wilhelm Oncken. I:1").

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Book number: 13096

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, afrique, africana, egypt, history, geography, egypte, géographie, ägypten, egypte

MIGEOD, FREDERICK WILLIAM HUGH:

A Grammar of the Hausa Language. London 1914.

. Pp. xii, 228, (2). Publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed. Bookplate. Ex. library copy. With the author's signature on title page. First and only edition. "This grammar is primarily for students who have already acquired some knowledge of the Hausa language" (Preface).

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Book number: 99428

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, nigeria, hausa, haoussa, language, linguistic, langue, africa, african, afrique, afrika, west africa

MOLLIEN, GASPARD THÉDORE:

Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia; Performed by Command of the French Government, in the year 1818. Edited by T.E. Bowdich. London, Henry Colburn & Co., 1820.

. 4to. Pp. (xii) including first blank leaf, 378, (2). With engraved frontispiece, one large folding map (small tear) and six uncoloured aquatint plates. Contemporary calf, gilt fillets on covers, edges rubbed, rebacked. Beautiful marbled end papers and edges. Some very light offsetting from plates and partly upper margin with some light staining. First English edition published in the same year as the first French. Mollien, a French diplomat, was one of the earliest European explorers of the West African interior. He came to Senegal in 1817 and the following year he travelled across Senegal and Gambia and discovered the sources of the Senegal and Gambia rivers. Interesting account of the different tribes he met along the route. Includes some pages with vocabularies of Joloff and Poula languages. Abbey, Travel, 273. Gay 2910.

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Book number: 45017

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MÜLLER, FRIEDRICH:

Die Sprachen der Wollhaarigen Rassen. Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1877.

. Pp. (viii), 262, (2). Half cloth. Stamps. Comprises: 1. Sprachen der Hottentoten-Rasse; 2. der Papua-Rasse; 3. der Neger-Rasse (Dinka, Bari, Wolof, Bullom, Temne, Akra, Efik, Maude, Logone, Maba, Hause, etc.); and 4. der Kafir-Rasse (Bantu). Included in "Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft".

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Book number: 99769

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MURRAY, HUGH:

Berättelse om upptäckter och äfventyr i Afrika ifrån de äldsta tider till den närvarande. Linköping, Axel Petre, på eget förlag,1835.

. Pp. (x), 280. Uncut copy in original printed wrappers. Old signature on front cover. A Swedish edition translated from the English (1817). An historical account about discoveries and adventures in Africa. Cf Mendelssohn ii, 69.

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Book number: 29031

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PHYSIONOMIES NATIONALES

Physionomies nationales des peuples ou les traits de leur visage comaréz à leur moeurs et caractères, avec vintcinq planches. Paris, chez Delaunay (Impr. de Fain), no date (ca 1810-15).

. 16mo. Pp. (ii), 125, (1). With engraved title, twenty-five engraved plates, of which twenty-four hand-coloured portraits. Front endpaper with scribble. Contemporary full calf, gilt floral borders on covers, flat spine decorated in gilt and with red title-label, marbled endpapers and edges, extremities rubbed, spine restored .... Occasionally some minor staining. First edition of this anonymous work that compares the physiognomy of the various people of the world. The work is based on Blumenbach's model. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to his classification of human races, of which he claimed there were five; Caucasian, Mongolian, Malayan, Ethiopian, and American. Many of the portraits are taken from well-known travelogues such as Cook and Baudin.

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Book number: 121448

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, anatomy, peoples, physiognomy, portraits, illustrated, watercolour, travel, exploration, asia, america, africa, caucasia, mongolia, malayan,

NORBERG, MATTHIAS:

De api Aegyptiis sacro dissertatio. Lund 1806.

. 4to. Pp. 10. Disbound. A dissertation by the renowned Swedish linguist Matthias Norberg.

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Book number: 99582

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NORBERG, MATTHIAS / WEDBERG, CARL GUSTAF (Resp.):

Dissertatio interpretans Carmen principis Tumanbaj aegyptiacae pyramidi insculptum. LUND, BERLINGIANIS, 1804.

. 4to. Pp. 17. Arabic and Latin text. Disbound. Marklin 102.

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Book number: 120430

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NORBERG, MATHIAS / HANSSON, PETRUS (Resp.):

Dissertation de nomadibus aethiopiae. Lund, Berlingianis, 1796.

. 4to. Pp. 12. Uncut, sewn as issued. Marklin 82.

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Book number: 120327

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Keywords: Africa, ethiopia, africa, afrique, afrika,

NORBERG, MATTHIAS / OLSSON, JÖNS:

Dissertation academica de notitia morum orientalium interpreti sacro necessaria. Parts I-II. Lund, Berlingianis, 1783-4.

. 4to. Pp. 14 + pp. 15-29. Disbound. Marklin 5 & 6.

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Book number: 120339

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, arabic, turkish, religion, hebrew, north africa, middle east, oriental,

NORRIS, ROBERT:

Resa på Neger-kusten til kongl. hofvet i Dahomej af ängelske handels agenten Norris år 1772. Götheborg, Sam. Norberg, 1792.

. Pp. 60. Modern paperboards. An abridged Swedish version of "Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomej, ..." (London 1789). Translated from a German edition by Samuel Ödmann, with a preface and interesting comments by him. Robert Norris was a slave trader who visited the court of Dahomey (West Guinea) in 1772. His work is a defence of slavery. Cf Cox i, p. 388. Cf Gay 2881.

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Book number: 14284

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NUCULA, HORAZIO:

Commentariorum de bello aphrodisiensi libri quinque. Roma, per Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses [Valerio e Ludovico Dorico], 1552.

. Pp. 79, 90-368, (7). Nicely printed by the famous Brescian brothers Dorico. Including one double page woodcut map of the northern coast of Tunis and the southern part of Sicily. With dedication to Pope Julius III with his coat of arms as woodcut vignette on title page. Title page restored (slight loss of one letter) and two more leaves with marginal repairs without any loss of text. Some minor browning and small marginal wormholes. Contemporary limp vellum, top of spine restored, title in manuscript on spine and library ink marks. Library stamp on title.Scarce first edition of this trustworthy account of Charles V's campaigns against the Turkish corsair Dragut (Turgut Reis) who was based at Mahdia on the Tunisian coast, and made it the centre of his piracy activities. However in 1550 the Genoese Andrea Doria (1466-1560), the foremost naval leader of his time, attacked and captured Mahdia. Adams N368. Cf Gay 378. Göllner 926.

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Book number: 41015

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OERTEL (OERTELII), JOHANN GOTTFRIED:

Sacrorum apud sempronienses antistitis theologia aethiopum ex litergiis fidei confessionibus aliisque ipsorum pariter ac rerum habesstnicarum peritissimorum europaeorum scriptis congesta et cum necessariis indicibus instructa. Wittebergae, impensis Io. Michaelis Teubner, impressit Io. Christoph. Tzschiedrich, 1746.

. Pp. viii, 264. Title printed in red and black. Old marbled wrappers. Copy of Ericsberg castle (bookplate). A scarce study on chistianity in Ethiopia.

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Book number: 35039

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OSBECK, PEHR:

Dagbok öfwer en ostindisk resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags språk, seder, hushållning, m.m. AND: TORÉN, OLOF: En ostindisk resa til Suratte, China &c. Från 1750 April 1. til 1752 Jun. 26. Stockholm, Lor. Ludv. Grefing, 1757.

. Pp. (viii), 376, (16). With twelve engraved botanical plates (one of a fish). Contemporary half calf, worn. Hinges weak and partly split, spine ends worn. Partly with some browning. First edition. Comprises reports by two Swedish naturalists and disciples of Carl von Linné about their voyages to China between 1750 and 1752.Pehr Osbeck served as a chaplain on a Swedish East India voyage to Canton where he spent about four months in 1751. The expedition sailed by way of Spain, the Canary Islands, the Cape of Good Hope and Java. Osbeck's account includes detailed and accurate information about plants, fish, insects, birds and other animals along the route. A large collection of newly discovered plants in China and Java was brought back and given to Linné. Osbeck's diary also includes accurate and interesting details about the people in China and their manners, language, food, religion, agriculture, commerce, etc.The second work comprises TorénÕs narrative of an East India voyage via Surat to China which was published posthumously by Linné. Torén writes about his visit to Madagascar with descriptions of the people and different kinds of fruits, trees, plants, lemurs, etc. Many pages are devoted to the stay in Surat, the important Indian seaport at this time. Including valuable descriptions of the inhabitants, housing, customs, religion, language, clothing and also much about trade and merchandise. The voyage continues to Malacca before reaching Macao and Canton. Torén vividly describes life and trade at the factories at Guangzhou (Canton) which then was the centre of Chinese trade for the outside world. Ekeberg's separately printed account of an East India voyage to China, sometimes with bound, is not present here.Cordier BS 2097. Löwendahl 491. Pritzel 6865. Schildt, Linnés lärjungar, pp. 99-144. Soulsby 3599.

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Book number: 121096

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, kina, travel, exploration, voyage, natural history, botany, botanical ,trade, india, indian, java, africa, cape of good hope, linné