GROTHE, HUGO (Ed.):

Orientalisches Archiv. Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Kunst, Kulturgeschichte und Völkerkunde der Länder des Ostens. Band I: 1910/1911; Band II: 1911/912; Band III: 1912/1913. Three volumes (all publ.). Leipzig, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1910-13.

. 4to. Three volumes with 110 fullpage plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Original cloth stamped in black. A complete set of this early German journal which contains interesting articles on the Orient. Comprises studies about Islamic art and architecture; oriental carpets; Turkish architecture and Constantinople in the 17th century; Japanese culture including woodcuts; Chinese art including fans, ceramic, glass etc.; Korean works of art; North African architecture; Islamic shadowplays in Egypt; the German Turfan expedition; etc. etc.

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Book number: 99671

Catalogue: Near East

Keywords: Near East, oriental, levant, near east, middle east, africa, afrika, african, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, exploration, journal, art, turkey, islam, india, china, japan, japon, kina, chinese, persian, persia, korea

GUÉRIN DU ROCHER, PIERRE:

Histoire véritable des temps fabuleux. Qui contient l'histoire d'Egypt, depuis Ménès jusqu'a à sesostris, dévoilée par l'histoire-sainte, depuis Noé jusqu'a à l'entrée des Israélites en Egypte. Four volumes. Paris, Charles-Pierre Berton, & Liege, 1776-1779.

. Pp. (iv), xl, 463; (iv), 598, (2); (iv), 643; (iv), 332. With one folding map. Attractive contemporary speckled calf, flat spines gilt with green title-labels, rubbed. Front hinge to volume one starting to crack. First edition of this controversial work. The author was a French Jesuit who tried to prove that all what was known about the Egyptians from Menès to the foundation of the Persian Empire was nothing but a violated extract from passages of the Scripture dealing with Egypt. Of course the work evoked a lively polemical discussion. Volume four contains Abbé Chapelle's defence of the authors' original views. Brunet vi, 1227. De Backer- Sommervogel iii, 1909. Ibrahim-Hilmy i, 279.

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Book number: 23087

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, africana, afrique, egypt, afrika, egyptian, travel, exploration, history,

HOLDEN, WILLIAM CLIFFORD:

The Past and Future of the Kaffir Races. In Three Parts. 1.Their History. 2.Their Manners and Customs. 3.The Means Needful for their Preservation and Improvement. London, Published by the Author, (1866).

. Pp. xii, 516. With one folding map, four folding tables and thirteen plates, of which eight tinted lithographs. Modern calf, spine gilt. With old ownership inscription. First edition. An informative work about the natives of South Africa by a Wesleyan missionary who spent 27 years in the country. Mendelssohn i, p.725.

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Book number: 121029

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, south africa, kaffirs, africa, afrique, afrika, travel, voyages, exploration, explore,

DELAPORTE. J.-HONORAT:

Principes de l'idiome arabe en usage a Alger suivis d'un conte arabe avec la prononciation et le mot-à-mot interlinéaires. Alger & Paris 1839.

. Pp. (viii), 163. With four folding tables. Contemporary marbled boards, cloth spine, faded. Second edition. Cf Thonnelier 1334. Cf Vater p. 28 (first 1836). Zenker BO ii, 82 & 191 (later editions).

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Book number: 28075

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, arabia, arabic, algier, langue, language, lingusitic, africa, africana, african, afrique, afrika

HÖST, GEORG:

Efterretninger om Mar—kos og Fes, samlede der i Landene fra Ao. 1760 til 1768. Ki¿benhavn, N. Möller, 1779.

. 4to. Pp. (xx), 291, (23) register + (1) errata. With engraved front portrait, one engraved map, two engraved vignettes and 33 engraved plate, of which many folding. Occasionally some light staining and a few leaves with small marginal tear. Contemporary half calf on marbled paper boards, worn, hinges cracked. First edition of an early informative account of Morocco devoted to the government, commerce, geography, religion, the various inhabitants (Arabs, Brebers, Mauri people, etc.) and their language and customs. Probably the first Western work dealing with the Moroccan-Arabic dialect. George Höst served as Danish Consul at Mogador for about eight years in the 1760s. The beautiful plates depict costumes, views, sights, music, weapons and coins. Bibl. Danica ii, 558. Cf Lipperheide Ma4 (German edition 1781). Cf Schnurrer, 125 & 139.

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Book number: 120969

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, afrika, africa, afrique, african, travel, exploration, morocco, marocco, mauri, berber, arab, arabs,

ISERT, PAUL ERDMANN:

Bref, om Guinea-kusten och Caraibiske öarne. I sammandrag från tyskan af J.H.O. Stockholm, Johan A. Carlbohm, 1795.

. Pp. (iv), 222, (2). Contemporary half calf, rubbed, small damage to spine. Small stain to title. A Swedish version of Isert's "Journey to Guinea and the Caribbean Islands in Colombia" (1788) translated from the German by Johan Henrik Olin. A narrative in the form of letters by a Danish doctor serving on the Gold Cost of Africa. Bibl. Danica ii, 416. Cf Sabin 35843 (German edition).

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Book number: 99646

Catalogue: Americas

Keywords: Americas, guinea, south america, colombia, travel, voyage, exploration, travels, americana, amerika, west indies,

JACKSON, JAMES GREY, esq.:

An Account of the Empire of Marocco, and the District of Suse; Compiled from Miscellaneous Observations made During a Long Residence in, and Various Journies through, these Countries. To which is Added, an Accurate and Interesting Account of Timbuctoo, the Great Emporium of Central Africa. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1809.gr

. 4to. Pp. xvi, 288. With two maps and eleven aquatint plates by J.C. Stadler. Contemporary half calf, rebacked, rubbed and paper boards slightly chipped. Internally fine. First edition of a comprehensive account of Morocco by Jackson who resided for sixteen years in the country. The account is dealing with the geography, zoology, inhabitants, their religion and languages, the plague, and much more. Includes a chapter about commercial relations of Morocco with Timbuktu, and parts of Sudan. The plates depict views, snakes, flora and fauna, etc. Abbey Travel 296. Gay 1248. Playfair 501.

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Book number: 99596

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, african, afrique, afrika, travel, exploration, voyage, morocco, maroco, marocco, west barbary, timbuktu, mali,

JOHNSTON, SIR HARRY HAMILTON:

Liberia. With an Appendix on the Flora of Liberia by Dr. Otto Stapf. Two volumes. London, Hutchinson & Co., 1906.

. Large and heavy 4to. Pp. xxviii, 520; xvi, pp. 521-1183. With four large folding maps, 28 full page coloured plates and numerous text illustrations, many made from photographs, including eighteen maps. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt vignettes on upper covers, lightly rubbed. Beautiful end papers with images of yellow-flowered Mussaenda. First edition. A comprehensive account of Liberia with information about its history and exploration, settlements of the Normans on the Kru coast, the founding of Liberia, slave trade, religion, geography, commerce, climate, geology, flora, fauna, birds, reptiles, fish, anthropology, languages, etc. Johnston, British explorer and colonial administrator visited Liberia several times between 1882 and 1906.

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Book number: 121024

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, afrique, african, travel, exploration, liberia, western africa,

JUNCKER, CHRISTIAN:

Commentarius de vita, scriptisqve ac meritis illustris viri Iobi Ludolfi, ... adjectae sunt epistolae aliquot clarorum viorum, tum etiam specimen linguae Hottentotticae. Lpz & Frankfurt, J. F. Branius, 1710.

. Pp. xvi (incl. one blank leaf), 228, (20). With one engraved frontispiece and one folding genealogical table. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt in compartments and with title label, rubbed and top of spine chipped. (Copy of Ericsberg castle, Sweden). First edition. A biographical study of Hiob Ludolph, the renowned German linguist. Includes an appendix with a small Hottentot vocabulary. Scarce.

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Book number: 99605

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, exploration, ethiopia, hottentot, language, langue, linguist,

KIÖPING (KIOPING), NILS MATSON:

Beskrifning om en resa, genom Asia, Africa och många andra hedna länder. Förbättrad och fjerde gången uplagd. Wästerås, Joh. Laur. Horrn, 1759.

. Small 8vo. Pp. (x), 158. No free end papers. Later paper covered boards. Copy of Ericsberg. Improved fourth edition of Kiöping's famous travel account to the Far East. It was the first proper travel account published in Sweden, first published in 1667. Scarce.

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Book number: 99879

Catalogue: East Asia

Keywords: East Asia, kina, china, chine, chinese, travel, exploration, asia, asie, asiatic, africa, afrique, afrika, african, persia, persian,

KIÖPING, NILS MATSON / WILLMAN, OLOF ERIKSSON / [CARON, FRANCOIS]:

ÉÊEen kort beskrffning uppå trenne reesor och peregrinationer, sampt konungarijket Japan: I. Beskrifwes een reesa som genom Asia Africa och många andra hedniska konungarijken ... förrättat aff Nils Matson Kiöping. II. Beskriwes een reesa till OstIndien China och Japan: III. Med förestlliande om förbenembde stoora och mächta konungarijketz Japan tillstånd... förrättat och beskrefwen aff Oloff Erickson Willman. IV. Uthföres een reesa ifrån Muszcow till China, genom Mongul och Cataja... Wiisindzborg, Johann Kankel, 1674.

. 4to. Pp. (iv), 176, 178-304. Modern half calf, spine ruled in gilt and with a red title label. Occasionally some minor browning. Second edition, first published in 1667 in only 500 copies. A scarce Swedish collection of travels printed at the private press of Count Brahe in Wisingsborg by the German bookprinter Johan Kankel. They are the first proper travel accounts published in Sweden.Comprises:I. Kiöping's narrative of his voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, Arabia, Persia, continuing to the Far East. His story was partly imaginative but became enormously popular at the time. Kiöping was employed as a bosun on a Dutch ship which in 1648 took him to Guinea and later to the Cape of Good Hope. He writes about his stay in Persia where he was in the service of the Shah and then about his journey on horseback to Bagdad. In 1652 he continued by ship to Ceylon and then to Java and Formosa (where Fredrik Coyet was governor). See Lasse Berg, När Sverige upptäckte Afrika, Stockholm 1997, pp. 11-15.II. Olof Eriksson WillmanÕs account of a voyage on a Dutch East Indiaman to the East Indies and and Japan between 1648-53. He visited Java which at the time was a Dutch colony.III. WillmanÕs interesting and accurate account of Japan (with separate title page dated 1673) which he visited in August 1651 for some months. He was able to participate in a Dutch embassy to Edo (Tokyo) which was reached in January 1652. His account of Tokaido, the ÒEast Sea RouteÓ, is one of the earliest known in European literature. Also contains a translation of François CaronÕs account of Japan. See Hjärne, Två svenska Japanfarare, pp. 17-83.IV. An account of a journey from Moscow to China.

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Book number: 100269

Catalogue: Travel general

Keywords: Travel general, travel, travels, exploration, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, siam, siamese, thailand, west indies, japan, japanese, japon, china, chinese, kina, chine,

KIRK, JOHN WILLIAM CARNEGIE:

A Grammar of the Somali Language. With examples in prose and verse and an account of the Yibir and Midgan dialects. Cambridge, the University Press, 1905.

. Pp. xvi, 216. Publisher's blue cloth. First edition. Somali is the language spoken by the inhabitants of the region known as the Horn of Africa, which lies between the French port of Djibouti, Cape Guardafin and the river Juba (formerly inhabited by the Gala people).

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Book number: 13212

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, somalia, somali, africa, african, language, lingustic, langue, afrika, afrique,

KITCHING, ARTHUR LEONARD:

On the Backwaters of the Nile. Studies of some child races of Central Africa. London, T. Fischer Unwin, 1912.

. Pp. xxiv, 296. With one map and 56 illustrations from photographs taken by the author. Publisher's cloth stamped in gilt, extremities lightly rubbed. Old ownership signatures on front end paper and title page. First edition. "This book embodies the experiences and observations of ten years spent among the outlying tribes of the Uganda Protectorate" (Foreword).

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Book number: 99600

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, central africa, africa, afrika, afrique, african, travel, voyage, exploration, uganda

KLEEN, TYRA (Ilustrator) / SCHREINER, OLIVE:

Drömmar (Dreams). Auktoriserad öfversättning från tredje engelska upplagan. Stockholm, C & E Gernandts Förlag, 1897.

. Large 4to (30.3 x 25.5 cm). Pp. 73. With many illustrations by Tyra Kleen. Original half green cloth on paper covered boards, upper cover illustrated, Head of spine with small repair (nicely done), some light stain and discolouration to back cover. First Swedish edition, translated from English by Ingeborg Kleen (Tyra's sister). Scarce. Tyra Kleen, a Swedish author and women's rights activist who spent several years abroad. She acquired a unique artistic and continental symbolist style. She was only 22 years old when she made the illustrations for Olive Schreiner's book Dreams. The book contains eleven short stories based on the author's dreams and life on a farm in South Africa. While studying in Paris, she had her first solo exhibition in 1896. She was truly a symbolist of her time and saw herself as a European artist and a vagabond rather than a Swedish artist.

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Book number: 121174

Catalogue: Art Nouveau

Keywords: Art Nouveau,

KNÖS (KNOES, KNOS), GUSTAV:

Disqvisito de fide Herodoti qva perhibet Phoenices africam navibus circumvectos esse cum recentiorum super hac re sententiis excussis. Adnexum est specimen sermonis arabici vulgaris seu intitium Historiae Filii Regis Azad Bacht e codice in edito typis descriptum et in latinum conversum. Goettingae, Henric Dieterich, 1805.

. 4to. Pp. (vi), 44. Sewn, uncut copy.

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Book number: 35043

Catalogue: Africa

Keywords: Africa, africa, africana, afrikana, afrika, afrique, phoenician, navigation, travel, history, historical, dissertation