ANDERSSON, C.J.:

Sjön Ngami. Forskningar och upptäckter under fyra års vandringar i sydvestra Afrika. Sthlm 1862.

. VIII, 288, 286.295, (6) pp. With one map, 16 steelengravings and many woodcut ills in the text. Cont. half calf, rubbed. Exlibris. A Swedish transl. from the original English edition with the author's own corrections.

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Book number: 18105

Catalogue: Africa

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BAINES, THOMAS:

The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa. London & Cape Colony, 1877.

. Pp. xxiv, 240 including 50 pages of advertisement. With four photo-type plates, one facsimile letter, woodcut illustrations and one large folding map (of the gold fields and the Cape Colony) in a pocket at rear. Original pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt and black, rubbed, some damp staining to the covers but internally fine. First edition, posthumously published. Important work of the gold discoveries in Matabeleland and Mashionaland (Zimbabwe). Baines led an expedition in the 1860s to secure licences for a gold-mining company from King Lobengula. At end a chapter where the author describes nineteen routes to the gold regions of South-Eastern Africa. Czech p. 13. Mendelssohn I, pp.71-2.

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Book number: 120996

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BERTRAND, ALFRED:

Au Pays des Ba-Rotsi Haut Zambèze. Voyage d'exploration en Afrique et retour par les chutes Victoria, le Matébéléland, le Transvaal, Natal, Le Cap. Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1898.

. Tall 8vo. Pp. vi, 331 + lvs (2). With engraved front portrait, title printed in red and black, two large folding maps at rear and many textual illustrations. Publisher's green cloth, decorated in gilt, beautiful marbled end papers. First edition. A very good copy. Bertrand was a Swiss geographer and photographer who made many ethnographical trips around the world. This account is about a journey to the Barotseland and the Zambezi basin, today located in western Zambia. Bertand's account based on his diary describes the different places he visited, its people, and hunting experiences of buffalo, wildebeest and lion. Includes also the return journey via Victoria Falls, Matabeleland (Zimbabwe), the Transvaal, Natal and the Cape. Czech p.16. Mendelssohn I, pp. 119-20.

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Book number: 121025

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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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Book number: 18067

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SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTENEY:

Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia Being a Narrative of Events in Matabeleland both Before and During the Recent Native Insurrection up to the Date of the Disbandment of the Bulawayo Field Force. London, Rowland Ward & Co., 1896.

. Pp. xxix, 290. With frontispiece, one map, eight photogravure plates and a few text illustrations. Half morocco. Second edition (first the same year). Mendelssohn II, p. 302.

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Book number: 121016

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SMITH, EDWIN, WILLIAM:

The Ila-Speaking Peoples of Northern Rhodesia. Two volumes. London, Macmillan and Co., 1920.

. Pp. xxviii, 423; xvi, 433. With one folding map and many illustrations throughout. Modern half calf, spine richly gilt. Some light foxing at the beginning of the first volume. First edition. A comprehensive work of the Ila speaking people living in Rhodesia devoted to the history, handicrafts, medicine, customs and manners, marriages, divinities, language, etc.

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Book number: 121014

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