SAVARY, CLAUDE ETIENNE:

Lettres sur l'Egypt, ou l'on offre le parallele des moeurs anciennes & modernes e ses habitans; oú l'on décrit l' état, le commerce, l'agriculture, le gouvernement, l'ancienne religion du pays, & la descente de St. Louis à Damiette, tirée de Joinville & des auteurs arabes; avec des cartes géographiques. Three volumes. Amsterdam, Leiden, Rotterdam et Utrecht, 1787.

. 12mo. Pp. viii, 339; (ii), 252; (ii), 248. With two folding engraved maps and one folding engraved plate. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt and with title-labels, rubbed, corners chipped. Volume two has some water stain at the beginning. Savary visited Egypt 1776 to 1779. His knowledge of Arabic served him well in his travels at a time when there were many difficulties for the European explorer in Egypt. Blackmer 977. Cf Ciroanescu 59673-4. (first 1785-86). Hilmy ii, 214. Wilbour 660.

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SCHÄFER, HENRICH PROF. DR.:

Nubische texte im dialekte der Kunûzi (mundart von Abuhôr). Berlin, Verlag der Königl. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1917.

. 4to. Pp. 289. + Sonderabdruck aus der "Zeitschrift für Kolonialsprachen". pp. 255-264. Contemporary half cloth. Some waterstain to margins.

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SCHREUDER, HANS PALUDAN SMITH:

[ZULU]. Grammatik for Zulu-sproget. Med fortale og anmaerkningar af Christoph Andreas Holmboe. Christiania, W.C. Fabritius, 1850.

. Pp. viii, 88. Text in Norwegian. Modern boards. The paper is very brittle and three leaves are strengthened. First edition of the first complete grammar of the Zulu language. Schreuder was the first permanent missionary in Zululand in South Africa where he started Norwegian mission stations in the mid 19th century. Mendelssohn ii, pp. 286-87. Not in Vater.

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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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SELOUS, FREDERICK COURTENEY:

Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa. Being the Narrative of the last Eleven Years spent by the Author of the Zambesi and its Tributaries; with an Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in that Country. London, Rowland Ward and Co., 1893.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xviii, 503, adv. (4). With one folding map and numerous text illustrations. Modern half morocco. First edition. A handsome copy. The narrative describes his experiences with the Boers and the natives while engaging in his hunting expeditions. "Selous describes numerous adventures with lions and leopards, particularly near the Zambesi, Zweswi, and Manyami rivers, with additional sport after rhinoceros, eland antelope, and hartebeest. After returning to the Transvaal, he linked with Montague Kerr and traveled into Matabeleland." Czech p.146. Mendelssohn II, p. 300.

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Sonstige Stichworte: Africa, zambesi, mashonaland, zimbabwe, afrika, afrique, africa, african, travel, exploration, game, hunting,

SIEVERS, W.:

Afrika. Eine allgemeine Landeskunde. Lpz & Wien 1891.

. Large 8vo. Pp. viii, 468 + (4). With 12 coloured maps, 16 full page plates (of which 6 chromolithographic) and 154 woodcut ills in the text. Contemporary half calf, gilt. Bookplate.

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SKERTCHLY, J. ALFRED:

Dahomey as it is; being a Narrative of Eight Months' Residence in that Country, ... Also an Appendix on Ashantee. London, Chapman and Hall, 1874.

. Pp. xxii, 524. With a coloured lithographed frontispiece, one folding map, eight lithographed full page plates (of which three coloured) and woodcut illustrations in the text. This copy has one additional coloured plate "The Gun Custom" not included in the list of illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, stamped in gilt and black. Extremities slightly chipped, top of front hinge with small hole. First edition of a scarce title devoted to Dahomey (Benin today), its people and customs. The plates are made after sketches by the author. Skertchley was an English entomologist who participated in a zoological expedition to the West Coast of Africa in 1871. During a short visit to Abomey, the capital of Dahomey, he was captured (but shown great hospitality) by the king for eight months, during which he was unable to collect specimens. Some light offsetting to the title from the frontispiece, otherwise a crisp and clean copy. Cardinall 1102.

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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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SMITHES, MARION F.:

Children of the Desert. With Photographs by W.H. Edgar. Kensington, Curtis & Davidson, 1910.

. Pp. (viii), 56. Missing front endpaper. With eight plates, of which seven made from photographs. Original brown paper boards, cloth spine, printed in black, and an image of a camel on upper cover. Initially and at end a little browned. First edition. A very charming work, probably privately printed, which tells us stories about life among the Arabs and Berbers around Biskra in the Algerian Sahara. Rare.

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Katalog: Africa

Sonstige Stichworte: Africa, north africa, algeria, afrique, african, arabian, arabic, desert, travel, exploration, youth

SPARRMAN, ANDERS:

Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Espérance, et autour du monde avec le capitaine Cook, et principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres. Three volumes. Paris 1787.

. Pp. iii-xxxi, 390; (iv), 366, (5); (iv), 366, (1). Half-title to volume one missing. With one folding engraved map (with tear) and sixteen engraved plates (mostly folding). Some staining. Contemporary speckled calf, spine richly gilt with five raised bands and title-labels, somewhat rubbed. Marbled end papers, r.e. French edition of Sparrman's travels in South Africa translated from the English version by Le Tourneur. In 1772 Anders Sparrman, a Swedish naturalist, travelled around the Cape Province for several years and in this account he reports about the plants, animals and inhabitants of the country. While he was there he was invited to participate in Cook's second voyage in the Resolution as assistant to the Forsters, the botanists on the expedition. An interesting account of the voyage is here included. Du Rietz, Bibl. Polynesiana 1223. Hill p. 279. Mendelsohn ii, p. 361.

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STANLEY, HENRY MORTON:

Coomassie och Magdala. Skildring af två brittiska fälttåg. Parts i-ii in four volumes. Stockholm 1874-75.

. Pp. 285; 264, (8). With 2 folding maps, 4 portraits, 13 full page plates and some textual illustrations. Uncut, partly unopened copy in original illustrated wrappers. Front cover to part three loose, otherwise a fine set. A Swedish edition, translated by C.G. Jungberg.

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Katalog: Africa

Sonstige Stichworte: Africa, africa, afrika, africana, afrikana, afrique, travels, explore, exploring, voyage, military, britain, england, army, kumasi, ghana

STANLEY, HENRY MORTON:

I det mörkaste Afrika. Emin Paschas uppsökande, befrielse och återtåg. Two volumes. Stockholm 1890.

. Pp. xv, 559; xiv, 550. With 3 folding maps and 144 illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Top of spines slightly chipped. A Swedish edition of "In Darkest Africa" published by E.W. Dahlgren.

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STANLEY, HENRY MORTON:

Genom de svartes verldsdel eller Nilens källor; kring de stora sjöarne och utför Livingstone-floden till Atlantiska hafvet. Two volumes. Stockholm 1878.

. Pp (iv), 408; (iv), 384. With 2 lithographed portraits, 32 fullpage plates, 8 maps (of which one large folding) and many illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth. A Swedish edition of "Through the Dark Continent and the Sources of the Nile ... " (London 1878). During this fatal expedition Stanley explored the African Great Lakes (Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganykia, the Lake Edward), and followed the Lualaba river and the Congo river to the Atlantic coast and finally reached a Portugese outpost Boma at the mouth of the river Congo in August 1877. Cf Ibrahim-Hilmy ii, p.258.

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STANLEY, HENRY MORTON:

Im dunkelsten Afrika. Aufsuchung, Rettung und Rückzug Emin Pascha's, Gouverneurs der Aequatorialprovinz. Two volumes. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1890.

. Pp. xii, 515, (1); viii, 480, (8) adv. With two portraits, one folding facsimile letter, 3 maps, 36 full page plates and many more textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Small library stamp verso of titles. First German edition, translated from the English by H. von Wobeser. This narrative is from Stanley's last African expedition. He travelled up the Congo River and crossed central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha. He explored the Semliki River and made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range and completed the journey in Zanzibar in 1889. The facismile letter is only included in the German edition. A great copy. Borst 3873. Kainbacher p. 133.

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Katalog: Africa

Sonstige Stichworte: Africa, africana, afrika, afrique, travel, travels, voyages, exploration, exploring, central africa, ruwenzori, zanzibar

STANLEY, HENRY MORTON:

Kongo den nya fristaten i de svartes verldsdel. En skildring af forskningsfärder och koloniseringsarbete. Two volumes. Stockholm 1885.

. Pp. (iv), 404; 368. With two frontispieces, 40 full page plates, 5 folding maps and many more illustrations in the text. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. First volume loose in binding. A Swedish edition of "The Congo and the Foundings of its Free State: ... "(London 1885). This expedition commissioned by the Belgian king Leopold II resulted in the establishment of the Congo State, the first free commercial state of Equatorial Africa.

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Katalog: Africa

Sonstige Stichworte: Africa, africa, african, afrique, afrika, travel, voyages, kongo, congo