FEUILLERET, HENRI:

Mungo Park sa vie et ses voyages. Deuxième édition. Tours 1881.

. Pp. 240. With two plates. Original decorated cloth, gilt.

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DE FILIPPI, FILIPPO (Editor) / PRINCE LUDWIG AMADEUS OF SAVOY:

Der Ruwenzori. Erforschung und erste Ersteigung seiner höchsten Gipfel. Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1909.

. Pp. xii, 471. With one folding coloured map, 2 folding panoramas, 25 full page plates and many textual illustrations. Publisher's pictorial cloth. A mint copy of the first German edition. This is a classic mountaineering work of a scientific expedition to the Ruwenzori on the borders of Congo and Uganda in 1906. These snowy mountains drain into the lakes that feed the Nile, making them the true source of the river. Many explorers had tried to ascend these peaks but had never succeded. The Duke's expedition was the first to truly explore and document the range.

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FORBES, FREDERICK E.:

Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at his Capital, in the Years 1849 and 1850. Two volumes. London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.

. Pp. xii, 244; vi, 248. With ten lithographed plates (coloured and tinted) and three woodcut plates. Errata slip inserted. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, head of spines chipped. Bindings shaken, some wormholes at the beginning of first volume, partly with some foxing.First edition. Dahomey was a West African kingdom (situated in today's Southern Benin) from the beginning of the 17th century up until 1904. Forbes, a British naval officer made two journeys to visit the Court of the King with the unsuccessful mission to convince him to end involvement in the slave trade. Forbes' journals include descriptions of the inhabitants, their customs, culture and vocabularies of the Vahie and Dahoman languages. Gay 2878.

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FRANCKEN, CARL WILHELM:

Engelska Ost-indie-fararen Cabalvas rysliga skeppsbrott, år 1818. Stockholm 1824.

. Pp. (ii), 56. Papercovered boards. A Swedish edition translated from the German. The British East India's frigate Cabalva under command of Captain Dalrymple left Gravesand in April 1818 to go to China but was shipwrecked near to Mauritius. This account by one of the officers vividly describes the disaster and the fortunate landing at Port Louis for the survivors.

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GÖTZEN, GUSTAV ADOLF VON:

Durch Afrika von Ost nach West. Resultate und Begebenheiten einer Reise von der Deutsch-Ostafrikanischen Küste bis zur Kongomündung in den Jahren 1893/94. Zweite Auflage. Berlin 1899.

. Folio. Pp. xiv, 426. With engraved frontispiece, two folding maps in pocket and many textual illustrations. Publisher's decorated cloth. Second edition (first 1895). Götzen was a German explorer and the first governor of German East Africa. He led this expedition through Rwanda and became the first European to visit Lake Kivu. The party encountered and climbed some of the Virunga Mountains, and later continued west through the Congolese jungle and eventually reached the Congo river. Henze II, 375.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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