CAMPBELL, JOHN:

Travels in South Africa. Undertaken at the Request of the Missionary Society. London, Printed for the Black, Parry & Co., 1815.

. Pp. xvi, 400. With one folding map, engraved frontispiece and eight engraved plates protected by tissue guards. Some light foxing and some discolouration from plates. contemporary calf rebacked with new spine, title labels printed in gilt. Second amended edition (first 1815).Campbell was a Scottish missionary who was sent to South Africa in 1812 to inspect the mission stations there after the death of John Theodosius van der Kemp, Governor of Bethelsdorp. Campbell travelled extensively throughout the country for nine months to visit the different settlements. He came in contact with various tribes, many previously unreached, and the Boer settlers. He returned to England in 1814 with his report and recommendations for the colony together with maps of the outposts. Howgego II, pp. 105-6. Mendelssohn I, p. 254 (third ed.).

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Boeknummer: 121010

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, afrika, afrique, african, travel, exploration, south africa,

CAMPERIO, MANFREDO:

Manuale Tigrè-Italiano. Con due dizionarietti Italiano-Tigrè e Tigrè-Italiano e cartina dimonstrativa degli idiomi parlati in Eritrea. Milano, Ulrico Hoepli, 1894.

. 12mo. (ii), 177 + adv. (2), 32. With one map. Publisher's red cloth, printed in black. First edition. Not in Zaunmüller.

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Boeknummer: 121314

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, afirca, africana, afrique, tigré, tigrinja, tigrè, eritrea, language, langue, linguistic,

CASALIS, EUGéNE:

The Basutos; or Twenty-Three Years in South Africa. London, James Nisbet & Co., 1861.

. Pp. xx, 355, 8 adv. With eight engraved plates and several illustrations in the text. Rebound in paper covered boards, calf spine with title label. Bound with one folding coloured map (dated 1861) which doesn't belong to the work. One leaf (pp.167-8) restored without loss. First edition of an interesting account of the Basutos describing habits, social and domestic life, government, religious ideas, superstitions, literature and music. Eugène Casalis, French Protestant missionary who spent 23 years in Southern Africa. He arrived at Cape Town in 1833 and participated in establishing a French Protestant Mission in Moriah, Lesotho. Casalis settled in Thaba-Bosis near Mohesh (Lesotho). Mendelssohn I, p. 307.

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Boeknummer: 121005

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, african, afrika, afrique, south africa, lesotho, travel, exploration, missionary, Basutu, Basutland, Basuto, Lesotho,

DU CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI:

Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa; with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Leopard, Elephant, Hippotamus, and other Animals. London, John Murray, 1861.

. Pp. xviii, 479. With folding frontispiece of a gorilla, one folding map (of Western Equatorial Africa), twenty-seven full page plates and many more illustrations in the text. Occasionally a few small stains to margin, otherwise a crisp and clean copy. Modern half calf, spine richly gilt in compartments with different animals and title labels. First edition of this famous account of the gorilla ("the monstrous and ferocious ape"). Paul Du Chaillu spent four years (1856-59) on his first expedition into Central Africa, to an area previously unexplored by Europeans. He made several important discoveries regarding the rivers of the region, the natives and unusual animals and fauna. He collected a vast number of specimens of birds, animals and fauna. The famous engraving of the gorilla was the first published illustration of the animal. Czech pp. 52-3. Gay 2756. Kainbacher p. 43. Ibrahim-Hilmy i, p. 194.

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Boeknummer: 121002

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, african, afrika, afrique, gorilla, ape, travel, exploration, central africa, equatorial africa

DU CHAILLU, PAUL BELLONI:

A Journey to Ashango-land: and Further Penetration into Equatorial Africa. London, John Murray, 1867.

. Large 8vo. Pp. xxiv, 502. With front, one folding map and eighteen plates, and some more illustrations. Later half calf, spine lettered in gilt. First edition. Du Chaillu became famous for his discoveries of the gorilla during his first expedition to Central Africa. This account covers Du Chaillu's second expedition from 1863 to 1865 which took him to the delta of the Ogooue River (today Gabon). He was able to continue his studies of the gorilla with improved scientific instruments and support from the Royal Geographical Society. He also made valuable discoveries of the indigenous people of the area, the Fang people. Hosken p. 63.

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Boeknummer: 121013

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, african, afrique, afrika, travel, exploration, central africa, equatorial africa, gabon, gorilla

CHARMES, GABRIEL:

Une ambassade au Maroc. Deuxième édition. Paris, Calmann Lévy, éditeur, 1887.

. Pp. (iv), iv, 343, (3). Decorative paper covered boards. Charmes participated in a mission headed by M. Féraud, French Ambassador to the Sultan at Fez. This narrative was originally published in the "Rev. des Deux Mondes" in June 1886. Playfair 1760.

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Boeknummer: 27012

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, afrika, africana, afrikana, maroc, morocco, marocko, fez, marocco, afrique, travel, travels, exploration, exploring

CRUICKSHANK, BRODIE:

Eighteen Years on the Gold Coast of Africa. Including an Account of the Native Tribes, and their Intercourse with Europeans. Two volumes. London, Hurst and Blackett, 1853.

. Pp. viii, 345, adv. (1) 16; vi, 335, adv. (1), 8. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, faded, extremities lightly rubbed. First edition.Interesting account of the Gold Coast of Africa (Southern Ghana) based on Cruickshank's long experience in the country. He was a Scotsman who became a member of the Legislative Council of the Gold Coast when it was set up in 1850. He spent many years at Cape Coast Castle and had continuous contact with the natives on issues such as law and custom. Scarce. Gay 2865.

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Boeknummer: 121003

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, west africa, travel, exploration, ghana, gold coast,

CUMMING, ROUALEYN GORDON:

Fem års jägarlif i det inre af Syd-Afrika. Stockholm 1873.

. Pp. xii, 273. With 4 woodcut plates. Publisher's pictorial cloth, gilt. Bookplate. A Swedish abridgment of this early classic on African hunting anonymously translated from the original English (1850). According to the author he was the first European in Bamangwatoland. See Mendelsohn i, 399.

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Boeknummer: 14290

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, afrika, africana, travel, travels, voyage, exploration, explore, south africa

CUMMING, ROUALEYN GORDON:

Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa. With Anecdotes of the Chase and Notices of the Native Tribes. Two volumes. London, John Murray, 1855.

. Pp. xvi, 388; x, 381. With engraved fronts, vignettes on titles, thirteen engraved plates and one map. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth, spines lettered in gilt, spines faded. A classic work on African game hunting, first published in 1850. Also valuable for information about the natives, the Boers, as well as for zoological and botanical observations. Cf Czech p. 43. Cf Mendelssohn I, p. 398-9.

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Boeknummer: 121011

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, african, afrique, afrika, afriken, travel, exploration, south africa, game, hunting

CUREAU DE LA CHAMBRE, MARINI:

Discours sur les causes du desbordement du Nil. Paris, Jacques Dallin, 1665.

. 12mo. Pp. (xx), 288, 291-312, (2), 313-360. With engraved frontispiece and one folding plan: "Topographie des sources du Nil". Contemporary calf, spine gilt with five raised bands, worn. Bookplate. Old signature on title. Partly with some minor worming, mainly in inner margin. This work had previously been published in his "Pensées" (1634 & 1662). A 4to edition appeared in the same year as this 12mo edition. The author was Louis XIV's physician but mainly known for his studies in the field of physics. This work comprises: 1. Que l'eau du Nil est nitreuse; 2. Que le Nitre est la cause du débordement du Nil; 3. Des signes qui font prevoir le débordement du Nil; 4. Que les Pluyes ni les Neiges ne font point déborder le Nile; 5. Du jour oú le Nil commence à croistre and; 6. La lettre de Monsieur Burattini. Added at end: Discours de la divine selon la philosophie Platonique (= du premier traité de la Platonique) (pp. 313-360). Ferguson i, 505. Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 351. Hirsch ii, 115. Tchermezin p. 250.

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Boeknummer: 39033

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, nile, nil, egypt, egyptian, africa, afrika, african, travel, exploration, afrique,

DOKE, CLEMENT MARTIN:

The Phonetics of the Zulu Language. Johannesburg 1926.

. Pp. xii, 310. Original blindstamped cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First edition. Scarce. Doke was a noted linguist and missionary in Southern Africa. This is his doctoral thesis at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.(Bantu studies, A Journal devoted to the Scientific Study, vol. ii, July 1926).

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Boeknummer: 37053

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, zulu, africa, african, language, lingustic, langue, afrika, afrique,

DRUMMOND, H.:

Central-Afrika. Stockholm 1890.

. Small 8vo. Pp. 194. With one coloured large folding map and 8 plates. Old inscriptions on title. Modern half calf. A Swedish translation.

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Boeknummer: 15069

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, africana, afrique, central africa, centralafrika, central africa, equatorial africa, l'Afrique centrale, afrika, zentralafrika, afrique central

DUBEN (DÜBEN, DUEBEN), C. VON:

Forskningarna i Central-Afrika. Stockholm 1878.

. Pp.148. With a large folding map (in a pocket). Cloth. A Swedish translation of the English "Science Primers", mainly published for school use.

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Boeknummer: 14216

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, afrika, afrique, africana, science, exploration, explore, central africa, centralafrika, central africa, equatorial africa, l'Afrique centrale, afrika, zentralafrika, afrique central

EBERS, GEORG MORITZ:

Aegypten in bild und wort. Dargestellt von unseren ersten Künstlern. Two volumes. Stuttgart & Lpz 1879-80.

. Folio. Pp. iv, vi, vi, 387; xii, 432. With 2 coloured lithographed maps, many full page woodcut plates and further more textual illustrations. Publisher's original morocco backed cloth richly gilt, upper covers elaborated in gilt and with turqouise stones, spines gilt in compartments, lettered in gilt, g.e. Somewhat rubbed and corners slightly bumped. Bookplates. Slight foxing to endpapers and occasionally some staining. First edition. Ebers, professor in Egyptology at Leipzig, made two journeys to Egypt in 1869-70 and in 1872. Blackmer 528. Ibrahim-Hilmy i, 205.

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Boeknummer: 17018

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, afrika, africana, afrikana, travels, exploration, exploring, voyage, egypt, aegypten, egypten, Egyptology

EFENDI SCHILI / NORBERG, MATTHIAS (Translator):

Beskrifning om regementsförändringen i Circasiska riket. Stockholm, Fr. Cederborgh & Comp., 1816.

. Pp. 80. Uncut copy in later marbled boards. A Swedish translation from the Arabic about the regiment alteration in the Circassian domain by the Swedish orientalist Mattias Norberg. The Circassians migrated from Egypt in the beginning of the 19th century (probably after the 1811 massacre) and have then founded the city of Misrata in Libya.

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Boeknummer: 99663

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, egypt, egyptian, africa, afrika, afrique, travel, exploration, history. historical, circassian,