MIGEOD, FREDERICK WILLIAM HUGH:

A Grammar of the Hausa Language. London 1914.

. Pp. xii, 228, (2). Publisher's cloth, lightly rubbed. Bookplate. Ex. library copy. With the author's signature on title page. First and only edition. "This grammar is primarily for students who have already acquired some knowledge of the Hausa language" (Preface).

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Boeknummer: 99428

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, nigeria, hausa, haoussa, language, linguistic, langue, africa, african, afrique, afrika, west africa

MOLLIEN, GASPARD THÉDORE:

Travels in the Interior of Africa, to the Sources of the Senegal and Gambia; Performed by Command of the French Government, in the year 1818. Edited by T.E. Bowdich. London, Henry Colburn & Co., 1820.

. 4to. Pp. (xii) including first blank leaf, 378, (2). With engraved frontispiece, one large folding map (small tear) and six uncoloured aquatint plates. Contemporary calf, gilt fillets on covers, edges rubbed, rebacked. Beautiful marbled end papers and edges. Some very light offsetting from plates and partly upper margin with some light staining. First English edition published in the same year as the first French. Mollien, a French diplomat, was one of the earliest European explorers of the West African interior. He came to Senegal in 1817 and the following year he travelled across Senegal and Gambia and discovered the sources of the Senegal and Gambia rivers. Interesting account of the different tribes he met along the route. Includes some pages with vocabularies of Joloff and Poula languages. Abbey, Travel, 273. Gay 2910.

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Boeknummer: 45017

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, travels, exploration, voyage, senegal, gambia, guinea

MÜLLER, FRIEDRICH:

Die Sprachen der Wollhaarigen Rassen. Wien, Alfred Hölder, 1877.

. Pp. (viii), 262, (2). Half cloth. Stamps. Comprises: 1. Sprachen der Hottentoten-Rasse; 2. der Papua-Rasse; 3. der Neger-Rasse (Dinka, Bari, Wolof, Bullom, Temne, Akra, Efik, Maude, Logone, Maba, Hause, etc.); and 4. der Kafir-Rasse (Bantu). Included in "Grundriss der Sprachwissenschaft".

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Boeknummer: 99769

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, afrique, afrika, african, language, langue, linguistic, hottentott, bantu, hausa, papa new guinea,

MURRAY, HUGH:

Berättelse om upptäckter och äfventyr i Afrika ifrån de äldsta tider till den närvarande. Linköping, Axel Petre, på eget förlag,1835.

. Pp. (x), 280. Uncut copy in original printed wrappers. Old signature on front cover. A Swedish edition translated from the English (1817). An historical account about discoveries and adventures in Africa. Cf Mendelssohn ii, 69.

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Boeknummer: 29031

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, africa, afrique, afrika, travel, voyage, exploration,

NORBERG, MATTHIAS:

De api Aegyptiis sacro dissertatio. Lund 1806.

. 4to. Pp. 10. Disbound. A dissertation by the renowned Swedish linguist Matthias Norberg.

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Boeknummer: 99582

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, egypt, egyptian, africa, african, afrique, afrika,

NORBERG, MATTHIAS / WEDBERG, CARL GUSTAF (Resp.):

Dissertatio interpretans Carmen principis Tumanbaj aegyptiacae pyramidi insculptum. LUND, BERLINGIANIS, 1804.

. 4to. Pp. 17. Arabic and Latin text. Disbound. Marklin 102.

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Boeknummer: 120430

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, egypt, egyptian, egyptien, africa, afrika, afrique, african, pyramids, arabic,

NORBERG, MATHIAS / HANSSON, PETRUS (Resp.):

Dissertation de nomadibus aethiopiae. Lund, Berlingianis, 1796.

. 4to. Pp. 12. Uncut, sewn as issued. Marklin 82.

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Boeknummer: 120327

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, ethiopia, africa, afrique, afrika,

NORRIS, ROBERT:

Resa på Neger-kusten til kongl. hofvet i Dahomej af ängelske handels agenten Norris år 1772. Götheborg, Sam. Norberg, 1792.

. Pp. 60. Modern paperboards. An abridged Swedish version of "Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomej, ..." (London 1789). Translated from a German edition by Samuel Ödmann, with a preface and interesting comments by him. Robert Norris was a slave trader who visited the court of Dahomey (West Guinea) in 1772. His work is a defence of slavery. Cf Cox i, p. 388. Cf Gay 2881.

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Boeknummer: 14284

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, afrika, africana, afrique, afrika, african, travel, travels, voyages, exploration, dahomej, dahomey, benin, guinea,

NUCULA, HORAZIO:

Commentariorum de bello aphrodisiensi libri quinque. Roma, per Valerium et Ludovicum fratres Brixienses [Valerio e Ludovico Dorico], 1552.

. Pp. 79, 90-368, (7). Nicely printed by the famous Brescian brothers Dorico. Including one double page woodcut map of the northern coast of Tunis and the southern part of Sicily. With dedication to Pope Julius III with his coat of arms as woodcut vignette on title page. Title page restored (slight loss of one letter) and two more leaves with marginal repairs without any loss of text. Some minor browning and small marginal wormholes. Contemporary limp vellum, top of spine restored, title in manuscript on spine and library ink marks. Library stamp on title.Scarce first edition of this trustworthy account of Charles V's campaigns against the Turkish corsair Dragut (Turgut Reis) who was based at Mahdia on the Tunisian coast, and made it the centre of his piracy activities. However in 1550 the Genoese Andrea Doria (1466-1560), the foremost naval leader of his time, attacked and captured Mahdia. Adams N368. Cf Gay 378. Göllner 926.

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Boeknummer: 41015

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, north africa, africa, africana, afrique, afrika, tunis, turkey, near east, travel, exploration, voyage

OERTEL (OERTELII), JOHANN GOTTFRIED:

Sacrorum apud sempronienses antistitis theologia aethiopum ex litergiis fidei confessionibus aliisque ipsorum pariter ac rerum habesstnicarum peritissimorum europaeorum scriptis congesta et cum necessariis indicibus instructa. Wittebergae, impensis Io. Michaelis Teubner, impressit Io. Christoph. Tzschiedrich, 1746.

. Pp. viii, 264. Title printed in red and black. Old marbled wrappers. Copy of Ericsberg castle (bookplate). A scarce study on chistianity in Ethiopia.

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Boeknummer: 35039

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, ethiopia, abbysinia, africa, afrique, african, afrika, travel, exploration,

[SIERRA LEONE] PADENHEIM, DANIEL WILHELM:

Bref, til en vän i Sverige, innehållande historisk och geographisk beskrifning öfver colonien Sierra Leona i Afrika; jämte S.L. compagniets och coloniens formerande; ... Part one (all publ.). Stockholm, Kumelinska Tryckeriet, 1801.

. Pp. 130. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spine richly decorated in gilt and with title labels, rubbed. Bookplate and old ownership signature on front endpaper. Some staining. First edition, second issue, of a scarce Swedish work. Padenheim joined the Sierra Leone Company in London in 1790. Two years later he, together with three other Swedes (August Nordenskjöld, Adam Afzelius and Jacob Strand) came to Sierra Leone with the mission to establish a "free slave" colony there. This work comprises five letters by Padenheim, of which four are written at Freetown 1792-95. The letters contain information aboutthe slave trade in Surinam, the establishment of the Sierra Leone Company in London, the building of Freetown, its plan and system of government, the Nova Scotians or the Settlers, problems and conflicts in the settlement, surrounding communities, the climate, house construction, African religion, farming, trade, clothing, weaving and dyeing, etc. See Dahlgren, Carl Bernard Wadström, NTBB 1915, p. 40.BOUND WITH: HUNTER, JOHN / TENCH, WATKIN & KING, PHILIP GIDLEY / [EDVARD, CAPT.]: Resa til Nya Södra Wallis, .. jämte nyaste underrättelser om Engelska Nybygget i Port Jackson, Nya Holland och Norfolks-Ön, af Capit. Tench och King samt Cap. Edvards resa omkring jorden. Stockholm, Johan Pfeiffer, 1797. Pp. (iv), 283. With staining. Contains a Swedish abridged version of Hunter's "An historical journal of the transactions at Port Jackson, ..." (1793). Including Captain Tench's account of New South Wales; Captain King's journal from Norfolk Island and; Hamilton's account of Commander Edvard's circumnavigation. Samuel Ödmann based the translations on German editions. Ferguson 250. SWIM 1:25. Wantrup pp. 68-72.

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Boeknummer: 100250

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, Africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, exploration, sierra leone, slave trade, slaves, slavar,

MALAGASY pamphlets [Title on spine].

Tananarive, London Missionary Society, 1911-18.

. A set of twenty Malagasy missionary tracts. Titled: "Trakta ho an'ny mpitoriteny" part nos. 1, 2, 5-7, 9-13, 15-21, 23 and two unnumbered tracts.Size: 10.5 x 17.5 cm. Collation: pp. 48; 48; 48, 49-96; 48; 48; 48; 48; 49-96; 48, 44; (iv), 45-88; 48; 48; 48; 48; 48; 48; 99, (1, blank); 63, (1, blank). A few of the tracts have some textual illustrations and maps. Bound in contemporary cloth, rubbed. With original printed wrappers with bound. Text printed in an orthographic system developed by Protestant missionaries in the 1820s. Several are translated from French and English.Most of them are biblical translations or commentaries on the Bible. A few are devoted to Assyrian Christianity, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, and early Christian reformers including Girolamo Savonarola, John Huss and John Wycliffe. A very unusual collection, a rare survivor.

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Boeknummer: 121282

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, madagascar, malagasy, africa, afrique, african, language, langue, religious, missionary, travel, linguistic,

PARK, MUNGO:

Resa i det inre af Africa, åren 1795 til 1797. Sammandrag. Stockholm, Johan Pfeiffer, 1800.

. Pp. (xvi), 359, (8). Contemporary half calf, rubbed with a few small wormholes. Bookplate. A Swedish abridgment translated by Samuel Ödmann from the German edition, Berlin 1799.

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Boeknummer: 23059

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, afrika, africana, afrique, travel, voyages, exploration, explore, africa,

PARK, MUNGO:

Resa i det inre af Africa, åren 1795 til 1797. Sammandrag. Stockholm, Johan Pfeiffer, 1800.

. Pp. (xvi), 359, (8). Contemporary or slightly later half calf, flat spine printed in gilt and with title label, somewhat rubbed. Two stamps on title. Occassionally some light staining. A Swedish abridgment of Mungo Park's famous account of his travels in Africa. Translated by Samuel Ödmann from the German edition, Berlin 1799. Cf. Gay 2788.

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Boeknummer: 99989

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, afrika, africana, afrique, africa, travel, voyages, exploration, explore, africa,

PARK, MUNGO:

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an Appendix containing Geographical Illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell. Third edition. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1799.

. 4to. Pp. iii-xxxviii, 372, (vi) including two pages of music, appendix xcii. Half-title missing and subscriber's list misbound. With engraved portrait, three folding maps and five engraved plates. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt, hinges cracking, rubbed. Published in the same year as the first edition. Mungo Park (1771-1806) was the first European to reach the Niger River. "Until the publication of Park's [first] book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa, apart from the north-east region and the coastal areas. Park's Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature, and its scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and on the social and domestic life of the negroes, have remained of lasting value". (PMM). Cox I, p. 394. Gay 2788. Ibrahim-Hilmy ii, p. 93. Printing and the Mind of Man 253.

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Boeknummer: 45018

Catalogus: Africa

Trefwoorden: Africa, africa, afrika, african, afrique, travel, travels, exploration, voyage, senegal, gambia, central africa, nigeria, niger, mali,