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FILIPPI, Filippo de and Caroline de FILIPPI (translator).
Ruwenzori. An account of the expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo...
London, Archibald Constable and Company, 1908.
First English edition, with handsome illustrations, describing the 1906 expedition to the Rwenzori mountain range in present-day Uganda under the stewardship of Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, the Duke of Abruzzi.
£300
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POWELL-COTTON, Percy.
A sporting trip through Abyssinia. A narrative of a nine months’ journey from the plains of the Hawash...
London, Rowland Ward, 1902.
First edition, signed by the son of the author and bound for the Powell Cotton Museum, describing a nine-month exploration and hunting expedition through Abyssinia by the English hunter and animal collector Percy Powell-Cotton.
£300
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BEECHAM, John.
Ashantee and the Gold Coast: being a sketch of the history, social state, and superstitions of the inhabitants of...
London, sold by John Mason, 1841.
Uncommon first edition, a study of the west African region around modern-day Ghana by the Wesleyan Methodist John Beecham.
£300
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BRUCE, James.
Travels, between the years 1765 and 1773, through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, into Abyssinia, to discover...
London, James Robins and Co. Albion Press, [1820?].
First edition thus, an abridged account of James Bruce’s famous travels through Ethiopia on a quest to discover the source of the Nile.
£150
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BRADLEY, John Thomas.
The history of Seychelles … 2nd edition … Published in two parts. Part 1 – French occupation. Part...
Victoria [Seychelles], Clarion Press, 1940.
Second edition of Bradley’s history of the Seychelles, one of the major historical studies of the islands. Bradley, a long-time resident of the Seychelles, chief-medical officer, administrative official, OBE, Chevalier de l’Ordre de Pius IX, and founder of the islands’ resident Clarion Press, originally...
£350
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DECLE, Lionel.
Three years in savage Africa … With an introduction by H.M. Stanley, M.P. With 100 illustrations and 5 maps from...
London, Methuen & Co., 1898.
First edition recounting the author’s 7000-mile journey from Cape Town to Mombasa – ‘the longest journey that has yet been achieved at one stretch from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean’ – in order ‘to study the ethnology and anthropology of the interior tribes’.
£150
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HUC, Évariste Régis and William HAZLITT (translator).
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, during the years 1844-5-6 … Second...
London, Office of the National Illustrated Library, [1852].
Second English edition recounting the famous journey of two Lazarist missionaries across China, Mongolia, and Tibet between 1844 and 1846.
£125
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WATTS, Isaac.
Psalms of David imitated in the Language of the New Testament …
Birmingham, Printed & sold by Knott and Lloyd. 1806.
Unrecorded Birmingham editions of Watts’s Hymns (first 1707) and Psalms (first 1719), both many times reprinted, especially in America. The portrait of Watts was printed especially for this edition and is dated 10 October 1806.
£300
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MOSZKOWSKI, Alexander [and H.J. STENNING (trans.).]
The Isles of Wisdom.
London, George Routledge & sons, 1924.
First English edition of Alexander Moszkowski’s dystopian satire. Moszkowski imagines a visit to a series of South-East Asian islands which each subscribe unreservedly to a philosophical school of thought. These utopias are absurd: people’s notions of philosophical purity prevent them...
£230
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JOHNSTON, Reginald Fleming.
From Peking to Mandalay. A journey from north China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch’uan and Yunnan ...
London, John Murray, 1908.
First edition recounting the 1906 travels through China and neighbouring parts of southeast Asia by the Scottish colonial administrator and sinologist Reginald Fleming Johnston.
£350
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JENNINGS, James Willes and Christopher ADDISON.
With the Abyssinians in Somaliland … With a preface by Colonel A.N. Rochfort...
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905.
First edition recounting the author’s fact-finding mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia investigating the ‘folk-lore, the characteristics, and customs of the Abyssinians’.
£275
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HARRIS, Walter Burton.
Tafilet. The narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the oases of the north-west...
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895.
First edition of this description of Morocco by Harris (1866-1933), graduate of Caius College, Cambridge, and The Times correspondent in Tangier.
£150
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KAWAGUCHI, Ekai.
Three years in Tibet with the original Japanese illustrations …
Madras, The Theosophist Office; Benares and London, Theosophical Publishing Society, 1909.
First edition of the travel narrative of Ekai Kawaguchi, a Buddhist priest who may well have been the first Japanese citizen to visit Tibet. Kawaguchi left Japan, initially for India, in 1897. The subsequent year he spent in Darjeeling, partly in order to try and learn the Tibetan language. In 1899 he...
£175
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KEMP, Dennis.
Nine years at the Gold Coast …
London, Macmillan and Co., 1898.
First edition recounting the author’s experiences in the British colony of Gold Coast, present day Ghana, as general superintendent of the Wesleyan missions.
£100
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MOORE, John Edward (or Edmund) Sharrock.
To the mountains of the moon being an account of the modern aspect of Central Africa,...
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1901.
First edition recounting the journey of J. E. S. Moore and the Tanganyika expedition in central Africa between 1899 and 1900. Moore and the expedition were on the search for the so-called ‘mountains of the moon’, a legendary mountain range which they identified with the Rwenzori mountains straddling...
£125
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MOLLIEN, Gaspard Theodore.
Travels in Africa, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia, in 1818 … Translated from the French.
London, for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820.
First edition of an abridged translation recounting the French explorer Gaspard Theodore Mollien’s west African expeditions in 1818. Mollien first developed an interest in exploration after reading Robinson Crusoe as a young boy but was forced to take a job as a civil servant with the Marine and Colonial...
£120
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PRINGLE, Thomas.
Narrative of a residence in South Africa …
London, William Tegg, 1864.
Rare 1864 edition summarising the formative years spent in South Africa by Thomas Pringle, a well-known Scottish abolitionist and the so-called ‘Father of South African poetry’. The Pringle family first decided to emigrate to South Africa in 1820, with Thomas Pringle – by then a published poet...
£150
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GILL, William.
The river of golden sand: being the narrative of a journey through China and eastern Tibet to Burmah ... Condensed...
London, John Murray, 1883.
Second condensed edition recounting the author’s 1877 expedition through China and Tibet to Burma, featuring new illustrations and a memoir of Gill, with a dedicatory inscription from the author’s sister to the front free endpaper.
£200
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PARKYNS, Mansfield.
Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years’ residence and travels in that country …
London, John Murray, 1853.
First edition, a study of Abyssinia based on the author’s travels through the country, including remarks and observations on climate, natural history, hunting, missionary activity, slavery, manners and customs, government and law, diseases and modes of cure, and accounts of journeys to Taccazy, Cafta,...
£175
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GLEICHEN, Edward.
With the mission to Menelik 1897 ...
London, Edward Arnold, 1898.
First edition recounting the author’s participation in an 1897 diplomatic mission to Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia. An Anglicised German from the family of Hohenlohe whose hereditary estate dated back to the early seventeenth century, Gleichen served first as a courtier (he was Paige of Honour to...
£100