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STUART-WATT, Eva.
Africa’s dome of mystery. Comprising the first descriptive history of the Wachagga people of Kilimanjaro, their...
London and Edinburgh, Marshall, Morgan & Scott, [1930].
First edition. ‘In Part II the authoress gives from her own experience and observation a vivid description of mountains and plains of tropical foliage and waterless, barren scrub land which is most telling, culminating in her account of the ascent to the 19,000 ft. crater of Kibo. The scene on the...
£100
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ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
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London, John Murray, [1876].
Volume 46 (1876) of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. No institution did more to foster and finance the great feats of British exploration in British exploration’s most celebrated and prolific era than the Royal Geographical Society, and it was in the yearly journal that the great and...
£125
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SHERRING, Charles A.
Western Tibet and the British borderland. The sacred country of Hindus and Buddhists. With an account of the...
London, Edward Arnold, 1906.
First edition. ‘The author’s account of the exploration in Garhwal and Ladakh accompanied with T.G. Longstaff in 1905, with a chapter by Longstaff, describing an attempt to climb Gulra Mandhata. The most serious book on that region, including Mt. Kailas and its neighbourings’ (Yakushi).
£175
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WELLBY, Montagu Sinclair.
‘Twixt Sirdar & Menelik. An account of a year’s expedition from Zeila to Cairo through unknown Abyssinia...
London and New York, Harper & Brothers, 1901.
First edition, published posthumously, the author having been killed in action during the Boer War.
£125
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SCHULTZE, Arnold.
The sultanate of Bornu. Translated from the German of Dr A. Schultze ... with additions and appendices by P....
London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913.
Uncommon first edition in English of this work on Bornu in Nigeria, covering its history, climate, flora, fauna, population, and commerce, with numerous appendices encompassing, inter alia, lepidoptera, meteorological observations, Lake Chad, festivals, and tribes.
£75
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WOLFF, Joseph.
Narrative of a mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845. To ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain...
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1848.
Fifth edition of this popular account by the missionary and traveller Joseph Wolff (1795-1862). ‘In 1843 Wolff made a second journey to Bukhara in order to ascertain the fates of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart and of Captain Arthur Conolly. He was sent out by a committee formed in London...
£175
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LIVINGSTONE, David and Charles LIVINGSTONE.
Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery...
London, John Murray, 1865.
First edition, by David Livingstone and his brother Charles, recounting Livingstone’s second Zambesi expedition which, despite several important discoveries, was largely regarded as an ignominious failure. In 1857, Livingstone resigned from the London Missionary Society and accepted the position of...
£250
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ISENBERG, Karl Wilhelm and Johann Ludwig KRAPF.
Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, missionaries of the Church Missionary...
London, Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, 1843.
First edition of this account of travels in Ethiopia by the German missionaries and linguists Krapf (1810-81) and Isenberg (1806-84), opening with ‘a geographical memoir on eastern and central Africa’, followed by sections on the ‘journey from Zeila to Ankobar’, ‘residence at Ankobar’, and...
£750
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WHITE, Arthur Silva.
From sphinx to oracle. Through the Libyan Desert to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon ...
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1899.
First edition. ‘The town of Siwa and its adjacent necropolis were bathed in the evening light, hedged round by a wall of mere mud and an impenetrable armour of fanaticism. It seemed difficult to realize it all: the flimsy material structure and the moral impregnability of this ancient citadel. Few...
£75
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HERBERT, Mary Elizabeth Herbert, Baroness.
Cradle lands by Lady Herbert.
London, Richard Bentley, 1867.
First edition of this account by the Roman Catholic convert and philanthropist Lady Herbert (1822-1911), recording her travels to Cairo and Upper Egypt, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron, Gaza, Nazareth, Beirut, Damascus, and Ephesus. ‘The journey detailed in the following pages was undertaken for the sake...
£100
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YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis Edward, Sir.
The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, through...
London, John Murray, 1896.
First edition. In 1886 Younghusband (1863-1942) ‘accompanied a seven-month expedition to Manchuria. In Peking (Beijing) in March 1887 he met his superior Colonel Mark Sever Bell, and the two men obtained leave to return to India by separate land routes. Younghusband, alone with hired guides, spent...
£275
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[ELIZABETH II.] KEYSTONE (PARIS).
La Princesse Elisabeth fille du Duc d’York, et héritier, du trône d’Angleterre …
1936.
Princess Elizabeth on the day of the announcement of the abdication of Edward VII.
£1200
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VANDELEUR, Seymour.
Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger ... With an introduction by Sir George T. Goldie ... With maps, illustrations,...
London, Methuen & Co., 1898.
First edition. Vandeleur (1869-1901) was born in County Clare to a prominent soldiering family. He served in the invasion of Nigeria, in Uganda during the establishment of the protectorate (Unyoro expedition, 1895), and later at Atbara and Omdurman in the Sudan Campaign. He died in South Africa when...
£75
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[OSBORNE, Francis.]
Historical memoires on the reigns of Queen Elizabeth, and King James.
London: Printed by T. Grismond, and are to be sold by T. Robinson … in Oxon. 1658.
First edition of Osborne’s history of the reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI and I, two exemplary leaders of the Protestant English cause, with which Osborne was much taken in his works.
£475
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WALDMEIER, Theophilus.
The autobiography of Theophilus Waldmeier, missionary: being an account of ten years’ life in Abyssinia;...
London, S.W. Partridge & Co., Leominster, the Orphans’ Printing Press, [1886].
First edition. Waldmeier was Swiss, but as ‘I have the privilege of knowing so many dear friends in England and America I have therefore written this autobiography in the English language’ (Preface). He arrived as a Protestant missionary in 1859 and established a friendly relationship with the Emperor...
£100
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MAUGHAN, William Charles.
The Alps of Arabia. Travels in Egypt, Sinai, Arabia and the Holy Land ...
London, Henry S. King, 1873.
First edition, relating Maughan’s travels to Cairo, the Pyramids, the Nile, Sinai, Aqaba, Petra, Hebron, Jerusalem, Damascus, Baalbek, and Beirut. Maughan (1836-1914) worked as a banker in Edinburgh, London, and Rome. ‘An illness having caused a break in the continuity of my business career,’ he...
£275
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CAMPBELL, Thomas.
Letters from the south ...
London, Henry Colburn, 1837.
First edition of this epistolary work on Algiers, Oran, and Annaba by the Glaswegian poet Thomas Campbell (1777-1844), illustrated with attractive aquatints. ‘Letters from the South (1837) records an adventurous visit to Algeria in 1834. He provides a judicious assessment of the virtues and shortcomings...
£100
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LABORDE, Léon de.
Journey through Arabia Petraea, to Mount Sinai, and the excavated city of Petra, the Edom of the prophecies ...
London, John Murray, 1836.
First English edition of Laborde’s Voyage de l’Arabie Pétrée (1830). ‘Laborde travelled with the well-known Linant de Bellefonds, who at that time was in service with Mehmet Ali as an hydraulic engineer. They set out from Cairo in February 1828, where Laborde had established himself after his...
£200
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MAYDON, Hubert Conway.
Simen its heights and abysses. A record of travel and sport in Abyssinia, with some account of the sacred...
London, H.F. & G. Witherby, 1925.
First edition. ‘Accompanied by Captain G. Blaine, Maydon set out in 1922 for the mysterious Simien Mountains along the northwestern edge of the Abyssinian Plateau. While much of his narrative provides excellent details regarding the terrain and peoples of the region, there are important sporting adventures...
£200
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ROTHERY, Charles William.
Notes on a yacht voyage to Hardanger Fjord, and the adjacent estuaries. By a yachting dabbler. With numerous...
London, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longman; Keswick, James Ivison, [1855].
First edition, second issue (with the mounted lithographs coloured) of this handsomely illustrated account of Rothery’s yachting cruise to the fjords of Norway, ‘charming and sublime scenery, which the sketches are intended, though slightly, to pourtray’ (Preface).
£300