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[TACCONI, Gaetano.]
‘Medicae inst[ructio]nes’, ‘Tractatus de febribus’, and ‘Compendiosa nonulloru[m] m[or]boru[m] peculiariu[m]...
[Bologna, Italy,] 1739.
An extensive manuscript compendium of apparently unpublished medical texts compiled by a student at the Archiginnasio of Bologna who studied under Gaetano Tacconi (1689–1782), comprising notes on the prescription and preparation of medication, on fevers, and on a wide variety of illnesses. The...
£1250
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BAINES, Thomas.
Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay,...
London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.
First edition. ‘The volume contains an interesting account of hunting and exploration in the country of the Namaquas and Damaras, and the illustrations are very spirited; there is a good description of the flora and fauna of the country, together with an account of the habits of the natives. It is...
£850
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BAKER, Samuel White, Sir.
Ismailïa. A narrative of the expedition to central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade organized...
London, Macmillan and Co., 1874.
First edition. In 1869 ‘the Khedive Isma’il appointed Baker to a four-year term as governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin, with the rank of pasha ... Baker’s duties included annexing the equatorial Nile basin, establishing Egyptian authority over the region south of Gondokoro, suppressing...
£850
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BARCLAY, Edgar.
Mountain life in Algeria ... With illustrations by the author.
London, Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co., 1882.
First edition of this illustrated account of the Kabyle people of northern Algeria by the English artist Edgar Barclay (1842-1913). ‘From the city of Algiers, looking eastwards across the bay, is seen a snow-covered mass towering above lower ranges of mountains. It is to the country lying immediately...
£250
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BARING-GOULD, Sabine.
Iceland: its scenes and sagas ... With numerous illustrations and a map.
London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1863.
First edition of this account of a visit to Iceland by the clergyman, collector of folk songs and hymn writer Baring-Gould (1834-1924), undertaken for ‘examining scenes famous in Saga, and filling a portfolio with water-colour sketches’ (Preface).
£350
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CAMPBELL, John.
Travels in South Africa. Undertaken at the request of the Missionary Society.
London, printed for the author by T. Rutt, 1815.
First edition, first issue. Campbell (1766-1840) had been fascinated by Africa since his youth, and in 1812 was sent by the London Missionary Society ‘to restore good relations between the missionaries and the governor of Cape Colony, Sir John Cradock (in which he was successful), and to survey the...
£750
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DAMBERGER, Christian Frederick.
Travels in the interior of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco, from the years 1781 to...
London, G. Woodfall for T.N. Longman, O. Rees, J. Cuthell, and C. Geisweiler, 1801.
‘One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travels ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived...
£550
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DONALDSON, Florence Annesley.
Lepcha land or six weeks in the Sikhim Himalayas ... With a map showing route, and 106 illustrations....
London, Sampson Low Marston & Company, 1900.
First edition, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker’s copy. ‘In this account of what may best be described as a prolonged picnic in one of the byways of the Himalayas – where Time still walks on crutches – I have attempted no description of the flora and fauna of a country which, though it offers few facilities...
£400
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ELLIOT, George Francis Scott.
A naturalist in mid-Africa. Being an account of a journey to the Mountains of the Moon and Tanganyika.
London, A.D. Innes & Co., 1896.
First edition. ‘The idea of going to Africa again suddenly occurred to me after a long conversation on African Floras. I came to the conclusion that if I entered the continent by the Zambesi and went up via Tanganyika to Ruwenzori and thence by Uganda to Mombasa, I should be able to solve the question...
£300
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ELLIS, William.
Narrative of a tour through Hawaii, or, Owhyhee; with remarks on the history, traditions, manners, customs, and...
London, published for the author by H. Fisher, Son, and P. Jackson, 1826.
First edition. ‘The Narrative of English missionary William Ellis is particularly important, as it was the first book written about the Hawaiian Islands and the first serious notice of the Islands since Captain Cook’s discovery of them forty-eight years earlier. It may be called the first scientific...
£400
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GARDINER, Allen Francis.
Narrative of a journey to the Zoolu country, in South Africa ... undertaken in 1835.
London, William Crofts, 1836.
First edition of this account of the Zulu Kingdom by the naval officer and missionary Gardiner (1794-1851). ‘In 1834 he went to Africa ... explored Zululand, and started the first missionary station at Port Natal. From 1834 to 1838 he attempted to establish Christian churches in Zululand, but political...
£400
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GRAY, William.
Travels in Western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the River Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam,...
London, John Murray, 1825.
First edition, with fine aquatint plates. The Colonial Office’s Niger expedition, commanded by Major John Peddie, reached the River Senegal in November 1815; Peddie immediately fell victim to fever, leaving Staff Surgeon Dochard and Captain Gray to take over the mission. They set out with 100 men and...
£600
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LAING, John.
An account of a voyage to Spitzbergen; containing a full description of that country, of the zoology of the north,...
London, for J. Mawman and David Brown, 1815.
First edition of Laing’s acccount of his voyage as a ship’s surgeon under Captain Scoresby to the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in 1806 and 1807, in which he describes the ice conditions, whaling methods, the walrus, seal, polar bear, reindeer, and arctic fox, as well as some of the island’s...
£850
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LEGH, Thomas.
Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the country beyond the cataracts ... Second edition.
London, John Murray, 1817.
Second edition, illustrated with ten handsome plates absent from the first edition of 1816. ‘Legh travelled up the Nile in the winter of 1812/13 with the Rev. Charles Smelt, whose journal he uses in the narrative. They explored the country above Aswan, penetrating into Nubia, whose temples they were...
£500
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LEONARD, Peter.
Records of a voyage to the western coast of Africa, in His Majesty’s ship Dryad and of the service on that station...
Edinburgh, Andrew Shortrede for William Tate, 1833.
First edition of this account by the naval surgeon Peter Leonard (1801-1888), a presentation copy from the author. ‘The principal objects in publishing the following records are, to make known the horrors which attend the slave trade on the western coast of Africa, and the condition and mental capacity...
£550
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METHUEN, Henry Hoare.
Life in the wilderness; or wanderings in South Africa ...
London, Richard Bentley, 1846.
First edition. ‘A journal of an eight months’ sporting expedition through the Eastern Province to the Orange and Vaal Rivers, Waterboer’s country (Griqualand West), and thence in a north-easterly direction to the junction of the Mariqua and Limpopo Rivers as far as Moselekatse’s old capital,...
£275
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PARK, Mungo.
Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association,...
London, printed by W. Bulmer and Co. and sold by G. and W. Nicol, 1800.
Fourth edition of Park’s account of his momentous expedition to the Niger River on behalf of the African Association. ‘His Travels, published in 1799, was a best-seller. Three editions were printed during the first year, and it was immediately translated into French and German, and eventually other...
£250
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PEEL, Charles Victor Alexander.
Somaliland. Being an account of two expeditions into the far interior. Together with a complete...
London, F.E. Robinson & Co., 1900.
First edition, presentation copy from the author. ‘An excellent sporting title, this features all manner of big game hunting in the regions southwest of Hargeisa on Peel’s first expedition, then through the Haud and Ogaden on his second’ (Czech).
£350
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RENNELL, James.
The geographical system of Herodotus, examined, and explained, by a comparison with those of other ancient authors,...
London, W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1800.
First edition of this work on ancient geography by the eminent cartographer James Rennell (1742-1830), ‘a monument of laborious research and acute and lucid criticism’ (DNB). Best known for his pioneering mapping of India and Africa, Rennell was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1781, receiving...
£975
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RENSHAW, Richard.
Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, the Indian Ocean, and up the Red Sea, with travels into Egypt, through the desert,...
Manchester, M. Wilson, 1821.
First published in 1804. ‘This new edition will be found to contain not only most of the matter published in the first and second edition, but from eighty to one hundred pages of additional information, both historical and sentimental. The new historical matter is principally selected from the travels...
£250