Africa
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# 36315
Anon.
A man of Dakar, Senegal, holding guinea fowl and rifle. Circa 1840.
Watercolour on laid paper with watermark of a royal horseman with lance, 200 x 146 mm (sheet); captioned in ink ‘Dackar’ (i.e. Dakar) at bottom left, and with a foliation number ‘114’ in the same hand at bottom right; the sheet is unmounted (verso blank), and the drawing has survived in fine condition – virtually in …
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# 46750
THE LONDON STEREOSCOPIC & PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY
Studio portrait of Robert Moffatt, LMS missionary in Southern Africa. London, late 1860s.
Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 63 mm (mount); recto of mount with printed signature of Robert Moffatt to lower margin; verso with the back mark of the London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company; both the print and the mount are in excellent condition. ‘Robert Moffatt (Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland, December 21, 1795-Leigh, …
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# 46811
WESLEYAN METHODIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The Orient Missionary Exhibition, in the Central Hall, Academy Street, Cork, March 25th to 29th, 1912.
Cork [Ireland] : Eagle Printing Works, 1912. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), original pictorial wrappers (chipped at corner and spine ends, mild edge wear) pp. 28; with b/w photographic illustrations, advertisements; internally clean, a very good copy. The title is somewhat misleading, since as well as exhibits from China, India and Ceylon, the exhibition included …
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# 46443
[Photographer unknown].
View inside the trading post of Oloff & Co. at Lome, Togoland Protectorate, West Africa, c.1890.
Albumen print photograph, 100 x 140 mm, on original card mount, 185 x 220 mm, fully contemporary inscription in ink below the image: ‘T. Oloff & Co. / Factorei / Lome’; a very strong print with excellent clarity, in good condition; the mount is clean and stable. The Togoland Protectorate (Schutzgebiet Togo) was administered by …
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# 46391
HOULDER, J. A.
[MADAGASCAR] Ohabolana, or Malagasy proverbs, illustrating the wit and wisdom of the Hova of Madagascar. Parts I and II
/ collected, translated, and arranged by J.A. Houlder ; with translations into French by Henri Noyer ; edited by James Sibree. Faravohitra, Antananarivo : Printed and published at the press of the Friends’ Foreign Missionary Association, 1915-1916. First edition (first printing). Two volumes bound in one, octavo (220 x 145 mm), red cloth over red papered …
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# 45945
BAEDEKER, Karl
Egypt and the Sudan. Handbook for travellers.
Leipzig : Karl Baedeker, 1914. Seventh remodelled edition. Small octavo, original limp red cloth lettered in gilt; (expert repair to spine) front pastedown and endpaper with publisher’s advertisements; half-title page with owner’s inscription, pp cxc, 458; with 22 maps, 85 plans, and 55 vignettes; scattered light foxing; a very good copy. Guide to Egypt and …
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# 29393
HUDDART, Joseph (1741-1816) (attrib.)
The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.
Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, to New Holland, &c. &c. Collected from the manuscripts, journals, memoirs, and observations, of the most experienced officers in the Hon. East India Company’s Service; and from the last edition of the French Neptune Oriental, by Mons. D’Après de Mannevillette. Being …
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# 45558
BRUTON, J. E. (photographer); YORK, Frederick (publisher)
H. M. Stanley, the African explorer.
[Title from printed caption on mount]. Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 105 x 63 mm; recto of mount printed in lower margin ‘H. M. Stanley, the African explorer. Photographed by J. E. Bruton, Cape Town. F. York, London, Copyright’; verso blank; in fine condition. A superb portrait of Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904), Welsh-American explorer, …
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# 37099
RAY, John (1627-1705)
[NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,
in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of …
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# 44895
PINNOCK, William
Panorama of the old world and the new.
Comprising a view of the present state of the nations of the world, their manners, customs, and peculiarities, and their political, moral, social, and industrial condition. Interspersed with historical sketches and anecdotes by William Pinnock. Enlarged, revised, and embellished with several hundred engravings, from designs of Croome, Devereux, and other distinguished artists. Boston : L. …
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# 45013
[Photographer unknown]
Basuto girl. Port Elizabeth, 1911.
Gelatin silver print photograph, 220 x 170 mm, on its original card mount (300 x 250 cm); photographer’s manuscript caption in lower margin ‘Basutu [sic] girl: taken at Port Elizabeth / June 1911’; print and mount are both in excellent condition. This lovely portrait study came from a small archive of photographs by an unidentified …
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# 44576
CRAWFORD, D. (Daniel) (1869-1926)
Thinking black : 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central Africa.
London : Morgan and Scott, 1913. Second edition, second impression. Thick octavo (225 x 150 mm), publisher’s black cloth decorated and lettered in gilt (very lightly marked); top edge gilt; pp. xvi+486+18; illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates and 4 colour plates; offsetting to the endpaper maps, occasional pencil lines in margins, some pages unopened, two …
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# 43895
LETTS, SON & CO. LTD.
Letts’s map of The Soudan, including the Nile, Red Sea, West Coast of Arabia, and Abyssinia, and a Plan of Khartum.
One Shilling. [Drop title]. London : Letts, Son & Co. Ltd., Map Publishers, 33 King William Street, London Bridge, [c.1885]. Third edition. Cased colour map titled ‘Letts’s Map of The Nile, embracing The Soudan, Abyssinia, the Red Sea, and Western Arabia’, 740 x 560 mm (sheet), folding to 200 x 100 mm, housed within in the …
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# 41535
SPARRMAN, Anders (1747-1820)
Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden, södra pol-kretsen och omkring jordklotet, samt till Hottentott- och Caffer-landen, åren 1772-76.
Stockholm : Anders J. Nordström, 1783; Carl Deleen, 1802 – 1818. Octavo, three volumes, fine early nineteenth century Swedish half-calf over marbled boards, spines in compartments with contrasting red morocco title labels, the last two volumes bound in uniform, with the volume numbers I; II reversed by the binder, a fine set in early bindings …
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# 43015
FEMBO, Christoph (editor and publisher)
[INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS]. Abbildungen der Bewohner der Erde,
aus den besten Schriften zusammengestellt … … Nürnberg : Christoph Fembo, 1816. Broadsheet, 610 x 500 mm, copper engraving with original hand colouring; light creasing, some short edge tears and a few expert repairs. A spectacular early nineteenth-century coloured engraving illustrating the traditional costume of peoples of the world. The sixty-six full-length portraits are arranged …
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# 41551
SPARRMAN, Anders (1748-1820)
Un compagnon suédois du capitaine James Cook au cours de son deuxième voyage. (Presentation copy for Francis Edwards)
Oslo : La Coquille qui Chante, 1939. Edition limited to 100 numbered copies. (This copy is no. 29). Presentation copy, inscribed on the title-page by the work’s translator for London bookseller Francis Edwards: ‘Francis Edwards, with the compliments of Bjarne Kroepelien’. Octavo (225 x 150 mm), white pigskin over papered boards, spine with raised bands …