Search results for: 'the works'
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SUTHERLAND, James. The Adventures of an Elephant Hunter.London : 1912
"One of the classics of African big game hunting" (Czech). First edition, first impression, with an apposite provenance: ownership inscription to front pastedown of Thomas Pinchard Kempson (1855-1941), who is mentioned in Rowland Ward's Records of Big Game (1910) and in the Kenya Gazette for 1912 as being based in Nairobi and one of several individuals... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 143131
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MATHERS, Edward Peter. Zambesia: England's El Dorado in Africa,London : 1891
First edition. Author's presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper; "Frank Taylor Esq. With the author's compliments". Essentially a much needed collation of all known information regarding the area that became Rhodesia and, as such, the work went through several editions. "There is a full account of the Mashonas and Matabeles, and also... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 125011
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BEDFORD, Francis, & W. M. Thompson. The Holy Land, Egypt, Constantinople, Athens, etc. etc.London : [c. 1866-7]
First edition thus, notably scarce, comprising some superb views of Egypt (10), Palestine (23), Lebanon (8), Syria (1), Constantinople (3), and Athens (3). Francis Bedford (1815-1894), one of the most important photographers of the period, his work characterised by it "rich tonalities" (ODNB), was the first photographer to accompany a Royal Tour.
In... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 142282
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BOYER, Abel. The Martial-Field of Europe:London : 1694
First edition. One of the first works published by this versatile French-born lexicographer, journalist and historian, being a survey of places and occurrences during the recent Nine Years' War, also known as the War of the Grand Alliance, and dedicated to the 2nd duke of Ormond who had served with distinction. Boyer (1667?1729) may himself have taken... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 141293
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PARK, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa:London : 1799 & 1815
First edition of the first work, second and best edition of the posthumous Journal of a Mission (same year as the first). "Until the publication of Park's book in 1799 hardly anything was known of the interior of Africa, apart from the north-east region and coastal areas... Having sent out four expeditions to the Niger, all of which had failed, the... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 132557
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HARRIS, William Cornwallis. Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, during the Years 1836, and 1837,Bombay : 1838
First issue of the first Bombay edition, which predates the first London by a year, "scarce" (Czech). Harris was commissioned in the Bombay Engineers in 1823, promoted captain in 1834 and major in 1836. Invalided to South Africa for two years, on the voyage out he joined up with Richard Williamson, a Bombay civil servant, deciding to undertake a big... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 98148
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DAVIS, Nathan. Inscriptions in the Phoenician Character,London : 1863
First and sole edition, uncommon; an important record of the Punic stelae unearthed by one of the most remarkable figures in 19th century archaeology, the little known Nathan Davis (1819-1882), "clergyman, adventurer and snake-handler extraordinaire" (Freed), who conducted pioneering excavations at Carthage in the late 1850s, preceding the work of his... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 138060
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PULSZKY, Francis. The Tricolor on the Atlas; or Algeria and the French Conquest.1854
First edition. Pulszky was a Hungarian nationalist, Kossuth's ambassador in London, and an exile after 1849, he accompanied Kossuth to America in 1851 as his private secretary. He supported himself by the pen, publishing a number of books in his own right, and undertaking translation work. The present book combines both, "Among the Tourists who have... Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 62945
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SPEKE, John Hanning. What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.Edinburgh and London : 1864
First edition of Speke's account of his momentous discovery of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika, undoubtedly less common that his Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, especially so in collector's condition; this copy in a variant binding with smaller lettering on the spine and "Capt. Speke" with the letter "t" in superscript. Although it... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 119215
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SPEKE, John Hanning. What led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.Edinburgh and London : 1864
First edition. Undoubtedly the less common of Speke's two books on his exploration of the African lake regions, containing his accounts of the momentous discovery of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika. Although it was published the year following his Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, this work documents the first expedition arranged by... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 91122
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SHAW, Thomas. Travels, or Observations relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant.Oxford : 1738
First edition, large paper issue (42 cm in height, the regular issue 34 cm), of Shaw's account of his travels across North Africa and the Levant, a major travel account praised for the accuracy of its description, and the quality of the book's design and illustration.
Chaplain to the English factory at Algiers, Shaw travelled extensively in Egypt,... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 146522
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WEINTHAL, Leo (ed.) The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922.London : 1923-6
First edition, complete with the map volume, of this suitably lavish tribute to one of the most glorious failures of the empire, the project conceived by Cecil Rhodes as "The Iron Spine and Ribs of Africa". By 1914 there was already a 2,600-mile link from Cape Town to Bukama in the Congo; two sections of river steamer and an isolated length of Congolese... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 120708
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Sheets of The River War, volume I, with Churchill's corrections on 17 pages.London : 1899
Unbound pre-publication sheets of Churchill's second book, with his holograph corrections, some quite extensive, to 17 pages. Working papers from the early part of Churchill's writing career are exceedingly uncommon. Just one minor correction marked here seems to have been adopted in the published version, but a number were taken up in the single-volume... Learn More£18,500.00Stock Code: 90104
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OSWELL, William Cotton; OSWELL, W. Edward (ed.) William Cotton Oswell, Hunter and Explorer. The Story of his Life.New York : 1900
First US edition, same year as the UK. Cotton was educated at Rugby and Haileybury, the Company's seminary, before taking up a post as assistant collector at Arcot. Transferring to Madras he "won celebrity as an elephant-catcher" (ODNB). Ill health forced him to leave India for South Africa; "There he spent two years in hunting and became acquainted... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 127570
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[COLENSO, J.W.] Three Native Accounts of the Visit of the Bishop of Natal in September and October, 1859,Pietermaritzburg and Durban : 1901
Third edition, first published in 1860. Bi-lingual text. Colenso was consecrated Bishop of Natal in 1853 and settled there in 1855; "Unfailingly energetic, by 1857 he had completed the cathedral in Pietermaritzburg and churches in Durban and Richmond he had soon learned enough of the Zulu language to be able to teach and confirm. Colenso from the first... Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 51733
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[LAWRENCE, T. E.] A Brief Record of The Advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary ForceCairo : 1919
First edition, first impression, more commonly found in buff paper wrappers, O'Brien commenting that only "a few copies" were bound in cloth, scarce in this state. A "collaborator's copy" bearing the name of Corporal E. W. Grater on the official compliments slip pasted to the front free endpaper, which is signed by the editor Lieutenant-Colonel Harry... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 108776
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LIVINGSTONE, David. A portion of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa,London : 1857
A remarkable fragment, the only portion of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels known to remain in private hands. We understand that all other manuscript material is held in the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland. Together with an autograph letter signed from Livingstone's sister, sending the manuscript fragment, and a... Learn More£65,000.00Stock Code: 139047
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SIMONDS, Richard Hugh Napier. Two personal photograph albums of the Western Desert and Italian Campaigns.North Africa and Italy : 1940-43
An engrossing visual record of the Western Desert Campaign and Allied invasion of Sicily, compiled by Richard Simonds, "unofficial photographer" in the 4th Armoured Brigade, the major component of the 7th Armoured Division. There are over 200 high-quality photographs of military action, British and Axis armour, street scenes, various Allied officers,... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 43249
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LITHGOW, William. The Totall Discourse,London : 1632
First collected and complete edition of Lithgow's travels, a particularly nice copy in contemporary calf; "a book of uncommon value and interest, for its descriptions of men and manners even more than of places" (DNB).
Lithgow (1582-1645?), travelled extensively across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East from the age of twenty onwards,... Learn More£6,500.00Stock Code: 144436
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THOMPSON, George. Travels and Adventures in Southern Africa.London : 1827
Second edition; same year as the first. One of the most valuable works on South Africa published in the early nineteenth century, the present work was written by George Thompson, a British merchant living in Cape Town for many years as the representative of a British company. Between 1823 and 1824, he set out to explore the north-eastern parts of the... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 94259
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WILSON, Charles Thomas, & Robert William Felkin. Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan.London : 1882
First edition, the Brooke-Hitching copy, with his pencilled initials to the initial blank of each volume.
This work "includes Mr Wilson's journey from Zanzibar to Rubaga. Wilson is the first European who has crossed the Victoria Nyanza, having made three voyages from Ntebbi to Kagei; and he has coasted its western shores twice" (Prince Ibrahim-Hilmy).
Dr... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 119292
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STANLEY, Henry Morton. The Congo and the Founding of its Free State.London : 1885
First edition, scarce in the original cloth. Stanley's self-justificatory account of "opening up the Congo" (ODNB) for Leopold II of the Belgians documents one of the most appalling episodes in the European "Scramble for Africa". A work of official propaganda, it stands as a valuable record of the avowed motivations of the colonial enterprise; Stanley... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 119331
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WATERMEYER, Egidius Benedictus. Three Lectures on the Cape of Good Hope,Cape Town : 1857
First edition, this copy inscribed on the first blank: "D. Schönberg Esqr. with the writer's respects". Series of lectures delivered by "Ben" Watermeyer (1824-67), jurist and founding Member of the Cape Legislative Assembly, to "supply the urgently felt want" for at least some "slight information" on the history of South Africa "before it became a... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 135581
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PARK, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa:London : 1816 & 1815
A new edition of the first work, and second edition of the second work. This lively narrative "had an immediate success. 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 indigenous peoples, have remained of lasting value" (PMM).
"Written... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 121842
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BROWNE, William George. Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798.London : 1806
Second edition, enlarged, first published in 1799. "This important work contains the earliest information in English about Darfur (Sudan). Browne, inspired by Bruce's travels, went to Egypt in 1792 hoping to explore the oases in the eastern Sahara and to journey to the source of the White Nile. He reached El Fashur in Darfur and was the first Englishman... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 97302
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CAPPER, James. Observations on the Passage to India through Egypt,London : 1783
First edition. Capper was educated at Harrow and joined the army of the East India Company "in His Majesty's Train of Artillery in the East Indies, First as a soldier cadet and later as an officer. He was then for a while a free merchant in Bengal before becoming in 1768 a captain in the Madras army and in 1769 senior writer for the presidency of Bengal... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 88377
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SHAW, Bernard. The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God.London : 1932
First edition, first impression. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title to the female missionary who inspired the book, nine days after its publication, "Dear Miss Shaw, on the eve of a voyage round the world on which I am taking your latest proofsheets to read I send you this story, for which you are really responsible,... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 103294
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WESTERN DESERT - WESSEL, Wilhelm. Three original artworks.1942
Three fine studies made in the field by German war artist Wilhelm Wessel (1904-1971), Rommel's kriegsmaler, conveying a genuine sense of reportage and executed while Wessel was serving as an officer with the Afrikakorps.
Original black-and-white charcoal drawing on pale grey paper signed "Wih. Wessel 42", measuring 460 x 590 mm; inscribed lower... Learn More£11,500.00Stock Code: 136644
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SALT, Henry. A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country,London : 1814
First edition of this handsomely illustrated and important 19th-century account of Ethiopia. In 1802 Salt accompanied Viscount Valentia on a tour of India, Ceylon, and the Red Sea, serving as his secretary and draughtsman, and in 1805 was sent by him on a mission to the ras of Tigré, "whose affection and respect he gained, and with whom he left one... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 137509
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BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793:London : 1806
First edition of the "first illustrated English work on Vietnam" (Hill), being a description of the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. The account is superbly illustrated with aquatints of views, "types," and natural history specimens, Abbey commending the aquatinting as "of excellent quality."
"The voyage visited Madeira,... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 81263
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BARROW, John. A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793:London : 1806
First edition of the "first illustrated English work on Vietnam" (Hill), being a description of the outward voyage of Lord Macartney's embassy to China. The account is superbly illustrated with aquatints of views, "types," and natural history specimens, Abbey commending the aquatinting as "of excellent quality."
"The voyage visited Madeira,... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 80780
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SLAVE TRADE. A Treatise upon the Trade from Great-Britain to Africa;London : 1772
Rare first edition of this important work, being an early defence of the West African slave trade and part of a "high-profile campaign" against the African Committee, the ruling body of the Company of Merchants Trading to Africa operating in the Gold Coast of modern Ghana (Sparks, p. 98).
The Treatise is customarily ascribed to John Peter Demarin,... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 140948
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ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.London : 1842-5
First edition, with the plates in the proof state, of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey Travel); no publication before this astonishing work had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the region.
The... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 132530
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CHURCHILL, Winston S. The River War.London : 1899
First edition, first impression, second state, with minor typographic error on p. 459 of volume II corrected (so that the second inverted comma in the line THE 'LONDON GAZETTE' is now present). The River War was Churchill's second book, preceded only by The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), "2,000 copies published on 6 November 1899" (Woods).... Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 105504
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BAINES, Thomas. The Gold Regions of South Eastern Africa.London : 1877
First edition. Baines (1820-1875) was one of the pioneers of European exploration in the lands forming modern Zimbabwe, where he led an expedition in the 1860s to secure concessions for a gold-mining company from King Lobengula. Although the company in question failed to take advantage of the terms Baines extracted, this posthumously-edited account... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 119268
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ROBERTS, David. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia.London : 1842-9
First edition of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of nineteenth-century publishing, and the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph... there is pleasure to be had from many of the individual plates, where Haghe's skillful and delicate lithography, and his faithful interpretation of Robert's draughtsmanship and dramatic sense, combine in... Learn More£65,000.00Stock Code: 132004
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YATES, William Holt. The Modern History and Condition of Egypt, its Climate, Diseases, and Capabilities;London : 1843
First edition of this spirited and engaging account, illustrated with simple but appealing illustrations, lithographed by Hullmandel from Yates's own sketches. "A very interesting work by a medical man who travelled extensively in Egypt c. 1840 Yates also provides an extensive general commentary on political events in Syria, Crete and Egypt in addition... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 146193
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PATTERSON, J. H., Lieut.-Col. The Man-Eaters of Tsavo and other East African adventures.London : 1907 & 1909
First editions, first impressions, of these handsomely produced and celebrated African big game narratives. Czech calls Man-Eaters "one of the most famous of all African hunting titles, which describes the slaughter of railroad workers building the Uganda Railway by a pair of man-eating lions"; its extraordinary story has inspired no less than three... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 144319
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IVORY COAST. Remarkable photographic archive of American life and mercantile enterprise in French West Africa during the 1930s.Ivory Coast : 1932-6
A unique and vivid archive of extraordinary breadth, comprising nearly 1,200 images that provide a striking panorama of colonial life in the Ivory Coast during the 1930s, as seen through the eyes of Brents Rowlett Gruber, wife of Lewis H. Gruber, an American entrepreneur from Louisville, Kentucky, who was involved in the logging industry and ran a Chevrolet... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 119443
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MANDELA, Nelson - MATTHIESSEN, Peter. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse.New York : 1983
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy for Nelson Mandela, inscribed on the half-title recto by the author "For Nelson Mandela with greatest respect, and thanks, and kindest regards. Peter Matthiessen. August 1990", and additionally inscribed by a leading member of the Leonard Peltier defence committee: "Nelson Mandela, in this lifetime, on... Learn More£20,000.00Stock Code: 132382
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THOMSON, Joseph. To the Central African Lakes and Back:London : 1881
First edition of this classic account of one of the most successful British expeditions to Africa in the 19th century. Thomson, months after graduating from Edinburgh University, was in 1878 appointed geologist and naturalist to a Royal Geographical Society expedition under the command of Alexander Johnston, with the aim of opening up a route from Dar... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 119308
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PARK, Mungo. Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa:London : 1799 & 1815
Second and first editions respectively of the earliest accounts of the interior of Africa, hitherto little-known in the West. The Travels of 1799 "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 indigenous peoples, have remained of lasting... Learn More£3,250.00Stock Code: 142675
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WINKLER, Hans A. Rock-Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt II.London : 1939
First edition. A handsomely produced survey of sites found on the west bank of the Nile from Qena to Aswan, Jebel Uweinat and the road leading from the Nile Valley to Dakhla through the Kharga Oasis; volume I related the previous season's expedition, to the Eastern desert. "The recognition of Egyptian rock art as something that could be closely linked... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 99991
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PERREAU, Jean André. Mizrim, ou le Sage a la Cour, Histoire Egyptienne.Neuchatel : 1782
First edition of Perreau's fable, accounting for the life of Mizrim, a wise man in the service of the Egyptian pharaoh Ozymandias, who serves as a minister of the realm and is entrusted with the education of the pharaoh's son. Perreau (1749-1813), a physiocrat and protégé of Mirabeau, uses the tale as a discourse on good kingship and just politics.
The... Learn More£1,300.00Stock Code: 127809
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DU CAMP, Maxime. Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie:Paris : 1852
Extremely rare first edition complete, illustrated with 125 salt prints from wet paper negatives mounted one to a page. Du Camp's monumental work was the first archaeological survey to be extensively illustrated with photographs.
A young man of independent means, Du Camp took up photography in 1849 in preparation for his second journey to North... Learn More£300,000.00Stock Code: 124632
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JOHNSON, Samuel (trans.); LOBO, Jerónimo. A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Jerome Lobo, a Portuguese Jesuit.London [but Birmingham] : 1735
First edition, first issue (title printed in red and black), of Samuel Johnson's first published work, his unaccredited translation of Joachim Le Grand's 1728 French edition of Jerónimo Lobo's previously unpublished account of his missionary travels in Ethiopia.
In 1733 Johnson was staying in Birmingham with his lifelong friend Edmund Hector,... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 144657
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AL-HAKIM, Tawfiq. Journal d'un substitut de campagne.Cairo : 1939
First edition in any western language of the second novel, widely considered as one of his best, by a key figure in the development of modern Egyptian literature. A limited edition of 450 copies, this 349, signed by the author, rare with just four locations identified world-wide: American Universities Beirut and Cairo, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Bibliothèque... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 141117
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DU CHAILLU, Paul - VAUCAIRE, Michel. Paul du Chaillu: Gorilla Hunter.New York : 1930
First edition of this racy biography of the famed African explorer and naturalist, widely recognised as the discoverer of the great gorilla, and as a possible inspiration for Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan, but his reputation more recently the subject of some controversy. A wonderful example of 1930s American book production, retaining the striking... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 142108
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DURAND, Jean-Baptiste-Léonard. A Voyage to Senegal;London : 1806 & 1807
First edition in English of Durand, first edition of Spilsbury, pairing two significant works on West Africa, both dealing with the slave trade and both illustrated with aquatints, robust in style but most attractive, including two very animated folding plates in the Spilsbury of the ceremony of being shaved while "Crossing the Line".
Durand... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 141219
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BURCKHARDT, John Lewis. Travels in Nubia;London : 1822
Second edition, first published in 1819. Burckhardt's travels were made under the aegis of the Association for Promoting the Discovery of the Interior Parts of Africa. He arrived in London in 1806, and after failing to obtain a diplomatic posting he approached Sir Joseph Banks, one of the chief supporters of the Association, with a letter of introduction... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 80371
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AL-HAKIM, Tawfiq. Journal d'un substitut de campagne.Cairo : 1939
First edition in any western language of the second novel, widely considered as one of his best, by a key figure in the development of modern Egyptian literature. A limited edition of 450 copies signed by the author, rare with just four locations identified world-wide: American Universities Beirut and Cairo, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Bibliothèque... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 141116
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[FERNYHOUGH, Thomas.] Military Memoirs of Four Brothers, (Natives of Staffordshire,)London : 1830
Second edition, following the first of the previous year, of this fascinating book that highlights the cost to one family of the Napoleonic Wars; both editions are extremely scarce: the list of subscribers runs to some 324 names taking 371 copies and includes the Marquis of Anglesey, Marquis of Bute, Sir William Beresford, Sir A. F. Barnard (commander... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 139261
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RHOTERT, Hans, ed. Transjordanien. Vorgeschichtliche Forschungen.Stuttgart : 1938
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Rhotert on the front free endpaper to an unnamed recipient, thanking them for their support for the Forschungsinstituts für Kulturmorphologie. The leader's account of the work of the Nordgruppe der XII. Deutschen-Innerafrikanischen Forschungsexpedition in the Transjordan and Libya includes the first scientific... Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 92497
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SWAYNE, Harald George Carlos, Major. Seventeen Trips through Somaliland and a Visit to Abyssinia.London : 1903
Third edition, the first published in 1895. Described by Czech as "an important work of sport and exploration". This edition enhanced by the addition of 14-page preface discussing the religious and nationalist insurrections of Sayid Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, referred to by the British at the time as the 'Mad Mullah', but considered by the Ottoman Porte... Learn More£325.00Stock Code: 140625
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GIRARDOT, Alexandre Antoine. Two albums compiled from an artist's sketchbooks recording nearly 40 years of life in Algeria.Algeria : 1830-67
Alexandre Antoine Girardot (1815-c.1877) has left but few traces of what must have been an unusual and adventurous life. Born in Paris in February 1815, he enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts on 6 October 1836. A student of Blondel, he exhibited regularly at the Salon between 1841 and 1848, submitting views of Algeria and other "oriental" subjects.... Learn More£95,000.00Stock Code: 110595
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ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia,London : 1846-49
First edition, in the preferred deluxe coloured format, of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing... the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey Travel). No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. Representing the completion... Learn More£150,000.00Stock Code: 119585
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ROBERTS, David. Egypt & Nubia,London : 1846-49
First edition, in the preferred deluxe coloured format, of "one of the most important and elaborate ventures of 19th-century publishing, and it was the apotheosis of the tinted lithograph" (Abbey Travel). No publication before this had presented so comprehensive a series of views of the monuments, landscape, and people of the Near East. Representing... Learn More£175,000.00Stock Code: 67119
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EBERS, G. Egypt: Descriptive, Historical, and Picturesque.London : c. 1880
First edition in English of this impressive work, originally published as Aegypten in Bild und Wort (1878-79), by the German Egyptologist Georg Ebers (1837-1898), who gave his name to the Ebers Papyrus, one of the world's oldest medical documents, acquired in Upper Egypt from a Coptic antiquarian during the winter of 1872-3. This English version is... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139417
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SPARRMAN, Anders. Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, et autour du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et principalement dans les pays des Hottentots et des Caffres.Paris : 1787
First edition in French of Sparrman's account of his travels in South Africa and with Captain Cook.
Sparrman (1748-1820) was a Swedish naturalist and student of Carl Linnaeus. Sparrman sailed to the Cape of Good Hope in 1772 and it was here that he met Captain Cook, who was undertaking his second voyage and who hired Sparrman as an assistant... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 147082
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BARCLAY, Edgar. Mountain Life in Algeria.London : 1882
First edition, scarce. Barclay (1842-1913), painter and etcher, was a member of the British circle of artists known as the "Etruscans" owing to their preference for Italian landscapes. He studied at Dresden with Carolsfeld, and then in Rome, where he became acquainted with Giovanni Costa. Between 1873 and 1880 he made several visits to Algeria, recording... Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 117145
