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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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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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[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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[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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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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BURNLEY, James.
Biskra and the desert: a record of a tour in Algeria in the year 1885.
Bradford, ‘privately printed’, [1906].
First edition of this diary of a tour in Algeria undertaken by James and Marie Burnley in the spring of 1885, encompassing Algiers, Béjaïa, El Kantara, Biskra, Sidi Okba, and Constantine, as well as Marseille and Nîmes on the return journey, illustrated throughout with attractive photographs.
£50
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BARTLETT, William Henry.
The Nile boat; or, glimpses of the land of Egypt ... Second edition.
London, Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1850.
Second edition (first 1849), with handsome steel-engraved illustrations. ‘Bartlett visited Egypt twice, in 1842 and in 1845 (his third and fourth voyages to the Levant). His description of Egypt was extremely successful; five editions had appeared by 1862’ (Blackmer). ‘While disclaiming for the...
£100
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[WARD, Edward, and VOLTAIRE.]
The Humourous and Diverting Story of Two Sailors, Who, in order to recruit their Stock of...
6, Punderson’s-Place, Bethnal-Green-Road’, [c. 1800?].
Seemingly unrecorded edition of this humorous chapbook tale of two penniless sailors who turn to piracy in an attempt to pay their rent, printed with a translation of Voltaire’s Memnon and the anonymous poem ‘Clara’.
£450
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MILLAIS, John Guille.
A breath from the Veldt … With numerous illustrations by the author and frontispiece by the late Sir J....
London, Henry Sotheran and Co., 1899.
Second edition, a handsome work, recounting John Guille Millais’ travel and hunting expedition to South Africa, copiously and beautifully illustrated by the author and containing ‘perhaps the most beautiful illustration connected with South African art’ by his father John Everett.
£150
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PALGRAVE, William Coates.
Cape of Good Hope. Ministerial Department of Native Affairs. Report of W. Coates Palgrave, Esq., special...
Cape Town, Saul Solomon, 1877.
Uncommon first edition. ‘From 1869 until his retirement, Palgrave held a number of posts in the Cape Colony administration and on 16.3.76 was appointed Cape special commissioner for Namaland and Hereroland. Over the next nine years he would travel widely throughout Namibia in connection with British...
£175
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BELL, John.
Travels from St Petersburgh in Russia, to various parts of Asia. Illustrated with maps …
Edinburgh, printed for William Creech and sold by Geo. Robinsons and Co., 1788.
Edinburgh edition (first Glasgow 1763) of this account of the Asian adventures of the Scottish traveller and physician John Bell (1691–1780) undertaken between 1715 and 1738. The first volume supplies an account of Bell’s journeys from St Petersburg to Isfahan as medical attendant to the Russian...
£650
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BRUCE, Peter Henry.
Memoirs of Peter Henry Bruce, Esq. a military officer, in the services of Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain....
Dublin, J. and R. Byrn, 1783.
Dublin edition (first London 1782) of the entertaining memoirs of the German-Scottish military adventurer Peter Henry Bruce (1692–1757), ‘pleasantly written’ and displaying ‘very close and intelligent observation’ (DNB). Bruce joined the Prussian army in 1706 as an engineer, taking part in...
£450