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SBRUGLIO, Riccardo.
Richardi Sbrulii equitis Foroiuliani Cesareiq[ue] poete ad magnificu[m] atq[ue] illustrem Maximilianu[m]...
[Colophon:] Augsburg, Hans von Erfurt, 1519.
First, very rare, edition, of Sbruglio’s Latin poems addressed to Maximilianus Transylvanus, published in the year that Charles V became Holy Roman Emperor. A native of Cividale in northern Italy, Sbruglio (c. 1480 – after 1525) studied and taught at Wittenberg (where the rector compared...
£1800
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JUSTINUS, Marcus Junianius, and Lucius FLORUS.
[Epitome historiarum:] Justini historici clarissimi in Trogi Pompei historias...
[Venice, Bartolomeo Zani, 3 February 1503].
A thoroughly annotated copy of a greatly influential compendium of Trogus’s monumental forty-four-book Historia of the world from Babylon to the Augustan era.
£3800
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[SCHLOSSER, Johann Albert]. BODDAERT, Pieter.
Epistola ad … Hier. Dav. Gaubium … De chaetodonte diacantho, descripto atque...
Amsterdam, apud M. Magerum, 1772.
First and only edition of Boddaert’s description of the Royal Angelfish found in the Schlosser natural history cabinet. This is the first monograph on the Royal Angelfish (and its first illustration), a now common species of coral fish in the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
£500
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[JACOBUS DE GRUYTRODE, (attr.)].
Lavacrum conscientie [omnium sacerdotum].
[Colophon:] Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, 1504.
Rare edition of this popular late medieval treatise widely ascribed to the Carthusian monk Jacobus de Gruytrode (c. 1400–1475).
£750
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[TURKS.]
Ein Gebet wider die vorstehende Noth und Gefahr der Christenheit, wegen deß Türcken.
[Wittenberg?], Im Jahr 1593.
A 1593 pamphlet containing a German prayer against the Turks. Throughout the sixteenth century the Ottoman empire remained a powerful existential threat to western European Christendom. Following a comparatively lengthy period of peace, renewed skirmishes and border conflicts resurfaced in...
£875
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[PRAYERS.]
Récueil de plusieurs prieres.
Vienna, ‘chez Georg Müllner libraire et relieur des livres’, [c. 1810].
Very rare and charming early nineteenth-century prayer book in an attractive binding by the Viennese ‘libraire et relieur’ Georg Müllner.
£450
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BAIKIE, William Balfour.
Narrative of an exploring voyage up the rivers Kwóra and Bínue (commonly known as the Niger and Tsádda)...
London, John Murray, 1856.
First edition recounting an expedition along previously uncharted waters of the Niger under the captaincy of the maritime naturalist and surgeon William Balfour Baikie. ‘The influence of Sir Roderick Murchison procured [Baikie] the post of surgeon and naturalist to the Niger expedition of 1854, and...
£175
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BAKER, Samuel White.
The Albert N’yanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources.
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott and London, Macmillan & Co, 1868.
Third edition, recounting Samuel White Baker’s discovery of Lake Albert - ‘the great reservoir of the equatorial waters, the ALBERT N’YANZA, from which the river issues as the entire White Nile’ – in 1864. ‘After a year spent on the Sudan-Abyssinian border, during which time he learnt Arabic,...
£125
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MELLAND, Frank Hulme, and Edward H.
Cholmeley. Through the heart of Africa: being an account of a journey on bicycles and on foot...
London, Constable & Company Ltd., 1912.
First edition recounting the 1910 journey of two colonial administrators from northern Rhodesia through German East Africa, across Lake Victoria, and along the Nile River into South Sudan, a journey totalling more than 2,500 miles.
£100
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WILSON, Charles Thomas and Robert William FELKIN.
Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan ...
London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882.
First edition of this account of Sudan and Uganda by the medical missionary and explorer (and magician) Dr Robert Felkin (1853-1926) and the Rev. Charles Wilson. Wilson’s narrative includes chapters on Zanzibar, ‘life in Uganda’, ‘government and language of the Waganda’, and ‘voyage to Kagei...
£250
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WILLOUGHBY, John Christopher.
East Africa and its big game. The narrative of a sporting trip from Zanzibar to the borders of the...
London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1889.
First edition, signed by the author. ‘Willoughby and Sir Robert Harvey trekked into the virtually unknown region of the Tana River, the Taveta Forest and the area near Mount Kilimanjaro’ (Czech).
£200
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THOMSON, Joseph.
To the central African lakes and back: the narrative of the Royal Geographical Society’s East Central African...
Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881.
Second edition, published in the same year as the first. ‘In 1878 Thomson was appointed geologist and naturalist to an expedition under Alexander Keith Johnston, which was sent out by the Royal Geographical Society for the exploration of East Central Africa ... By the death of Keith Johnston on 28...
£850
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COWPER, Henry Swainson.
The hill of the graces. A record of investigation among the trilithons and megalithic sites of Tripoli...
London, Methuen & Co., ‘1897’ [c. 1901].
First edition, later issue, a nice copy. Cowper (1865-1941) travelled through Mesopotamia, Egypt, Tripoli, and Asia Minor. ‘The “Hill of Graces” is principally the result of investigations carried on in Tripoli during two visits to that country ... During the spring months of 1895 and 1896, I made...
£60
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TRISTRAM, Henry Baker.
The great Sahara: wanderings south of the Atlas mountains ... With maps and illustrations.
London, John Murray, 1860.
First edition of this ‘interesting record of travel in a region then little known’ (Playfair) by the geologist and naturalist Tristram (1822-1906). ‘Because of ill health Tristram journeyed to Algeria for the winters of 1855-6 and 1856-7. He travelled far into the desert, made an ornithological...
£125
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SIBREE, James.
The great African island. Chapters on Madagascar. A popular account of recent researches in the physical geography,...
London, Trübner & Co., 1880.
First edition, by the missionary and architect James Sibree (1836-1929). ‘In writing the following pages my object has been to supply information of a more general character than is given in most previous works; and especially to arrange in a systematic form numerous interesting facts which have only...
£150
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GRANT, James Augustus.
A walk across Africa or domestic scenes from my Nile journal ...
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1864.
First edition. Grant (1827-1892) was invited by John Hanning Speke, in 1859, to join the Royal Geographical Society Nile expedition. ‘Speke hoped to prove his contention that Lake Victoria, which he had discovered in 1858, was the source of the Nile. The two explorers and their porters now embarked...
£350
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MADOX, John.
Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, &c. Including a visit to the unfrequented district of the Haouran ...
London, Richard Bentley, 1834.
First edition. An ‘account of travels made between 1821 and 1826 ... Seven chapters contain incidents relating to the Greek war of independence ... He made three separate journeys to Egypt and Palestine between 1824 and 1826. The frontispieces are portraits of the author and Mehmet Ali. The plates...
£450
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[EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]
[Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of Edward VII’] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...
[Norwood (MA), Plimpton Press for] New York, M. Walter Dunne, [1904].
Authorised American edition of the Essex House Press Book of Common Prayer, published in celebration of the accession of Edward VII.
£500
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[GEORGE V.]
The Form and Order of the Service that is to be performed and of the Ceremonies that are to be observed in the Coronation...
London, Novello & Company, 1911.
A handsome copy of the Coronation service, with choral settings of the music sung, including (among others) Parry’s ‘I was glad’, Handel’s ‘Zadok the Priest’, and ‘God save the King!’, arranged by Sir Frederick Bridge (1844–1924), organist at Westminster Abbey.
£450
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TAYLOR, G. Oswald (photographer).
Promotional photographic brochure celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II.
Nottingham, Fine Stocking Manufacturers Ltd., June 1953.
An unusual coronation souvenir. The details on the lower wrapper indicate that Oswald Taylor produced the booklet, as well as photographed the series.
£300