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187252516London: Tinsley Brothers 1872. First edition first issue binding 2 volumes 8vo pp. xii 2 503 1; vi 2 519 1; folding map highlighted in blue 11 wood-engraved plates including 2 frontispieces 4 full-p. sketch maps; original chocolate brown cloth gilt vignette on upper covers both volumes neatly rebacked with original spines laid down; previous owners' bookplates pertinent newspaper clippings tipped into both volumes at endpaper and half-title; a good sound copy. Zanzibar is Burton's account of the country and its natural history and Burton's and Speke's various journeys 1857-59 in the lake regions of east Africa including the discoveries of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika. The final chapter is Burton's memorial of Speke with whom he had many points of divergence regarding the geographical discoveries at Victoria and the Nile basin. Spink Catalogue no. 49; Penzer pp. 88-89; Casada 72: "It is in my opinion among the most important of his African-related studies." <br/><br/> Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
187652658New York: World Publishing House 1876. 8vo pp. xiv 15-271 1; wood-engraved frontispiece; bound with as issued: Lamping Clemens. The French in Algiers pp. 4 89 1; bound with as issued: Alby François Antoine. The prisoners of Abd-el-Kader pp. 4 93-178; original terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt; a good sound copy or better. <br/><br/> World Publishing House hardcover books
186313920London: Tinsley Brothers 1863. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in the rarest binding state without Burton's name or FRGS on the spines but with a "second edition" slug on the title pages. This state was apparently unknown to Penzer and was probably the result of an attempt to boost sales by the publisher as the text is unchanged. Plate of Julu house is the frontispiece to Volume I and the map now detached and laid in is in Volume II. . Both volumes lightly bumped/rubbed but clean and sound. Small bookplate of F.H. Spencer on each front pastedown. Much to his dismay Burton's first consular posting landed him on a small desolate island off the coast of West Africa. He took every opportunity to leave the place exploring various parts of the mainland and making observations on cultural and traditions health and sanitary conditions and slavery among other things. The account of his journeys into Sierra Leone and Nigeria to investigate stories of gold and gold mining is credited with drawing public attention to mining prospects in the region. Penzer 71-72; Casada 70. Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
186352623London: Tinsley Bros 1863. First edition 2 volumes small 8vo pp. viii 2 303; 6 295; folding map frontispiece in volume II; very slight rubbing but still a fine bright copy largely unopened in original purple-brown cloth author's name and title gilt-lettered direct on spine. This is the second state of the binding with Burton's name on the spine. Penzer pp. 71-2; Casada 70. <br/><br/> Tinsley Bros hardcover books
186352654London: Tinsley Bros 1863. First edition 2 volumes in 1 small 8vo pp. iii-viii 2 303 1; 4 295 1; frontispiece and a folding map; bound without the half-titles in contemporary half tan calf gilt-lettered spine; moderately rubbed else very good. Penzer pp. 71-2; Casada 70. <br/><br/> Tinsley Bros unknown books
187652519London: Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle 1876. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xiv 2 261 1; vi 2 255 i.e. 355 1; largely unopened; 4 wood-engraved plates and 2 folding maps plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in a secondary unrecorded binding of original blindstamped terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spines. Sir Richard Burton 1821-90 is well known for his colorful career recorded in numerous books and articles as a diplomat explorer and ethnographer. In 1861 he was appointed consul to Fernando Po now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea remaining there for four years until he was transferred to Brazil. These volumes collate the expeditions and ethnographic observations made during his time there. In his preface Burton writes that the 'plain truth' about the African has not been told in Britain declaring that English occupation of West Africa has proved 'a remarkable failure'. First published in 1876 the second volume recounts a journey made from Fernando Po to Loango Bay and up the Congo River. Of particular interest is the penultimate chapter 'The slaver and the missionary in the Congo River' in which Burton expresses his ambivalence towards a European presence in Africa. Volume 2 also includes appendices containing geographical observations. Penzer p. 94; Spink 56; Casada 66: "This work covers the Fan people and the region of the lower Congo." <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle hardcover books
189712358Boston: Roberts Brothers 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 133 pp ads with a gruesome frontis photograph of natives being hanged as spies. Original green cloth with decoration in gilt. Slight rubbing to corners gift inscription on front free endpaper mild foxing. A fictional account of the occupation of Mashonaland "in which Christ is depicted as visiting the camp fire of a trooper engaged in the expedition. The settlement of Rhodesia and the Jameson Raid are incidentally referred to with considerable animus" Mendelssohn II 281. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
181652526London: printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co 1816. 2 volumes 8vo pp. xx 551 1; xvi cxlix 1 cli-clxxvii 3 cliii-cviii i.e. ccvii 301 1 2 ads; large folding map with Park's routes hand-colored in outline; later quarter tan calf gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; a handsome and sound copy. Includes a Mandingo vocabulary at the back of volume I. Mungo Park 1771-1806 was the first European to reach the headwaters of the Niger following the river almost to the Senegal valley. His journal includes a detailed description of travel conditions natural history rivers and the customs of the various tribes. "Park's Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. 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 negroes have remained of lasting value. Park's career was short but he made the first great practical advance in the opening-up of Central Africa" PMM 253 citing the first edition of 1799. Cox I 394. <br/><br/> printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co unknown books
180415505London: T.Cadell and W. Davies 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix 3 632 with 8 plates including frontispiece five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers original red spine label preserved three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue repair to first page of table of contents ocasional foxing and minor soiling in the margins; overall quite clean and sound. "Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney's mission to the court of China in 1792 as his private secretary and the present account.is one of the best illustrated English travels on China. The eight plates are from drawings by William Alexander who also accompanied the embassy and later published his own work. The strict exclusion of Europeans by the Chinese emperors had left China very much terra incognita to the western world well into the nineteenth century. Barrow was an excellent observer and the text contains a number of descriptions and illustrations of Chinese artifacts and novelties. Among these are a plate depicting musical instruments extensive renditions of Chinese melodies in western western notation and a long description with illustration of an abacus" Hill 62. Historian Michael Adas notes that Barrow "interspersed descriptions of his travels and personal experiences with lengthy discussions of varying aspects of Chinese culture.His judgments on the quality of Chinese life and material culture tended to be favorable at the beginning of his residence in China but grew more and more disparaging as time passed." Unlike Jesuit writers who praised the sophistication of Chinese science and culture Barrow argued that a once-great civilization had been on the decline since the fifteenth century providing "an implicit contrast between static past-minded backward China and the continually improving foreward-looking industrializing states of Europe Adas Machines as the Measure of Man pp 179-180. Cox I:346; Cordier 2388. T.Cadell and W. Davies hardcover books
188352639London: Chatto & Windus 1883. First edition small 8vo 2 volumes pp. xii 2 354 2 32 Chatto & Windus ads; vi 381 3; 2 folding maps chromolithograph frontispiece in vol. II a few illustrations in the text; original decorative red cloth stamped in red and black; spines soiled and spine extremities chipped; cloth a little soiled; good and sound. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: "The work was an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron who was the first European to cross central Africa 1873-75 to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River . Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second although Cameron was an accomplished literary hand in his own right." <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
186457313Boston: October 26 1864. Three-page autograph letter signed 8" x 5"; separated at all folds resulting in six separate fragments but without loss of any text. Contained in an old envelope also with some separation at the folds. Luther Briggs 1822-1905 was a prominent Boston architect with many public commissions to his credit among them Liberia College in Monrovia. The letter relays a conversation Frary had with Joseph Jenkins Roberts the first president of Liberia: "President Roberts of Liberia College remarked to me that the College Building designed by you was actually worth more for college purposes than the buildings of the Institution at Fourah Bay Sierra Leone for educating missionaries though the latter cost more than sixty thousand dollars. They were erected by the English Church Missionary Society with I believe some aid from the Government. The building planned by you at Monrovia cost not much more than one third of that amount . As I have said this rests on no documentary evidence being only a remark made incidentally in private conversation. But I have a perfectly clear recollection of the remark and it seems to me worth something as shown that your labors were successful." <br/><br/> October 26 unknown books
18731954Philadelphia: National Publishing 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo pp 823 8 ads with map many engraved illustrations. Original purple cloth with gilt decoration. Spine sunned boards edgeworn binding sound and text clean. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of the Berry family of Trumbull County Ohio and Nevada County California on front free endpaper. Beadle writes in the Preface: "This work is simply a personal record of my five years' travel and residence in the new States and Territories - where I went what I did what I saw and what I thought about it . It was my prime object to make this work a startling novelty in one respect: by telling the exact truth about the particular points to which settlers are most urgently invited." Rittenhouse 25: "A personal memoir written in adventurous style." Howes B-269; Graff 212; Rader 307. National Publishing hardcover books
189352561Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons 1893. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xix 1 563 1; gravure frontispiece portrait 13 maps 9 in color 5 folding 2 in cover pockets 2 other maps in the text 54 plates 75 illustrations in the text; Geography Prize bookplate in vol. I dated Dec. 19 1900; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt; spines rather sunned and spine extremities a bit rubbed but the bindings are sound with no cracked hinges. <br/><br/> William Blackwood and Sons hardcover books
186129188Cape Town: Saul Solomon 1861. Quarto. xii 180 pp. plus photographically illustrated titlepage and sixteen mounted albumen photographs. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt with leather label. Light scattered foxing occasional faint offsetting from images. Photographs generally clean. Very good.<br/> <br/>With some of the earliest photographic images from South Africa with a striking portrait of a Basuto Chief.<br/> <br/>An early photographically illustrated book and the first such book printed on the African continent. The volume was made to commemorate the visit of Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha one of Queen Victoria's sons. The book was designed to showcase the colony which had hitherto been viewed in a less than positive light by the general British public. Prince Alfred was well-received by the colonists in South Africa and the volume contains many positive facts about the colony's usefulness to the British Empire. The book includes seventeen images by photographer Joseph Kirkman who was active in South Africa from 1859 to 1870. Some of the images in this volume are photographs of drawings or other artwork but others do capture live scenes along the Prince's route including a grand portrait of the African chief Moshesh and his advisors. The chief is pictured seated in the center of the image dressed in a top hat and suit holding a cane. The man seated next to him glowers at the camera and is draped in an animal pelt and holds a spear. Four men all in Western dress stand arrayed behind them. The images taken from life during the Prince's progress are as follows: Untitled image on the titlepage showing several men next to a rail car full of large rocks. In 1860 Kirkman and Frederick York were employed by the Government and the Harbour Board to photograph the tilting of the first truck of stone off the Breakwater by Prince Alfred. This is presumably an image from that scene. Graham's Town from the West The Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queenstown The Prince's Interview with the Tambookies Moshesh and His Counsellors The Prince and His First Wildebeeste The Prince's Travelling Equipage A rare and interesting work and notable for being the first photographically illustrated book produced in Africa.<br/> <br/>Not in The Truthful Lens. Saul Solomon unknown books
1861WRCAM49581ACape Town: Saul Solomon 1861. xii180pp. plus photographically illustrated titlepage and sixteen mounted albumen photographs. Quarto. Original publisher's gilt cloth rebacked with most of original spine laid down. Corners lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Light foxing and toning heavier in some places. Most images clean though one or two with some light foxing at the edges. Very good. An early photographically illustrated book and the first such book printed on the African continent. The volume was made to commemorate the visit of Alfred Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha one of Queen Victoria's sons. The book was designed to showcase the colony which had hitherto been viewed in a less than positive light by the general British public. Prince Alfred was well- received by the colonists in South Africa and the volume contains many positive facts about the colony's usefulness to the British Empire. <br> <br> The book includes seventeen images by photographer Joseph Kirkman who was active in South Africa from 1859 to 1870. Some of the images in this volume are photographs of drawings or other artwork but others do capture live scenes along the Prince's route including a grand portrait of the African chief Moshesh and his advisors. The chief is pictured seated in the center of the image dressed in a top hat and suit holding a cane. The man seated next to him glowers at the camera and is draped in an animal pelt and holds a spear. Four men all in Western dress stand arrayed behind them. The images taken from life during the Prince's progress are as follows: <br> <br> 1 Untitled image on the titlepage showing several men next to a rail car full of large rocks. In 1860 Kirkman and Frederick York were employed by the government and the Harbour Board to photograph the tilting of the first truck of stone off the Breakwater by Prince Alfred. This is presumably an image from that scene. <br> <br> 2 "Graham's Town from the West" <br> <br> 3 "The Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queenstown" <br> <br> 4 "The Prince's Interview with the Tambookies" <br> <br> 5 "Moshesh and His Counsellors" <br> <br> 6 "The Prince and His First Wildebeeste" <br> <br> 7 "The Prince's Travelling Equipage" <br> <br> Not in THE TRUTHFUL LENS. A rare and interesting work and notable for being the first photographically illustrated book produced in Africa. Saul Solomon hardcover books
1861WRCAM49581Cape Town: Saul Solomon 1861. xii180pp. plus photographically illustrated titlepage and sixteen mounted albumen photographs. Quarto. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt leather label. Light scattered foxing occasional faint offsetting from images. Photographs generally clean. Very good. An early photographically illustrated book and the first such book printed on the African continent. The volume was produced to commemorate the visit of Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha one of Queen Victoria's sons. It was designed to showcase the colony which had hitherto been viewed in a less than positive light by the general British public. Prince Alfred was well received by the colonists in South Africa and the volume contains many positive facts about the colony's usefulness to the British Empire. <br> <br> The book includes seventeen images by photographer Joseph Kirkman who was active in South Africa from 1859 to 1870. Some of the images in this volume are photographs of drawings or other artwork but others capture live scenes along the Prince's route including a grand portrait of African chief Moshesh and his advisors. The chief is pictured seated in the center dressed in a top hat and suit holding a cane. The man seated next to him glowers at the camera and is draped in an animal pelt and holds a spear. Four men all in Western dress stand arrayed behind them. The images taken from life during the Prince's progress are as follows: <br> <br> Untitled image on the titlepage showing several men next to a rail car full of large rocks. In 1860 Kirkman and Frederick York were employed by the government and the Harbour Board to photograph the tilting of the first truck of stone off the Breakwater by Prince Alfred. This is presumably an image from that scene. <br> <br> "Graham's Town from the West" <br> <br> "The Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queenstown" <br> <br> "The Prince's Interview with the Tambookies" <br> <br> "Moshesh and His Counsellors" <br> <br> "The Prince and His First Wildebeeste" <br> <br> "The Prince's Travelling Equipage" <br> <br> Not in THE TRUTHFUL LENS. A rare and interesting work and notable for being the first photographically illustrated book produced in Africa. Saul Solomon hardcover books
189052548Philadelphia: Reading and Co 1890. First edition 8vo pp. iii-xv 1 278; frontispiece portrait 64 plates 1 in color and 2 maps; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; slight wear else near fine. The author is described on the title page as the late secretary of the Gabon and Corsico Mission and acting commercial agent for the U.S. "All the scenes and incidents portrayed in this book are true the only fiction consisting in making these the experiences of the Ogowe Band instead of the author. All the descriptions of scenery were copied from diaries written upon the spot and are as accurate as it is possible to make them" preface. <br/><br/> Reading and Co hardcover books
189011320Philadelphia: Reading and Company 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv 278 pp illustrated with portraits many of Africans maps and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose but none detached. Occasional smudged pages; text otherwise unmarked. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia which took them through Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior. Blockson 1628. Reading and Company hardcover books
189852651London: Methuen & Co 1898. First edition issued in the publisher's Colonial Library series small 8vo pp. vi 238 2; large folding map 4 plates; extra illustration mounted on front pastedown; original maroon cloth gilt-stamped spine extra cloth label 'Africa' also on spine; fine copy. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co hardcover books
186513668New York: D. Appleton and Co 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in one: 179; 198 pp plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece of a hippo bathing in the Nile. Original green cloth with blind-stamped decoration and faded gilt lettering on the spine. Corners and spine ends rubbed evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding sound text clean with minor foxing. Fictional account founded on real experiences and adventures in South Africa in the early nineteenth century. Mendelssohn I 986. D. Appleton and Co hardcover books
187352572London: John Murrary for the Royal Geographic Society 1873. First edition 8vo pp. vii 1 271 1; large folding frontispiece map without tears and fine; original blue cloth gilt-stamped spine; perforated stamp in title page accession numbers on spine lightly rubbed else very good and sound. Burton's portion of the book ends on p. 164. Penzer p. 89 noting that Burton had also written two appendices which because of their controversial and critical nature were rejected by the R.G.S. "These appendices together with a preface were published privately at Trieste in July of the same year." Casada 85; Mendelssohn I p. 234. Have 2 copies. <br/><br/> John Murrary [for the] Royal Geographic Society hardcover books
189852544New York & Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell n.d. 1898. First American edition 8vo pp. xxx 3-299 1; 100 photographic illustrations throughout many full-page; original decorative green cloth stamped in black and gilt; lightly rubbed very good. Czech Africa p. 29: "A former English army officer Burrows was hired by the Belgian government as district commander of the Upper Well-Mobanghi region of the Congo." <br/><br/> Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d. hardcover books
186052513London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts 1860. First edition likely the second issue; 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 2 412; vi 2 468; engraved folding map hand colored in blue and green 12 chromoxylographs 22 woodcuts in the text; 20th century three-quarter green morocco gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments gilt lettered direct in 3 t.e.g.; the plates all with a small and discreet stamp in the margin not touching the image and the map with an old paper repair at the folds on the verso; otherwise a fine copy. There were two issues each in a different cloth binding. As the book has been rebound we can't be sure which issue this is except that the map is in volume II in this set which is where it should be in the second issue. Casada 42; Penzer p. 65-67. <br/><br/> Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts hardcover books
188152660London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons 1881. 12mo pp. 9 10-275 1 10 ads; double-page map 31 full-page wood-engraved illustrations 1 double-page; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; some wear at extremities and a small break in the cloth at the top of the front joint; all else very good. <br/><br/> T. Nelson and Sons hardcover books
18902221935<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 10 black and white text illustrations and full page plates. Original red gilt and black stamp pictorial cloth and spine minor rubbing; tiny tears at head and foot of spine. No dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. A very good solid tight copy. 240 pages. Gift inscription on verso of frontispiece.</p><p>In what is presumably the first state red and gold binding.</p><p>Includes informations on the Jews of Tangiers.</p> Estes and Lauriat hardcover books
