Lot 16
Uganda
Collection of 19th & 20th century works, including a manuscript
Auction: Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman | Wed 25 February from 10am | Lots 1 to 30
Description
[Manuscript] Eastwood, Benjamin. Sudd and Lilies: a Journey round Lakes Kioga [Kyoga] and Kivania [Kwania] and Neighbouring Waters. [1916]. Unpublished account of journey undertaken in Uganda in May 1916, Eastwood at the time was General Manager of the Uganda Railway, having served on the Ugandan railways since 1897 as an accountant, and having recovered from losing his right arm in 1902 after being charged and tossed by a rhinoceros, 4to-size lined notebook, text handwritten on rectos only of 72 leaves, foliated by the author, with large blueprint folding map of the Eastern Province [Region] of Uganda pasted onto front free endpaper, half leather with blue cloth boards (faded);
Ashe, Robert P. Two Kings of Uganda; or, Life by the Shores of Victoria Nyanza. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1889. First edition, 8vo, folding colour map and 4 plates, original pictorial green cloth, gilt;
Ansorge, W. J. Under the African Sun: a Description of Native Races in Uganda, Sporting Adventures and other Experiences. London: Heinemann, 1899. First edition, tall 8vo, 18 plates (2 colour), with numerous illustrations, original pictorial green cloth gilt, armorial bookplate of Sir Julius Jeppe of Johannesburg, occasional spotting throughout, boards and spine scuffed and stained;
Johnston, Harry. The Uganda Protectorate. London: Hutchinson & Co., 1902. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, 48 colour plates, 9 folding colour maps, and numerous black and white illustrations, colour decorated endpapers and pastedowns, original black cloth, with gilt illustration on upper boards, slight wear to boards;
Tucker, Alfred R. Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, all plates present (4 in colour), 1 folded colour map, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, occasional spotting, with gilt ownership stamp on upper boards of New South Wales Library of Parliament;
Lardner, E. G. Dion. Soldiering and Sport in Uganda 1909-1910. London: The Walter Scott Publishing Co. Ltd., 1912. First edition, 8vo, numerous illustrations including frontispiece portrait of author, folding map at end, original pictorial blue cloth gilt, spine sunned, occasional spotting;
Jackson, Frederick John [ed. by W.L. Sclater]. The Birds of Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate. London: Gurney and Jackson, 1938. First edition, 3 volumes (continuously paginated), tall 8vo, 24 colour plates, frontispiece portrait of the author in volume 1, colour folding map at end of volume 3, numerous illustrations, original publisher's black cloth gilt, with dust jackets to volumes 1 and 2, both torn and stained, dust jacket to volume 2 with tape repair;
Cook, Albert R. Uganda Memories (1897-1940). Kampala: The Uganda Society, 1945. First edition, number 492 of 750 copies signed by the author, 4to, with numerous illustrations and frontispiece portrait of the author, 2 folding maps (1 of which is in rear-end pocket), original publisher's green cloth gilt;
and 10 others on Uganda (23)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman