Lot 17
African travel & exploration
Collection of works, 19th-20th century
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
Baker, Samuel W. Ismailia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. London: Macmillan and Co., 1874. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher's dark green cloth gilt, 2 portrait frontispieces, wood-engraved plates, 2 colour maps (1 large folding), joints cracked but firm, some spotting throughout both volumes;
Junker, Wilhelm. Travels in Africa during the Years 1875-1878. London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. First English edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, original publisher's green cloth gilt, 3 frontispieces, all plates as called for, numerous illustrations throughout, 3 folding colour maps, some spotting throughout all 3 volumes, maps in volumes 1 and 2 with slight tears;
Schweinfurth, George. The Heart of Africa. Three Years' Travels and Adventures in the Unexplored Regions of Central Africa from 1868 to 1871. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1873. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher's dark green cloth gilt, 2 frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding), wood-engraved plates (1 lithographed in colour), numerous text illustrations throughout, publisher's advertisements at end of volume 2, unopened bolts in both volumes, wanting plate in volume 1 (opposite p. 159), joints cracked but firm;
Kerr, Walter Montagu. The Far Interior: a Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the Lake Regions of Central Africa. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1886. First US edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher's green cloth gilt, plates, 1 large folding map bound at the end of volume 2, with a photographic albumen print portrait of the author by Mendelssohn as frontispiece to volume 1, title leaf to volume 1 with repair, leaf listing illustrations in volume 1 loose, folding map in volume 2 with small repair;
Gibbons, Alfred St. Hill. Africa from South to North through Marotseland. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1904. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, 2 frontispieces, plates, 3 folding maps (2 in pockets at end of each volume), folding maps in pockets with later linen backing;
Cromer [Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer]. Modern Egypt. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half green morocco, frontispiece portrait of the author and folding map at the end of volume 1;
Tucker, Alfred R. Eighteen Years in Uganda & East Africa. London: Edward Arnold, 1908. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, original publisher's blue cloth gilt, all plates present (4 in colour), 1 folded colour map, joints to volume 1 cracked, bindings rubbed and scuffed, presentation copy from author;
[Gleichen, Edward, ed.]. The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a Compendium prepared by Officers of the Sudan Government. London: H.M.S.O., 1905. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, original publisher's green cloth, 2 large folding maps and numerous half-tone illustrations, bindings lightly soiled and worn but internally very clean, with embossed stamps of the library of the Army and Navy Club, London. Only 1,500 copies of Volume I and 1,000 of Volume II were printed;
Grant, James. Cassell's History of the War in the Soudan. London: Cassell & Company Ltd., [c. 1887]. 6 volumes in 3, 4to, numerous illustrations and plates, contemporary half calf with gilt spine and tooling and red spine labels, light spotting throughout (20)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman