Lot 19
Africa
Collection of travel accounts, 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
Owen, W[illiam] F[itzwilliam] W. Narrative of Voyages to Explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar. London: Richard Bentley, 1833. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, half calf, 5 lithograph plates, 4 folding charts and illustrations, without errata slip, plates lightly spotted, but otherwise very clean and fine, from the library of Kimbolton Castle;
Jessen, B.H. W.N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Southern Sudan, Abyssinia & British East Africa. London: Marchant Singer & Co. Printers. 1906. First edition, printed for private distribution, 4to, quarter red calf, frontispiece, 38 black and white plates, numerous illustrations, large folding map in rear pocket;
Pallme, Ignatius. Travels in Kordofan. London: J. Madden & Co., 1844. First English edition, 8vo, quarter green calf, 8 pages of publisher's advertisements, first published in Stuttgart in 1843;
Krapf, J. Lewis. Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours During an Eighteen Years' Residence in Eastern Africa. London: Trübner and Co., 1860. First English edition, 8vo, frontispiece portrait, full green morocco, 12 tinted lithographic plates and 2 folding maps, occasional staining but otherwise a very clean copy of a work which was a key text of East African exploration, leading the Royal Geographical Society to send Burton and Speke to verify the accuracy of the map and accounts of Krapf and his fellow German missionary Johannes Rebmann;
Sartorius, Ernestine. Three Months in the Soudan. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. First edition, 8vo, 11 half-tone plates, half red morocco with stamp on spine of the library of the Canadian Parliament, binding scuffed and worn in places;
Long, C. Chaillé. Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People. London: Sampson Low Marston Searle & Rivington, 1876. First edition, 8vo, quarter leather, Woodburytype portrait of author as frontispiece, 8 wood-engraved plates, illustrations, folding map, publisher's advertisements at end, with embossed library stamp of Theological Institute of Connecticut on title leaf;
Peters, Carl. New Light on Dark Africa: being the Narrative of the German Emin Pasha Expedition. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891. First English edition, 8vo, half calf, photogravure portrait of author as frontispiece, 32 black and white plates, numerous illustrations, large folding coloured map (repairs to folds) in rear pocket, with part of original publisher's cloth binding mounted on rear endpaper;
French-Sheldon, M. Sultan to Sultan: Adventures among the Masai and other Tribes of East Africa. Boston: Arena Publishing Company, 1892. First edition, 8vo, half calf, frontispiece portrait of author, map, 25 black and white plates, numerous illustrations. American author and explorer May French-Sheldon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892, among the first fifteen women to receive this honour;
Austin, Herbert H. With Macdonald in Uganda. London: Edward Arnold, 1903. First edition, 8vo, half green calf (sunned), frontispiece, 15 black and white plates, large folding coloured map (10)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman
Footnote
Three Months in the Soudan (1885) is notable as a European woman's account of daily life in colonial Africa. Ernestine Isabella Sartorius (1847-1927) joined her husband, George Sartorius, in Suakin, Sudan, in 1883, running a mess for the officers during the Mahdist War,