Lot 26
Central Africa
Collection of central & cross-African travel narratives, 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
Haywood, A. H. W. Through Timbuctu and across the Great Sahara. London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1912. First edition, 8vo, original red pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt, all halftone photographic plates as called for, folding map, advertisements to rear, spine slightly faded;
Long, C. Chaillé. Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876. First edition, original maroon cloth over bevelled boards, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front board in black and gilt, mounted Woodburytype portrait frontispiece, folding map, all plates as called for, advertisements to rear, cloth mottled;
Stigand, C. H. Equatoria. The Lado Enclave. London; Constable & Company Limited, 1923, First edition, 8vo, original green cloth, photogravure portrait frontispiece, folding map, Royal United Services Institute library plate, and disposal and check-out stamps, to front pastedown and endpaper;
Hore, Edward Coode. Tanganyika: Eleven Years in Central Africa. London: Edward Stanford, 1892. First edition, 8vo, original blue pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in silver and red, all plates and maps as called for, endpapers renewed;
Smith, A. Donaldson. Through Unknown African Countries. The First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu. London: Edward Arnold, 1897. First edition, large 8vo, original maroon vertical-ribbed cloth gilt, photogravure portrait frontispiece, 6 folding lithographic maps to rear, illustrations throughout the text (many full-page though counted in pagination and register);
and 28 others similar, all in original cloth (e.g. Melland & Cholmeley, Through the Heart of Africa, 1912; Haard & Audouin-Dubreuil, Across the Sahara by Motor Car, 1924, signed by the author; Decle, Three Years in Savage Africa, 1898; Moore, To the Mountains of the Moon, 1901, etc.) (33)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman