Lot 7
Burton, Richard F.
Zanzibar
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
City, Island, and Coast. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1872. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (22.4 x 13.7cm), xii, 503, [1] p. [7] leaves of plates (one folded); vi, 519, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates, original brown cloth gilt, headcaps frayed, hinges cracking, traces of labels to spines, folding map in volume 1 creased and torn, tears to some of the plates in volume 1, some bolts in volume 2 unopened (2);
[Government of the British East Africa Protectorate]. Handbook for East Africa, Uganda, and Zanzibar, 1904. Mombasa: ‘Govt. Printing Press’, 1903. 8vo, original pink cloth lettered and decorated in gilt, [8] 223 pp., [2] 11 pp. advertisements to rear, cloth marked;
Hore, Annie B. To Lake Tanganyika in a Bath Chair. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. 8vo, original blue cloth with titles and pictorial design in black, [2] 210 pp., folding lithographic map of the author's route from Zanzibar to Ujiji;
Russell, Lilian M. General Rigby, Zanzibar and the Slave Trade, with Journals, Dispatches, Etc. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1935. 2 copies, first editions, 8vo, original blue cloth, each with folding map to rear, one copy with dust jacket (price-clipped), the other copy in faded cloth;
Naval Staff Intelligence Division. A Handbook of Kenya Colony (British East Africa) and the Kenya Protectorate (Protectorate of Zanzibar). [London:] [HMSO], 1920. 8vo, original black cloth, folding lithographic map, inscribed Royal Military Academy Sandhurst compliments slip to front pastedown;
McDermott, P. L. British East Africa or Ibea, a History of the Formation and Work of the British East Africa Company. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1893. First edition, 8vo, original cloth gilt, photographic frontispiece, advertisements to rear, contents largely unopened;
and 6 others (14)
Provenance
Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman