Lot 8
Ensor, F. Sidney
Incidents of a Journey through Darfoor
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
London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1881. First edition, 8vo (21 x 13cm), modern half morocco, all edges gilt, vi [2] 225 [2] pp., 2 folding lithographic maps (one with small closed tear, neatly repaired), appendix leaf at rear, advertisements discarded;
Melly, George. Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles. London: Colburn and Co., 1851. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo (19.4 x 11.8cm), modern purple half morocco, off-white buckram sides, [iii]-xii 305, ix 309 pp., steel-engraved frontispiece and map, wood-engraved vignettes to title-pages, advertisements to rear of volume 1, pencilled marginalia to volume 2 p. 3, without half-title to volume 1 (possibly not called for in volume 2);
[English, George Bethune]. A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar under the Command of His Excellence Ismael Pasha, undertaken by Order of His Highness Mehemmed Ali Pasha, Viceroy of Egypt. London: John Murray, 1822. First edition, 8vo (21.8 x 12.2cm), contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down, [iii]-xv 232 pp., without half-title;
Petherick, John. Egypt, the Soudan and Central Africa. With Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator. Edinburgh: William Blackwood, 1861. First edition, 8vo (21.3 x 13.8cm), contemporary half calf, richly gilt spine, [iii]-xii, 482 pp., folding linen-backed lithographic map, engraved bookplate, bound without half-title, small tape-repairs to pp. 105/6 and 321/2;
Elton, J. Frederic. Travels and Researches among the Lakes and Mountains of Eastern and Central Africa … Edited and completed by H. B. Cotterill. London: John Murray, 1879. First edition, 8vo, modern quarter calf, 11 engraved plates including frontispiece and folding panorama, 3 folding lithographic maps, pencilled ownership inscription of H. B. Cotterill, Wiesbaden to initial blank, inked marginalia to pp. 242 and 412, the former initialled H. B. C.; contents toned, edges of plates and maps slightly fragile and with a few concomitant nicks and nears, folding panorama with partial split to one fold;
Willoughby, Sir John C. East Africa and its Big Game. The Narrative of a Sporting Trip from Zanzibar to the Borders of the Masai. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889. First edition, 8vo (21.8 x 14.8cm), contemporary tan half calf, 18 plates including photogravures from paintings and lithographs of natural history subjects, folding map (with small handling tear);
Chanler, William Astor. Through Jungle and Desert. Travels in Eastern Africa. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. First edition, 8vo (23.6 x 15.4cm), contemporary gilt calf prize-binding, photogravure portrait frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations throughout (many full-page), 2 folding lithographic colour maps to rear (each with discreet repair to small tears at inner folds), headcap worn (8)
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Africa and the Source of the Nile - Selections from the Library of a Scottish Gentleman