Lot 282
Africa - Johnston, Sir Harry
Auction: 16 September 2009 at 12:00 BST
Description
The Uganda protectorate. London, 1902. 8vo, 2 volumes, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, rubbed at edges, bookplate of the Signet Library; Bland-Sutton, Sir John Men and creatures in Uganda. London, 1933. 8vo, original blue cloth gilt, some fading to backstrip, chipped at head of spine; Roscoe, Sir John The Baganda. London, 1911. 8vo, frontispiece, original cloth gilt, ink inscription on front endpaper, binding rubbed; Mukasa, Ham Uganda's Katikiro in England. London, 1904. 8vo, frontispiece, original red cloth gilt, backstrip faded, ownership inscription; Statham, Colonel J.C. With my wife across Africa by canoe and caravan. London, [no date]. 8vo, original green cloth gilt, a clean copy; Oswald, Felix Alone in the sleeping-sickness country. London, 1923. Second edition, 8vo, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt, some fading to backstrip; Falconer, J.D. On horseback through Nigeria. London, 1911. 8vo, original red cloth gilt, heavily faded, frontispiece loose; Moore, Decima We two in West Africa. London, 1909. 8vo, frontispiece, original red cloth gilt, rebacked; Allen, Bernard Gordon and the Sudan. London, 1931. 8vo, frontispiece, original blue cloth gilt; Mason, Michael H. Deserts idle. London, [no date]. 8vo, presentation copy from author, frontispiece, original blue cloth, some fading to backstrip; Dracopoli, I.N. Through Jubaland to the Lorian swamp. London, 1914. 8vo, frontispiece, original orange cloth gilt, some ink annotations; and 16 others (28)
Footnote
Provenance: From the library of the late R. Campbell-Hewson, specialist bookseller in Africana.