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AFRICA. Africa. (No pl., ca. 1759).Allegorical engraving of Africa depicting white and black figures and two pyramids and a sphynx seen to the right, after G. Child. Ca. 24 x 16 cm. From: Thomas. Salmon. The universal traveller: or a compleat description of the several nations of the wold. [Boeknr.: 31968 ]

€ 95,00

AKELEY, Carl Ethan. In brightest Africa. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Cloth (soiled). With many photographic plates. XVIII,267 pp. Hunting stories in Uganda and Congo, including the story of killing a leopard with bare hands. Czech p.2. [Boeknr.: 35113 ]

€ 25,00

ALBERS, Derk. Uit het land der pyramiden. Den Haag, H.P. Leopold, 1930. Original decorated cloth. With 100 photographic illustrations. XI,194 pp. - The country of the pyramids. [Boeknr.: 27359 ]

€ 30,00

ALBERTI, Ludwig. Account of the tribal life & customs of the Xhosa in 1807. Translated by William Fehr from the original manuscript in German of The Kaffirs of the South coast of Africa. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1968. Cloth. With 2 plates and 4 coloured folding plates. XIV,117 pp. The first comprehensive and balanced account of Bantu tribal life. [Boeknr.: 35112 ]

€ 40,00

ALGIERS. - Alger. (No pl., ca. 1900).Oblong 8vo. Original wrappers with gilt lettering. With 12 photographic sepia plates with captions in French. Ca. 15 x 23 cm. Fine views of Algiers, the capital and largest city of the North African country Algeria. [Boeknr.: 37573 ]

€ 35,00

ALLERS, Christian Wilhelm. Rund um die Erde. Stuttgart, Berlin, Leipzig, Union, Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, (1898).Folio. Original decorated cloth with 6 portrait medallions around a globe (extremties of spine sl. dam.), a.e.g. With numerous plates and illustrations by the author. First edition; with an autograph dedication to H.C. Klinkert, a Dutch Mennonite missionary and translator, by his students. - Christian Wilhelm Allers (1857 - 1915) was a German painter, printmaker and naturalist travelling around the world for more than 10 years. His drawings are rich in detail and are of realistic style. The journey led across the Mediterranean to Egypt, through the Suez Canal to the Red Sea, to Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Siam, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Beijing, Kiautschou, Japan, San Francisco and New York. [Boeknr.: 36755 ]

€ 150,00

AMICIS, Edmondo de. Marocco. Uit het Italiaansch vertaald door D. Lodeesen. Leiden, P. van Santen, 1877.Contemporary half cloth (hinges sl. damaged). 315,(1) pp. First published in Italian Marocco. Milano 1876. - Account of the first Italian embassy that left Tangier for Fez to meet the young Sultan Mouley el Hassan, who ascended the throne in September 1873. The author accompanied the then Italian Minister, the late Commendatore Stefano Scovasso, on this embassy to the Sultan.Playfair & Brown 1230. [Boeknr.: 31759 ]

€ 125,00

ANDERSSON, Charles John. Lake Ngami; or, explorations and discoveries, during four years' wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa. Second edition. London, Hurst & Blackett, 1856.Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title label to spine. With large folding map and tinted frontispiece,15 tinted lithographed plates and several woodengraved illustrations. XVIII,546 pp. First edition published the same year. - 'The narrative describes two expeditions, one in which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton, which extended to Nangoro's Werft in the Ovampo country, and the other when he travelled by himself to Lake Ngami. The courage and endurance of the explorers were remarkable, and their sufferings from the death of water were at times very terrible. Few, if any, books give so full and complete an account of Namaqualand, Damaraland, and the Ovampo country and the description of the fauna of these countries is absolutely unequalled' (Mendelssohn I, p 41) .'A cornerstone book of African hunting in the mid-19th century. The London edition is more desirable with its large tinted plates and map (Czech p 6-7). - A fine copy.Gay 3128. [Boeknr.: 36772 ]

€ 875,00

ANDRIESSEN, Pieter Jacob. Arabier en negerprins. Een geschiedenis uit Midden-Afrika. Henry M. Stanley naverteld. 2e druk. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, (1903).Original pictorial cloth. With plates by Jan Sluyters. 214 pp. Editing of the book Selim en Kalulu, of De Arabier en de heiden,1876. [Boeknr.: 37309 ]

€ 25,00

(ASHE, Thomas). History of the Azores, or Western Islands; containing an account of the government, laws, and religion, the manners, ceremonies, and character of the inhabitants: and demonstrating the importance of these valuable islands to the British empire. London, Sherwood, Neely and Jones, 1813.4to. Contemporary half morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding) and 4 engraved plates (foxed). VIII,V,310 pp. First edition. - In 1810, on his way home from South America, the Irish writer Thomas Ashe spent time on the Azorean archipelago. While in the Azores, Ashe wrote a series of letters to the Earl of Moira, Francis Rawdon-Hastings. His goal in writing these letters was to convince the Earl of Moira, and therefore the British government, to obtain the Azores. His book is mainly dealing with the island of Saint Miguel or São Miguel Island, the largest and most populous island in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. - One of the earliest full descriptions of the islands and an important resource for historians.- (Age-browned). - Scarce. [Boeknr.: 10108 ]

€ 1450,00

BACKHOUSE, James. A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844.Original embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map of Mauritius, large folding map of South Africa, 16 etched plates and 28 woodengravings. XVI,628,LVI pp. First edition. - The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at his time. The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn p.62). It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian. Throughout the volume there are ample descriptions of the flora of the country. - A rich and personal account - Fine.Hess & Coger 5155. [Boeknr.: 34996 ]

€ 295,00

BACKHOUSE, James. A narrative of a visit to the Mauritius and South Africa. London, Hamilton, Adams, and Co., 1844.Later half red morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With folding map of Mauritius (mounted on linen), large folding map of South Africa (mounted on linen), 16 etched plates and 28 woodengravings. XVI,628,LVI pp. First edition. - The book is in the form of a diary, and the author seems to have traversed every part of South Africa where there was a mission station or a missionary. In this way he appears to have met almost every prominent man connected with mission work in South Africa at his time. The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. There is a good description of Kaffraria, and of the Basuto, Griqua and Bechuana countries, and the account of the Cape Colony affords valuable information concerning the first part of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn p.62). It contains vivid descriptions of the people he encountered, particularly the indigenous communities and those involved in the slave trade, which he found revolting and unchristian. Throughout the volume there are ample descriptions of the flora of the country. - A rich and personal account. - Fine.Hess & Coger 5155. [Boeknr.: 36713 ]

€ 350,00

BAESJOU, René. An Asante embassy on the Gold Coast. The mission of Akyempon Yaw to Elmina, 1869-1872. Leiden, Afrika-Studiecentrum, 1979. Wrappers. With folding map. 250 pp. - (African Social Research Documents). [Boeknr.: 35616 ]

€ 35,00

BAGNALL, A. Gordon. Wines of South Africa. An account of their history, their production and their nature. Cape Town, Paarl, 1961. Boards. With illustrations by Roman Waher. 95 pp. With bookplate of James Hamilton Russell, signed by the author. [Boeknr.: 35093 ]

€ 25,00

BAIN, Andrew Geddes. Journals of Andrew Geddes Bain. Trader, explorer, soldier, road engineer and geologist. Cape Town, 1949. Cloth. With maps and plates. XXXIX, 264 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 30. - Andrew Geddes Bain is best known for his building of Cape roads and passes. His diaries, from 1826 to the 1840s, were both working journals and accounts of his experiences and descriptions of the people he encountered in the course of his work. This volume includes his chronicle of his journey in 1826 to the northern Cape. [Boeknr.: 32780 ]

€ 25,00

BAINES, Thomas. Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With coloured lithographed frontispiece, 3 folding lithographed maps, and 34 woodengraved plates and illustrations. XIV,535 pp. First edition. - Thomas Baines (1820-1875) travelled with James Chapman from Walvis Bay via Lake Ngami to the Victoria Falls, which he and Chapman were among the first seven white men to see. 'The journey was started on March 20, 1861, and the author was joined by his fellow-traveller, Mr.J. Chapman, on the 20th of July. The volume contains an interesting account of hunting and exploration in the country of the Namaquas and Damaras, and the illustrations are very spirited; there is a good description of the flora and fauna of the country, together with an account of the habits of the natives' (Mendelssohn I, p.69). Thomas Baines became one of the great African travellers (Gordon-Brown p. 118). - (Small library stamp on titlepage). SAB I, p.113; Czech p.9; Hess & Coger 4815. [Boeknr.: 36773 ]

€ 1850,00

BAKER, Samuel White. The Albert N'Yanza, great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources. (2nd edition). London, Macmillan and Co., 1867.2 volumes. Original pictorial green cloth gilt. With double-portrait frontispiece, tinted lithographed frontispiece, 2 maps (1 folding) and 33 wood-engravings. XXX,371; X,372 pp. First published in 1866. - In 1861 Baker set out, accompanied by his Hungarian wife Florence von Sass, on a voyage to discover the source of the White Nile. They spent some time in the Sudan and in 1862 they set out from Khartoum and arrived in Gondokoro in 1863 where they met up with British explorers James Augustus Grant and John Hanning Speke, who informed them they had determined that the source of the Nile was Lake Victoria. The Bakers then continued southward to Juba on the White Nile. Finally in 1864 reached the shores of the Luta N'Zige, in what is now northwestern Uganda. Baker renamed it Lake Albert (Albert Nyanza). Florence Barbara Maria Finnian von Sass(1841-1916) must be one of the best-kept secrets in the annals of African exploration. Her achievemens were unprecedented, but Victorian propriety and her own sense of absolute loyalty pushed her stiffly into the background whilst her companion, Sir Samuel Baker, was fêted as champion and darling of the empire. Her history is suitable mysterious (Robinson, Wayward women, p. 3). - A fine set.PMM 357; Hilmy I, p.49; Czech p.15; HowgegoIV, p.53-56. [Boeknr.: 8970 ]

€ 575,00

BALAI, Leo. Geschiedenis van de Amsterdamse slavenhandel. Over de belangen van Amsterdamse regenten bij de trans-Atlantische slavenhandel. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2013. Boards. With many coloured illustrations. 191 pp. [Boeknr.: 33091 ]

€ 30,00

BAREND-VAN HAEFTEN, M. & B. PAASMAN. (Red.). De Kaap: Goede Hoop halverwege Indië. Bloemlezing van Kaapteksten uit de Compagniestijd. Hilversum, Verloren, 2003. Wrappers. With illustrations. 192 pp. [Boeknr.: 24034 ]

€ 20,00

BARNARD, Anne. South Africa a century ago (1797-1801). Selected and edited by H.J. Anderson. With an introduction by A.C.G. Lloyd. Cape Town, Maskew Miller, (1925). Original blue cloth (stained), with paper title label to spine. With plates. XXVIII,231 pp. Part I. Letters written from the Cape of Good Hope. Part II Extracts from a journal, addressed to her sisters in England. She was the wife to the secretary of the first British governor of the Cape giving a unique view of life at the Cape at the end of the 18th century.Robinson, Wayward women, p.202. [Boeknr.: 35078 ]

€ 35,00

BARTTELOT, Edmund Musgrave. Journal et correspondance du major Edmund Musgrave Barttelot, commandant l'Arrière-colonne dans l'expédition Stanley a la recherche et au secours d'Emin Pacha, publiés par Walter George Barttelot. Paris, E. Plon, Nourrit et Cie, 1891.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half blue morocco, spine gilt. With 2 folding maps. 361 pp. According to Walter Barttelot, Stanley's book, 'In darkest Africa'' (London 1890), proved misleading on so many points that it became necessary to warn the public of its character. He therefore collected and arranged the letters and diary of his brother and laid before the public an outline of the charges made against Major Barttelot. Edmund Musgrave Barttelot (1859-1888) was a British Army officer, who became notorious after his allegedly brutal and deranged behaviour during his disastrous command of the rear column left in the Congo during H. M. Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Hess & Coger 184. [Boeknr.: 22428 ]

€ 225,00

BAX, D. & C. KOEMAN. Argitektoniese skoonheid in Kaapstad se kompanjiestuin 1777 - 1805. With a summary in English. Kaapstad, Tafelberg-Uitgewers, 1963. Oblong 8vo. Cloth, lettered in gilt. With 41 illustrations and plates. 112 pp. [Boeknr.: 35034 ]

€ 45,00

BAX, D. Het oudste Kaapse zilver 1669-1751. Met gegevens over zilveren voorwerpen verkregen in de 17de, 18de en 19de eeuw door die kerkelijke gemeenten en instellingen van Compagnie en burgerij welke reeds voor 1752 aan de Kaap bestonden. Summary in English. Amsterdam, Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1974. 8vo. Wrappers. With 28 photographic illustrations. 208 pp. - (VKA). [Boeknr.: 11583 ]

€ 35,00

BAX, D. n' Pastelportret deur Piter Willem Regnault, tekenaar en tuinier in Kaapstad, 1753-1765. Amsterdam, N.V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij, 1969. Wrappers. With folding plate. 20 pp. - (KNAW). [Boeknr.: 6454 ]

€ 15,00

BEALS, Herbert K. a.o. (Ed.). Four travel journals. The Americas, Antarctica and Africa, 1775-1874. Edited by Herbert K. Beals, R.J. Campbell, Ann Savours, Anita McConnell, Roy Bridges. London, 2007. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations and maps. X,404 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 18. - This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals from the period 1775-1874. [Boeknr.: 34641 ]

€ 45,00

BECHT, Karl. The Karl Becht collection. Books on Africa including sections on the Middle East, the Far East, the Arctic and Antarctic and America. Stockholm, Bukowski, 1991. 4to. Wrappers. With illustrations. 71 pp. - Auction catalogue. [Boeknr.: 32802 ]

€ 18,00

BELL, Nancy R. Heroes of discovery in South Africa. London, Walter Scott, (1899).Original decorated cloth, a.e.g. With numerous woodengraved illustrations. 418 pp. First edition. - A fine copy. SAB I, p.168. [Boeknr.: 37219 ]

€ 65,00

BELZONI, Giovanni Battista. Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice; and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon. Third edition. London, John Murray, 1822.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt and with red morocco title-labels. With lithographed portrait of the author, plate of inscriptions, folding plan of the temple of Jerusalem, and large folding map of the course of the Nile. XXVI,438; X,421 pp. First edition published in London in 1820. - Belzoni is 'one of the most striking and interesting figures in the history of eastern travel (DNB) and certainly, next to Burckhardt, the most interesting in the history of Egyptology and Egyptian travel. He succeeded in removing an enormous number of statues and sarcophagi. In 1817 he excavated Abu Simbel, Karnak and the Valley of the Kings, and the tomb of Seti. In 1818 he opened the second pyramid at Gizeh and identified the site of Berenice (Blackmer p.25). Contains at the end: Short account of the women of Egypt, Nubia, and Syria by Sara Belzoni. Without the separately issued atlas-volume. - A fine copy.Blackmer Collection 116; Atabey Collection 95; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.62. [Boeknr.: 37154 ]

€ 795,00

BENEZET, Anthony. Some historical account of Guinea, its situation, produce, and the general disposition of its inhabitants. With an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave trade, its nature, and lamentable effects. New edition. London, J. Phillips, 1788.Original boards (rubbed), uncut. With woodcut on title-page depicting a medallion of a slave in chains with the text 'Am I not a man and a brother'. XV,131,(1) pp. First published in Philadelphia in 1771. - Contains an inquiry into the rise and progress of the West-African slave trade, 1442 to 1771, including a general account of Guinea, the Ivory-, Gold- and Slave-Coast, Benin, Kongo and Angola and chapters on the slave-trade by the Portuguese and English, and chapters on the treatment of the slaves in the North American colonies and in the West Indies. Benezet (1713-1784), a French-born Quaker and Philadelphia resident, was one of the chief early anti-slave trade agitators in the New World, his views influenced those of English abolitionists William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. Appended is an extract from Granville Sharp's Representation of the injustice and dangerous tendency of tolerating slavery, first published in 1769 - An important, very early, comprehensive American indictment of the slave trade and slavery.Cardinall 377; Sabin 4689, Ragatz p.479; Hogg 1734; Work p.257; Afro-Americana 1084. [Boeknr.: 11460 ]

€ 495,00

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques Henri. A voyage to the island of Mauritius (or Isle of France), the Isle of Bourbon, the Cape of Good Hope, &c. With observations and reflections upon nature and mankind. By a French officer. Translated from the French by John Parish. London, W Griffin, 1775.Modern half leather. (12), 291 pp. First English edition, first published in Amsterdam, Paris in 1773: Voyage à l' isle de France, à l'isle de Bourbon, au Cape de Bonne Espérance, etc. . - This work was written by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814), the author of the well-known romance Paul et Virginie (1788). It contains a vivid description of life in Mauritius where Bernardin de Saint Pierre resided as an engineer for the French crown from July 1768 to November 1770. The author criticised the brutality of slavery on the island and as a result, his book was refuted and ridiculed as soon as it was published. Nevertheless, even though his observations were undoubtedly influenced by his being ardently anti-slavery, it is likely that his description of the cruelty displayed towards slaves on the island was accurate (The Paolo Bianci Collection 44). In the latter part of 1771 the author visited Cape Town (on his homeward voyage), where he was entertained by governor Tulbagh, whom he describes as an able and affable man of eighty years of age. There is a somewhat pleasing account of the Cape Colony and its inhabitants. Reference is made to the paucity of the European population, and it is observed that 'Holland perhabs .. fears the aggrandising of this colony, preferable in every respect to the mother country' (Mendelssohn II, p.263). Including visits to and descriptions of Île Bourbon (Réunion) and Ascension Island. - (Some foxing). - Sacrce.Ryckebusch I, p. 49-50; Gay 3264. [Boeknr.: 36860 ]

€ 950,00

BERQUE, Jacques. Die Araber. Köln, M. DuMont Schauberg, (1959). 4to. Boards. With many photographic illustrations (several in colours). 109 pp. [Boeknr.: 24689 ]

€ 18,00

BEYERS, Coenraad. Die Kaapse patriotte 1779-1791. Kaapstad, Juta & Kie, (1929). Cloth. XVII,260 pp. [Boeknr.: 16714 ]

€ 35,00

BIART, Lucien. Monsieur Pinson. Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, (1881).Original pictorial gilt cloth. With many woodengravings by H. Meyer. 261 pp. First edition. - Les voyages involontaires. - Adventures on the route from Paris to the Canary Islands, Virgin Islands, and Vera-Cruz. - (Some foxing). [Boeknr.: 37215 ]

€ 65,00

BICKERSTAFFE, L.E. Things seen in Morocco. A land of enchantment, of perpetual contrasts & of absorbing human interest. London, Seeley, Service & Co., (1928).Sm.8vo. Original blue cloth with gilt camel illustration on front board. With double-page map and 32 photographic plates. 160 pp. A nice copy. [Boeknr.: 37559 ]

€ 45,00

BIEWENGA, Ad. De Kaap de Goede Hoop. Een Nederlandse vestigingskolonie, 1680-1730. Amsterdam, Prometheus & Bert Bakker, 1999. Wrappers. With illustrations. 346 pp. [Boeknr.: 21169 ]

€ 25,00

BOLSTER, W. Jeffrey. Black Jacks. African American seaman in the age of sail. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1997. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. VIII,310 pp. An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring. [Boeknr.: 32558 ]

€ 25,00

BOTHA, Colin Graham. The Public Archives of South Africa 1652-1910. Cape Town, Cape Times Limited, 1928. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt. IX,108 pp. - First edition. [Boeknr.: 35092 ]

€ 45,00

BOUDYCK-BASTIAANSE, Jan Hendrik van. Voyage a la côte de Guinée, dans le golfe de Biafra, a l'ile de Fernando-Po, l'ile de Ste Hélène et autres iles dans le passage, a bord du brick-goelette, Le Lancier par le capitaine de frégate J.H. van Boudyck Bastiaanse. La Haye, Belinfante Frères, 1853.Later marbled boards, uncut. XXVI, 451 pp. From the library of the Groote Club, Doctrina & Amicitia, Amsterdam. - Journal by the Dutch lieutenant-commander Jan Hendrik van Boudyck-Bastiaanse (1793-1861) of a trip to the Gold Coast, West Africa, the islands Fernando-Po, St. Helena and other African Atlantic islands. - Scarce.Cat. NHSM I, p.124; Tiele 76; Cardinall 484. [Boeknr.: 36168 ]

€ 450,00

BOURNE, C.E. The heroes of African discovery & adventure, since the death of Livingstone. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889.Original pictorial gilt cloth, a.e.g. (sl. soiled). With woodengraved illustrations. 350 pp. Speke's discovery of the Victoria Nyanza; Baker's discovery of the Albert Nyanza; Lieutenant Cameron's journey across Africa; Schweinfurth's visit to the Niam-Niams; Du Chaillu in Gorilla-land; etc. [Boeknr.: 37319 ]

€ 95,00

BOVILL, E.W. (Ed.). Missions to the Niger. Volume I. Cambridge, 1964. Cloth, dust-jacket. With 6 maps and 4 plates. XI,406 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 123. - Exploration of the Niger. VolumeI I: The journal of Friedrich Hornemann's travels and the letters of Alexander Gordon Laing. [Boeknr.: 34631 ]

€ 25,00

BOWDICH, Thomas Edward. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa. London, John Murray, 1819.4to. Later half red morocco, spine ribbed. With folding plate depicting an Arabic circular, wood-engraved plan of Ichonographical Sketch of Coomassie, 2 maps (1 folding), 5 engraved sheets of music on 3 leaves, and 7 hand-coloured aquatint plates (2 folding, the 'First day of the yam custom' is a coloured facsimile). VIII,(2),512 pp. First edition. - Bowdich (1791-1824) was appointed conductor of a mission to Ashantee organised by the African Company in 1815 and, using considerable diplomatic and negotiating skills, succeeded in forming a treaty with the King of Ashantee, bringing peace to the British settlements along the Gold Coast. 'This work, the most important after Bruce's, excited great interest, as an almost incredible story ..of a land of warlike and barbaric splendour hithero unknown'(DNB). 'Bowdich must be considered as the first who achieved the object of penetrating to the interior of Africa' (Thomson, The exotic and the beautilul, 79). - Some offsetting otherwise a fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 279; Tooley, Coloured plates, 95; Prideaux p.238. [Boeknr.: 7710 ]

€ 675,00

BRAAM, Jacob Pieter van. Jacob Pieter van Braam Capitein ter Zee en thans Schout bij Nacht van Holland en West Friesland. Rotterdam, M. de Sallieth, 1790.Stipple-engraved oval halflength portrait with sea-battle in the background and coat of arms by M. de Sallieth after Schmidt. Ca. 42 x 31 cm. Van Braam (1737-1803) wrecked with the frigate Huis in het Bosch, captain H.C. Steenis, on the Moorish coast on December 1751. After spending almost a year in slavery, he returned to Holland. He became a servant of the Dutch East India Company during the years 1764-1795. He managed to defeat Jahore's forces and thus secure the Company's settlement in Malacca. - Fine portrait with coat of arms and ships. - Very fine state.Van Someren 734; not in Muller, Portretten. [Boeknr.: 21292 ]

€ 295,00

BRADLOW, Frank R. The Van Riebeeck Society 1918-1978. Cape Town, Van Riebeeck Society, 1978. Wrappers. 18 pp. [Boeknr.: 34557 ]

€ 15,00

BRANDER, Jan. Tristan da Cunha 1506-1950. Geschiedenis van een volkplanting. Hoorn, 'West-Friesland', (1952). Original green cloth. With folding map and many photographic plates. 447 pp. Important monograph on Tristan da Cunha, a remote group of volcanic islands in the south Atlantic Ocean. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world. [Boeknr.: 19521 ]

€ 95,00

(BRINK, Carel Frederik). Nouvelle description du Cap de Bonne-Espérance, avec un journal historique d'un voyage de terre, fait par ordre du gouverneur .. Ryk Tulbagh dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par une caravane de quatre-vingt-cinq personnes, sous le commandement du captain Henri Hop. Amsterdam, J.H. Schneider, 1778.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved printer's device on title-page 16 engraved folding plates depicting animals. (8),130; 100 pp. First French edition, first published in Dutch the same year. - Ryk Tulbagh (1699 - 1771), Governor of the Dutch Cape Colony from 1751 to 1771 under the Dutch East India Company (VOC), stimulated exploration of South Africa, including this expedition. The first part of the work contains a description of the Cape and the Hottentots, edited by J.N.S. Allamand, professor at Leiden and J.C. Klöckner, a physician residing at Amsterdam. The second part is a journal kept on a journey to Namaqualand which extended from July 16, 1761, to April 27, 1762. The party was led by Hendrik Hop, captain from Stellenbosch. Other members included Carel Frederik Brink to keep the journal, and Jacobus Coetsé as a guide. Including reports on the fauna, natives and minerals. Theal observes that these reports were drawn up by men who 'were diligent observers. This document is therefore not only highly interesting, but of great permanent worth'. - A fine copy of a fascinating account of the Cape of Good Hope.Tiele 118; Cat. NHSM I, p.207; Mendelssohn I, p.185-186; SAB I, p.283; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790, p.36-37; Kennedy, Africana Repository, p.66-67; South Africa in print 61. [Boeknr.: 37122 ]

€ 2650,00

BROECKE, Pieter van den. Pieter van den Broecke's journal of voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612). Translated and edited by J.D La Fleur. London, 2000. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 2 plates and 7 maps. XV,139 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 5. - This edition offers for the first time an English translation of those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe the four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early seventeenth century. [Boeknr.: 34644 ]

€ 45,00

BROECKE, Pieter van den. Reizen naar West-Afrika van Pieter van den Broecke 1605-1614. Uitgegeven door K. Ratelband. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1950. Cloth. With portrait, 5 maps and 6 plates. CVI,124 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LII. - Describes a period when the WIC was still non-existent, the Dutch captured forts on the Guinea coast even before that Company was erected. [Boeknr.: 3725 ]

€ 35,00

BROMMER, Bea. (Red.). Ik ben eigendom van .. Slavenhandel en plantageleven. Wijk en Aalburg, Pictures Publishers, 1993. 4to. Cloth. With numerous illustrations (several in colours). 144 pp. Slave-trade and plantations. [Boeknr.: 13779 ]

€ 45,00

BRYCE, James. Impressions of South Africa. London, Macmillan and Co., 1897.Original red cloth (soiled), spine lettered in gilt. With 3 folding coloured maps. XXV,604 pp. First edition printed in the same year. - There are several chapters on the geography, vegetation and fauna of South Africa, together with a synopsis of the history of the native and European races; most of the important towns and industries are described, and there is an account of Basutoland and Rhodesia (Mendelssohn I, p.209).SAB I, p.318. [Boeknr.: 35003 ]

€ 65,00

BUNBURY, Charles J.F. Journal of a residence at the Cape of Good Hope, with excursions into the interior, and notes of the natural history and the native tribes. London, John Murray, 1848.Original embossed cloth. With frontispiece depicting Table Bay from the sea and 4 plates. XII,297,(3) pp. First edition. - Charles Bunbury accompanied his friend, Sir George Napier, the governor of the Cape Colony, on his voyage to Africa in 1837, and remained there for 14 months during which time he busied himself with botanical research, travelling over a considerable part of South Africa (Mendelssohn I, p.222). - A fine copy.SAB I, p.328. [Boeknr.: 1445 ]

€ 225,00

BURROWS, E.H. Captain Owen of the African Survey. The hydrographic surveys of admiral W.F.W. Owen on the coast of Africa and the Great Lakes of Canada. His fight against the African slave trade. His life in Campobello Land, New Brunswick 1774-1857. Rotterdam, A.A. Balkema, 1979. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. VIII,248 pp. [Boeknr.: 29306 ]

€ 30,00

BURTON, Alfred Richard Edward. Cape colony for the settler. An account of its urban and rural industries, their probable future development and extension. London, P.S. King & Son, Cape Town, J.C. Juta & Co, 1903.Original pictorial cloth gilt. With 8 folding coloured maps and 29 plates. X,355 and 48 pp. with advertisements. First edition; with bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken. - The volume contains a description of the Cape Colony, with data of every kind, articles upon agriculture, viticulture, and many notes and hints for the benefit of farmers new to the country. A detailed account is given of each division in the Cape, with appendices which traverse almost every subject which might need the attention or investigation of new-comers (Mendelssohn I, p.233). - A fine copy.SAB I, p.342. [Boeknr.: 35008 ]

€ 75,00

CAILLE, Nicolas Louis de la. Travels at the Cape 1751-53. An annotated translation of Journal historique du voyage fait au Cap de Bonne-Espérance into which has been interpolated relevant passages from Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences. Translated and edited by R. Raven-Hart. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1976. Half leather. With 5 illustrations. VIII,52 pp. Limited edition. - Published for The Friends of the South African Library. [Boeknr.: 35146 ]

€ 45,00

CAMPBELL, John Kerr. Rambles in South Africa. The Cape, Natal and Transvaal. A record of holiday travel. London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., 1891.Original pictorial cloth. With woodengraved illustrations. 300 pp. First edition; with bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken.. - Written in a strongly religious vein and includes many sermons, but considerable information is afforded concerning matters of general interest in South Africa at this period (Mendelssohn I, p. 257-258). - A nice copy.SAB I, p.375. [Boeknr.: 35015 ]

€ 65,00

CAMPBELL, John. Travels in South Africa, undertaken at the request of the London Missionary Society; being a narrative of a second journey in the interior of that country. London, Francis Westley, 1822.2 volumes. Later half morocco. With folding hand-coloured map (large part of map missing) and 12 hand-coloured aquatint plates after the author by Clark. XII,322; 370 pp. (pp.371-384 missing). With errata slip. First edition. - John Campbell (1766-1840), Scottish missionary and explorer, visited the missions in the Cape Colony and Kaffraria for the second time during his second journey in 1820. 'Few Englishmen at that time had performed such a feat, and on his return his appearances on missionary platforms in London and throughout the country were received with enthusiasm' (DNB). His narrative of his second journey is ' highly valued for their attractive coloured aquantint plates' (Gordon-Brown Pictorial Affricana, p.134). - (Aged-browned).Mendelssohn I, p.255-256; SAB I, p.375; Abbey, Travel, 328; Tooley, Coloured plates, 127; Howgego II, p.105-106. [Boeknr.: 27498 ]

€ 350,00

CAMPBELL, John. Travels in South Africa. Undertaken at the request of the London Missionary Society. London, printed for the author by T. Rutt, 1815.Contemporary half calf, (skilfully rebacked), spine lettered in gilt. With frontispiece portrait of the author holding an umbrella, folding hand-coloured map and 9 engraved plates. XV,(1),582 pp. First edition. - John Campbell (1766-1840), Scottish missionary and explorer, arrived at the Cape in 1812. He inspected the settlements of the London Missionary Society and returned to England with his reports of the colony and its hinterland in 1814. Campbell provides a great deal of information in the appendix including prayers in native languages. 'Few Englishmen at that time had performed such a feat, and on his return his appearances on missionary platforms in London and throughout the country were received with enthusiasm' (DNB). He made contact with several tribes previously unreached and named many rivers, villages, mountains, lakes and other topographical features. Campbell was a key player in the opposition to the slave trade. - A fine copy of Campbell's first journey.Mendelssohn I, p.254 (3rd ed. only); SAB I, p.374; Howgego II, p.105-106. [Boeknr.: 34992 ]

€ 975,00

CANA, Frank R. South Africa from the Great Trek to the Union. London, Chapman & Hall, 1909. Original blue cloth, gilt lettering (stained). With 2 folding maps. X,340 pp. First edition. - Mendelssohn I, p.260; SAB I, p.379. [Boeknr.: 25107 ]

€ 30,00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Le Cape de Bonne Esperance. Paris, Daumont, (ca. 1780).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild) depicting the Cape of Good Hope by Jan van Ryne. Ca. 25,5 x 41 cm. Fine optical view by the Dutch artist Jan van Ryne (ca. 1712-1760), he was believed to have worked in London about 1752-54, when he made an interesting engraving of Table Mountain and Bay, first published by Robert Sayer of Fleet St., London, in 1754, and provided the basis from which other prints were made, one being engraved in reverse in Paris (Gordon-Brown, Pictorial Africana, p.234). We offer the French version of this very attractive view of the Cape of Good Hope from the sea showing the Table Mountain and the company's buildings and many ships in Table Bay. It was an obligatory stop for all European ships going to the Indian Ocean or returning from there to Europe. They stayed a long time to reprovision and to let their crews rest. - A fine engraving.Scheen II, p.277. [Boeknr.: 33550 ]

€ 450,00

CAPE TOWN. - CAPE TOWN AND SUBURBS. Cape Town, P. Schaefer & Co., (ca. 1900).Oblong 8vo. Original red cloth, with illustration of Cape Town harbour in gilt on front. With double-page panorama of Cape Town and 14 other coloured photographic views. The fine views depict the City Hall, Parliament House and The Avenue, Adderley Street (2), the entrance to the Castle, the Docks, Three Anchor Bay, Sea Point, Sea Point showing Lionshead, Victoria Road and the Twelve Apostles, Camps Bay, Groot Schuur Rondebosch, Muizenberg, and Kalk Bay and St. James. - Mint condition.SAB I, p.463. [Boeknr.: 30850 ]

€ 125,00

CAPE TOWN. - THE CITY OF CAPE TOWN. OFFICIAL GUIDE. Third edition. Authorized by the Council of the City of Cape Town. Cape Town, R. Beerman, 1954. Pictorial boards. With many photographed plates and advertisements. 264,(2) pp. [Boeknr.: 30961 ]

€ 35,00

CASABLANCA. Casablanca. Paris, (ca. 1900).Oblong 8vo. Original wrappers. With 16 photographic sepia plates with captions in French. Ca. 15 x 22,5 cm. Fine views of Casablanca, Morocco, it is called Dar el-Beïda in Arabic, 'the white house'. [Boeknr.: 37574 ]

€ 35,00

CASATI, Gaetano. Zehn Jahre in Äquatoria und die Rückkehr mit Emin Pascha. Nach dem italienischen Originalmanuscript ins Deutsche übersetzt von K. von Reinhardstöttner. Bamberg, C.C. Buchner, 1891.2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth (extremities of spines sl. dam.). With coloured frontispiece, 4 folding maps (1 with small tears) and ca. 150 illustrations and plates (some in colours). VIII,340; 365 pp. First German edition; first edition was published in Milan in 1891 Dieci anni in Equatoria. - Ascending the Nile into southern Sudan, Casati (1838-1902) reached Meshra 'er Req on the Bahr el Ghazal tributary in 1880. In 1887 he discovered Ruwenzoni just 4 months before Stanley. He became Emin Pasha's companion, a German physician and explorer whose original name was Eduard Schnitzer. He actively assisted him in his scientific work supplying most of the information about the Unyoro and Lower Welle. An important first-hand account of Stanley's Emin Pascha Relief Expedition.Henze I, p.519-520; Kainbacher p.74; Howgego IV, C15. [Boeknr.: 11606 ]

€ 125,00

CERRI, Urbano. Staat van de Roomsch Catholyke religie, door de geheele werreld: geschreeven tot dienst van Paus Innocentius de XI. Uyt een echt Italiaansch handschrift in't Engelsch overgezet .. door Richard Steele. Uyt het Engelsch vertaald door A.G.L.R.C. Amsterdam, Nicolaas ten Hoorn, 1715.Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf. Title page printed in red and black. 340 pp. First published in London the same year: An account of the state of the Roman-Catholick religion throughout the world .. now first translated from an authentick Italian MS never publish'd. - Translation from an Italian manuscript written from 1675 to 1679, containing an account of the state of the Roman-Catholic religion throughout the world: Europe, Asia, Africa and America. - (Age-browned).European-Americana V, p. 192; Streit I, 802. [Boeknr.: 36635 ]

€ 225,00

CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC, Jacques-Jospeh. Égypte ancienne. Paris, Firmin Didot, 1858.Rebacked (part of original spine laid down), with gilt coat of arms on both sides of the city of Utrecht. With folding map and 92 steelengravings of Egypt. 500 pp. First published in Paris in 1839; part of the series L'Univers. Histoire et description de tous les peuples. Champollion had a major influence on the scientific development of his brother Jean François, 'le père de l'Égyptologie moderne', who was twelve years younger. Although Champollion-Figeac himself was very erudite, he sometimes stayed in the background to help his brother progress. After his premature death in 1832, he published his unfinished manuscripts. Blackmer Collection 315; Andres 1016; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.130. [Boeknr.: 33123 ]

€ 125,00

CHENU DE CHALEZAC, Guillaume. Guillaume Chenu de Chalezac, the 'French boy'. The narrative of his experiences as a Huguenot refugee, as a castaway among the Xhosa, his rescue with the Stavenisse survivors by the Centaurus, his service at the Cape and return to Europe, 1686-9. Edited by Randolph Vigne. Cape Town, 1991. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXII,174 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 22. - The 15-year-old 'French boy' was wrecked on he Ciskei coast in 1687, and spent a year living in the household of a Xhosa chief. The worlds of the Huguenot diaspora, the great days of Indian Ocean trading, the Cape's pivotal position in the struggle for mastery, and the awakening interest of the Dutch in the 'Terra de Natal' form a many-layered basis to this first full account of the Xhosa and their way of life since European settlement in South Africa began. [Boeknr.: 34547 ]

€ 25,00

CHILVERS, Hedley A. The seven wonders of Southern Africa. Johannesburg, 1929. Cloth. With many illustrations and 18 coloured plates by Chas.E. Peers. XIII,386,(10) pp. Published by the Authority of the Administration of the Southern African Railways and Harbours. -1 The Victoria falls, 2 Zimbabwe, the temple of mystery, 3 The Rand goldfields, 4 the Premier mine, 5 The alluvial diamond fields, 6 The Bushmen, 7 The Cango caves. [Boeknr.: 35148 ]

€ 45,00

CHRISTIAN, Pierre. L'Afrique française. L'empire de Maroc et les déserts de Sahara. Conquêtes, victoires et découvertes des français, depuis la prise d'Alger jusqu'a nos jours. Paris, A. Barbier, (1846).8vo. Contemporary half morocco. With steelengraved frontispiece, folding coloured map, several vignettes and 28 steelengraved plates (11 coloured). 500 pp. First edition. - 'This work is particularly interesting, as it contains a good account of the affair of the caves of Dahra, which created a great sensation in Europe at the time' (Playfair 1135). - (Foxed as usual).Playfair & Brown 691. [Boeknr.: 31867 ]

€ 350,00

CHUN, Carl. Aus den tiefen des Weltmeeres. Schilderungen von der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition. 2. ungearbeitete und stark vermehrte Auflage. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1905.8vo. Original pictorial cloth. With 3 maps (1 folding map in rear), 6 coloured plates, 8 heliogravures, 32 plates and 482 illustrations. VI,592 pp. Second and best edition, first published in 1900. - Carl Chun (1852-1914) Leiter der deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition aus dem Dampfer Valdiva. Ihr Reiseweg führte von Hamburg über die Färöer, die Kanarischen Inseln, die Kamerun-Bucht zur Kongo-Mündung und im weiten Bogen nach Kapstadt; von dort .. zum Eismeerrand. Dabei wurde Ende November 1898 die Bouvet-Insel wider aufgefunden .. Längst der Packeisgrenze wurde die Fährt ostwärts nach den Kerguelen fortgesetzt. Über Neu-Amsterdam und die Cocos-Insel ging es nach Sumatra, von wo aus der Indische Ozean ein zweites Mal, über die Nikobaren, Ceylon, die Chagos-Bank, die Seychellen, nach Daressalam durchschnitten wurde. Chuns Schilderung kan .. ohne Frage zu den Perlen geogrphischer Landschaftsdarstellung in der deutschen Litteratur gezählt werden (Henze I, p.568). - The first large-scale German expedition to explore the deep sea of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean (1898-1899).DAB I, p.542 [Boeknr.: 36737 ]

€ 275,00

CHURCHILL, Winston Spencer. London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. London, New York & Bombay, Longmans, Green and Co., 1900.Original pictorial cloth (back cover soiled; spine sl. dam.). With 4 maps (3 folding) and 4 plans. XIV,498; 32 pp. First edition was issued in London by Longmans, Green, and Co., also in 1900. - Churchill's record of the first five months of the Second Boer War. The correspondence of which this volume is composed appeared in the columns of the Morning Post, and extends from October 26, 1899, to March 10, 1900. The volume gives a detailed account of the Natal campaigns up to and including the relief of Ladysmith, and contains in all thirty-seven letters (Mendelssohn I, p.338).SAB I, p.548. [Boeknr.: 35006 ]

€ 295,00

CLARK, Edward. Daleth or the homestead of the nations. Egypt illustrated. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1864.Original pictorial cloth gilt (original spine laid down), top edge gilt. With lithographed title, 15 lithographed plates (4 tinted and 8 chromo-lithographs), and numerous wood-engravings. X,(2),289 pp. First edition. - Daleth, the Hebrew letter signifying 'door', is for Clark (1838-1910) also the symbol of Egypt. Concentrating on the historical aspects of Egypt to show how it is important from a biblical/historical perspective, he tells a good story, though it is a bit light on the personal narrative site (Kalfatoviv 0561). Many of the illustrations are taken from photographs, some from trophies common to all pilgrims, and others repeat the outline which Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson copied from the tombs. [Boeknr.: 11124 ]

€ 95,00

CLOETE, Hendrik. Hendrik Cloete, Groot Constantia and the VOC 1778-1799. Documents from the Swellengrebel Archive. Edited and introduced by G.J. Schutte. English translation by N.O. van Gylswyk and D. Sleigh. Cape Town, 2003. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XV,336 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 34. - Hendrik Cloete, the owner of Groot Constantia from 1778, extended the manor house and improved and marketed the celebrated Constantia wines. This volume, the correspondence between Cloete and Hendrik Swellengrebel jr follows his attempt o obtain the concession from the Dutch East India Company to freely trade and market his famous wines. This material enables the reader to take a close look behind the scenes of Cape politics and economic history and to learn of the daily life and work of the winemakers of Groot and Klein Constantia in the late eighteenth century. [Boeknr.: 34545 ]

€ 25,00

COLLIER, Joy. Portrait of Cape Town. Cape Town, Longmans, 1961. Half green calf. With illustrations by the author. 108 pp. 200 copies printed, signed by the artist. [Boeknr.: 35050 ]

€ 30,00

COLQUHOUN, Archibald R. The Africander land. London, John Murray, 1906.Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. With 4 coloured maps (1 folding). XI,438 pp. First edition. - The work deals with the native problem, and contains chapters discussing the religion, economic value, and political aspirations of the natives, and on 'the rights and wrongs of the British Indian', the European and colonial population, and private life of the Dutch Afrikanders, Rhodesia and the problems of land-settlements, labour, etc. (Mendelssohn I, p.370).SAB I, p.599. [Boeknr.: 35004 ]

€ 40,00

COLVIN, Ian D. South Africa. London, The Caxton Publishing Company, (ca.1910). Decorated cloth gilt. With map and 12 coloured plates by G.S. Smithard and J.S. Skelton. XIII,328 pp. Romance of Empire Series. - From the contents: The land of Prester John, Vasco da Gama, Van Riebeeck, Van der Stel, The conquest by the British, Kafir wars, The Great Trek, etc. [Boeknr.: 35152 ]

€ 35,00

CONNEAU, Theophilus. Logboek van een slavenhaler. (Vertaling Walter Penn). (Amsterdam, Amsterdam Boek, 1978). Wrappers. 392 pp. A slaver's log book from 1853 after the original manuscript. . [Boeknr.: 20334 ]

€ 25,00

CREALOCK, John. The frontier war journal of Major John Crealock 1878. A narrative of the Ninth Frontier War by the assistant military secretary to Lieutenant General Thesiger. Edited and introduced by Chris Hummel. Cape Town, 1989. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XIX,195 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 19. - Major John North Crealock (1837-1895) fought in a number of colonial wars, including the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-Zulu War. This volume is a detailed account of the warfare conducted against the Xhosa in the last phases of the frontier war of 1877-1878. Opinionated and inefficient, Crealock nevertheless gives a sober account of the military situation. [Boeknr.: 34556 ]

€ 25,00

CRUICKSHANK, Brodie. Achttien jaren aan de Goudkust. Uit het Engelsch vertaald en met eene inleiding vermeerderd door D.P.H.J. Weijtingh. Amsterdam, Weijtingh & Van der Haart, 1855.2 volumes. Original printed wrappers (spines rep.). With large folding lithographed view of Elmina by W. Bartels. XVI,251; XIV,208 pp. First enlarged Dutch translation of Eighteen years on the Gold Coast of Africa, including an account of the native tribes and their intercourse with Europeans. London 1853. - This Dutch edition has an introduction by D.P.H.J. Weijtingh, dealing with the history of the Dutch possessions on the coast. Cruikshank served on the Gold Coast of Africa (Southern Ghana) from 1834-1854 and was a member of the first Legislative Council of the Gold Coast, as well as the first Collector-General of the colony. The work offers insight into the judicial system, music, religion, dance, and social customs of the native people.Cat. NHSM I, p.205; Gay 2865 (English ed.); Hess & Coger 6372 (English ed.); Cardinall 518 (English ed.); not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 10188 ]

€ 475,00

CUSSAC, J. Évêque et pionnier Monseigneur Streicher. Paris, Éditions de la Savane, (1955). Pictorial wrappers. With maps and photographic plates. 277 pp. Henri Streicher (1863-1952) worked in the Apostolic Vicariate of Victoria Nyanza, Africa. [Boeknr.: 23947 ]

€ 25,00

CUSSAC, J. Sahara. Le pays et la mission. Paris, Toulouse, (1942). Original wrappers (sticker on spine).. With photographic illustrations. 74 pp. [Boeknr.: 24320 ]

€ 20,00

DAENDELS - Herman Willem Daendels 1762 - 1818. Geldersman - patriot - jacobijn - generaal - hereboer - maarschalk - gouverneur. Van Hattem naar St. George del Mina. (Utrecht, Matrijs, 1991). Folio. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 174 pp. After the fall of Napoleon, king Willem I and the new Dutch government feared that Daendels could become an influential and powerful opposition leader and effectively banned him from the Netherlands by appointing him Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast (now part of Ghana). In the aftermath of the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, Daendels tried to redevelop the rather dilapidated Dutch possessions as an African plantation colony driven by legitimate trade. [Boeknr.: 2383 ]

€ 35,00

DALZEL, Archibald. The history of Dahomey, an inland kingdom of Africa; compiled from authentic memoirs; with an introduction and notes. London, T. Spilsbury and Son, 1793.4to. Later half calf, spine gilt. With folding engraved map after R. Norris, and 6 engraved plates by Chesham (one partly cut short and tipped in). XXXII,XXVI,(4),230 pp. First edition. - One of the first published descriptions of Dahomey. Dalzel was the former governor at Whydah), West-Africa, and at time of publication of the present work, governor at Cape-Coast-Castle. His official position enabled him opportunities of obtaining valuable and accurate information. Parts of the history are compiled from i.a. the memoirs of Robert Norris, who spent eighteen years in the African trade, and from the communications of Lionel Abson, Dalzel's successor as British governor at Whydah. 'His History was both a historical compilation and propaganda against the abolition of the slave trade. He argued that the slave trade saved African victims from human sacrifice and slaughter' (The Paolo Bianchi Collection 102). The plates are showing scenes with armed women with the King at their head going to war, a public procession of the King's women, victims for sacrifice, etc. The book is a polemic written in order to counter the charges of the British anti-slave trade movement and to prevent any further Parliamentary action being taken against the trade. - (Occasionally sl. foxed; small library stamp on title-page).Cardinall 396; Hogg 170; Work p.8. [Boeknr.: 11910 ]

€ 1950,00

DAM, C.F. van. Marrakech. Maastricht, Leiter-Nypels, 1931. 8vo. Original illustrated wrappers. With illustrations by Is van Mens. 71 pp. 500 copies printed. - Travellogue with illustrations by Isidorus (Is.) Maria Cornelis van Mens ( 1890 - 1985), a Dutch draftsman, lithographer, etcher, painter and wood engraver who travelled in North Africa. [Boeknr.: 26900 ]

€ 35,00

DAMPIER, William & Lionel WAFER. Nieuwe reystogt rondom de wereld, waarin omstandiglyk beschreeven worden de land-engte van Amerika, verscheidene kusten en eilanden in West-Indiën, de eilanden van Cabo Verde, de doortogt van de Straat Le Maire na de Zuid-zee, de kusten van Chili, Peru, Mexico; 't eiland Guam een van de Ladrones, 't eiland Mindanao een van de Filippines; en de Oost-Indische eilanden omtrent Cambodia, China, Formosa; Luconia, Celebes, enz. Voorts Nieuw Holland, Sumatra, de eilanen van Nicobar, de Kap de Goede Hoop, en 't eiland Sante Helena. In't Engelsch beschreeven .. en daaruyt vertaald door W. Sewel. Nymegen, Isaac van Campen, 1771 - 1772.4 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spine richly gilt (foot of spine skilfully rep.). With 2 engraved title-pages and 43 engraved maps and plates (including worldmap) by C. Luyken en J. Lamsvelt. 13,405,(9); 305,(7); 80,(6); (92 pp. Second and third Dutch edition, first published in Dutch in 's Gravenhage 1698-1704; first published in English in 1697 A new voyage round the world.. - Dampier's descriptions of his wide-ranging buccaneering travels (he sailed around the world three times) include the account of the first English visit to Australia in 1688. His voyages marked the beginning of British scientific exploration of the Pacific. Countries visited are in America the West-Indies, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Brazil (including the earliest written description of Bahia), in Africa the Cape of Good Hope, Isles of Cape Verd and in Asia the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines and Formosa, Australia and various islands in the Pacific. 'Generally regarded as the greatest explorer and navigator before Cook, Dampier was also a popular and an exciting storyteller who inspired both Swift and Defoe. His books went through many editions and, in some form, have remained in print untill the present day' (The Davidson Collection 32). William Dampier (1651-1715) combined a swashbuckling life of adventure with pioneering scientific achviements. Parts IV contains Lionel Wafer. Nieuwe reistogt en beschryving van de land-engte van America. - Some waterstaining in blank margin part I, otherwise a very fine large paper copy.Tiele 290; Cat. NHSM I, p.135; European Americana V, p.214; Sabin 18388; Borba de Moraes I, p.242; Mendelssohn I, p.409-10; SAB II, p.10; Van Eeghen-van der Kellen 319; Howgego pp.294-298. [Boeknr.: 12785 ]

€ 2450,00

DAVIDSON, John. Notes taken during travels in Africa. London, J.L. Cox and Sons, 1839.4to. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (sl. rubbed). With lithographed frontispiece and 2 lithographed plates drawn by J.G. Wilkinson after John Davidson, printed by P. Gauri. (6),218 pp. Privately printed; with armorial bookplate of James Liege Hulett. - John Davidson (1797-1836), an English adventurer, embarked at Falmouth on 1834, taking with him the freed slave Edward Donellan. On arrival at Tangier the British consul begged Davidson to give up his visit to Timbuktu on account of the tribal warfare being waged on the edge of the Sahara, but the explorer pressed on regardless. He arrived at Fez and left for the desert, passing through Marrakesh, and eventually reached the Wadi Num (Noun or Assaka). In the region of Tindouf he was shot dead and his possessions stolen. Donellan continued with the caravan to Timbuktu and was never heard of again. Davidson's letters and most of his journal found their way back to Britain and were privately published in 1839 (Howgego II, p.159). The fine plates depict two views of Wadnoon and one of the river Draha. - A fine copy. Playfair & Brown, 609. [Boeknr.: 33563 ]

€ 2950,00

DAWSON, E.C. James Hannington, first bishop of eastern equatorial Africa. A history of his life and work 1847-1885. 10th thousand. London, Seeley & Co., 1887.Original cloth. With portrait, folding map and 32 wood-engravings. X,451,16 pp. James Hannington (1847 - 1885) was an Anglican missionary, saint and martyr. He was the first Anglican bishop of East Africa.Howgego IV, H15 [Boeknr.: 9652 ]

€ 45,00

DAWSON, William Harbutt. South Africa: people, places and problems. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.Original red cloth (spine discoloured; sl. soiled), spine lettered in gilt. With 35 photographic illustrations. XI,448 pp. [Boeknr.: 35014 ]

€ 30,00

DEHÉRAIN, Henri. Le Cap de Bonne-Espérance au XVIIe siècle. Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1909.Contemporary half red morocco. With 3 maps. VI,256 pp. Études sur l'Afrique (seconde série): L'escale maritime, Johan van Riebeeck, Les colons européens: origines, accroissement, expansion, Les esclaves, la langue française au Cap. - A fine copy.SAB II, p.35. [Boeknr.: 35077 ]

€ 95,00

DOMINICUS, Foort Cornelis. Het huiselik en maatschappelik leven van de Zuid-Afrikaner in de eerste helft der 18de eeuw. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1919. Wrappers. (6),109 pp. [Boeknr.: 7515 ]

€ 25,00

DOMINICUS, Foort Cornelis. Het ontslag van Wilhelm Adriaen van der Stel. Rotterdam, Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1928. Wrappers. 107 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 197 ]

€ 35,00

DORN, Alexander. (Ed.). Die Seehäfen des Weltverkehrs. Wien, Alexander Dorn, 1891-1892.2 volumes. Contemporary half morocco, spines decorated. With 389 woodengraved seaport plans and views. (12),1100; (8),828 pp. Volume I: Häfen Europas sowie der asiatischen und afrikanischen Küsten des Mittelmeerbeckens. Volume II: Häfen ausserhalb Europas und des Mittelmeerbeckens. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 32925 ]

€ 175,00

DOWD, Jerome. The negro races. A sociological study. Volume I. New York, MacMillan Company, 1907. Cloth. XXIII,493 pp. The Negritos, comprising the Pygmies, Bushmen and Hottentots of Central and South Africa; The Nigritians, comprising the Jolofs, Mandingos, Hauses, Ashantis, Dahomans, etc. of the Sudan; and the Tibbus of the Sahara Desert; The Fellatahs of Central Sudan.Work p.41. [Boeknr.: 10136 ]

€ 45,00

DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Great Boer War. 7th impression. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1900.Original cloth (spine dam.). With 4 (of 5) folding maps. X,551;(10) pp. First edition published the same year. - Recognised as one of the most important books written on the Anglo Boer War. Mendelssohn I, p.484; SAB I, p.97. [Boeknr.: 35016 ]

€ 25,00

DRAGTENSTEIN, Frank. Van Elmina naar Paramaribo. De slavenhaler. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2017. Wrappers. With illustrations. 176 pp. A true story of Jan Wils about the purchase on the gold coast and the transport to Paramaribo of 500 slaves with the slave ship De Coninck in 1686. [Boeknr.: 34568 ]

€ 20,00

DU PLESSIS, John. A history of Christian missions in South Africa. London, New York, Bombay, Calcutta, Longmans, Green and Co., 1911.Original green cloth (sl. soiled), spine lettered in gilt. With folding coloured map. XX,494 pp. First edition. - From the contents: The earliest Christian missionaries, The mission of the Dominican Fathers, Early effort by the Dutch colonists, Early missionary efforts on behalf of the slaves, The first missionary to the Hottentots, The Moravian mission, The earliest London missionaries, etc.SAB II, p.120. [Boeknr.: 35009 ]

€ 65,00

DUGAST, Idelette. Monographie de la tribu des Ndiki (Banen du Cameroun). Paris, Institut d'Ethnologie, 1955-59. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With numerous maps and illustrations. XXIV,824; XX,635 pp. Comprehensive study of one of the Banen tribes, the Ndiki, who inhabit the mountainous area to the south of the Bamileke.The career of Idelette Dugast, neatly illustrates the continuity between administrative knowledge and academic ethnology. Travelling to the Cameroons in the `1930s as a student at the Institute of Ethnology, she married there the administrator-chef René Dugast. In 1943 Idelette Dugast became secretary-archivist for the offical Societé d'Etudes Camerounaises. [Boeknr.: 24946 ]

€ 175,00

EBERHARDT, Isabelle. Zeven jaar uit het leven van een vrouw. Brieven, dagboeken, verhalen. Verzameld en ingeleid door Eglal Errera. Vertaald uit het Frans door Marie Luyten en Tan Rouws. Amsterdam, An Dekker, 1991. Wrappers. 280 pp. Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904) was a Swiss / Russian explorer and writer who led an adventurous life in North Africa. [Boeknr.: 36122 ]

€ 18,00

EDWARDES, Charles. Rides and studies in the Canary Islands. London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1888. Original brown pictorial cloth. With 28 plates, maps and illustrations. XX,365 pp. First edition. - A fine travelogue of the Canary Islands. [Boeknr.: 36669 ]

€ 275,00

EGYPT. Egijptenaars. (Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802-07).Handcoloured aquatint plate by L. Portman after J. Kuyper, depicting a man and woman from Egypt. Ca. 13,5 x 9 cm. In: M. Stuart, De mensch zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol. - The first Dutch treatise on geographical anthropology. - Fine.Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 448; Tiele 1065. [Boeknr.: 32977 ]

€ 45,00

EGYPT. Vue du Grand Caire (Égypte). Paris, (Paul-André) Basset, (ca. 1830).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild). Ca. 25 x 39,5 cm. Fine optical engraving depicting a bird's eye view of a square in Cairo with camels and people in the foreground. [Boeknr.: 35859 ]

€ 125,00

ELET, Jacobus. Naar de koning van Dahomey. Het journaal van de gezantschapsreis van Jacobus Elet naar het West-Afrikaanse koningrijk Dahomey in 1733. Ingeleid door Henk den Heijer. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2000. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 17 illustrations. 208 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XCIX. - In 1732, Agaja, king of Dahomey, captured the Dutch Company factory Jaquin after a conflict with the merchant Hendrik Hertogh. After one year the oppercommies Jacobus Elet was sent to re-establish the contacts, but he was not succesfull. [Boeknr.: 22486 ]

€ 30,00

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