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LIBERTY, Arthur Lasenby. A day in Tangier. London, Adam & Charles Black, (1911).Original decorated boards. With plates and tipped-in photographs of indigenous people and street scenes by Lady Liberty a.o. 101 pp. With fine photograped plates of a vist to Tangier. - (Some foxing). [Boeknr.: 36598 ]

€ 125,00

LIER, Helperus Ritzema van. Verzameling van eenvoudige leerredenen, aan de gemeente van de hoofdplaats van Cabo de Goede Hoop, ter gedachtenis toegewijd door haaren mede-leeraar. Uitgegeven door Cornelis van der Leeuw. Utrecht, W. van Yzerworst, 1796.Old half cloth. XIV,424 pp. First edition. - Helperus Ritzema van Lier (1764 - 1793), was a Dutch writer and preacher who worked mainly in South Africa. Sermons for the parish of the capital of the Cape of Good Hope. - (Waterstained). - Scarce.Not in Mendelssohn & SAB. [Boeknr.: 34779 ]

€ 175,00

LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Itinerario .. Deel III: Beschryvinghe van de gantsche custe van Guinea, Manicongo, etc. volcht noch de beschryvinghe van West Indien. Uitgegeven door C.P. Burger en F.W.T. Hunger. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1934. Cloth (stained). With portrait and 3 folding maps. XXXIV,337 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XXXIX. - Description of East and West Africa and America from Nova Francia (Canada) to Strait Magalhâes, taken from Bernardus Paludanus and others. [Boeknr.: 30809 ]

€ 25,00

LITTLE, W.J. KNOX. Sketches and studies in South Africa. Cape Town, J.C. Juta & Co, 1899.Original red cloth (sl. soiled). 328 pp. First edition. - An account of a tour throughout South Africa in the latter part of the year 1898, expressing the views of the author on the current state of political and social matters in the sub-continent at this period. The volume is written from an imperialistic point of view, and the writer was evidently not prepossessed in favour of the cause of the Boers, and what he saw and heard during his stay does not appear to have changed his views in this respect to any extent (Mendelssohn I, p.905-06 ).SAB III, p.130. [Boeknr.: 10441 ]

€ 45,00

LIVINGSTONE, David. David Livingstone South African papers 1849-1853. Edited by I. Schapera. Cape Town, 1974. Cloth. With folding map and 3 plates. (16),187 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 5. - Concerned primarily with South African racial and missionary affairs as well as comments on traders. His bitter prejudice against the Boers emerges clearly, as do his conflicts with other missionaries., but his insights into local societies are nonetheless revealing. [Boeknr.: 34529 ]

€ 25,00

LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa including a sketch of sixteen years' residence in the interior of Africa. London, Ward, Lock & Co., (1899).Original decorated cloth gilt. With portrait and photographic plates.XV,617 pp. First published in 1857. - In 1852 Livingstone asked his family to join him in Africa. With the help of the Makololos, a South African tribe, Livingstone planned to explore the whole of southern Africa as far as Angola. The missionary had become an important explorer. As the first European, he traveled on the Zambezi to Kazembe in a pirogue, a fast water vessel made from a tree trunk. In order to escape from the slave traders of Portuguese Africa, Livingstone traveled via Cassange and Bihé to Luanda, a Portuguese port and the capital of Angola, where he arrived completely exhausted on 31 May, 1854. As soon as he had recovered from his fever, he undertook a trek to Lake Dilolo, discovered the source of the Kasai, a left tributary of the Congo, and arrived in Linyanti, the capital of the Makololos. In the course of the major Zambezi expedition that followed he discovered the Victoria Falls, the falls of the middle Zambezi, in 1855 (Waldmann, Ecyclopedia of world explorers, p.226).Mendelssohn I, p.908-10; SAB III, p.136; Hess & Coger 3068. [Boeknr.: 32254 ]

€ 75,00

LIVINGSTONE, David. Missionary travels and researches in South Africa. New edition. London, John Murray, 1899.Original decorated cloth, top edge gilt. With 2 maps on 1 folding leaf and 51 illustrations and plates. XIV,447 pp. First published in 1857. - David Livingstone (1813 - 1873) was a Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary with the London Missionary Society, an explorer in Africa, and one of the most popular British heroes of the late 19th-century Victorian era.Mendelssohn I, p.908-10; SAB III, p.136; Hess & Coger 3068. [Boeknr.: 32255 ]

€ 95,00

LIVINGSTONE, David. Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery of the lakes Shirwa and Nysassa. 1858-1864. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1866.Original cloth (spine discoloured (one hinge sl. dam.). With double-page plate of the Falls at Zambesi, large folding map, and 36 woodengraved plates and illustrations. XXII,638; 6 pp. First American edition; first published in London in 1865; with the armorial bookplate of Frederick C. Bradley. - Account of Livingstone's second expedition.The British government agreed to fund Livingstone's idea and he returned to Africa as head of the Second Zambesi Expedition to examine the natural resources of southeastern Africa and open up the Zambezi River. However, it turned out to be completely impossible to boats past the Cahora Bassa rapids, a series of cataracts and rapids that Livingstone had failed to explore on his earlier travels. He eventually returned home in 1864 after the government ordered the recall of the expedition because of its increasing costs and failure to find a navigable route to the interior. The Zambezi Expedition, a farcical and costly six-year-long venture that sought to create a missionary arcadia in what is now Malawi, collapsed in 1864 with no coverts or new discoveries, only disarry and death, including that of Livingstone's long-suffering wife Mary (Howgego, The book of exploration, p.246). Livingstone became a protagonist in the fight to abolish slavery.Mendelssohn I, p.915; SAB III, p.137; Howgego IV, p.553-555; Hess & Coger 3069. [Boeknr.: 34994 ]

€ 375,00

LIVINGSTONE, (William Pringle). Mary Slessor of Calabar. Pioneer missionary. 6th edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.Original cloth (stained). With frontispiece portrait, 2 maps, and illustrations on 9 plates. X,(2),347 pp. Mary Slessor (1848-1915) was a Scottish missionary who lived among the Efik people in Calabar in present day Nigeria. [Boeknr.: 11232 ]

€ 45,00

LOOS-HAAXMAN, J. de. Johannes Rach aan de Kaap. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1952. Wrappers. With 8 plates. 16 pp. - (Bijdragen KITLV). [Boeknr.: 29138 ]

€ 30,00

LOSSIUS, Kaspar Friedrich. Gumal et Lina, ou les enfans Africains, histoire religieuse, a l'usage de la jeunesse; imitée de l'Allemand par J.L.A. Dumas. Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée. Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1818.3 volumes. Sm.8vo. Contemporary half calf, with red and green morocco labels to spines. With 3 engraved frontispieces depicting Europeans conversing with natives. VI,312; 320; 291,(3) pp. First published in Gotha in 1795 - 1800 Gumal und Lina, eine geschichte fur Kinder; numerous editions and translations were to follow. - Kaspar Friedrich Lossius (1753-1817), German priest, is best known for the children's adventure novel Gumal und Lina. It is situated in Africa, thickly interspersed with passages of religious and moral instruction (Howgego V, p.281). - An immensely popular robinsonade. - A fine set. [Boeknr.: 28444 ]

€ 175,00

LOTI, Pierre. (Louis Marie Julien Viaud). Au Maroc. 6me édition. Paris, Calmann Lévy, 1890.Sm.8vo. Original half green cloth. IV,358 pp. First edition published the same year. - In February 1889, at the age of 39, it was as a member of a diplomatic mission that Pierre Loti (1850 - 1923), a French naval officer and novelist, embarked on a journey to Morocco. He was a successful author and journalist and traces on this journey the route of the French ministerial caravan which, from Oran to Fez, travels through the territories of the Bedouin tribes. [Boeknr.: 36756 ]

€ 95,00

LOWTH, Alys. South Africa calling. London, Cecil Palmer, 1928. Cloth (spine faded). With map and photographic plates. XXIII,310 pp. [Boeknr.: 35114 ]

€ 20,00

LÜCKHOFF, C.A. Table mountain, our national heritage after three hundred years. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1951. Cloth. With 154 illustrations and plates (some in colours). 152 pp. [Boeknr.: 35063 ]

€ 25,00

LUDOLPH, Job. Nieuwe doch aanmerkens-waardige historie van Abissinien, andersints Ethiopien, getrokken uit de Latijnsche historie .. en nu in't Nederduitsch gebracht door Willem Calebius. Utrecht, Johannes Ribbius, 1687.4to. Later half vellum, with old brocade-paper to boards. With folding map (mounted on Japanese paper) and 8 engraved plates (3 folding). 222,(10) pp. First Dutch edition. - The treatise by the scholar, Job (Hiob) Ludolf (1624-1704), was first published in Latin, Historia Aethiopica, in 1681, and is regarded as the first authoritative account of Abyssinia. He has been called the 'founder of Ethiopian studies in Europe'. Although he never visited the country, Ludolf formed a close working relationship with an Ethiopian monk resident in Rome, himself clearly a highly intelligent man. From this fruitful partnership emerged grammars and dictionaries of the classical Ethiopian language as well as a lengthy history of the country. The large folding map by Tellez, is a landmark of cartography, as it is the first to show the source of the Blue Nile at Lake Tana. The fine plates depict illustrations of Ethiopean fauna, a banana plant, decapitation of missionnaries, etc. A monumental work on Ethiopia dealing with its history, inhabitants, natural history, language and literature. It is the most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. - (Owner's name on title-page; partly dampstaining, slight browning, stronger to one quire). - Rare Dutch edition.Tiele 702; Cat. NHSM I, p.203; Cox I, p.365: Still a valuable work; Gay 2658; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.395. [Boeknr.: 28870 ]

€ 1550,00

MACAU, Jacques. La Suede et Madagascar au début du 18me siècle. Aix-en-Provence, Université de Provence, 1973. Folio. Wrappers. 204 lvs. Institut d'Histoire des Pays d' Outre-Mer. - Cette étude a l'apparence d'une catalogue. Elle se compose en effet avant tout de traductions d'une thèse universitaire, de trois articles degrands historiens suédois, de documents d'archives reproduits en annexe ainsi que de compilations basées sur divers travaux (Introduction). [Boeknr.: 35605 ]

€ 45,00

MADAGASCAR. Madagaskars (Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802-07).Handcoloured aquatint plate by L. Portman after J. Kuyper, depicting a man and woman from Madagascar. 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.: 32972 ]

€ 45,00

MAKIN, William J. South of Suez. London, Jarrolds, (ca. 1931).Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 28 photographic illustrations. 286 pp. From the contents: African nights - Prancing niggers - Barmaids- and ladies - Diamonds - Tropic prisons - East coast - The broken men - Voodoo - Africa's underworld - On trek - With the Prince. [Boeknr.: 9780 ]

€ 55,00

MALAN, François Stephanus. Die konvensie-dagboek van sy edelagbare François Stephanus Malan 1908-1909. Uitgegee en toegelig met inleiding en voetnote deur J.F. Preller. Engelse vertaling deur A.J. de Villiers. Kaapstad, 1951 Cloth. With plates. 276 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 32 - François Stephanus Malan ( 1871- 1941) was a Cape delegate to the National Convention in Durban, which negotiated the terms of the Union of South Africa. [Boeknr.: 32778 ]

€ 25,00

MANGIN, Arthur. The desert world. From the French. Edited and enlarged. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1869.Contemporary morocco, richly gilt, a.e.g.. With 160 fine wood-engravings by W. Freeman, Foulquier and Dargent. 624 pp. Frist English edition, first published in Tours in 1866 Le désert et le monde sauvage; with the bookplate of William B. Rice. - Desert-life in Africa, Australia, America, Asia and the polar regions. Dealing with the scenery, animal and vegetable life, and physical character of the wildernesses and waste places of the earth. - A very fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37161 ]

€ 150,00

MANNING, Patrick. Slavery and African life. Occidental, oriental, and African slave trades. Cambridge, University Press, (1990). Wrappers. With maps. XI,236 pp. [Boeknr.: 27313 ]

€ 25,00

MARRAKESH. Guide-plan de Marrakech et sa région. Liste complète des rues, boulevards, places, avenues, etc. 2me edition. Lyon, Francis Bererd, 1960.Sm.8vo. original wrappers. With large folding coloured plan and double-page map. 32 pp. Collection des Guides Pol. [Boeknr.: 37570 ]

€ 35,00

MARRYAT, Frederick. Onder de Hottentotten. Vrijbewerkt door Ph.J. van der Veen. 4e druk. Amsterdam, Tj. van Holkema, (1890).Original pictorial cloth. With 10 plates after Johan Braakensiek. 221 pp. Translation of The mission: or scenes in Africa. London, 1845. A tale founded on real experiences and adventures in South Africa in the early part of the 19th century. Written for young people.Mendelssohn I, p.986; SAB III, p.265. [Boeknr.: 33786 ]

€ 65,00

MATHAREL, Victor de. Vues des provinces d'Alger, de Constantine et d'Oran. Paris, Gihaut Frères, (1841).2 volumes. Oblong folio. Original pictorial lithographed wrappers (some fraying). 12 tinted lithographed views by Victor de Matharel, printed by Lemercier, Bernard et cie. Ca. 36 x 55 cm. Twelve superb views of Algeria: Mazagran - Mostaganem, fort des Cigognes - M. Silah, ville du Saarah -Saïda, fort d'Abd-el-Kader - Bougie - El-Kantara a Constntine - Alger - Medeah, province de Titerie - Oran, vue prise de la marine - Marabout près Mascara - Sidi Yacoub près d'Alger - Bône, des ruines d'Hippone. - (Some light foxing in blank margins). - A fine and rare set of large views of Algeria. [Boeknr.: 36236 ]

€ 2750,00

MAX O'RELL. (BLOUET, Leon Paul). John Bull & Co. The great colonial branches of the firm: Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. 20th thousand. London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1894.Original pictorial cloth (top of spine sl. dam.). With many illustrations. XX,322 pp. First edition published in the same year. - 'A witty and humerous, but caustically written account of the principal British colonies' (Mendelssohn I, p.141). Ferguson 7154; NZNB B1050. [Boeknr.: 2111 ]

€ 40,00

MAYO, William Starbuck. Kaloolah, or journeyings to the Djébel Kumri: an autobiography of Jonathan Romer. New York, G.P. Putnam, 1849.Original embossed green cloth with pictorial gilt decoration on front, spine lettered in gilt. With tinted lithographed frontispiece and title-page. XI,514 pp. First edition. - Mayo's (1812-1895) first novel, a tremendous succes going not less than nine editions till 1900. 'An adventure in three parts, the first detailing the early life of the hero, Jonathan Romer, an inquisitive youth from upper New York State. Based on Mayo's own experiences. In the second part, Roner goes to sea. He survives the capsizing of an American schooner off the Canaries and is forced into service aboard a Spanish slave ship. In the third part Romer is shipwrecked again off Spanish Morocco, is enslaved by Arabs and taken to Timbuktu' (Howgego V, M24). William Mayo wrote this book based on his own experiences in Africa and the Spanish-Morocco coast. - (Some marginal staining). Gay 457: C'est un récit d'aventures fabuleuses, sorte d'utopie satirique. [Boeknr.: 25680 ]

€ 175,00

McKIERNAN, Gerald. The narrative and journal of Gerald McKiernan in South West Africa 1874-1879. Edited, with introduction & notes by P. Serton. Cape Town, 1954 Cloth. With folding map and plates. 193 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 35.- Gerald McKiernan was an American trader, operating in South West Africa in the last decade before German colonial rule. The manuscript consists of a narrative of 5 years' travel in Africa, from 1875 to 1879, and a diary which he kept from 1877 to 1879. The author travelled widely, probably reaching well into Angola. [Boeknr.: 32777 ]

€ 25,00

MEES, W.C. Maria Quevellerius huisvrouw van Jan van Riebeeck en haar omgeving. Assen, Van Gorcum & Comp., 1952. Wrappers. With plates. 144 pp. Maria van Riebeeck (née de la Queillerie; 1629 - 1664) was a French Huguenot who was the first wife of Jan van Riebeeck, the Dutch colonial administrator and first commander of the settlement at the Cape of Good Hope. [Boeknr.: 6488 ]

€ 18,00

MEINTJES, Johannes. De Boerenoorlog in beeld. Haarlem, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, (1978). 4to. Pictorial boards. With 373 illustrations of the Boer-war in South Africa (1899-1902). 172 pp. [Boeknr.: 30765 ]

€ 18,00

MEPPEL, Jan Cornelisz. Jan Cornelisz Meppel, L. Admirael van Hollandt en Westvrieslandt onder't Collegie van't Noorderquartier. (No place), 1668.Engraved half length portrait with on top palm-branches and coat of arms, in front a globe and ships in the background, after Chr. Pierson by R. à Perzijn. With eight line poem by Chr. Pierson. Ca. 42,5 x 29,5 cm. Jan Corneliszoon Meppel (1609-1669 was a Dutch admiral who fought under Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter in the Mediterranean against African Barbarians on the ship Noorderkwartier in 1661. He played a role in the naval battles of the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the 17th century. - (With three small restorations on verso).Muller, Portetten 3565.a: Zeldzaam. [Boeknr.: 33800 ]

€ 450,00

MERRIMAN, John Xavier. Selections from the correspondence of J.X. Merriman (1870-1890). Edited by Phyllis Lewsen with introduction & footnotes. Kaapstad, 1960-1969. 4 volumes. Cloth. With maps and plates. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 41,44,47,50. - John X. Merriman's (1841-1926) was one of the most brilliant politicians at the Cape. His long political career spanned most of the major political events of the late-19th and early 20th-century, culminating in the prime minister's office just before Union in 1910. [Boeknr.: 32771 ]

€ 65,00

MERWE, H.J.J.M. van der. (Ed.). Scheepsjournael ende daghregister. (Fragmente uit 17de-eeuse Nederlandse skeepsjoernale, 'n verkorte weergave van Jan van Riebeeck se Dagregister volgens die Kaapse teks, die Dagboek van Francois de Cuiper, 1725, en uittreksels uit Lewies Trigardt se Dagboek). Tekste vyeengebring, versorg en van aantekeninge en 'n glossarium voorsien. 2e vermeerderde druk. Pretoria, J.L. van Schaik, 1964. Boards. With plates. XIII,285 pp. [Boeknr.: 35111 ]

€ 40,00

MILO, Taco Hayo. De geheime onderhandelingen tusschen de Bataafsche en Fransche Republieken van 1795 tot 1797 in verband met de expeditie van schout bij nacht E. Lucas naar de Kaap de Goede Hoop. Den Helder, v/h C. de Boer, 1942. Wrappers. With portraits. XII,296 pp. [Boeknr.: 6490 ]

€ 20,00

MOLTENO, Percy Alport. Selections from the correspondence of Percy Alport Molteno 1892-1914. Edited by Vivian Solomon. Cape Town, 1981. Cloth. With plates. (14),367 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 12. - Percy Molteno (1861-1937) was a son of Sir John Molteno, first prime minister of the Cape Colony. Trained as a lawyer, he married the daughter of Sir Donald Currie, the shipping magnate, and went to work for his father-in-law in England. He remained passionately interested in the political life of the colony and conducted a wide-ranging correspondence with many of its leading luminaries. [Boeknr.: 34539 ]

€ 25,00

MOOREHEAD, Alan. The Blue Nile. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1972.8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 32 coloured plates and 130 illustrations. 336 pp. First published in 1962. - A classic of historical reconstruction. The narrative begins in the 18th century and ends in 1869. The author traces the course of the Bule Nile from the Ethiopian Highlands, through the Sudan and Egypt to the sea. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37157 ]

€ 95,00

MOOREHEAD, Alan. The White Nile. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1971.8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 48 coloured plates and 120 illustrations. 336 pp. First published in 1960. - The author tells the story of the exploration of the Nile from the Mountains of the Moons to the Mediterranean. The discovery of Central Africa, including the horrific trade in slaves with its ramifications from Cairo to Zanzibar. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 37158 ]

€ 95,00

MORELET, A. Six articles on the malacology of the Comoros, an archipelagic country in the Indian Ocean, at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel off the eastern coast of Africa. Paris, 1877 - 1885.Cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With lithographed plates. Offprints Journal de conchyliologie. - Excursion conchyliogique dans l'ile d'Anjouan (Johanna). With 2 lithographed plates. 22 pp.; Récolte de M. Bewsher a l' ile d'Anjouan (Comores). With 2 lithographed plates. 30 pp.; Récolte de M. Marie a l' ile Mayotte. With lithographed plate. 16 pp.; Récolte de M. E. Marie a l'ile Mayotte. With 1 lithographed plate. 28 pp.; Récolte de M. Humblot a la grande Comore. With 1 lithographed plate. 14 pp.; Deuxième voyage de M. Humblot. With 1 lithographed plate. 11 pp. [Boeknr.: 36729 ]

€ 125,00

MOROCCO. NAUFRAGE DU BATEAU A VAPEUR LE PAPIN le samedi 6 Décembre 1845 à 11 heures du soir, le navire fit côte au Nord de Mazagan, sur un banc de sable, à 2 ou 3 encâblures de la terre; sa chiminee en tombant écrasa plusieurs hommes de l'équipage, le bâtiment fut coupé en deux à l'arrière des Chaudières et de 151 personnes qui montaient le bateu à vapeur, 76 seulement purent être sauvés, tout le reste s'englouit dans les flots en fureur et dans la nuit du 6 au 7 Décembre. - Le dessin représente la situation du Papin le 6 Décembre à 5 heures du matin. London, Gambart Junin & Cie, Paris, François Delarue, (1845).Tinted lithographed view after A. Mayer by A. Mayer et Sabatier. Ca. 38 x 51 cm. A fascinating depiction of the loss of a French man-of-war steamer Le Papin, and half her crew on 6 December 1845 off Mazagan, now El Jadida, in Morocco. Le Papin was one of the vessels destined to form the French squadron on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, and was on her way to Senegal, intending to call at Mogador. 'I have this moment heard from the office of the British consul of the total wreck on the coast, between Azmoor and Mazagan, of another French man of war steamer, of 650 tons burden, and 140 horse power. The details are very shocking, and the number of lives lost are 77, including the captain and all the officers. with the exception of one midshipman. The newly appointed French consul to Mogador is numbered among the victims. Exactly one half of those on board the unfortunate vessel were drowned, the other half were saved under circumstances which reflect the highest credit on the British and French consul at Mazagan. Mr. Redman, for it was to his prompt arrival at the spot, and his energetic persuasion of the Moors to assist him, that the survivors owe their lives' (Shipping Gazette). [Boeknr.: 33254 ]

€ 375,00

MURRAY, Marischal. Ships and South Africa. A maritime chronicle of the Cape with particular reference to mail and passenger liners from the early days of steam down the present. With a foreword by J.C. Smuts. Oxford, University Press, London, Humphrey Milford, 1933. Cloth. With plates. XXVI,360 pp. Including separate chapters on shipwrecks and disasters [Boeknr.: 35054 ]

€ 125,00

NAPIER, E. ELERS. Excursions in Southern Africa, including a history of the Cape Colony, an account of the native tribes, etc. London, William Shoberl, 1849.2 volumes. Original embossed red cloth, spines later half morocco, lettered in gilt. With engraved frontispiece view of Cape Town, 2 portraits and 6 woodengravings. XXX,359; IV,456 pp. First edition; with bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken. - An account of the Cape Colony from the earliest period of settlement down to the Kaffir War of 1876-7. The work is a critique of the British Government in the Cape and the original draft was, according to the author, rejected by several publishers on the grounds that it was too outspoken on the failures of its subject (Mendelssohn II, p.75). An expose of misgovernment at the Cape by the incumbent governor and this made publication of the work very difficult. An uncommon work.- Added an autograph letter by Napier. - Fine.SAB III, p.429. [Boeknr.: 34997 ]

€ 495,00

NAUDÉ, Adèle. Cape Album. Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1979. 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations. 112 pp. Signed by the author. - An overall picture of life in Cape Town and its surroundings in the first half of the nineteenth century. [Boeknr.: 35046 ]

€ 25,00

NETTELBECK, Joachim. Ein Mann. Des Seefahrers und aufrechten Bürgers Joachim Nettelbeck wundersame Lebensgeschichte von ihm selbst erzählt.Verlag: Ebenhausen bei München, Wilhelm Langewiesche - Brandt, Ebenhausen bei München, Wilhelm Langewiesche - Brandt, 1910. Contemporary half calf. With portrait and woodcut initials. 459 pp. Joachim Nettelbeck (1738-1824) extensively reports on his second slave journey in his memoirs. He opposes the image that slave traders such as himself had committed daily atrocities towards slaves. Nettelbeck is the only sailor to have published his experiences aboard a Dutch slave ship (Henk den Heijer, Nederlands.slavernij-verleden, p. 222-223). [Boeknr.: 36393 ]

€ 65,00

NEWTON, Johan. Cardiphonia, of gemeenzaame brieven .. zijnde deezen geschreeven aan zijne egtgenoote, geduurende drie reizen naar Afrika, in de jaaren 1750 tot 1754. Uit het Engelsch vertaald, door M. van Werkhoven, en uitgegeeven met een Voorbericht, door Cornelis Brem. Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, 1792 -1794.3 volumes. Contemporary half green calf, spines gilt (top of spine vol. II skilfully rep.). XXXVIII,(2),496; (4),518,(31); XXXVI,458 pp. VolumeVol. I-II third edition, vol. III first edition, first published in English Cardiphonia or the utterance of the heart in the course of a real correspondence, London 1781. -- Several contemporary accounts of slave captains survive. John Newton (1725-1807) is probably the best known of the captains, not only because his published journals contain one of the most detailed descriptions of everyday life in the trade, but also because he later fought vigorously for abolition. His hymn 'Amazing Grace' has been a particular favorite of black congregations for generations (Rodriguez, Historical encyclopedia of world slavery, I, p.128). He went from command of a slave ship to repentance and, ultimately, to a curacy in the Church of England. His letters are one of the most inspiring antislavery stories. - (Blank margins end of vol. III stained). - A fine set of this rare Dutch edition..Cardinall 372 & 398; Cf. Hogg 727. [Boeknr.: 36401 ]

€ 625,00

NICOLAAS, Eveline sint & Valika SMEULDERS. (Red.). Slavernij. Het verhaal van João, Wally, Oopjen, Paulus, Van Bengalen, Surapati, Sapali, Tula, Dirk, Lohkay. Amsterdam, Rijks Museum, Atlas Contact, 2021. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 350 pp. Exhibition Rijksmuseum: Slavernij. Een meerstemmige tentoonstelling. [Boeknr.: 36397 ]

€ 30,00

NICOLL, M.J. Three voyages of a naturalist being an account of many little-known islands in three oceans visited by the 'Valhalla' R.Y.S. With an introduction by the Earl of Crawford. 2nd edition. London, Witherby & Co., 1909.Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 4 maps and many photographic plates. XXX,246 pp. First published in 1908. - Contains: A voyage round Africa, A voyage to the West Indies, A voyage round the world. [Boeknr.: 36753 ]

€ 95,00

NIENABER, P.J. & C.J.P. le ROUX. Vrystaat-fokus. Pretoria, 1982. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With photographical illustrations (several in colours) by Etienne Botha. 97 pp. [Boeknr.: 17213 ]

€ 20,00

NOBLE, John. (Ed.). Illustrated official handbook of the Cape and South Africa. A résumé of the history, conditions, populations, productions, and resources of the several colonies, states, and territories. Cape Town, Johannesburg, J.C. Juta & Co., 1893.Original decorated cloth. With folding coloured map and many photographic illustrations and plates and advertisements. XVI,568; 43 pp. A fine copy of a comprehensive guide-book. Mendelssohn II, p.107; SAB III, p.552. [Boeknr.: 35154 ]

€ 95,00

NOBLE, John. South Africa, past and present; a short history of the European settlements at the Cape. London, Longmans & Co., 1877.Original brown cloth (sl. soiled; 1 hinge cracked), spine lettered in gilt. XIV,345 pp. First edition. - This compilation affords a continuous narrative of everything 'that is most noticeable in the political history of the colonies and states of South Africa' down to the first annexation of the Transvaal in 1877. The work is concise and unbiassed, and should be suitable as a 'reader' for educational classes and manual for schools (Mendessohn II, p.106).SAB III, p.553 [Boeknr.: 35005 ]

€ 75,00

NOBLE, John. Zuid-Afrika, zijn verleden en zijn heden. Eene beknopte geschiedenis van de Europeesche volkplantingen aan de Kaap. Uit het Engelsch. Amsterdam, J.C. Schröder, 1878.Original green cloth, with gilt lettering. XVI,416,(2) pp. First published in London in 1877: South Africa, past and present, a short history of the European settlements at the Cape. This compilation affords a continuous narrative of everything 'that is most noticeable in the political history of the colonies and states of South Africa' down to the first annexation of the Transvaal in 1877. The work is concise and unbiassed, and should be suitable as a 'reader' for educational classes and manual for schools (Mendessohn II, p.106).SAB III, p.553. [Boeknr.: 30849 ]

€ 75,00

NORTH AFRICA. Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie via Marseille. (No pl.,), 1930.Original pictorial wrappers with sticker on frontwrapper: Bureau de Voyages 'Intereurope'. With illustrations and photographic sepia plates. 52 pp. Chemins de fer Paris - Lyon - Méditerranée. [Boeknr.: 37572 ]

€ 35,00

NYASALAND. 'Nyasaland calling'. A travel guide to the Nyasaland protectorate. Issued by the Nyasaland Advisory Committe on Publicity. Capetown, Cape Times Limited, 1936.Original pictorial wrappers. With map and many photographic illustrations and plates. 83 pp. Title on frontwrapper: Darkest Africa in fairest mood. - A fine copy of an illustrated guide of present-day Malawi. [Boeknr.: 37567 ]

€ 95,00

ODENDAAL, Bernardus Johannes. Die kerklike betrekkinge tussen Suid-Afrika en Nederland (1652-1952) veral met betrekking tot die Ned. Geref. Kerk. Franeker, T. Wever, 1957. Wrappers. 295 pp. Thesis. - The ecclesiastical relations between South Africa and the Netherlands (1652-1952). [Boeknr.: 30867 ]

€ 30,00

OISTERWIJK, B. van. Vier ontdekkingsreizigers. Heinrich Barth (1821-1865), luitenant-kolonel Flatters (1832-1881), Nordenskjold (1832-1901), Fritjof Nansen (1861 - ). Amsterdam, F.H.J. Bekker, (1905). Original decorated blue cloth. 161 pp. Two explorers in Africa and two Polar researchers. [Boeknr.: 36349 ]

€ 45,00

ONZE AARDE. Maanschrift onder redactie van W. van Bemmelen, J.H.G. Kremer, J.C. Lamster, W.G.N. van der Sleen, A.N.J. Thomassen à Thuessink van der Hoop, Ph.C. Visser. Jaargang I. Amsterdam, Holkema & Warendorf, 1928. 12 issues. 4to. Wrappers. With photographic illustrations and some coloured plates. Contributions by Dutch scholars on international expeditions. [Boeknr.: 34855 ]

€ 45,00

OOSTINDIE, G. (Ed.). Colonialism and slavery. An alternative history of the port city of Rotterdam. Leiden, Leiden University Press, 2021. Wrappers. With illustrations. 200 pp. In this book the focus uniquely lies on the colonial and slavery part of a city. Rotterdam, the second-largest Dutch city, is one of the leading European port cities. Its maritime expansion was intrinsically linked to Dutch colonialism, including slave trading and colonial slavery in the Americas, Africa and Asia. [Boeknr.: 36406 ]

€ 50,00

PAESIE, Ruud. Het VOC-fluitschip Stavenisse en de ontdekking van Terra Natal. Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 2002. 4to. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 237 pp. The VOC-ship Stavenisse wrecked off the coast of Terra Natal in South Africa in 1686. [Boeknr.: 25309 ]

€ 45,00

PAESIE, Ruud. Lorrendrayen op Africa. De illegale goederen- en slavenhandel op West-Afrika tijdens het achttiende-eeuwse handelsmonopolie van de West-Indische Compagnie, 1700-1734. Amsterdam, Bataafsche Leeuw, 2008. Boards. With many illustrations (some in colours). 428 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 30795 ]

€ 35,00

PAESIE, Ruud. Slavenopstand op de Neptunus. Kroniek van een wanhoopsdaad. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2016. Boards. With plates (several in colours). 143 pp. Account of the shipwreck of the Dutch slave ship Neptunis off the coast in West Africa in 1785. [Boeknr.: 34182 ]

€ 20,00

PALGRAVE, William Coates. The commissions of W.C. Palgrave. Special emissary to South West Africa 1876-1885. Cape Town, 1990. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXXIV,441pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 21. - William Coates Palgrave (1833-1897) was active in South West Africa (Namibia) over a period of 25 years. As Special Commissioner to Hereroland and Namaland, he undertook 5 consecutive commissions to that country on behalf of the Cape government. This volume, containing the official journals, or minutes and reports produced during the commissions, records the life of a country on the brink of colonisation. [Boeknr.: 34554 ]

€ 25,00

PARAVICINI DI CAPELLI, Willem Bartholomé Eduard. Reize in de binnen-landen van Zuid-Africa. Gedaan in den jaare 1803. Uitgegee en toegelig met inleiding, voetnote, sketskaarte en verkorte weergawe in het Engels deur W.J. de Kock. Kaapstad, 1965. Cloth. With folding map and plates. XXXIII,290 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 46. - Paravicini di Capelli (1778-1848) was an artillery-captain at the time of the Batavian Republic and aide-de-camp of the Cape governor, General Jan Willem Janssens. He travelled with the governor into the interior, keeping an official journal as well as his own, and was active in preparations of the Cape against attack by the British, travelling widely during this period. [Boeknr.: 32761 ]

€ 35,00

PARK, Mungo. Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell. Second edition. London, W. Bulmer and Co., 1799.4to. Contemporary mottled calf, skilfully rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine richly gilt. . With engraved portrait, 2 plates with musical scores, 3 folding maps (1 tear rep.) and 5 engraved plates (2 folding). XXVIII,372,XCII,(2) pp. Published in the same year as the first edition; with bookplate of J.S.W.S. Erle Drax. - Mungo Park (1771-1806) was the first European to reach the well-nigh fabulous waters of the Niger. He followed the river almost to the Senegal valley. He finally reached Gambia after a lengthy return journey. His journal included a detailed description of travel conditions, the nature of the area, rivers, and customs of various tribes. 'Park's Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature, and its scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region, and on the social and domestic life of the negroes, have remained of lasting value. Park's career was short, but he made the first great practical advance in the opening-up of Central Africa' (PMM 253). Written in a straightforward unpretentious, narrative style, it gave readers their first realistic description of everyday life in west Africa, depicting without the censorious, patronizing contempt which so often has disfigured European accounts of Africa (DNB).- Some age-browning and offsetting of the plates otherwise a beautiful copy of one of the most popular accounts of African exploration. Cox I, p.394; Gay 2788; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.93; Hess & Coger 5655; Scheybeler,The Paolo Bianchi Collection, 279; Howgego P21. [Boeknr.: 5492 ]

€ 1450,00

PÉRIER, Gaston-Denys. Moukanda. Choix de lectures sur le Congo et quelques régions voisines. 2e édition. Bruxelles, J. Lebègue & Cie, 1924.Contemporary half morocco, spine gilt, original wrappers preserved. With many photographic illustrations. 372 pp. First published in 1914. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 10857 ]

€ 45,00

PETERMANN, A. Karte des Mittelländischen Meeres. Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1880.8 sheets, coloured in outline. Each ca. 37,5 x 46 cm. Fine detailed maps of the Mediterranean Sea and surrounding countries by the German cartographer Augustus Heinrich Petermann (1822 - 1878). [Boeknr.: 37404 ]

€ 150,00

PHILIP, John. Researches in South Africa; illustrating the civil, moral, and religious condition of the native tribes: including journals of the author's travels in the interior; together with detailed accounts of the progress of the Christian missions, exhibiting the influence of Christianity in promoting civilization. London, James Duncan, 1828.2 volumes. Later half green morocco, with red title-labels to spines. With engraved view of Bethelsdorp, folding map of South Africa (top missing), and sketch of the institution of the Theopolis. XXXV,403; VIII,450 pp. First edition. - Few books on South African matters have been the subject of such fierce denunciation and bitter criticisms as these volumes. The author proceeded to South Africa in the service of the London Missionary Society in 1819, and soon became a most drastic censor of the methods pursued towards the nativs by the colonists, and the policy of the colonial government with regard to native affairs. When the Researches in South Africa were published a large amount of public indignation was aroused, and the subject was brought before the Houses of Parliament, considerable changes in the administration of native affairs in South Africa being eventually brought about. The volumes afford considerable information respecting the natives and colonists in the first quarter of the nineteenth century (Mendelssohn II, p.160-161). The author became the most drastic censor on the methods pursued towards the natives by the colonists. As a result of his writings, considerable changes were made into the administration of native affairs in South Africa.- (Browned).SAB III, p.665 [Boeknr.: 34998 ]

€ 550,00

PIDOU DE St. OLON, François. Beschryving van het keyserryk van Marokko, behelsende de aart en eygenschap, mitsgaders de situatie van het voorschreve land. Item de zeeden, gewoonten, regeering, godsdienst en staatkunde van des zelve inwoonders. Vermeerdert met een reys-beschryving, door den kaiptein Roland Frejus, bevorens uyt last van den voornoemden koning van Vrankrijk, aan Mouley Archy, koning van Tasiles, broeder en voorzaat van den tegenwoordigen koning van Marokko, in Mauritanien gedaan. Uyt het Fransch vertaalt. 's Gravenhage, Meyndert Uytwerf, 1698.2 volumes in 1. Sm.8vo. Contemporary vellum (foot of spine sl. dam.). With engraved frontispiece portrait, engraved folding map and engraved folding plan, 2 engraved plates (1 folding, both sl. dam. in lower margin, sl. affecting the image), and 7 engraved costume plates of Moroccan men and women in traditional costume. (22),350,(14) pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Paris in 1694 Etat present de l'empire de Maroc. - François Pidou de Saint Olon (1640 - 1720), was sent by Louis XIV, to effect an exchange of slaves, and to conclude a treaty and alliance against the Barbary corsairs of Salé. He disembarked in the Bay of Tetuan and met the Sultan at Mekenes, but he had to leave the country without effecting his object. He was even imprisoned for some time at Tetuan by the Kaid of that place. The author's position as ambassador, gave him access to areas of Moroccan society previously unrecorded by travelers. - (Some wormholes).- Scarce.Gay 1264; Playfair & Brown 306; not in Tiele; Boucher de la Richarderie IV, p.46 (French ed.); Chadenat 5267 (French ed.). [Boeknr.: 36785 ]

€ 1250,00

PIELAT, Barthelemy. La vie et les actions memorables de Sr. Michel de Ruyter. Amsterdam, Henry & Theodore Boom, 1677.2 volumes in 1. 12mo. Contemporary vellum. With engraved title-page, portrait and 2 engraved title-vignettes. (18), 480; 250 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of H. de la Fontaine Verwey. - First monograph on the great Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruiter (1607-1676) who fought the English and French and scored several major victories against them, the best known probably being the Raid on the Medway. This monograph was based on the first biography of De Ruyter written by Lambertus van den Bosch in his Leeven en daden der doorluchtighste zeehelden (Amsterdam 1676). The book by Pielat was published after De Ruiter was given an elaborate state funeral, the publishing date of his book must be around 1681 but it was issued before the famous biography of Gerard Brandt. It also contains the account of De Ruiter's expedition to the West Indies.- (Light staining). - Rare.Not in Cat. NHSM; European Americana IV, p.32. [Boeknr.: 34171 ]

€ 450,00

PLESSIS, A.P. du. Die Nederlanse emigratie na Suid-Afrika. Sekere aspekte rakende voorbereiding tot aanpassing. The Dutch emigration to South Africa. Some aspects concerning preparation for adjustment. With a summary in English. Amstelveen, Amsterdam, Teerhuis & Klinkenberg, 1956. Wrappers.250 pp. - (Thesis). [Boeknr.: 35081 ]

€ 75,00

PLOEGER, J. & Anna H. SMITH. Pictorial atlas of the history of the Union of South Africa. Plate-atlas van die geskiedenis van die Unie van Suid-Afrika. Pretoria, J.L. van Schaik, 1949. Folio. Cloth, with dust-jacket (dam.). With many illustrations and plates. 196 pp. [Boeknr.: 35039 ]

€ 45,00

PREVOST, Antoine François. Historische beschryving der reizen of nieuwe en volkoome verzameling van de aller-waardigste en zeldsaamste zee- en landtogten .. Naauwkeurig in't Nederduitsch overgebragt .. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, Amsterdam, Wed. S. Schouten, a.o., 1747-1767.21 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt with floral motifs and red and green labels. With 21 title-pages printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author, 20 engraved headpieces (vol. I-XX), 27 text-engravings depicting the Governors General of the Dutch East Indies, 195 engraved maps and plans (134 folding) and 365 engraved plates (90 folding) by Jacob van der Schley a.o. First Dutch edition edited by J.P.J. du Bois. This is an enlarged translation of the first 17 books of the French edition, Histoire generale des voyages, Amsterdam 1746-1761; largely based on John Green's series A new general collection of voyages and travels, London 1745-1747. The richly illustrated series contains accounts of the voyages and explorations in Africa, China, Tibet and Tartary, The East Indies, Borneo, Celebes and the Moluccas, Siam, Hindustan, Arabia, Japan, and Phillipines, Vol. XIX contains the voyages of Wouter Schouten, William Dampier, Gemelli Careri, Anson and Joseph Pizarro; Vol. XX contains The biographies of the Governors-General of the Dutch East Indies and description of Batavia; Vol. XXI contains the natural history of the Dutch East Indies. It includes the early Australian voyages such as Saavedra, Gaetano, Torres, Mendana, Quiros, Nodals including accounts of the discovery of Australia by the Dutch including Vlamingh. Other Dutch voyages by Pelsaert, Tasman, the early voyages to New Guinea by Keyts and Vink, voyages to the Palau Islands and Roggeveen's voyage to Terres Australes. With a large worldmap by N. Bellin and nice maps of i.a. Gulf of Bengal, Indonesian Archipelago, the Philippines, Japan, China, Macao, Hindoustan and views of i.a. Nanking, Goa and Ceram, plans of i.a. Nagasaki, Edo and Batavia. - A very attractive set of this famous compilation of voyages, including most of the early Australian voyages and travels. Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108; Landwehr, VOC, 267; Sabin 65405; Hill 1391 (French ed.). [Boeknr.: 33291 ]

€ 14500,00

PREVOST, Antoine François. Reizen langs de westkust van Afrika, van Kaap Blanko tot Sierra Leona: vervattende de Engelse bezittingen, en koophandel, op de riviere Gambra, met de aardrykskundige- en natuurkundige historie der nabuurige landen. - Reizen naar Guinee en Benin, vervattende de kust van Sierra-Leona, tot aan Kaap Gonsalvo. 's Gravenhage, Pieter de Hondt, 1748.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt in compartments (top of spines rep.). With title-pages printed in red and black, 12 engraved maps (6 folding) and 43 engraved plates (13 folding) by J. van Schley. 435,(5); (4),532,(6) pp. Historische beschryving der reizen, volume IV-V, enlarged and improved Dutch edition of the French series started by Antoine François Prévost d' Exiles (1697 - 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost. This volume covers a detailed description of West-Africa with accounts of the English and Dutch possessions on the coasts and their slave trade. With fine engravings. - (Some minor foxing).Tiele 103; Cat. NHSM I, p.108. [Boeknr.: 7817 ]

€ 950,00

PUCKLER-MUSKAU, Hermann Ludwig Heinrich. Mehemed Ali en deszelfs gebied. Door den schrijver der brieven eens afgestorvenen (prins Puckler Muskau). Nubië en Sudan. Amersfoort, W.J. van Bommel, Van Vloten, 1847. Contemporary half cloth. VI,305 pp. Dutch translation of the second part of Aus Mehmed Ali's Reich, Stuttgart 1844, dealing with Nubia and Sudan. The Dutch edition of the first part on Egypt was published in 1846. 'Pückler Muskau is one of the most interesting travellers of his period; he journeyed extensively in Europe and Africa. He was a keen observer and a witty and sensitive writer, ready to note all sorts of facts and impressions of men and manners, although his great interest was landscape and landscape gardening' (Blackmer 1362). 'A boastful, exuberant, miles gloriosus-like tale by this 'Prince'. A great friend and defender of Mohammed Ali' (Kalfatovic, Nile notes, 0343).Gay 2198 (French ed.); Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.145; Kainbacher p.326; not in Tiele or Cat. NHSM. [Boeknr.: 31756 ]

€ 275,00

RATELBAND, K. (Red.). Vijf dagregisters van het kasteel Sao Jorge da Mina (Elmina) aan de Goudkust (1645-1647). 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1953. Cloth. With plan, 3 maps, 7 plates and 7 facsimiles. CX,439 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LV. - Provides insight into the daily routine at the castle of Sao George da Mina, headquarter of the Dutch West India Company in West Africa, during the years 1645-1647. [Boeknr.: 3728 ]

€ 45,00

RATELBAND, Klaas. Nederlanders in West-Afrika 1600-1650. Angola, Kongo en São Tomé. Bezorgd door René Baesjou. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2000. Wrappers. With illustrations. 319 pp. [Boeknr.: 15193 ]

€ 30,00

READE, William Winwood. Savage Africa: being the narrative of a tour in equatorial, south-western, and north-western Africa; with notes on the habits of the gorilla; on the existence of unicorns and tailed men; on the slave-trade; on the origin, character, and capabilities of the negro, and on the future civilization of Western Africa. 2nd edition. London, Smith, Elder and Co., 1864.Original red embossed cloth (rebacked with the original spine laid down; soiled). With folding map (some tears rep.) and 9 wood-engraved plates. XIV, 587 pp. First published in London in 1863. - William Winwood Reade (1838-75) spent several months observing gorillas in South Africa and Angola, and provides some of the earliest depictions of gorillas and their habits, only a few years after the publication of Paul Du Chaillu's description of the first sighting of a living gorilla by a western explorer. He also describes the people, culture, and way of life in Western Africa, with chapters covering cannibalism, the slave trade, fever and malaria, Sierra Leone, elephants, the Niger, the Congo and more. In 1873 he became The Time correspondent during the Ashanti War. Cardinall 606; Howgego IV, p.758. [Boeknr.: 31699 ]

€ 195,00

REID, MAYNE. Les émigrants du Transwaal. Traduction de J. Lermont. 2me édition. Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie., 1886.Sm.8vo. Original decorated gilt cloth, a.e.g. With engraving on title-page and engraved frontispiece. 324 pp. Aventures de terre et de mer. - French translation of The vee-boers: a tale of adventure in Southern Africa, London, 1885. - Nice copy.SAB p.13. [Boeknr.: 37234 ]

€ 45,00

REINDERS FOLMER-van PROOIJEN, Corrie. Van goederenhandel naar slavenhandel. De Middelburgse Commercie Compagnie 1720-1755. Middelburg, Koninklijk Zeeuws Genootschap, 2000. Wrappers. With illustrations. 222 pp. [Boeknr.: 22056 ]

€ 30,00

RICHARDSON, Lawrence. Selected correspondence (1902-1903). Edited by Arthur M. Davey. Cape Town, 1977. Cloth. With maps and plates. 219 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 8. - Lawrence Richardson (c.1869-1953), a member of the Society of Friends (Quakers), was involved in two fact-finding and humanitarian missions to South Africa in the wake of the South African War. [Boeknr.: 34531 ]

€ 25,00

RIEBEECK, Jan Anthonisz. van. Daghregister gehouden by den oppercoopman Jan Anthonisz van Riebeeck. 1651-1662. Inleiding, tekstversorging en taalkundige aantekeningen deur D.B. Bosman, geskiedkundige aantekeninge deur H.B. Thom. Kaapstad, A.A. Balkema, 1952-57. 3 volumes. Cloth. With maps and plates. XLVI,473; XII,491; XVI,584 pp. Uitgawe van die Van Riebeeck-Vereniging. - Jan van Riebeeck (1618-1677) was navigator and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company. He was the founder and first commander for the VOC of the Cape of Good Hope. - A fine set. [Boeknr.: 6496 ]

€ 225,00

RIEBEECK, Jan Anthonisz. van. Dagverhaal (1652-1662). (Edited by W.G. Brill). Utrecht, Kemink & Zoon, 1884-93.3 volumes. Original cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With photograph portrait. XII,605; XII,621; XI,755 pp. Werken Historisch Genootschap. - First printing of Jan van Riebeecks (1618-1677) diary. He was founder and first commander for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) of the Cape of Good Hope. For many years it was the main source of information for anyone studying Van Riebeeck and his time at the Cape. - A fine set. [Boeknr.: 6498 ]

€ 450,00

RIEBEECK, Jan Anthonisz. van. Jan van Riebeeck gründet die Kapstadt. Ein Auszug aus seinem Tagebuch (1652-62). Bearbeitet von Adolf Gabler. München, Ernst Reinhardt, 1936. Cloth. With folding map and 2 portraits. 275 pp. [Boeknr.: 35122 ]

€ 30,00

RIOU, Edward. Dagverhaal van eene reis van de Kaap de Goede Hoop in de binnenlanden van Afrika, ondernomen in de jaaren 1790 en 1791 door Jakob van Reenen en andere, naar het wrak van het Engelsch Oost-Indisch compagnie schip de Grosvernor, om te ontdekken of er nog enige schipbreukelingen in leven waren. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. Leyden, A. & J. Honkoop, 1793.Old wrappers, uncut. XII,58 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in London in 1792: A journal of a journey from the Cape of Good Hope .. etc. - Captain Riou, did not join the expedition himself, but obtained a copy from Van Reenen's journal. The East India Company vessel wrecked on the coast of South Africa in 1782. This journal is an account of the second Dutch expedition to search for survivors of the Grosvenor wreck travelling through Kaffirland to about the mouth of the Umzimkulu. They found three old women, apparently British, living in a mixed community near the Mngazi River (to the south of Port St. Johns) who might have been from the Grosvenor ( Howgego p.460). - Scarce.Cat. NHSM I, p.139; not in Tiele; Huntress117C; Mendelssohn I p.652. [Boeknr.: 37143 ]

€ 475,00

RIOU, Edward. The last voyage of the Guardian, lieutenant Riou, commander 1789-1791. Edited with an introduction by M.D. Nash. Cape Town, 1989. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXXIX,243 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 20. - The Guardian sailed from Spithead in September 1789 with stores for Britain's new colony in New South Wales. Thirteen days out from the Cape of Good Hope she struck an iceberg that tore away her rudder and most of her keel. Half the ship's company took to the boats, only one of which survived the stormy 1300-mile voyage back to the Cape. A month later, through exemplary courage and seamanship and against all probabilities, the crippled Guardian herself sailed into Table Bay. The full and fascinating story of the Guardian's voyage is told here in the ship's logs and letters. [Boeknr.: 34555 ]

€ 25,00

ROE, Henry. West African scenes: being descriptions of Fernando Po, its climate, productions, and tribes, the cause and cure of sickness; with missionary work, trials and encouragements. London, Elliot Stock, 1874.Sm.8vo. Original pictorial green cloth, lettered in gilt. With 6 engraved plates by S. Iller. VI,(2),215 pp. First edition. - As far as we know, this is the first time the general and varied aspects of Fernando Po have been presented in a book (Preface). - A very fine copy.Hess & Coger 6141. [Boeknr.: 36666 ]

€ 275,00

ROGGEVEEN, Arent. The burning fen. With an introduction by C. Koeman. Amsterdam, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1971. 2 volumes. Large folio. Cloth, with dust-jackets. With many illustrations and 52 double-page charts. First edition published in Dutch: Het Brandende Veen. Part 1 reprinted from the 1675 Amsterdam edition, published by Pieter Goos. Part 2 reprinted from the 1687 Amsterdam edition, published by Jacob Robijn. Containing charts of the Central American coasts and islands, west coast of Africa and the coast of Brazil. The first printed West Indian Pilot, a prototype of the pilote guides for America. - A fine copy. [Boeknr.: 34985 ]

€ 175,00

ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Afrikanische Wanderungen eines Naturforschers und Jägers. Deutsche autorisierte Ausgabe. Übersetzung von Max Kullnick. Berlin, Paul Parey, 1910.Original pictorial cloth, with gilt lettering (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With map and 48 plates after photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and drawings by Ph.R. Goodwin. XVI,464 pp. First German edition, first published in New York in 1910: African game trails. - Hunting adventures in British East Africa. 'One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost continnuously in print until the 1930s. Roosevelt's total bag was enormous even by the liberal standards of that era' (Czech p.238-39).Kainbacher p.348. [Boeknr.: 24786 ]

€ 65,00

ROSS, Edward. Diary of the siege of Mafeking October 1899 to May 1900. Edited by Brian P. Willan. Cape Town, 1980. Cloth. With plates. 260 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 11. - Edward Ross, Mafeking's auctioneer, is best-known for his role in the production of banknotes during the siege. His diary is amongst the finest of the many accounts of the siege, recording the activities of Mafeking's residents as well as the military aspects of the siege. [Boeknr.: 34540 ]

€ 25,00

RUGGENBERG, Rob. Slavenhaler. Amsterdam, Em. Querido, 2007. Boards. 304 pp. Juvenile on slave-trade. [Boeknr.: 30736 ]

€ 15,00

RUYTER, Michiel Adriaansz. de. De reis van Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter in 1664-1665. Uitgegeven door P. Verhoog en L. Koelmans. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1961. Cloth. With 8 plates and 9 maps. XVIII,364 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LXII. - De Ruyter visited West-Africa and the Caribbean. [Boeknr.: 3729 ]

€ 40,00

SANDYS, (George). Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turcksen rijcks: hare wetten/ regeeringe/ politie/ krijghs-macht/ hooven van justitie/ ende koophandel. Als mede, van Egypten .. Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt .. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare nabuerighe eylanden; als Cyprus/ Creta/ Malta/ Sicilia/ de Aolische eylanden; van Roomen/ Venetien/ Napels/ Syracusa/ Mesena/ Aetna/ Scylla/ ende Charybdis/ etc. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt door J. G(lazemaker). Amsterdam, Jacob Beniamin,1653.4to. Later marbled boards. With engraved title, 3 engraved plates and 26 full or half-page engravings in the text. 292 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1615: A relation of a journey begun an.Dom. 1610. Foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoyning - George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of the Archbishop of York and a literary figure of some standing. In 1609 he set sail for the East and he spent the next year travelling in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine and later studied antiquities in Rome. His observations first appeared in English in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. He has been called the first 'classical tourist' of England. Sandys also was interested in colonial promotion, and was one of the undertakers named in the third charter of the Virginia Company in 1611, and later treasurer and a member of the Council. He visited many islands in the Mediterranean Sea Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, Lesbos, Chios, Kythira, Malta, etc. This book also became popular in the Netherlands and was several times republished.- A fine clean copy of this standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean. Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM I, p.255; Blackmer Collection 1484 (English edition); Atabey Collection 1087 (English edition); Weber 245; Röhricht p.232; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.210; O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 37 (English ed.); Tobler p.91-92. [Boeknr.: 33658 ]

€ 1950,00

SCHÄDLER, K.F. Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privat-Sammlungen. - African art in private German collections. - L'art Africain dans les collections privées Allemandes. München, (1973). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 522 illustrations (several in colours). 363 pp. - Important reference work. [Boeknr.: 26823 ]

€ 75,00

SCHÄDLER, K.F. Keramik aus Schwarz-Afrika und Alt-Amerika. Die Sammlung Hans Wolf - Zürich. Ceramics from Black-Africa and Ancient America. The Hans Wolf Collection - Zurich. Céramique de l'Afrique Noire et d'Amérique Précolumbienne. La Collection Hans Wolf-Zurich. Zürich, Primart, 1985. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 345 pp. [Boeknr.: 26863 ]

€ 55,00

SCHAPERA, I. (Ed.). Western civilization and the natives of South Africa. Studies in culture contact. London, George Routledge and Sons, 1934.Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt (spine sl. dam.). With 2 double-page maps and 11 photographic plates. XIV,312 pp. First edition. - Contributions by I. Schapera, W.M. Eiselen, W.G.A. Mears, G.P. Lestrade, Percival R. Kirby, a.o. [Boeknr.: 35013 ]

€ 45,00

SCHEBESTA, Paul. Among Congo pigmies. Translated from the German by Gerald Griffin. London, Hutchinson & Co., (1933).Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 3 maps and 89 photographic illustrations. 287 pp. First published in Leipzig in 1932 Bambuti, die Zwerge vom Kongo. - Paul Schebesta (1887-1967) wrote one of the first monographs on the pigmies in Africa. [Boeknr.: 8916 ]

€ 75,00

SCHILLINGS, C(arl) G(eorg). Mit Blitzlicht und Büchse im Zauber des Eleléscho. 11. Auflage. Leipzig, R. Voigtländer, (ca. 1922). Pictorial cloth (sl. soiled). With 83 photographic illustrations. 386 pp. Schillings (1865-1921), a German, was an astute observer and photographer of African wildlife besides being an able big game hunter (Czech p.247).Kainbacher p.366. [Boeknr.: 24685 ]

€ 45,00

SCHMALENBACH, W. (Hrsg.). Afrikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Genf. Mit Beiträgen von E. Castelli, Fr. Neyt, etc. Nachwort von Monique Barbier-Mueller. (München, Prestel Verlag, 1988). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 7 coloured maps and 295 illustrations (71 in colours). 320 pp. - One of the most important private art collections on African art. [Boeknr.: 26840 ]

€ 75,00

SCHMALENBACH, W. African art. New York, The Macmillan Company, (1954). Folio. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 148 illustrations (some in colours). 176 pp. - The author describes the different forms of civilization found in Africa. [Boeknr.: 27358 ]

€ 45,00

SCHOEMAN, Karel. (Ed.). Griqua records: the Philippolis captaincy, 1825-1861. Compiled and edited. Cape Town, 1994. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXXIV,330 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 25. - This volume comprises a collection of official and semi-official documents relating the Captaincy which existed at Philippolis in the modern Free State from 1826 to 1861, when it was transferred to Kokstad, Griqualand East. They provide a comprehensive picture of a poorly-documented aspect of the history of the Northern Frontier. [Boeknr.: 34551 ]

€ 25,00

SCHONKEN, F.Th. De oorsprong der Kaapsch-Hollandsche volksoverleveringen. Naar het handschrift gewijzigd en, met gebruikmaking van S. de Jong's vertaling uit het Duitsch, uitgegeven door D. Fuldauer. Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger,1914. Wrappers. With portrait. XXIII,212 pp. [Boeknr.: 19085 ]

€ 35,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven .3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf (modern boards), spine gilt. With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations and 27 (of 42) engraved plates by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676; large paper copy. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. - (Missing pp.291/292; portrait and 15 plates; last pp. stained).Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 36245 ]

€ 395,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven. 3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (extremities of spine skilfully rep.). With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 4 illustrations and 43 engraved plates (several folding) by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676 with the title Oost-indische voyagie; large paper copy with additional folding map: Nieuwe en nette zeekaart van de geheele waereldt. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. 'His book was extremely popular in northern Europe and was translated into German (1676) and French (1707 and 1725)' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, III,2, p. 955). - Belongs to the best travel stories written at the time. - A fine copy. Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 37617 ]

€ 2250,00

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