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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

FRASER, Donald. Winning a primitive people. Sixteen years'work among the warlike tribe of the Ngoni and the Senga and Tumbuka peoples of Central Africa. With an introduction by J.R. Mott. London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1914.Original blue cloth, with gilt vignette to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt (sl. soiled). With 2 maps and 27 photographic illustrations. 315 pp. First edition. - The author belonged to the Livingstonia Mission in Nyasaland, British Central Africa, which was founded in 1875, in memory of the great African traveller. [Boeknr.: 24822 ]

€ 45,00

STANLEY, Henry Morton. In darkest Africa or the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.2 volumes. Original green pictoral cloth (vol. I stained). With 2 steelengraved frontispiece portraits, 3 folding maps and 150 wood-engravings. XIV,547; XVI,540 pp. First American edition. - Account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley's (1841-1904) last African expedition (1887-1889) with 700 members. He ascended the Congo River and then marched across central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha, the German-born governor of southern Sudan's Equatoria province, who had been cut off from Anglo-Egyptian forces to the north since the outbreak of a Muslim revolt six years earlier. Together they explored the Semliki River and established it as the principal connection between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. While in the region, Stanley made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range (the fabled 'Mountains of the Moon') and arrived in Zanzibar in late 1889. He was the second European to cross Central Africa from west to east. Stanley had concluded treaties with various native chiefs which he transferred to Sir William Mackinnon's company and so laid the foundation of the British East African Protectorate - Internally good copy of Stanley's classic travel narrative, a monument in the history of African exploration.Hess & Coger 155; Howgego IV, p.876-877. [Boeknr.: 11891 ]

€ 375,00

STANLEY, Henry Morton. In darkest Africa or the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria. 5th edition. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1891.2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth. With 4 (3 folding) coloured maps, 38 plates and numerous wood-engravings. XV,529; XV,472;(2) pp. First published in 1890. - Account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley's (1841-1904) last African expedition (1887-1889) with 700 members. He ascended the Congo River and then marched across central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha, the German-born governor of southern Sudan's Equatoria province, who had been cut off from Anglo-Egyptian forces to the north since the outbreak of a Muslim revolt six years earlier. Together they explored the Semliki River and established it as the principal connection between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. While in the region, Stanley made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range (the fabled 'Mountains of the Moon') and arrived in Zanzibar in late 1889. He was the second European to cross Central Africa from west to east. Stanley had concluded treaties with various native chiefs which he transferred to Sir William Mackinnon's company and so laid the foundation of the British East African Protectorate - A very fine copy of Stanley's classic travel narrative, a monument in the history of African exploration.Hess & Coger 155; Howgego IV, p.876-877. [Boeknr.: 36676 ]