Africa from D & E Lake Ltd. (ABAC, ILAB)

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. & New York: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1914. Seventh Remodelled Edition. Hinrichsen E252. 16mo. pp. cxc, 458. with half-title. 22 maps & 85 plans (many in colour, many folding or double-page, some plans in text) & 55 text illus. index. original cloth. Fine copy. elala5983

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. & New York: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1914. Seventh Remodelled Edition. Hinrichsen E252. 16mo. pp. cxc, 458. with half-title. 22 maps & 85 plans (many in colour, many folding or double-page, some plans in text) & 55 text illus. index. original cloth (short splits in upper joints, small spot on… Read more about this item

Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd. & New York: Chas. Scribner’s Sons, 1929. Eighth Remodelled Edition. The first edition to mention the excavation of Tutankhamûn's tomb. Hinrichsen E253. 16mo. pp. cxc, 128, 133-458. with half-title. 105 (of 106) maps & plans (many in colour, folding or double-page, some plans in text) & 56 text illus.… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, Paris: Galignani, Boyveau, Malta: Christian Watson & Cairo: Livadas, 1891. Eighth Revised Edition. 2 Parts in 1. 12mo. pp. 15, [1], 568 (i.e. 572) + 52(ads). 34 maps, plans & illus. (some in colour, some folding, incl. large folding plan of Cairo, & large folding map of Egypt in rear pocket & some in text… Read more about this item

New York: International Publishers, [1967]. First Edition. 8vo. pp. xvi, 304. biblio. index. cloth. dola2475

Toronto: Rose Publishing Company (Ltd.), [1891]. First Canadian Edition. Jameson served as naturalist on the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition in 1888-89 to Equatoria under the direction of Henry Morton Stanley. He was left as second in command of the rear-column at Yambuya, in the Congo, where they were to wait for more provisions and carriers to be sent… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1896. First Edition. The British geologist made the first specifically scientific expedition to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo in 1892-93. In addition to geological information his work includes sections on flora and fauna, the local inhabitants, and the future prospects of British East Africa. Gregory was the first white man to ascend the mountain. He… Read more about this item

London: 1960. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l., ii, 321. folding map. wrs. dola2339

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood And Sons, 1863. First Edition. Speke had accompanied Richard Francis Burton in 1857 on an expedition sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society to the lake regions of equatorial Africa in search of the source of the Nile. Following their discovery of Lake Tanganyika, Burton despatched Speke to verify reports of another lake to… Read more about this item

London: William Heinemann, 1908. First Edition, one of 100 specially bound numbered copies with tipped-in plates, signed by Petrie. 4to. pp. xiv, 251, [1]. 48 tipped-in colour plates reproducing paintings by Petrie. tissue guards with legends. index. original black & gilt-stamped vellum, t.e.g., others uncut (covers somewhat soiled & spotted). elala5704

Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Company, [1926]. First American Edition. The Prince of Wales visited Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Cape Town, Basutoland, Natal, Transvaal, Rhodesia, St. Helena, Montevideo, Argentina, Chile and the Andes. 8vo. pp. xxi, 302. 46 illus. on 32 photo-based plates incl. frontis. index. cloth (covers with a few small stains). Uncut & largely unopened. elala5689

New York & London: The Century Co., 1924. First American Edition of this account of a photographer’s adventures in Kenya where he captured images of elephants, giraffes, buffalo, rhinoceros and hippopotami. Appended, pp. 217-305, is a monograph on the African elephant. 4to. pp. xx, [2], 311. index. 65 plates incl. double-frontis. after photographs by the author. index. pictorial… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1825. First Edition. Laing, a captain in the Royal African Colonial Corps stationed at Sierra Leone, was sent by the governor Sir Charles McCarthy to the Kambian and Mandingo countries in 1822 for the purpose of opening up commerce and endeavouring to abolish the slave trade in the region. Later that year he visited Falaba,… Read more about this item

Montreal: Printed By John Lovell, 1866. First Edition, published by subscription. Moodie spent ten years in South Africa, where he was magistrate at Umkomaas, Natal. His experiences there are related here on pp. 63-200. He left in 1829 and went on to settle in Canada, where he joined the provincial militia, rising to the rank of Captain and… Read more about this item

London: John Murray, 1825. First Edition of Major Gray's travels in western Africa to discover the source of the Niger River. Gray had assumed command of the expedition after the deaths of former leaders Major Peddie and Captain Campbell and set out from Gambia in 1818. Unfortunately he too was thwarted in his objectives by the loss of… Read more about this item

London & New York: G.Routledge & Co., 1858. First Edition, First Issue. "An account of hunting and sporting experiences in Kaffraria and Natal. The author joined a party of Boer hunters who were making an excursion into the plains under the Drekensburg mountains, near the sources of the Mooi river. He remarks on the wonderful eyesight possessed by… Read more about this item

London, Paris, New York & Melbourne: Cassell & Company, Limited, [c1886]. First Edition. 6 Volumes. 8vo. text in double columns. 30 wood-engraved plates (incl. portraits) & numerous wood-engravings in the text. A nice bright set in original black, gilt & blind-stamped pictorial cloth, all edges gilt (several stains to rear cover of Vol. V & Vol. VI with… Read more about this item

London...: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, for the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, 1954. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 1 p.l., x, 220. frontis. & 11 illus. on 3 folding plates. folding chart. maps in text. biblio. index. cloth. Very good copy

London: Simpkin Marshall, Ltd., 1929. First Edition of this biography of the South African mining magnate. Robinson [1840-1929] made a fortune mining diamonds at Kimberley and gold in the Witwatersrand. His ruthless business practices earned him the title of 'Old Buccaneer'. 8vo. pp. 248. 5 tipped-in photographic illus. (incl. frontis. portrait) & numerous text illus. original cloth (some discolouration… Read more about this item

London: Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1907. First Edition of this report on the excavations made in the Necropolis of Beni Hassan in 1902-04. Located high in the limestone cliffs on the east side of the Nile 245 kilometers south of Cairo, the necropolis belonged to local rules and military leaders and dates back to the Middle Kingdom from… Read more about this item