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• ALEXANDER James Edward. AN EXPEDITION OF DISCOVERY INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA; through the hitherto Undescribed Countries of the Great Namaguas, Boschmans, and Hill Damaras. Performed under the Auspices of Her Majesty's Government and the Royal Geographical Society... Henry Colburn, 1838. [10753]
  FIRST EDITION, Vol I only, 8vo, pp xxiv, 302, map, illustrations (marginal browning), original blue cloth, rubbed and worn. £45
  A scarce account.
  

• ALEXANDER James Edward. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF OBSERVATION AMONG THE COLONIES OF WESTERN AFRICA in the Flagship 'Thalia' and of a campaign in Kaffir-Land on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief in 1835. Henry Colburn, 1837. [10907]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxii, 428; xi, 352; frontispieces, maps, textual illustrations, original blue blind stamped cloth, inner hinge cracked. £850
  
  

• ANDERSON A G. OUR NEWEST COLONY. East African Standard, 1910. [10339]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 144, original green decorative cloth. £55
  
  

• ANDERSSON Charles John. LAKE NGAMI; or, Explorations and Discoveries during Four Years' Wanderings in the Wilds of South-Western Africa. Hurst & Blackett, 1856. [10838]
  FIRST EDITION, Royal 8vo, pp xviii, 546, (24), large folding map (repaired), 16 tinted lithographs (including frontispiece), textual illustrations, contemporary half calf, good and clean. £850
  Andersson, an Anglo-Swedish naturalist, and one of the great travellers and explorers of Africa, set out in 1850, with Francis Galton, to follow Livingstone's trail to Lake Ngami. Unlike Livingstone they approached from the west, across what is now Namibia, through unexplored Ovamboland and back to the coast. In 1853 Andersson tried again, this time alone, and successfully reached Ngami through Bechuanaland. Continuing on he attempted to reach the Okavango, but was again prevented by tribal disputes, and finally succeeded on a later expedition. He later became deeply involved in the tribal politics of south-west Africa, as champion of the Damara people. He was also an expert on South African birds.
  

• ANDERSSON Charles John. THE OKAVANGO RIVER; a Narrative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure. Hurst & Blackett, London: Osgood, 1861. [10837]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxiii, 364, advertisements, frontispiece, engraved portrait on title-page, 15 engraved plates, contemporary half calf, small nick to head of spine. £1600
  "A description of a hunting expedition through Namaqualand and Damaraland. Andersson intended to explore these countries right up to the Cunene or Nourse River, but the difficulties of the expedition, though encountered with indomitable courage, proved to be insuperable, and he had to turn back. He obtained, however, much valuable information, and his success as a hunter and collector was unique in this part of the continent. The coastline of South-West Africa is carefully described, and there is an interesting account of the once-famed guano island, Ichaboe." Mendelssohn Mendelssohn I, p42
  
  

• ANON. AN ACCOUNT OF THE ISLAND OF MAURITIUS AND ITS DEPENDENCIES; by a Late Official Resident. Jones, 1842. [10527]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 182, original brown blind stamped cloth, an ecclesiastical stamp on title-page, a very good copy. £495
  
  

• ANON. ALBUM OF SOUTH AFRICAN AND HUNTING PHOTOGRAPHS. np, nd, [1900.] [11321]
  48 PHOTOGRAPHS, 10 x 7 cms, some slightly faded, original blue cloth. £180
  
  

• ARBOUSSET T & DAUMAS F. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORATORY TOUR TO THE NORTH-EAST OF THE COLONY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. John C Bishop, 1852. [5355]
  First London Edition, small 8vo, pp 455, folding map, original blue cloth, a little wear to head and tail of spine, rubbing to joints, some light foxing to preliminaries. £165
  Inscribed "Miss Eardley from Mlle Arbousset, Geneva Sept. 1861."
  "An account of a tour taken by two French Protestant missionaries who were settled in Basutoland, to that part of South Africa between the Orange and the Vaal Rivers, which was mainly inhabited by the Bechuanas. The tour lasted about three months, and much of the information published was related for the first time, including notes on the Bushmen, Corannas, Basutos, Bechuanas, Griquas, Zulus, and other nations, with chapters on botanical and geological matters, hunting and even literature. There is a full account of the Zulu army, including the names of the regiments, together with those of the Commanders, Lieutenants, and sub-Lieutenants, and there are interesting accounts of Chaka and Dingan, with a description of the death of the former, and an ode to the latter." p49. Mendelssohn I
  
  

• ARKELL-HARDWICK A. AN IVORY TRADER IN NORTH KENIA; the Record of an Expedition through Kikuyu to Galla-Land in East Equatorial Africa, with an account of the Rendili and Burkeneji tribes. Longmans, Green, 1903. [10498]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 368, advertisements, folding map, frontispiece, 15 plates, 4 small faded photographs on verso of half-title, original blue decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover (warrior), spine faded, stain on lower cover. £2000
  Signed and inscribed. "The author hunted along the Guaso Nyiro in Kenya, bagging buffalo and rhinoceros. His party attempted to reach the Lorian Swamp, but, having failed, they returned to the Guaso Nyiro where hippopotamus and giraffe were collected. There are numerous additional sporting incidents after rhino, gazelle, and other game, including a successful elephant hunt by a member of the party. After encounters with hostile Kikuyus, the expedition headed into western Kenya where more rhino were taken, as well as kongoni." p7 Czech
  
  

• ASHE Robert P. TWO KINGS OF UGANDA; or, Life by the Shores of Victoria Nyanza. Sampson Low... 1889. [10914]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp ix, (iv), 342, appendices, advertisements, folding map, 4 illustrations, original green decorative cloth, fine. £450
  a signed copy to "Adair Hare with love from Robert P Ashe".
  

• BACKHOUSE James. A NARRATIVE OF A VISIT TO THE MAURITIUS AND SOUTH AFRICA. Hamilton, Adams, 1844. [10890]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xiv, 648, 56, 2 maps, 16 etchings, 28 woodcuts, original black blind stamped cloth, very well re-cased with new endpapers, very good. £650
  The volume commences with an account of the author's visit to Mauritius, where he stayed about three months. Mr Backhouse had evidently a good knowledge of botany, and throughout the volume there are ample descriptions of the flora of the country. There is also a narrative of a journey to Great Namaqualand, and there are maps of Mauritius and South Africa. Mendelssohn I, p62.
  
  

• BAIKIE William Balfour. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORING VOYAGE UP THE RIVERS KWO'RA AND BI'NUE; (commonly known as the Niger and Tsa'dda) in 1854. John Murray, 1856. [10892]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 456, frontispiece, folding plan, folding map, vignette on title-page, original blue cloth, spine faded, internally very good and clean.purple blind stamped cloth, inner hinge cracked, spine faded with wear to head, corners rubbed, small hole in cloth on upper board (½ cm), internally good. £750
  An account of the first successful Niger expedition of 1854. Dr Baikie, a naval surgeon, who carried quinine on the voyage which resulted in no crew members dying of fever. They also proved that the Chadda and the Benue were the same river.
  

• BAKER Samuel W[hite]. THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA; and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs. Macmillan, 1867. [8543]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo pp xxii, (i) list of illustrations, (i) blank, 596, 2 maps (1 folding), portrait frontispiece, 23 engraved plates, 1 map repaired, recent blue half morocco, light foxing to preliminaries. £220
  A record of the author's preliminary journey, in the course of which he mastered Arabic and acquired the use of astronomical instruments. Murchison praised the discovery of the fact that Nile sediments were due to Abyssinian tributaries.
  

• BALDWIN William Charles. AFRICAN HUNTING; and Adventure from Natal to the Zambesi, including Lake Ngami, the Kalahari Desert, etc. From 1852 to 1860. Richard Bentley 1863. [10843]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp x, 451, folding map, frontispiece, numerous illustrations, original green decorative cloth, gilt vignette of lion attacking horse and rider on upper cover, very good and clean. £500
  Mendelssohn I, p73: "Mr Baldwin penetrated through Natal, Zululand, the Transvaal, Bechuanaland, Matabeleland, and Namaqualand, in days when some of these countries were hardly known even by name, and he was the second European to reach the falls of the Zambesi River, now famous as the Victoria Falls. On his arrival in Natal, in 1851, he joined a well-known hunter, known as 'Elephant White', and served his apprenticeship to the life of a hunter in his company."
  
  

• BARNARD Frederick Lamport. A THREE YEARS' CRUISE IN THE MOZAMBIQUE CHANNEL FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE TRADE. Richard Bentley, 1848. [9981]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 319, recent red/brown buckram, faint blind stamp on title-page. Scarce £750
  Mendelssohn I, p82: "The expedition left Mauritius on the 9th of December 1842, and was actively engaged in carrying out the objects of the cruise during nearly the whole of three years, in the course of which many visits were paid to the ports and islands of the eastern and southern coasts of South Africa. During part of the year 1846, the ship (H.M.S.'Thunderbolt') was engaged in doing transport work for the Kaffir War, and there is a narrative of some incidents of the campaign. Early in 1847 the 'Thunderbolt' was ordered to Algoa Bay to embark the 90th regiment, but unfortunately she struck a sunken rock near Cape Recife, in sight of her destination. Strenuous exertions were made to save the vessel, but in spite of the aid of two ships, the 'Eurydice' and the 'President', she became a total wreck."
  
  

• BARNES Gorell. BABES IN THE AFRICAN WOOD. Longmans, Green, 1911. [10799]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 247, folding map, 69 illustrations, original green decorative cloth, vignette on upper cover, near fine. £100
  
  

• BARTH Henry. TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA; being a Journal of an Expedition undertaken under the auspices of HM's Government, in the Years 1849-1855. Longman, Brown, 1857. [10233]
  First English Edition, 5 vols, 8vo, 3 half-titles (as usual), 15 folding maps, 60 tinted lithographs, numerous textual woodcuts, some light spotting, original green blind stamped grained cloth, repair to head of Vol I, Vols IV and V re-cased and both repaired at head of spines, Vols II and III are a lighter shade of green. £1350
  The volumes are from the Library of Horace Arthur Prankerd.
  An important expedition, which in 1850 crossed the Sahara from Tripoli to Kano, thence to Lake Chad and finally returning from Timbuktu down the Niger and back to Tunis in 1855. This account, first published in German in the same year, gives a good description of Chad and includes much historical detail. Abbey    Travel    274; Playfair    Tripoli    256.
  
  

• BAUM James E. SAVAGE ABYSSINIA. Cassell, 1928. [10874]
  First UK Edition, 8vo, pp xix, 272, map on endpapers, illustrations, original brown cloth, near fine. £85
  
  

• BLACKBURNE-MAZE, C I. FROM ORIENTAL TO OCCIDENTAL AFRICA. W E Thorpe, 1914. [10595]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vi, 7-188, half-title, folding coloured map, 52 mounted photographs, original green decorative cloth, vignette (elephant head), teg, spine re-backed using original spine, spine faded. SCARCE £1600
  
  

• BLAKESLEY Joseph W. FOUR MONTHS IN ALGERIA; with a Visit to Carthage. Macmillan, 1859. [8235]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 441, 2 folding maps, 7 plates, original brown blind stamped cloth. £95
  Author's presentation copy.
  

• BLANC, Dr. THE STORY OF THE CAPTIVE. A Narrative of the Events of Mr Rassam's Mission to Abyssinia. Longmans Green, 1868. [10911]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 148, original brown cloth, near fine and RARE. £750
  
  

• BLENKINSOP Adam. A TRANSPORT VOYAGE TO THE MAURITIUS AND BACK; Touching at the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena. John Murray, 1851. [10913]
  FIRST EDITION, Crown 8vo, pp vii, 303, advertisements, contemporary brown half calf, near fine. £550
  "The author visited St Louis, and returning homewards, sailed for Cape Town in a small brig of 180 tons. It took him three weeks to arrive at Port Elizabeth, and he gives a short account of what existed of the town at this period. The author considered that the old name of Algoa Bay was far more suitable; and deprecated the custom of re-naming places in Africa, which was so prevalent at this time." p136 Mendelssohn I
  
  

• BLOUNT E. NOTES ON THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. John Murray, 1821. [10087]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 207, scattered light foxing, contemporary brown half calf, edges lightly rubbed, very good. £350
  
  

• BOID Edward. A DESCRIPTION OF THE AZORES; or, Western Islands from Personal Observation, comprising Remarks on their Peculiarities, Topographical, Geological, Statistical, etc, and on their hitherto Neglected Condition. Ed Churton, 1835. [8037]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 373, 8, folding map, lithographic frontispiece, illustrations, contemporary brown half calf, marbled boards, a handsome copy. £650
  
  

• BOTELER Thomas. NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY TO AFRICA AND ARABIA; Performed in His Majesty's Ships 'Leven' and 'Barracouta', from 1821 to 1826, under the Command of Captain F W Owen, RN. Richard Bentley, 1835. [8152]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxiv, 414; viii, 479; 4 lithographic plates, contemporary brown full polished calf, gilt, spine faded, joints rubbed, lower board Vol 1 scuffed with small loss of leather in 2 places, Eton binding. £1200
  This expedition was undertaken to survey and chart the south-east coast of Africa, Madagascar and the west coast of Africa. The book holds exceptional interest for these areas, but also for South Africa, Mozambique, whaling, slave trade, Zambesi, Seychelles, Mauritius, Congo, Old Callabar, Cameroons and Sierra Leone. There are good descriptions of the Cape and Port Natal, a disastrous sub-expedition to survey part of the Zambesi, and finally the expedition to survey the west coast. Of the two accounts of the expedition this is the less common.
  

• BOVILL, Major & ASKWITH G R. 'RODDY OWEN'; a Memoir. John Murray, 1897. [10301]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 279, advertisements, portrait frontispiece, 4 maps, 2 other portraits, original green cloth with a band of brown and pink cloth (faded and a little rubbed). £85
  Roddy Owen DSO (Brevet-Major Lancashire Fusiliers) was not only a valiant soldier, who served in East Africa and the NW Frontier, but a fine jockey and sportsman.
  

• BROCKLEHURST H C. GAME ANIMALS OF THE SUDAN; their Habits and Distribution. A handbook for hunters and naturalists. Gurney & Jackson, 1931. [6790]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 170, folding map, plates (12 coloured), illustrations, original brown cloth, blind stamped vignette on upper cover. £95
  
  

• BROWN Edward. THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF EDWARD BROWN ESQ formerly a Merchant in London, containing his observations on France and Italy; his voyage to the Levant; his account of the life of Malta; his remarks on his journeys through Lower and Upper Egypt; together with a brief description of the Abyssinian Empire. John Aplebee for A Bettersworth and C Hitch, 1739. [10915]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 434, 14 index, contemporary brown full calf, modern calf re-back. £500
  
  

• BROWN Monty. WHERE GIANTS TROD. Quiller Press, 1989. [10795]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp 431, maps in a pocket, numerous illustrations, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, near fine. £85
  Signed by author.
  

• BRYDEN Henry Anderson (Ed). THE GREAT AND SMALL GAME OF AFRICA; an Account of the Distribution, Habits, and Natural History of the Sporting Mammals with Personal Hunting Experiences. Rowland Ward, 1899. [10961]
  FIRST EDITION, large quarto, pp xx, 612, 15 hand coloured lithographs, numerous illustrations, original green cloth, near fine.
  [with]
  2 rare PAMPHLETS, pp 9; 2; green card. £4500
  Number 347 of 500, signed by Rowland Ward, the publishers. Czech 25
  
  

• BUCKLEY William. BIG GAME HUNTING IN CENTRAL AFRICA. Cecil Palmer, 1930. [10792]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 268, portrait frontispiece, 13 plates, original brown blind stamped cloth, a near fine copy. £300
  "One of the better elephant hunting titles. Buckley hunted pachyderms primarily near the headwaters of the Nile in Uganda Territory and the Manyema region of the Belgian Congo. His descriptions of the region are quite good. There is also mention of lion hunting near the Chari River." Czech Czech AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS, 1785 TO 1950, p26
  
  

• BURTON Richard & CAMERON Verney Lovett. TO THE GOLD COAST FOR GOLD. Chatto & Windus, 1883. [10552]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xii, 354; vi, 381; 2 folding maps, coloured plate, rebound about 100 years ago in blue half morocco, joints slightly rubbed, good and clean. £1850
  
  

• BURTON Richard F[rancis]. THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA; a Picture of Exploration. Longman Green 1860. [10653]
  FIRST EDITION, First Printing, 2 vols, 8vo, pp 412; 468; folding map, 12 chromolithographs, woodcuts, original purple cloth, neatly re-backed with small loss to head of spine, spines a little faded. £2500
  The purple cloth issue is rare. Penzer claims very few copies were sold and fetches a large price whenever it turns up, which is very seldom. Casada p46.
  
  

• BURTON Richard F[rancis]. THE LANDS OF CAZEMBE; Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798. Translated and annotated by Captain R F Burton, FRGS, also Journey of the Pombeiros, P J Baptista and Amaro José, across Africa from Angola to Tette on the Zambeze. Translated by B A Beadle, resumé of the journey of M M Monteiro and Gamitto by Dr C T Beke. John Murray, 1873. [10910]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vii, 271, large folding map frontispiece, original decorative cloth, slip case. £350
  Penzer p89
  
  

• BURTON Richard F[rancis]. WANDERINGS IN THREE CONTINENTS. Hutchison, 1901. [7525]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 313, photogravure frontispiece, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, t.e.g, spine faded. inner joint cracked, mark on front endpaper where label removed. £135
  
  

• BURTON Richard F[rancis]. WANDERINGS IN WEST AFRICA; from Liverpool to Fernando Po. By a FRGS. Tinsley Bros, 1863. [10398]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp viii, (i) contents, (i) blank, 303; (v), (i) blank, 295; half-titles, folding engraved map in Vol 1, engraved frontispiece in Vol 2, original brown cloth, some slight rubbing to spine, spine lightly faded, title-page shows the author to be "A. F.R.G.S.", but the spine shows"R F Burton F.R.G.S", very good. £1200
  Penzer p71.
  
  

• CAILLIÉ Réné. TRAVELS THROUGH CENTRAL AFRICA TO TIMBUCTOO and across the Great Desert to Morocco; performed in the years 1824-28. Henry Colburn, 1830. [10616]
  First English Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp viii, 475; xiv, 501 (1) imprint; folding engraved maps, portrait frontispiece, 5 plates (1 folding, 1 trimmed (some marginal foxing)), original blue boards, recent buff card spines, no half-title Vol I, clean and crisp. £980
  Published in the same year as the French edition.
  The author accompanied Gray's expedition in 1818 and lived with the Senegalese in 1824. In 1827 he travelled from Sierra Leone, reached the Niger and followed it to Kabara, the port of Timbuktu.
  

• CAMERON Verney Lovett. ACROSS AFRICA. Daldy, Ibister & Co, 1877. [11408]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xvi, 389; xii, 366, (8) publisher's list; large folding map loose in pocket of Vol 1, 4 facsimile plates (3 folding), 29 woodcut plates, original blue cloth, inner hinges cracked, 2 small marks upper cover Vol II. £250
  Cameron left England on an RGS mission to search for Livingstone. On hearing of Livingstone's death he decided to cross the continent on foot for some 3,000 miles from Zanzibar to Benguela.
  

• CAMPBELL Thomas. LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH. Henry Colburn, 1837. [10349]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xx, 354; xi, 358; 10 plates (3 folding), plan (Algiers), contemporary blue half calf, joints and corners rubbed, small split at head of Vol I, new labels on spine. £150
  
  

• CAPELLO H & IVENS R. FROM BENGUELLA TO THE TERRITORY OF YACCA; Description of Journey into Central and West Africa. Sampson Low, 1882. [10769]
  FIRST EDITION, Vol II only, 8vo, pp xv, 350, maps, illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, small wear to head and tail of spine, spine a little faded. £150
  
  

• CASATI Gaetano. TEN YEARS IN EQUATORIA and the Return with Emin Pasha...Translated from the Original Italian Manuscript by the Hon Mrs J Randolph Clay assisted by Walter Savage Landor... London & New York: Frederick Warne, 1891. [10889]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxi, 376; xv, 347; 4 folding maps in pockets, 2 frontispieces, 58 plates (many fully coloured or tinted), many other textual illustrations, original red decorative cloth, inner hinge cracked Vol I, very good and clean. £380
  Casati became Emin Pasha's companion and actively assisted him in his scientific work supplying most of the information about the Unyoro and Lower Welle
  

• CHANLER William Astor. THROUGH JUNGLE AND DESERT; Travels in Eastern Africa. Macmillan, 1896. [10956]
  First US Edition, large 8vo, pp xiv, 535, frontispiece, 2 folding maps in slip case, 19 plates, numerous illustrations, original blue cloth, gilt vignette (herd of hippopotamus), excellent. £850
  "Accompanied by Ludwig von Höhnel, the author set out on a scientific expedition to explore the regions north of the River Tana, between Lakes Rudolph and Stephanie and the Indian Ocean. Chanler preferred lightweight Winchester and Mannlicher repeating rifles as opposed to large caliber express rifles, and decried the notion of 'shocking' power as a sales tool of gunmakers. Near the Mackenzie River, the party bagged hippopotamus and rhinoceros. Following the Guaso Nyiro, they discovered the river dropping sixty feet over a course of black lava and named the flow Chanler Falls. They continued to hunt rhino as well as collecting oryx and other plains game, eventually bagging elephant near Rendile territory. A well-written work of discovery, adventure, and big game hunting." Czech p34 Czech BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICAN BIG GAME HUNTING BOOKS, 1785 TO 1950
  
  

• CHAPMAN Abel. SAVAGE SUDAN; its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life. Gurney & Jackson, 1921. [9398]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 452, map, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, t.e.g, vignette (wart hog) on upper cover, t.e.g, corners rubbed. £220
  "Chapman recounts his journey to Khartoum, then up the White Nile into Uganda. He hunted gazelle in the arid regions of the Sudan, then stalked tiang, hartebeest, and roan near the Sobat River. As he continued up the White Nile, he bagged waterbuck, cob, and lechwe. There are exciting encounters with buffalo, hippopotamus, and elephant, the latter near the Zeraf River. Additional hunting for rhinoceros and eland took place near the Blue Nile and Dinder Rivers." Czech, African Big Game, p35
  
  

• CHURCH Archibald. EAST AFRICA A NEW DOMINION; a Crucial Experiment in Tropical Development and its Significance to the British Empire. H F & C Witherby, 1928. [10455]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 315, map, illustrations, original black cloth. £45
  
  

• CLAPPERTON Hugh. JOURNAL OF A SECOND EXPEDITION INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA; from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo. John Murray, 1829. [10964]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xxvii, 355, portrait (marginal light foxing), folding map, plate, recent full brown speckled calf. £650
  
  

• CLOSE Etta. A WOMAN ALONE; in Kenya, Uganda and the Belgian Congo. Constable, 1924. [10927]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 288, map, original red cloth, near fine. £70
  
  

• COCKER Mark. RICHARD MEINERTZHAGEN; Soldier, Scientist and Spy. Secker & Warburg, 1989. [10350]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 292, illustrations, original black cloth, dust-jacket. £85
  
  

• COLVILLE H E. A RIDE IN PETTICOATS AND SLIPPERS. Sampson Low, 1880. [10625]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 328, advertisements, frontispiece, folding map, folding plan, original blue decorative cloth, neatly re-cased with small wear to head and tail, joints rubbed, new endpapers. £220
  
  

• COLVILLE Henry. THE LAND OF THE NILE SPRINGS... Ed Arnold, 1895. [4584]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 312, folding map, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, covers faded and water stained but internally clean. £120
  
  

• COMYN D C E. SERVICE AND SPORT IN THE SUDAN. John Lane, 1911. [10839]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxiii, 331, advertisements, maps (1 folding), original green decorative cloth, near fine. £190
  Comyn was an officer in the Black Watch and involved in the Sudan campaign against the Mahdi. Nevertheless he found time to hunt all the main game animals.
  

• COOLEY William Desborough. THE NEGROLAND OF THE ARABS EXAMINED AND EXPLAINED; or, an Enquiry into the Early History and Geography of Central Africa. J Arrowsmith, 1841. [6865]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 143, large coloured folding map, original green blind stamped cloth, recently re-backed. £260
  
  

• COOPER Joseph. THE LOST CONTINENT; or, Slavery and the Slave-Trade in Africa. Longmans, 1875. [9229]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 130, original green cloth, partially unopened, a near fine copy. £200
  
  

• COUPLAND Reginald. EAST AFRICA AND ITS INVADERS; from the Earliest Times to the Death of Seyyid Said in 1856. Clarendon Press, 1938. [10794]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 584, 2 folding maps, original red cloth. £80
  
  

• COX Melville Babbage. REMAINS OF MELVILLE B COX; Late Missionary to Liberia: with a Memoir. Light & Horton, 1835. [8841]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp iv, 240, portrait frontispiece, lithographed facsimile plate, original black cloth, some foxing to preliminaries. £75
  
  

• CRASTER J E E. PEMBA; The Spice Island of Zanzibar. T Fisher Unwin, 1913. [11004]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 358, (1) imprint, half-title, 30 plates (including frontispiece), folding map, original blue cloth, dust-jacket (small part of the spine has excised), near fine. £600
  
  

• CROWTHER Samuel. JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION TO THE NIGER AND TSHADDA RIVERS, Undertaken by MacGregor Laird Esq in connection with the British Government in 1854. Church Missionary House, 1855. [11020]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp xxii, 233, original blue blind stamped cloth, near fine. £650
  
  

• CUMMING Roualeyn Gordon. FIVE YEARS OF A HUNTER'S LIFE IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA; with Notices of the Native Tribes, and Anecdotes of the Chase of the Lion, Elephant, Hippopotamus, Giraffe, Rhinoceros. John Murray, 1850 & 1851 [11415]
  Mixed Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, Vol I pp xvi, 386; Vol II x, 381; map, 12 plates, 20th Century half calf, teg, very good. £320
  This was reprinted in 1888 as an abridged edition and titled THE LION HUNTER OF SOUTH AFRICA.
  Cumming met Dr David Livingstone in the bush during one of his hunting expeditions. "One of the classics of African big game hunting and exploration that recounts the seemingly endless herds of game in the region of Cumming's era and a necessary title in the big game library." Czech p43
  
  

• CUNNINGHAM J F. UGANDA AND ITS PEOPLES; Notes on the Protectorate of Uganda especially the Anthroplogy and Ethnology of its Indigenous Races. Hutchinson, 1905. [10885]
  FIRST EDITION, royal 8vo, pp xxix, 370, advertisements, map, 211 illustrations, coloured frontispiece, original blue decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, inner hinge cracked, clean. £280
  
  

• DALY Marcus. BIG GAME HUNTING AND ADVENTURE 1897-1936. Macmillan, 1937. [10904]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 322, illustrations, original green cloth, vignette, part of the blank endpaper has been excised (probably an ownership name), dust-jacket (some fading, very good. £350
  
  

• DAMBERGER Christian Frederick. TRAVELS THROUGH THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA; from the Cape of Good Hope to Morocco; in Caffraria, the kingdoms of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschako, Bahahara, Wangara, Haoussa, etc. etc. And thence through the Desert of Sahara and the North of Barbary to Morocco, between the years 1781 and 1797. T N Longman, 1801. [6933]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 299, folding map, 3 hand-coloured aquatints, 19th century brown half calf, a very good copy. £190
  "One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travels ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived literary deception. Much of the compilation is evidently based on Le Vaillant, as far as South Africa is concerned, and the author quotes liberally from his works, and is bold enough to contradict some of the statements contained in these volumes." p408 Mendelssohn I
  
  

• DAVIDSON John. NOTES TAKEN DURING TRAVELS IN AFRICA; of the Late John Davidson, FRS, FSA... J L Cox, 1839. [10962]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp 218, frontispiece (Wadnoon), frontispiece and title slightly foxed, original black cloth, re-backed retaining original spine, corners rubbed, a good copy of a rare account. £2500
  "Travelled as a physician in the sultanate of Morocco, 1835; murdered in the great desert at Swekeza, on his way to Timbuctu, 1836; an expert in Egyptology and the topography of the Near East; his notes of travel printed posthumously (1839)." The Concise Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography, I, p745
  
  

• DAVIS N. RUINED CITIES WITHIN NUMIDIAN AND CARTHAGINIAN TERRITORIES. John Murray, 1862. [6575]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 391, map, 8 plates, 4 vignettes, contemporary blue full polished calf (Eton school binding), slight rubbing to head and tail of spine. £75
  
  

• DAY Adela M. SUNSHINE & RAIN IN UGANDA. East Africa, 1932. [11409]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp 160, illustrations, original brown cloth, good. £95
  
  

• DE SAINT PIERRE J H B. A VOYAGE TO THE ISLE OF FRANCE; the Isle of Bourbon and the Cape of Good Hope; with Observations and Reflections upon Nature and Mankind. J Cundee, 1800. [10528]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp xxiv, 334, advertisements, 2 pages carelessly opened not affecting text, contemporary quarter brown calf, gilt spine with raised bands, small nick at head of spine. £900
  
  

• DENHAM, Major; CLAPPERTON, Captain & OUDNEY, Dr. NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN & CENTRAL AFRICA IN THE YEARS 1822, 1823, & 1824. Extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire with an Appendix... John Murray, 1826. [10935]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xlviii, 335, 269 appendix, maps, 36 plates (1 coloured), contemporary full red brown calf, slight rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine. £980
  
  

• DICKINSON F A. SHOOTING ON THE EQUATOR. Bodley Head, 1908. [10424]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 276, illustrations, original green cloth, small nick to head of spine. £260
  "Dickinson's approach is systematic, describing the haunts of each major species of wild game in East Africa including lion, kudu, oryx, eland, and other plains game, particularly near the Guaso Nyiro and the River Tana. There is an excellent chapter on stalking buffalo accompanied by some marvelous photos of the author hunting a wounded buffalo in the swamp regions near lakes Solai and Baringo." Czech p48
  
  

• DOKE Clement M. THE LAMBAS OF NORTHERN RHODESIA; a Study of their Customs and Beliefs. Geo Harrap, 1931. [2236]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 408, map, 110 illustrations, original blue cloth, dust-jacket. £50
  
  

• DONKIN Rufane. A DISSERTATION ON THE COURSE AND PROBABLE TERMINATION OF THE NIGER. John Murray, 1829. [10869]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 195,58 Letter to the Publisher of the Quarterly Review, 3 folding maps, contemporary brown diced russia. £1500
  He was Surveyor-General of the Ordnance and his theories of the source of the Niger were thought controversial at the time. He also founded Port Elizabeth in 1821 and named the city in memory of his wife, who died of a fever, in Meerut, in 1818. The loss of his wife drove him to commit suicide, eventually, in 1841.
  

• DORMAN Marcus R P. A JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN THE CONGO FREE STATE. J Lebegue, nd [1905.] [11387]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 192, map, plates, original beige cloth, recent red morocco label, scarce. £450
  The author was an adventurer who decided to travel around the Congo. He found the people hospitable and kind. He did some hunting during the trip, and left the Congo having much admiration for the country.
  

• DOYLE Charles. A NON-MILITARY JOURNAL; or, Observations made in Egypt, by an Officer upon the Staff of the British Army; describing the country, its inhabitants, their manners and customs; with anecdotes, illustrative of them. T Cadell, 1803. [11347]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xv, 149, folding panorama (Aboukir Bay), 1 lithographs, plate, some light occasional foxing to text but plates clean, contemporary black quarter morocco, spine and corners rubbed, preliminaries foxed. £750
  Hilmy p192
  
  

• DU VAL Charles. WITH A SHOW THROUGH SOUTHERN AFRICA; and Personal Reminiscences of the Transvaal War. Tinsley Bros, 1882. [4540]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 2 vols-in-one, pp viii, 290; vii, 230; portrait frontispiece, original red decorative cloth, a.e.g., spine faded, armorial crest of St James' Collegiate School, Jersey, on upper cover. £165
  "Mr Du Val was a well-known entertainer, and his visit to the Cape was in connection with his profession. After some stay in Cape Town he pursued his way to the north, and there is an account of the coach journey from Beaufort West to Kimberley, with an animated description of the diamond fields." p505 Mendelssohn I
  
  

• DUNDAS L M. A BIG GAME POCKET-BOOK FOR KENYA COLONY. H F & G W Witherby, 1927. [9453]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp 144, advertisements, illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, a very good copy. £160
  
  

• DUTTON E A T. THE BASUTO OF BASUTOLAND. Jonathan Cape, 1923. [6674]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 132, coloured frontispiece, 41 plates, map, original blue cloth. £110
  Signed presentation to F H D from Eric A T Dutton.
  

• DUTTON E A T. LILLIBULLERO; or, the Golden Road. Privately Printed, 1944. [8721]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 314, double-page map, original green cloth, small indentation on fore-edge. £220
  Limited edition of 100 copies this being No 10.
  

• ELLIS William. HISTORY OF MADAGASCAR. Fisher, nd (1838.) [10750]
  FIRST EDITION, Vol I only, pp xvi, 517, map, plates, original black cloth, joints split, small loss of cloth on spine. £50
  
  

• ELLIS William. THE MARTYR CHURCH; a Narrative of the Introduction, Progress and Triumph of Christianity in Madagascar. John Snow, 1870. [10691]
  FIRST EDITION (2nd thousand), 8vo, pp x, 404, advertisements, frontispiece, illustrations, original green cloth, spine rubbed with small wear, library label on front end-paper, clean internally. £55
  
  

• FENDALL, Brig-General. THE EAST AFRICAN FORCE 1915-1919. The Battery Press, 1992. [10416]
  FIRST EDITION, 8v, pp 238, map (repaired), illustrations, recently rebound in red cloth. £50
  
  

• FITZGERALD W F Vesey. EGYPT, INDIA AND THE COLONIES. Wm H Allen, 1870. [8227]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp iv, 246, advertisements, original red cloth, a very good, clean copy. £50
  
  

• FOÀ Edouard. AFTER BIG GAME IN CENTRAL AFRICA; Records of a Sportsman...from the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo...Translated from the French...by Frederic Lees. Adam & Chas Black, 1899. [10858]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp xxvii, (i) blank, 330, 10 advertisements, half-title, map, 29 plates, frontispiece portrait of author, many textual illustrations, original blue cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, t.e.g., a very good copy. £650
  The first edition was published in 1897. There is an account of Kimberley and the de Beers mine, Transvaal, Gazaland, Nyasaland and Central-East Africa. Included is a Tete vocabulary. Hosken p74; Mendelssohn I, p553 (French edition).
  
  

• FOTHERINGHAM L Monteith. ADVENTURES IN NYASSALAND; a Two Years' Struggle with Arab Slave Dealers in Central Africa. Sampson Low, 1891. [10262]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 304, 9 plates, textual illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, small wear to head and tail of spine, new endpapers. £275
  
  

• FREJUS Roland. THE RELATION OF A VOYAGE MADE INTO MAURITANIA IN AFRICA by Monsieur Roland Frejus, by the French King's Order, in the year 1666, to Muley Arxid, King of Tafiletta, for the Establishment of a Commerce in all the Kingdom of Fez, and all his other Conquests. With a Letter, in Answer to Divers Curious Questions concerning the religion, manner, and customs of his countries, also their trading to Timbuktu for gold, and divers other remarkable particulars by Monsieur A Charant, who lived 25 years in the Kingdom of Sus and Morocco.
  [with:]
  LETTER in Answer to Divers Curious Questions concerning the Religion, Manners and Customs of the Countrys of Muley Arxid King of Tafiletta, pp 71. W Godbid, 1671. [10894]
  First English Edition, small 8vo, pp viii, 119, advertisements, later brown full calf, spine re-backed using the original red morocco label. £3500
  
  

• GARDINER Allen F. NARRATIVE OF A JOURNEY TO THE ZOOLU COUNTRY IN SOUTH AFRICA. Wm Crofts, 1836. [10917]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp iv, 412, coloured frontispiece, 2 maps, 24 plates (1 coloured), recent brown half calf, clean and in a fine binding. £650
  
  

• GIBBONS A St H. EXPLORATION AND HUNTING IN CENTRAL AFRICA 1895-96. Methuen, 1898. [11417]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 408, advertisements, folding map, frontispiece, 25 illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, re-backed, corners rubbed, small wear to top edge, new endpapers. £300
  "A well-written account of the author's journey up the Zambesi into Barotseland and into the country of the Marotse. He ably describes the region, with attention paid to the area around Lake Victoria, Gibbons relates episodes of hunting buffalo, lion, roan, eland, hartebeest, and wildebeest in the region. His frontispiece portrait reveals Victorian mustachios to die for." p62 Czech
  
  

• GODDARD T N. THE HANDBOOK OF SIERRA LEONE. Grant Richards, 1925. [2678]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 335, maps, illustrations, original decorative cloth. £48
  
  

• GRANT James Augustus. BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION; an Enumeration of the Plants. Linnean Society, 1872. [10382]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp 190, 136 plates, folding map, half red morocco bound by Lewis & Harris of Bath, very good and clean. £450
  This work forms Vol 29 of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.
  

• GREGORY J W. LIVINGSTONE AS AN EXPLORER; an Appreciation. James Maclehose, 1913. [10689]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 38, large folding map, original dark grey wrappers, scarce. £65
  Presentation copy.
  

• HALIBURTON R G. HOW A RACE OF PYGMIES WAS FOUND IN NORTH AFRICA AND SPAIN. Arbuthnot, 1897. [7580]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 147, 2 plates, later blue cloth, library label on upper paste-down. £95
  Most copies do not have the first 14 pages for 'political reasons' but this copy does.
  

• HALL R N. GREAT ZIMBABWE, MASHONALAND, RHODESIA; an Account of Two Years' Examination Work in 1902-4 on behalf of the Government of Rhodesia. Methuen, 1905. [4139]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xliii, 459, maps, plates, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, spine faded, inner hinges cracked. £95
  A "detailed description of the ruins of Great Zimbabwe - the first given to the world in modern times." p672 Mendelssohn I
  
  

• HAMLEY W G. A NEW SEA AND AN OLD HAND; being Papers suggested by a Visit to Egypt at the end of 1869. Wm Blackwood, 1871. [8226]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 318, frontispiece, 6 plates, original black decorative cloth, a good copy. £55
  
  

• HERTZKA Theodore. FREELAND; a Social Anticipation. Chatto & Windus, 1891. [10471]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 443, 32 advertisements, original green pictorial cloth, corners bumped, a little rubbing to joints, internally clean.. £150
  The author attempted to establish a utopian community in the Kenyan highlands, an endeavour which collapsed the year after its inception. However, there is much of interest on the country of Kenya itself contained in his account of this venture, which has become a very rare book indeed, both for its African interest and as a record of late nineteenth century free-thinking.
  

• HINDE S L and H. THE LAST OF THE MASAI. Heinemann, 1901. [3779]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xix, 180, portrait frontispiece (Masai boy), coloured plate (shields), illustrations, original green decorative cloth, vignette on upper cover and spine, Mudies library label, cloth faded, corners bumped but internally a good clean copy. £215
  
  

• HINDLIP, Lord. SPORT AND TRAVEL; Abyssinia and British East Africa. T Fisher, Unwin, 1906. [9467]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 332, 2 maps, illustrations, recent red buckram, a good clean copy. £150
  
  

• HODSON Arnold W. TREKKING THE GREAT THIRST; Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert. T Fisher Unwin, 1912. [10766]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 359, folding maps, illustrations, lacks plate p160, original olive green decorative cloth, gilt vignette (hunter and game), otherwise very good. £90
  
  

• HODSON Arnold W. TREKKING THE GREAT THIRST; Travel and Sport in the Kalahari Desert. T Fisher Unwin, 1913. [10865]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp 359, 6 maps (5 folding), illustrations, original green decorative cloth, near fine. £250
  Mounted inscription on front free endpaper reads: "To Beatrice / with the Author's compliments / in memory of Wengen / 1923."
  

• HÖHNEL Ludwig von, Lieut DISCOVERY BY COUNT TELECKI OF LAKES RUDOLPH AND STEFANIE; a Narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's Exploring and Hunting Expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 and 1888. Longmans, Green, 1894. [10850]
  First English Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xx, 435; xii, 397; half-titles, folding coloured map at the end of each volume, portrait and many textual illustrations (some full page), original brown decorative cloth, fine. £1650
  One of the most important journeys undertaken in East Africa, and a foundation work on the area. The first edition in German appeared at Vienna in 1891 being closely followed by a Budapest edition (1891-2). In 1885 Count Telecki set out from Zanzibar to Kilimanjaro and thence northwards to make the important discovery of the two lakes (which now lie on the borders of Ethiopia and Kenya). There are good accounts of the Masai and Kikuyu.
  

• HOLDEN William C[lifford]. THE PAST AND FUTURE OF THE KAFFIR RACES. Wm Nichols, 1866. [4863]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 516, frontispiece, folding map, 11 illustrations, some light browning, original green cloth. £160
  
  

• HOLDGATE Martin. MOUNTAINS IN THE SEA; the Story of the Gough Island Expedition. Macmillan, 1958. [5307]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 222, maps, illustrations, original blue cloth, dust-jacket (small wear). £65
  Author signed copy. Neate H105
  
  

• HOOKER Joseph Dalton & BALL John. JOURNAL OF A TOUR IN MAROCCO AND THE GREAT ATLAS. Macmillan, 1878. [10866]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 499, panoramic frontispiece (folding), map (folding), plan (folding), illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, gilt vignette (Tower) on upper cover, fine. £900
  "Comprehensive account of the vegetation and geology, and of climbs in the Atlas Mountains." H109 Neate J. Mountaineering Literature
  
  

• HORNEMAN Frederick. THE JOURNAL OF FREDERICK HORNEMAN'S TRAVELS; from Cairo to Mouzouk, the Capital of the Kingdom of Fezzan in Africa, in the year 1797-8. W Bulmer, 1802. [10953]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xxvi, 195, 3 folding maps, page and contents list, brown full mottled calf, near fine. £750
  
  

• HOSKINS G A. TRAVELS IN ETHIOPIA; above the Second Cataract of the Nile; exhibiting the state of that country, and its various inhabitants under the domination of Mohammed Ali and illustrating the antiquities, art and history of the ancient kingdom of Meroe. Longman, 1835. [11358]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xix, 367, frontispiece, folding map, 54 plates (2 hand coloured, 4 chromolithographs), rebound in blue half morocco, handsome. £1400
  "Hoskins first visited Egypt and Nubia in 1832-33. His two books, the first published after his first journey, and the second in the year of his death, are important for comparing how many of the ancient monuments had been carried off or destroyed during the intervening period." p191 Howego 1800-1850
  
  

• HOTTEN John Camden. ABYSSINIA AND ITS PEOPLE. John Camden, 1868. [10352]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vi, 384, advertisements, frontispiece, folding map (small tear in a fold), 7 coloured plates, original blue cloth, joint on spine split, subscription library label on front endpaper. £100
  
  

• HUGHES J E. EIGHTEEN YEARS ON LAKE BANGWEULU. The Field, 1933. [10836]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xvi, 376, map on front end papers, numerous illustrations, original orange decorative cloth, neatly re-cased, internally clean. £2200
  Inscribed "With the Author's Compliments".
  "Hughes travelled to Nyasaland in 1901 as an assistant native commissioner in the British South Africa Company, eventually resigning his post in favour of becoming a full-time hunter and trader. Over the next decade, he explored and hunted around Lake Bangweulu and its attendant swampy region and the rivers Chambesi and Luapula. There are numerous hunting incidents, particularly after elephant, lion, buffalo, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros, with cheetah bagged near the Luena River. In addition, eland, sable, puku, sitatunga, warthog, and other game was collected. This is an excellent work of hunting and adventure with wonderful detail of the area (today's Zambia), and quite scarce." Czech, p80
  
  

• ISAACS Nathaniel. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN EASTERN AFRICA; Descriptive of the Zoolus, their Manners, Customs... With a Sketch of Natal. Ed Churton, 1836. [10903]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, pp xxiii, 356; 402; folding chart (Port of Natal), 4 lithographic plates, contemporary half calf, spines richly gilt, green morocco labels, extremities very slightly rubbed, green baize-lined slipcase, handsome. SCARCE £1800
  One of the most valuable accounts of the region. Isaacs describes Chaka's Zulu kingdom, and gives an account of his reign of terror and eventual assassination and succession, by the only slightly less despositic Dingan. A lad of seventeen, Isaacs travelled to Natal but on reaching his destination he was shipwrecked and effectively marooned until a vessel suitable for escape was completed three years later. Mendelssohn I, p760
  
  

• JACKSON Frederick. GAME BIRDS OF KENYA & UGANDA. Williams & Northgate, 1926. [9440]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 258, coloured illustrations, original blue cloth. £65
  
  

• JACKSON James Grey. AN ACCOUNT OF THE EMPIRE OF MAROCCO and the District of Suse; compiled from Miscellaneous Observations made during a Long Residence in, and Various Journies through these Countries. To which is added, an accurate and interesting account of Timbuctoo, the great emporium of Central Africa. W Bulmer, 1809. [10954]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xvi, 288, 2 maps (1 folding), 11 aquatints (5 folding), contemporary brown half morocco, corner and joints lightly rubbed, very good. £975
  
  

• JAMESON James S. STORY OF THE REAR COLUMN OF THE EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION. by the late James S Jameson, Naturalist to the Expedition. Edited by Mrs J S Jameson. R H Porter, 1890. [10891]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxii, 455, coloured folding map (river Congo) on 2 sheets, frontispiece portrait, 58 plates, 82 textual illustrations, 2 folding facsimile letters, original green cloth, gilt vignette on front cover, gilt title on spine, near fine. £400
  "Jameson joined the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition as naturalist, under the direction of Stanley and was left as second-in-command of the rear column in Yambuya. In May 1988, whilst visiting the Riba Riba settlement, he expressed the view that cannibalism was believed to be 'travellers' tales', or lies. Presently a young girl was killed and dismembered in his presence, until the last moment, he could not believe they were in earnest and was horrified and sickened by the sight. After his death, Stanley reported the story in 'The Times', reporting that Jameson had almost directly invited the girl's death. But his loyal determination to carry out Stanley's orders at all risks and the endurance of hunger, toil and illness, go far to counterbalance the incident that marred his fame." p1577 DNB II
  
  

• JANISCH Hudson Ralph. EXTRACTS FROM THE ST HELENA RECORDS. Guardian, 1885. [10060]
  FIRST EDITION, pp 240, original blue cloth, good. £380
  Janisch, the Governor of St Helena, compiled these extracts.
  This is C J Melliss's copy. He wrote A Few Thoughts for the Stranger and Resident in St Helena.
  

• JOHNSON Harry. NIGHT AND MORNING IN DARK AFRICA. Missionary Society, nd [1902]. [11391]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 223, frontispiece, illustrations, original green decorative cloth. £100
  
  

• JOHNSTON Harry H. BRITAIN: ACROSS THE SEAS; AFRICA. National Society's Depository, nd [1930]. [10801]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xix, 429, maps, illustrations, original black cloth. £55
  
  

• JOHNSTON Harry H. GEORGE GRENFELL AND THE CONGO; a History and Description of the Congo Independent State and Adjoining Districts of Congoland...and similar notes on the Cameroons and the island of Fernando Pð... Hutchinson, 1908. [11010]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxiii, (i) blank, 496; xx, 497-990; half-titles, portrait frontispieces, 6 maps (5 folding), numerous textual illustrations and maps, original brown cloth, faded in parts but internally clean. £140
  
  

• JORDAN John Alfred. ELEPHANTS AND IVORY; True Tales of Hunting and Adventure. Rinehart, 1956. [10682]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 259, original brown morocco-covered boards. £100
  Signed by the author.
  
  

• KEYNES Quentin. THE SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. Correspondence between Captain Richard Burton, Captain John Speke and Others, from Burton's Unpublished East African Letter Book. The Roxburghe Club, 1999. [10748]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxxi, 207, frontispiece tipped in (Burton), folding map, original green cloth, fine. £500
  
  

• KING L W. EGYPT AND WESTERN ASIA; in the Light of Recent Discoveries. SPCK, 1907. [4599]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xiv, 480, photogravure frontispiece, numerous illustrations, original red cloth, spine a little faded. £50
  
  

• KOLLMAN Paul. THE VICTORIA NYANZA; the Land, the Races and their Customs, with Specimens of some of the Dialects. Swan Sonnenschein, 1899. [10886]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp ix, (i) blank, 254, folding map, numerous illustrations, original red cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, small strip faded across top of upper cover (15mm), partially unopened, very good. £450
  Hosken p117
  
  

• KRAPF J Lewis. TRAVELS, RESEARCHES, AND MISSIONARY LABOURS; during an Eighteen Years' Residence in East Africa. Also a loose slip promoting Dr Vogel's book: Scientific Exploration in Central Africa. Trüber, 1860. [11416]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp liii, 566, portrait frontispiece, plates (2 folding), 12 tinted lithographs, folding maps, light spotting to portrait frontispiece, contemporary morocco, gilt, slight rubbing to spine, handsome. £1100
  "Krapf was the first to sight Mount Kenya, in 1849, his companion Rebmann having sighted Kilimanjaro the previous year. They were the earliest European explorers of the Kilimanjaro and Kamaba regions." Neate Neate MOUNTAINEERING LITERATURE K47
  
  

• LACY George "The Old Pioneer". PICTURES OF TRAVEL, SPORT AND ADVENTURE. C Arthur Pearson, 1899. [9381]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 420, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, spine slightly faded, a very good copy. £120
  Mendelssohn I, p859: "The author appears to have led a roving and adventurous life for many years, and the book contains accounts of thrilling hunting scenes in Swaziland, Natal and South Africa generally."
  Czech, African Hunting 1785-1950 p90
  
  

• LADE Robert. VOYAGES DU CAPITAINE ROBERT LADE en Differents Parties de l'Afrique, de l'Asie et de l'Amerique. Didot, 1744. [8765]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 12mo, pp 370; 360; 2 folding maps, contemporary brown speckled calf, gilt spines with raised bands, slight wear at head of spines, a handsome set. £350
  
  

• LAGERCRANTZ Carl. BLAND SKANDINAVER OCH STORVILT IN OSTAFRIKA. Hugo Gebers, 1930. [10797]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 237, map, illustrations, original decorative card covers, unopened. £50
  Presentation copy from the Author to Carl und Leopold.
  

• LANDER Richard & John. JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE COURSE AND TERMINATION OF THE NIGER; with a Narrative of a Voyage down that River to its Termination. John Murray, 1832. [10967]
  FIRST EDITION, 3 vols, small 8vo, pp lxiv, 272; 321; vii, 354; frontispiece (Eboe canoe) 2 frontispieces Lander Bros (slightly foxed), folding map, plates, textual illustrations, original grey cloth, spines sunned, upper cover cockled Vol I. £500
  
  

• LATROBE C I. JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOUTH AFRICA; in 1815 and 1816 with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren near the Cape of Good Hope. R Ackermann, 1818. [10614]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp vii, 406, folding map, 16 aquatints (12 coloured), some light marginal spotting throughout, contemporary diced calf, handsome. £1750
  On March 5, 1816, the author, accompanied by Mr John Melville, Government Surveyor at the Cape, Messrs Schmitt and Stein, and a number of Hottentot attendants, started for a journey into the interior, from Genadendal to the Witte River and thence to the Little Fish River.
  The 12 aquatints are beautifully coloured. Mendelssohn I, p.866; Abbey 325.
  
  

• LE VAILLANT François. TRAVELS INTO THE INTERIOR PARTS OF AFRICA; by the Way of the Cape of Good Hope, in the years 1780 to 1785. G G J & J Robinson, 1790. [10814]
  FIRST EDITION, pp xii, 395; early 19th Century calf, re-backed, VOL I only. £65
  Mendelssohn I p.889.
  
  

• LEARED Arthur. MAROCCO AND THE MOORS; being an Account of Travels, with a General Description of the Country and its People. Sampson Low, 1891. [10400]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xvi, 354, frontispiece, maps (1 folding), illustrations, original red blind stamped cloth, spine split on 1 side, some cloth missing at head of spine, spine faded, internally clean.
  This edition was revised and edited by Sir Richard Burton KCMG. £125
  The letter indicated that Leared sought outside help for his books.
  

• LETCHER Owen. BIG GAME HUNTING IN NORTH EASTERN RHODESIA. John Long, 1911. [10820]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 266, plates (lacks Hartebeeste p182), original red cloth, t.e.g, text clean. £75
  
  

• LETCHER Owen. BIG GAME HUNTING IN NORTH EASTERN RHODESIA. John Long, 1911. [10840]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 266, illustrations, some light occasional foxing, original red cloth, t.e.g. £400
  
  

• LETCHER Owen. THE BONDS OF AFRICA; Impressions of Travel and Sport from Cape Town to Cairo 1902-1912. John Long, 1913. [10320]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 268, map, illustrations, original green cloth, a little cockling to upper cover otherwise clean. £140
  "Letcher spent time hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia's Luangwa Valley after elephant and rhinoceros. In British East Africa, he bagged buffalo along the Guaso Nyiro River, as well as gerenuk, giraffe, oryx, gazelle, and other game. An often overlooked work with considerable big game hunting." Czech Czech p94.
  
  

• LONG Genesta. FRAGMENTS FROM AFRICA. Burrup, Mathieson, 1937. [10321]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 137, original buff cloth, spine slightly faded. £55
  
  

• LOOMIS Eben J. AN ECLIPSE PARTY IN AFRICA; Chasing Summer across the Equator in the USS 'Pensacola'. Roberts Bros, 1896. [10948]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 218, illustrations, original light blue cloth, slight rubbing to head of spine. £189
  
  

• LORD W B and BAINES T. SHIFTS AND EXPEDIENTS OF CAMP LIFE, TRAVEL & EXPLORATION. Horace Cox, 1876. [10955]
  Second Edition, large 8vo, pp iv, 734, 15 plates, numerous textual illustrations, original green cloth, spine slightly faded, good. £550
  This is a guide for travellers, explorers and settlers, founded on the experiences of the authors, and referring incidently to South Africa. It also covers Australia and North America. Mendelssohn I, p925.
  
  

• LUCAS Thomas J. CAMP LIFE AND SPORT IN SOUTH AFRICA; Experiences of Kaffir Warfare with the Cape Mounted Rifles. Chapman, Hall, 1878. [8860]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiii, 258, frontispiece, 3 tinted lithographs, original green decorative cloth, re-cased with new endpapers. £240
  "Lucas was a member of the Cape Mounted Rifles during one of the series of so-called Kaffir Wars that erupted in South Africa. While most of the text relates military adventures, the author found time to hunt wildebeest and lion in the kopje country near Bloemfontain." Czech Czech pp99-100
  
  

• LUCAS Thomas J. PEN & PENCIL REMINISCENCES OF A CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA. Day & Son, nd [1861.] [10870]
  FIRST EDITION, small quarto, pp 35, 21 coloured plates (a plate repaired in 2 margins, not affecting image). £750
  
  

• LYELL Denis D. THE HUNTING & SPOOR OF CENTRAL AFRICAN GAME; with life-size Illustrations of most of the Game Tracks. Seeley Service, 1929. [10815]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xiv, 234, advertisements, 38 plates, original brown cloth, spine and covers a little faded. £150
  
  

• LYELL Denis D. HUNTING TRIPS IN NORTHERN RHODESIA; with Accounts of Sport and Travel in Nyasaland and Portuguese East Africa, and also notes on the game animals and their distribution. Horace Cox, 1910. [10672]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xii, 118, (2) advertisements, half-title, frontispiece, 54 plates, errata slip tipped to page x, original green patterned cloth, vignette of the camp mounted on upper cover, near fine. £1100
  "Lyell recounts his experiences in the big game lands of Rhodesia with exciting details. All manner of games was collected, including elephant, hippopotamus, rhinoceros and lion. In addition, sable, impala, kudu, eland, lechwe, waterbuck and other antelopes were taken." Seeing game is more of a matter of knowing what looks like than exceptional eyesight, though one has to be very quick-sighted to catch sight of an animal before it has become aware of danger." Lyell." Czech p101
  
  

• LYELL Denis D. NYASALAND FOR THE HUNTER & SETTLER. Horace Cox, 1912. [10949]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, 116, map, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, slipcase, near fine, very scarce. £1500
  "While not a book of hunting adventures, this slender work does provide plenty of information on choosing a big-game rifle as well as the varieties of game encountered in Nyasaland. Several of the plates depict the spoor of wild beasts, a theme Lyell continued in later works. As he notes: 'To spoor an animal for miles is far more interesting than killing it, for tracking game is the highest branch of good hunting.' Of additional interest are the ads at the end of the book depicting all manner of British sporting firearms, ammunition, and equipment." p101 Czech
  
  

• LYNE Robert Nunez. ZANZIBAR IN CONTEMPORARY TIMES; a Short History of the Southern East in the Nineteenth Century. Hurst & Blackett, 1905. [10575]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 328, advertisements, portrait frontispiece, maps, plates, original blue decorative cloth. £260
  
  

• MACKENZIE John. AUSTRAL AFRICA; Losing It or Ruling It; being Incidents and Experiences in Bechuanaland, Cape Colony and England. Sampson Low, 1887. [10883]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xii, 515; viii, 525; frontispieces (1 photographic), maps, illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, very good. £300
  
  

• McLEOD John M D. A VOYAGE TO AFRICA with some Account of the Manners and Customs of the Dahomian People. John Murray, 1820. [10905]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp 164, 4 plates, contemporary brown half calf, an excellent copy and RARE £1100
  
  

• McLEOD Lyons. TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA; with the Narrative of a Residence in Mozambique. Hurst & Blackett, 1860. [10882]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp viii, 341; vi, 347, (1) imprint; vignette on title-pages, portrait frontispiece (author) and folding map in Vol 1, coloured lithographic frontispiece Vol 2, purple blind stamped cloth, re-cased, very good. £750
  "The author gives some account of the Cape Colony and of St Lucia, Zululand, Delagoa Bay, and the Portuguese settlements on the East Coast of Africa, together with a description of Mozambique and some details respecting the slave traffic. A full narrative is given of the seizure of the 'Charles et Georges', and of the subsequent attack of the negroes on the British Consulate." Mendelssohn I, p961 Abbey 277; Hosken p133; Tenri Library 1397
  
  

• MacMICHAEL H A. BRANDS USED BY THE CHIEF CAMEL-OWNING TRIBES OF KORDOFÁN. UP, 1913. [10778]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 40, 12 plates, original purple cloth £220
  
  

• MacMICHAEL H A. THE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL KORDOFÁN. University Press, 1912. [10893]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 259, folding map in pocket, illustrations, original purple cloth, a very good copy.
  
  [with:]
  
  MacMICHAEL H A. CAMEL BRANDS USED IN KORDOFAN. Cambridge UP, 1913.
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 40, 17 plates, original purple cloth.
  This work is a supplement to THE TRIBES OF NORTHERN AND CENTRAL KORDOFÁN and is a scarce work. £750
  
  

• MALLETT Marguerite. A WHITE WOMAN AMONG THE MASAI. Fisher Unwin, 1923. [10928]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 288, frontispiece, illustrations, original blue cloth, very light rubbing to a spine edge. £95
  
  

• MASSAM J A. THE CLIFF DWELLERS OF KENYA; an Account of a People Driven by Raids, Famine and Drought to take Refuge on the Inaccessible Ledges of Precipitous Mountains... Seeley Service, 1927. [2943]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 268, advertisements, maps (1 folding), illustrations, original decorative cloth. £68
  Ex Munger Africana Library.
  

• MAXWELL Marius. ELEPHANTS AND OTHER BIG GAME STUDIES FROM "THE TIMES". Times Publishing, 1930. [10934]
  FIRST EDITION, oblong folio, 28 sepia photographs, original black cloth, dust-jacket (scarce). £100
  
  

• MAXWELL Marius. STALKING BIG GAME WITH A CAMERA; in Equatorial Africa with a monograph on the African Elephant...Preface by Sir Sidney F Harmer. Heinemann, 1925. [10933]
  Second Edition, quarto, pp xxiv, 206, (1) imprint, half-title, folding map of Kenya, 3 large folding photogravure plates (including frontispiece), 110 other photogravures, original green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, near fine. £300
  Signed copy by the author to J B Burlace.
  

• MEIKLE R(obert) S & MEIKLE M E, Mrs. AFTER BIG GAME; the Story of an African Holiday. T Werner Laurie, 1915. [10425]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 327, folding map, 31 plates, original green cloth, gilt title on spine and upper cover. £175
  "The first third of this book relates the authors' travels on the Uganda Railway and an excursion to German East Africa. With a safari consisting of 144 members, the Meikles proceeded to hunt in British East Africa near Guaso Nyiro." Czech p112
  
  

• MEINERTZHAGEN Richard. KENYA DIARY 1902-1906. Oliver & Boyd, 1957. [10326]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 347, illustrations, original brown cloth, dust-jacket (small wear, a corner bumped). £165
  
  

• MEINERTZHAGEN Richard. THE LIFE OF A BOY. Oliver & Boyd, nd [1947.] [10347]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, 181, portrait frontispiece, 6 plates, original blue cloth, dust-jacket, fine. £95
  
  

• METHUEN Henry H. LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS; or, Wanderings in South Africa. Richard Bentley, 1848. [10925]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xxi, 363, 2 plates, illustrations, original red blind stamped cloth, near fine. £200
  An early work of travel and sport, in this the author trekked to the Orange and Vaal rivers, eventually venturing into Griqualand during an eight-month sporting safari. He hunted elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, eland, sable, giraffe, gemsbock and other game, including quite a few encounters with buffalo: "...a man is safer even under the paws of a wounded lion, than under the head of an infuriated buffalo". Much of the book is written in journal form.
  

• MOCKLER-FERRYMAN A F. BRITISH NIGERIA; a Geographical and Historical Description of the British Possessions adjacent to the Niger River, West Africa. Cassell & Co, 1902. [10832]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 351, (1) imprint, folding coloured map, numerous plates, original green cloth, very good. £85
  "I have endeavoured to lay before the reader a plain, unvarnished take of the past, a statement as to the present condition of affairs, and a forecast of the future." Preface
  

• MONTEIRO Joachim John. ANGOLA; and the River Congo. Macmillan, 1875. [10898]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp ix, 305; iv, 340; folding map, 16 plates, original green decorative cloth, slight cockling to covers of Vol II, otherwise a handsome set. £650
  
  

• MOODIE, Duncan C F. THE HISTORY OF THE BATTLES AND ADVENTURES OF THE BRITISH, the Boers and the Zulus...in South Africa. Murray & St Leger, 1888. [11359]
  First African Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxiv, 598; xix, 600, maps and plates, original red decorative cloth, good and clean. £250
  
  

• MOORE Audrey. SERENGETI; an Account of the Wild Life and Safari in the African Game Sanctuary. Country Life, 1938. [9672]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 265, plates, original green cloth, joints slightly rubbed. £35
  
  

• MORELL John Reynell. ALGERIA; the Topography and History, Political, Social and Natural, of French Africa. Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. [8176]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 490, illustrations, contemporary red decorative cloth (a very good prize binding), fine vignette (possibly of Lady Dufferin on a camel) on upper cover, a.e.g, spine rubbed at head. £55
  
  

• MOUNTENEY-JEPHSON A J. EMIN PASHA AND THE REBELLION AT THE EQUATOR; a Story of Nine Months' Experiences in the Last of the Soudan Provinces...with the revision and co-operation of Henry M Stanley. Sampson Low, 1890. [10259]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xxiv, 490, advertisements, map, illustrations, some occasional foxing,original red decorative cloth, spine rubbed. £135
  
  

• MURRAY T Douglas & WHITE A Silva. SIR SAMUEL BAKER; a Memoir. Macmillan, 1895. [11390]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 447, maps, illustrations, original black blind stamped cloth, vignette, very good. £140
  
  

• NACHTIGAL Gustav, Dr. SAHARA UND SUDAN; Ergebnisse Sechsjähriger Reisen in Afrika. Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Wiegandt, 1879-81. [10270]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxii, 748; (20) appendix; xxiv, 790, (2) advertisements, 6 loose maps in pockets, numerous plates and illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, gilt vignette, slipcase, crease down spine of Vol I, ink mark 1'' on upper cover of Vol II. £600
  A third volume was printed in 1889.
  In 1869 Nachtigal travelled from Tripoli to Murzuk thence into Tibesti country. in 1870 he travelled again into the Eastern Sahara to Lake Chad. He then attempted the return journey which had eluded Vogel, through Darfur to Kordofan arriving in Cairo in 1874. The third volume of his account appeared after his death.
  "Nachtigal added greatly to geographical knowledge. He was the first European who penetrated the Eastern Sahara to Tibesti; he was the first to connect that are of exploration, with which the name of Barth is associated, with the region of the Nile. Further his lengthy stay in the neighbourhood of Lake Chad he was able to put forward some new theories as to the Welle River discovered by Schweinfurth." Baker p322.
  

• NEUMANN Arthur H. ELEPHANT HUNTING IN EAST EQUATORIAL AFRICA; being an Account of Three Years' Ivory Hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. Rowland Ward, 1898. [8745]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xix, 447, (16), folding map in pocket at end, frontispiece, coloured plate of butterflies and numerous illustrations, recently handsomely bound in red full morocco, clean and crisp throughout. £680
  One of the best of the African big game hunting books. Hosken p148
  
  

• NEUMANN Arthur H. ELEPHANT HUNTING IN EAST EQUATORIAL AFRICA; being an Account of Three Years' Ivory Hunting under Mount Kenia and among the Ndorobo Savages of the Lorogi Mountains, including a trip to the north end of Lake Rudolph. Rowland Ward, 1898. [10800]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xix, 447, (16), folding map in pocket at end, frontispiece, coloured plate of butterflies and numerous illustrations, original red cloth,label at top of spine, small crease mark at top of upper cover. £1350
  One of the best of the African big game hunting books. Hosken p148
  
  

• NEW Charles. LIFE, WANDERINGS, AND LABOURS IN EASTERN AFRICA; with an Account of the First Successful Ascent of the Equatorial Snow Mountains, Kilimanjaro; and remarks upon East African Slavery. Hodder & Stoughton, 1874. [9343]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp 528, portrait frontispiece, 10 tinted plates, folding map (taped in folds), contemporary brown full decorative morocco, aeg, joints a little rubbed, a good, clean copy. £390
  
  

• NIXON John. THE COMPLETE STORY OF THE TRANSVAAL; from the 'Great Trek' to the Convention of London. Sampson Low, 1885. [3007]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 372, folding map, original grey cloth, worn at head and tail, inner joint cracked, corners bumped and rubbed. £38
  
  

• NORRIS-NEWMAN Charles L. WITH THE BOERS IN THE TRANSVAAL AND ORANGE FREE STATE IN 1880-1. Wm H Allen, 1882. [7095]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 387, folding map, original brown decorative cloth, neatly re-cased using original spine. £45
  
  

• N'ZAU Bula (BAILEY Henry). TRAVEL AND ADVENTURES IN THE CONGO FREE STATE and its Big Game Shooting. Chapman & Hall, 1894. [10809]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 335, map, illustrations from the author's sketches, original black cloth,small crease on lower cover. £380
  
  

• OLIVER Daniel. FLORA OF TROPICAL AFRICA. L Reeve, 1868. [6976]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xiv, xli, 479, original green cloth, spine rubbed, ALS tipped-in to front paste-down, . £125
  This is Vol 1 of 10 and was presented to Col James Augustus Grant by HM Office of Works and has been endorsed by him. The letter is also signed by Grant acknowledging receipt of the book.
  

• OLIVER William Dudley. CRAGS AND CRATERS; Rambles in the Island of Réunion. Longmans, Green, 1896. [5602]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp xiv, 213, folding map, frontispiece, 26 illustrations, original green cloth, a very good clean copy. £155
  A scarce work.
  

• OWEN W[illiam] F[itz] W[illiam]. NARRATIVE OF VOYAGES TO EXPLORE THE SHORES OF AFRICA, ARABIA AND MADAGASCAR; Performed in HM Ships 'Leven' and 'Barracouta'. Richard Bentley, 1833. [10353]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxiii, 434; viii, 420; frontispieces, 4 folding charts, 8 plates, contemporary maroon decorated calf, spine faded, a little foxing to frontispiece, but otherwise a very good set. £1650
  "The journals of Captain Owen and his officers were edited and prepared for press by Mr Heaton Bowstead Robinson, and contain a large amount of varied information respecting many portions of Africa in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. There are a number of notes on the Cape, where Captain Owen instructed Lieutenant Vidal to survey the whole of the peninsula and the shores of False, Haut (Hout), and Table Bays. Later on a general survey of the South Coast of Africa was carried out by the expedition, "from Cape Hangclip to the eastward, as far as the Keiskamma River, and from thence northward to Delagoa Bay". Considerable information is afforded regarding the state of the country in the vicinity of the coasts, together with interesting notes on Chaka and the Zulus, and the natives of Delagoa and Kaffraria. There are large charts of Delagoa Bay and the coasts of the Cape, and some illustrations, &. &." Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn II, p133.
  
  

• PADDOCK Judah. A NARRATIVE OF THE SHIPWRECK OF THE 'OSWEGO' on the Coast of South Barbary, and of the Sufferings of the Master and the Crew while in Bondage among the Arabs. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1818. [9597]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xvi, 372, contemporary brown tree calf, later reback. £190
  
  

• PARKE Thomas Heazle. MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA as Medical Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Sampson Low, 1891. [10872]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxviii, 526, publisher's list, portrait frontispiece (author), 16 engraved plates, large folding coloured map loose in a pocket of the lower cover, original olive cloth, vignette (2 children), very good and clean, inner hinges cracked , very good and clean. £550
  The author, an Irish surgeon, joined the Army Medical Corps in 1881 and was stationed in Egypt. In 1884 he took part in the expedition for the relief of General Gordon. Tenri 1958, Hosken p154.
  
  

• PARR Henry Hallam. A SKETCH OF THE KAFIR AND ZULU WARS; Guadana to Isandhlwana. C Kegan Paul, 1880. [9525]
  FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp 283, advertisements, 1 folding map (some marks where sellotape has been removed), 4 battle plans, 1 textual battle plan, original green decorative cloth, re-cased, a little wear to spine, slight marginal fraying at fore-edge of title-page and half-title. £800
  Author's presentation copy to F Barber. Mendelssohn II, pp141-2: "A portion of the volume is devoted to an account of the Zulu War, and in Chapter V the author examines the causes which led to the hostilities, and gives a sketch of Cetywayo's policy and character, together with some particulars respecting the mobility of the Zulu army, and it is maintained that a Zulu Impi could cover forty or fifty miles a day".
  
  

• PASHA Emin, COLLECTION OF RELATED MATERIAL. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS DATED 1886-87 1. Referring to Correspondence respecting the Expedition for the Relief of Emin Pasha.
  2. A Copy of a Thesis on Emin Pasha by Omar Abdin Mustafa (American University of Beirut, Lebanon). pp 89
  3. Large Map of the Routes of 'The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition from the River Congo to the Victoria Nyanza by Henry M Stanley'.
  4. A Victorian Card showing Emin Pasha being helped by Stanley.
  4, An RGS Journal (September 1969 with New Light on the Expedition.
  PLUS
  Later Material and Newspaper Cuttings Parliamentary Papers, 1886-7 1886. [10727]
  £250
  
  

• PEARCE F B. ZANZIBAR; the Island Metropolis of Eastern Africa. T Fisher Unwin, 1920. [6918]
  Second Impression, large 8vo, pp xii, 431, maps, illustrations, original blue blind stamped cloth, inner hinge cracked but a clean copy. £210
  
  

• PEEL Sidney. THE BINDING OF THE NILE AND THE NEW SOUDAN. Ed Arnold, 1904. [10880]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 288, frontispiece, folding map, original blue cloth, near fine. £200
  
  

• Peiner Zeitung. TWO NAZI PARTY NEWSPAPERS WITH DEATH NOTES AND OBITUARY OF THE AFRICAN EXPLORER. 1943. [10950]
  Newspapers have the obituary of Dr Carl Peters, the African Explorer. £25
  
  

• PEREISTIANY J G. THE SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE KIPSIGIS. Geo Routledge, 1939. [4213]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxxiv, 288, maps, illustrations, original red cloth, spine faded. £120
  
  

• PETHERICK John. EGYPT, THE SOUDAN AND CENTRAL AFRICA; with Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator. Wm Blackwood, 1861. [10855]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 482, half-title, folding map, contemporary red full calf, gilt armorial crest, an edge rubbed, otherwise good and clean. £600
  Petherick, in the course of a number of journeys made between 1848 and 1863, penetrated to the Niam-Niam district, to the north of the Welle river. He was the first European to encounter the Azande of north-eastern Congo (now Zaire). Gay 2737; Ibrahim-Hilmy p109
  
  

• PINTO A A de Serpa. HOW I CROSSED AFRICA; from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, through Unknown Countries, Discovery of the Great Zambesi Affluents, etc. Sampson Low, 1881. [10846]
  First English Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxx, 377; vii, 388;15 maps (1 folding in a new half calf slipcase) map, facsimiles, 132 illustrations, contemporary brown half calf, good. £850
  "The author was chosen by the Portuguese government to take a leading position in the expedition sent by them to explore South Central Africa. Messrs Capello and Ivens were also associated with the expedition, but the travellers parted company in 1878, and Serpa Pinto went his own way. He arrived at Loando on August 6, 1877, and his long journey to the Indian Ocean was made in intervals between attacks of fever which often threatened his life." Mendelssohn Mendelssohn II, p168.
  
  

• POPE Henry E. A WINTER IN ALGIERS; or, the Corsair and his Conqueror. Richard Bentley, 1860. [10022]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 342, lithographic frontispiece, a.e.g, original blue decorative cloth. £85
  
  

• PORTAL Gerald. THE BRITISH MISSION TO UGANDA IN 1893. Ed Arnold, 1894. [10873]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 351, advertisements, photogravure frontispiece, folding map, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, gilt. £450
  Sir Gerald Herbert Portal (1858-1994) "a man of handsome presence and athletic mould, and possessed of tact, firmness, and daring". DNB. He was the diplomat sent to Uganda as the British Commissioner to report on the governance of the country and whether it should become British colony. Although he died of a fever contracted in Africa before his book was published, his recommendations were ultimately adopted. The work includes an introduction by Lord Cromer; a memoir of Portal by the editor, Rennell Rodd; the diary of Portal's brother, Raymond, who died on the mission; and photographs by Francis William Rhodes (brother of Cecil), who was Portal's chief-of-staff.
  

• PORTAL Gerald, Sir. MY MISSION TO ABYSSINIA. Edward Arnold, 1892. [9144]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp viii, 261, portrait frontispiece, folding map, 8 plates, original purple decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, very good and clean. £200
  
  

• POWELL E Alexander. THE MAP THAT IS HALF UNROLLED; Equatorial Africa from the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic. John Long, 1926. [6746]
  First UK Edition, 8vo, pp xvi, 356, 2 maps, illustrations, original blue cloth, head and tail of spine a little rubbed. £30
  
  

• POWELL-COTTON P H G. IN UNKNOWN AFRICA; a Narrative of Twenty Months' Travel and Sport in Unknown Lands and among New Tribes. Hurst & Blackett, 1904. [9292]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxiii, 619, 2 coloured plates, numerous illustrations, 2 folding maps, original dark blue decorative cloth, vignette (giraffe head) on upper cover, gilt spine titles and vignette (native), new endpapers, a very good clean copy. £750
  
  

• PRIOR James. VOYAGE ALONG THE EASTERN COAST OF OF AFRICA; to Mosambique, Johanna and Quiloa, St Helena, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia and Pernambuco in Brazil, in the 'Nisus' Frigate. Richard Phillips, 1819. [10452]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vi, 3-114, 2 folding maps, plate (View of the Town and Fort of Mozambique), recent brown quarter calf. £135
  
  

• RAE Colin. MALABOCH; or, Notes from my Diary on the Boer Campaign of 1894 against the Chief Malaboch of Blaauwberg, District Zoutpansberg, South African Republic. London: Sampson Low, 1898. [3079]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 248, folding map, illustrations, original red decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, spine a little faded. £135
  
  

• RICHARDS Alfred Bates, WILSON Andrew & BADDELEY St Clair. A SKETCH OF THE CAREER OF RICHARD F BURTON. Waterloo, 1886. [9206]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 96, photographic frontispiece (Richard Burton), original black paper-covered boards, neatly re-backed, good and clean. £450
  
  

• ROBINSON Charles Henry. HAUSALAND; or, Fifteen Hundred Miles through the Central Soudan. Sampson Low, 1896. [10900]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 304, folding map, portrait photogravure frontispiece, illustrations, original green cloth, gilt vignette portrait on upper cover, very good. £380
  
  

• ROBINSON Charles Henry. SPECIMENS OF HAUSA LITERATURE. UP, 1896. [4240]
  FIRST EDITION, small quarto, pp 112, numerous Arabic facsimile sheets, original dark green cloth, spine faded. £50
  
  

• ROCHON, Abbé. A VOYAGE TO MADAGASCAR AND THE EAST INDIES. GGJ & J Robinson, 1792. [10879]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp li, 475, folding map, contemporary brown tree calf, slight rubbing to joints, handsome. £850
  
  

• ROSCOE John. TWENTY FIVE YEARS IN EAST AFRICA. UP, 1921. [9218]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 288, map, 19 plates, original brick-red cloth. £120
  
  

• ROUTLEDGE W Scoresby & ROUTLEDGE Katherine. WITH A PREHISTORIC PEOPLE. The Akikuyu of British Africa. Ed Arnold, 1910. [11356]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xxxii, 392, folding map, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, gilt vignette (map of eastern side of Continent), near fine. £275
  
  

• SALA George A. A TRIP TO BARBARY; by a Roundabout Route. Tinsley, 1866. [8154]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp vi, 398, original purple cloth, joint rubbed. £40
  
  

• SALAME A. A NARRATIVE OF THE EXPEDITION TO ALGIERS IN THE YEAR 1816; under the Command of the Right Hon Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth. John Murray, 1819. [9173]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp cxli, 230, portrait frontispiece, folding plan, 2 folding plates (1 coloured), contemporary brown full calf, recently re-backed to a high standard, browning to title-page, a good copy. £380
  
  

• SALT Henry. A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA; and Travels into the Interior of that Country, Executed under the Orders of the British Government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which are included an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa, visited...and some particulars respecting the Aborinal African Tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt... F C & J Rivington, 1814. [10932]
  FIRST EDITION, large paper copy, quarto, pp xi, (i) blank, (iv), 506, (75) appendices, 7 engraved maps and charts (5 folding, 1 large map coloured in outline and linen-backed), 27 engraved plates, textual engravings, original grey board, re-backed using original paper label. £1200
  In January 1809 Salt was sent by the British Government to Abyssinia to carry presents to the King, to report on the state of the country, and to cultivate friendly relations with the tribes on the Red Sea coast. He was unable to proceed to the King of Gondar, but delivered the presents of ammunition and richly ornamented arms to the Ras of Tigre, whom he delighted with a display of fireworks. Lowndes p2180; Baker   A History of Geographical Discovery   p310.
  
  

• SAVAGE LANDOR A Henry. ACROSS WIDEST AFRICA; an Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa as Seen during a Twelve Months' Journey from Djibuti to Cape Verde. Hurst and Blackett, 1907. [10959]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, large 8vo, pp xv, (i) blank, 396, (4) advertisements; xii, 511, (1) advertisement; title-pages in red and black, frontispieces, 150 plates, large folding map in Vol 1, folding map in Vol 2, original black cloth, near fine. £350
  
  

• SCHAPERA I. THE BANTU SPEAKING TRIBES OF SOUTH AFRICA. Routledge, 1937. [5569]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 453, illustrations, map, some occasional foxing and knowledgeable notations in text, original red cloth. £35
  
  

• SCHON James Frederick & CROWTHER Samuel. JOURNALS OF THE REV. JAMES FREDERICK SCHON & MR SAMUEL CROWTHER; Who with the Sanction of Her Majesty's Government, accompanied the expedition up the Niger in 1841, on behalf of the Church Missionary Society. Hatchard & Son, 1842. [10410]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxii, 393, double-page map, recent brown half calf, raised bands, red morocco label, excellent.
  
  [with:]
  
  ALS by Bishop Crowther. £550
  
  

• SCHWEITZER Albert. ON THE EDGE OF THE PRIMEVAL FOREST. Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa. A & C Black, 1922. [10641]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 180, map, 16 plates, original blue cloth, a little faded. £650
  Inscribed by the author to Madame W Cadman 11.2.22.
  The First Edition is rare.
  

• SELIGMAN C G & B Z. PAGAN TRIBES OF THE NILOTIC SUDAN. Geo Routledge, 1932. [7093]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xxiv, 565, frontispiece, folding map, 60 plates, illustrations, original red cloth, spine slightly faded. £125
  
  

• SELOUS Frederick C. AFRICAN NATURE NOTES AND REMINISCENCES; with a 'Foreword' by President T Roosevelt. Macmillan, 1908. [10854]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxx, 356, illustrations, original brick-red cloth, fine. £500
  
  

• SELOUS Frederick C. TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA; being the Narrative of the last Eleven Years Spent by the Author on the Zambesi and its Tributaries; with an account of the colonisation of Mashonaland and the progress of the gold industry in that country. Rowland Ward, 1893. [10863]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xviii, 503, (4) advertisements, folding map, 23 plates, illustrations in text, original orange decorative cloth, vignette of lions on upper cover, near fine. £800
  In this work recounting eleven years of exploration, work and sport in the 1880's, Selous describes numerous adventures with lions and leopards, particularly near the Zambesi, Zweswi and Manyami Rivers, with additional sport after rhinoceros, eland and hartebeest. After returning to the Transvaal, he linked with Montagu Kerr and travelled into Matabeleland. He concludes with a chapter on rifles, and another reflecting earlier sporting adventures after elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo and others. Czech p145
  
  

• SELOUS Percy & BRYDEN H Anderson. TRAVEL AND BIG GAME. Bellairs, 1897. [9972]
  FIRST EDITION, tall 8vo, pp 195, 6 drawings by Charles Whymper, (plate (moose), original green decorative cloth. a near fine copy £320
  The hunting trip covered South Africa, Bechuanaland, and North America.
  

• SHERER Joseph Moyle. SCENES AND IMPRESSIONS IN EGYPT AND IN ITALY. Longman Hurst, 1824. [9362]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp v, 452, contemporary full speckled calf, small loss at head and tail of spine, joint cracked and hinger tender, internally clean and crisp. £65
  Sherer was the author of several books on travel.
  

• SIMPSON William. A PRIVATE JOURNAL KEPT DURING THE NIGER EXPEDITION; from the Commencement in May, 1841, until the recall of the Expedition in June, 1842... John F Shaw, 1843. [10578]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xii, 139, original purple blind stamped cloth, some spotting to covers. Scarce. £400
  In 1841 an expedition consisting of three steamships of the British navy, under the command of Captain H D Trotter, embarked for the Niger; the aims were the pursuit of science and the abolition of slavery. But at Egga the expedition was forced to turn back due to the appalling incidence of disease and death. There were very few expeditions of any kind up the Niger at this date; the climate was too hostile. Simpson's account of the trials besetting the expedition is affecting, there were fifty deaths.
  

• SKINNER Robert P. ABYSSINIA OF TO-DAY. Ed Arnold, 1906. [10960]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 227, frontispiece, map, illustrations, original red cloth, gilt vignette. £100
  
  

• SMITH Edwin W. THE MABILLES OF BASUTOLAND. Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. [4482]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 382, maps on endpapers, illustrations, original blue cloth, dw. £55
  
  

• SPEKE John Hanning. JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE Wm Blackwood, 1864. [10705]
  SECOND EDITION, 8vo, pp xxxi, 658, 1 folding map, portrait frontispiece, numerous illustrations, contemporary full brown calf, re-backed using original spine, a very clean copy . £350
  This work describes Speke's first two expeditions to East Africa: JOURNAL OF ADVENTURES IN SOMALILAND, and JOURNAL OF A CRUISE ON THE TANGANYIKA LAKE. "In offering this short connected history of my first two explorations in Africa, I must state that I have been urged to do so by friends desirous of knowing what led to the discovery of the source of the Nile. The greater part of it was originally published in BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, but that lacked the connection which I have now given to the conclusion of my independent journey to and from the Victoria N'yanza, which is the great source of reservoir of the Nile. The manner in which I traced the Nile down from Victoria N'yanza to Egypt is explained in my JOURNAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE SOURCE OF THE NILE ." Introduction. Czech 151; Hess & Coger 419
  
  

• STANFORD Edward. MAP OF AFRICA. Stanford, nd [1910.] [9360]
  Later Edition, 655 x 545 mm, laid on linen, original red cloth. £65
  
  

• STANFORD Edward. WEST AFRICA Showing the British Possessions. Ed Stanford, 1902. [10568]
  MAP, folding, laid down on linen, coloured, very good. £100
  
  

• STANLEY Henry M. THE CONGO AND THE FOUNDING OF ITS FREE STATE; a Story of Work and Exploration. Sampson Low, 1886. [11364]
  Cheaper Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxvii, 528; x, 483; maps (including 5 folding), 41 plates, illustrations, late red full morocco, aeg, handsome. £350
  
  

• STANLEY Henry M. COOMASSIE AND MAGDALA. Sampson Low, 1874 [11361]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 505, folding map, illustrations, orignal green decorative cloth, very good and clean (often found in poor condition). £500
  
  

• STANLEY Henry M. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT; or, the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lake of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. Sampson Low, 1880. [10438]
  FIRST EDITION,2 vols, 8vo, xiv, (i), 522; ix, 566; 2 frontispiece portraits, 10 maps (2 in pockets), 33 plates, numerous textual illustrations, original brown decorative cloth, inner joint cracked, otherwise a good copy. £800
  
  

• STANLEY Henry M. THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT; or, the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lake of Equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. Sampson Low, 1880. [11367]
  FIRST EDITION,2 vols, 8vo, xiv, (i), 522; ix, 566; 2 frontispiece portraits, 10 maps (2 in pockets), 33 plates, numerous textual illustrations, half brown morocco, teg, near fine. £500
  
  

• STEVENSON-HAMILTON J. THE LOW-VELD; its Wild Life and its People. Cassell, 1929. [10921]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 287, map on endpapers, illustrations, original brown cloth, dust-jacket (worn at joints, small loss to head of spine). £120
  
  

• STIGAND C H. EQUATORIA; the Lado Enclave. Constable, 1923. [10710]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp iv, 253, portrait frontispiece, 6 maps (3 folding, 3 plans, original green cloth, excellent. £325
  
  

• STIGAND C H. THE GAME OF BRITISH EAST AFRICA. Horace Cox, 1909. [10972]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xi, 310, advertisements, numerous illustrations, original green decorative cloth, vignette on front cover (warrior), fine. £700
  
  

• STIGAND C H. HUNTING THE ELEPHANT IN AFRICA; and other Recollections of Thirteen Years' Wanderings; with an Introduction by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Macmillan, 1913. [10848]
  First US Edition, 8vo, pp xvi, 379, frontispiece, 22 plates, original red cloth, a very good clean copy. £650
  
  

• STUART-WATT Eva. AFRICA'S DOME OF MYSTERY; comprising the First Descriptive History of the Wachagga People of Kilimanjaro, their evangelization, and a girls' pioneer climb to the crater of 19,000 ft snow shrine, with preface by Harry H Stileman. Marshall, Morgan & Scott, nd [1929]. [9340]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp 214, map, 35 illustrations, original blue cloth, a near fine copy. £125
  Neate S175.
  
  

• SUTHERLAND James. THE ADVENTURES OF AN ELEPHANT HUNTER. Macmillan, 1912. [10847]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xviii, 324, advertisements, frontispiece, numerous illustrations, original blue cloth, t.e.g, gilt vignette of elephant on upper cover, 2 small nicks to head of spine. £650
  
  

• SWANN Alfred J. FIGHTING THE SLAVE-HUNTERS IN CENTRAL AFRICA; a Record of Twenty-Six Years of Travel and Adventure round the Great Lakes and of the Overthrow of Tip-Pu-Tib, Rumaliza and other great Slave-Traders. Seeley Service, 1910. [11389]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp 359, folding map, frontispiece, illustrations, original blue cloth, gilt vignette, excellent. £390
  
  

• SZÉCHENYI Zsigmond. LAND OF ELEPHANTS; Big-Game Hunting in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda. Putnam, 1935. [10583]
  First English Edition, 8vo, pp 208, frontispiece, 47 plates, original black cloth, small rubbing to head and tail of spine. £125
  "Originally published in Hungary in 1934, this translation details a Hungarian nobleman's pursuit of elephant in the Kitui Forest and along the Tiva River in Kenya. He also hunted bongo near Mt Kenya, kuku along the northern reaches of Lake Rudolph, leopard on the northern Guaso Nyiro, and lion on the Serengeti Plain. Széchenyi wrote other African hunting titles that still await translation." p162 Czech
  
  

• TALBOT P Amaury. SOME NIGERIAN FERTILITY CULTS. Oxford University Press, 1927. [4249]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xi, (i) blank, 140, frontispiece, 15 plates, textual diagrams, original green cloth. £65
  
  

• TALBOT P Amaury. WOMAN'S MYSTERIES OF A PRIMITIVE PEOPLE; the Ibibios of Southern Nigeria. Cassell, 1915. [3111]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 252, illustrations, original decorative blue cloth, spine creased with wear to head and tail of spine. £75
  
  

• TAYLOR John. BIG GAME AND BIG GAME RIFLES. Herbert Jenkins, 1948. [10436]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 215, frontispiece, original brown cloth, stained at base, corner creased. £50
  Czech p163
  
  

• THOMSON Joseph. THROUGH MASAI LAND; a Journey of Exploration among the snow-clad volcanic Mountains and Strange Tribes of Eastern Equitorial Africa... Sampson Low, 1885. [10571]
  Third Edition, large 8vo, pp xii, 583, 2 folding maps, frontispiece, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, inner hinge cracked, clean, excellent. £850
  
  

• THOMSON Joseph. THROUGH MASAI LAND; a Journey of Exploration among the snow-clad volcanic Mountains and Strange Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa... Houghton, Mifflin, 1885. [10572]
  First US Edition, 8vo, pp xii, 576, 2 folding maps, frontispiece, illustrations, original green decorative cloth, joints a little rubbed, inner hinge cracked. £580
  "One of the great African travel epics, this title details the author's trek from the coast toward Mt. Kilimanjaro, then through Masai Land. Near Lake Chala he bagged several rhinoceros and buffalo in close encounters, and buffalo again in the Lykipia Forest. One of the excellent engravings depicts Thomson thrown into the air by a charging bull. Near Lake Baringo, he collected a new species of gazelle newly christened with his name, and bagged elephant and buffalo. Handsomely illustrated." p164 Czech
  
  

• THOMSON Joseph. TO THE CENTRAL AFRICAN LAKES AND BACK; the Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's Eastern Central African Expedition, 1878-80, with a short biographical note of the late Mr Keith Johnston. Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. [10363]
  FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xxiv, 320; viii, 323; 2 large folding coloured maps, photographic portraits of both Thomson and Johnston, original decorative cloth, small wear to head of spines, a very good set. £1500
  
  

• TORREND J. SPECIMENS OF BANTU FOLK-LORE FROM NORTHERN RHODESIA. Kegan Paul, 1921. [3124]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp iv, 187, original blue cloth. £50
  
  

• TREMEARNE A J N. HAUSA SUPERSTITIONS AND CUSTOMS; an Introduction to the Folk-lore and the Folk. John Bale, 1913. [10852]
  FIRST EDITION, large 8vo, pp xv, 548, map, plates, illustrations, original red decorative blind stamped cloth, spine lightly faded, good and clean. £120
  
  

• TRISTRAM H B. THE GREAT SAHARA; Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains. John Murray, 1860. [10941]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 435, original red cloth, gilt vignette (camp site), fine. £320
  
  

• TROTTER J K. THE NIGER SOURCES; and the Borders of the new Sierra Leone Protectorate. Methuen, 1898. [1642]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 238, 4 plates, large folding map with small tear, original cloth, spine faded. £40
  
  

• TROUP J Rose. WITH STANLEY'S REAR COLUMN. Chapman & Hall, 1890. [10419]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp x, (ii), 361, (1) imprint, 40 publisher's list, half-title, folding coloured map, 13 plates,recent brown half calf. £175
  Troup was the late Transport Officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. Hess & Coger 4338.
  
  

• TUCKEY James Kingston. NARRATIVE OF AN EXPEDITION TO EXPLORE THE RIVER ZAIRE. John Murray, 1818. [9167]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp lxxxii, 498, folding map, 13 plates (1 hand-coloured), some plates foxed as always, red half morocco with later grey boards, joints rubbed, a very good copy of this title. £595
  
  

• TULLY Richard. NARRATIVE OF A TEN YEARS' RESIDENCE AT TRIPOLI IN AFRICA; from the Original Correspondence...also, an Account of the Domestic Manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. Henry Colburn, 1816. [10931]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xiii, (iii), 370, (2) publisher's list, folding engraved map, 5 coloured aquatints (including frontispiece), contemporary brown full calf, later re-back, book-plates, clean and crisp, handsome. £1250
  A second edition was published one year later and a third in two octavo volumes in 1819. Abbey TRAVEL 301; Playfair TRIPOLI, 143; Tooley 494
  
  

• VISCHER Hanns. ACROSS THE SAHARA FROM TRIPOLI TO BORNU. Ed Arnold, 1910. [10610]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xix, 308, folding map, illustrations, original red cloth, very good. £290
  His journey from Tripoli across the Sahara to Lake Chad between July and December 1906 proved to be a memorable experience. He collected much useful information about this neglected region; and the book was given much publicity in the Illustrated London News and elsewhere.
  

• WADDINGTON George & HANBURY Barnard. JOURNAL OF A VISIT TO SOME PARTS OF ETHIOPIA. John Murray, 1822. [10973]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp vi, (i) blank, 333, (1) imprint, (2) advertisements, 16 lithographic plates and plans, 2 folding engraved maps (light water-staining), original grey boards. £750
  A journey from Wady Halfa to Merawe and back. Abbey 289
  
  

• WAGNER Rudolph. EINE REISE DURCH DIE DEUTSCHEN KOLONIEN; IV Bund Deutsch-Sudwestafrika. Verlagsgesellschaft; 1913. [10083]
  FIRST EDITION, oblong folio, pp 128, numerous illustrations, original grey cloth, very good. £180
  This 4th volume only deals with South West Africa, the other volumes cover Germany's other overseas colonies.
  

• WARD Herbert. MY LIFE WITH STANLEY'S REAR GUARD. Chatto & Windus, 1891. [11338]
  FIRST EDITION, small 8vo, pp viii, 163, advertisements, map, recent red quarter morocco, the original paper upper cover is bound in at the end of the book. £370
  
  

• WATSON Robert Spence. A VISIT TO WAZAN; the Sacred City of Morocco. Macmillan, 1880. [10940]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 328, folding map, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, original blue decorative cloth, inner joint with slight cracking. £575
  
  

• WAZAN Emily, Shareefa of. MY LIFE STORY. Ed Arnold, 1911. [10391]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xx, 327, illustrations, original blue cloth,spine a little rubbed. £80
  
  

• WERNE Ferdinand. EXPEDITION TO DISCOVER THE SOURCES OF THE WHITE NILE; in the years 1840, 1841. From the German, by Charles William O'Reilly. Richard Bentley, 1849. [9424]
  First English Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp vi, 346, (2) advertisements; ix, (i), 354; half-titles, folding map in Vol 1, folding engraved diagram in Vol 2, textual illustrations, original green cloth , spines faded with small wear to head of spines some light browning to the title page SCARCE £880
  This account, published nine years before Speke discovered Victoria Nyanza as the head of the White Nile, disproved de Bellefonds, who supposed that the head must lie in a lake about the latitude of 7° N. The first edition was published in one volume at Berlin in 1848.
  "There followed three Egyptian expeditions sent in 1839-41 and 1842 by Mehemet Ali on the White Nile...the second and third pressed further south, reaching 4° 42' N - or the foot of the rapids above Gonokoro. A Turkish officer, Selim Bimbashi, commanded the expeditions, and among the members were the Frenchmen Thibaut, D'Arnaud and Sabatier and a German, Ferdinand Werne. The last wrote a scientific account of the second expeditiion and drew a map of the Nile between Gondokoro and Khartum." ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA Tenri Library 1229
  
  

• WERNER J R. A VISIT TO STANLEY'S REAR-GUARD at Major Barttelot's Camp on the Aruhwimi. Wm Blackwood, 1889. [10943]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvii, 337, folding map, illustrations, original green cloth, vignette (armorial), fine. £350
  
  

• WEULE Karl. NATIVE LIFE IN EAST AFRICA; the Results of an Ethnological Research Expedition. Pitman, 1909. [4223]
  First UK Edition, 8vo, pp xxiv, 431, advertisements, frontispiece, numerous illustrations (4 coloured), folding map, original red cloth, spine a little faded, joint rubbed at base of spine. £245
  First published in Leipzig in 1899. The author travelled from Dar es Salaam to Lindi and thence down the River Lukuledi to Masasi. He returned along the Mozambique border on the Ruvuma.
  

• WEULE Karl. NATIVE LIFE IN EAST AFRICA; the Results of an Ethnological Research Expedition...Translated by Alice Werner. D Appleton, 1909. [5914]
  First American Edition, 8vo, pp xxiv, 431, frontispiece portrait (author), 4 coloured plates, folding map (author's route), numerous textual illustrations (some full-page), p289 a little torn in margin, map slightly foxed, recent brown decorative quarter morocco. £75
  First published in Leipzig in 1899. The author travelled from Dar es Salaam to Lindi and thence down the River Lukuledi to Masasi. He returned along the Mozambique border on the Ruvuma. p766 Mendelssohn IV
  
  

• WILSON Arnold T. THE SUEZ CANAL; its Past, Present, and Future. University Press, 1939. [3164]
  Second Edition, 8vo, pp xvii, 224, folding map, original black cloth. £60
  
  

• WILSON George Herbert. THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITIES' MISSION TO CENTRAL AFRICA. Universities' Mission, 1936. [10457]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xvi, 278, map on endpaper, illustrations, original blue blind stamped cloth, very good. £50
  
  

• WILSON H A. A BRITISH BORDERLAND; Service and Sport in Equatoria. John Murray, 1913. [4647]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxi, 347, map, 18 illustrations, original green decorative cloth, gilt vignette on upper cover, spine faded with a small mark, but a very good clean copy. £140
  The illustrations are by S T Gill. Abbey 563; Coles 1260; Ferguson 18649; NZNB 6132
  
  

• WILSON Robert Thomas. HISTORY OF THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO EGYPT. To which is subjoined, a Sketch of the Present State of that Country and its Means of Defence. T Egerton, 1802. [10971]
  FIRST EDITION, quarto, pp xxii, 354, portrait frontispiece, 3 folding maps, 2 folding tables, contemporary brown half calf, near fine. £650
  
  

• WISSMANN Hermann, von MY SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH EQUATORIAL AFRICA from the Congo to the Zambesi in the Years 1886 and 1887. Chatto & Windus, 1891. [10942]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 326, portrait frontispiece, map, 92 illustrations, original cloth, vignette (canoeists), light rubbing to spine and upper cover, very good. £320
  
  

• WOLLASTON A F R. FROM RUWENZORI TO THE CONGO; a Naturalist's Journey across Africa. John Murray, 1908. [10944]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xxi, 315, maps, illustrations, original green decorative cloth. £480
  
  

• WOLLASTON Mary (Ed). LETTERS AND DIARIES OF A F R WOLLASTON. UP, 1933. [10826]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xv, 261, portrait frontispiece, 3 portraits, original blue cloth. £75
  
  

• WORSFOLD W Basil. PORTUGUESE NYASSALAND; an Account of the Discovery, Native Population, Agricultural and Mineral Resources and Present Administration of the Territory of the Nyassa Company with a Review of the Portuguese Rule on the East Coast of Africa. Sampson Low, 1899. [10875]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp 295, illustrations, contemporary red cloth, fine. Scarce. £275
  
  

• WORTHINGTON S & E B. INLAND WATERS OF AFRICA; the Result of Two Expeditions to the Great Lakes of Kenya and Uganda, with Accounts of their Biology, Native Tribes and Development. Macmillan, 1933. [5540]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xix, 259, maps, 40 plates, original red cloth, dust-jacket (torn). £90
  
  

• YARDLEY John. PARERGON; or, Eddies in Equatoria. J M Dent, 1931. [10327]
  FIRST EDITION, 8vo, ppxi, 283, folding map, illustrations, original orange cloth, small damp mark on edge of upper cover. £95
  
  

• YOUNG Francis Brett. MARCHING ON TANGA; with General Smuts in East Africa. W Collins, 1917. [4486]
  Third Impression, 8vo, pp xii, 265, folding map, illustrations, original blue cloth, spine faded. £65
  There are two original photographs included with this volume. One of Smut's staff car (slightly faded) 9.5 x 6.5 cms. The other of soldiers carrying a motor cycle across a stream.