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SWAYNE, Harold George Carlos.
Seventeen trips through Somaliland. A record of exploration & big game shooting, 1885 to 1893. Being...
London, Rowland Ward and Co., 1895.
First edition recounting hunting and exploration trips to Somaliland by the British soldier, explorer, naturalist, and big-game hunter Harold George Carlos Swayne.
£175
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POWELL-COTTON, Percy.
A sporting trip through Abyssinia. A narrative of a nine months’ journey from the plains of the Hawash...
London, Rowland Ward, 1902.
First edition, signed by the son of the author and bound for the Powell Cotton Museum, describing a nine-month exploration and hunting expedition through Abyssinia by the English hunter and animal collector Percy Powell-Cotton.
£300
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BEECHAM, John.
Ashantee and the Gold Coast: being a sketch of the history, social state, and superstitions of the inhabitants of...
London, sold by John Mason, 1841.
Uncommon first edition, a study of the west African region around modern-day Ghana by the Wesleyan Methodist John Beecham.
£300
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BRUCE, James.
Travels, between the years 1765 and 1773, through part of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia, into Abyssinia, to discover...
London, James Robins and Co. Albion Press, [1820?].
First edition thus, an abridged account of James Bruce’s famous travels through Ethiopia on a quest to discover the source of the Nile.
£150
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HUC, Évariste Régis and William HAZLITT (translator).
Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, during the years 1844-5-6 … Second...
London, Office of the National Illustrated Library, [1852].
Second English edition recounting the famous journey of two Lazarist missionaries across China, Mongolia, and Tibet between 1844 and 1846.
£125
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JENNINGS, James Willes and Christopher ADDISON.
With the Abyssinians in Somaliland … With a preface by Colonel A.N. Rochfort...
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1905.
First edition recounting the author’s fact-finding mission to Eritrea and Ethiopia investigating the ‘folk-lore, the characteristics, and customs of the Abyssinians’.
£275
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HARRIS, Walter Burton.
Tafilet. The narrative of a journey of exploration in the Atlas Mountains and the oases of the north-west...
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1895.
First edition of this description of Morocco by Harris (1866-1933), graduate of Caius College, Cambridge, and The Times correspondent in Tangier.
£150
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KEMP, Dennis.
Nine years at the Gold Coast …
London, Macmillan and Co., 1898.
First edition recounting the author’s experiences in the British colony of Gold Coast, present day Ghana, as general superintendent of the Wesleyan missions.
£100
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MOORE, John Edward (or Edmund) Sharrock.
To the mountains of the moon being an account of the modern aspect of Central Africa,...
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1901.
First edition recounting the journey of J. E. S. Moore and the Tanganyika expedition in central Africa between 1899 and 1900. Moore and the expedition were on the search for the so-called ‘mountains of the moon’, a legendary mountain range which they identified with the Rwenzori mountains straddling...
£125
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MOLLIEN, Gaspard Theodore.
Travels in Africa, to the sources of the Senegal and Gambia, in 1818 … Translated from the French.
London, for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1820.
First edition of an abridged translation recounting the French explorer Gaspard Theodore Mollien’s west African expeditions in 1818. Mollien first developed an interest in exploration after reading Robinson Crusoe as a young boy but was forced to take a job as a civil servant with the Marine and Colonial...
£120
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PRINGLE, Thomas.
Narrative of a residence in South Africa …
London, William Tegg, 1864.
Rare 1864 edition summarising the formative years spent in South Africa by Thomas Pringle, a well-known Scottish abolitionist and the so-called ‘Father of South African poetry’. The Pringle family first decided to emigrate to South Africa in 1820, with Thomas Pringle – by then a published poet...
£150
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GILL, William.
The river of golden sand: being the narrative of a journey through China and eastern Tibet to Burmah ... Condensed...
London, John Murray, 1883.
Second condensed edition recounting the author’s 1877 expedition through China and Tibet to Burma, featuring new illustrations and a memoir of Gill, with a dedicatory inscription from the author’s sister to the front free endpaper.
£200
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PARKYNS, Mansfield.
Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years’ residence and travels in that country …
London, John Murray, 1853.
First edition, a study of Abyssinia based on the author’s travels through the country, including remarks and observations on climate, natural history, hunting, missionary activity, slavery, manners and customs, government and law, diseases and modes of cure, and accounts of journeys to Taccazy, Cafta,...
£175
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GLEICHEN, Edward.
With the mission to Menelik 1897 ...
London, Edward Arnold, 1898.
First edition recounting the author’s participation in an 1897 diplomatic mission to Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia. An Anglicised German from the family of Hohenlohe whose hereditary estate dated back to the early seventeenth century, Gleichen served first as a courtier (he was Paige of Honour to...
£100
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NEW, Charles.
Life, wanderings, and labours in Eastern Africa. With an account of the first successful ascent of the equatorial...
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1874.
Second edition recounting the travels through central and eastern Africa by the explorer Charles New, a former member of the Livingstone relief expedition and the first European to reach the snow line of Kilimanjaro.
£200
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SHOOTER, Joseph.
The Kafirs of Natal and the Zulu country ...
London, E. Stanford, 1857.
First edition, one of the earliest studies of the Zulu people.
£175
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BURTON, Richard Francis editor and translator.
The lands of Cazembe. Lacerda’s journey to Cazembe. In 1798 … also journey of...
London, John Murray, 1873.
First edition thus containing three first-hand accounts of journeys across southern and central Africa translated into English, including Richard Francis Burton’s edition of the travel diaries of the Portuguese explorer Francisco de Lacerda (1753-1798). The signature to the title appears to be that...
£300
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BURTON, Richard Francis.
Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains. An exploration …
London, Tinsley Brothers, 1863.
First edition, in two volumes, recounting Burton’s travels to the city of Abeokuta (south-west Nigeria), as well as his subsequent voyage to Mount Cameroon volcano. Burton left Lagos for Abeokuta, the capital of the Egba Yoruba tribe, in October 1861, arriving on the first of November. Although he...
£400
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LEWIS, Wyndham.
The Red Priest.
London, Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1956.
First edition, the last book published before Lewis’s death in March 1957. Bridson and Lewis had corresponded about a possible radio adaptation but Bridson had concluded it was over-episodic and would not translate well (letter of 6 March 1951).
£150
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DUFTON, Henry.
Narrative of a journey through Abyssinia in 1862-3. With an appendix on “The Abyssinian captives question” …
London, Chapman & Hall, 1867.
First edition recounting the author’s expedition through Abyssinia, along with three essays on the Abyssinian prisoner crisis following a diplomatic dispute between the Emperor Tewodros II and the British colonial government.
£850