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COWPER, Henry Swainson.
The hill of the graces. A record of investigation among the trilithons and megalithic sites of Tripoli...
London, Methuen & Co., ‘1897’ [c. 1901].
First edition, later issue, a nice copy. Cowper (1865-1941) travelled through Mesopotamia, Egypt, Tripoli, and Asia Minor. ‘The “Hill of Graces” is principally the result of investigations carried on in Tripoli during two visits to that country ... During the spring months of 1895 and 1896, I made...
£60
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TRISTRAM, Henry Baker.
The great Sahara: wanderings south of the Atlas mountains ... With maps and illustrations.
London, John Murray, 1860.
First edition of this ‘interesting record of travel in a region then little known’ (Playfair) by the geologist and naturalist Tristram (1822-1906). ‘Because of ill health Tristram journeyed to Algeria for the winters of 1855-6 and 1856-7. He travelled far into the desert, made an ornithological...
£125
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SIBREE, James.
The great African island. Chapters on Madagascar. A popular account of recent researches in the physical geography,...
London, Trübner & Co., 1880.
First edition, by the missionary and architect James Sibree (1836-1929). ‘In writing the following pages my object has been to supply information of a more general character than is given in most previous works; and especially to arrange in a systematic form numerous interesting facts which have only...
£150
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GRANT, James Augustus.
A walk across Africa or domestic scenes from my Nile journal ...
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1864.
First edition. Grant (1827-1892) was invited by John Hanning Speke, in 1859, to join the Royal Geographical Society Nile expedition. ‘Speke hoped to prove his contention that Lake Victoria, which he had discovered in 1858, was the source of the Nile. The two explorers and their porters now embarked...
£350
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MADOX, John.
Excursions in the Holy Land, Egypt, Nubia, Syria, &c. Including a visit to the unfrequented district of the Haouran ...
London, Richard Bentley, 1834.
First edition. An ‘account of travels made between 1821 and 1826 ... Seven chapters contain incidents relating to the Greek war of independence ... He made three separate journeys to Egypt and Palestine between 1824 and 1826. The frontispieces are portraits of the author and Mehmet Ali. The plates...
£450
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[EDWARD VII – COMMON PRAYER.]
[Cover title: ‘Prayer Book of Edward VII’] The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration...
[Norwood (MA), Plimpton Press for] New York, M. Walter Dunne, [1904].
Authorised American edition of the Essex House Press Book of Common Prayer, published in celebration of the accession of Edward VII.
£500
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[GEORGE V.]
The Form and Order of the Service that is to be performed and of the Ceremonies that are to be observed in the Coronation...
London, Novello & Company, 1911.
A handsome copy of the Coronation service, with choral settings of the music sung, including (among others) Parry’s ‘I was glad’, Handel’s ‘Zadok the Priest’, and ‘God save the King!’, arranged by Sir Frederick Bridge (1844–1924), organist at Westminster Abbey.
£450
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[GEORGE V.]
The Form and Order of the Service that is to be performed and of the Ceremonies that are to be observed in the Coronation...
Oxford, Horace Hart at the University Press, [1911].
A scarce edition of the order of service for the coronation of George V and Mary of Teck, attractively printed at the Oxford University Press.
£125
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[GEORGE V – SINGAPORE.]
Souvenir Singapore Silver Jubilee Celebrations.
Singapore, Printers Limited, [May 1935].
A scarce photographic souvenir depicting the communities and businesses of Singapore partaking in the celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of King George V.
£1200
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TAYLOR, G. Oswald (photographer).
Promotional photographic brochure celebrating the coronation of Elizabeth II.
Nottingham, Fine Stocking Manufacturers Ltd., June 1953.
An unusual coronation souvenir. The details on the lower wrapper indicate that Oswald Taylor produced the booklet, as well as photographed the series.
£300
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STUART-WATT, Eva.
Africa’s dome of mystery. Comprising the first descriptive history of the Wachagga people of Kilimanjaro, their...
London and Edinburgh, Marshall, Morgan & Scott, [1930].
First edition. ‘In Part II the authoress gives from her own experience and observation a vivid description of mountains and plains of tropical foliage and waterless, barren scrub land which is most telling, culminating in her account of the ascent to the 19,000 ft. crater of Kibo. The scene on the...
£100
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ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.
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London, John Murray, [1876].
Volume 46 (1876) of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. No institution did more to foster and finance the great feats of British exploration in British exploration’s most celebrated and prolific era than the Royal Geographical Society, and it was in the yearly journal that the great and...
£125
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WELLBY, Montagu Sinclair.
‘Twixt Sirdar & Menelik. An account of a year’s expedition from Zeila to Cairo through unknown Abyssinia...
London and New York, Harper & Brothers, 1901.
First edition, published posthumously, the author having been killed in action during the Boer War.
£125
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SCHULTZE, Arnold.
The sultanate of Bornu. Translated from the German of Dr A. Schultze ... with additions and appendices by P....
London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913.
Uncommon first edition in English of this work on Bornu in Nigeria, covering its history, climate, flora, fauna, population, and commerce, with numerous appendices encompassing, inter alia, lepidoptera, meteorological observations, Lake Chad, festivals, and tribes.
£75
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WOLFF, Joseph.
Narrative of a mission to Bokhara, in the years 1843-1845. To ascertain the fate of Colonel Stoddart and Captain...
Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood & Sons, 1848.
Fifth edition of this popular account by the missionary and traveller Joseph Wolff (1795-1862). ‘In 1843 Wolff made a second journey to Bukhara in order to ascertain the fates of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Stoddart and of Captain Arthur Conolly. He was sent out by a committee formed in London...
£175
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LIVINGSTONE, David and Charles LIVINGSTONE.
Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries; and of the discovery...
London, John Murray, 1865.
First edition, by David Livingstone and his brother Charles, recounting Livingstone’s second Zambesi expedition which, despite several important discoveries, was largely regarded as an ignominious failure. In 1857, Livingstone resigned from the London Missionary Society and accepted the position of...
£250
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ISENBERG, Karl Wilhelm and Johann Ludwig KRAPF.
Journals of the Rev. Messrs. Isenberg and Krapf, missionaries of the Church Missionary...
London, Seeley, Burnside, and Seeley, 1843.
First edition of this account of travels in Ethiopia by the German missionaries and linguists Krapf (1810-81) and Isenberg (1806-84), opening with ‘a geographical memoir on eastern and central Africa’, followed by sections on the ‘journey from Zeila to Ankobar’, ‘residence at Ankobar’, and...
£750
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WHITE, Arthur Silva.
From sphinx to oracle. Through the Libyan Desert to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon ...
London, Hurst and Blackett, 1899.
First edition. ‘The town of Siwa and its adjacent necropolis were bathed in the evening light, hedged round by a wall of mere mud and an impenetrable armour of fanaticism. It seemed difficult to realize it all: the flimsy material structure and the moral impregnability of this ancient citadel. Few...
£75
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YOUNGHUSBAND, Francis Edward, Sir.
The heart of a continent: a narrative of travels in Manchuria, across the Gobi desert, through...
London, John Murray, 1896.
First edition. In 1886 Younghusband (1863-1942) ‘accompanied a seven-month expedition to Manchuria. In Peking (Beijing) in March 1887 he met his superior Colonel Mark Sever Bell, and the two men obtained leave to return to India by separate land routes. Younghusband, alone with hired guides, spent...
£275
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[ELIZABETH II.] KEYSTONE (PARIS).
La Princesse Elisabeth fille du Duc d’York, et héritier, du trône d’Angleterre …
1936.
Princess Elizabeth on the day of the announcement of the abdication of Edward VII.
£1200