1. Gatti, Ellen.

Exploring We Would Go.

Second Edition. / Rare in collectible condition with dustjacket. London, The Travel Book Club, 1951. Octavo. VIII, 302 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

2. Petherick, John.

Egypt, The Soudan and Central Africa. With Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator Being Sketches from Sixteen Years’ Travel.

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1861. 15 cm x 23 cm. XII, 482 pages. With large, fold-out ‘Sketch Map of John Petherick’s Travels in the years 1853-1858’. Hardcover / Original green publisher’s cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Design to front board. One corner stronger bumped. Otherwise in very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. The map in excellent condition. Very Rare !

3. Peters, Carl.

The Eldorado of the Ancients. With Two Maps and Ninety-Seven Illustrations from Original Drawings from Tennyson Cole and from Photographs.

London, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1902. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, X, 447 pages. Includes the large fold-out map “Du Royaume de Congo, du Monomotapa et de la Cafrerie” [Reproduced from a map dated 1719]. Colour fold-out map of “Dr. Carl Peters Zambesi Expeditions” within book. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt embossment to front board also. Top edge gilt. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is very bright and clean. Name and date of preowner in ink on endpaper.

4. Dun, Major T. I. / Saad, Nahmia (School of Fine Art, Cairo).

From Cairo to Siwa – Across the Libyan Desert with Amoured Cars [mainly with woodcuts by Nahmia Saad]. A Narrative Followed by Illuminated pages of the History and Customs of the Inhabitants of that Country, A Photographic Brochure, A Map. Foreword by Field Marshall W. R. Birdwood of the XIIth Royal Lancers.

One of 750 copies of a limited edition (overall 1,000 volumes printed). Cairo, Messrs E. & R. Schindler, 1933. 26 cm x 34 cm. Frontispiece, IV, 110 pages. Black and white photographs at rear. Fold-map of the route described in book at rear. Map of Cairo at rear also. Text in black and red. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth]. Label on spine. Elaborately illustrated boards. Bookplate on front pastedown with inscription reading “The Old order changeth, yielding place to New.” Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine with stronger abrasion but the binding overall firm and strong. Interior is bright and clean. Two images with issues: Ugly residue of paper of the preceding page on the tipped-in colour-plate depicting Queen Nefertari and the photograph of the Dunes of Cairo !

5. Shelford, Frederic.

Pioneering. A Series of Four Articles contributed to “The Engineer.”

London / New York, E. & F. N. Spon / Spon & Chamberlain, 1909. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 82 82 pages. With numerous illustrations throughout the text, showing examples of basic equipment, medicines etc. for the pioneer and surveyor [photographs of “A Hammock as commonly used in West Africa” / “Miner’s Dial” / “Instrument Umbrella” (Mosquito Net) / “Edgington’s Aluminium Demi-Johns” / “Doulton’s Traveller Pump Filter” etc.]. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor bumps to lower corner boards. Some minor signs of staining to pages 46 and 47, otherwise interior very good. Extremely Rare publication for the Settler and Pioneer in Colonial Africa !

6. [Kennedy, John Pendleton].

The Border States, their power and duty in the present disordered condition of the Country.

(Maryland), (1860). 8°. 46 pages. Softcover. This is an Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Not the Lippincott-publication, this must be a proof or a preprint of the publication. It contains several handwritten notes and markings in pencil by an old hand.

7. Barrow, John.

Voyage dans la partie meridionale de l’Afrique; fait dans les années 1797 et 1798; par John Barrow, Ex-Secretaire de Lord Macartney…Contenant des observations sur la géologie, la géographie, l’histoire naturelle de ce continent, et une esquisse du caractère physique et moral des diverses races d’habitans qui environnent l’Etablissement du Cap de Bonne-Espérance. / Accompagné: Nouveau Voyage dans la partie méridionale de l’Afrique; Où l’on examine quelle est l’importance du Cap de Bonne-Espérance pour les différentes puissances de l’Europe, considéré comme station militaire et navale; comme boulevart du commerce et de la domination des Anglais dans l’Inde; comme centre des établissemens pour la pêche de la baleine dans les mers Australes; comme acquisition territoriale, et comme entrepôt commercial en tems de paix. Accompagné d’une description statistique de la colonie rédigée sur les documens les plus hautentiques, enrichi de huit belles cartes, contenat celle de la Côte d’Afrique depuis la baie de la Table jusqu’a la baie de Saldanha, des cartes de la baie de Pletenberg, d’Algola, de Mossel et de False bay; du plan militaire de la péninsule du Cap, et de ceux de la baie de la Table et du Knisna. (2 Volumes).

First French Edition. 4 Volumes [complete set of two works with 2 Volumes each]. Paris, Dentu, 1801-1806. 35.5 cm x 55.8 cm. Collation: complete. Pagination: Volume I: XVI, 403, (1) pages / Volume II: 326, (2) pages including Errata-leaf / Volume III: X, 310 pages / Volume IV: 312 pages. Original contemporary red calf with gilt lettering and ornament to lacquer-polished-spine. The Volumes are numbered consecutively, even though these are two separate works. Excellent condition of the binding and interior of this important publication with very minor signs of foxing only ! All the maps in wonderful condition ! First french edition of “Travels into the Interior of Southern Africa” (Barrow’s journey with Lord Macartney in 1797 to the Cape of Good Hope) plus two further Volumes which describe the second journey in 1801 / 1802 to Saldanha Bay [Saldanhabaai] with an early image of Robben Island. The survey of the Dutch colonies was not only a seminal work on South Africa but the beautifully engraved, large folding map of South Africa was a turning point of african cartography and geographical illustration.

8. First International Polar Year (1882-1883) – Wohlgemuth, Emil von.

Die österreichische Polarstation Jan Mayen – Ausgerüstet durch seine Excellenz Graf Hanns Wilczek. Geleitet von K.K. Corvetten-Capitän Emil Edlen von Wohlgemuth. Beobachtungs-Ergebnisse Herausgegeben von der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. [Inklusive Ephemera] Band I – III (Komplett in vier Bänden mit dem eingebundenen Vorbericht zur Publikation welcher manchmal auch separat gebunden wurde: I. Band / II.Band 1. und 2. Abtheilung / III.Band).

Erste und einzige Ausgabe. Wien, K. und K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei in Commission bei Karl Gerold’s Sohn, 1886. Quarto (24.5 cm x 31.5 cm). Collation: Band I: 118 Seiten mit vier Falttafeln (Beobachtungsstation im Wilczeck-Thale / Sternwarte / Helligkeitsgrad der Polarnacht / Kreuzung / [Route] des S.M.Dampfer “Pola” laengs der Eiskante bei der Insel Jan Mayen (farbig) / ), 26, 50, 202, 76, 16,18 Seiten / Band II,1: 232 Seiten / Band II,2: 175 Seiten / Band III: X, 132, 24, 20 Seiten [The set includes 85 text-illustrations, 61 plates (some folded) and four maps (original lithographs of which one is in colour)]. Original publisher’s Hardcover-Boards, now in protective collector’s Mylar. [Inclusive grossformatiger Werbung zu den Druckschriften der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien vom Jahre 1885] The boards of the thicker Volume One, as often, cleanly detached. All other Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor signs of foxing only. Unopened, unread version of this rare publication !

9. [Baines, Thomas].

The Birds of South Africa Painted by Thomas Baines (1820 – 1875) – Comprising the complete collection of ninety plates executed by Thomas Baines, together with descriptions from the text of C.J.Andersson’s ‘Notes on the Birds of Damara Land and the adjacent Countries of South-West Africa’, with a biographical Essay by R.F.Kennedy. [Includes an excellent illustration of the Red-necked Falcon (Falco chiquera) – see image].

Limited Hand-Numbered Edition [No.404 of only 500]. Johannesburg, Winchester Press, 1975. Quarto (28.4 cm wide x 33.5 cm high). Frontispiece-Portrait of Thomas Baines (see image), 204 pages with 90 colourful illustrations / plates. Original Hardcover with glassine jacket in original slipcase. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear. A wonderful and now rare publication in excellent condition.

10. Congo – Tuckey, James Hingston. (1776 – 1816)

Vintage, 19th century manuscript map “Chart of the River Zaire from Capt. Tuckeys Narrative”.

Ink on Paper. Britain, c. 1850. 18.4 cm wide x 11.3 cm high. Mounted on paper (partially detached). Mounted on paper with an additional manuscript map of East Tartary. These maps were drawn in a 19th-century hand and used to be part of a Sammelband of Maps in the Public Library of South Shields.