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Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile.
SPEKE, John Hanning.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. The account of Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. This took place in 1860 with his friend ...
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The Great Rift Valley,
GREGORY, J[ohn] W[alter].Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /Highland regions of Mount Kenya. Important exploration expedition in the hitherto unknown highland regions of Mt. Kenya.In 1892 Gregory was seconde...
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New light on dark Africa:
PETERS, Carl.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /A German counterpart to Stanley's In Darkest Africa. 'A German counterpart to Stanley's In Darkest Africa, this represents Peter's journey to find ...
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The Kilima-Njaro Expedition.
JOHNSTON, Harry Hamilton.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /Johnston was invited in 1884 on behalf of the Royal Society to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. T...
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To the Central African Lakes and back:
THOMSON, Joseph.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £0.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00| /The expedition was sent by the RGS under its African Exploration Fund scheme. It was led by the cartographer Keith Johnston on a route from Dar es...
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With the Abyssinians in Somaliland
JENNINGS, Major J[ames] Willes; ADDISON, Christopher.Original price £950.00 - Original price £950.00Original price £0.00£950.00£950.00 - £950.00Current price £950.00| /Jennings gives an account of the British expedition against Mohamed Abdille Hassan known as the 'Mad Mullah', as well containing much on local cus...
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Travels and researches among the lakes
ELTON, J. Frederic.Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £0.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00| /A finely bound example of a scarce title. J. Frederic Elton was British Consul in Mozambique. He died in 1877 near Zanzibar before this title was ...
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A short relation of the river Nile,
LOBO, Jeronimo.Original price £3,000.00 - Original price £3,000.00Original price £0.00£3,000.00£3,000.00 - £3,000.00Current price £3,000.00| /Early account of the Nile. One of the earliest records of travels in Ethiopia, translated from Lobo's Itinerario by Sir Peter Wyche (1628-1699). W...
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Travels in southern Abyssinia,
JOHNSTON, Charles.Original price £1,850.00 - Original price £1,850.00Original price £0.00£1,850.00£1,850.00 - £1,850.00Current price £1,850.00| /Rare account of Johnston's expedition to the court of Shoa.Johnston, a surgeon in the British navy, was 'a careful observer and incisive writer, h...
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Travels in the coastlands of British East Africa
FITZGERALD, William.Original price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £0.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00| /The author spent two years exploring and mapping the coastline. As well as the detailed study of his findings, the book also contains accounts of ...
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The River War.
CHURCHILL, Winston.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £0.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00| /Churchill's account of his adventures during the war in the Sudan. In vivid style the book describes the background to the war, the relationship of...
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Travels to discover the source of the Nile,
BRUCE, James.Original price £4,750.00 - Original price £4,750.00Original price £0.00£4,750.00£4,750.00 - £4,750.00Current price £4,750.00| /'In 1768, with Italian artist and friend Luigi Balugani, Bruce resolved to mount an expedition to search for the source of the Nile River. They we...
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First footsteps in East Africa.
BURTON, Richard Francis.Original price £2,350.00 - Original price £2,350.00Original price £0.00£2,350.00£2,350.00 - £2,350.00Current price £2,350.00| /The forbidden city of Harar. Burton's first expedition to Somalia, made in order to explore the forbidden city of Harar (which he was the first Eur...
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A Voyage to Abyssinia,
SALT, Henry.Original price £1,250.00 - Original price £1,250.00Original price £0.00£1,250.00£1,250.00 - £1,250.00Current price £1,250.00| /Salt had previously visited Ethiopia in 1805 as part of Viscount Valentia's entourage, visiting Massawa, Aksum, Adwa, and other parts of Tegré.'In...
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Uganda for a holiday.
TREVES, Frederick.Original price £40.00 - Original price £40.00Original price £0.00£40.00£40.00 - £40.00Current price £40.00| /Sir Frederick Treves was the prominent Victorian surgeon famous for treating Joseph Merrick sometimes known 'The Elephant Man'. He spent much time...
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In the Grip of the Nyika:
PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. John Henry.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa... there is also a feverish encou...
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Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile.
SPEKE, John Hanning.Original price £2,400.00 - Original price £2,400.00Original price £0.00£2,400.00£2,400.00 - £2,400.00Current price £2,400.00| /The account of Speke's third and final expedition to Africa. This took place in 1860 with his friend and fellow Indian army officer James Grant (1...
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In the grip of the Nyika
PATTERSON, Lieut.-Col. John Henry.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /'Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo, then treks into the Nyika, or wilderness of British East Africa ... there is also a feverish enco...
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British East Africa
McDERMOTT, P.L.Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £0.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00| /Important history of this Royal Charter Company including much on relations with Zanzibar and its Sultan. First edition. 8vo, xvi, 382 pp., foldin...
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[Ethiopic] Sive, Jobi Ludolfi I.C. Lexicon Æthiopico-Latinum,
LUDOLF, Hiob.Original price £750.00 - Original price £750.00Original price £0.00£750.00£750.00 - £750.00Current price £750.00| /The most illustrious name in Ethiopic scholarship. After studying philology at the Erfurt academy and at Leiden, Ludolf travelled in order to incre...
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De Abassinorum rebus, deque Aethiopiae Patriarchis
GODINHO, Nicolao.Original price £1,100.00 - Original price £1,100.00Original price £0.00£1,100.00£1,100.00 - £1,100.00Current price £1,100.00| /An important account of Ethiopia written by a Portuguese Jesuit, primarily relating to an account of Ethiopia in the second half of the sixteenth ...
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Manuscript travel diary, 1913-23.
[ABYSSINIA].Original price £3,600.00 - Original price £3,600.00Original price £0.00£3,600.00£3,600.00 - £3,600.00Current price £3,600.00| /An exciting and detailed diary recording the exploits of an unknown employee at the Bank of Abyssinia and his travel companion, the British army o...
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The highlands of Æthiopia.
HARRIS, Major William Cornwallis.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00| /Captain Harris, the British envoy to King Sahla of Shawa, landed at Tjurah in 1841 and remained in the country until 1843. 'The author gives us in...
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The life and adventures of ...
PEARCE, Nathaniel.Original price £2,250.00 - Original price £2,250.00Original price £0.00£2,250.00£2,250.00 - £2,250.00Current price £2,250.00| /On the departure of Henry Salt in 1810, his servant Nathaniel Pearce remained in Ethiopia until 1819, becoming fluent in Tegrenya and Amharic. 'A ...
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