East Africa
Dive into the diverse world of East Africa through our rare book collection. Connect with its heritage, preserve cultural narratives, and elevate your understanding. Discover the captivating stories that bring this region to life.
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Travels to discover the source of the Nile,
BRUCE, James.Original price £6,500.00 - Original price £6,500.00Original price £6,500.00£6,500.00£6,500.00 - £6,500.00Current price £6,500.00'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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Khartoum,
MELLY, GeorgeOriginal price £850.00 - Original price £850.00Original price £850.00£850.00£850.00 - £850.00Current price £850.00Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum,...
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Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia.
WADDINGTON, George; HANBURY, Rev. Barnard.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...
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Commemorative Doulton Lambeth brown salt-glazed stoneware jug.
STANLEY, Henry Morton.Original price £900.00 - Original price £900.00Original price £900.00£900.00£900.00 - £900.00Current price £900.00This fine ceramic jug commemorates the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition 1887-89 and Stanley along with his officers, E. M. Bartelot, W. Bonney, A. J. ...
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Reconnoitring in Abyssinia:
WILKINS, Henry St. Clair.Original price £1,500.00 - Original price £1,500.00Original price £0.00£1,500.00£1,500.00 - £1,500.00Current price £1,500.00First edition. 8vo, original red cloth, titles and decoration to spine gilt, decorative frame blocked in blind to rear cover, in black to front co...
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Royal Geographical Society. Stanley reception meeting
[STANLEY, Henry Morton].Original price £350.00 - Original price £350.00Original price £350.00£350.00£350.00 - £350.00Current price £350.00Rare and attractive commemorative printing.Trifold (19 x 9.3 cm approx) extending to 19 x 27 cm., engraved title, partly coloured map, a fine exam...
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The heart of Africa
SCHWEINFURTH, Georg.Original price £575.00 - Original price £575.00Original price £575.00£575.00£575.00 - £575.00Current price £575.00"At the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, Schweinfurth specialized in geology and botany. An 1862 specimen-collecting trip up the Nile River ...
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Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia.
WADDINGTON, George; HANBURY, Rev. Barnard.Original price £1,350.00 - Original price £1,350.00Original price £1,350.00£1,350.00£1,350.00 - £1,350.00Current price £1,350.00Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...
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Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie.
HÖHNEL, Lieut. Ludwig von.Original price £2,000.00 - Original price £2,000.00Original price £2,000.00£2,000.00£2,000.00 - £2,000.00Current price £2,000.00"An excellent work of exploration and sport, this scarce set represents African adventure at its finest. Departing from Zanzibar the expedition hu...
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Missionary travels and researches in South Africa;
LIVINGSTONE, David.Original price £675.00 - Original price £675.00Original price £675.00£675.00£675.00 - £675.00Current price £675.00"Perhaps the most famous of all African exploration books, this recounts Dr. Livingstone's travels through South Africa, with the discovery of Lak...
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Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia.
WADDINGTON, George; HANBURY, Rev. Barnard.Original price £1,650.00 - Original price £1,650.00Original price £1,650.00£1,650.00£1,650.00 - £1,650.00Current price £1,650.00Waddington and Hanbury, both Cambridge fellows, decided to embark on an antiquarian tour of Egypt. They were received by the Governor, Mohammed A...
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Les Moeurs et Costumes de Tous les Peuples,
HENRICY, Casimir.Original price £2,750.00 - Original price £2,750.00Original price £2,750.00£2,750.00£2,750.00 - £2,750.00Current price £2,750.00Fine copy of the first edition of the work describing different traditions of nations populating Africa and Oceania.Octavo (27 x 18 cm), 2 parts i...
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Emin Pasha and the rebellion at the Equator.
MOUNTENEY-JEPHSON A[rthur] J[ermy].Original price £320.00 - Original price £320.00Original price £0.00£320.00£320.00 - £320.00Current price £320.00The author accompanied Stanley on his expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the German-born Eduard Schnitzer, who had succeeded Gordon as governor of E...
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Seventeen trips through Somaliland.
SWAYNE, Capt. Harald George Carlos.Original price £225.00 - Original price £225.00Original price £0.00£225.00£225.00 - £225.00Current price £225.00'An excellent game shot, Swayne describes his seventeen journeys into Somaliland's interior... An important work of sport and exploration' (Czech)...
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Eastern Central Africa shewing the Stations of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa.
[ANON.]Original price £3,750.00 - Original price £3,750.00Original price £0.00£3,750.00£3,750.00 - £3,750.00Current price £3,750.00Following the return of David Livingstone from Africa in 1857 a coalition of groups from the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and Dublin...
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Lillibullero or the golden road.
DUTTON, Eric A.T.Original price £300.00 - Original price £300.00Original price £0.00£300.00£300.00 - £300.00Current price £300.00'Dutton, a British settler in Kenya, travelled north to Ethiopia in 1933. He describes his visits to the frontier posts of Mega and Moyole and tel...
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