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Africa

Embark on a journey through Africa with our collection of rare travel books. Featuring works by explorers such as Livingstone, Stanley, and Burton, discover the continent's diverse cultures, landscapes, and wildlife. Shop now and explore Africa from a unique perspective.

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  • Narrative of an expedition to the Zambesi

    LIVINGSTONE, David; Charles Livingstone.
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    Livingstone's second book describes his expedition to expose the Portuguese slave traders and to find a way to establish a settlement for missions...

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  • Through Masai Land:

    THOMSON, Joseph.
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    Thomson was a British geologist and explorer who played an important part in the Scramble for Africa. He was the first European to enter several r...

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  • How I Found Livingstone.

    STANLEY, Henry Morton.
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    Inscribed copy. Inscribed copy of 'One of the most famous books in the broad spectrum of African exploration, this title acquainted many a ninetee...

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  • Oriental Album.

    PRISSE D'AVENNES, Achille Constant Théodore Emile; ST. JOHN, James Augustus.
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    A deluxe copy of the first edition with the plates fully coloured and mounted on card. Probably no more than 100 copies printed with few surviving...

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  • Travels,

    SHAW, Thomas.
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    A valuable work. 'A valuable work' (Ioannou). Shaw was chaplain to the English factory at Algiers from 1720 to 1733. During this period he visited ...

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  • The American testimonial banquet to Henry M. Stanley.

    [STANLEY, Henry Morton].
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    With a letter by Stanley. A scarce memorial of Stanley's last expedition. Following the printed title, the text consists of a list of the Committee...

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  • Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of Africa, Arabia, and Madagascar;

    OWEN, William Fitzwilliam.
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    Family copy of crew member with letters. Lt. Henry Gibbons served on H.M.S. Leven and died on December 26th 1822 from fever. The same fate was to b...

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  • Sport in Somaliland,

    POTOCKI, Count Joseph.
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    One of the rarest of big-game books and certainly one of the most luxuriously produced. Potocki (1862-1922), was a renowned big-game hunter and br...

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  • A mission to Gelele, King of Dahome.

    BURTON, Richard Francis.
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    One of Burton's more sensational books. Dahomey had the reputation of being the most bloodthirsty land in Africa. Burton had wished to visit whils...

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  • Portico of the Temple of Dendera.

    ROBERTS, David.
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    In the 1830s tourism in the Holy Land was increasing as the Pasha of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, consolidated his authority and promoted the research int...

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  • View of Grand Cairo.

    SALT, Henry
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    from "Twenty-Four Views in St Helena, The Cape, India, Ceylon, The Red Sea, Abyssinia and Egypt". The drawings for this highly collectable work wer...

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