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SMITH, A[rthur] Donaldson [1866-1939].
Through Unknown African Countries The First Expedition From Somaliland To Lake Lamu.
London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1897..
8vo. pp. xvi, 471, [4]ads. with half-title. photogravure frontis. portrait, 6 maps (5 folding, some partly coloured), & numerous illus. (many full-page). original gilt-stamped cloth (some foxing to frontis., tear along 1 map fold repaired with very small loss outside in border area & margin). First Edition. The expedition explored the unknown territory between Somaliland and Lake Rudolf. "At the time it was the universal opinion.that it would be impossible to enter the Galla countries, let alone reach Lake Rudolf, with less than two or three hundred well-drilled followers." (Introduction) Smith hunted elephants, rhinoceros, leopards, and other wild game, and made important natural history collections, discovering many new species of birds, reptiles, plants, &c.
$961 USD                          Book Number: AITroSMI22                         Order / Enquire



SMITH, T. Murray.
Safari Trail.
London: Robert Hale, [1965]..
8vo. pp. 192. 6 double-sided plates. cloth. dw. (edges of dw. tattered). First Edition.
$50 USD                          Book Number: dola313                         Order / Enquire



SPARRMAN, Anders [1747-1820].
Resa Till Goda Hopps-Udden.Samt till Hottentott-och Caffer-Landen, Aren 1772-1776.
Stockholm: Anders J. Nordstrom, 1783..
8vo. pp. xv, 766 [ie. 770]. 9 folding engraved plates by F.Akrel & 1 large folding engraved map. contemporary half calf (rubbed, front joint cracked, several tears & repairs along plate folds - no loss). First Edition of this major eighteenth century account of South Africa and one of the earliest scientific descriptions of the country. Mendelssohn refers to it as the "most trustworthy account of the Cape Colony and the various races of people then residing in it that had been published.". Sparrman, a Swedish naturalist and former pupil of Linnaeus, joined Cook on his second voyage to the Pacific to assist Dr. Forster in the natural history work. The present narrative includes a brief description of that expedition in addition to Sparrman's journeys and natural history excursions in South Africa, to Namaqualand and through the coastal districts of the Great Fish River. Included in the appendix is a vocabulary of the Hottentot language. The folding plates depict zoological subjects and native artifacts. A 'second volume', containing a narrative of Cook's second voyage, was issued in two parts many years later, in 1802 and 1818; Du Rietz, in the Kroepelien Catalogue, argues that they should be considered as two separate works. Bagnall 5275. Cox I 386. Holmes 46. Kroepelien 1218. Mendelssohn IV 360-361. cfGay 3125. cfHill 279. cfNational Maritime Museum I 211. cfCasey Wood 579.
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SPEKE, John Hanning [1827-1864].
Journal Of The Discovery Of The Source Of The Nile.
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1864..
8vo. pp. xxx, [31]-590, [6]ads. 2 engraved portraits (incl. frontis. portrait of Speke), 2 maps with partial colour (incl. large folding map at end, & numerous text illus. (22 full-page). original blind-stamped cloth (spine ends & joints chipped, corners worn, repaired tears in folding map - no loss). First American Edition. Speke had accompanied Richard Francis Burton in 1857 on an expedition sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society to the lake regions of equatorial Africa in search of the source of the Nile. Following their discovery of Lake Tanganyika, Burton despatched Speke to verify reports of another lake to the northward. On August 3, 1858, Speke beheld from a distance the large lake, (nyanza), which he rightly considered to be the head reservoir of the White Nile, and which, in honour of the queen, he named 'Victoria Nyanza'. Burton was extremely critical of Speke's lack of scientific method and disputed his discovery, but Speke was quickly given command of a follow-up expedition in 1860, which was again organized by the RGS and funded by the government. He and his companion, James Augustus Grant, were to explore the Victoria Nyanza and to verify its being the source of the Nile. "In spite of great difficulties Speke made his way to Uganda, on the north-west coast of Victoria Nyanza and (without exploring the lake), succeeded in reaching its outlet. On the 28th of July 1862 Speke stood by the Ripon Falls - the birthplace of the Nile." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) The present account of the journey includes much geographical, ethnological, and zoological information and is profusely illustrated after sketches made by Speke and Grant. Speke's discovery, although still disputed by Burton and others mainly because he was not able to follow the Nile all the way from the Victoria Nyanza to Gondokoro, earned him international recognition and numerous honours, including the founders' medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Speke unfortunately died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound while hunting just the day before he was to publicly debate his findings with Burton. "The importance of Speke's discoveries can hardly be overestimated. In discovering the 'source reservoir' of the Nile he succeeded in solving the 'problem of all ages'.He and Grant were the first Europeans to cross Equatorial Africa, and thereby gained for the world of knowledge of rather more than eight degrees of latitude, or about five hundred geographical miles, in a portion of Eastern Africa previously totally unknown." (Sir Samuel Baker, quoted in DNB) cfHosken p. 188. cfGay 2735.
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SPEKE, John Hanning [1827-1864].
Journal Of The Discovery Of The Source Of The Nile.
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood And Sons, 1863..
8vo. pp. xxxi, 658. steel-engraved frontis. portrait of Speke, steel-engraved portrait of Grant, 2 maps with partial colour (incl. very large double-page folding map at end), 24 wood-engraved plates, & numerous text illus. contemporary calf, gilt back: Glasgow University prize binding (short tear in large map centre fold, some foxing to outer leaves). First Edition. Speke had accompanied Richard Francis Burton in 1857 on an expedition sponsored by the Royal Geographical Society to the lake regions of equatorial Africa in search of the source of the Nile. Following their discovery of Lake Tanganyika, Burton despatched Speke to verify reports of another lake to the northward. On August 3, 1858, Speke beheld from a distance the large lake, (nyanza), which he rightly considered to be the head reservoir of the White Nile, and which, in honour of the queen, he named 'Victoria Nyanza'. Burton was extremely critical of Speke's lack of scientific method and disputed his discovery, but Speke was quickly given command of a follow-up expedition in 1860, which was again organized by the RGS and funded by the government. He and his companion, James Augustus Grant, were to explore the Victoria Nyanza and to verify its being the source of the Nile. "In spite of great difficulties Speke made his way to Uganda, on the north-west coast of Victoria Nyanza and (without exploring the lake), succeeded in reaching its outlet. On the 28th of July 1862 Speke stood by the Ripon Falls -- the birthplace of the Nile." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) The present account of the journey includes much geographical, ethnological, and zoological information and is profusely illustrated after sketches made by Speke and Grant. Speke's discovery, although still disputed by Burton and others mainly because he was not able to follow the Nile all the way from the Victoria Nyanza to Gondokoro, earned him international recognition and numerous honours, including the founders' medal of the Royal Geographical Society. Speke unfortunately died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound while hunting just the day before he was to publicly debate his findings with Burton. "The importance of Speke's discoveries can hardly be overestimated. In discovering the 'source reservoir' of the Nile he succeeded in solving the 'problem of all ages'...He and Grant were the first Europeans to cross Equatorial Africa, and thereby gained for the world of knowledge of rather more than eight degrees of latitude, or about five hundred geographical miles, in a portion of Eastern Africa previously totally unknown." (Sir Samuel Baker, quoted in DNB) Hosken p. 188. cfGay 2735.
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SPILSBURY, F[rancis] B.
Account Of A Voyage To The Western Coast Of Africa; Performed By His Majesty's Sloop Favourite, In the Year 1805.
London: Printed For Richard Phillips, By J.G.Barnard, 1807..
8vo. pp. iv, [5]-43, [1]index. 9 aquatint plates (3 folding). new quarter morocco. First Edition. A description of Senegal and Sierra Leone and the West African slave trade. The author was a surgeon on the British sloop Favourite. The striking illustrations are after his own sketches.
$749 USD                          Book Number: elala3227                         Order / Enquire



STANLEY, Sir Henry M[orton] [1841-1904].
Coomassie And Magdala: The Story Of Two British Campains In Africa.
New York: Harper And Brothers, 1874..
8vo. pp. xiv, 510, [2]ads. frontis. portrait, 2 folding maps & & 26 plates & text illus. original cloth (extremities worn & frayed, large map with dampstains short tears along folds with very slight loss). First American Edition. The account of two British military campaigns in East and West Africa in 1868 and 1873-74, led by Sir Robert Napier and Sir Garnet Wolseley respectively, both of which Stanley accompanied as a war correspondent for the 'New York Herald'. Napier's campaign in Abyssinia (Ethiopia) was conducted against Emperor Theodore, who was holding foreign hostages in his mountain fortress, Magdala. The fortress was stormed, his hostages were freed, and Theodore himself committed suicide. Wolseley's successful Kumassi campaign was carried out against King Koffee and the Ashanti in the jungles of what is now Ghana and Sierra Leone. His reports on the Abyssianian campaign, the earliest received even in London, established Stanley's reputation as one of the leading journalists of the time while his bravery in the march to Kumassi won him the highest respect of Wolseley and other English officers. cfHosken p. 189. cfGay 2874bis.
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STANLEY, Sir Henry M[orton] [1841-1904].
In Darkest Africa Or The Quest, Rescue, And Retreat Of Emin Governor Of Equatoria.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons & Toronto: Presbyterian News Company, 1890..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xiv, 547; xvi, 540. 2 steel-engraved frontis. portraits & 4 maps (3 folding in rear pockets, 2 in colour). numerous text illus. (many full-page). contemporary half roan (a bit of wear to extremities & slight chipping or browning along some map edges). First Canadian Edition. Stanley organized and led the expedition, 1887-89, sent to rescue Emin Pasha at Wadelai on the left bank of the Nile. The German naturalist, whose real name was Eduard Schnitzer, had been appointed by Gordon to the governorship of the equatorial province, and was believed to be in grave danger following the fall of Khartoum. The route taken was from the west coast across the whole extent of the Congo State to the Nile, partly through dense tropical forest. Plagued by disease, hardship, mutiny, and poor organization, the expedition lost two-thirds of its original number, and Emin, who had reluctantly agreed to come away with Stanley, transferred himself to the German service, leaving Stanley to come home without him. Although he failed in his primary objective, Stanley made important geographical and ethnological discoveries. During the course of his journey he discovered the great snow-capped range of Ruwenzori, the Mountains of the Moon, as well as a new lake which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza, and a large south-western extension of Lake Victoria. The treaties which he concluded with various native chiefs and transferred to Sir William Mackinnon's company, laid the foundation of the British East Africa Protectorate. cfHosken p. 189.
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STANLEY, Sir Henry M[orton] [1841-1904].
Through The Dark Continent Or The Sources Of The Nile Around The Great Lakes Of Equatorial Africa And Down The Livingstone River To The Atlantic Ocean.
Toronto: John B.Magurn & Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: John Killam, Sen., 1878..
2 Volumes in 1. 8vo. pp. xiv, [1 leaf], 509; ix, 483. lithographed frontis. portrait of Stanley & wood-engraved frontis. portrait of Stanley, 8 maps (2 folding, some with partial colour), 32 wood-engraved plates & 115 text illus. lacking the 2 large maps of Equatorial Africa, apparently omitted in this issue. contemporary hard-grained leather, gilt edges (joints & extremities rubbed, spotting to rear cover, outer edge of 1 folding map tatty, occasional spotting). First Canadian Edition, variant and probably later issue (in this issue with Toronto-Yarmouth imprint the 2 large folding maps of Equatorial Africa appear to have been omitted). Stanley's account of his third African expedition, 1874-77, which "accomplished more than any other single exploring expedition in Africa. Politically, also, the journey had momentous consequences; it led directly to the foundation of the Congo State and to the partition of the hitherto unappropriated regions of Africa between the states of western Europe.Stanley's letters from Uganda and his call for missionaries to go to the court of Mtesa met with an immediate response and proved the first step in bringing the region of the Nile sources under the protection of Great Britain." (Encyc. Brit., 11th Edn.) Stanley discovered the course of the Congo River, identifying it with Livingstone's Lualaba, the part played by the Kagera in the Nile system, the unity and approximate area of Victoria Nyanza, the true length and area of Tanganyika and the location of its outlet, and a new lake, Dweru. The journey was fraught with difficulties; all three white men who accompanied him died, and Stanley himself was prematurely aged. cfHosken p. 189. cfIbrahim-Hilmy II 258.
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STEVENS, Phillips, Jr.
The Stone Images of Esie, Nigeria.
[Ibadan]: Ibadan University Press & np: The Nigerian Federal Department of Antiquities, 1978]..
4to. pp. xiv, 398, [1]. 1676 illus. 3 maps. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$67 USD                          Book Number: AEVeSTEV56                         Order / Enquire



SWEENEY, James Johnson.
African Sculpture Selected, with and Introduction, by.Bollingen Series.
[Princeton, NJ]: Princeton University Press, [1970]..
8vo. pp. v, [1 leaf], 196. 188 illus. index. wrs. (sticker remnant on front).
$36 USD                          Book Number: AEEriSWE96                         Order / Enquire



TAYLOR, Bayard [1825-1878].
A Journey To Central Africa; Or, Life And Landscapes From Egypt To The Negro Kingdoms Of The White Nile.
New York: G.P.Putnam & Co., [1854]..
12mo. pp. 2 p.l., 522. folding lithographed map, engraved frontis. portrait, 4 tinted lithographed plates, & numerous text illus. original gilt-stamped cloth (spine faded, joints & extremities frayed, foxing to frontis. & title, tear in map & 1 leaf - no loss). First Edition. Account of the American traveler's journey up the Nile and back, undertaken from November, 1851, to April, 1852. cfSmith T10.
$200 USD                          Book Number: elala3088                         Order / Enquire



TAYLOR, William [1821-1902].
Christian Adventures In South Africa. Eleventh Thousand.
New York: Nelson & Phillips., 1877..
8vo. pp. xiv, [1 leaf], xv, 557, [3]ads. with half-title. 16 wood-engraved plates (incl. frontis. portrait). original black & gilt-stamped cloth, gilt edges (inner rear hinge partly cracked, extremities very slightly frayed). "The author arrived at Table Bay on February 17, 1866, and visited a large number of mission stations, and the work contains valuable information respecting the natives of the Eastern Province, and the progress of civilisation and Christianity in Kaffraria and the frontier territories." (Mendelssohn) cfMendelssohn IV 465-66. cfSmith T22.
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TORONTO. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY.
Hidden Treasures From Central Africa Selected from the Collection Of the Royal Ontario Museum January 10-31, 1973.
[Toronto: 1973]..
8vo. pp. [72]. many illus. wrs. Exhib. Cat.
$30 USD                          Book Number: AROddTOR54                         Order / Enquire



TORONTO. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSTITY.
Dialogues African Sculpture from Toronto Collections February 17-March 16, 1975.
[Toronto: 1975]..
oblong 8vo. pp. [132]. 52 illus. biblio. wrs. (rubbed, extremities creased, some scoring).
$36 USD                          Book Number: AROalTOR21                         Order / Enquire


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