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One of the most esteemed works in the history of conchology View picture(s) 1 ADANSON, Michel. Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la Relation abrégée d'un Voyage fait en ce pays, pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53. Paris, Claude J.B. Bauche, 1757. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Contemporary calf. With general title and 2 half-titles, large folding engraved map of Senegal by Ph. Buache after the author, and numerous illustrations of shells on 19 folding engraved plates by Thérèse Reboul after sketches of the author. (8), 190; XCVI, 275, (1 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Conchology  Natural History  Shells  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Extensive description of present Namibia View picture(s) 2 ALEXANDER, James Edward. An expedition of discovery into the interior of Africa, through the hitherto undescribed countries of the great Namaquas, Boschmans and Hill Damaras. Performed under the auspices of her Majesty's government, and the Royal geographical society. London, Henry Colburn, 1838. 2 vols. 12mo. Later green morocco (ca. 1890), spines richly gilt in compartments with beautiful illustrations of the wild animals of Africa, sides with gilt fillet borders in a Empire design, gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, g.e. Large folding map, 7 etched plates (3 in 1st and 4 in 2nd vol.) depicting scenes of African landscapes, villages, animals and people all by William Heath and 7 wood-engraved illustrations. XXIII, (1), 302; VIII, 306 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Natural History  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Classic in the field of Portuguese discoveries, settlements and sea-borne empire View picture(s) 3 ANDRADA, Francisco d'. Cronica do muyto alto e muito poderoso Rey destes Reynos de Portugal dom Ioão o III. deste nome. Dirigida ha C. R. M. del Rey dom Felipe o III. deste nome nosso senhor. Lisbon, Jorge Rodriguez for the author & Francesco Lopez livreiro, 1613. Folio. Contemporary vellum over boards, spine with four raised bands and two (later) red morocco labels lettered in gold, blind fillets and stamped centre-piece on both sides. Title in ornamental woodcut border with a vignette of the coat of arms of Portugal, many charming woodcut initials. (19), 113, 134, 131, 155 lvs. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Brazil  India  Portugal  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Two first editions, contemporarily bound together View picture(s) 4 ARTHUS, Gothard. Historia Indiae Orientalis, ex variis auctoribus collectae, et iuxta seriem topographicam regnorum, provinciarum & insularum, per Africae, Asiaeque littora, ad extremos usque Iaponios deducta, qua regionum et insularum situs & commoditas ; regum & populorum mores & habitus; religionum & superstitionum absurda varietas; Lusitanorum item Hispanorum & Batavorum res gestae atque commercia varia ... describuntur. Cologne, Wilhelm Lutzenkirch, 1608. Small 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum. With finely engraved allegorical borders on title of the second work. (14, 2 blank), 616, (4) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  Africa  Americana  Asia  East Indies  Travel & Voyages  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Dedication copy by the author View picture(s) 5 BEKE, Charles Tilstone. The sources of the Nile: being a general survey of the basin of that river, and of its head-streams; with the history of Nilotic discovery. London, James Madden, 1860. 8vo. Original purple blind stamped decorated cloth with gilt title on spine. With 5 maps and 3 plates (large folding general map by John Dower of the Basin of the Nile, full page map showing how the Atbara, the Nile of the Ethiopians, may be turned into the Red Sea, and a full page plate showing three maps of the Peninsula of Godjam in 1660, 1790 and 1843; folding plate of coastal views of the Nile, plate of Ptolemais Therön, full page plate of the sources of the Nile according to Claudius Ptolemy), some illustrations in text. XV, [4], 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Egypt  Science  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare and extensive work on Algeria View picture(s) 6 BERBRUGGER, [Louis Adrien]. Algérie historique, pittoresque et monumentale. Ou recueil de vues, costumes et portraits faits d'après nature dans les provinces d'Alger, Bone, Constantine et Oran. Par Bour, Ol. Bro, Al. Genet, E. Flandin, Philippoteaux, raffet &c. Paris, Chez Delahaye, 1843. 5 parts in 3 volumes. Large folio. Contemporary half dark green morocco, gold-tooled spines. With a beautifully coloured chromolithographed title-page, 2 lithographed maps, coloured by hand in outline, lithographed frontispiece, and 133 lithographed views of cities, landscapes, persons, costumes, scenes of daily life, botany etc. in black & white or tinted, all designed and executed by several contemporary artists including: Charles Bour, Eugène Flandin, Feìlix Emmanuel Henri Philippoteaux and Denis Auguste Marie Raffet. One of the portraits is coloured by hand as well as the illustrations on the last 10 lithographs which depict the flora. Each part with separate half-title and title page; 7, 40; 34, 10; 21, 11, 9, 8, [1] ll. text. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Lithographs  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first Danish circumnavigation View picture(s) 7 BILLE, Steen Andersen. Beretning om Corvetten Galathea's Reise omkring Jorden, 1845, 46 og 47. Copenhagen, C.A. Reitzel, 1849-1851. 3 vols. 8vo. Original half cloth, preserved in a modern box. With 5 folding lithographed maps, of which one large folding general map, folding facsimile, and 20 full-page tinted lithographed plates with views, costumes, etc. (2), XII, 496; (4), VIII, 465, (5); (4),513, LXVII, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America [South]  Denmark  Hawaii  Indonesia  Japan  Pacific  Philippines  Sandwich Islands  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First Dutch edition of an entertaining travel book on Africa View picture(s) 8 BLANCHARD, Pierre. Lotgevallen van eenen reiziger in Afrika. Naar het Fransch. Deventer, A.J. van den Sigtenhorst, (1828). Small 8vo (15 x 10 cm.). Original boards. With engraved title, 3 full-page engraved plates. IV, 263 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Children's Books  Geography  Popular Books  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Very important work on the trade-settlements on the Westcoast of Africa View picture(s) 9 BOSMAN, Willem. Voyage de Guinée, contenant une description nouvelle & très-exacte de cette côte où l'on trouve & où l'on trafique l'or, les dents d'elephant, & les esclaves. De ses pays, royaumes, & républiques, des moeurs des habitans, de leur religion, gouvernement, administration de la justice, de leurs guerres, mariages, sepultures, &c. Comme aussi de la nature & qualité du terroir, des arbres fruitiers & sauvages, de divers animaux, tant domestiques que sauvages, des bêtes à quatre pieds, des reptiles, des oiseaux, des poissons, & de plusieurs autres choses rares, inconnues jusques à présent aux Européens. Utrecht, Antoine Schouten, 1705. Large 12mo. Contemporary boards, uncut. Engraved portrait of the author, engraved frontispiece, 23 illustrations on 13 engraved plates depicting fortresses, and 26 illustrations on 4 plates depicting birds. (16), 520 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Early 17th-century edition of famous work by Botero, with political and geographical descriptions of countries around the world View picture(s) 10 BOTERO, Giovanni. Le relationi universali, divise in quattro parti. Nella prima parte si contiene la descrittione dell' Europa, dell' Asia, e dell' Africa; et i costumi, richezze, negotij, & industria di ciascuna natione. Et si tratta  del continente del Mondo Nuovo. Nella seconda, si da contezza de' maggiori Prencipi del mondo. Nella terza, si tratta ancor de popoli d'ogni credenza. Nella quarta, si tratta delle superstitioni. Nuovamente ristampate, & corrette. Venice, Nicolo Polo, e Compagni, 1602. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut printer's device on all 4 title-pages and 4 folding engraved maps (ca. 25 x 18.5 cm), of Europe, Asia (including Japan), Africa and America, by Poro. [32], 240; [20], 152; 183, [9]; [16], 79 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America, North  Cartography  Geography  Japan  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Reading book about the Dutch explorers View picture(s) 11 BRINKMAN, J. Verzameling van korte Nederlandsche reisbeschrijvingen, een leesboek voor de jeugd. Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1823. Sm.8vo. Orig. wrappers. 118 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  East Indies  Education  Geography  Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A French description of the world with 18 maps View picture(s) 12 BUFFIER, Claude. Géographie universelle, exposée dans les differentes métodes qui peuvent abréger l'étude & faciliter l'usage de cette sience. Avec le secours des vers artificiels. Sixième édition. Revue, corrigée & augmentée des changemens de domination arivés récemment dans les Etats de'l'Europe: 2. d'une préface sur la méthode d'aprendre la Géographie ... 3. d'une table des noms de pays en françois & en latin ... Paris, Pierre-François Giffart, 1739. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gilt binding edges, red painted edges, marbled endpapers. 18 engraved folding maps, 12 of which are signed by 'Desbruslins' and three are dated 1744: World, Europe, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, German Empire, Rhine, Italy, Spain, England, Scandinavia, Poland, Turkish Empire, Greece, Asia, Middle East, Africa and the two America's. XXIV, 413 (3), (16) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America, North  Antarctica  Asia  Atlases [General]  Atlases [Pocket]  Cartography  Engravings  Europe  France  Geography  Jesuits  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The first European to visit Timbuktu View picture(s) 13 CAILLIÉ, René-Auguste. Dagverhaal eener reize naar Temboektoe, van de westkust af van Afrika, door de binnenlanden, over Jenné, Kabra, Arawan en vele andere opmerkelijke plaatsen, de groote woestijn door, op Tanger... Uit het Fransch overgebragt door Herman van Lil. Haarlem, widow A. Loosjes, 1831. 2 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half cloth. With two engraved frontispieces (author's portrait and a view of Timbuktu) by D. and A. Veelvaard, and a large folding map (41.5 x 28.5 cm) after E.F. Jomard. XVI, 496; [4], 622 [= 582] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Geographical schoolbook on islands, mountains and volcanos View picture(s) 14 CAILLOT, Antoine. Natuur- en geschiedkundige schoonheden der eilanden, bergen en vulkanen. Naar het Fransch. Rotterdam, Mensing, Van Westreenen, 1824. Sm.8vo. Orig. boards. With engraved illustration on title and fine engraved frontispiece by R. Vinkeles. X, 187 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Geography  Greece  Iceland  Mountaineering  Schoolbooks  Sicily  Volcanos  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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First edition of one of the earliest works on the Eastern churches View picture(s) 15 DE MONI, SIMON, Richard. Histoire critique de la creance & des coûtumes des nations du Levant. Frankfurt, Frederic Arnaud, 1684. 12mo. Contemporary mottled calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red sprinkled edges. (8), 229, (3) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Armenia  Cartography  Greece  Religion  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Jesuit mission in the south of Africa View picture(s) 16 DEPELCHIN, Henri and Charles CROONENBERGHS. Trois ans dans l'Afrique Australe. Débuts de la mission du Zambèse. Lettres des Pères H. Depelchin et Ch. Croonenberghs, S.J. 1879, 1880, 1881. Bruxelles, Imprimerie Polleunis, Ceuterick et Lefébure, 1882-3. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original half brown shagreen, gilt spine, title and inscription "Collège S. Servais à Liège" lettered in gold, sides covered with marbled paper. Frontispiece with a portrait, two folding maps. XVI, 432; VI, [2], 452 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Jesuits  Mission  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Detailed account of a commercial expedition to Senegal and Sierra-Leone View picture(s) 17 DURAND, Jean-Baptiste-Léonard. Voyage au Sénégal, ou mémoires historiques, philosophiques et politiques sur les découvertes, les établissemens et le commerce des Européens dans les mers de l'Océan atlantique, depuis le Cap-Blanc jusqu'à la rivière de Serre-Lionne inclusivement; suivis de la relation d'un voyage par terre de l'île Saint-Louis à  Galam, et du texte arabe de trois traités de commerce faits par l'auteur avec les princes de pays. Paris, Henri Agasse, 1802. 4to text vol. & folio atlas vol. Modern half dark green morocco, spine ribbed and gilt, upper edges gilt, side and lower edges uncut. Atlas contains an engraved portrait of Léonard Durand, designed by J. Roland and engraved by P. Viel, 16 engraved double-page, mostly folding maps and 27 engraved plates depicting scenes of daily life, costumes, some animals and plants, designed and engraved by many different artist like, Prevost, Leroy, Giraud, Barraband, Plée, Jourdan and Duval. (4), XXXII, 420; VIII, (4), 68 (last blank) pp. text in atlas. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Cartography  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The secrets of Madagascar revealed View picture(s) 18 ELLIS, William. Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853-1854-1856. Including a journey to the capital with notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilisation of the people. London, John Murray, 1858. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spine gilt. With 26 woodcuts (including one folding plate, one full-page map of Madagascar, 14 full-page woodcuts, and 10 woodcuts in text). [5], VI-XVII, [3], 470, [2 printer's advertisements] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Linguistics  Mission  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The adventurous life of a black abolitionist View picture(s) 19 EQUIANO, Olaudah. Merkwaardige levensgevallen van Olaudah Equiano of Gustavus Vassa, den Afrikaan. Door hem zelven beschreeven. Amsterdam, Pieter Holsteyn, 1790. 8vo. 19th-century cloth-backed marbled boards. With hand-coloured aquatint portrait. [16], 365, [1] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Africa  America [Caribbean Islands]  Arctic  Enlightenment  Greenland  Slavery  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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The customs and legends of Malta, Syria, Lebanon, Jerusalem and Egypt View picture(s) 20 GENTIL, Emile. Souvenirs d'Orient. Anecdotes de voyage. - Légendes. - Moeurs, coutumes, etc. Détails nouveaux sur Malte, le Liban, la Syrie & l'Egypte, avec un grand nombre de dessins inédits, et les plans des principaux sanctuaires de Terre-Sainte. Paris, Lyon, Metz, Librairie Catholique de Pétisse frères, 1856. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. Original brown half morocco, gilt spine, title on spine lettered in gold. With 2 engravings and 4 engraved plans, one of which folding, and numerous illustrations in text by J. Verronnais after the original drawings by Emile Gentil. 580 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  America [Caribbean Islands]  America, North  Holy Land  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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