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Eyewitness account of Persia and other countries View picture(s) 1 HERBERT, Thomas. Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique. Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian and the great Mogull: ... As also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia; together with the adjacent iles... With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the author. London, Richard Bishop for Jacob Blome and Richard Bishop, 1638. Folio. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine, re-backed, new endpapers. With engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with woodcut device, 46 engraved illustrations, woodcut head- and endpieces, woodcut initials. [8], 364, [= 362], [14] pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Americana  Asia  Persia  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Understanding the Bantoues people View picture(s) 2 KURVINEN, [Pietari]. ABD Moshidonga. Omukanda uatango koshindonga ua piangoa. Helsinki, Moshinyoliso shaangena ya literatur ya Suomi, 1876. Small 8vo. Brown publishers cloth with gilt lettering stamped on front cover. (3), 32 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Dictionaries  Finland  Linguistics  Mission  South Africa  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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South Africa at the beginning of the 19th century View picture(s) 3 LATROBE, Rev. C.I. Journal of a visit to South Africa in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London, W. M'Dowall for L.B. Seeley and R. Ackermann, 1818. 4to. Contemporary three quarter calf, spine raised in 6 compartments with decorated ornaments and author's name and tiltle in gilt. Marbled sides. Folding map with red and blue lines of the route of the journey of the Southern division of the Cape of Good Hope colony, engraved for Latrobe's journal, (53 x 27 cm). 12 full page coloured aquatints by J. Bluck after R. Cocking from the original sketches by Latrobe, 4 full page engravings of coastal views. VII, (1), 406, (2). Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Aquatints  Discovery & Exploration  Illustrated Books  Mission  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Important description of the interior of South Africa with hand coloured plates of the native peoples View picture(s) 4 LE VAILLANT, François. Voyage de M. Le Vaillant dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85. Paris, Leroy, 1790. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary three quarter calf, spine richly gilt, with red morocco title label and green morocco volume label. With engraved frontispiece of a camp in the Namaquois region, two folding plates with a view on Cape of Good Hope and of another camp at Pampoen-kraal, and 9 full-page plates of native people (a male and female Hottentot, le Hottentot Gonaquoi, Narina jeune Gonaquoise, a male and female kaffir, a female Hottentot, and a male and female giraffe, numbered I-VIII, VIII), all 9 coloured by hand. Nice woodcut head-pieces. XXIV, 383; 403 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Bindings  Dutch  French  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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A Scottish botanist in the interior of South Africa View picture(s) 5 PATERSON, William. A narrative of four journeys into the country of the Hottentots, and Caffraria, in the years 1777, 1778, 1779. The second edition, corrected. London, printed for J. Johnson, 1790. Large 4to. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt in compartments with red morroco title label lettered in gold, the sides with blind tooled filet border, g.e. Large folding engraved map (56 x 34 cm.) of the Southern extremity of Africa, and 19 fine engraved and hand coloured plates, 15 depicting plants (one of which is misbound), 2 depicting animals, one depicting "Hottentots" and one "Boshiesmens habitations". XII, 175, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Botany  Exploration  History  South Africa  Travel & Voyages  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Account of an expedition to Madagascar View picture(s) 6 POLLEN, François P.L. Recherches sur la faune de Madagascar et de ses Dependances, d'apres les decouvertes de Francois P.L. Pollen et D.C. van Dam. 1re partie: Relation de voyage. Leyden, J.K. Steenhoff, 1868-1877. 5 parts. 4to. Gatherings loose in original beige wrappers as issued. With 48 lithograph plates, mostly tinted or chromolithographed, 2 lithograph maps (of which one folding of Madagascar& isle Mayotte), lithographed after the drawings of F. Pollen or  J.G.  Keulemans by P.W.M. Trap and Keulemans, depicting events during the expedition, customs and costumes of the natives (shark fishing, turtle & monkey hunting) etc., steelengravings in text. 240 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: Africa  Costumes  Discovery & Exploration  Hunting  Natural History  South Africa  Zoology  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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19th-century Cape Town and the Royal English Navy depicted View picture(s) 7 [PHOTOGRAPHY - SOUTH AFRICA - CAPE TOWN]. [Panoramic photograph overlooking Cape Town]. [Cape Town, ca. 1880]. (10 x 48.5 cm). Albumen print in 3 parts, mat mount. Pasted on contemporary paper with manuscript title below the print. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Maritime History  Photography  South Africa  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Photographs of South Africa View picture(s) 8 [PHOTOGRAPHY - SOUTH AFRICA]. [Collection of 63 photographs]. [South Africa, ca. 1900]. Albumen or gelatin silver prints in various sizes (8.5 x 8.5 to 15.5 x 21.5 cm), loose, and several mounted with 2 or 8 to a cardboard leaf, some inscribed in negative ('Barnett & Co.', 'J.E.M.'), one with a stamp of 'C. Evans photographer, Kimberley', some with hand-written captions; a panoramic view mounted on linen. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Diamonds  Gemology  Gold  Metals  Photography  South Africa  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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