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Hundreds of adventurous travel stories outside Europe,
by land and sea, ego documents,
most in first published edition
and in original or contemporary binding.
recent additions:
Burton, Richard Francis
Zanzibar; city, island, and coast
London, Tinsley Brothers 1872 first edition 2 volumes
8vo, beautiful contemporary half calf, edges marbled. xii, [2], 503, [1]; vi, [2], 519, [1] pages. Illustrated with 14 plates, including frontispieces and three plans. Folding map linen backed. Hardly any foxing. A nice copy.
The book was written while Burton and John Hanning Speke were making preparations for their expedition to solve one of the major geographical mysteries of the nineteenth century the location of the source of the Nile. The pair arrived in Zanzibar in December 1856, and Burton made detailed notes on his surroundings which were developed into Volume 1, which focuses on "The City and the Island", including Burton's journey preparations and arrival. He discusses the significance of the "Nile question". The manuscript on which the book is based, entrusted to an East India Company official for dispatch to the Royal Geographical Society, was initially misplaced, thus delaying publication by twelve years, but enabling Burton to add a chapter on Speke's achievement and untimely death.
€ 3.200
Parry, W. E.
Reis ter ontdekking van eene noordwestelijke doorvaart, uit de Atlantische in de Stille Zee
Amsterdam, Johannes van der Hey 1822 first Dutchedition
“gedaan in de jaren 1819 en 1820 door de schepen The Hecla en The Griper”
8vo, modern half vellum. xii, 333, [3] pages, complete with a folding aquatint of the ships, folding plan, engraving of esquimaux and a large map. A very nice copy, slightly foxed in margins.
First Dutch translation of “Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a North-West passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific” 1821. Parry's voyage, which had taken him through the Parry Channel three quarters of the way across the Canadian Arctic Archipelago was probably the single most productive voyage in the quest for the Northwest Passage. Luck had been on their side; 1819 was unusually ice-free and no ship was able to travel so far west until Edward Belcher's expedition in 1850.
€ 650
Russell, William Howard
A Diary In The East During The Tour Of The Prince And Princess Of Wales
London, George Routledge And Sons 1869 first edition
8vo, original publisher’s cloth, traces of use/age with small repair. xv, [1 errata], 650, [6 ads.] with 6 chromolithographed plates including frontispiece and many wood engravings in the text. Only scattered minor foxing. Scarce.
In November 1868 Prince Albert Edward (later King Edward VII) and Princess Alexandra of Wales embarked on HMS Ariadne for a 7 month tour, during which the royal couple travelled along the Nile and visited the antiquities of Egypt prior to inspecting the newly constructed Suez Canal. The Prince and Princess also visited Constantinople, the battlefields of the Crimea and Greece. Journalist Russell accompanied the couple.
€ 320
