8vo, modern dark blue wrappers. Complete with 159 pages, 5 folding maps, illustrations etc. and extra 3 related articles.

Complete collection of articles –preceding the book- published during his travels in “Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap”. Added are 3 related articles “Celebes en Halmahera” (1910), “De breukenkust van Mandar” (1911 with text map) and “De oude beddingen der Beneden Sadang-Rivier en de Baai van Pare Pare” (1911 with folding map). Together 195 pages and 6 folding maps.

€ 160

Folio, (near) contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine. [4], 818 (recte 814) pages in double columns. Scattered some browning, some spotting and waterstaining, few marginal restorations, in all a very nice copy.

Rare, only a few copies in OCLC. Only Dutch edition of this important work, originally in Latin “'Novus orbis regionum” 1532. This edition translated and augmented from the 1534 German edition by Albion “so that it is the most complete of all editions (…) This Dutch edition is exceedingly rare, even in Holland, and will be sought in vain in many of the best Dutch libraries” (Muller). Here are the first Dutch translations of the major medieval travel stories: "Itinerarium Portugallensium" by Montalboddo 1508, with Cabral, Joseph the Indian, Columbus, Cadanosto, Cortes and others. "Decades and De Legatione Babylonica" by Peter Martyr. “The work is one of the most valuable sources for the history of the discovery of America, the author being at once the friend of Columbus, Vespuccius and Cabot” (Muller). And among the others stories are Marco Polo, Haithon, Vespuccius and Varthema.

€ 18.300

8vo contemporary polished calf gilt with marbled edges and endpapers, spines worn with restaurations, recent paper labels. xviii, 509; viii, 511 pages, complete as called for with 18 engraved plates, illustrations in text and 3 maps. Contents near fine.

Account of the ill-fated British Niger Expedition in 1841 with three vessels, the steamers Albert, Wilberforce, and Soudan. Its purpose was to make treaties with the native peoples against slavery, introduce Christianity and promote increased trade. Of the 150 Europeans on the expedition, 42 died quickly. There were 130 fever cases. Members who were of African descent suffered no deaths from illness. With such high mortality, the naval commanders called the expedition off, and withdrew to the island of Fernando Po.

€ 590

8vo, original decorated boards. xiii, 335; ix, 397 pages with 141 b/w photos and plates, two frontispieces. Each volume has a map in full colour at rear. A very good set.

"In 1903, Amundsen led the first expedition to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (something explorers had been attempting since the days of Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, and Henry Hudson), with six others in a 47 ton steel seal hunting vessel, Gjøa. After a third winter trapped in the ice, Amundsen was able to navigate a passage into the Beaufort Sea after which he cleared into the Bering Strait, thus having successfully navigated the Northwest Passage. Continuing to the south of Victoria Island, the ship cleared the Canadian Arctic Archipelago on August 17, 1905, but had to stop for the winter before going on to Nome on the Alaska Territory's Pacific coast. Five hundred miles (800 km) away, Eagle City, Alaska, had a telegraph station; Amundsen travelled there (and back) overland to wire a success message (collect) on December 5, 1905. Nome was reached in 1906. Due to water as shallow as 3 feet, a larger ship could never have used the route."
€ 950

8vo, original maroon cloth decorated with the Norwegian flag on front covers, traces of use, top edge gilt, others uncut. xxxv, 392; x, 449 pages with 6 maps and charts (4 folding), a diagram of the journey and 99 photographic plates. Nice set with scattered light foxing. Rosove 9.A1.

Amundsen's account of his conquest of the South Pole. "To their credit, John Murray produced a two volume set of real quality, incorporating the Norwegian flag, despite realising that British disappointment at being beaten to the Pole would ensure that it was not a publishing success in the United Kingdom".

€ 2.900

8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered blue cloth, top edges gilt. xxxv, [1], 392; x, 449 pages with a little foxing in places. Illustrated with numerous photo plates, diagrams, maps (a few folding), facsimiles etc. With ink ownership signatures of Edward Johnson, dated April 1913, to front free endpapers, along with that of Lt. Commander Lloyd M. Harmon, U.S.N., dated November 1959.

Amundsen's account of his conquest of the South Pole. This first American edition has the imprint of the London publisher, John Murray, on the title-page as well that of Lee Kedrick. "To their credit, John Murray produced a two volume set of real quality, incorporating the Norwegian flag, despite realising that British disappointment at being beaten to the Pole would ensure that it was not a publishing success in the United Kingdom".

€ 950

8vo, original cloth. 282 pages, illustrated. Inscription (non-authorial) on front endpaper. Little shelf wear, title page lightly foxed; else a very good copy.

Gives an autobiographical account of Amundsen's various Polar endeavors and accomplishments. It tells the story of a career of intrepid courage resulting in a vastly increased knowledge of the Earth.

€ 190

Complete run of this important Dutch geographical journal, bound in artificial leather. It was a Dutch illustrated magazine with scientific and cultural travel reports. The magazine appeared from 1865 to 1940 in separate weekly and monthly episodes with reports from travellers and adventurous scientists who could be compiled into reference works every year. The magazine was illustrated with engravings and photos in later editions. Many articles were translated from Journal des Voyages. Thousands of wood engravings.
€ 990 

4to, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, spine skillfully restored with a new free front endpage. [34], 417, [2]; complete with list of subscribers and 42 folding plates and charts as called for. Textpages with scattered foxing, mainly in margins. Some plates with waterstaining. Good copy of the first edition, first issue (page 319 misnumbered 219).

Famous for the many engraved charts and views it contains, but also for the thrilling chronicling adventure and discovery as Anson roamed the Pacific Ocean in pursuit of Spanish treasure, at which he was at last very successful, capturing in 1743 the Manila galleon with a treasure of 400,000 British Pounds Sterling, returning to England a rich and famous man. "This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure in the eighteenth century." Cox notes that four editions came out in the first year of publication and that 16 had been issued by 1781. He also comments on the "famous and unfortunate" nature of the expedition, with seven of the original eight ships that set out being lost rounding Cape Horn and on the coast of Chile, and more than two thirds of the 900 men that set out from England perishing.

€ 2.800

4to, full leather with coat of arms in gold, rubbed, joints and spine ends repaired, marbled endpapers. Half-title, title, dedication Henri XI Reuss, xvi, 334 pages with 34 (32 folding) plates, maps and charts, complete as stated in the binders instructions. Inside some browning and show through. Very nice copy.

Famous for the many engraved charts and views it contains, but also for the thrilling chronicling adventure and discovery as Anson roamed the Pacific Ocean in pursuit of Spanish treasure, at which he was at last very successful, capturing in 1743 the Manila galleon with a treasure of 400,000 British Pounds Sterling, returning to England a rich and famous man. "This compilation has long occupied a distinguished position as a masterpiece of descriptive travel. Anson's voyage appears to have been the most popular book of maritime adventure in the eighteenth century." Cox notes that four editions came out in the first year of publication and that 16 had been issued by 1781. He also comments on the "famous and unfortunate" nature of the expedition, with seven of the original eight ships that set out being lost rounding Cape Horn and on the coast of Chile, and more than two thirds of the 900 men that set out from England perishing.

€ 2.400

“Bevattende: Eene reis naar en door de Vereenigde Staten, eene algemeene beschrijving van de tot het Missisippi-dal behoorende gewesten, benevens wenken en raadgevingen voor hen, die zich aldaar willen vestigen.”

8vo, modern cloth with original title label pasted on. viii, 354 pages with scattered minor waterstaining. Very rare.

Translation of "Schilderung des Mississippithales". Arends “emigrated with his family to the United States in the year 1833. He settled in Missouri. Although he intended to write a book containing his experiences, a manual for settlers if you will”. The last 70 pages deal with the practical sides of emigration.

€ 480

8vo, publisher’s cloth with a blindstamped sledge scene on front board. 362 pages with a large fold-out map (43x22 cm), frontispiece portrait, 5 full page plates and many in-text. Traces of use with spine ends repaired, hinges cracking, owner’s names removed and cut out of title page. A Good used copy of a scarce title.

Translation of “Blandt Nordpolens Naboer” 1895 by H. J. Bull, Polar explorer. Astrup participated in Robert Peary's expedition to Greenland in 1891–92 and mapped northern Greenland. In the follow-up Greenland expedition by Peary during 1893–94 he explored and mapped Melville Bay on the north-west coast of Greenland. Astrup is credited for introducing the combination of dog sleds and skis, which came to revolutionize polar expeditions.

€ 650

8vo, old cloth. xvi, 648, lvi pages with 16 etchings and 28 wood cuts, a folding map of Mauritius and a large (46x89 cm) detailed folding map of South Africa by James Wyld ( who had an excellent reputation as a mapmaker). Frontispiece foxed, other plates with marginal foxing.

Backhouse was a minister and botanist. His extensive travels to almost every inhabited town and district and ample descriptions of the flora makes it an important diary of the region. Provenance: Ex botanist Herman Harry Bolus, son of Harry Bolus who was founder of the Bolus Herbarium, now in the University of Cape Town.

€ 370

8vo, publisher's tan cloth. without the scarce dust jacket. xxi, 292 pages, 33 illustrations, 2 panoramas, maps on endpapers. Good copy with some unobstrusive marks that suggest an ex-library copy.

"The grandly named British Imperial Expedition of 1920-21 is one of Antarctica's ironies; four principals embarked for this poorly equipped journey, but Bagshawe and his enemy Lester were left on their own in the Antarctic during a hazardous winter ... this account holds its own in the annals of polar exploits". Rossove 23.A2. Scarce.

€ 290

8vo, publisher’s cloth with wear, mottled. xvi, 456 pages with a frontispiece, folding plan and folding map with closed tears, vignette on title-page, 32 pages with publisher’s ads. Good copy in the scarce original bindings.

Baikie was appointed surgeon and naturalist to the Niger expedition sent out in 1854 by Macgregor Laird. Ascending the Benue about 250 miles beyond the point reached by former explorers, the little steamer Pleiad returned and reached the mouth of the Niger, after a voyage of 118 days, without the loss of a single man. The expedition had been instructed to endeavour to afford assistance to explorer Heinrich Barth, but Baikie was unable to gain any trustworthy information concerning him. One of his other duties was to monitor the use of quinine which it was determined, quite rightly as it turned out, to be a protection for Europeans in the climate.

€ 550

8vo, original pictorial cloth, spine ends repaired. xxx, 395; ix, 384 pages with an engraved portrait frontispiece, tinted lithographed frontispiece, 2 maps, 1 folding, 13 plates. Rare early issue, with the incorrect plate list in volume II calling for two maps at end of the volume that are at the front of volume I; volume I includes an additional plate opposite page 351, not called for in list of plates.

In 1861 Baker went to Africa and for about a year explored the Nile tributaries around the Sudan and Ethiopia border. Using maps supplied by Speke, the Baker expedition set out in February 1863 to find the source of the Nile. In March 1864 Baker determined the source to be a lake, which he named Albert Nyanza (Lake Albert), lying between modern Uganda and Congo (Kinshasa).

€ 950

8vo, boards over original wrappers. 158 pages with a very large folding map, 28 photos and 3 illustrations. 2 library stamps. A little scattered foxing. In a complete issue of 214 pages in Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (tweede serie deel XIX no. 5) with more articles.

Dutch expedition in Surinam.

€ 150

8vo, bound in modern dark red wrappers. 158 pages with a very large folding map, 28 photos and 3 illustrations. Some mild waterstaining in lower right corners. Published in Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap.

Dutch expedition in Surinam.

€ 160

8vo, contemporary vellum. 664 pages plus index, includes 8 folding plates, 2 illustrated initials and double frontispiece of John Maurice of Nassau. Rare, in very good condition (3 perforated stamps).

This so called Silberling edition, known for the high quality of the engravings and printing, was preceeded by a (first) edition of 1647, Rerum per octennium in Brasilia, which appeared in two different versions: the "grand Barlaeus" (folio size, published by Blaeu), and the smaller sized "petit Barlaeus". Imporant contemporary account of the Dutch colonial empire in Brazil, inspired by the leadership of John Maurice of Nassau (Johan Maurits) at Recife. Piso arrived in Brazil early in 1638 and may have been on the same ship with other scientists, namely the astronomer Georg Markgraf (1610-1644). Both men accompanied the Count on his military campaigns against the Portuguese in Brazil and were part of his inner circle until he returned to the Netherlands in 1644. Piso went with him, but Markgraf was sent to Angola by the West India Company and died there shortly after his arrival. Rare reprint of the 1689 edition.

€ 6.800

8vo, publisher’s pictorial boards and endpapers, lightly rubbed. 62, [1] pages. Very good copy. Scarce.

Anonymous juvenile account of the expedition of Robert Scott to Antarctica, probably by J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan and friend of the family. Published to raise funds to aid relatives of those who lost their lives with the expedition. Scott’s son Peter was named after Peter Pan. Spence 13, Rosove 13.A2 with “Toronto” added.

€ 90

4to, rebound in quarter leather with original boards and new endpapers. viii, 419; xi, 452 pages with 9 engraved maps and 1 folding sepia aquatint view, uncut. Some browning and foxing, small repairs. Good copy.

"Barrow accompanied an expedition from Cape Town to Graaf-Reinet, and another to Namaqualand, and he gives an excellent description of the country traversed ... The second volume contains detailed accounts of the various divisions of the Cape Colony".

€ 1.800

8vo, brown cloth. xxvii, [2] 30-657 [1] pages, 3 blank leaves; xiii, [2], 16-709 pages [1], 2 pages ads., 2 blank leaves; xvi, [1], 18-800 pages, 2 blank leaves, including list of illustrations in each volume, appendices, vocabulary of languages and index. Illustrated with plans, maps (including one folding), views, figures in the text and plates. Nice set with some collectors stamps.

Barth joined (1849) an expedition to the West Sudan. He visited the Fulani and the Hausa and discovered the upper Benue River. After exploring the Chad region he turned westward and made his way through Kano and Sokoto to Gwandu, in North Nigeria. Barth's interest in the Islamic culture of West Africa led him on to Timbuktu where he stayed eight months before returning (1855) to England.

€ 780

“Containing an Account of the Manners, Customs, &c. of the Natives, with a Geographical Description of the Country. Collected from Observations made During a Residence of Thirteen Years, between 1776 and 1789, in Districts Little Frequented by the Europeans. With Notes and Illustrations by Johann Reinhold Forster”.

8vo, contemporary calf, used. xii, 478 pages, ad. Complete with half-title and 1 engraving.

First edition was in Italian: "Viaggio alle Indie Orientale". This account of a thirteen-year stay in India is full of antiquarian research and reference to earlier literature on the region.

€ 550

"Performed in His Majesty's Ship Blossom, under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N. ... in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28".

8vo, modern marbled boards and uniform endpapers, calf spine lettered gilt, black morocco lettering piece. vi, note, ii (dedication to the king), xi, 13-493 pages, publishers catalogue. Some spotting, chiefly marginal, 9 leaves browned, light text browning elsewhere, edges roughly opened, long tear to upper margin of page 369 affecting 9 lines of text, some dampstaining in final quire. This copy with the Note bound in from the publisher stating that some of Beechey’s remarks upon the moral condition of the Society and Sandwich Islands are “very defective and unjust”!

Considered one of the most important Pacific voyages of the 19th century it contains many important discoveries and notes including the encounter with famous mutineer John Adams of Bounty fame and for the first time records in detail the most extensive account of what happened on the Bounty with Beechey actually officiating in Adam's marriage to his fifth consort. In Tahiti, Hawaii etc, he gives extensive accounts of the islands and events happening at the time of this voyage. Abridged from the two-volume English edition of 1831.
€ 950

8vo, original cloth rebacked with new endpapers. xv, [4], 156 pages with half-title, folding litho map frontispiece, four single-page litho maps, folding sectional diagram, woodcut map to text. Very good.

In 1840 Beke went to Ethiopia to explore the area, establish commercial relations with the inhabitants, and help abolish the slave trade. His commercial venture was unsuccessful, but he ascertained the approximate course of the Blue Nile, mapped about 70,000 square miles of the country, and also compiled vocabularies of 14 Ethiopian dialects. In 1845 he sponsored an expedition that tried to explore the sources of the White Nile from the East African coast. This venture, though uncompleted, may have inspired the Nile explorations of John Hanning Speke of England in the 1850s.
€ 950

8vo 13x19cm, red cloth covers, rubbed and soiled, spine chipped. 377 pages plus adverts, map and 9 illustrations including frontispiece.

Standard work regarding the Bounty and aftermath by the wife of Belcher, who visited Pitcairn Island in 1825 with Beechey in the H.M.S. Blossom speaking with the last surviver. She herself was step-daughter of Captain Heywood and possessed valuable documents including the journal of James Morrison. Written to give a "more connected and impartial narrative" than Barrow did.

€ 180

8vo, half blue leather, marbled endpapers, rubbed. lvi, 414 pages, table. Complete with portrait frontispiece, facs letter and folding map. Scattered foxing and collector's stamps on title page. Good copy.

Bellot volunteered for British service in the search for the missing Sir John Franklin, and accompanied the expedition of 1851-52 under command of Sir William Kennedy on Lady Franklin's yacht, the Prince Albert.

€ 490

Large folio. Contemporary green three-quarter morocco, spine blind and gilt tooled with the title lettered in gold, boards covered with green grained cloth; bound by A. van Rossum, Amsterdam. With lithographed frontispiece with title "Surinam" and 99 numbered views and illustrations on 49 numbered full page tinted lithographed plates, all by Madou and Lauters after the design of the author. [4], 76 pages. Stamp on half-title "Oudheidkamer Twente". Contents fine with hardly any foxing.

The artist Benoit made long journeys and around 1830 he visited the Dutch colony of Surinam on his own initiative. He visited Paramaribo, but also plantations and villages of Maroons and Indians. He made a large number of drawings on which he tried to capture the real life of the people. This book is a journalistic account of the country and its population with all their strange customs, objects, festivals and rituals. It is considered one of the finest plate works about Surinam with detailed and informative illustrations.

€ 2.650

"von allen geschichten, handlungen, thaten, strengem vnnd ernstlichem regiment der Spanier gegen den Indianern, vnglåublichem grossem gut von goldt, sylber, edelgestein, peerlin, schmaragdt, vnnd andern reichtumb, so die Spanier darinn erobert ” etc.

Folio, recent half vellum with marbled boards. 4, 219 pages, small erased stamp on title page, otherwise an excellent crisp copy.

"Girolamo Benzoni, Italian traveller (1518/19-1570); a native of Milan. After extensive travels throughout Europe, Benzoni decided to sail for the New World and seek his fortune as a soldier of the Spanish army. In 1541 he embarked at Sanlúcar de Barrameda for Gran Canaria, from where he sailed for the West Indies, subsequently visiting the Antilles, Venezuela, the isthmus of Panama and the western coast of South America. He arrived in the north of Peru in 1547 and spent the next three years in the country. Benzoni then proceeded to Nicaragua, where he lived for a further four years, and spent two months in Guatemala”.

€ 3.450

8vo, original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket, plates and maps (2 folding). Dust jacket rubbed and soiled, chipping and wear to extrems with some slight losses, price-clipped. Scarce with dust jacket.

Bernacchi served as physicist on Scott's first expedition in the Discovery. The present book follows the life of the vessel, first as Scott's ship, then as a British Government whale research ship and later as the ship used by Sir Douglas Mawson for the British-Australian-New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition in 1929.

€ 170

8vo, variant brown paper covered boards. 157 pages plus ad., frontispiece portrait and 22 illustrations. Very good.

A first person account by a member of the German "Gauss" expedition under Drygalski. Rosove 42: “This virtually unknown book is the young man’s narrative account, with his diary entries. The second edition (...) is about as rare as the first” dated 1905.

€ 220

8vo, half cloth with lithographed front cover. Spine with repairs, new label, covers rubbed. 357, v pages. Rare.

Translation into Dutch of "A narrative of captivity in Abyssinia. With some account of the late emperor Theodore, his country and people". Blanc was medical officer to a British mission to enter into negotiations with King Theodore II, king of Abyssinia, for the release of prisoners. On the arrival of the mission at Theodore's court he and the rest of the mission were thrown into chains, to be released on the arrival of the British invading force at Magdala in 1868.

€ 140

Slender folio, original cloth, gilt titling on spine, t.e.g. others uncut. With wood engravings by Robert Gibbings. 300 copies printed on Arnold’s all rag paper, this being nr 277.

Bligh's famous story published in the Golden Cockerel series. After the mutiny on the Bounty Bligh undertook the seemingly impossible 3,618-nautical-mile voyage to Timor, the nearest European settlement. Bligh succeeded in reaching Timor after a 47-day voyage, the only casualty being the crewman killed on Tofua

€ 650

“mitsgaders een omstandig verhaal van den Bantamschen inlandschen oorlog, het verdryven der Francoizen uit het Koninkryk Siam, en 't geen aan Kaap de goede Hoop in den jaare 1706 is voorgevallen, tot aan het opontbod des gouverneurs Willem Adriaan van der Stel.”

4to, later half vellum with manuscript spine title. 6, 604, 4 pages and 10 (of 15) plates. Lacks also the half-title, frontispiece and portrait. Some waterstaining in margins, some plates with a bit childish colouring. Rare.

Contemporary account of the VOC, the war in Bantam and formost the situation at Cape of Good Hope in 1706 during the tyranny of Governor Van der Stel. “For this period of Cape history his work is of great value”. See Mendelssohn.

€ 340

8vo, original gilt-lettered cloth. 258 pages with a frontispiece portrait. Nice copy with presentation ticket from the author. Scarce.

Biography of the Dutch naval officer L. R. Koolemans Beynen (1852-1879) who took part in the expedition against Aceh in 1874. Later he took part in two expeditions towards the North Pole, on the British ship Pandora (1875) and on the Dutch ship Willem Barentsz (1876).

€ 120

4to, contemporary half calf with restaurations, new label. [12], 400 pages and a folding map (map browned and soiled).

An account of a voyage to the north coast of South America. Bolingbroke remained there for six years as deputy vendue master at Surinam and gives an important revue of the geography, natural history, agriculture (cotton and sugar), the Dutch plantations, the practice of slavery, the culture of the Creole, and other local customs of Guiana and the surrounding area.

€ 1.100

8vo, red orange cloth with gilt titling on front and spine. xvi, 333 pages and 31 pages ads. With portraits, 186 illustrations and 3 maps at end of the volume: Robertson Bay, Track of the Southern Cross over "Wilkes Land " and Coast of Victoria Land. Some wear to the covers, spine ends repaired.

A Rosove 45.A1b copy: orange cloth in stead of blue and "lacking the illustration on the front cover ... Presumably a secundary binding and considerably scarcer than the former".

€ 800

8vo, publisher’s decorated cloth. (6), 609 pages with 6 coloured plates, 5 maps and many other full page and in-text illustrations. In near Fine condition.

Borchgrevink was the first person to definitively set foot on the Antarctic continent. He led the British Antarctic Expedition (Southern Cross Expedition) from 1898 to 1900. Borchgrevink and his team wintered at Cape Adare, located on the northernmost tip of Victoria Land in Antarctica. This made him the first person to spend a winter on the mainland of Antarctica. “The work and accomplishments of the expedition were, without a doubt, remarkable” (Rosove).

€ 220

8vo, publisher’s cloth. xvi, [2], 317 pages with 46 b/w photographs and a folding map. Good used copy of the scarce London edition.

Account of Peary's North Pole Expedition 1908-9 by its youngest member, geologist and photographer, who was with one of the support parties during the first stage of the march and made a sledge journey with MacMillan along the northern coast of Greenland. Borup's was the first book to appear about the expedition by a participant. He was chosen to lead the 1913-1917 Crocker Land Expedition, but drowned before starting on April 28, 1912 in a boating accident in Long Island Sound. Arctic Bibliography 2022.

€ 120

8vo, contemporary full calf, gilt to spine with some rubbing and bumping, marbled edges and end papers. [4], xliii, 336; 453, [3] pages complete with 21 folded engraved maps and 3 copper engravings. Title leaves with cut-out and faint stamp erasure.

In 1766 Bougainville received from Louis XV permission to circumnavigate the globe. He would become the 14th navigator, and the first Frenchman, to sail around the world. This was a large expedition, with a crew of 214 aboard Boudeuse and 116 aboard Étoile. The book describes the geography, biology and anthropology of Argentina (then a Spanish colony), Patagonia, Tahiti and Indonesia (then a Dutch colony). The book was a sensation, especially the description of Tahitian society. Bougainville described it as an earthly paradise where men and women lived in blissful innocence, far from the corruption of civilisation. Bougainville's descriptions powerfully expressed the concept of the noble savage, influencing the utopian thoughts of philosophers such as Rousseau before the advent of the French Revolution. Aboard -disguised as a man- was a French woman called Jeanne Baré or Jeanne Baret and she was the first of her sexe who circumnavigated the world.

€ 1.650

8vo, modern boards. vi, 292 pages with a beautiful hand coloured frontispiece copper engraving “Een Ashantijnsche bevelhebber” by Veelwaard. Stamp Übersee Institut on verso title page. Very Rare. Not in Tiele.

Dutch adaption of “Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee” 1819. Bowdich in a 1817 mission to the king of Ashanti completed peace negotiations on behalf of the African Company of Merchants. This achievement aided in the extension of British influence as well as in the annexation of the Gold Coast colony. “This work, the most important after Bruce's, excited great interest, as an almost incredible story ... of a land and people of warlike and barbaric splendour hitherto unknown”.

€ 660

8vo, original decorated boards. 239 pages plus index with 17 illustrations. Traces of use. Good.

In 1880-81 a second exploration tour was made under command of governor Van der Heyden during which they obtained some tin concessions in Malaya. His tour in Atcheen yielded no results as the Dutch East Indian government thought the situation at that time too precarious. He continued his explorations in these regions up to 1885.

€ 190

8vo, publisher’s green cloth with traces of use. xiii, 500 pages with a folding map, 8 striking hand-coloured lithographs and 11 plain plates, title-vignette and a few illustrations in the text. Errata slip present. Hinges reinforced. Bath Public Reference Library’s bookplate stating that the book is a gift of M. Oppenheim (pioneer naval historian) in 1919 with their scattered blind stamps, and a stamp of the East London Institute for Home and Foreign Missions. Uncommon.

Reverent Brett spent almost forty years as a missionary to the native peoples of Surinam and the Guiana’s - the Pomeroon, Arawaks, Caribs, Acawoios, Waraus, Waramuri, Mahaiconi - and retired in 1879.

€ 220

8vo 14x21 cm, original green blind stamped cloth over boards with paper label affixed to spine. Spine ends chipped, joints repaired. Scattered foxing. Frontispiece of Brodie, iv, (5)-260 pages with illustrations, subscriber's list and a complete list of all the inhabitants of Pitcairn's Island in 1850. Good copy.

Scarce book about the mutineers of the Bounty and their life on Pitcairn's Island. Plate of John Adams (Alexander Smith), the last living mutineer! With the popularity of this title when initially released, two immediate prints were produced in the same year. This is the first reprint, made from the first edition plates. Subscribers could buy more copies than one, the others being sent to the Pitcairn Islanders to sell for themselves. Peculiar: Tipped in is a sheet Brodie asking the subscribers to pay him.

€ 490

8vo, original grey cloth, spine and front board decorated and lettered in white and black, the usual attrition of the spine lettering, top edge gilt, others uncut, deep blue endpapers. xxiv, 375 pages, large coloured folding map, 2 other maps, 59 plates, foxing and traces of use. Scarce primary binding. Good.

The 'official' narrative of the ill-financed Scottish National Antarctic Expedition 1902 - 1904 that nonetheless made important contributions to the scientific exploration of the Antarctic, undertaking the first oceanographic exploration of the Weddell Sea and charting the northern part of the Caird Coast. Brown was the expedition botanist. Rosove 50.A1a

€ 600

4to, contemporary calf, rubbed, rebacked and corners repaired. xxxviii, 496 pages, steel engraved frontispiece, 2 folding maps (repaired tears), 1 engraved plan, tables. Frontispiece and inner margin of title water stained, otherwise very good.

Browne, who contributed important information on the course of the Nile, underwent considerable hardships whilst accompanying the Sudan Caravan to Darfur in 1793, a country not previously visited by Europeans. He gives ample information on Darfur where, as the first European visitor, he was detained by the Sultan after crossing the desert from Egypt with the annual Caravan. He travelled through Syria and Asia Minor to Constantinople.

€ 880

8vo, contemporary half calf with wear. (2), xl, xlviii, 525,(1); (2), vi, 528; vi, 439,(1) pages, complete with a large folding map and 6 plates. A nice copy. Rare.

Intent on reaching the source of the Nile River, Bruce left Cairo on an arduous journey by way of the Nile, Aswān, the Red Sea, and Mitsiwa (now Massawa, Eritrea), eventually reaching the Ethiopian capital of Gonder on February 14, 1770. Despite serious political unrest in Ethiopia, Bruce continued his expedition and reached Lake Tana, where the Blue Nile rises, on November 14. The journey homeward was one of extreme hardship. This vivid account of his travels is considered one of the epics of African adventure literature.

€ 1.200

8vo and 4to (30,3 x 23,3 cm). Text volumes in contemporary tree calf, atlas in contemporary half calf, (all sympathetically rebacked with original spines preserved, new lettering pieces on text volume, some extremities rubbed). Atlas with half-title, engraved portrait, 3 folding engraved maps and 78 plates and plans (foxing as usual in the atlas volume). Second enlarged edition.

Intent on reaching the source of the Nile River, Bruce left Cairo on an arduous journey by way of the Nile, Aswān, the Red Sea, and Mitsiwa (now Massawa, Eritrea), eventually reaching the Ethiopian capital of Gonder on February 14, 1770. Despite serious political unrest in Ethiopia, Bruce continued his expedition and reached Lake Tana, where the Blue Nile rises, on November 14. The journey homeward was one of extreme hardship. This vivid account of his travels is considered one of the epics of African adventure literature.

€ 2.200

“Sixty photographs by members of the Scottish national Antarctic expedition”.

8vo, original colour illustrated parchment paper around stiff wrappers, 10x14,5cm. [8] (advertising), 67, [5] (advertising). 60 full-page photographs, Scarce.

A charming chapbook issued as Cowan's Nature Books No. 10. Photos show whales, penguins, seals, shags, skuas etc. 4 photos show members of the expedition, one photo shows the Scotia in the background and one photo shows an emperor penguin on board the Scotia. Small portion of the back cover missing but with the illustrated front wrapper largely intact.

€ 450

4to, rebound in half calf with marbled boards. [4], xcviii, 498 pages with engraved frontispiece portrait, 3 engraved maps of which 2 are folding. Maps with browning.

The travels described here took place in 1813 and 1814. Burckhardt left Aleppo in 1812 and made his way to Cairo, he then carried out two journeys: one along the upper Nile and the other through the Nubian desert. These travels were edited from Burckhardt"s journals by Leake. He also wrote the biographical memoir which is prefaced to the travels. This was the first of Burckhardt's works to be published and was followed by Travels in Syria, 1822.

€ 1.280

12mo, publisher’s wrappers with traces of use, spine repaired. [vi], 295 pages, complete with a large folding map and 12 plates in very good condition.

Belgian explorer Burdo's lively story of his voyage up the Niger and Benueh, partly in the company of Bishop Crowther. He gives many details of the various towns and villages he visited on the banks of the two rivers and of the appearance and habits of the people he met with.

€ 150

8vo, half cloth with marbled boards. 219, [5] pages with 24 illustrations and a map. Very good copy.

A bio of the famous explorer, issued shortly after his Emin Pasha expedition. An uncommon critical book on Stanley.  Casada 1569. Burdo was a Belgian explorer and participated among others in the third exploration of the Congo. 
€ 90

"in boeienden verhaaltrant voor jongelieden bewerkt ".

8vo, 14x20 cm, red pictorial cloth. 280 pages with 4 lithographed plates. On the back cover the blindstamp of J.S. de Haas, boekbinderij, Amsterdam. In very good condition.

A history of the Dutch Indies, written for young readers.

€ 50

8vo, half morocco by Zaehnsdorf, front joint volume 1 repaired, gilt edges. xiv, 418; v, 422 pages with 2 chromo-lithographed frontispieces, 11 tinted or choromolithographed plates and 3 folding maps. Very good, slightly browned in places.

Burton's pilgrimage to Medina and Mecca in 1853, was his realization of "the plans and hopes of many and many a year...to study thoroughly the inner life of the Moslem." Disguising himself as a Pathān, an Afghanistani Muslim, he went in 1853 to Cairo, Suez and Medina, then travelled the bandit-ridden route to the sacred city of Meccah, where at great risk he measured and sketched the mosque and holy Muslim shrine, the Kaʿbah.

€ 1.250

8vo, original red cloth, some light soiling and discolouration on covers, gilt spine lettering rubbed. xvii, 412; vii, 468 pages with 12 tinted wood engraved plates and folding engraved map. Half-titles present. Marginal browning on some plates. Bequeathed in 1884 by the ref. Henry, library stamps on (half-)titles.

First edition, in the second issue bound in red cloth, of the narrative of the 2-year expedition undertaken by Burton and Speke to find the source of the Nile, which culminated in an acrimonious feud. Strained relations between them worsened after Speke discovered Lake Victoria (which he correctly believed to be the source) while Burton lay ill. Reaching England first and announcing his discovery independently of Burton, Speke was chosen by the Royal Geographical Society to lead a return expedition without him. His findings continued to be disputed by Burton and others as unsatisfactorily proven.

€ 4.200

8vo, original dark purple cloth, little rubbed. viii, [2], 303; [6], 295 pages. With folding map in volume I, wood engraved frontispiece in volume II. A very good copy.

Penzer: “It was Burton's intention to entirely suppress his name from this work and, in a roundabout way, to demonstrate his pique with the R.G.S. over having appointed Speke to lead the second expedition to Central Africa. The publishers did, however, print Burton's name on the spines of the first edition”. “The Preface is dated December, 1862 and so this is treated as his first West African book on his first consular posting. His reports on journeys into Sierra Leone and Nigeria to track stories of gold and gold mining are credited with drawing public and corporate attention to mining prospects in a region not more unhealthy than the East or West Indies”.

€ 2.200

8vo, recent green half morocco with new endpapers. xvii, 382; vi, 413 pages with 2 engraved frontispieces. Very good, only the first frontispiece with marginal foxing, the rest clean.

This second edition has the same date, publisher and collation as the first edition, with the addition of “Second Edition” to the title-page. “In 1863 Burton led a mission to Dahomey, traditional enemies of the Egba at Abeokuta. The object was to order the cessation of slave raiding and human sacrifice. King Gele was unmoved, although the early signs were good when Burton presented the king with pictures of three naked women. Diplomatic failure did not prevent Burton from amassing a wealth of detail presented in this work.”

€ 650

8vo, contemporary half calf, edges marbled. xii, [2], 503, [1]; vi, [2], 519, [1] pages. Illustrated with 14 plates, including frontispieces and three plans (lacks frontispiece map, but copy present), no half titles. Scattered marginal foxing.

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.

€ 2.400

“Also Journey of the Pombeiros, P. J. Baptista and Amaro José, Across from Angola to Tette on the Zambeze” and “résumé of the Journey of Mm. Monteiro and Gamitto”.

8vo, original blue cloth. vii, [1], 271, [1] pages with a large folding map. Very good.

In 1798, Lacerda led a Portuguese expedition to the Kazembe region of Zambia. After his death on this mission, the group was led by Francisco Pinto.

€ 220

8vo, publisher's (first edition!) binding, rebacked retaining original cloth, sunned/discoloured. xvi, 395, [5], 30 pages ads, [2]. New endpapers, little foxing, 2/3 of the folding map disappeared, supplied in copy. Although a Second Edition and so marked at foot of spine, this copy is in the first edition binding with bevelled edges, gilt-lettered cover and gilt-ruled spine.

Burton was hopeful he could find gold in NW Arabia for the Khedive of Egypt. This short trip led to a longer exploration the next year, and the two volume work, The Land of Midian. Unfortunately, no gold was found, but this remains a sequel to his first Arabia venture, Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah. This edition is published the same year as the first and textually nearly identical.

€ 350

12mo, full vellum. 471, [33] pages with frontispiece and 5 other engravings. Title page with small cut-out mounted. Very good copy of a rare edition, only 4 copies in Worldcat.

Four epistles of Busbequius concerning his embassy into Turkey, being remarks upon the religion, customs, riches, strength and government of that people. Added, his advice how to manage war against the Turks and the oration of Ebraim Strotschen, a Polonian, sent Ambassador by Solyman, Emperor of the Turks, to Ferdinand the First, Emperor of Germany. First published in Latin as “Legationis Turcicae epistolae quatuor”. In 1554 and again in 1556, Ferdinand named him ambassador to the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Suleiman the Magnificent. His task for much of the time he was in Constantinople was the negotiation of a border treaty between his employer (the future Holy Roman Emperor) and the Sultan over the disputed territory of Transylvania. He had no success in this mission while Rustem Pasha was the Sultan's vizier, but ultimately reached an accord with his successor Semiz Ali Pasha.

€ 1.100

8vo, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, edges and endpapers, chafed and traces of use. 300 pages with frontispiece and folding map, bookplate of Sydney Courtauld. Interior Fine.

Personal account of the Ashanti operations of 1873–74 under Wolseley. The British and their allies suffered considerable casualties in the war losing numerous soldiers and high ranking army officers. But in the end the firepower was too much to overcome for the Ashanti. The Asantehene (the king of the Ashanti) signed a British treaty in July 1874 to end the war.

€ 140

8vo, contemporary tree calf, rubbed, marbled end papers. [2], 186, [2]; [6], 258, [2] pages. The first work with the famous frontispiece of the Patagonian giants and two plates. The second with an engraved frontispiece. Contents very good.

The 2 famous works of John Byron bound together.

In the Dolphin Byron as captain completed the circumnavigation of the globe in 1764-1766. This was the first such circumnavigation of less than two years. During this voyage Byron took possession of the Falkland Islands. Later Byron visited islands of Tuamotus, Tokelau and Nikunau in the Gilbert Islands, putting them on European maps for the first time and visited Tinian in the Northern Marianas Islands.

The Wager with Byron as midshipman formed part of a squadron under Commodore George Anson and was wrecked on the south coast of Chile in 1741. The wreck of Wager became famous for the subsequent adventures of the survivors who found themselves marooned on a desolate island in the middle of a Patagonian winter, and in particular because of the Wager Mutiny that followed.

€ 1.580

12mo, beautiful full calf, raised bands and spine with gilt decorations. xvi, 219 pages, catalogue. Very good condition.

The Wager was one of the ships in Anson's fleet. "Byron was a midshipman aboard the Wager, which was wrecked on an island off the Chilean coast. He describes the privations endured by the survivors who remained with Captain David Cheap. They were made prisoners by the Indians and turned over to the Spanish authorities. 

€ 220

“van de westkust af van Afrika, door de binnenlanden, over Jenné, Kabra, Arawan en vele andere opmerkelijke plaatsen, de groote woestijn door, op Tanger gedurende de jaren 1824-1828”.

8vo, modern rexine with old title labels, new endpapers. xvi, 496; 622 (misnumbered) pages with a folding map, frontispieces with a portrait and a bird’s eye view of Timbuctoo. Scattered light browning and a few minor repairs. Rare, not in Tiele.

Caillié’s own story of his dreadful journey from the west coast of Africa mainly along and on the Niger to Timbuctoo. He was the second European visitor there after Laing and the first to survive. After staying 2 weeks he left with a caravan due north and crossed the desert to Morocco. Translation of  “Journal d'Un voyage a Temboctou et a Jenne, dans L'Afrique Centrale”, Paris 1830.

€ 1.100

8vo, contemporary half calf, rubbed and marked, marbled edges. xvi, 389; xii, 366 pages with numerous wood engraved plates, 4 facsimile letters (3 folding), folding map, folding map in pocket at rear of volume 1 (with sticker on back), minor spots. A nice set.

Cameron's experience in Africa led to his being selected to command an expedition sent by the Royal Geographical Society in 1873, to assist Dr Livingstone. He was also instructed to make independent explorations, guided by Livingstone's advice. Soon after the departure of the expedition from Zanzibar, Livingstone's servants were met bearing the dead body of their master. He reached Ujiji, on Lake Tanganyika, in February 1874, where he found and sent to England Livingstone's papers. From Tanganyika he struck westward to the Lualaba. This river Cameron rightly believed to be the main stream of the Congo. He then turned south-west. After tracing the Congo-Zambezi watershed for hundreds of miles he reached Bihe and finally arrived at the coast on November 28, 1875, being the first European to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea.

€ 490

8vo, original boards. Title, 249 pages with 3 plates and one of Patagonians on title page. Rare.

Contains juvenile accounts of the voyages of Byron and Wallis. Second edition, but the first with illustrations.

€ 190

"Avec la Relation Curieuse des Voyages du Sieur de Montauban, Captaine des Filbustiers, en Guinee l'an 1695". Bound with, as usual: [Chevremont, J.B. de] L'Art de Voyager Utilement.

12mo, full calf with later rebacking. [x], [1]-[358], [2] blank, [359]-402, [2] ads, [2] blank leaf; [iv], 51, [1] pages. Engraved frontispiece by B. Picart.

Second Edition of the abbreviated French translation by J.B. Morvan de Bellegarde of parts of Las Casas' famous Nine Tracts, relating to Indian rights and Spanish cruelties in the West Indies and South America. The pirate Montauban's Relation, describing a voyage along the African coast, has its own title but continuous pagination and signatures.

€ 840

“Translated from the Original Italian Manuscript by The Hon. Mrs. J. Randolph Clay assisted by Mr. I. Walter Savage Landor.”

8vo, beautiful pictorial cloth, spine ends with little shelf wear. xi, 376; xvi, 347 pages with 60 full page illustrations (some tinted/coloured), 90 in text and 4 folding maps loosely inserted in the rear pockets. A little foxing. Very good.

From 1880 Casati travelled in the Bahr-el-Ghasal area. In 1887 he discovered Ruwenzoni just 4 months before Stanley. He became Emin Pasha's companion and actively assisted him in his scientific work supplying most of the information about the Unyoro and Lower Welle. An important first-hand account of Stanley's ill-fated Relief Expedition.

€ 390

“with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals”

8vo, publisher’s cloth (Edmonds & Remnants), spine ends repaired. xviii, 479, 32 ads pages, folding frontispiece and map, 26 full page illustrations and many in text. Very good, clean inside with a few neat repairs.

Scarce second, corrected edition, not -deliberately?- mentioned on the title page but in a “Notice to the Second Edition, June 1861” after the Preface. The first edition was heavily critizised, the so-called “Gorilla war”, and was followed up in 2 months with this, apparently hasty, corrected reissue. The adds are still dated April 1861, while there exist first edition copies with May 1861.

Du Chaillu explored the regions of West Africa. During his travels from 1856 to 1859 he observed numerous gorillas, known to scientists only by a few skeletons. He presented himself as the first European to have seen them.

€ 450

8vo, original red cloth gilt, rebacked with original spine relaid, new endpapers. xxiv, 501, 2 ads pages. Numerous woodcut illustrations and a folding map.

The account of Du Chaillu's second African expedition. "In 1863 Du Chaillu returned to Gabon, did a little trading, assembled a caravan well equipped with scientific instruments and cameras and hired seventy porters and a few guides. He met with Massangou people (in what he called Ashango) 200 miles southeast of the Gabon River and visited a pygmy settlement nearby. When one of his men accidentally shot two Massangous, his party was forced to abandon many supplies and flee for their lives. He was wounded by two poisoned arrows. Fortunately, he saved his extensive notebooks. Back in England in 1865, Du Chaillu prepared 'A journey to Ashango-Land' for publication in 1867. Many readers disputed his sensational descriptions of pygmies until later explorers asserted that they were substantially accurate".

€ 250

8vo, blue cloth with a gilt-lettered, gilt-framed cloth label on the spine. xv, [i], 304 pages with 64 plates including frontispiece and portraits from photos, 5 maps including 4 folding (3 coloured). In very good condition.

Chapman was attached as "ski expert and naturalist" to Gino Watkins' 1930–31 British Arctic Air Route Expedition, a privately funded expedition to the east coast and interior of the island of Greenland to do work on a probably air route from America to Europe over the North Pole, concentrating on Greenland ice shelf. The expedition travelled to Greenland aboard the Quest, a historic sealing vessel previously used by Ernest Shackleton in 1921-1922 and was led by Gino Watkins. They explored East Greenland in 1930-1931.

€ 120

"door den abt Chappe d'Auteroche, behelzende deszelfs waarnemingen nopens de Zeden, Gewoonten, Regeering, Godsdienst, Krygs- en burger-staat, Koophandel, Luchts- en grondsgesteldheid, Landbeschryving, Natuurlyke historie, enz"

8vo, full calf, rubbed and marked, marbled endpapers. xiv, (2), 331 (1); (2), 327, (1) pages with a coloured folding map "Kaart van Rusland en Noord-Tartaryë", 7 plates and 8 tables. Not in Tiele.

Chappe travelled to Tobolsk in Siberia to observe the transit of Venus expected for 6 June 1761. The trip was arduous and Chappe arrived in Tobolsk with little time to spare, but he was able to observe the lunar eclipse. The spring floods of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers had been particularly severe that year, and some of the local peasants blamed the foreigner with his strange equipment who was "messing with the Sun": Chappe had to be protected by a cordon of armed Cossacks to make his observations.

€ 950

"Préface de l'amiral Fournier, ouvrage contenant 300 illustrations et une carte hors-texte"

8vo, 26 x 17 cm, publisher's half calf with the original wrappers bound in, marbled endpapers. Half title, portrait frontispiece, title, dedication, préface, photo, xxxvii, 486, (4) with 6 maps (1 folding) and 4 full-page, numerous illustrations, some full-page. Very good clean copy.

Jean-Baptiste Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with the ship Français exploring the west coast of Graham Land from 1904 until 1907. The expedition reached Adelaide Island in 1905 and took pictures of the Palmer Archipelago and Loubet Coast.

€ 750

"Préface de l'amiral Fournier,ouvrage contenant 300 illustrations et une carte hors-texte"

8vo, 26 x 17 cm, half vellum, marbled endpapers. Blank, half title, portrait frontispiece, title, dedication, préface, photo, xxxvii, 486, (6) with 6 maps, 1 folding, 4 full-page, numerous illustrations, some full-page. Light foxing.

Jean-Baptiste Charcot was appointed leader of the French Antarctic Expedition with the ship Français exploring the west coast of Graham Land from 1904 until 1907. The expedition reached Adelaide Island in 1905 and took pictures of the Palmer Archipelago and Loubet Coast.

€ 680

Large 8vo, original half morocco with marbled boards, top edge gilt, original wrappers bound in. viii, 428 pages with 3 maps and 300 photos. "Rectification" tipped in. Very nice copy.

From 1908 until 1910, Charcot’s second expedition followed with the ship Pourquoi-Pas, exploring the Bellingshausen Sea and the Amundsen Sea and discovering Loubet Land, Marguerite Bay and Charcot Island, which was named after his father, Jean-Martin Charcot.

€ 450

“Par le commandant J.B. Charcot. Complété par une notice biographique de l’auteur et le récit du naufrage du Pourquoi Pas? par José Gers”

Large 8vo 26x17 cm, bound in original wrappers with portrait photo tipped in. vii, 208 pages with many photos and 3 maps. Excellent copy.

An account of the voyages in 1926/1927 of this famous French naval vessel and its search for Amundsen and his companions following the Italia disaster in 1928, also chapters on eskimo’s etc. This edition was published shortly after Charcot died in the shipwreck of the Pourquoi pas? in 1936 and was enlarged with a bio and the account of the shipwreck.

€ 100

“Enrichi d'un grand nombre de belles figures en taille-douce, representant les antiquitez, les choses remarquables du pais.”

12mo, half calf, rebacked, corners repaired. Titles in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved portrait, folding map and 77 folding plates, some light waterstaining to volume 6. Near excellent set of the first complete edition.

Chardin travelled with a Lyon merchant to Persia and India in 1665. At Eṣfahān, Persia, he enjoyed the patronage of the shah, ʿAbbās II. On returning to France (1670), he published an account of the coronation of Soleymān. In August 1671 he again set out for Persia. Traveling through Turkey, Crimea, and the Caucasus, he reached Eṣfahān nearly two years later. He remained in Persia for four years, revisited India, and returned to France (1677) via the Cape of Good Hope.

€ 3.800

8vo, original blue cloth gilt, used. lxiv, 300, [4]; viii, 301-585, many illustrations, many in colour by Dr. Edward A. Wilson and other members of the expedition. 5 maps including one panoramic folding map. Volume 1 lacks front free endpaper, scattered foxing and traces of use. Good.

Second edition, with small corrections and the omission of certain plates, 1923. Reissued 1929". These plates were exhausted and could not be used again. “Cherry-Garrard’s book has often been referred to as the finest polar book ever written. Scott’s diary left many facets of the expedition and the experiences of its men untold: it was Cherry-Garrard who pulled the entire story of the main party together.” Already in 1935 the early editions were becoming expensive and increasingly difficult to procure.

€ 880

"from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo. To which is added, the journal of Richard Lander from Kano to the sea-coast, partly by a more eastern route with a portrait of captain Clapperton, and a map of the route, chiefly laid down from actual observations for latitude and longitude"

4to, old papered boards, repairs. xxiii, [iv], 355, portrait frontispiece, folding map with cosed tear and engraved plan.

Clapperton was sent out in 1825 for a second expedition to Africa, the sultan Bello of Sokoto having professed his eagerness to open up trade with the west coast. He landed at Badagry in the Bight of Benin, and started overland for the Niger and, passing through the Yoruba country, in January 1826 he crossed the Niger at Bussa, the spot where Mungo Park had died twenty years before. In July, Clapperton arrived at Kano and thence the Fulani capital Sokoto, intending to continue to Bornu. However, the Fulani were now at war with al-Kaneimi, and Sultan Bello refused him permission to leave. After many months' detention, afflicted by malaria, depression, and dysentery, Clapperton died, leaving his servant Richard Lander the only survivor of the expedition.

€ 450

8vo, pictorial cloth. xxxiv, 663 pages, ads. with 44 illustrations, including frontispiece portrait of author with tissue-guard, and portrait of author's wife. Folding map of Southern Africa to rear with repaired tears.

English translation of "Sur le Haut-Zambèze: Voyages et travaux de Mission." This book was translated by the author's niece Catherine Winkworth Mackintosh, yet precedes the first French edition by one year. "Mr. Coillard appears to have been a tactful and resourceful man, and his accounts of the customs of the natives, and of the political questions affecting the countries in which he resided, make the volume very useful as a reference work."

€ 190

8vo, publisher's pebbled cloth, rubbed and soiled. 208 [8 ads] pages. Good copy of a rarely found book.

William Cole's journal records his experiences in the highly challenging circumstances of a trading expedition to Africa. The journal tells of the barbarity and cruelty he witnessed, alongside occasional acts of kindness or amusing situations. Describing his life in Africa as a mixture of smiles and tears, Cole paints a vivid picture of a European in Africa during the mid-nineteenth century.

€ 180

Oblong 4to, in original wooden display!

The voyages described are: Candish and Drake; Raleigh and Keymis; De Veer; Houtman; Van Neck and Warwijck; De Weert; Van Noort; Both and Van Caerden; Van Neck (2nd voyage); Van der Hagen; Harmansz; Spilbergen and Le Maire, Warwijck and De Weert; Van der Hagen (2nd voyage); Matelief; Van Caerden; Verhoeff; Van den Broecke; Van Twist; Spilbergen (first voyage); L’Hermite; Schram and Van Rechteren.

€ 390

“Being the Record of the Expedition that First Reached the Boreal Center 1907-1909 with the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy”.

4to, publisher’s brown pictorial cloth with the profiles of Cook and his two Eskimo companions on the front board. Titles lettered in gilt. 604 pages. With portrait frontispiece and 49 other photographic illustrations and with a profusion of other illustrations, charts, and drawings.

Cook achieved fame as an explorer, serving as surgeon on Peary’s first Arctic expedition (1891–92) and leading others to explore and climb Denali (Mount McKinley 1903–06). Cook’s claim that he had reached the North Pole on an expedition in 1908 was immediately disputed by Peary. Cook’s Inuit companions on his journey later asserted that he had stopped short hundreds of miles south of the Pole, and that the photographs of his expedition were actually shot at locations far distant from the North Pole.

€ 360

"undertaken and performed by Royal Authority, Containing an authentic, entertaining, full and complete history of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, undertaken by Order of His Present Majesty ..". "The present edition, by being published in only eighty six-penny numbers, (making, when completed, either one or two very large handsome volumes in folio)".

Large folio, contemporary calf-backed boards, rubbed. Only occasional marks and minor marginal soiling. This one being volume I (of 2) only, 398 pages, text complete in itself with 71 (of ?) full-page folio engravings and maps. Contains the first and second voyage of Cook and the stories of Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Phipps, Anson and Drake.

€ 1.400

"Gedaan, op Bevel van zijne Brittanische Majesteit, met de Schepen De Resolution en de Adventure, In de jaren 1772, 1773, 1774 en 1775 (...). Waarbij gevoegt is Kaptein Furneaux's Verslag van deszelfs Reize met het Schip de Adventure, na dat het zelve van de Resolution was afgeraakt. Uit het Engelsch vertaald (...); Verrijkt met eene Lofrede over James Cook, door den Heer P.L. Paris".

4to, contemporary half calf, gilt spine with morocco letterpiece and gilt lettered owner's initials "W.H.L." on foot of spine. xii, 72, 498 pages, engraved frontispiece and 2 folding portraits of Cook and Omai (with repaired tear). Modern front pastedown endpaper. Very good. Scarce.

Cook's second voyage with the ships Resolution and Adventure. The Resolution was the first ship to venture south of the Antarctic Circle, which she did twice more on this voyage.

€ 1.250

8vo, contemporary gilt half calf, rubbed and spine ends repaired. Complete –as called for in the index volume- with engraved titles, portrait of Cook, 52 (folding) maps (incl. the large folding worldmap & map of the Southern Hemisphere) and 134 fine numbered (folding) views and plates by J.S. Klauber generally in very good condition. Small blind stamps on half titles.

First complete edition in Dutch of Cook's voyages. Rare complete set.

Captain James Cook FRS was a British explorer, navigator, cartographer and captain in the Royal Navy. He made three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand. In three voyages, Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe. He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved. Cook was attacked and killed in 1779 during his third exploratory voyage in the Pacific while attempting to kidnap Hawaiian chief Kalaniʻōpuʻu in order to reclaim a cutter stolen from one of his ships. He left a legacy of scientific and geographical knowledge which influenced his successors well into the 20th century.

€ 7.250

8vo, contemporary half morocco, rebacked with old title. 112 pages with an aquatint view of Taormina. Good copy from the libraries of Boudewijn Büch and James Edge Partington (was an authority on the material culture of the Pacific, and at one time was the owner of a very extensive collection of objects from the South Seas, which included many rarities), with his bookplate on upper pastedown. Rare.

"He voyaged to Australia in the convict ship Lady Castlereagh, where he arrived in April of 1818. He gives a description of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). The ship then travelled to Madras and took on cargo; a terrific storm blew up, causing great damage to the ship. Having obtained his acquittal from the Lady Castlereagh. Cramp journeyed overland, giving geographical descriptions and observations on native life, religion, and customs. At Bombay, he joined the ship Marquis of Huntly as captain's clerk, and traveled to Calcutta, Canton, Macao, Malaya, and St. Helena; he returned to England in 1821." (Hill). Also containing Recollections of Sicily by Count de Forbin on pages 44-112.

€ 450

“comprising sketches of the actual state of society in that colony; of its peculiar advantages to emigrants; of its topography, natural history, &c. &c.”

8vo, contemporary rebacked half green calf with gilt lettered title on spine. xvi, 346 (2 ads); viii, 336 pages. Map with browning, else very good.

The author had made four voyages as surgeon-superintendent of convict-ships. Published in the same year as the first edition. With the very interesting map “Map of the colony of New South Wales, reduced by permission from Cross's large map". London. Henry Colburn. 1827.

€ 450

"From The years 1781 to 1797; Through Caffraria, The Kingdoms Of Mataman, Angola, Massi, Monoemugi, Muschanko, & c. Likewise Across The Great Desert Of Sahara, And The Northern Parts Of Barbary"

8vo, contemporary tree calf, rebacked with new title. xvi, 222; title, 299, [4 ads],[2] pages. Illustrated with 3 finely executed hand coloured plates and a large folding map. "One of the cleverest volumes of fabricated travel ever produced. The details are so circumstantial, and the mixture of fact and fiction is accomplished with so much skill, that it is not uncommon to find people who do not know that the account of the travels is nothing more than a well-contrived literary deception" (Mendelssohn).

€ 350

8vo, 2 (of 4) parts in 1 volume, half calf. (5), 80,(3); (4),92 pages, 1 engraved folding map of Africa, Europe and Asia, 1 map of Central America and 17 (folding) plates. Several plates/text leaves frayed etc., paper over covers lacking; spine damaged.

Dutch translation by W. Sewel. Two parts only, but complete in themselves. "Dampier was the best known, and probably the most intelligent of the famous group of buccaneers that tormented the Spaniards in the South Sea from 1680 to 1720. His industry in taking notes of all he saw was equalled by his pains in preserving them from destruction".

€ 850

“behelzende het tweede gezandschap aen den onder-koning Singlamong en veldheer Taising Lipoui; door Jan van Kampen en Konstantyn Nobel: vier en zestig, op de kuste van Sina, en ontrent d'eilanden Tayowan, Formosa vervolgt met een verhael van het voorgevallen des jaers zestien hondert drie en, Ay en Quemuy, onder 't gezag van Balthasar Bort: en het derde gezandschap aen Konchy, Tartarsche keizer van Sina en Oost-Tartarye: onder beleit van zijne ed. Pieter van Hoorn: beneffens een beschryving van geheel Sina”

Large 4to, full calf, rubbed etc. with raised bands, richly decorated gilt back, upper part of first free endpaper torn off, margins waterstained in places, a bit browned/foxed. Complete with engraved frontispiece, double page map, 38 plates (most are double-page or folding) and 57 half-page illustrations.

€ 5.600

“van Egypten, Barbaryen, Libyen, Biledulgerid, Negroslant, Guinea, Ethiopien, Abyssinie: Vertoont In de Benamingen, Grenspalen, Revieren, Steden, Gewassen, Dieren, Zeeden, Drachten, Talen, Rijkdommen, Godsdiensten en Heerschappyen.  Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Eylanden: als Madagaskar, of Sant Laurens, Sant Thomee, d'eilanden van Kanarien, Kaep de Verd, Malta, en andere”.

4to, contemporary blind stamped vellum with manuscript title, restorations, new ties and endpapers. Frontispiece with marginal loss laid down, title, Aen den Lezer (3), Privilegie, 428; 349, (17); (2), 121, (4) pages. With 14 double-page maps, 28 double-page views/plates and many in text engravings. Good copy with scattered soiling and marginal water staining.

An English translation was published as “Africa: being an accurate description” by John Ogilby. “important gathering of European knowledge of the African continent, with a striking array of illustrations … and a significant series of maps”. Attention is given to many explorers.

€ 7.500

"Behelsende De Gewesten van Mesopotamie, Babylonie, Assyrie, Anatolie, Of Klein Asie: Beneffens Eene volkome Beschrijving van gansch Gelukkigh, Woest, en Petreesch of Steenigh Arabie."

Folio. Modern blindstamped sheep in antique style, new marbled endpapers. [8], 357, [3], 324, [4] pages, including engraved additional title. Complete with 12 double-page engraved plates, 3 double-page maps and 23 text illustrations. Frontispiece laid down. Very good copy with scattered some browning and spotting.

Olfert Dapper (1636-1689), Dutch physician and scholar, devoted most of his life to geographical studies without ever leaving his home town of Amsterdam. Using the most reliable eye-witness accounts and his own extensive library of travel books he composed authoratitive works on Asia, Africa and America.

€ 3.800

“By John Davis, one of the expedition. Edited from Mr. Davis's Manuscript Journal; with an Introductory View of the Recent Australian Explorations of McDoualI Stuart, Burke and Wills, Landsborough, Etc., by William Westgarth, Author of ''Victoria and the Australian Gold Mines,'' Etc. With Map and Illustrations.”

8vo, original green cloth, a little rubbed and marked. xvi, 408, 16 pages with a tinted lithograph frontispiece (foxed) and 13 tinted lithograph plates, some with original tissue guard. Large folding map loose in the endpocket.

First edition of this elaborate and substantial work: the only London publication relating to the expedition, it was based on the papers of John Davis, a member of McKinlay's expedition. Davis' papers were edited and arranged by the noted Victorian pioneer, business man and historian, William Westgarth, who also provided an introductory account of recent Australian exploration. Davis' book is, by default, the 'formal' journal of this important expedition.

€ 650

8vo, original cloth with leopard print decoration, shelf wear, tail of the spine repaired. xxxi, 594, 40 (publisher's catalogue dated december 1897) pages. Illustrated with 100 (full page) photographs and line drawings, as well as 5 maps (2 folding). Good copy with scattered foxing and a little insect damage. Nice provenance.

Bookplate of Albert Ruskin Cook, his ink inscription and 3 ink stamps of Mengo Hospital (founded by Cook). Cook was a British medical missionary in Uganda since 1896 and stayed there for the rest of his life. Muteesa, first president of Uganda, was born at the house of Cook in Makindye, Kampala.

Decle’s account of his epic seven thousand mile journey through South Africa, Bechuanaland, British Central Africa, Mozambique, Nyasaland, Tanganyika, Uganda, Kenya, and Zanzibar. With a lenghty introduction by Henry Morton Stanley.

€ 190

8vo, quarter black leather gilt, rubbed, edges gilt. xvi, 580; 622 pages, 2 folding maps, frontispiece portrait of the author, 8 tinted lithographic plates. Scattered foxing. There is a presentation inscription signed by the author in each volume but the name of the person to whom the book was presented has been removed. It reads: 'Offert par Delegorgue a son ami C......... le 26 aout 1847.'

"An important work on Natal and Zululand in the nineteenth century. The author arrived in Cape Town in 1838 and describes the affairs of the Cape in detail and then travelled to Zululand where he witnessed the wars between the Zulu and Boer...."

€ 650

"extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Felatah Empire"

Large 4to, calf with original spine neatly rebacked. 2 parts in 1 volume: xlviii, 335; (2), 269 (1) pages, complete with 37 (1 coloured) plates and a large folding map. Map with browning, plates mainly in the margins. Ex libris Snelton Hall.

The authors crossed the Sahara from Tripoli and reached Lake Chad in 1823. Denham discovered River Benue. Oudney died in January 1824. At Sokoto, Clapperton learnt that River Niger's outlet was in the Gulf of Guinea. “Published in 1826, the Narrative of travels and other discoveries (...) co-authored with Clapperton and Oudney, provided a wealth of new material on the African interior but so belittled Clapperton's contribution that it almost reads as though Denham was travelling alone." Howgego D18.

€ 1.350

“met medewerking van andere departementen en van het Bataviaasch genootschap van kunsten en wetenschappen, samengesteld door het Departement van oorlog in Nederlandsch-Indië.”
8vo, original boards. (2), 440 pages with 9 maps (1 in 4 parts in endpocket), 166 photo’s and 10 sketches. Good copy with some traces of use.

€ 220

“gevolgd door iets over onze vroegste betrekkingen met Japan. Twee geschiedkundige bijdragen”.

8vo, original printed wrappers with wear. (8), xii, 78; (2), 42 pages with 2 facsimiles of Wemmer’s letters. 3 stamps of the States General library. Very rare.

Based on VOC archives Van Dijk wrote this study, the only, of the lesser known VOC employee and naval hero Van Berchem, while he served in the East Indies and Palliacate during the 12 years truce 1609-1621 of the Dutch Revolt.

The second part relates the early relations of the Dutch with Japan durig the years 1585-1644.

€ 290

“With observations on the state of these colonies, and a variety of information, calculated to be useful to emigrants. with an appendix containing governor McQuarle's report regarding Van Dieman's Land, tables of the population, list of articles suitable for exportation, &c. &c.”

8vo, modern panelled leather with gilt lettered spine. Without the frontispiece and the 4 advertorial pages at the end. Title backed with thin paper, first leaves with worming, a few scattered faint library stamps of the Victoria Public Library 1887. From the library of Boudewijn Büch. Rare.

“A notable and much-prized rarity: but lacks the frontispiece portrait of Cobawn Wogy that is frequently missing. This is one of the earliest accounts of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land by a private individual and one of very few accounts of the colonies under the enlightenend administration of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The long appendix contains Macquarie's report on Van Diemen's Land.”

€ 1.800

“de Magellan, Tasman, Dampier, Anson, Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Bougainville, Cook, Laperouse, G.Bligh, Vancouver, d'Entrecasteaux, Wilson, Baudin, Flinders , Krusenstern, Porter, Kotzebue, Freycinet, Bellinghausen, Basil Hall, Duperrey, Paulding, Beechey, Dumont D'Urville, Lutke, Dillon, Laplace” etc etc.

4to, contemporary half gilt morocco with restauration. viii, 576; 584 pages with 2 steel engraved frontispieces and 142 wood engraved plates (incl. 6 folding maps). Volume 1 bookblock bound upside down.

€ 390

8to, original cloth rubbed. (viii), 262 pages with 80 plates, clean interior.

“Despite its end and the great hardships endured, the expedition would be considered a scientific success, with the parties having explored much of the eastern coast of Graham Land. The expedition, which also recovered valuable geological samples and samples of marine animals, earned Nordenskjöld lasting fame at home, but its huge cost left him greatly in debt.”

€ 290

"bewerkt met gebruikmaking van de werken van Cumming, Anderson, Gerard, Livingston, en anderen”.

8vo, cloth worn. 380 pages with many illustrations. Fair. Rare.

Tiele 344 writes that Van Dijk really existed.....  A second edtion appeared in 1881.

€ 190

8o, original cloth. 177 pages plus the publisher’s catalogue of new books for Jan. 1 1846, with two folding maps (one hand coloured in outline).

First edition first issue, of this very scarce account of the second attempted settlement of Port Essington on the Cobourg Peninsula from 1838 to 1849. Eye witness information on the settlement garrison. Information on the success and failures of Melville Island settlement, the troubles with settlement at Raffles Bay, the loss of the Lady Nelson and the Stedcombe and the shipping movements in and around Torres strait. Nice folding map at the front of south east Asia into Australia and another of the Cobourg Peninsula. Windsor Earl was linguist to the North Australian Expedition and Commissioner of Crown Lands for Port Essington.

€ 450

"gedaan in de jaaren 1746 en 1747 met de schepen de Dobbs-Galley en de California [...]. Opgeheldert met kopere plaaten en een nieuwe en verbeeterde kaart van de Baai van Hudson en de aangrenzende landstreeken".

8vo, 14x23cm, half calf with marbled boards, uncut. Spine and marbled papers worn, lacking free endpaper, rebacked preserving most of the spine. xxxii, 440 pages with a map and 9 plates in excellent condition.

"Ellis joined this expedition, consisting of the vessels Dobbs and California, which left Gravesend in May, 1746 under Captains Moor and Smith. They stopped at Yarmouth and then crossed the ocean; passing through Hudson's Straits they were finally forced by bad weather to winter in Hayes River, about three miles above Fort York. In the spring of 1747, when the ice broke up, they reprovisioned at the Fort and started on their way. The results of the expedition were limited, but they did put an end to the theory that the North West Passage lay through Hudson's Bay. The ships returned to England in 1747 and Ellis published this work the following year."

€ 1.350

8vo, contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards and gilt decoration. One vignette with damage, one of the spine ends expertly restored. viii, 340; 398 pages with engraved portrait and 7 engraved plates (views) plus 3 folding maps. Text pages clean except for a scattered spot. Some maps and plates with light browning. 

The maps include one very large (42x55 cm) foldout map of East China, also showing the Yellow Sea and Formosa. The first English edition appeared a year earlier with the title "Journal of the proceedings of the late Embassy to China". Account of the events and adventures surrounding the embassy of Earl Amherst to China in 1816, sent out by King George III to protest ill-treatment of British subjects. Sir Henry Ellis, a noted diplomat and historian, served as the third commissioner. Amherst and his retinue were sent home in disgrace after he refused to "kow-tow" (nine strikings of the forehead on the ground) at his presentation to the Emperor Khien Lung in Peking. As if this humiliation was not enough, their ship, the Alceste, was wrecked off the coast of Sumatra on the return voyage. On the return voyage the ship stopped at St. Helena; included in the text is Sir Henry's interview with Napoleon Bonaparte.

€ 950

8vo, original cloth rebacked, rubbed. xvi, 536; viii, 576 pages. Engraved frontispieces, 2 maps (1 folding) and 7 plates, plates and titles discoloured due to tissue guards, offsetting. New endpapers.

"One of the most important books on the history and ethnology of the Society Islands by one of the most perceptive of the missionary travellers in the Pacific". Ellis stayed at Tahiti from 1817-1822, during which time he took notes on all kinds of subjects concerning the South Sea islands. Throughout the text Ellis refers and compares between the Tahitian and Hawaiian islands.

€ 470

"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"

8vo, publisher’s cloth. xvii, (2), 470, 2 (ads) pages with folding frontispiece, map and many (in text) illustrations. Very good with some traces of use. Ex libris Edward Brown Lees of Thurland Castle.

Arriving in 1853, to investigate whether Christians were being maltreated, he was rebuffed by officials in attempting to establish a mission and refused permission to go to the capital. Establishing a temporary base in Mauritius, he again sought entry to Madagascar, but was refused. He made a third visit in 1856, but Queen Ranavalona I permitted him only a one-month stay.

€ 240

“Describing the Events of a New Reign and the Revolution which Followed setting forth also the persecutions endured by the Christians, and their heroic sufferings, with notices of the present state and prospects of the people”

8vo, publisher’s cloth. xviii, (2), 502, 32 (ads) pages with a frontispiece, a folding plan of Antananarivo and 12 plates. Except for a slight discoloured mark on the spine a very decent copy. One of the scarcer Ellis titles.

Ellis tried three times to visit Madagascar unsuccessfully (“Three visits to Madagascar”). On his fourth attempt in 1861 Ellis was finally permitted entry. Ellis stayed until 1865, gradually laying the foundations for Christianity.

€ 170

8vo, original decorated covers. 320 pages, large coloured folding map and 14 photographs. Very good copy of a scarce title.

"The sphere chosen by the Livingstonia Mission [named after Dr Livingstone] was the west shore of Lake Nyasa, an inland sea some 400 miles long, discovered by Livingstone and Dr Stewart, and in 1875 the 'Ilala', bearing the pioneers of the mission, Dr Laws and his helpers, steamed into the Lake and took possession for Christ."

€ 150

"offrant les moeurs, usages et costumes de cet empire, traduit et abrege de l'anglais par M. Breton".

12mo, 13x9 cm, recent marbled stiff wrappers, 3 parts in 1 volume: xliv, 189 (3); (4), 222, (2); (4), 223, (1) pages with 14 hand coloured costume plates. Some soiling and light water staining, but overall a decent copy.

Mountstuart was appointed the first British envoy to the court of Kabul, Afghanistan with the object of securing a friendly alliance with the Afghans against Napoleon's planned advance on India. However this proved of little value, because Shah Shuja was driven from the throne by his brother before it could be ratified.

€ 1.150

“edited and completed by H.B. Cotterill”

8vo publisher’s decorated cloth, minor traces of use. xxii, 418 pages, 3 folding maps, 14 plates and 33 in text.

As British consul to Mozambique he set off in 1877 to visit the British mission stations on Lake Nyassa, explore the lake and surrounding country and ascertain the possibility of a route from the north end of the lake to Quiloa, at which seaport he proposed to embark in a steamer for Zanzibar. His mission to the chiefs and the circumnavigation of the lake were successfully accomplished, but with the land journey he encountered difficulties. The country was devastated by wars among the different tribes and Elton was compelled to travel by a circuitous route to the north. There he collapsed from malaria and died. His journals were arranged, edited and completed by his hunting companion, H.B. Cotterill.

€ 550

8vo, original boards with wear. 154, (2) pages, partly unopened.

Fennekol was Dutch official on the Gold Coast, where he planted a cotton plantation in 1766, born in Elmina on the coast of Guinea in 1761 and was in 1795 among the provisional representatives of Holland.

€ 250

“Contenant Ce qu'il y a de plus Curieux de plus Remarquable, touchant sa Situation, ses Rivieres, ses Fortresses: son Gouvernement & sa Police; avec les moeurs & les usages des Habitants Naturels du pais & des Europeens qui y sont etablis; ainsi que des Eclaircissements sur l'oeconomie generale des Esclaves Negres, sur les plantations & leurs Produits, les Arbres Fruitiers, les Plantes Medecinales, & toutes les diverses Especes d'animaux qu'on y trouve, & c. Enrichie de Figures, & d'une Carte Topographique du pais.”

8vo, contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt in compartments, a couple of worm-tracks, extremities rubbed. xxiv, 252; (4) 352 pages. Half-titles present, folding engraved map (with marginal repair), 3 folding engraved plates. Ex libris Franz Pollack-Parnau. Very good.

€ 1.600

8vo, original decorated boards, traces of use. xxii, 296 pages with a coloured folding map and over a 100 illustrations from photographs and sketches by the author, 7 blue-tinted plates and a full colour plate from paintings in colour by members of the expedition. Scattered small library stamps. Good copy. First UK edition (identical in content, but scarcer than the first US edition of 1906).

From 1903 to 1905, Fiala was in command of the Ziegler Polar Expedition, sent out by Ziegler from Tromsö in July 1903. The party reached 82° 4' N, and surveyed the Franz Joseph Archipelago, but lost their ship America in Teplitz Bay and failed to reach the pole. A relief party sent out under William S. Champ found Fiala and his men at Cape Dillon in July 1905, and brought them home.

€ 170

“ contenant la politique de ce grand empire, les moeurs du Roy Schach Abbas, & une relation exacte de tous les lieux de Perse & des Indes, ou cét Ambassadeur a esté l?espace de huit anées qu'il y a demeuré.”

4to, 19 x 25 cm, contemporary calf, spines gilt. Corners and binding somewhat worn. Title, 10 pages (Preface); 506 numbered pages; 30 pages (Table Générale des Matières), 2 pages blank. Scattered a little foxing/browning, mainly title and first leaves. Rare!

Don García de Silva Figueroa was a Spanish diplomat, and the first Western traveller to correctly identify the ruins of Takht-e Jamshid in Persia as the location of Persepolis. In 1614, Philip III chose Figueroa as his ambassador to the court of Shah Abbas, the Safavid monarch. He did not arrive at his destination until October 1617. During his stay, Figueroa dealt with various diplomatic issues. He travelled extensively throughout Persia, visiting the cities of Shiraz, Qom and Isfahan. He wrote a full account of his travels under the title Totius legationis suae et Indicarum rerum Persidisque commentarii. It was translated into French by the Dutchman Abraham de Wicquefort in 1667. 

€ 3.800

Large 8vo 27x19cm, de luxe edition printed on special paper and in original blue gilt cloth. xix, 410 pages with 2 folding maps and many (in text) illustrations. Errata slip tipped in. Fine copy in deluxe variant.

The expedition entered with their ship Deutschland the Weddell Sea and discovered Luitpold Coast and the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf. They were the first expedition to enter further into Weddell Sea than James Weddell some 80 years before. The ship overwintered in the pack ice after attempts to set up a base on the ice shelf had failed because of an iceberg calving. It was not until September 1912 that the Deutschland was free again and could return. Rosove 124.A2

€ 280

4to, publisher’s cloth, wear and discolouring of back cover. xvi, 408 pages, plates, maps and –very large- folding views. Prince Amadeo’s compliment slip with signature tipped-in. Loosely inserted is an interesting letter from expedition member Roccati to Haldane in French. The lather was Collector at Fort Portal, where the expedition stayed for a while. Amadeo’s compliments and the ALS suggest that this book belonged to Haldane.

In 1906, inspired by Henry Morton Stanley's last wishes, the Duke led an expedition to the Ruwenzori Range (5,125 m) in Uganda. He scaled sixteen summits in the range, including the six principal peaks. One of them, Mount Luigi di Savoia, bears his name. The highest peak was reached on 18 June 1906.

€ 990

8vo, original blind-stamped cloth gilt, small repairs to spine ends. x, 406 pages. Coloured lithographed frontispiece of the empress of China, 21 wood engravings to text, one of which is a full page chart of the island Labuan. Some minor spotting of prelims.

An interesting survey of Chinese life in the aftermath of the First China War. But the most interesting aspect is the account of the cession of Labuan to the British by the Sultan of Brunei, Forbes' being probably the only published eyewitness account. Forbes had charge of the boats of the Wolf and attended the audience with Omar Ali.

€ 460

8vo, original gilt-pictorial cloth. xix, (1), 536, 4 ad pages, complete with a chromolithographed frontispiece, 6 (3 folding) maps and more than 70 (in text) illustrations. Some shelf wear, else very good. Scarce.

Forbes, Scottish explorer, ornithologist and botanist, travelled from Keeling Islands through Indonesia to Java, Sumatra, the Moluccas, Timor, Tanimbar Islands and New Guinea. Forbes was active primarily in the Moluccas, Sumatra and New Guinea. His unusual tasks there also included tracking down the murderers of Captain J. C. Craig on Joannet Island in his temporary capacity as a government agent.

€ 340

8vo, publisher’s cloth, all edges gilt. [ix], 246 pages. Rare in English as well as in Dutch.

Translation of “Insulinde: experiences of a naturalist's wife in the Eastern Archipelago” 1887 by Anna Forbes, wife of the well known naturalist Henry Forbes (“A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Eastern Archipelago: A narrative of travel and exploration from 1878 to 1883”). In letters she gives her own account of the travels with her husband in the East Indies.

€ 140

4to, contemporary tree calf, decorative gilt borders with gilt coat-of-arms of Louis Napoleon, king of Holland on covers, rebacked preserving most of contemporary backstrip (darkened), marbled endpapers. Half-title, (woodcut vignette on) title, (2), 471 pages with a folding engraved map, 28 plates and maps, some folding, 2 printed catalogue descriptions on front pastedown.

From the library of Louis Napoleon, King of the Netherlands 1805-1810. Pasted to the inside front cover is a manuscript note by one John Gooch, explaining his purchase of this copy from the Sotheby's sale of the library of Louis Napoleon in London. There is also an A.L.S., newspaper clipping and other ink inscriptions from and relating to subsequent purchasers on a preliminary blank fly and on the half-title. Unique and in Fine condition!

€ 3.800

4to, old marbled paper wrappers. iv (of viii, title and dedication missing, but present in copy), 101, iii [contents and ad J. Bosch] pages with 2 full page engravings. Rare.

Account of the shipwreck and the castaways on the eastern coast of Africa.' “Op 9 april 1757 raakt de "Naarstigheid" ter hoogte van Madagascar (28°45'ZB 69°52') in zwaar weer. Na veel rondhout te hebben verloren dobbert het schip op de Indische oceaan. Er wordt een poging ondernomen de Kaap das Corintas te bereiken, echter door een inschattings fout komen ze 1°29' zuidelijker uit. Op 15/05/1757 33°13'ZB 53°27' is er een ontmoeting met een engels schip; daarbij werd een brief gepost aan Delft en rondhout geruild tegen enkele zeilen. In juni 1757 bereikte het schip de Baai van Delagoa in een erg deplorabele toestand. Daar is de bemanning van boord gegaan.”

€ 380

8vo, half calf over original boards, used and rubbed. xix, 370 [1]; iv, [1], 399 pages. With 4 folding maps  Both volumes have scattered small worm damage, age toning, mild foxing, browning to pages, maps have small tears and are creased. Good set.

The four maps are the same as those that appear in the first edition of the previous year, except the dates are changed. “In 1819, Captain Franklin was appointed to command an expedition to explore by land the North American Arctic and to clarify current notions about its geography...They reached the Arctic Ocean by way of the Great Slave Lake and the Coppermine River in the summer of 1821. After exploring Coronation Gulf, which Franklin named, the expedition returned to York Factory, having experienced extreme hardship and the loss of several members of the party. Franklin’s narrative is of interest not only as a document of human courage and endurance, but also for its depiction of the Indians".

€ 540

4to, publisher’s cloth with wear. xxiv, [xxi]-xxiv, 320, clvii, [1], [1 leaf] errata. 31 engraved plates (plate 8 bound as frontispiece), 6 engraved folding maps (1 hand-coloured in outline), spotting, contents and advertisement leaves bound before frontispiece. Marginal foxing. Rare in the original binding.

"Franklin's second overland expedition made its departure from Fort Franklin on the Great Bear Lake. He traced the North American coast from the Mackenzie River to longitude 149 degrees 37' W.; while John Richardson's party explored the coast between the mouths of the Mackenzie and the Coppermine. The two expeditions together added 1,200 miles of coast to the knowledge of the American continent. The views of Arctic scenery are of extreme beauty. Franklin, the great arctic explorer, was governor of Tasmania from 1834-45. On his last expedition, in search of the Northwest Passage in 1845, the members all died from the terrible conditions they encountered."

€ 2.200

8vo, modern dark blue wrappers. 174 pages with a large coloured folding map and many illustrations. Very good.

Extracted from Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (tweede serie deel XXII). Dutch expedition in Surinam.

€ 100

8vo, boards. 186 pages with folding map and many illustrations.

In a complete issue of Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (tweede serie deel XXII) with more articles. Dutch expedition in Surinam.

€ 120

8vo, publisher’s cloth, little soiled, spine sunned, top edge gilt. xx, 559, 16 (ads) pages with 2 (1 folding) coloured maps and about 100 (full page) illustrations. Contents clean.

Freeman was the doctor, naturalist and surveyor of the unsuccessful expedition to Ashanti and Jaman in 1888/1889. The expedition went first to Kumasi (Coomassie, the capital of the then independent kingdom of Ashanti). Their second port of call was Bondoukou, Ivory Coast, where they arrived only to find that the king had just signed a protectorate treaty with the French. Afterwards he became a well known writer of detective stories.

€ 290

“to promote the objects of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. With appendices together with an Historical Introduction, by the Rev. John Beecham”

12mo, publisher’s cloth with wear and spine repaired. viii, 196 pages with 4 plates, soiled, most of front free endpaper torn away, sunday school bookplate. Good-. Very scarce. “First” edition was serialized in a Methodist periodical during 1840-1843.

Account of his travels in 1839 and 1841 to the Kingdom of Ashantee. Freeman's second coming to Ashantee received a warm welcome, as he was in the company of two scions of the royal family, John Owusu-Ansa and William Owusu Kwantabisa, political hostages from one of the Anglo-Asante wars and the ensuring 1831 Treaty. The two princes had arrived on the ships of the famed Niger Expedition. The publication of his Kumasi journals made him a celebrity.

€ 350

8vo, original decorated boards with discolourings. [viii], 435 pages with frontispiece, one map and 25 full page plates (from photos) and many illustrations in the text.

In 1891, inspired by the activities of Henry Morton Stanley, who was a family friend, she left London for Africa. She was unaccompanied, and sought assistance amongst the African peoples as she explored around Lake Chala. She returned with ethnographic materials and wrote on her experience.

€ 120

8vo, original wrappers, spine repaired, new label. viii, 340 pages with a folding map. Title engraving by Veelwaard of Mount Ararat.

Dutch translation of “Lettres sur le Caucase et la Géorgie. Suivies d'une relation d'un voyage en Perse en 1812”. Von Freygang was a Russian diplomat, sent to Persia negotiating a peace treaty. He travelled first from Petersburg to Tbilisi (Tiflis) with his wife and kids. The first part of the book consists of the letters of his wife to a friend. The second part, written by himself, is an account of his travels to Tabriz in Persia.

€ 390

4to, modern red morocco, new endpapers. Title printed in red and black, [xii], [i, directions for binder], 335, [ix, index] pages, 37 engraved maps, charts and plates (18 folding), by J. Senex, J.B. Scotin, N. Guerard and others after Frézier, woodcut initials and head and tail-piece. Some light staining and soiling, partly a worm track in the margin, first map repaired with slight loss to image.

Frézier's voyage was made on the orders of Louis XIV, to obtain military intelligence for a possible operation against the Spanish colonies on the Pacific coast. He surveyed the Le Maire Strait and the west coast of Tierra de Fuego, and produced one of the most accurate descriptions of South America to date. This English translation is particularly valued for its postcript by Edmund Halley, Professor of Geometry at Oxford University, which corrects a few of Frézier's geographical errors.

€ 1.850

4to, modern wrappers. 416 pages with 3 maps, profusely illustrated with wood engravings. Magazine articles -complete set- published in “Le Tour du monde”. Scattered foxing as usual.

Precedes the book edition in 1873. The Mekong expedition of 1866–1868 was a French governmental naval exploration and scientific expedition of the Mekong River on behalf of the French colonial authorities of Cochinchina. Its primary objective was an assessment of the river's navigability in order to link the delta region and the port of Saigon with the riches of southern China and upper Siam. Garnier received high awards for his work.

€ 250

8vo, half cloth with marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. [2], vi, 302, [2] pages. Frontispiece portrait, folding map and 106 illustrations. Nice clean copy.

In January 1898 the Belgica with Amundsen on board arrived at the coast of Grahamland. After mapping and naming of some islands, the expedition crossed the Antarctic Circle on February 15, 1898. On February 28, 1898 the ship was caught in the ice, the crew members realized that they should spend the winter on Antarctica. Finally almost a year later, on February 15, 1899, they were able to enter the ship into a small channel that they had dug the weeks before. It took nearly a month to cover about eleven kilometers. On March 14 they left the ice behind and on november 5 the ship returned to Antwerp.

€ 390

8vo, original half cloth with marbled boards. 94 pages, illustrations plus a map.

First publication from the Belgian expedition led by de Gerlache during 1897-1899, extracted from his official narrative "Voyage de la Belgica" and rushed into print to inform an eager national public of his adventures.

€ 230

8vo, modern half calf with original front cover bound in, new endpapers. [10], 256 pages (of 264) and 2 (of 9 on 6 leaves) lithos. Good but incomplete copy of this rare title. Text itself complete, but lacks appendices 4-9. Lacking plates and appendices supplied in copy.

€ 220

8vo, blue gilt embossed leather prize binding (Grosvenor School Nottingham), rubbed and shaved. Gilt titles and decoration to spine. All edges gilt. xii, 344, 32 (ads) pages with frontispiece, 47 illustrations (12 full-page), 3 maps (1 folding).

An account of the search for the Jeannette and a sledge journey through Siberia. The Jeannette was a steamer lost in the Arctic Ocean in 1881. Gilder, a journalist, travelled aboard the rescue ship USS Rodgers.

€ 350

8vo, original blind stamped cloth with gilt, rubbed. 240; 320 pages, wear and soiling. With 28 illustrations including 3 maps. Good condition.

Volume 1 “Western Polynesia comprising The New Hebrides Group, The Loyalty Group, New Caledonia Group” and the 1856 volume 2 “Eastern Polynesia comprising The Raratonga Group, Penrhyn Islands and Savage Island”.

€ 280

8vo, publisher’s cloth, used with shelf wear and spine repaired. xii, 320, 40 (publisher’s catalogue dated july 1888) pages, map and “numerous sketches by the author”. Clean inside, but one torn leaf repaired. Good copy of the scarce first edition.

An adventurous account of the Camel Corps as part of the relief column under Sir Garnet Wolseley, titled "The Gordon Relief Expedition", intending to relieve the siege at Khartoum where General Gordon was trapped. They defeated the Mahdi army at Abu Klea, but the relief force was two days too late and the entire garrison of Gordon had been massacred.

€ 270

8vo, publisher’s blue cloth with gilt. xi, 363 pages with a photogravure frontispiece, many (full page) illustrations and 2 folding maps. Near Fine.

Gleichen was member of Rennell Rodd’s successful mission though an entirely new country, starting from Zeila on the coast of the Gulf of Aden to the Abyssinian king Menelik II, considered the founder of modern Ethiopia, in Addis Ababa. There the Anglo-Ethiopian Treaty of 1897 was agreed upon. This is the only authentic account of the expedition.

€ 250

Small 4to, full limp vellum. [24] pages including title leaf, indices etc., 280 pages. Lower blank margin of title cut away without loss of imprint. Title written on, browning throughout. Rare.

This work was issued in various locations and by various publishers in the same year. Gonzalez de Mendoza (1545-1618) was an Augustinian monk at the court of Rome. Pope Gregory XIII ordered him to collect all that was known at the time about China. Mendoza's "Historia" may have been the first book-length work on China published in Europe since the days of Marco Polo. Also "It contains an itinerary of the New World occupying several chapters, in which are accounts of Cuba, Mexico, and New Mexico, given by various missionaries who had visited those places."

€ 1.850

8vo, publisher’s cloth rebacked preserving part of the spine, front hinge repaired. [14, subscribers list], 170 pages including opinions of the press etc. With errata slip, frontispiece and 2 other lithos. Rare.

Goodridge was member of a sealing expedition which in 1821 wrecked on one of the Crozet Islands in the Indian Ocean. According to the title page copies were sold by the author himself, apparently with success, because ten editions were published.

€ 150

"et en d'autres lieux de l'Asie. Avec une relation curieuse de la ville de Batavia et des moeurs, & du commerce des Hollandois établis dans les Indes."

12mo, full calf rebacked, spine decorated gilt, edges dyed red. 358 pages (final page misnumbered 308), a large folding map as frontispiece, 4 folding plates, contents crisp. Scarce.

French translation of "Reisen …na de vier gedeeltens des werelds" 1701. Describes his several adventures from 1639 till 1687. As the son of a sailor, he joined the VOC in Hoorn in 1639 and made sixteen journeys all over the world. He wrote a humorous account that appeared posthumously in 1701. Landwehr 281 calls for a plan of Batavia, but none of the known copies have it, nor the copies he collated  himself.

€ 1.350

8vo, half morocco gilt. 191, 188, 199 pages, complete with numerous engravings. Covers rubbed etc. Good copy. Scarce.

Peters began in 1888 an expedition from the east coast of Africa, avowedly for the relief of Emin Pasha, actually to extend the area of German influence in Uganda and Equatoria. This expedition was not sanctioned by the German government and was regarded by the British authorities as a filibuster (in the 19th century sense of the word). Reaching Uganda during early 1890, Peters concluded a treaty with Kabaka Mwanga II of Buganda in favour of Germany. The titles of the volumes are: 1) Van Zanzibar naar Kikuyu. 2) Van Kikuyu naar Uganda. 3) Van Uganda naar het Vaderland.

€ 170

8vo, original pictorial cloth, foot of spine Volume I repaired. xxv, 428; xii, 444 pages. Illustrated with nearly 100 illustrations made from photographs taken by the party and with the official maps and charts (many of the maps are folding). Very large folding chart of the Arctic Ocean in pocket inside rear board of Volume II. Nice set with the golden compass in stead of silver.

A veteran of the US Civil War, Greely launched the Lady Franklin Bay expedition to find the North Pole in 1881. Stranded on Ellesmere Island, Northern Canada, 21 of his 27-man crew perished before Greely and the survivors were rescued in 1884.

€ 280

8vo with dust jacket. 92 pages on thick paper with illustrations. Apart from a little wear and some minor creases in the DJ in fine condition.

"The story of a marvellous escape from death after being trapped on an ice-floe whilst journeying on an errand of mercy" in Labrador.

€ 50

8vo, publisher’s wrappers. iv, 278 pages with a folding map, frontispiece and 13 (2 double page) illustrations. Very good.

Gros edited the letters written by Bonnat – a French trader in present Ghana - during the 4 years that he was held hostage by the Ashanti in Kumasi together with the Swiss missionaries Ramseyer and Kühne alongside the King of Ashanti. In 1874 he was released by the British army during their attack.

€ 130

“with Notices of Formosa, Liu-Kiu and Various Islands of the Malay Archipelago”

8vo, half calf with marbled boards, used. x, 284; xvi, (2), 399 pages with 2 hand coloured lithographed frontispieces, 14 (folding) maps and 89 woodcuts (28 full page plates). As usual scattered foxing, especially frontispieces and title page. Good copy.

The schooner Marchesa sailed from England in 1881 to the seas of China and Japan, the Dutch East Indies and New Guinea, before returning to England in 1884. Contains the lavishly illustrated story of flora and fauna (birds!) researches by the British naturalist Guillemard.

€ 290

8vo half calf, marbled edges and endpapers. xxiv, 454 pages with an engraved frontispiece, 6 other plates and 3 tinted maps, 30 text illustrations, tail-pieces. Very good copy.

Narrative of the Hayes Arctic Exploring Expedition to extend northward the exploration of the Second Grinnell Expedition and to make scientific observations and collections. It describes the voyage along the coasts of Greenland and Ellesmere Island to Smith Sound, sledge journeys to 82 degrees and the native peoples.

€ 250

4to, almost identical uniform decorated cloth. (6), 385; (6), 473; (6), 531 pages with 43 plates. Good used copy.

Dutch adaptation of Die Erde und ihre Völker.

€ 170

8vo, modern dark blue wrappers. 276 pages with 4 (large) folding maps and an illustration. Added: “Aanteekeningen omtrent de afdeeling West-Nieuw-Guinea, ontleend aan officieele verslagen”, 6 pages with 2 folding maps. Very good.

4 articles, complete, extracted from Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap 1905/1907. Only publication of the travels in New Guinea by the temporary assistent-resident of that territory in october 1903 till march 1904.

€ 190

8vo, original half brown leather, marbled paper sides, leather is rubbed and chafed. 560; 564 pages with 205 illustrations and 2 folding maps, 1 large folding at the end of volume II.

In 1883 Holub set out to do what no one had done before: explore the entire length of Africa from Cape Town all the way to Egypt. However, the expedition was troubled by illness and the uncooperative Ila tribesmen and Holub's team was forced to turn back in 1886.

€ 390

8vo, publisher’s cloth. xii, (4), 306, (2) pages, large folding frontispiece of Ujiji and 14 plates and maps. A very good second edition, in fact a first edition second issue.

Hore, scientific officer, was appointed to the Lake Tanganyika Mission with the London Missionary Society. He explored the southern part of the Lake in the 'Calabash', starting from Ujiji in 1880. In 1883 he proceeded in the ‘Morning Star’ to the south end of Lake Tanganyika and settled at Kavala Island.

€ 130

8vo, original gilt cloth. xvi, 394 pages (prize for Th. Smits van Oyen, 1873).

Translation of “Souvenirs d'un voyage dans la Tartarie, le Thibet et la Chine pendant les années 1844, 1845 et 1846”. Huc was a French missionary Catholic priest and traveller. Since the travels of the Englishman Thomas Manning in Tibet no European had visited Lhasa. Huc stimulated European interest in Central Asia and blazed a trail for Asian studies.

€ 220

“Including A Report On The Position And Prospects Of Trade Up Those Rivers, With Remarks On The Malaria And Fevers Of Western Africa”.

8vo, rebound in paper covered boards in stead of the simple publisher’s cloth of the "Traveller's Library" series of which it makes part of, new endpapers. xi, 267 pages with a folding map. Fine and scarce copy.

After a trip to West Africa in 1851, he was chief surgeon on the Niger expedition (1854–55) and his book preceded Baikie’s “Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwo'ra and Bi'nue”. It is an account of the position and prospects of trade up those rivers with remarks on malaria and fevers of Western Africa.

€ 430

8vo, original cloth, gilt faded, recased with new endpapers. xx, 329, (1), 14 adverts pages, tinted lithographed frontispiece, foxed due to flimsy.

Hutchinson (1820–85) was an Anglo-Irish explorer. He studied medicine. After two years as English Consul at the Bight of Biafra and Fernando Po, he became governor of the latter place (1857) and in 1861 was transferred to the consulate at Rosario in Argentina.

€ 250

“thro' Great Ustiga, Siriania, Permia, Sibiria, Daour, Great Tartary; &c. to Peking.” “To which is Annex'd an Accurate Description of China, done Originally by a Chinese Author.” Additional second title before page 115: “A Short Description of the vast Empire of China by Dionysius Kao, a Native of that Country"

4to, contemporary panelled calf, rebacked. [14], 110, [4], 115-210 pages with engraved title (dated 1705), folding map, and 30 plates as called for. Ex libris of Philip Monoux Baronet. A good sound copy, text somewhat browned.

"This was no easy journey in those days. Ides, who was a Dane in the service of Peter the Great, set out from Moscow March 14, 1692. (...) He composed his journal for the information and satisfaction of Peter the Great who was well pleased with the results and rewarded the author with the post of Privy Councillor. (...) The expedition added considerable geographical knowledge to the little that was known about Northern Manchuria and China."

€ 2.900

8vo, original blue cloth, little wear. xvi, 352 pages with tipped-in photograph of Jessie and a map. Owner inscription of Robert Pettigrew, his nephew. Errata slip bound in.

June 1852, John and Jessie Inglis set sail aboard Bishop G. A. Selwyn's Border Maid for Aname, on the northern side of Aneityum, where they were to spend the next 24 years.

€ 130

4to, printer’s boards backed with modern handmade marbled paper. (16), 324; (4), 379, (1) pages, uncut and complete with the half-titles, 2 large folding engraved maps of India / Middle East and 9 engravings. Light age toning and some worming in places, new back endpapers in first volume and new labels. Very good. Rare.

Ives travelled to India as surgeon of the Kent, the flagship of Vice-Admiral Charles Watson, commander-in-chief in the East Indies. His return journey was by way of Basra, Baghdad, Mosul, Diarbekir, Bir, Aleppo, Latichea, Cyprus and Leghorn. Tiele 522: second issue of “Reize van Engeland naar Indië” 1776, a translation of “A Voyage from England to India” 1773.

€ 1.350

8vo, publisher's blue pictorial gilt cloth, some wear and traces of use. [xviii], 297, [ii, ads] pages, frontispiece with tissue guard, numerous illustrations from photos and drawings including full-page, 3 foldout coloured maps, Index. Good copy. 

The journey had two purposes, the first was to test equipment for the coming Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition, and the second, "which was to visit and, for some months, to live with that primitive group of the human family, the Samoyads of the Great Frozen Tundra of Arctic Russia."

€ 120

8vo, original publisher’s cloth, rubbed and little edge wear. xxxii, (2), 455 pages with portrait of the author as frontispiece (with light margin stain), folding map and numerous illustrations. Errata slip present. Very good.

This is the story of Henry Morton Stanley"s ill-fated rear guard and one of the last trips in the 19th century to the interior of Africa by a European power. It is compiled from letters and diaries from James S. Jameson, the expedition"s naturalist, who reputedly paid $5,000 to join the venture. He died at Bangala of fever.

€ 350

“A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa and a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District”.

8vo, full prize calf of Felsted School, chafed and rebacked with original spine, new endpapers, all edges marbled. xv, 572 pages with a photogravure frontis portrait of Johnston, 6 (2 folding) maps and numerous (full page) illustrations. Apart from foxing on first and last (blank) leaves the interior is mostly clean.

Harry Johnston was in 1884 appointed as leader of the scientific expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro. On this expedition he concluded treaties with local chiefs, which were then transferred to the British East Africa Company.

€ 450

"commanded by Capt. F.P. Blackwood, R.N. in Torres Strait, New Guinea, and other islands of the Eastern Archipelago, during the years 1842-1846: together with an excursion into the interior of the eastern part of Java".

8vo, 14x22 cm, modern paper covered binding with blindstamps (Bolton Public Libraries) inside on text and plates. xii, [2], 423; v, [3], advertisement slip, 362 pages, 2 folding maps and 19 plates (4 lithographs, 14 uncoloured aquatints, and one wood engraving) plus a number of wood engraved illustrations in the text. Except the library flaws in very good condition.

Narrative of a very important voyage by the naturalist to the expedition, undertaken for the purpose of surveying the lesser-known parts of the coast of northeastern Australia and the islands of Torres Straits and the Great Barrier Reef. New Guinea was also visited and the Fly River discovered. Also included are accounts of Timor and its aborigines, Dutch Java, Sandalwood Island, Singapore, and Malacca. Jukes was the naturalist on the expedition and his chapter on the natural history of the Barrier Reef is of great importance, his observations strongly supporting Darwin's theory of the formation of coral reefs.

€ 1.700

8vo, original pictorial cloth, discolourings, rubbed, minor wear to spine ends. viii, 582; viii, 477, [ii, ads]; viii, 586 pages with 3 folding colour maps (small repairs), profusely illustrated throughout, interior allmost clean, overall a good set.

Junker charted the course of the Congo and its tributaries during his decade in Central Africa. Born of German parents in Moscow, he was influenced in his desire to explore Africa by Schweinfurth who drew his attention to the lands south of the Libyan desert, "a region at that time ... still shrouded in the veil of an awe-inspiring mystery". His fascination with the region led him to make three expeditions over a period of eleven years and he is recognised as one of the great African explorers.

€ 1.100

"een werk ter bevordering der kennis van landen en volken en van derzelver voortbrengsels en handel".

8vo, original marbled boards with cloth spine. xvi, 348; x, 406; xii, 406 pages with 7 engravings and a map. "Voorberigt" and "Inhoud" misbound. Very nice.

€ 330

8vo, publisher’s brown cloth with wear and repairs, front hinge cracked. xix, 552 pages. Engraved frontispiece of Franklin, folding map and numerous illustrations. Good used copy.

Kanes first voyage to the Arctic as surgeon on Edwin DeHavens Advance (1850-51). The expedition spent an uncomfortable winter in the pack ice of Wellington Channel, eventually drifting back out into Davis Strait. It also includes the drift in ice in that region, Sept. 1850 to June 1851. According to a presentation by Kane the original edition of 1853 is excessively scarce, that supposedly only 20 or so copies survived a warehouse fire.

€ 190

8vo, publisher's cloth with repairs. 464; 467 pages, frontispiece, profusely illustrated with 300 steel and wood engravings, full page and vignettes, maps/fold-out. Good used copy, rare early printing.

A remarkable set, one of the few earliest copies as "Kane's Sea" (now Kane Basin) had not been added to the folding map. According to William Elder's biography of Kane in 1859 an important backer of Kane felt the explorer should be honored by the naming of a geographical region for him. He convinced the publisher to engrave "Kane's Sea" across an unnamed expanse of the ocean on the folding map in volume one. A few copies had been released during the first month of publication prior to this addition which appeared in all subsequent copies. The map in this set is of the first state without this addition. Doctor Kane was the ship's surgeon on the First Grinnell Expedition of 1850 and upon that mission's unsuccessful return he immediately set out in command of the Second. That mission was, financed by Grinnell, also a failure in that no trace of the lost Franklin Party was found.

€ 750

“ter opsporing van Sir John Franklin, in de jaren 1853, 1854 en 1855 onder bevel van Elisha Kent Kane”.

8vo, original cloth gilt. xiv, 288, [8] pages with many wood engravings. Very good.

Dutch abridged version of Arctic Explorations.

€ 250

8vo, original front wrapper affixed to 3/4 cloth with marbled boards with recent label, traces of use. xii, 495 pages, frontispiece  of Albina with damp stain and a folded map. Rare.

August Kappler was a German researcher, naturalist and explorer. He is credited as the founder of Albina, Suriname. From 1836, Kappler was stationed in Suriname as a soldier and member of the Dutch colonial service. Here he had the opportunity to explore the country, and amass a large collection of insects and plants. After his military duties were finished, he spent the years 1842 to 1846 based in Paramaribo, from where he sold butterflies that were collected locally. In the latter part of 1846 he had earned enough money to purchase a plot of land near the Marowijne River. Here he would spend the next 33 years of his life, working as a trader, farmer, postal official, et al. He called his homestead "Albina".

€ 230

"Gelegen in het westlyk gedeelte van den Stillen Oceaan, opgesteld uit de dagverhalen en mondelinge berigten van den kapitein Henry Wilson en sommige van zijn officieren, welke in augustus 1783 aan dezelven schipbreuk geleden hebben met de Antilope....".

4to, half leather with marbled boards, upper spine chipped, joints rubbed. xxxii, 366, [4] pages with some scattered brown spotting. Engraved frontispiece, folding map and 6 (folding) plates.

Dutch translation of this popular story about a shipwreck, the nice treatment by the natives etc. They took Lee Boo, the son of Abba Thulle, King of the Pelew Islands, with them to England where he made a very good impression. Unfortunately, he soon died of smallpox.

€ 780

"forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time."

8vo, full calf bindings, rubbed with restorations. 17 engraved maps (7 folding), folding-table.

"The distinguishing feature of this collection is that it is devoted to voyages and travels of discovery, wherein the boundaries of geographical knowledge were enlarged. It consequently contains all the early expeditions to America and the Pacific in extenso. The eighteenth volume is a history of the progress of maritime and inland discovery, with a bibliographical catalogue of voyages and travels, by William Stevenson; which is a work of great value, and being published at a later time is frequently wanted.”

€ 2.250

8vo, original gilt decorated cloth, 18,5 x 12,5 cm. 112 unnumbered pages with 14 handcoloured lithographs. Rare.

The main story, on hunting in the Himalayas, is adapted from the English account by Frederic Markham. Two other hunting accounts are added, one on geese in Northern Europe and the other on ostriches in the Sahara. The two last travel stories are situated in Cape Town, South Africa, and in Algiers respectively.

€ 130

8vo, original gilt buckram. xvi, 743, [1], 8 pages ads, 2 lithographed plates of fish, 16 full-page plates and many illustrations in text. Near fine.

"Mary Kingsley (1862-1900) made two travels to West Africa to study the primitive religions of the tribes. This narrative written with a great sense of humour describes her first adventurous journey. She traveled through wild countries, away from civilization and any European influence, and undertook important research work between the rivers Ogowé and Rembwé"

€ 490

Large 12mo, 10x16 cm, vellum. 2 volumes in 1. [2]), 218, [6], 180 [2]) pages. Engraved frontispiece (frayed), a folding engraved map of Ceylan with large repaired tear and 17 engraved plates (13 folding, 3 with repaired tears, creases). 2 small private stamps. Good condition.

Knox was the son of Robert Knox, a sea-captain in the service of the English East India Company. In 1659 Robert senior was returning home from his post with the Company at Fort St George (Madras), accompanied by his son, when a storm forced their ship, the 'Ann', into Cottier Bay, Ceylon. They were taken prisoner with the rest of the crew by the Sultan of Ceylon. After twenty years he escaped with one companion in 1679 and reached Arippu, a Dutch settlement on the north-west coast of the island.

€ 580

8vo, later buckram binding. viii, 590 pages with 4 chromolithographs, 2 maps (1 large folding) and 31 engravings. Apart from a few library marks a very good copy.

Account of an Arctic expedition, written by the commander of the expedition. The backers of this expedition built and outfitted a steamer with the aim of exploring the central Arctic region, using the east coast of Greenland as a base of operations. The goal of the expedition was not just nautical, but to acquire a range of scientific data. This book provides a fascinating narrative of the accomplishments, activities and hardships of the expedition, and describes the wreck of the ship Hansa.

€ 380

Folio, modern half calf with gilt decorated spine and marbled boards. [1]), 529, [2]; [4], 449, [87] pages. Engraved allegorical frontispiece, engraved portrait of the author, 5 (of 6) folding engraved maps, a small folding plan, and 46 full page engraved views and plates of costumes, animals and scenes of daily life, including double page view of the Cape of Good Hope. Fine copy of the first Dutch edition of this famous description of South Africa. Apart from 2 plates with soiling in excellent condition. Lacking is -as often - the map "Nieuwe Caarte van Kaap de Goede Hoop en't Zuyderdeel van Africa".

Peter Kolbe had been sent to the Cape of Good Hope with letters of introduction from Nicolas Witsen, Burgomaster of Amsterdam, for the purpose of compiling the present all-round descritpion of South Africa and for astronomical and surveying research, and he lived and worked at the Cape from 1705 till 1713. Kolbe gives an exact and detailed account of all aspects of life at the Cape, including its geography, climate, flora and fauna, followed by a highly interesting and religion, manner of living, singular traditions, customs, marriage ceremonies, circumcisions, education, etc. The account of the condition of the colony of the Dutch inhabitants is also full of interesting observations not to be found in any other description of the country. Kolbe's account was first published in German in Nuremberg, 1719. The present Dutch edition is the best and most richly illustrated edition.

€ 3.400

"and along the previously unknown coast of New Guinea during the year 1825 and 1826".

8vo, rebound in half leather with marbled boards. xxiv, 365 pages with 2 maps and one leaf of publisher's adds at end.

Originally published in the Dutch language in 1828. This expedition led by Kolff was sent out by the Dutch to investigate the massacre of British supply ships in 1824. Kolff explored much of the Moluccan Islands and the Java Sea and his descriptions of these exotic places are fascinating. Kolff writes with refreshing honesty and frankness about the people he meets on the voyage along with descriptions of the fruits and vegetables his crew encounters along the way.

€ 650

8vo, very good condition in original paper wrappers, complete in two parts. 110, second title, 111-220 pages with 4 folding maps and 9! (in stead of 8) engravings and aquatints on plates, one of which is in colour.

The second Russian expedition into the Pacific for scientific exploration, sponsored by Count Romanzoff, was commanded by Lieutenant Kotzebue, and also included the famous artist Ludovik Choris. Kotzebue had also sailed with Captain Kruzenstern in 1803-1806. Leaving Kronstadt in 1815, the Rurik rounded Cape Horn and visited Chile, Easter Island, and the Marshall Islands. Kotzebue explored the North American coast and Hawaii and searched unsuccessfully for a passage to the Arctic Ocean. The description of the northwest coast of America is a most important contribution.

€ 1.400

“Together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessini, and Khartum, and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado”
8vo, contemporary full prize calf gilt, rubbed etc, spine ends restored, gilt edges. li, [2], 566, [2] pages, no half title. Portrait frontispiece, marginal light staining, 2 folding maps, 12 coloured lithographs.
Krapf (1810 – 1881) was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler. Krapf played an important role in exploring East Africa with Johannes Rebmann. They were the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya and Kilimanjaro. Krapf also played a key role in exploring the East African coastline.

€ 950

8vo, original pictorial cloth, rubbed. xiv, 324 pages with 6 colour plates of butterflies, over 70 illustrations, portrait and folding map. 1 text leave with tape repair, little foxing. Very good.

Kumm went in missionary service to Upper Egypt and in 1900 participated in the founding of the Sudan Pioneer Mission. Together with his wife, he founded the Sudan United Mission in 1904 with the aim of expanding the mission within Muslim regions in northern and central Africa. Political resistance to his mission, which came partly from Europe, forced Kumm to devise new routes for his ventures within the Sudan Belt. To this end, he undertook extensive expeditions on the Niger and the Nile.

€ 240

8vo, contemporary calf, rebacked. xxxii, 33-487; 344, 105, [6 ads] pages. Engraved folding map, 45 engraved plates, a few trimmed within plate margin, occasional browning, bookplate and ink signature. Frontispiece offset onto title. Nice copy.

After three years without news of La Perouse, an expedition under D'Entrecasteaux set out with the joint purpose of discovering his fate and scientific and commercial exploration. No trace was found of the missing explorer in a journey which encompassed the Cape of Good Hope, Tasmania, Southwest Australia, New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, the Admiralty Islands, and Tonga. D'Entrecasteaux died of scurvy in 1793, and Labillardiere, one of the botanists on board, completed the present account of the expedition. The plates include numerous portraits of natives of several islands, as well as botanical and ornithological views. 14 of the botanical plates in this volume were engraved after drawings by Pierre Joseph Redoute. Some of the ornithological plates are from drawings by Audebert.

€ 2.450

12mo, blue decorative cloth, rubbed and wear. 306 pages with over 50 illustrations.

"By Andree's assistants in the preparation, equipment and departure of the balloon." On the 11th of July 1897 the balloon Ornen left Spitzbergen, July the 13th a pigeon brought the message "All goes well on board", but since then untill they found the diaries and the bodies in 1930 Andree's fate was a mystery. Translated from the French.

Added: 2 1898 McCure's magazine articles, 15 pages illustrated.

€ 130

"Depuis la Cote de la Mer du Sud, jusqu' aux Cotes du Bresil & de la Guyane, en descendant La Riviere des Amazones. Avec une Carte du Maragnon ou de la Riviere des Amazones levee par le meme. Nouvelle Edition. Augmentie de la Relation de l'Emeute populaire de Cuenca au Perou."

8vo, original wrappers, worn and spine repaired, in a modern cloth drop-back box. Folding frontispiece, [4], xvi, 379 pages, folding map of the Amazon aeria. Uncut, some browning.

New augmented edition, containing 60 pages of previously unpublished material, including the important letter from Godin to La Condamine. According to Borba de Moraes this Maastricht edition is more difficult to find than the Paris first edition of 1745. This mission became famous not only for its scientific findings, but also for a series of tragic and picturesque circumstances which attended it, some attributable to chance and others to the conflicting temperaments of the participants . La Condamine's «Relation» is of great importance, because for the first time the long course of the Amazon was traversed by a man of science capable of making astronomic observations, and determining longitudes.

€ 750

8vo, original boards, with cloth rebacked/restored, morocco title labels, traces of use. xvi, 452; viii, 448 pages, complete with a lithographed map, 2 frontispieces and 4 plates in aquatint. Plates slightly toned. Good copy.

In 1832 Laird accompanied his Liverpool shipbuilding firm’s expedition, commanded by Richard Lander, to the delta of the Niger River. The expedition proved that the lower Niger could be navigated by oceangoing ships. Laird ascended the Niger to a place 880 km from the sea and its principal eastern tributary, the Benue, 130 km above the confluence. Of the expedition’s 48 European members, all but 9 died from fever or wounds, and Laird never fully recovered from the many hardships of the expedition.

€ 890

8vo, original wrappers, used and browned. I: half title, title, xii, 294, [2] pages, 2 folding maps. II: half title, title, 370, [2] pages. III: half title, title, 344 pages. IV: [2], half title, frontispiece portrait, title, [2], 338 pages, folding table. Scattered foxing. Good complete copy of a scarce title.

In 1832 Lamartine, the famous French poet, left for the Holy Land with his wife and daughter. Lamartine had in that period, after all, dropped off from overly formal Catholicism and tended to the ideas of Lamennais. The journey to Palestine was thus intended to deepen his loyalty to the Church. However, the trip did not have the expected result. By visiting the Holy Sepulcher and the death of his daughter Julia in Beirut, Lamartine completely gave up religious practice. Translation of “Voyage en Orient” (1835).

€ 290

8vo, modern dark blue wrappers. Complete with 101 pages, a folding plate and a folding map.

A scientific expedition that would visit Port Dikson in Siberia as part of the first International Polar Year. Due to heavy ice, the expedition led by Dr. Maurits Snellen failed to reach Dikson, but sightings were made on the frozen Kara Sea. After the expedition ship sank, the crew members managed to reach the mainland with sleds and sloops across the ice. Lamie was member of the expedition. Years later in 1886 a book was published by Snellen: “De Nederlandsche pool-expeditie”. Extracted from “Tijdschrift van het Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap”.

€ 120

“with a Narrative of a Voyage down that River to its Termination”.

8vo, blue calf, rubbed. 3 volumes, lxiv, 272; vii, 321; vii, 354 pages with engraved frontispiece portraits of Richard and John Lander in volumes I & II, frontispiece of The Eboe Canoe in volume III, 4 other engraved plates, 2 maps, 1 large folding of the Course of the Quorra (Niger), other engravings in the text. Some browning.

“Prior to setting out on this mission Richard Lander was already one of the most experienced British African explorers of his time. He had been the sole survivor of Clapperton's second expedition and had made an impressive solo trek to return to the coast with the expedition's papers and journals. The earlier French Geographic expedition under Caillie's leadership had still left one major blank in West African geography - the lower course and termination of the Niger.”

€ 650

8vo, 13x21 cm, modern half calf, fine. x, 532; x, 498; 446, 60 pages. Folding map, engraved portrait frontispiece and 43 (folding) maps and plates. Interior with browning and foxing of the plates, no half-titles.

Three publishers hurried in 1798 to publish the first English translation. This is the scarce second 1799 edition with more plates by Johnson. Not in Sabin, Cox etc. "The narrative of the enterprising but ill-fated Pérouse, is full of interest in all portions, but his relations of the peculiarities he observed in the natives of the northwest coast of North America, are especially valuable. The mysterious fate of this distinguished navigator has never been satisfactorily cleared up. The above account was transmitted from Botany Bay, after leaving this place the expedition was never heard of again".

€ 2.300

“uitgevoerd met Z.M. Korvet van Oorlog La Favorite, gedurende de jaren 1830, 1831 en 1832, onder bevel van den Fregatskapitein La Place, uitgegeven op last van den vice-admiraal Graaf de Rigny.”

8vo, contemporary uniform gilt half morocco, spickled edges. Complete with 7 different lithographed title-pages, a large folding map and 13 -folding- plates. Very attractive copy. Rare.

Translated from French: “Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de Chine” 1833-1835. 'The purpose of this voyage was to show the French flag in eastern and other waters, in order to re-establish French influence over Indo-China and the Pacific. The voyage was also very successful scientifically'. La Favorite visited Madras, Pondichéry, Cochinchina, Tonkin, and the Philippines, before setting sail for Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Laplace crossed the Pacific on his return, past Valparaiso, Cape Horn and along the coast of Brazil. Not in Tiele.

€ 1.760

8vo, contemporary half calf, covers with later paper. xii, 418 pages, etched frontispiece. Very nice copy.

Translation of “Journal of a visit to South-Africa in 1815 and 1816”. Latrobe was an English clergyman, musician and composer. In 1815 he voyaged to the Cape to visit Mamre and Genadendal, two Moravian mission stations. While in South Africa, he journeyed from Genadendal to George, Uitenhage and the Great Fish River. He planned the founding of a new mission station called Enon on the Witrivier near Kirkwood.

€ 450

8vo, red cloth with original publisher's pictorial stiff wrappers bound in, a bit soiling and small split in hinges. 368 pages, photographic frontispiece, 93 photographic illustrations in text, 5 folding maps. Very good.

Lecointe was the second-in-command, under Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery, on the Belgica expedition 1897-99. The Belgica reached Antarctic waters in January 1898, immediately being "hit by severe gale which, despite the heroic efforts of Lecointe, caused the death by drowning of [a] twenty-two-year-old sailor", the crew subsequently being severely affected by scurvy and madness. Despite this, the expedition scientists brought back a substantial quantity of material. Rosove 199 A1.

€ 370

8vo, half cloth, rubbed. 250 pages with 12 engravings. A few leaves dampstained, scattered foxing. Rare.

Dutch translation of Beautés de l'histoire des voyages les plus fameux. The first Dutch edition was published in 1824. Not in the usual reference works. Lemaire is especially known for his Robinsonades. "Dit Werkje, zal, vertrouwen wij, onder de menigvuldige Leesboeken, welke voor de Jeugd reeds vervaardigd zijn, eene goede plaats innemen. Hetzelve bevat veel belangrijks uit de Reizen naar Afrika, Azië, en Amerika, in de Poollanden, en op de onderscheidene Zeeën."

€ 170

4to, 21x26 cm, 2 parts in 1 volume, 19th century quarter leather, all edges gilt and in almost impeccable condition. xvi, 400 pages, second title after page 194. Complete with frontispiece and 11 engravings, including the suppressed plate of the female Hottentot (mounted, from another edition). Scarce 4to edition. Very good with only minor foxing and browning.

Le Vaillant went to the Cape of Good Hope in 1780 for the Dutch East India Company. He made three journeys, one around Cape Town and Saldanha Bay, one eastwards from the Cape and the third to the Orange River and into Great Namaqualand. During the first expedition his collection was on the Middelburg which was attacked and sunk by the English in Saldanha bay. "This work was attacked when published, and some of the incidents related were declared to be either exaggerated or altogether invented".

€ 1.600

8vo, 13x23 cm, half calf with marbled boards, 2 of the title labels renewed, rubbed. xxxiii, 352; 360; xxxii, 332; 374 [1]; 392 [2] pages, half titles present. With a large folding engraved map and 34 (folding) engraved plates. Text and plates very good.

Le Vaillant went to the Cape of Good Hope in 1780 for the Dutch East India Company. He made three journeys, one around Cape Town and Saldanha Bay, one eastwards from the Cape and the third to the Orange River and into Great Namaqualand. During the first expedition his collection was on the Middelburg which was attacked and sunk by the English in Saldanha bay. "This work was attacked when published, and some of the incidents related were declared to be either exaggerated or altogether invented". "Interesting as an account of South Africa at a time when comparatively little was known regarding its natural history and the Dutch settlers".

€ 1.750

8vo, publisher’s cloth. x, 140, [1] pages with frontispiece and 74 photos. Near Very Good copy of the second impression.

Levick was a British Antarctic explorer, who accompanied Scott as zoologist on his Terra Nova expedition. Part of the Northern Party, Levick spent the austral summer of 1911–1912 at Cape Adare in the midst of an Adélie penguin rookery. To date, this has been the only study of the Cape Adare rookery, the largest Adélie penguin colony in the world. The Northern Party were due to be picked up by the Terra Nova in February 1912, but the ship was unable to reach them due to pack ice, the party of five over wintered in an ice cave on Inexpressible Island in particularly uncomfortable conditions. Cherry-Garrard’s “The Worst Journey in the World” described the difficulties endured by the party in the winter of 1912. Levick photographed extensively throughout the expedition. Rosove 205.A3

€ 160

8vo, simple old boards. x, [2], 331 pages plus ads, with 5 plates. Used copy with scattered dampstaining. Rare.

Dutch –abridged- translation of “Reisen im südlichen Afrika in den Jahren 1803, 1804, 1805 und 1806”. This abridged translation includes an account of Governor General Janssens' travels to Kaffaria, and of subsequent journeys through the western and northern parts of the colony and much information respecting the wild animals and natural features of the country traversed … particulars of the return journey from Graaff-Reinet, together with extracts from General Janssens' journal, and accounts of further journeys to Zwellendam, and the countries inhabited by the "Bosjemans, Corans, and the Beetjuans," and concludes with a narrative of the capture of the colony by the British.

€ 280

"contenante diuerses descriptions des pays, costes, haures, riuieres, caps & autres lieux iusques à present descouuerts par les Portugais ... / avec annotations de Bernard Palvdanus ... ; a qvoy sont adiovstees qvelqves avtres descriptions tant du pays de Guinee & autres costes d’Ethiopie que des nauigations des Hollandois vers le nord au Vaygat & en la nouuelle Zembla ; le tout recveilli et descript par le mesme de Linscot en bas Alleman & nouuellement traduict en François".

Small folio. Contemporary mottled calf repaired, gilt. Complete as indicated in the text with Title-vignet, 3 folding maps/plan (2 hand coloured), 2 double-page maps, 1 half-page map, 2 double-page plates, 1 full-page plate and 55 large plates.

OCLC states only a few copies of this very scarce book. All known copies have the imprint of publisher Theodore Pierre or Henri Laurent. Our copy only states Amsterdam without the publisher's name (misprint?).

€ 46.500

“aux Indes Orientales Contenant diverses Descriptions des lieux jusques a present descouverts par les Portugais….” The second part: “Le Grand Routier de Mer... Continant une instruction des routes & cours qu'il convient tenir en la Navigation des Indes Orientales & au voyage de la coste du Bresil, des Antilles, & du Cap de Lopo Gonsalves” and the third part: “Description de l'Amerique & des parties d'icelle, comme de la Nouvelle France, Floride, des Antilles, Iucaya, Cuba, Jamaica, &c.”

Folio. Contemporary full calf gilt, front cover expertly renewed, new endpapers. 3 letterpress titles (2 within engraved surrounds, the third with engraved vignette), portrait of Linschoten, lacking the 6 maps, 31 of 36 engraved plates/plans present. Pages 171/178 and 55/58 (part 3) maybe from another copy. Generally in good condition.

€ 5.300

8vo, original blind tooled brown cloth, skilfully rebacked with new endpapers. Copy with publishers list dated 1-11-1857 and index (Bradlow variant 8). x, 711, 8 ads pages with folding frontispiece (the Victoria Falls), numerous illustrations and 2 folding maps (1 in rear-pocket). Some foxing, otherwise a very good copy.

Livingstone’s famous first South African expedition during which "he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before. He first discovered the Zambesi River at Secheke and followed it northwards, eventually reaching the west coast of Africa at Luanda, Angola and the east coast at Quelimane, Mozambique. In 1855 he discovered the great falls of the Zambesi and named them the Victoria Falls. He explored the Zambesi, Shire and Ruyuma rivers and found the salt lake Chilwa and Lake Nyasa. During his travels Livingstone was appalled at what he saw of the terrible effects of the slave trade (mainly carried on by Arabs) on African life. He followed the principles of Wilberforce and became a protagonist in the fight to abolish slavery. The geographical results of his journeys were of supreme importance, and made it possible to fill in great stretches of the maps of Central Africa which hitherto had been blank."

€ 450

8vo, contemporary calf school prize binding with marbled endpapers and edges, gilt spine with red morocco label to spine, gilt motif of Harrow School to upper board. Early copy without publishers list and without the index (Bradlow variant 7). x, 688, (2) pages with folding frontispiece (the Victoria Falls), numerous illustrations and 2 folding maps. Some foxing and rubbing, otherwise a beautiful bound copy.

Livingstone’s famous first South African expedition during which "he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before. He first discovered the Zambesi River at Secheke and followed it northwards, eventually reaching the west coast of Africa at Luanda, Angola, and the east coast at Quelimane, Mozambique. In 1855 he discovered the great falls of the Zambesi and named them the Victoria Falls. He explored the Zambesi, Shire and Ruyuma rivers and found the salt lake Chilwa and Lake Nyasa. During his travels Livingstone was appalled at what he saw of the terrible effects of the slave trade (mainly carried on by Arabs) on African life. He followed the principles of Wilberforce and became a protagonist in the fight to abolish slavery. The geographical results of his journeys were of supreme importance, and made it possible to fill in great stretches of the maps of Central Africa which hitherto had been blank."

€ 650

Small 8vo, contemporary half calf with marbled boards and edges. xciii, 181 pages with a frontispiece portrait and 2 maps, one by Arrowsmith. Covers with shelf wear, contents Fine. Scarce.

After the completion of “Missionary Travels in 1857, Livingstone spent six months speaking all over the British Isles. The publication of these Cambridge Lectures roused almost as much interest as his book, and out of his Cambridge visit came the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa in 1860.

€ 280

“in schetsen uit de bekendste oudere en nieuwere reizen, vooral met betrekking tot de groote ontdekkingen in Zuid-Afrika, gedurende de jaren 1840-1856” translated by H.M.C. van Oosterzee.

8vo, original wrappers. viii, 386 pages with many wood engravings. Title page and back cover damaged in margins by worms(?) without loss of text. Scarce.

Translation of “Livingstone, der missionär” 1859. This first version in Dutch being the only contemporary translation in Dutch of the "Missionary travels" –reprinted by Sythoff in 1863- is “a compilation drawing primarily on Livingstone’s own writings. There is also material on other missionary work in Africa” Casada 156.

€ 350

"from 1865 to his death, continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller".

8vo, original maroon cloth, gilt illustration on the front covers, gilt spine lettering and decorations, brown coated endpapers. Covers rubbed and used, spines damaged with repairs. Volume 1: xvi, 360, 6 pages book adverts, large folding map (repairs) in rear pocket, 7 full-page plates and 18 text illustrations; Volume 2: viii, 346, 20 pages book adverts, folding coloured map, 14 full page plates and 6 text illustrations. Interior generally clean.

Third and last account of Livingstone's explorations in Africa and his search for the source of the Nile River. 'These journals include "a series of travels and scientific geographical records of the most extraordinary character....of seven years' continuous work and new discovery," in the course of which “no break whatever occurs….from the time of Livingstone’s departure from Zanzibar in the beginning of 1866 to the day when his note-book dropped from his hand in the village of Ilala at the end of April 1873.” ….The last explorations were conducted in the vicinity of Lake Bangwelo, where, thoroughly broken down and worn out, the greatest traveller of modern times died on May 1, 1873, at Chitambo. His faithful servants, Susi, Chuma and Jacob Wainwright, preserved his body and papers, and brought them safely back to England, where his remains were interred in Westminster Abbey, on April 18, 1874.’

€ 420

4to, original red decorative cloth gilt, edges gilt. 632 pages with 12 colour lithographs, light sporadic foxing.

Extensive compilation of Livingstone's life and travels, largely based on his own writings. Cassada (Livingstone's bibliographer) No. 660: "the work is lavishly illustrated." Richly decorated binding with a gilded Livingstone that tells a liberated slave about the Bible, the 3 sides of the book block with gilded cuts. This book has been published in various versions - in terms of size, quality illustrations and binding - this is one of the most beautiful.

€ 240

4to, contemporary half calf with grey cloth boards, age wear and small repairs. 973 pages with 85 tinted lithographs and a map, light scattered soiling.

Extensive compilation of Livingstone's life and travels, largely based on his own writings. Cassada (Livingstone's bibliographer) No. 660: "the work is lavishly illustrated." This book has been published in various versions in terms of size, quality illustrations and binding.

€ 240

4to, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, age wear and repaired joints. 973 pages with 85 tinted lithographs and a map, light scattered foxing.

Extensive compilation of Livingstone's life and travels, largely based on his own writings. Cassada (Livingstone's bibliographer) No. 660: "the work is lavishly illustrated." This book has been published in various versions in terms of size, quality illustrations and binding.

€ 240

8vo, publisher's decorated cloth, hinges cracked and spine ends mended. 911 pages, 2 steel plate portraits, tinted lithograph mounted with some damage, 13 full page wood engravings and numerous text illustrations, 24 maps, diagrams and charts including two folding maps, small repairs. Edited by Emma de Long. Good used copy.

The Jeannette sailed from San Francisco July 8, 1879. After clearing the Bering Sea and visiting Cape Serdze Kamen, the Jeannette went adrift in the ice near Herald Island in November of that year. The ship and her crew drifted for nineteen months until the ship was crushed and finally sank on June 12, 1881. Thirty-three men left the ship, twenty-five of whom reached the Lena delta, where Captain de Long and eleven others perished. The text is taken from de Long's personal journals, recollections and notes of his wife as well as public and private testimony from survivors.

€ 390

8vo, half leather with marbled boards and edges. xvi, 198 [2] pages, folding map and 7 plates. A few light traces of dampstaining and foxing.

In 1821-1823 Lyon was captain of the Hecla, the second ship on an expedition from William Edward Parry to northern Canada. The expedition investigated the northern part of the Hudson Bay (the Foxe Basin), and Fury and Hecla Strait was discovered. In 1824 Lyon was again sent to this area, now as leader of an expedition. He had to try to sail westward through Fury and Hecla Strait. He sailed south of Southampton Island, and wanted to reach via Roe's Welcome Sound Repulse Bay. His ship, the Griper, however, was severely damaged in Roe's Welcome Sound by tides and wind, which made him decide to turn around and return to England.

€ 450

"Tradotte di latino in lingua toscana da M. Francesco Serdonati fiorentino. Con una scielta di lettere scritte delle Indie fra le quali ve ne sono molte non piu stampate tradotte dal medesimo. Con due indici copiosissimi".

4to, 18th century vellum. 30 leaves including title and contents, 416 leaves. Woodcut device on title, woodcut initials and headpieces. Title defective at foot with partial loss of imprint, expertly repaired.

“The work contains a full history of India with missionary epistles from Persia, China, India and Japan, and also treats of the West Indies, and gives an account of Columbus’s discovery of the New World, the voyages of Americus Vespuccius, and other expeditions to America”.

€ 1.450

“voerende het Fregatschip, De Johanna, Lambert, en Kristina van Rotterdam. Waar van in de Jaarboeken des voorleden Jaars, in de maand' November, een korte beschryving gegeven is. Alles volgens het Origineel Journaal van den Kapitein, in een Historischen styl beschreven.”

4to, recent marbled paper covers, 33, iii [poem & errata] pages. Authorisation in ink 'Bothall' verso title. Good copy, rare.

Relates the shipwreck on the coast of the island Gose de Kandia (now Crete).

€ 330

“With a chapter containing an account of the mission and captivity of Mr. Rassam and his companions by Lieutenant W. F. Prideaux”

8vo, publisher’s cloth. xii, 484 pages, 52 pages publishers catalogue with 4 folding maps and a plan. Some minor wear, but generally clean. Rather scarce.

The British Expedition to Abyssinia was a rescue mission and punitive expedition carried out in 1868 by the armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Empire. Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia, then often referred to by the anglicized name Theodore, imprisoned several missionaries and two representatives of the British government in an attempt to get the attention of the British government. Markham served as geographer to Sir Robert Napier's Abyssinian expeditionary force, and was present in 1868, at the fall of Magdala.

€ 420

8vo, publisher’s decorated cloth. x, 245 pages with 29 illustrations. Very good, scattered marginal foxing as usual. Scarce.

While studying classics and zoology at the University of Aberdeen, he and Norman Mooney were selected among thousands of Boy Scout volunteers to accompany Sir Ernest Shackleton on the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition in 1921, on board the vessel Quest. The expedition failed to reach its final objective the Weddell Sea due to Shackleton's death on 5 January 1922. In 1929  he took part in the Antarctic Research Expedition with Sir Douglas Mawson. Rosove 213.A1.

€ 270

8vo original printed wrappers, 102 pages with 9 illustrations. In 3 issues bound together of Tijdschrift van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch Aardrijkskundig Genootschap (tweede serie deel II no. 6-7, 8, 9-10). Partly unopened.

Dutch expedition in Surinam.

€ 100

8vo, original blue publisher's cloth with only minimal wear. xxx, 349; xiii, 338 pages with photogravure frontispiece in each, numerous plates (18 coloured, 9 folding panoramas), and 3 folding maps in an end-pocket. Interior very good as well. An attractive set of this scarce title with the signature of A. C. Aitken sept. 20th. 1919.(famous mathematician)

Mawson was a prominent Australian polar explorer whose first visit of the Antarctic was with the crew of Shackleton. A contemporary of Scott, he decided to run his own Antarctic expedition, starting in December 1911. On one occasion, during a trek to base camp, Mawson lost his 2 companions and most of his supplies when, firstly, a sledge fell down a crevasse and later his remaining companion died of poisoning/malnutrition. He miraculously survived by having to sacrifice the remaining dogs as food in order to sustain himself over the final 100 miles.

€ 1.500

8vo, contemporary half calf with marbled boards and page edges, rubbing and wear, marbled endpapers. [xxvii], [i], 403 pages, [1] ads. 4 folding maps (2 on a single folding sheet, 1 large map with closed tears), folding facsimile letter and 14 engraved plates.

After the return of John Rae, McClintock commanded the private expedition sponsored by Lady Franklin in 1857 to search for her husband and his crew, missing since 1845. This account details his thorough search of the area between the Boothia Peninsula and King William Island, and the final discovery of the Franklin relics, including the sole written record of the ill-fated expedition. McClintock returned to England in 1859 with the evidence of Franklin's death and the fate of the ships and their crew - this guaranteed his knighthood in the following year.

€ 550

"and the missing crew of H.M. discovery ships "Erebus" and "Terror" 1852, 1853, 1854. To which is added an account of her being fallen in with by an American Whaler after her abandonment in Barrow Straits, and of her presentation to Queen Victoria by the Government of the United States".

8vo, publisher's cloth, rubbed. xl, [1], 530 pages with a folding map, 8 beautifull tinted lithographed plates. Occasional dampstaining to plate edges and versos, a little worm damage.

The Resolute, commanded by Captain Henry Kellett, formed part of the five-ship search force sent out under the overall command of Rear Admiral Edward Belcher. Due primarily to Belcher, the entire squadron of ships was abandoned in May 1854, while the crews returned south to safety. The Resolute drifted a thousand miles before being recovered and ultimately being presented to Queen Victoria". The well known M'Clintock was captain of one of the ships, M'Clure's expedition party was rescued during their stay.

€ 1.100

8vo, publisher’s cloth with minimal wear. xiii, [3], 497 pages with ads. 4 maps and 16 plates. Contents clean (unread). Very good.

The ship Jeannette was to be used in an Arctic Expedition attempt to establish a "farthest north" with the ultimate goal of reaching the elusive North Pole. Lt. DeLong was to command the expedition and Lt. George W. Melville was to act as his engineer. The Jeannette encountered the ice beyond the Bering Straits and was eventually carried westward across the top of the European Continent until the ship floundered and was deserted by her crew in the area north of the Lena Delta. Most of the crew perished attempting to reach civilization, however a small party of survivors were eventually saved and Melville was one of these. Melville went on in his naval career and was on board the relief ship that recovered the Greely Expedition to Lady Franklin Bay.

€ 160

7 pages of hand writing in French. With title “L’arbre Miani retrouvé dans l’Afrique Centrale par mess. Speke & Grant." Adressed “A mons. Roderick Murchinson, Président de la Société de Geographie de Londres”.

The letter starts with his opinion that he cannot believe the fact that Speke and Grant found the Tamarind tree with his name inscribed. The description of the surroundings differ and also the more northern latitude. He then relates the story of his voyage in detail and concludes that Speke took a different track and did not discover the sources of the true Nile, nor does Lake Niger exist. He states that he is supported by a.o. Petermann and Malte-Brun. The Emperor of Austria is willing to help him organize a new expedition, assisted by Ismael Pasha, to solve “cette grande question” definitely. Giovanni Miani (1810-1872) was an Italian explorer of the Nile. See for comments on this letter Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society 1863 and Petermann’s Mitteilungen 1863.

€ 850

8vo, variant blindstamped cloth cover. xviii, 400 pages with a folding map and numerous illustrations. Very good condition with just a little foxing and a few small private owner's stamps.

Mikkelsen set out on a grueling three year journey to find and retrieve the diary accounts of Mylius Erichsen and Haeg Hagen who perished along with Jorgen Bronlund during their Danish expedition two years earlier (1907). Their expedition successfully mapped the Northeast coast of Greenland, so it became important to the Danish that their bodies, and especially their diary accounts, be located. Mikkelsen set out in the refitted ‘Alabama’ with only a six man crew and a relatively small ship (later to be broken down for wood). Their story of a three year survival that followed became a true testament to human survival instinct, perseverance and intelligence.

€ 330

8vo, later 19th century half calf gilt. Frontispiece portrait, title, dedication, advertisement, directions for placing the plates, 323 pages. Engraved portrait and 5 hand-coloured aquatint plates. Frontispiece and title browned, some light foxing.

Relates the journey of Lord Amhert's embassy to China and the exploration of the Chinese South Sea. They shipwrecked in the Java Sea. This book also tells the story of their horrifying adventures and salvation.

€ 580

8vo, half calf, rubbed, marbled endpapers. xv, 624, [2] pages with a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, engraved title, folding map, 8 plates and illustrations in text. Plate margins and title with some discolourings. Good copy.

He and Mrs. Moffat, who shared his labors and dangers, were pioneers in South African mission work, and stanch friends of the natives, while he proved himself a skilful organizer, teacher, and translator. Father-in-law since 1844 of David Livingstone.

€ 590