21. Elmslie, W.A.

Among The Wild Ngoni – Being Some Chapters in the History of the Livingstonia Mission in British Central Africa.

Edinburgh and London, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1899. 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, 319 pages. 14 illustrations including frontispiece. Folded Map at rear showing ‘Livingstonia Mission.’ Hardcover [publisher’s original tanned cloth] with gilt lettering and pictorial illustration on spine and board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

22. [Fermor, Patrick Leigh] Doughty, Charles M.

Travels in Arabia Deserta. With an Introduction by T. E. Lawrence. [Patrick Leigh Fermor’s personal copy] / [Also including all three Volumes of his autobiographical journey (one of them signed), on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in the years 1933 – 1934].

Second Impression of the ‘New and definitive Edition’. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Jonathan Cape, 1943. 20 cm x 26 cm. Volume I: Frontispice- Portrait of Doughty, 674 pages. Volume II: 696 pages. With both Volumes including each the beautiful large colour-fold-out-map in the rear showing “North Western Arabia and Negd”. Hardcover / Publisher’s original buckram with gilt lettering on spine and original dustjackets in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore- and tail-edges. Coloured top edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dustjackets slightly stained and price-clipped. Interior is bright and clean. Patrick Leigh Fermor’s personal copy with his name in ink on the endpaper of Volume II: “Patrick Leigh Fermor. London, July 1945.”. Leigh Fermor obviously rewarded himself with the purchase of Doughty’s masterpiece directly after World War Two. Stunning item, manifesting Doughty’s heavy influence on Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Travel writing. The set includes also three first editions in original dustjackets, of Patrick Leigh Fermor’s famous Travel writings: A Time of Gifts, Between the Woods and the Water [SIGNED], The Broken Road (with the second book, “Between the Woods and the Water” signed by Patrick Leigh Fermor.

23. Fewkes, Jesse Walter.

Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National park – Cliff Palace.

Washington, Government Printing Office, 1911. 23 1/2 cm. 82 pages with illustrations and plates as well as 1 double-folded plan. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Bookblock slightly detached

24. Foran, W. Robert.

A Cuckoo in Kenya – The Reminiscences of a [Irish] Pioneer Police Officer in British East Africa. Illustrated with Photographs by the Author and Others.

London, Hutchinson & Co, no year (c.1936). 15.5 cm x 23.5 cm. Frontispiece, 360 pages. 119 monochrome photographs on 47 plates, including frontispiece. Maps of Kenya on pastedowns and endpapers. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with some clear signs of external wear. Slightly bumped and rubbed. Very minor staining to front board. Binding still firm and strong. Minor foxing to edges. Interior very bright and clean. Very Rare, rather scarce publication !

25. Geddie, John.

The Lake Regions of Central Africa – A Record of Modern Discovery. With Thirty-Two Illustrations.

London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1883. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 275 pages. 32 wood-engraved illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and lettering and pictorial on front board. Blind stamp on back board. Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Good condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. Corners of boards bumped and rubbed. Binding somewhat cocked but still firm and strong. Occasional spotting. Interior bright and clean. Preowner’s name on endpaper: “William Cox / 91”.

26. Gehrts, M. / [Major Hans Schomburgk].

A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland. The Adventures, Observations and Experiences of a Cinematograph Actress in West African Forests Whilst Collecting Films Depicting Native Life and When Posing as the White Woman in Anglo-African Cinematograph Dramas. With an Introduction by Major H.Schomburgk.

Philadelphia / London, J. B. Lippincott Co / Seeley, Service & Co Ltd, 1915. 15.2 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XX, 315 pages. 41 illustrations including frontis. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt pictorial on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing to edges. One illustration slightly detached only. Interior is bright and clean. Binding is firm and strong. Rare in this very good condition. Tiny bookstamp from Chas.E. Lauriat Co. in Washington Street, Boston.

27. Hardy, Ronald.

The Iron Snake.

London, Collins, 1965. 15 cm x 21.5 cm. 318 pages. 11 illustrations on 8 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original dark green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Mapped endpapers. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. Binding tight and square. Preowner’s name on title-page.

28. Hattersley, C.W.

The Baganda at Home. With One Hundred Pictures of Life and Work in Uganda.

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1908. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, XVI, 227 pages. 80 monochrome illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and designs on spine and front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine faded. Binding firm and strong. Foxing to edges and interior. Interior unmarked.

29. Herbert, Agnes [″The Authoress”].

Two Dianas in Somaliland. A Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert / With Twenty-Five Illustrations Reproduced from Photographs.

Second Edition. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1908. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 306 pages. 22 illustrations. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Excellent version of this rare book in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Occasional spotting but interior otherwise bright and clean. Foxing to edges. Some untrimmed pages throughout.

30. Hobley, C.W.

Bantu Beliefs and Magic. With a Particular Reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba Tribes of Kenya Colony; Together with some Reflections on East Africa After the War.

London, H. F. G. Witherby, 1922. 15.5 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece with guard, 312 pages. 11 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and blind stamp on spine. Blind ruling to front board. Deckled fore and tail-edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean. This being the copy of Charles Marsh Beadnell, with his name on the front endpaper.

31. Holmes, F. Ratcliffe.

Through Wildest Africa – A Story of Travel.

London, Geoffrey Bles, no year (c.1925). 14.5 cm x 22.2 cm. Frontispiece, 318 pages. 20 photographic illustrations on 11 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Map of the Kenya Colony on front pastedown and endpaper. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing to edges. Interior bright and clean and sharped cornered. Preowner’s name on front pastedown.

32. Hotchkiss, Willis.

Then and Now in Kenya Colony. [SIGNED / INSCRIBED by Willis R. Hotchkiss]. Forty Adventurous Years in East Africa.

New York, Fleming H. Revell Company, 1937. 13 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, 160 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with lettering on spine. Edge stained but otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Sharp cornered interior bright and clean. Signed / Inscribed by the author on titlepage: “Yours in this great game – Willis R. Hotchkiss”.

33. Johnson, Osa.

Four Years in Paradise.

New York, Garden City Publishing Co. Inc., 1941. 15 cm x 23.5 cm. 345 pages. 54 illustrations on 34 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original faded- green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good- condition with clear signs of external wear. Tail of spine lightly frayed / Cover slightly stained. Small abrasions to lower corners of boards. Light damp stains on front and rear boards. Signed and inscribed by the author, Osa Johnson, on half-title: “Best African Wishes – Osa Johnson”.

34. Kollmann, Paul [trans. Nesbitt, H.A. / Hole, Hugh Marshall ].

The Victoria Nyanza – The Land, the Races and their Customs, with Specimens of some of the Dialects. With a Map and 372 Illustrations from Native Objects in the Author’s Own Collections.

London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1899. 17 cm x 24 cm. IX, 254 pages. Large fold-out map of region near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt design and blind tooling to front board. Deckled edges. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some signs of foxing to edges and throughout. Binding strong and firm. Interior unmarked. From the library of Hugh Marshall Hole, with his bookplate to front pastedown. Hole’s name also in form of a name-stamp on front endpaper and titlepage. Rare ! But rather scarce in this excellent condition !

35. Krige, Eileen Jensen.

The Social System of the Zulus. With Illustrations and Maps.

Pietermaritzburg, Shuter & Shooter, no year (c.1950). 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XIX, 420 pages. 12 illustrations. 2 maps near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original grey cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

36. Krist, Gustav.

Alone Through the Forbidden Land – Journeys in Disguise through Soviet Central Asia. translated by E.O. Lorimer.

No place (London), Readers’ Union (by arrangement with Faber & Faber Limted), no year (c.1939). 13.5 cm x 22 cm. 271 pages. 46 illustrations on 32 plates. Hardcover [publisher’s original light-brown cloth] with printed lettering on spine. Printed lettering and vignette on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing along spine. Interior very bright and clean.

37. Lloyd, A.B.

In Dwarf Land and Cannibal Country a Record of Travel and Discovery in Central Africa. 146 Illustrations and Maps.

Second Popular Impression (Limited to 1500 copies). London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1900. 15 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, XXIV, 385 pages. One fold-out map of Toro and Aruwimi districts within interior. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Pictoral and lettering on front board. Good+ condition. Signs of external wear. Bumps to corners. Some staining to front board with small cloth tear evident also. Spine ends rubbed. Valley between front pastedown and endpaper slightly cracked. Binding overall a little shaky but still firm and strong. Roughness to cut edges. Slight tears at edge of fold-out map. Some untrimmed pages. Interior mostly bright and clean.

38. Mair, L.P. / [Lucy Philip Mair].

An African People in the Twentieth Century.

Frontispiece, XV, 300 pages. 8 illustrations. Map near front. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1934. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 300 pages with Index. Eight monochrome plates including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front pastedown carries bookplate / Exlibris of Charles P Groves.

39. [Marriott Mena House Hotel] Bentley, Arthur, J.M. / Griffinhoofe, C.G.

Wintering in Egypt. Part I.: Under the Shadow of the Pyramids. Part II.: Hints to Invalids.

London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., 1894. 26.5 cm x 18.5 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 188 pages.18 illustrations including a map of the region around the Pyramids of Gizeh Mena Hotel, Bulak. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and gilt embossed pictoral on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Lower corner boards slightly bumped. Marking on front paste-down. Valleys between pastedowns and endpapers show tears. Binding a little shaky but overall still firm and strong. Interior is clean and bright. Extremely scarce publication !

40. Morden, William and Irene.

Our African Adventure.

London, Seeley Service & Co., no year (c.1954). 16 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, 255 pages. 40 photographic illustrations including frontispiece. Fold-out map of Kenya and Uganda within book’s interior. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. With the beautifully illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. Excellent / Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.