21. Wilson-Haffenden, J.R.

The Red Men of Nigeria – An Account of a Lengthy Residence Among The Fulani, Or ‘Red Men’ & Other Pagan Tribes Of Central Nigeria, With A Description Of their Headhunting, Pastoral & Other Customs, Habits & Religion. With Illustrations & Map.

London, Seelet, Service & Co. Limited, 1930. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 318 pages. 22 illustrations, including frontispiece. Map for “The Red Men of Nigeria” at rear. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Blind tooling to front board edges. Maroon text-block trim. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

22. Cagnolo, Fr. C.

The Akikuyu – Their Customs, Traditions and Folklore. English Translation, With Illustrations and a Map.

Nyeri, Kenya, Mission Printing School, no year (c.1933). 17 cm x 24.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 324 pages. 3 colour illustrations, 164 monochrome photographs and 18 text drawings. Fold-out map at rear showing Kenyan region. Hardcover [publisher’s original navy cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Magenta text block trim. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine slightly faded. Binding is firm and strong and the book block is square with sharp corners.

23. 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.

24. 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”.

25. 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.

26. [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.

27. 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.

28. Regnier, J.

What Is Sin ? Translated from the French by Una Morrissy.

Cork, The Mercier Press, 1961. 11 cm x 18 cm. 125 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good- condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor discolouration to pages.

29. Tucci, Giuseppe / [Edwards, Lovett trans.].

Nepal – The Discovery of the Malla. Translated from the Italian by Lovett Edwards.

London, George Allen & Unwin, 1962. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 96 pages. 60 illustrations. Map near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with lettering on spine. Vignette on front board. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

30. Urteaga, J.

Man the Saint.

Chicago / Dublin / London, Scepter, 1964. 10.5 cm x 18 cm. XXI, 218 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine sunned. Pages clean and bright.