[Barter, Charlotte/Catherine] A Plain Woman.

Alone Among the Zulus – By a Plain Woman, The Narrative of a Journey Through the Zulu Country, South Africa.

First Edition. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no year [1866]. 10.5 cm x 16.5 cm. Frontispiece, 182 pages. With four illustrations (including Frontispiece) plus one example of a melody transcribed in musical notes. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and front board. Embossed back board. Gilt edges. Stunning binding in excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Unfortunately the binding is cleanly detached (folds open with the spine connected). Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered.

73. [Barter, Charlotte/Catherine] A Plain Woman.

Alone Among the Zulus – By a Plain Woman, The Narrative of a Journey Through the Zulu Country, South Africa.

First Edition. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, no year [1866]. 10.5 cm x 17 cm. Frontispiece, 184 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering and ornate tooling on spine and front board. Gilt edging. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Binding slightly rubbed. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Front endpaper inscribed in 1876″To Robert J.Henderson from Lord & Lady O’Neill [Chichester] as a reward for regular attending of Shane’s Castle Day School – 1876”.

100. Barth, Henry.

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa – Including Accounts of Timbúktu, Sókoto, and The Basins of The Niger and Bénuwé.

London, New York, and Melbourne, Ward, Lock and Co, 1890. 13.5 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, XVIII, 548 pages. With 8 full-page illustrations, including frontispiece and a further 44 woodcut engravings throughout the text. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor crack to valley between frontispiece and titlepage. Binding still firm and strong. Interior clean and bright. [The Minerva Library of Famous Books – Edited by G.T.Bettany].

Brockbank, Oliver.

Diary of a Journey through the Sinai Peninsula and Arabia in 1914. [Probably the author’s own copy with underlining, replacement-suggestions of paragraphs and annotations with penciled manuscript-corrections throughout the book and additions in red ink / Also two additional photographs of the journey mounted onto the front and rear pastedown].

London, Private, 1916, 14 cm x 21 cm. 78 pages. 16 sepia plates and external fold-out map. Original Hardcover. Cloth bound with gilt debossed lettering to cover. Deckled egdes. Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only slightly foxed. Map detached from binding.

165. Burton, Richard F / [edited by Burton, Isabel].

First Footsteps in East Africa, or An Exploration of Harar. Two Volumes Bound as One.

New York, Dover Publications Inc., no year (c.1987). 13.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XXXIV, 485 pages (vol.1, 209 pages / Vol.2, 276 pages). 11 illustrations and 2 maps. Softcover [publisher’s original] with illustrated boards. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor foxing to top edges. Interior bright and clean

89. Carnochan, F.G.[Frederic Grosvenor] / Adamson, Hans Christian.

The Empire of Snakes.

London, Hutchinson & Co, no year (c.1935). 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 256 pages. 26 illustrations. Discreet colour map attached near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original purple cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good- condition with some stronger signs of external wear. Spine and boards faded. Interior bright and clean with occasional spotting. Annotations on pastedowns and throughout the book. Preowner’s name on front endpaper.

14. Catlow, Agnes and Maria E.

Sketching Rambles or Nature in the Alps and Apennines. Illustrated by Twenty Views, from Sketches by the Authors.

Volume One (of two volumes). London, James Hogg and Sons, no year (c.1861). 14.5 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 374 pages. 10 illustrations, including colour frontispiece and 9 tinted lithographs. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and front board. Deckled edges. Good- condition with significant signs of external wear. Corners of boards rubbed and bumped. Soiling to front boards. Tears to valley between pastedowns and endpapers with cloth exposed. Binding still firm and strong. Dust-darkened edges. Very occasional signs of foxing only to an otherwise clean interior. Tissue guards with plates.

Gray, Andrew.

A Pilgrimage to Bible Lands. Historical Notes and Reflections on Scenes and Places Visited.

London / New York, Skeffington & Son / Edwin S. Gorham, 1903. 13 cm x 19 cm. VIII, 178 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and on front board. Blind stamp to front board. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of O.N.Ogilvie.

83. 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.

Hogan, Desmond.

The Edge of the City – A Scrapbook 1976-91.

London / Boston, Faber and Faber, 1993. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. X, 193 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some dicoloration to endpapers and margins of pages. Ephemera as newspaper review of book loosely inserted. Signed and inscribed by author to.