31. 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.

32. Knight, E.F.

Letters from the Sudan. By the special correspondent of “The Times”. With Illustrations and Plans. Reprinted from “The Times” of April to October, 1896.

London, Macmillan and Co., 1897. 14.5 cm x 23 cm. Frontispiece, 325 pages. Twelve illustrations. Three fold-out maps. Hardcover [publisher’s original maroon cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Good condition with signs of external wear. Corners of board bumped and rubbed. Spine carries library marking. Foxing to deckled edges. Front pastedown carries ex-libris ‘Schola Grammatica Sydneiensis’ of Sydney Grammar School (″Discarded”). Book stamp on half-title page. Ex-libris stamp on title page. Beautiful, tiny little bookshop-sign to endpapper: “Tyrrell’s Bookshop – 328 Pacific Highway, Crows Nest, Australia”.

33. Wright, Noel.

Glimpses of South Africa. Containing Sixteen Pages of Illustrations From Photographs by the Authors.

London, A. & C. Black Ltd., 1929. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 246 pages. 31 monochrome photographs. One fold-out map of Cape of Good Hope Peninsula at front. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with lettering and design on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Foxing to edges. Occasional spotting to some pages. Interior bright and clean otherwise.

34. Scobie, Alastair.

Adventurer’s Paradise.

London, The Travel Book Club, 1955. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 249 pages. 12 illustrations. One map near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inked mark and smudges on spine. Interior bright and clean with very minor spotting. Front pastedown carries preowner’s name and reference (empty) card holder.

35. White, Stewart Edward.

The Rediscovered Country. Illustrated from Photographs.

London, New York, Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, no year. 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, VIII, 358 pages. 100 illustrations. Fold-out map of region at rear. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. The fold-out-map with tear. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean and sharp-cornered.

36. 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.

37. Stephens, J.L. / Park, Mungo.

Sammelband with three publications on Travels in Africa: Volume I: J.L. Stephens – Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and The Holy Land / Volume II: Incidents of Travel in Greece Turkey Russia and Poland / Volume III: The Life and Travels of Mungo Park – Comprising An Original Memoir of His Early Life, A Reprint of the ’″Travels in the Interior of Africa,” Written by Himself, And Published in Quarto in 1798, And An Original Narrative of His Second Journey. Also, An Original Account of the Progress of African Discovery from the Death of Park Till the Year 1838. Illustrated by a Map.

Edinburgh, William and Robert Chambers, 1838-1839. 15.5 cm x 25 cm. Volume I: 120 pages / Volume II: 114 pages / Volume III: 88 pages with a full-page-map of Park’s Travels. Hardcover / publisher’s original half-leather with marbled boards. Gilt lettering and ornament on spine. Good+ condition with signs of external wear, sometimes significant. Edges and corners of boards are bumped and rubbed. Crack to gutter between front pastedown and endpaper. Binding still strong and firm. Occasional foxing throughout only.

38. Wilkinson, Mrs (Annie Margaret).

A Lady’s Life and Travels in Zululand and the Transvaal During Cetewayo’s Reign – Being The African Letters and Journals of the Late Mrs Wilkinson.

London, J.T Hayes, 1882. 13 cm x 19 cm. VIII, 264 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Name of preowner on endpaper in ink: “J. Babington Jones – June 1894” [possibly Julian Babington Jones]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean.

39. 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].

40. 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.