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BARROS, Joan de. Ongemeene scheeps-togten en manhafte krygs-bedryven te water en land, door Diego Lopez de Sequeira, als kapitein generaal en gouverneur ter voortzetting van der Portugyzen gebied en vryen koophandel in de Oost-Indien, met IX schepen derwaarts gedaan in't jaar 1518. Vervattende (behalven desselfs verscheide afvaardigingen van schepen na de Maldives, Moluccos, Banda, Ternate, Sumatra, Ceylon en andere specery-eilanden, als ook na China) een nauwkeurige beschryving der Maldives .. als mede een nasporing van Abyssinen of't land van Preste Jan. .. in't Portugys beschreven .. nu eerst uit d'oorspronklyke taal in't Nederduyts vertaald. Leyden, Pieter van der Aa, 1707.Sm.8vo. Modern cloth. With engraved title-vignette and 6 engraved folding plates (maps missing). 384,(24) pp. Issued in Pieter van der Aa's collection of voyages. - Sequira commanded the first Portuguese expedition to Malacca (1508-1509), on his return voyage to India he made the first European circumnavigation of Sumatra. Contains i.a. descriptions of the Moluccas, Sumatra and Ethiopia.Tiele 5; Cat. NHSM I, p.107. [Boeknr.: 31544 ]

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BRUCE, James. Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. Edinburgh, printed by J. Ruthven for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1790.5 volumes. 4to. Contemporary marbled calf with gilt fillets round sides, spines gilt with red morocco labels (1 label missing; rebacked with the original spines laid down, some wear to spines and extremities), inner dentelles. With engraved title-vignettes, 3 battle plans, 3 folding maps, 4 leaves of Ethiopian dialects and 55 engraved plates. First edition. - James Bruce, Laird of Kinnaird (1730-1794), the first European to undertake an expedition aimed specifically at finding the Nile's source, failed in his attempt, but his exploration paved the way for many more travelers who came after him. In mid-1768 Bruce ascended the Nile from Alexandria and journeyed into the Ethiopian interior. In 1770 he believed to have found the source of the Nile near Gondar, the ancient capital of Abyssinia. Still he was mistaken, as he had not reached the source of the Nile, but only that of its considerable tributary. He descended the Blue Nile to its confluence with the White Nile at the site of present-day Khartoum. He was one of the earliest explorers to report this connection between the White and Blue Nile. The results of Bruce's travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography especially of Ethiopia. His very readable account is still fascinating today. The plates based on Bruce's own and Balugani's drawings include botanical and zoological specimens, antiquities and artefacts. - 'One of the most splendid narratives in the litterature of African exploration' (Hallet, Africa to 1875, p.110). - Some foxing and offsetting from plates, otherwise a fine copy of a milestone in the history of travel literatur. Nissen ZBI, 617; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.91; Gay 44; Blackmer Collection 221. [Boeknr.: 21597 ]

€ 4250,00

COUNTRIES IN THE NORTHERN TROPICAL REGIONS OF AFRICA. (London, A. Fullarton, ca. 1850).Two maps on one sheet, with scenes along the borders, coloured by hand and finished with gum arabic. Ca. 47 x 32 cm. Depicting two maps: Abessinia and the adjacent countries and map of part of Central Africa, surrounded by illustrations of local people and animals. - A decorative map. [Boeknr.: 27506 ]

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GRIAULE, M. Abyssinian journey. Preface by S. Charlety. (New edition). London, John Miles, (1935). Cloth. With plates. 247 pp. [Boeknr.: 27021 ]

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LUDOLPH, Job. Nieuwe doch aanmerkens-waardige historie van Abissinien, andersints Ethiopien, getrokken uit de Latijnsche historie .. en nu in't Nederduitsch gebracht door Willem Calebius. Utrecht, Johannes Ribbius, 1687.4to. Later half vellum, with old brocade-paper to boards. With folding map and 8 engraved plates (3 folding). 222,(10) pp. First Dutch edition. - The treatise by the scholar, Job (Hiob) Ludolf (1624-1704), was first published in Latin (Historia Aethiopica) in 1681, and is regarded as the first authoritative account of Abyssinia. He has been called the 'founder of Ethiopian studies in Europe'. Although he never visited the country, Ludolf formed a close working relationship with an Ethiopian monk resident in Rome, himself clearly a highly intelligent man. From this fruitful partnership emerged grammars and dictionaries of the classical Ethiopian language as well as a lengthy history of the country. The large folding map by Tellez, is a landmark of cartography, as it is the first to show the source of the Blue Nile at Lake Tana. The fine plates depict illustrations of Ethiopean fauna, a banana plant, decapitation of missionnaries, etc.- (Owner's name on title-page; partly dampstaining, slight browning, stronger to one quire). - Rare Dutch edition.Tiele 702; Cat. NHSM I, p.203; Cox I, p.365: Still a valuable work; Gay 2658; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p.395. [Boeknr.: 28870 ]

€ 1550,00

SCHUVER, Juan Maria. Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883. Edited by W. James, G. Baumann and D. Johnson. London, 1996. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With maps and illustrations. CVII,392 pp. Hakluyt Society 184. - Juan Maria Schuver, son of a wealthy Amsterdam businessmann, remained for two years in the hills of the upper Blue Nile and the eastern watershed of the White Nile basin. His lively account of the region and his encounters with local people is presented from the rediscovered original manuscripts. [Boeknr.: 16613 ]

€ 45,00

STRAUBE, Helmut. Westkuschitische Völker Süd-Äthiopiens. Mit einem Beitrag von W. Schulz-Weidner. With an 'English Summary'. Stuttgart, W. Kohlhammer, 1963.Large 8vo. Cloth, with dustwrapper. With 8 maps, 30 plates with drawings and 44 plates with photographic illustrations by Ute Silz-Riebandt. XIII,(1),411 pp. Völker Süd-Äthiopiens. Ergebnisse der Frobenius-Expeditionen 1950-52 und 1954-56. Band III. - Very important ethnological research in Southern Ethiopia, with ample descriptions of the Tschako, Amarro, Dorse, Sala, Djandjero, Otschollo, Dita and Borodda peoples belonging to the Western Kushitic language group. [Boeknr.: 11246 ]

€ 170,00

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