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EGYPT. Vue du Grand Caire (Égypte). Paris, (Paul-André) Basset, (ca. 1830).Contemporary handcoloured perspective view (vue d'optique or Guckkastenbild). Ca. 25 x 39,5 cm. Fine optical print depicting a bird's eye view of a square in Cairo with camels and people in the foreground. [Boeknr.: 35859 ]

€ 125,00

ELET, Jacobus. Naar de koning van Dahomey. Het journaal van de gezantschapsreis van Jacobus Elet naar het West-Afrikaanse koningrijk Dahomey in 1733. Ingeleid door Henk den Heijer. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2000. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 17 illustrations. 208 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging XCIX. - In 1732, Agaja, king of Dahomey, captured the Dutch Company factory Jaquin after a conflict with the merchant Hendrik Hertogh. After one year the oppercommies Jacobus Elet was sent to re-establish the contacts, but he was not succesfull. [Boeknr.: 22486 ]

€ 30,00

ELIËNS, Titus M. (Red.). Wonen op de Kaap en in Batavia 1602-1795. (Met bijdragen van) Monique van de Geijn-Verhoeven, Antonia Malan, Karel Schoeman, Jan Veenendaal, Deon Viljoen, Nigel Worden. Zwolle, Waanders, (2002). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 130 illustrations (80 in colours). 240 pp. The fascinating interiors of homes in Cape Town and Batavia, the most important Dutch trading posts in South Africa and the Far East. [Boeknr.: 25772 ]

€ 35,00

ELLIS, William. Madagascar revisited. Describing the events of a new reign and the revolution which followed; setting forth also the persecutions endured by the Christians, and their heroic sufferings, with notices of the present state and prospects of the people. London, John Murray, 1867.Original embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 13 woodengraved plates (plan of Antananarivo missing). XVIII,502 pp. First edition. - Arriving in May 1862, William Ellis became embroiled in court intrigues in the attemp to convert Radama to Christianity but his attemps were cut short when Radama was killed by his own troops (French missionaries reporting back to Europe that Ellis had been involved in the coup) (The Paolo Bianchi collection, 130).Grandidier 1635. [Boeknr.: 36652 ]

€ 175,00

ELLIS, William. Three visits to Madagascar during the years 1853 - 1854 - 1856. Including a journey to the capital; with notices of the natural history of the country and of the present civilization of the people. London, John Murray, 1858.Modern half morocco, spine gilt. With double-page frontispiece view of Antananarivo, map and 24 wood-engravings. XVII,470 pp. First edition. - Rev. William Ellis (1794-1872) was sent to Madagascar in 1853 commissioned by the London Missionary Society to ameliorate the suffering of their converts under queen Ranavalona's rule. While in Madagascar, he gathered a wealth of information on the island and its inhabitants and collected botanical samples for the Royal Gardens at Kew. He visited the Cape in 1854 on which he gives an interesting account of many places together with botanical notes and information respecting the natives. - (Some waterstaining).Grandidier 1633; Mendelssohn I, p.518; SAB II, p.185; The Paolo Bianchi collection, 129.. [Boeknr.: 36722 ]

€ 350,00

EMMER, P.C. Engeland, Nederland, Afrika en de slavenhandel in de 19de eeuw. Dl.II: De afschaffing van de slavenhandel; de reactie op de Goudkust en de werkzaamheid van de Engels-Nederlandse gerechtshoven ter wering van de slavenhandel. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. Cloth. (100) pp. - (In: Economisch- en Sociaal-Historisch Jaarboek). [Boeknr.: 29060 ]

€ 30,00

EMONTS, Johannes. Ins Steppen- und Bergland Innerkameruns. Aus dem Leben und Wirken deutscher Afrikamissionare. Aachen, Xaverius, 1922.Original half cloth. With 200 photographic illustrations. VIII,332 pp. First edition. - Bücher der Weltmission. - Account of Father Emonts' first missionary journey in Cameroon, a West African colony of Germany from 1884 till 1916. Kainbacher p.104. [Boeknr.: 24859 ]

€ 65,00

ENGELBRECHT, S.P. Historiese-album van die Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerk van Afrika. Pretoria, J.H. de Bussy, 1948. 4to. Cloth. With many illustrations. 72 pp. The Dutch Reformed Church was introduced to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company's settlement at Cape Town in 1652. The first formal congregation was established in 1665 under the jurisdiction of the classis of Amsterdam. [Boeknr.: 2645 ]

€ 45,00

ENTE, W.K. Natal en Nieuw-Gelderland en de vooruitzigten der kolonisatie aldaar. Arnhem, H.A. Tjeenk Willink, 1861.Original printed wrappers. (8),40 pp. Original edition. - Nieuw-Gelderland was the area between the Umvoti and Nonoti Rivers belonging to the 'Nederlandsche Emigratie-Maatschappij' in South Africa. Ente indicates possibilities to establish oneself as a farmer in this district, and gives some examples of the costs and gains to be expected.Tiele 350; Cat. NHSM I, p.212; Mendelssohn I, p.522; SAB II, p.197. [Boeknr.: 6064 ]

€ 90,00

EYBERS, G.W. Bepalingen en instructiën voor het bestuur van de buitendistricten van de Kaap de Goede Hoop (1805). Met eene inleiding door S.J. Fockema Andreas, S. van Brakel en den uitgever. Amsterdam, Johannes Müller, 1922. Wrappers. 178 pp. - (Werken Historisch Genootschap). [Boeknr.: 6466 ]

€ 30,00

EYO, Ekpo & Frank WILLETT. Kunstschätze aus Alt-Nigeria. Mit Beiträgen von H. Amborn, E. Eggebrecht, W.K. Konrad und U. Luig. Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern, (1983). 4to. Boards. With 167 illustrations (59 in colours). 203 pp. [Boeknr.: 26928 ]

€ 30,00

FABER, Paul. Africa at the Tropenmuseum. (With contributions by) Sonja Wijs & Daan van Dartel. Amsterdam, KIT, 2011. Boards. With numerous coloured illustrations. 168 pp. - The origins, increase and composition of the collection at the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam are described. [Boeknr.: 33241 ]

€ 35,00

FAGAN, Gawie & Gwen. Kerkstraat in't Land van Waveren. (Kaap, 1974). Oblong 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With many photographic illustrations of the old houses. 185 pp. Tulbagh, named after Dutch Cape Colony Governor Ryk Tulbagh, is a town located in the 'Land van Waveren' in the winelands of the Western Cape, South Africa. [Boeknr.: 30657 ]

€ 95,00

FALKENHORST, C. Aan den Kongo. Ethnographisch verhaal uit Afrika voor jongelieden. Naar het Duitsch (vertaald) door L. van Hamburg. Met een aanbevelend woord door P. Louwerse. Gouda, G.B. van Goor Zonen, (1891).Original pictorial cloth. With 5 (of 6) plates by F. Bergen. VIII,228 pp. Kruis en halve maan, deel III. [Boeknr.: 37334 ]

€ 30,00

FEHR, William. Treasures at the castle of Good Hope. Skatte in die kasteel de Goede Hoop. 4th edition. Cape town, 1966. Folio. Pictorial boards. With 225 illustrations (several in colours). 140 pp. From 1674 to the time of the first British occupation of the Cape in 1795 it was the seat of the government of the Dutch East India Company. Nowadays it is a museum with a fine collection of art: pictures, furniture, china, glass, silver, etc. [Boeknr.: 6468 ]

€ 35,00

FERRAND, Gabriel. Essai de grammaire Malgache. Paris, Ernest Leroux, 1903. Original printed wrappers, uncut (spine sl. damaged). XLIV,263 pp. Malagasy grammar. - Grandidier, Bibliographie de Madagascar, 1741. [Boeknr.: 30514 ]

€ 45,00

FITZPATRICK, James Percy. The Transvaal from within. A private record of public affairs. 7th impression. London, William Heinemann, 1899. Original cloth. XIV,452 pp. First edition published in the same year. - Sir Fitzpatrick (1862-1931) was a well-known man in Johannesburg, and had been deeply implicated in the Reform Movement, and was subsequently sentenced to imprisonment. A history of the Boers from the time of the great Trek.Mendelssohn I, p.549/50; SAB II, p.251. [Boeknr.: 9676 ]

€ 35,00

FRANK, Katherine. A voyager out. The life of Mary Kingsley. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1986. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. XVII,333 pp. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862 - 1900]) was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer and is the best known of Victorian women travellers in Africa. [Boeknr.: 36153 ]

€ 45,00

FRANKEN, L. Indrukken van een reis per stoomschip naar Zuid-Afrika. 3e vermeerderde druk. Den Helder, Egner, 1930. Original printed wrappers. 68 pp. First published in Apeldoorn in 1926. - Impressions of a trip by steamship to South-Africa. [Boeknr.: 24591 ]

€ 25,00

FRASER, Donald. Winning a primitive people. Sixteen years'work among the warlike tribe of the Ngoni and the Senga and Tumbuka peoples of Central Africa. With an introduction by J.R. Mott. London, Seeley, Service & Co., 1914.Original blue cloth, with gilt vignette to upper cover, spine lettered in gilt (sl. soiled). With 2 maps and 27 photographic illustrations. 315 pp. First edition. - The author belonged to the Livingstonia Mission in Nyasaland, British Central Africa, which was founded in 1875, in memory of the great African traveller. [Boeknr.: 24822 ]

€ 45,00

FRASER, Maryna. (Ed.). Johannesburg pioneer journals 1888-1909. Cape Town, 1985. Cloth. With plates. XVI,267 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 16. - Produced to commemorate Johannesburg's centenary, this volume explores the social history of the mining town in its pioneer days. [Boeknr.: 34535 ]

€ 25,00

FULLER, Thomas E. The right honourable Cecil John Rhodes. A monograph and a reminiscence. London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1910. Cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 13 photographic plates. XII,276 pp. With armorial bookplate of Leman Saunders Sloman. [Boeknr.: 35143 ]

€ 35,00

GARRETT, Edmund. The Garrett papers edited with an introduction by Gerald Shaw. Cape Town, 1984. Cloth. With plates. (12),152 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 15. - In 1895 Edmund Garrett (1865-1907) was appointed editor of the Cape Times and remained there during the crucial period of the Jameson Raid, the lead-up to the South African War. A staunch imperialist, he formed close relationships with Sir Alfred Milner, Governor of the Cape, and with Dr Jane Waterston. His letters to his cousins give an intimate and lively account of life in Cape Town until 1899. [Boeknr.: 34536 ]

€ 25,00

GEYER, A.L. Das wirtschaftliche System der Niederländischen Ostindischen Kompanie am Kap der Guten Hoffnung 1785-1795. München, Berlin, R. Oldenbourg, 1923. Wrappers. X,113 pp. - (Historische Bibliothek). [Boeknr.: 6470 ]

€ 30,00

GLAS, George. The history of the discovery and conquest of the Canary Islands: translated from a Spanish manuscript, lately found in the Island of Palma. With an enquiry into the origin of the ancient inhabitants. To which is added, a description of the Canary Islands, including the modern history of the inhabitants, and an account of their manners, customs, trade, &c. London, R. and J. Dobsley & T. Durham, 1764.4to. Contemporary half calf (rebacked with the original spine laid down), spine gilt. With 3 engraved maps (1 folding). (8),VIII,368 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate of Thomas Hubert Barclay. - 'The manuscript translated by Glas was written by Juan de Abreu de Galindo. Glas was educated for a physician but he followed the sea as a profession instead. He was an intelligent observer, with some literary and scientific attainments. His translation of the Spanish account is considered fairly good, and his own description of the Canary Islands have considerable merit. He attempted to make a settlement on the coast of Africa between Cape Verde and Senegal. Later he was imprisoned by the Spaniards at Teneriffe for contraband trading, and to cap the series of misfortunes he was killed in a mutiny on board ship while returning home' (Cox I, p.384). - A few pages browned otherwise a fine copy. - Rare.Sabin 79; Gay 2946. [Boeknr.: 33564 ]

€ 1500,00

GODEE MOLSBERGEN, E.C.& Joh. VISSCHER. South-African history told in pictures. Pictorial atlas. Zuid-Afrika's geschiedenis in beeld. Platen-atlas. Amsterdam, S.L. van Looy, 1913. Folio. Cloth (soiled). With many illustrations. (8),140 pp. [Boeknr.: 6476 ]

€ 30,00

GODEE MOLSBERGEN, E.C. Jan van Riebeeck en zijn tijd. Een stuk zeventiende-eeuws Oost-Indië. 2e druk. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zooon, 1943. Half cloth. With many plates. 173 pp. Patria. - Jan van Riebeeck (1619-1677), servant of the VOC, was active in Aceh, Tonkin, Cape of Good Hope, Malacca and Batavia. [Boeknr.: 4288 ]

€ 15,00

GOLDSMITH, Oliver. An history of the earth and animated nature. 2nd edition. London, J. Nourse, 1779.8 volumes. Contemporary calf, spines gilt (some extremities of spines damaged; some hinges broken but holding). With 105 engraved plates by Elias Martin and Isaac Taylor. First published in 1774 - Oliver Goldsmith (1728 - 1774) was a well-known Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright, dramatist and poet, who is noted for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766). This work sought to draw together virtually all that was known about the planet earth, its plants and animals, and even its human inhabitants described from a biological perspective. A fine set with nice engravings of various animals and birds, including the dodo, fishes and insects from all parts of the world. - A handsome set.Nissen, ZBI, p.170 [Boeknr.: 22771 ]

€ 575,00

GRAHAM BOTHA, C. 300 years - jaar - ans- jaren. Van Riebeeck festival. (No pl.), Cilliers de Wet, 1952. 4to. Wrappers (spine rep.). With many illustrations (several in colours) and advertisements. LXXX,60 pp. [Boeknr.: 16335 ]

€ 30,00

GRAM, Johan. Door Afrika's wildernissen. Dr. Carl Peters' tocht bewerkt door Johan Gram. Leiden, A.W. Sijthoff, (1891).3 volumes in 1. Original pictorial cloth. With numerous plates and illustrations. (6),191; (6),188; (6),199 pp. Carl Peters (1856-1918) has played a major role in the founding of German East Africa. In 1884 he founded the Deutsch-Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft (DOAG), which set itself the goal of colonizing Tanganyika, Rwanda and Burundi. In the end he managed to win over Bismarck to his plans. In 1891 Peters was appointed Reichskommissar for the Kilimanjaro district of the newly-created protectorate of German East Africa, now Tanzania. He held this position for several years but as early as June 1892 rumours had reached Germany of Peters's cruel and savage treatment of the Africans in his domain. He was dismissed from his position and recalled to Germany. There he was dishonorably discharged from government service in 1897. After that he set up an independent company, the Dr. Carl Peters Exploration Company, which funded exploration in German East Africa and the country around lower Zambezi. - A fine copy.Howgego P27. [Boeknr.: 3347 ]

€ 175,00

GRAMBERG, J(an) S(imon) G(erardus). Schetsen van Afrika's Westkust. Amsterdam, Weijtingh & Brave, 1861.Original gilt- and blindstamped green cloth. With lithographed title-page with coloured vignette depicting Ennimir Koning van Oost-Wassa, and 8 folding coloured lithographed views and costume plates by C.C.A. Last after J.S.G. Gramberg (including frontispiece). 380 pp. First edition. - Gramberg (1823-1888) was the first European settler in Guinea who owned a plantation. He temporarily worked as a health officer in Africa and in the Far East. His work is splitup in 3 parts. The first part contains a concise description of West Africa: its history (with remarks on the Spanish and Portuguese properties) climate, geology, religion, education, flora, fauna etc, The second part contains his own travelogue, in which he gives descriptions of Elmina, Cape Coast, Accra, Ouidah and other places and Gramberg's own cotton plantation on the Pra River, on the road to British Komenda. The third part is dealing with the Dutch properties in West Africa. The fine folding plates depict i.a. Kleederdracht der Fantijnen; Kasteel St. George en Fort Coenraadsburg te Elmina; Fort William, vuurtoren te Cape Coast; Eene factorij aan de slavenkust (Golf van Benin); Plantage 'Gramberg' aan de Bossum-Prah rivier; Fort Batenstein te Boutrij. This is one of the most interesting of the Dutch 19th century books on West Africa. - A fine copy with beautiful coloured plates.Tiele 409; Cat. NHSM I, p. 206; Landwehr, Coloured plates., 287; Cardinall 537. [Boeknr.: 11444 ]

€ 1850,00

GREGORY, Theodore. Ernest Oppenheimer and the economic development of Southern Africa. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1962. Cloth. With plates. XX,637 pp. [Boeknr.: 35141 ]

€ 35,00

GROMIER, E. La vie des animaux sauvages de l'Afrique. Paris, Payot, 1948. Wrappers. With 111 illustrations. 343 pp. [Boeknr.: 24710 ]

€ 25,00

HALL, Henry. Aardrijkskundig handboek van Zuid-Afrika. Uit het Engelsch. Rotterdam, P.M. Bazendijk, 1866.Original decorated gilt cloth, with fine lithographed wrappers with plan of Cape Town included. With large folding coloured map. (8),II,164,III pp. First published in English in Cape Town in 1859 Manual of South African Geography; presentation copy with autograph dedication by F.W.A. Beelaerts van Blokland to his brother, both born in South Africa. - 'This work was undertaken by the author at the request of R.W. Rawson, the then Colonial Secretary, there being great need for such a publication at this period. The statistical and general information was brought up-to-date, and the volume proved a useful addition to the educational works on South Africa' (Mendelssohn I, p,.671). - A fine copy.SAB II, p.487. [Boeknr.: 34990 ]

€ 175,00

HAM, Gijs van der. Dof goud. Ghana en Nederland sinds 1593. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Nijmegen, VanTilt, 2016. 4to. Pictorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 170 pp. [Boeknr.: 33961 ]

€ 25,00

HAM, Gijs van der. Dof goud. Nederland en Ghana, 1593 - 1872. Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Nijmegen, VanTilt, 2013. 4to. With many coloured illustrations. 200 pp. [Boeknr.: 33354 ]

€ 25,00

HARDENBERG, H. Tussen zeerovers en christenslaven. Noordafrikaanse reisjournalen ingeleid en toegelicht. Leiden, H.E. Stenfert Kroesse, 1950. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. (8),195 pp. Memoria I. - Journals of Thomas Hees (1675), Maria ter Meetelen (1731), Gerrit Metzon (1814). [Boeknr.: 7521 ]

€ 25,00

HARMS, Robert. The Diligent. A voyage through the worlds of the slave trade. (Oxford, The Perseus Press, 2002). Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXX,466 pp. The tale of the Diligent, a French slave ship, starting in 1731. [Boeknr.: 32553 ]

€ 25,00

HARTENSTEIN, Karl. Anibu. De 'nieuwe tijd' op de goudkust en onze zendingstaak. Geautoriseerde vertaling door E.C. Brouwer-Van Dijk. Met een inleiding door K.J. Brouwer. Culemborg, De Pauw, 1933. Cloth. With photographic plates. 175 pp. [Boeknr.: 6826 ]

€ 18,00

HARTERT, Ernst. Aus den Wanderjahren eines Naturforschers. Reisen und Forschungen in Afrika, Asien und Amerika, nebst daran anknüpfenden, meist ornithologischen Studien. Berlin, London, 's Gravenhage, 1901-1902.8vo. Original cloth, top edge gilt. With 3 maps and 10 plates. XIII,329 pp. First edition. - Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (1859 - 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist. He was employed by Walter Rothschild as ornithological curator of Rothschild's private Natural History Museum at Tring, in England from 1892 to 1929. He travelled in India, Africa, and South America on behalf of his employer. He visited Sudan, the Canary Islands, Sumatra, Malacca and India, the Caribbean, Morocco and Tenerife. - A fine copy.Henze II, p.464. [Boeknr.: 36814 ]

€ 275,00

HEAP, Peggy. The story of Hottentots Holland. Social history of Sommerset West, the Strand, Gordon's Bay and Sir Lowry Pass over three centuries. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1970. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 41 illustrations. IX,194,(5) pp. [Boeknr.: 35067 ]

€ 40,00

HEEPE, M. Jaunde-Wörterbuch. Unter Mitwirkung von P.H. Nekes. Hamburg, L. Friederichsen & Co., 1926. 8vo. Wrappers, uncut. XIV,257 pp. Hamburgische Universität. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde. - A dictionary of the Bantu language Jaunde, spoken in the South of Cameroon. [Boeknr.: 24811 ]

€ 175,00

HEERDT, Jacob Carel Frederik van. Mijne reis met de landmail van Batavia over Singapore, Ceilon, Aden en Suez tot Alexandrië in Egypte. 's Gravenhage, K. Fuhri, 1851.Original half cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With folding lithographed map, and 5 lithographed plates by P. Blommers (1 large folding, showing panoramic views of Ceylon and Aden). VIII,(2),106 pp. First edition; with bookplate of Bibl. Doctrina & Amicitia. - Baron van Heerdt (1819-1878) travelled in 1846 from Indonesia to the Netherlands, as route he chose the little known 'landmail' or 'overlandweg'. via Egypt. Fragments of his travel experiences were first published in i.a. De Gids, Warnaserie and Indisch Jaarboekje, after recasting these fragments, this book was published. Heerdt can be considered as one of the predecessors of the just rising Dutch Indonesian literature. - (Age-browned). - Scarce.Cat. NHSM I, p.179; Cat. KITLV p.57; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 1650 ]

€ 450,00

HEERES, J.E. Heeft Nederland de Kaap verkocht ? Eene lezing. Amsterdam, Pretoria, J.H. de Bussy, 1914. Original printed wrappers. 45 pp. An address: Did the Netherlands sell the Cape ?Mendelssohn I, p.699. [Boeknr.: 16711 ]

€ 35,00

HEIJER, H. den. Goud, ivoor en slaven. Scheepvaart en handel van de Tweede Westindische Compagnie op Afrika, 1674-1740. (Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 1997). Wrappers. With illustrations. XV,445 pp. Thesis on the Dutch slave-trade in West Africa; with summary in English. [Boeknr.: 19467 ]

€ 40,00

HEUGLIN, Theodor von. Die Tinne'sche Expedition im westlichen Nil-Quellgebiet 1863 und 1864. Aus dem Tagebuch von Th. von Heuglin. Nebst ethnographischen, zoologischen und karthographischen Anhängen. Gotha, Perthes, 1865.4to. Later wrappers. With folding map, coloured in outline. VIII, 46 pp. Petermanns Mitteilungen, Ergänzungsheft 15. - The adventurous young Dutch woman, Alexandrine Pieternella Françoise Tinné (1835-69) entered a world dominated by men as a woman. She travelled down the Nile and penetrated the Bahr el Ghazal. She was accompanied by her mother and aunt and a domestic staff which included lady's maids. They were well provisioned in the only steamer available for hire at Khartoum. Alexine Tinné was murdered in an expedition across the Sahara in 1869. [Boeknr.: 21620 ]

€ 195,00

HEUL, Frank van der. Van kreeftskeerkring tot Kaap de Goede Hoop. Van 'spiegeltjes en kralen', piraten en slavernij tot de laatste reis van de Holland-Afrika Lijn. Haarlem, Hollandia, (2002). Wrappers. With plates. 272 pp. [Boeknr.: 29080 ]

€ 18,00

HEUVEL, Aad van den. Een verre moordenaar. Amsterdam, de Arbeiderspers, (1998). Wrappers. 229 pp. Crime novel about the diary of David van Nijendaal and the WIC and his visit to the Ashene people in West Africa.. [Boeknr.: 28842 ]

€ 18,00

HEUVEL, Aad van den. Willem Bosman in goud en slaven. Een reisverslag naar aanleiding van dagboeknotities. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, (1981). 8vo. Boards. With many illustrations (some in colours). 160 pp. Willem Bosman (1672 - ?), employee of the Dutch West India Company (WIC) and chief Dutch factor at the castle of Elmina, wrote the first authoritative and detailed account of the West Coast of Africa, during a 14 years' residence there. It is the chief source for the knowledge of the Dutch slave-trade during the second half of the 17th century. [Boeknr.: 6579 ]

€ 18,00

HEUVEL, Maartje van den & Robert van LIT. (Red.). Alexine Tinne. Fotograaf. Haar wereldbeeld. Photographer. Her worldview. Zwolle, WBooks, Haags Historisch Museum, 2021. 4to. Boards. With photographs by Alexine Tinne, Dagmar van Weeghel, a.o. 160 pp. Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) was the first Western woman to travel deep into Africa, far south of Egypt, with her mother, aunt and an impressive caravan of retinue and she was the Netherlands' first significant female pioneer in photography. English and Dutch text. [Boeknr.: 36496 ]

€ 35,00

HEYDT, Johann Wolffgang. Scenes of the Cape of Good Hope in 1741 as drawn by Johann Wolffgang Heydt. Text translated from the German and edited by R. Raven-Hart. Cape Town, C. Struik, 1967. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. Facsimile of frontispice, titlepage and 7 maps and plates depicting South Africa. 23. - 750 numbered copies printed. [Boeknr.: 34989 ]

€ 35,00

HEYLYN, Peter. Cosmography in four books containing the chrography and history of the whole world: and all the principal kingdoms, provinces, seas, and isles thereof. London, printed by A.C. for P. Chetwind and A. Seile, 1677.Folio. 4 volumes in 1. Folio. Contemporary mottled calf. With engraved title-page (London, Anne Seile, 1669) and 4 double-page maps of the continents. (8),303; (222); 230; 154; (46) pp. Fifth edition, first published in 1652; with armorial bookplate of Philip Monoux . - An attempt to describe in meticulous detail every aspect of the known world. It appears to have been the first description in print of Australia, and perhaps of California, Terra del Fuego, and other territories in the New World. With Appendix on the endeavor to discover Terra Australis Incognita, or the Southern continent. This curious discourse on Terra Australis describes its supposed immense size to be as large as Europe, Asia and Africa (Cox II, p.339). The fine maps depict Europe, Asia, Africa and America with California as an island. - (Age-browned). - A popular work, frequently reissued.Cowan p.108; European-Americana IV, p.28; Sabin 31655. [Boeknr.: 32811 ]

€ 3250,00

HEYN, Piet. De Westafrikaanse reis van Piet Heyn 1624-1625. Uitgegeven door K. Ratelband. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1959. Cloth. With portrait, map and 2 facsimiles. CV,79 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging LXI. - Piet Heyn firmly established the WIC's position on the African coast. [Boeknr.: 262 ]

€ 35,00

HILDER, Albert Edward. A Canadian mounted rifleman at war, 1899-1902. The reminiscences. Cape Town, 2000. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXX,179 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 31. - Hilder's writings are rare accounts of the Canadian action in the war as seen from the perspective of the mounted infantry. No other substantial descriptions of these units have been published, despite the fact that these men made up over 50% of Canadian soldiers recruited to serve in the war. [Boeknr.: 34546 ]

€ 25,00

HIRSCHBERG, W. Die Kulturen Afrikas. Wiesbaden, VMA-Verlag, (1980). Boards, with dust-jacket. With 165 illustrations. 390 pp. [Boeknr.: 26902 ]

€ 30,00

HOCHSCHILD, Adam. Bevrijd de slaven ! Het verhaal van de eerste mensenrechtencampagne. Uit het Engels vertaald door Ankie Klootwijk en Ernst de Boer. Amsterdam, J.M. Meulenhoff, 2005. Wrappers. With plates. 478 pp. [Boeknr.: 36396 ]

€ 18,00

HOFFMANN, Johann Christian. Reise nach dem Kaplande, nach Mauritius und nach Java 1671-1676. Neu herausgegeben nach der zu Cassel im Verlag von Johann Friederich Hertzog im Jahre 1680 erschienenen Original-Ausgabe. - Johann SCHREYER. Reise nach dem Kaplande und Beschreibung der Hottentotten 1669-1677. Neu herausgegeben nach der zu Leipzig im Verlag von Johann Christian Wohlfart, 1681. Haag, Martinus Nijhoff, 1931. Pictorial wrappers. XIII,104,68 pp. - (Reisebeschreibungen von Deutschen Beamten und Kriegsleuten VII). [Boeknr.: 35145 ]

€ 35,00

HONDIUS, Jodocus. Klare besgryving van Cabo de Bona Esperança; med de by-gelegen kust naar Angola toe. Faksimilee .. uitgegee, 1652. Met vertaling in Engels deur L.C. van Oordt en van 'n inleiding en aantekeninge voorsien deur P. Serton. Kaapstad, Komitee vir Boekuitstalling Van Riebeeck-Fees, 1952. Half cloth. With folding map and 3 folding plates. XV,33,37 pp. A fine facsimile of the pamphlet by Hondius: A clear description of the Cape of Good Hope, 1652. With translation and an introduction. [Boeknr.: 35127 ]

€ 30,00

HOUGHTON, Daniel; MUNGO PARK. Reize en ontdekkingen in de binnen-landen van Africa, gedaan door den majoor Houghton, en Mungo Park, beiden zendelingen der Africasche Maatschappij .. verrijkt met eenige aardrijkskundige ophelderingen van den majoor J. Rennel. Gevolgd naar het Engelsch. Haarlem, François Bohn, 1800.Original boards (sl. rubbed). With 3 folding engraved maps. X,242 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in English in the Proceedings of the Association for promoting the discovery of the interior parts of Africa. London 1798. - Daniel Houghton (1740-1791) was employed in his retirement by the African Association to explore inland through West Africa with the object of reaching Timbuktu. He had reached the village of Simbing, about 150 miles north of Bamako, halfway to his goal. Nothing more was known of Houghton's fate until five years later when Mungo Park reached Simbing and was shown the site of Houghton' robbery and murder at that village (Howgego p.519). This book contains the travel-accounts in Africa of Daniel Hougton (1790-91) and of Mungo Park (1795-97, his first expedition); with geographical explanation by James Rennell. - Rare.Gay 2788 (English ed.); Cox I, p.388; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 28504 ]

€ 850,00

HUISMAN, Marijke. Verhalen van vrijheid. Autobiografieën van slaven in transnationaal perspectief, 1789-2013. Hilversum, Verloren, 2015. Wrappers. 256 pp. [Boeknr.: 33779 ]

€ 25,00

IDENBURG, P.J. The Cape of Good Hope at the turn of the eighteenth century. Leiden, Universitaire Pers, 1963. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With portrait and 1 folding plate. 134 pp. [Boeknr.: 3948 ]

€ 25,00

IDENBURG, P.J. De Kaap de Goede Hoop gedurende de laatste jaren van het Nederlandsch bewind. Leiden, Burgersdijk & Niermans, 1946. Half cloth, with dust-jacket. With portrait and 3 folding plates. 112 pp. [Boeknr.: 6478 ]

€ 25,00

INNES, James Rose. Selected correspondence (1884-1902). Cape Town, 1972.Cloth. With folding map and 5 plates. 366 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 3. - Sir James Rose Innes (1855 -1942) was the Chief Justice of South Africa from 1914 to 1927 and, in the view of many, its greatest ever judge. Before becoming a judge he was a member of the Cape Parliament, the Cape Colony's Attorney-General, and a prominent critic of Cecil John Rhodes. [Boeknr.: 34528 ]

€ 25,00

IRWIN, Eyles. A series of adventures in the course of a voyage up the Red-Sea, on the coasts of Arabia and Egypt, and of a route through the deserts of Thebais, hitherto unknown to the European travellers in the year 1777. In letters to a lady. London, J. Dodsley, 1780.4to. Later half black calf, spine lettered in gilt. With engraved folding plan, 2 engraved plates (each with 2 views) printed in sepia, and 3 folding engraved maps. XVI,400 pp. First edition. - Irwin was born in Calcutta and served with the East India Company. He left India in 1777 for England, when his ship was captured by pirates. From Cossier he was forced to cross the desert to Suez and then on to Luxor, Cairo and Alexandria. In his account of his journey home, he described his experiences and observations during the journey, which lasted eleven months. This journal offers one of the best descriptions of the Arabian coast of the Red Sea at this period. 'This work is chiefly valuable for the information which his personal adventures necessarily give of the manners, etc. of the Arabians' (Cox I, p.232).. Includes two poems by Irwin 'Ode to the dessert' and 'Ode to the Nile'. - (Age-browned).Blackmer Collection 865; Atabey Collection 609; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.325. [Boeknr.: 26426 ]

€ 795,00

ISERT, Paul Erdmann. Reis na Guinea en de Caribische eilanden in Columbien. Uit het Hoogduitsch. Dordrecht, De Leeuw en Kraf, 1790.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt (top of spine sl. dam.). With 2 engraved plates. VIII,418 pp. First Dutch edition; first published in Copenhagen in 1788 Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Colombien. - In twelve letters Paul Erdmann Isert (1756-1789), describes his voyage from Copenhagen to the Gold Coast and gives an account of the Danish settlements and considerable details of the customs of the natives. In 1786, he describes the voyage from Africa to the Danish West Indies with a cargo of 452 blacks who rose against the whites on the second day at sea, with a resulting loss of 34 of their number and 2 of the crew wounded after a heated battle. He gives good descrptions of St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The complete round trip took four years. The book is a source work and, because of being one of the few accounts of a person actually making the Guinea voyage and because of the sensational nature of its contents, it has been heavily drawn on by writers on the slave traffic for nearly a century and a half (Ragatz p. 226). He was the first European explorer of Ashanti and is also known for his attempts to end the Danish-Norwegian slave trade. Cat. NHSM I, p.140 (later ed.); Cardinall 397; Sabin 35245; Cf. Gay 2812; Hough, The Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection 405; Work p.11; Hogg 160; Not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 27468 ]

€ 495,00

JAARSVELD, F.A. van. Van Van Riebeeck tot Verwoerd 1652-1966. 'n Inleiding tot die geskiedenis van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika. Joahnnesburg, Voortrekkers, 1971. Boards, with dust-jacket. With maps. (12),470 pp. [Boeknr.: 35091 ]

€ 40,00

JACKSON, E.L. St. Helena: the historic island from its discovery to the present date. London, Ward Lock & Co., 1903.Original cloth, with gilt St. Helena's seal on cover (spine discoloured). With map and photographic plates. 343 pp. First edition; with the bookplate of Haileybury College. - A detailed historical and geographical account of St. Helena. Dealing i.a. with the South African War prisoners sent there, the captivity of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Navy's antislavery patrols and the island of Tristan Da Cunha.SAB II, p.661. [Boeknr.: 36775 ]

€ 95,00

JEFFREYS, M.K. S.D. NAUDÉ, P.J. VENTER. (Ed.). Kaapse argiefstukke, Kaapse plakkaatboek (1652-1795). Kaapstad, Cape Times Limited, 1944-1949. 4 volumes. Original red cloth (vol. I stained). XXIV,382; XII,252; XII,199; XI,281 pp. With autograph dedication by C. Beyers, senior archivist, to C.R. Swart, minister of justice in South Africa. Afrikaans and Dutch text. - Rare complete set of the records of the Cape Colony, describing a clear timeline of the founding and establishment of the Colony of South Africa. [Boeknr.: 35031 ]

€ 375,00

JOBSON, Richard. The discovery of River Gambia (1623). Edited, with additional material, by David P. Gamble and P.E.H. Hair. London, 1999. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 19 plates and illustrations. XVI,341 pp. Hakluyt Society, 3rd series, 2. - 'Jobson's account of the river, its commerce, natural history, peoples, religion and politics, was the earliest to appear in print, in this fullness of details in any language. Itwas also the earliest detailed account of any part of Black Africa, by an Englishman'. [Boeknr.: 34637 ]

€ 45,00

JONG VAN RODENBURGH, Cornelis de. 'Weest wel met alle menschen' De 'Kaapse brieven' van Cornelius de Jong van Rodenburgh (1762-1838). Verzorgd door Carla van Balen en Dick de Mildt. Hilversum, Verloren, 2012. Wrappers. With 14 illustrations. 640 pp. [Boeknr.: 32768 ]

€ 40,00

JONG, Cornelius de. Tweede reize naar de Middellandsche Zee, gedaan in de jaren 1783, 1784 en 1785. Haarlem, François Bohn, 1807Contemporary half green morocco, spine lettered in gilt. With 2 engraved folding plates of Algiers and Minorca. XVI,431 pp. First edition. - The second voyage (1783 - 1785) to the Mediterranean by the Dutch naval-officer Cornelius de Jong Van Rodenburgh (1762-1838), made in the ship Prins Willem in command by Cornelis van Gennip to the Mediterranean, includes long description of Algiers. De Jong wrote his travel memoirs in the form of letters to a fictional friend. It was a narrative form that had been used for many 18th century novels, but was still special for travel descriptions. It meant that De Jong was not too bound to a strict retelling of his travels, that he could elaborate to his heart's content on topics that he thought his audience would find interesting, and that he could address his reader directly Roeper & Wildeman, Reizen op papier, p. 104. - (Some library stamps).Tiele 553; Cat. NHSM I, p.121; Atabey Collection 620. [Boeknr.: 28818 ]

€ 550,00

JOUWE, Nancy, Matthijs KUIPERS, Remco RABEN. (Red.). Slavernij en de stad Utrecht. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2021. Wrappers. With 40 coloured illustrations. 328 pp. Utrecht's involvement in the global slavery past. [Boeknr.: 36400 ]

€ 25,00

JUNOD, Henri Alexandre. The life of a South African tribe. Neuchatel, Attinger Frères, 1912 - 1913.2 volumes. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt lettering, with dust-jackets, uncut. With map and many photographic illustrations. 500; 574 pp. First enlarged edition in English, first published in French Les Ba-Ronga, 1898. - Henri-Alexandre Junod (1863 - 1934) was a Swiss-born South African missionary, ethnographer, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist, stationed for much of his career at Shiluvane Mission Station outside Tzaneen in Limpopo Province. Classic work on the Tsonga-people, a Bantu ethnic group primarily native to Southern Mozambique and South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga). . 'It is one of the finest ethnographical publications on this part of the sub-continent ever issued' (Mendelssohn I, p.796). Volume I: The social life; volume II: The psychic life. - A very fine copy.SAB II, p.714. [Boeknr.: 18954 ]

€ 375,00

KAN, C.M. Nederland en de kust van Guinea. Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1871.Original printed wrappers. 57 pp. Treatise against the transfer of the Dutch West-Africa possession to Britain (realized in 1872). [Boeknr.: 15238 ]

€ 95,00

KELLER, C(onrad). Madagascar, Mauritius and the other East-African islands. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1901.Half calf, spine gilt. With 3 coloured maps and numerous photographic illustrations. XIII,242 pp. First published in German Reissebilder aus Ostafrika und Madagaskar. Leipzig 1887. - 'There is no book in existence which presents so complete and truthworthy an account of Madagascar, the Mascarenes and the smaller islands of the Ocean to the East and South East of Africa as this work of Professor Keller. To the scientific thoroughness and accuracy of the German professor he adds the vividness and realism due to personal travel and investigation' (Translator's preface by H.A. Nesbitt). One of the best authoritative accounts of Madagascar and nearby islands, including interesting photographic images of natives, flora and fauna.- Scarce.SAB II, p.735; Grandidier 1799. [Boeknr.: 14726 ]

€ 375,00

KENNEDY, R.F. Africana repository. Notes for a series of lectures given to the Hillbrow Study Centre from March to May 1964. Cape Town, Juta & Company, 1965. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 21 plates. XIII,(1),178 pp. The great collectors and their collections; The Portuguese period-mainly shipwrecks; The 17th century-mainly Dutch but including Terry, Herbert, Tachard, Leguat and others; etc. [Boeknr.: 14207 ]

€ 35,00

KERDIJK, Lodewijk. West-Afrika 1857/1858. Reisjournaal van Lodewijk Kerdijk. Ingeleid door A.F. Schepel. Schiedam, Interboek, 1978. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 30 plates. 228 pp. In his diary Lodewijk Kerdijk gives a vivid picture of the slave trade, naval officers who fought against the slave trade, and the Dutch and English factories who occupied fortresses on the Gold Coast. [Boeknr.: 14355 ]

€ 20,00

KERNKAMP, J.H. Johan van der Veken en zijn tijd. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, (1952). Wrappers. With 3 plates. 35 pp. Johan van der Veken ( 1549 - 1616) was a Rotterdam merchant in West Africa. [Boeknr.: 6830 ]

€ 15,00

KIKKERT, J.G. Hoe ver we zullen komen, weet ik niet. Het avontuurlijke leven van Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869). Naarden, Strengholt, 1980. Boards. With many illustrations, including some photographs by Alexandrine Tinne. 244 pp.. The Dutch explorer Alexandrine Tinne (1835-1869) was murdered by Tuaregs on the route between Murzuk and Ghat in Libia. [Boeknr.: 11172 ]

€ 25,00

KINGSLEY, Mary Henrietta. Travels in West Africa. Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons. 2nd edition, abridged. London, Macmilland and Co., 1898.Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With photographic illustrations and plates. XX,541 pp. First published in 1897. - 'This is arguably the best-known of all books by Victorian and Edwardian women travellers. She travelled in the forests of Africa dressed much as she would have done at home' (Theakstone p.153). 'The author made an ascent of Mount Cameroon by a new route in 1895, during the course of an enterprising expedition, vividly described in her book' (Neate K26). 'The two travel accounts she produced were immediate best sellers, both for their serious scientific content and their exuberant raciness. They are masterpieces' (Robinson p.138).Hess-Coger 5571. [Boeknr.: 32257 ]

€ 150,00

KLEVER, U. Bruckmann's Handbuch der afrikanischen Kunst. München, Bruckmann, (1975). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 242 photographic illustrations. 256 pp. [Boeknr.: 27178 ]

€ 35,00

KNIPSCHILD, Harry. De bekering van de wereld. Brieven, verhalen en ervaringen uit de geschiedenis van de missie. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2013. Wrappers. With illustrations. 224 pp. [Boeknr.: 33200 ]

€ 25,00

KNOX-JOHNSTON, Robin. The Cape of Good Hope. A maritime history. London, Hodder & Stoughton, (1989). Boards, with dust-jacket. With maps and plates. 246 pp. [Boeknr.: 34659 ]

€ 30,00

KOCK, Victor de. Ons drie eeuwe. Our three centuries. 1652-1952. Kaapstad, 1952. 4to. Pictorial leather, a.e.g. With many illustrations (several in colours). 264 pp. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies of the deluxe edition. - This book has been compiled at the request of the Central Committee for the Van Riebeeck Festival Cape Town 1952. [Boeknr.: 35073 ]

€ 65,00

KOERT, Robert van. Afrikaanse Dutch Wax. Dutch wax design technology. Van Helmond naar West-Africa. Uniwax en GTP in postkoloniaal Ivoorkust en Ghana. (Helmond, 2007). 4to. Boards. With many coloured illustrations. 160 pp. On Dutch batiks made for West-Afrika. [Boeknr.: 30728 ]

€ 40,00

KOLB, Peter. Description du Cap de Bonne-Esperance, òu l'on trouve tout ce qui concerne l'histoire-naturelle du pays; la religion, les moeurs & les usages des Hottentots; et l'établissement des Hollandois. Amsterdam, Jean Catuffe, 1742.3 volumes. Sm.8vo. Later half calf, spines ribbed. With titles printed in red and black, engraved allegorical frontispiece, 5 folding engraved maps and 25 engraved plates (1 folding). XIII,(11),428; (12),262; (16),320 pp. First French edition, first published in German in Nürnberg in 1719 Caput Bonae Spei. Das ist vollständige Beschreibung des Akrikanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung. - Peter Kolb (1676-1726), a German astronomer, was sent to the Cape by Baron von Krosick in 1705. From 1707 till April 1713 he was secretary in service by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) at Stellenbosch. Of the utmost importance is the section on the plants and on the animals of that region, being the earliest account of South African fauna. 'Peter Kolb published one of the first works in German devoted entirely to the Cape region of South Africa. His work divides equally between the natural history of the Cape and a description of the Hottentot (Khoi) people, explaining their manners and customs in great detail' (Howgego p.577). A detailed description of day-to-day life at the Cape (The Paolo Bianchi collection 206). - (1 leaf sl. damaged with some loss of text). - Fine set.Tiele 606; Cat. NHSM I, p.207; Landwehr, VOC, 585; Cf. Mendelssohn I, p.843-44; SAB III, p.6; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of Southern Africa 1650-1790, p.29. [Boeknr.: 3325 ]

€ 1750,00

KOOPMAN, J.C. Avonturen met Anansie de spin. Amsterdam, Mulder Holland, (1982). Pictorial boards. With illustrations by Rumy Luider-Jeleva. (42) pp. [Boeknr.: 36452 ]

€ 18,00

KOTZÉ, D.J. (Ed.). Letters of the American missionaries 1835-1838. Cape Town, 1950 Cloth. With maps and plates. 294 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, first series, 31. - The Americans concentrated initially on the Matabele in the Transvaal, and on Natal. Their arrival coincided with the Great Trek and Boer expansion north and east so they were well placed to observed developments in Voortrekker society and its impact on indigenous societies. [Boeknr.: 32779 ]

€ 25,00

KRAUSE, Ludwig. The war memoirs of commandant Ludwig Krause 1899-1900. Edited by Jerold Taitz with Ken Gillings and Arthur Davey. Cape Town, 1995. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXXIV,163 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 26. - In 1899 Ludwig Krause left his legal practice in the Transvaal to fight on behalf of the Boers. Krause's memoirs are remarkable for their clarity and descriptive power. Their value is enhanced by his outspoken and sometimes pungent opinions, not only of some of his British foes, but of some of Kruger's adherents. [Boeknr.: 34553 ]

€ 25,00

KRUGER, Paul. Gedenkschriften. Gedicteerd aan H.C. Bredell en Piet Grobler. Bewerkt door Frederik Rompel. Amsterdam, J. Funke, 1902. Cloth. With portrait. XII,274 pp. [Boeknr.: 7095 ]

€ 20,00

KURTZE, Bruno. Die Deutsch - Ostafrikanische Gesellschaft. Ein Beitrag zum Problem der Schutzbriefgesellschaften und zur Geschichte Deutsch-Ostafrikas. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1913. Original printed wrappers. With folding map. (8),198 pp. Abhandlungen des staatswissenschaftlichen Seminars zu Jena.Kainbacher p.232. [Boeknr.: 10291 ]

€ 35,00

LAM, Jan Dircksz. Expeditie naar de Goudkust. Het journaal van Jan Dircksz Lam over de Nederlandse aanval op Elmina, 1624-1626. Ingeleid en bezorgd door Henk den Heijer. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2006. Cloth. With illustrations. 208 pp. Linschoten-Vereeniging CV. - Eye-witness account of the defeat of the Dutch on the West African coast at the beginning of the 17th century. [Boeknr.: 29456 ]

€ 25,00

LANE, Jack. The war diary of Burgher Jack Lane, 16 November 1899 to 27 February 1900. Cape Town, 2001. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. LVII,161 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 32. - Jack Lane was placed in charge of the ammunition in the main laager of General Piet Cronjé. He saw action at Magersfontein, outside Kimberley and eventually at Paardeberg where he was captured and sent to St Helena. [Boeknr.: 34542 ]

€ 25,00

LATROBE, Christian Ignatius. Journal of a visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816, with some account of the missionary settlements of the United Brethren, near the Cape of Good Hope. London, L.B. Seeley & R. Ackermann, 1818.4to. Later half calf, spine gilt, with red morocco title-labels. With folding map, 4 engraved plates and 12 handcoloured aquatint plates. (8),406 pp. First edition. - Latrobe was sent out to South Africa in response to the request of Moravian missionaries at Genadendal and Groenekloof for a minister to visit them. The Governor of the Cape had expressed a wish that a third station should be opened, and in order to choose a site the author travelled through a large part of the country right up to the Fish River. There is a full description of the district of Groenekloof, and of the missionary settlements, about thirty miles north of Cape Town also an account of the church and village of Caledon. Some information is afforded regarding the life of the up-country farmers at this period. In 1816 he started for a journey into the interior, the route taken from Genadendal being via Zwellendam, Zeekogat near George, Welgelegen, Uitenhage, to the Witte River, and then to the Little Fish River, returning via Plettenberg and Mossel Bays (Mendelssohn p.866-867). The book is much enhanced by the superbly coloured plates after sketches by the author himself and John Melville, Government Surveyor of the Cape, who accompanied him. Also included is a visit to St. Helena, and 'the first description of the fledgling colony' of Ascension Island (Howgego). - A good specimen of the early literature of missionary effort, giving a sufficiently vivid record of personal experiences, native customs, and objects of natural interest that come under his notice (Prideaux p.240). - A very attractive copy.Abbey, Travel, 325; Howgego, II, p.9; SAB III, p.59; Tooley 292; Gordon-Brown p.187. [Boeknr.: 35000 ]

€ 2450,00

LAZARD, Paola & Bertrand. Collection de Paola et Bertrand Lazard. L'Orient et la Terre Sainte. Livres et dessins. Paris, Pierre Bergé & Associés, 2008. 4to. Wrappers. With many coloured illustrations. 241 pp. Fine illustrated auction catalogue of the private library of Paola and Bertrand Lazard containing rare books on the Orient and the Holy Land. [Boeknr.: 32807 ]

€ 35,00

LE VAILLANT, François. Reize in de binnenlanden van Afrika, langs de Kaap de Goede Hoop, in de jaaren 1780 tot 1785, gedaan. Uit het Fransch door J.D. Pasteur. Leyden, Amsterdam, Honkoop en Allart, 1791-98.5 volumes in 2. Contemporary half calf, (rebacked with the original spines laid down), with red morocco title-labels to spines. With large folding map and 34 engraved plates (7 folding and 7 printed in sepia). First Dutch edition; first published in French Voyage dans l'interieur de l'Afrique par le Cap de Bonne-Espétance. Paris 1790. - 'Le Vaillant was born at Paramaribo in Dutch Guiana in 1753, and after being educated in Holland, France, and Germany, proceeded to Paris where he studied the natural history collections, and, full of enthusiasm and ambition, decided to travel into the interior of Africa in order to further his opportunities of gaining information by observing the specimens in their native countries. Making the acquaintance of Mr. Temminck, the Treasurer of the Dutch East India Company, he was enabled to proceed to the Cape in one of the Company's ships called the Held-Woltemaade ... The narrative is characterised by the intelligent and interesting manner in which it is written.' (Mendelssohn pp.889-890). On his first excursion Le Vaillant advanced westward along the coast as far as the Great Fish River. His second excursion, between April 1783 and August 1784, took him northward beyond the Orange River. He was one of the first to study the birds in South Africa. With nice views i.a. of the Cape of Good Hope and plates showing Hottentots and giraffes. - One of the earliest works combining exploration, natural history and sport (Czech p.164-165). - (Some browning and waterstaining, some blank margins restored) . - A fine set of his two excursion. Tiele 659; Cat. NHSM I, p.206 (French ed. only); Mendelssohn I, p.889;-890; SAB III, p.100; Howgego p.625; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of South Africa 1650-1790, p.177-271, Nissen, ZBI, 2482. [Boeknr.: 34988 ]

€ 950,00

LE VAILLANT, François. Second voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les années 1783, 84 et 85. Paris, H.J. Jansen et Comp., l'an 3 (1795).3 volumes. 8vo. Contemporary half calf (extremities of spines sl. dam.; hinges cracked but holding). With 22 engraved plates (several folding). XLIV,304; 426; 525,(2) pp. First French edition. - Le Vaillant was born at Paramaribo in Dutch Guiana in 1753, and after being educated in Holland, France, and Germany, proceeded to Paris where he studied the natural history collections, and, full of enthusiasm and ambition, decided to travel into the interior of Africa in order to further his opportunities of gaining information by observing the specimens in their native countries. Making the acquaintance of Mr. Temminck, the Treasurer of the Dutch East India Company, he was enabled to proceed to the Cape in one of the Company's ships called the Held-Woltemaade. During his second excursion (1783 - 1784, he traversed the countries now known as British and German Namaqualand, Damaraland, parts of Bechuanaland, and the Kalahari desert. Later travellers threw doubts on the authenticy of Le Vaillant's journey to these regions, as they could not trace tribes with the names given by the author, but these races were probably dispersed or annihilated, and there can be little doubt that the traveller actualy visited these places (Mendelssohn). , - (Age-browned).Mendelssohn I, p.889 -890; SAB III, p.101; Howgego p.625; Rookmaaker, The zoological exploration of S. Africa 1650-1790, p.177-271, Nissen, ZBI, 2482; Boucher de la Richarderie IV, p.242-244.. [Boeknr.: 28946 ]

€ 495,00

LEDDEN, Willem Pieter van. Jan van Riebeeck tussen wal en schip. Een onderzoek naar de beeldvorming over Jan van Riebeeck in Nederland en Zuid-Afrika omstreeks 1900, 1950 en 2000. Hilversum, Verloren, 2005. Wrappers. With illustrations. 156 pp. [Boeknr.: 28680 ]

€ 15,00

LEIPOLDT, C. Louis. Jan van Riebeeck. A biographical study. London, Longmans, Green and Co., (1936). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With plates. XIV,292 pp. 'Here is the story (told for the first time in English) of the young ship's surgeon who rose to be Governor of Malacca and was destined to be the Founder of European civilization in South Africa'. [Boeknr.: 33153 ]

€ 35,00

LEIPOLDT, C. Louis. Jan Van Riebeeck. Die grondlegger van 'n blanke Suid-Afrika. Kaapstad, Nationale Pers, 1938. Decorated cloth. With plates. II,269 pp. [Boeknr.: 30817 ]

€ 25,00

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