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STÜWE, Fr. Die Handelszüge der Araber unter den Abbassiden durch Afrika, Asien und Osteuropa. Berlin, 1836. Nachdruck. Amsterdam, Meridian Publishing, 1966. Wrappers. With folding map. XIV,(2),368 pp. [Boeknr.: 27130 ]

€ 30,00

SURET-CANALE, Jean. Afrique noire occidentale et centrale. Géographie - civilisations - histoire. Préface de Jean Dresch. Paris, Editions Sociales, (1958). Pictorial wrappers. With maps. 280,(8) pp. [Boeknr.: 25084 ]

€ 20,00

SUTHERLAND, Willem. Alexandrine Tinne. Een Haagsch meisje als dappere ontdekkingsreizigster en Dochter der Liefde (Bint Mta Cke) in Noord-Afrika. Haar leven en reizen. Amsterdam, Wed. G. van Soest, 1935. Original wrappers. With plates. 80 pp. - First monograph on Alexandrine Petronella Francina Tinné (1835-69), Dutch 'aristocratic' Africa explorer. [Boeknr.: 21953 ]

€ 40,00

SWELLENGREBEL, Hendrik. Briefwisseling van Hendrik Swellengrebel jr. oor Kaapse sake 1778-1792. Uitgegee met inleiding en aantekeninge deur G.J. Schutte. Met 'n opsomming in Engels deur A.J. Böeseken. Bygestaan deur H.M. Robertson. Kaapstad, 1982. Cloth. With plates. (10),462 pp. - (Van Riebeeck Society). [Boeknr.: 28610 ]

€ 35,00

TAGLIAFERRI, A., A. HAMMACHER. Die steinernen Ahnen. Alte Steinplastik aus Sierra Leone & Guinea. (Graz), Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1974. Wrappers. With many photographic illustrations. 195 pp. [Boeknr.: 27198 ]

€ 35,00

TANTUM. - VÜE SUD DU FORT DE TANTUMQUERRI, PAR SMITH. Zuidgezigt van't Fort van Tantumquerri, door Smith. ('s Gravenhage., 1748). Engraving by J. van Schley. c. 18,5 x 27,5 cm. From: Historische beschrijving der reizen. - The English fort Tantum in Ghana (Lawrence, Trade castles & forts of West Africa, p.75). [Boeknr.: 27633 ]

€ 65,00

THEAL, George MacCall. Geschiedenis van Zuid Afrika. 4e uitgaaf. Capetown, T. Maskew Miller, (1910). Cloth. XIV,495 pp. [Boeknr.: 24083 ]

€ 45,00

THEAL, George MacCall. Willem Adriaan van der Stel and other historical sketches. Capetown, Th.M. Miller, 1913. Original cloth. VI,325 pp. - Van der Stel was governor of the Cape from 1699 till 1707. [Boeknr.: 11112 ]

€ 65,00

THOM, H.B. Die lewe van Gert Maritz (1797-1838). Kaapstad, Nasionale Pers, 1947. 8vo. Cloth. With illustrations. IX,284 pp. [Boeknr.: 23319 ]

€ 40,00

THOMPSON, George. Travels and adventures in Southern Africa. Edited, with notes by Vernon S. Forbes. Kaapstad, 1967-1968. 2 volumes. Cloth. With maps and plates. XXXV,187; XIV,277 pp. Van Riebeeck Society. - First published in 1827, written by George Thompson, eight years a resident at the Cape. Comprising a view of the present state of the Cape colony, with observations of the progress and prospects of the British emigrants. [Boeknr.: 32769 ]

€ 65,00

THOMPSON, V. and R. ADLOFF. French West Africa. (1st edition). Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1957). Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic plates. 626 pp. [Boeknr.: 11342 ]

€ 65,00

TINDALL, Joseph. The journal of Joseph Tindall, missionary in South West Africa 1839-55. Edited with introduction & footnotes by B.A. Tindall. Cape Town, 1959 Cloth. With maps and plates. X,221 pp. - (Van Riebeeck Society). [Boeknr.: 32774 ]

€ 35,00

TISSERANT, R.P.Ch. Dictionnaire Banda-Français. ('Le banda est la langue parlée dans toute la partie centrale de la colonie de l'Oubangui-Chari, en plein centre de l'Afrique'). Paris, Institut d'Ethnologie, 1931. 8vo. Original green cloth. 611,(5) pp. - 'Le banda est la langue parlée dans toute la partie centrale de la colonie de l'Oubangui-Chari, en plein centre de l'Afrique'. - Standard work. [Boeknr.: 24958 ]

€ 175,00

TONG, R. Figures in ebony. Past and present in a West African city. (Benin). London, Cassell, (1958). Boards, with dust-jacket. With plates. 131 pp. [Boeknr.: 27274 ]

€ 30,00

TRAVAUX DE L'INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES SAHARIENNES. Tome VIII. Numéro spécial publié à l'occasion du XIXe Congrès Géologique International. Alger, 1952. Wrappers. With illustrations and folding map. 239 pp. - (Université d'Alger). [Boeknr.: 24762 ]

€ 30,00

TROUP, Fr. In face of fear. Michael Scott's challenge to South Africa. London, Faber and Faber, (1950). Cloth. With 8 maps and plates. 227 pp. [Boeknr.: 24608 ]

€ 20,00

(TUCKER, Sarah). Abbeokoeta; of: de dageraad tusschen de keerkringen: eene schets van het ontstaan en den vooruitgang der zending in Yorriba. Uit het Engelsch .. vertaald en bijgewerkt door T.M. Looman. Amsterdam, H. Höveker, 1860.Sm.8vo. Original embossed cloth with gilt lettering. With 2 coloured lithographed plates, 3 (not 4 as erroneously mentioned on the title-page) folding maps and 8 wood-engravings. VIII,330,(5) pp. Much improved Dutch edition, first published in English in 1853: Abbeokuta, or sunrise within the tropics: an outline of the origin and progress of the Yoruba mission. Description of Yoruba on the West African coast.Cf. Abbey, Travel, 287 (English ed.) and Gay 2799 (French ed.); Hess and Coger 7187 (English ed.); not in Tiele. [Boeknr.: 1959 ]

€ 145,00

(TULLY, Miss). Narrative of a ten years' residence at Tripoli in Africa: from the original correspondence in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, Esq. the British Consul. Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction; also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. London, printed for Henry Colburn, 1816.4to. Contemporary half calf, with green morocco title-label to spine. With engraved folding map and 5 fine hand-coloured aquatints. XIII,(2),370 pp. First edition; with armorial bookplate. - These letters were written by the sister or sister-in-law of Richard Tully, British consul at Tripoli from 1783 to 1793. The work is particularly valuable for its details of family life in the seraglio. The female members of Tully's family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw's family and were admitted into all the life of the seraglio. This is one of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. - 'It is a delicious mixture of sensational subject-matter and deadpan delivery' (Robinson, Wayward Women, p.248). The very attractive plates depict genre scenes and costumes. - A fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 299; Tooley, Coloured plates, 493; Blackmer Collection 1682; Atabey Collection 1241. [Boeknr.: 1753 ]

€ 1450,00

VASUT, V. African dance. (Prague, Artia, 1962). 4to. Decorated cloth, with dust-jacket. With many photographic plates (several in colours) by Dominique Darbois. 132 pp. [Boeknr.: 27356 ]

€ 25,00

VERSTEGEN, M. Kaapstad. Een onwettig kind van de VOC. Een juridisch-politieke visie op het ontstaan van Kaapstad. Zaltbommel, Europese Bibliotheek, (2002). Wrappers. With illustrations. 80 pp. [Boeknr.: 15112 ]

€ 20,00

VILJOEN, R. Jan Paerl, a Khoikhoi in Cape colonial society 1761-1851. Leiden, Brill, 2006. Cloth, with dust-jacket. XVIII,213 pp. - (TANAP). [Boeknr.: 29076 ]

€ 85,00

VISSERING, G. Een Hollander in Zuid-Afrika (Herman Coster). Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1900. Original printed wrappers. With portrait. 31 pp. A memoir of dr. Coster, who was State Attorney of the South African Republic, and conducted the prosecution of the Reformers connected with the Jameson Raid and the Reform Movement, at that period. He was killed at the battle of Elandslaagte (Mendelssohn I, p.385). [Boeknr.: 7408 ]

€ 45,00

VUE DES MONTAGNES NOMMÉES. - Gezigt van't gebergte Sierra Leona. - Maisons de - Huizen op Sierra Leona. ('s Gravenhage, 1748). Engraving by J. van Schley. c. 19,5 x 28 cm. From: Historische beschrijving der reizen. - Two views of the British colony in West Africa. [Boeknr.: 22358 ]

€ 65,00

VULLIAMY, C.E. Outlanders. A study of imperial expansion in South Africa 1877-1902. London, Jonathan Cape, (1938). Cloth. 380 pp. [Boeknr.: 24090 ]

€ 30,00

VUSAMAZULU CREDO MUTWA. Indaba. Mijn kinderen. Een medicijnman vertelt de geschiedenis van zijn volk. (Bantoe, Zuid-Afrika). Deventer, Ankh-Hermes, (1984). Cloth, with dust-jacket. 291 pp. [Boeknr.: 27009 ]

€ 20,00

WANGEMANN, Theodor. Maléo en Sekoekoeni. Vertaal uit die Duits deur J.F.W. Grosskopf. Uitgegee en toegelig deur G.P.J. Trümpelmann met 'n opsomming in Engels vertaal deur A. Ravenscroft. Kaapstad, 1957 Cloth. With plates. XXV,185 pp. Van Riebeeck Society. - An account of the Moravian Brethren mission work in Sekoekoeniland, South Africa. [Boeknr.: 32775 ]

€ 35,00

WASSING, R.S. African art. Its background and traditions. (No pl., Leon Amiel, 1968). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 144 photographic illustrations (24 in colours) by Hans Hinz. 285 pp. - The author explains the cultural tradition of African tribes, the context out of which the art arises. [Boeknr.: 26839 ]

€ 45,00

WATERFIELD, Gordon. Lucie Duff Gordon (1821-1869) in England, South Africa and Egypt. London, John Murray, (1937). Original cloth. With portrait. XI,358 pp. [Boeknr.: 31739 ]

€ 35,00

WATTEVILLE, Vivienne de. L'appel de l'Afrique. Séjour et méditations parmi les éléphants et les montagnes du Kenya. Préface et traduction de G. Jean-Aubry. Paris, Payot, 1936.Half vellum (original front-wrapper preserved). With 2 maps and 10 photographic illustrations. 334 pp. Account by Vivienne de Watteville (Swiss family) after an expedition with her father in Kenya for completing the 'wild life' collection of the Bern Museum. Her father got injured by a lion and she took over the leadership of the expedition and ended it well when she was only 23 years old. [Boeknr.: 8686 ]

€ 35,00

WATTEVILLE, Vivienne de. L'appel de l'Afrique. Séjour et méditations parmi les éléphants et les montagnes du Kenya. Préface et traduction de G. Jean-Aubry. Paris, Payot, 1949. Pictorial wrappers. 334 pp. Account by Vivienne de Watteville (Swiss family) after an expedition with her father in Kenya for completing the 'wild life' collection of the Bern Museum. Her father got injured by a lion and she took over the leadership of the expedition and ended it well when she was only 23 years old. [Boeknr.: 32233 ]

€ 25,00

WEBSTER, W(illiam) H(enry) B(aley). Narrative of a voyage to the Southern Atlantic Ocean, in the years 1828, 29, 30, performed in H.M. sloop Chanticleer, under the command of the late captain Henry Foster by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London, Richad Bentley, 1834.2 volumes. Contemporary half calf (rubbed), with 2 (of 4) morocco labels to spines. With engraved map of the track of the Canticleer and folding map of the Isthmus of Darien, and 5 aquatint plates (foxed). XII,399; VIII,398 pp. First edition. - The voyage, commissioned by the Admiralty for scientific purposes, started in Spithead and with stops at the Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, the Falklands, Staten Island, cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, Ascension, Para, Trinidad, Porto Belo and St. Michaels. 'The captain, Foster, was drowned in a canoe at the end of the voyage' (Borba de Moraes II, p.937. The plates depict Teneriffe, Port Cook Staten Island, Deception Island, St. Martin's Cove near Cape Horn and Ascension.Abbey, Travel, 11; NMMC I, 341; Sabin 102429; Mendelssohn II, p.596; Hill 1842. [Boeknr.: 28494 ]

€ 595,00

WEGEN, D.H. van. Kunst uit de Kaap. Hollandse en Vlaamse meesterwerken uit de Michaelis Collectie te Kaapstad. Maastricht, Bonnefantenmuseum, (2003). 4to. Boards. With coloured illustrations. 48 pp. [Boeknr.: 32478 ]

€ 20,00

WELLARD, J. Samarkand and beyond. A history of desert caravans. London, The Travel Book Club, (1978). Boards. With photographic plates. 205 pp. [Boeknr.: 27210 ]

€ 30,00

WERZ, B.E.J.S. 'Een bedroefd, en beclaaglijck ongeval'. De wrakken van de VOC-schepen Oosterland en Waddinxveen (1697) in de Tafelbaai. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2004. 4to. Bound, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 206 pp. - Investigation of two VOC vessels off the coast of the Cape of Good Hope. [Boeknr.: 26802 ]

€ 30,00

WESSELING, H.L. (Ed.). Expansion and reaction. Essays on European expansion in Asia and Africa by F. Braudel, H. Brunschwig, S.N. Eisenstadt, J.C. Heesterman, J.L. Miège, R. Robinson, I. Schöffer, H.L. Wesseling, and E. Zürcher. Leiden, University Press, 1978. Cloth, with dust-jacket. VI,(4),200 pp. [Boeknr.: 12103 ]

€ 35,00

WEULE, Karl. Negerleben in Ostafrika. Ergebnisse einer ethnologischen Forschungsreise. 2. Auflage. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1909.Original pictorial cloth. With folding map coloured in outline, 4 coloured plates and 191 photographic illustrations and plates. XII,524 pp. First published in 1908. - Ample description of the little known south part of Tanzania, Makonde Plateau; profusely illustrated.Kainbacher p.450. [Boeknr.: 11340 ]

€ 175,00

WIERINGA, P.A.C. De oudste boeren-republieken Graaff-Reinet en Zwellendam van 1775 tot 1806. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1922. Wrappers. 117 pp. [Boeknr.: 24588 ]

€ 45,00

WILLIAM (of Germany). I seek the truth. A book on responsibility for the war by the ex-crown prince William of Germany. Translated from the German by R. Butler. London, Faber and Gwyer, 1926. Original red cloth. With portrait. XVI,325 pp. - Recollections of the ex-crown prince dealing i.a. with the colonial policy in Africa. [Boeknr.: 27134 ]

€ 30,00

WILLIAMS, B. Cecil Rhodes. London, Constable and Company, 1921. Cloth (sl. dam.). With frontispiece, and folding map. XI,(1),353 pp. - Cicil Rhodes was the founder of Rhodesia. [Boeknr.: 7603 ]

€ 35,00

WING, J. van. De geheime sekte van 't Kimpasi. (Congo). Brussel, Goemaere, (1920). Wrappers (soiled). With map. 119 pp. [Boeknr.: 25005 ]

€ 30,00

WINTER, P.J. van. De Nederlanders in de Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1964. Wrappers. (26) pp. - (Offprint Nederlandsch Economisch-Historisch Archief). [Boeknr.: 28609 ]

€ 15,00

WIRTH, Albrecht. Vorderasien und Ägypten in historischer und politischer, kultureller und wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht geschildert. Stuttgart, Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1916. Original decorated cloth (spine discoloured). With folding map and 82 photographic illustrations. VI,396 pp. [Boeknr.: 24749 ]

€ 35,00

WOODWARD, C.S. Oriental ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1795. An account of the porcelain trade of the Dutch East India Company with particular reference to ceramics with the V.O.C. monogram, the Cape market, and South African collections. Cape Town, A.A. Balkema, 1974. 8vo. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 4 coloured plates and 211 illustrations. XII,228 pp. The book contains a summary of the ceramic trade of the Dutch East India Company with particular reference to the Cape; a description of the kinds of ceramic sent there from Batavia in the 17th and 18th century; and through a study of the inventories of deceased estates in the Cape Archives, an account of their surprisingly early importance in the social life of the colony. [Boeknr.: 15712 ]

€ 40,00

WORDEN, N. (Ed.). Cape Town between East and West. Social identities in a Dutch colonial town. Hilversum, Verloren, 2012. Wrappers. With 9 illustrations. XXII, 264 pp. - The first single-volume social history of 18th century Dutch Cape Town. [Boeknr.: 32766 ]

€ 30,00

WORDEN, N., E. van HEYNINGEN, V. BICKFORD-SMITH. Cape Town. The making of a city. An illustrated social history (under Dutch and British rule). (Hilversum), Verloren, 1998. 4to. With many illustrations. 283 pp. - Beginning in the 17th century with the tiny Dutch settlement, the book charts the growth of Cape Town over almost three centuries, ending with the British colonial city. [Boeknr.: 20877 ]

€ 40,00

YARAK, L.W. Asante and the Dutch 1744-1873. Oxford, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1990. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 6 maps. XV,316 pp. - The author has carried out extensive researches in hitherto neglected Dutch archives. [Boeknr.: 12782 ]

€ 65,00

ZEE, H. van der. 's Heeren slaaf. Het dramatische leven van Jacobus Capitein (1717-1747). (Amsterdam), Balans, 2000. Wrappers. With portrait. 176 pp. [Boeknr.: 2815 ]

€ 18,00

ZWERNEMANN,J., W. LOHSE. Aus Afrika. Ahnen-Geister-Götter. Hamburg, Hamburgisches Museum für Völkerkunde, 1985. 4to. Wrappers. With 230 illustrations (50 in colours). 190 pp. [Boeknr.: 26888 ]

€ 25,00

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