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SANDYS, (George). Voyagien, behelsende een historie van de oorspronckelijcke ende tegenwoordige standt des Turcksen rijcks: hare wetten/ regeeringe/ politie/ krijghs-macht/ hooven van justitie/ ende koophandel. Als mede, van Egypten .. Neffens een beschrijvinge van het H. Landt .. Eyndelyck, Italien beschreven met hare nabuerighe eylanden; als Cyprus/ Creta/ Malta/ Sicilia/ de Aolische eylanden; van Roomen/ Venetien/ Napels/ Syracusa/ Mesena/ Aetna/ Scylla/ ende Charybdis/ etc. Uyt 't Engels vertaelt door J. G(lazemaker). Amsterdam, Jacob Beniamin,1653.4to. Later marbled boards. With engraved title, 3 engraved plates and 26 full or half-page engravings in the text. 292 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in London in 1615: A relation of a journey begun an.Dom. 1610. Foure bookes, containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Egypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and islands adjoyning - George Sandys (1578-1644) was the son of the Archbishop of York and a literary figure of some standing. In 1609 he set sail for the East and he spent the next year travelling in Turkey, Egypt and Palestine and later studied antiquities in Rome. His observations first appeared in English in 1615 and his text was soon regarded as a special authority on the Levant. He has been called the first 'classical tourist' of England. Sandys also was interested in colonial promotion, and was one of the undertakers named in the third charter of the Virginia Company in 1611, and later treasurer and a member of the Council. He visited many islands in the Mediterranean Sea Sicily, Crete, Cyprus, Lesbos, Chios, Kythira, Malta, etc. This book also became popular in the Netherlands and was several times republished.- A fine clean copy of this standard account of the Eastern Mediterranean. Tiele 959; Cat. NHSM I, p.255; Blackmer Collection 1484 (English edition); Atabey Collection 1087 (English edition); Weber 245; Röhricht p.232; Ibrahim-Hilmy p.210; O'Neill, The Ömer Koç Collection, 37 (English ed.); Tobler p.91-92. [Boeknr.: 33658 ]

€ 1950,00

SCHÄDLER, K.F. Afrikanische Kunst in Deutschen Privat-Sammlungen. - African art in private German collections. - L'art Africain dans les collections privées Allemandes. München, (1973). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 522 illustrations (several in colours). 363 pp. - Important reference work. [Boeknr.: 26823 ]

€ 75,00

SCHÄDLER, K.F. Keramik aus Schwarz-Afrika und Alt-Amerika. Die Sammlung Hans Wolf - Zürich. Ceramics from Black-Africa and Ancient America. The Hans Wolf Collection - Zurich. Céramique de l'Afrique Noire et d'Amérique Précolumbienne. La Collection Hans Wolf-Zurich. Zürich, Primart, 1985. 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With many illustrations (several in colours). 345 pp. [Boeknr.: 26863 ]

€ 55,00

SCHAPERA, I. (Ed.). Western civilization and the natives of South Africa. Studies in culture contact. London, George Routledge and Sons, 1934.Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt (spine sl. dam.). With 2 double-page maps and 11 photographic plates. XIV,312 pp. First edition. - Contributions by I. Schapera, W.M. Eiselen, W.G.A. Mears, G.P. Lestrade, Percival R. Kirby, a.o. [Boeknr.: 35013 ]

€ 45,00

SCHEBESTA, Paul. Among Congo pigmies. Translated from the German by Gerald Griffin. London, Hutchinson & Co., (1933).Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With 3 maps and 89 photographic illustrations. 287 pp. First published in Leipzig in 1932 Bambuti, die Zwerge vom Kongo. - Paul Schebesta (1887-1967) wrote one of the first monographs on the pigmies in Africa. [Boeknr.: 8916 ]

€ 75,00

SCHILLINGS, C(arl) G(eorg). Mit Blitzlicht und Büchse im Zauber des Eleléscho. 11. Auflage. Leipzig, R. Voigtländer, (ca. 1922). Pictorial cloth (sl. soiled). With 83 photographic illustrations. 386 pp. Schillings (1865-1921), a German, was an astute observer and photographer of African wildlife besides being an able big game hunter (Czech p.247).Kainbacher p.366. [Boeknr.: 24685 ]

€ 45,00

SCHMALENBACH, W. (Hrsg.). Afrikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung Barbier-Mueller, Genf. Mit Beiträgen von E. Castelli, Fr. Neyt, etc. Nachwort von Monique Barbier-Mueller. (München, Prestel Verlag, 1988). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 7 coloured maps and 295 illustrations (71 in colours). 320 pp. - One of the most important private art collections on African art. [Boeknr.: 26840 ]

€ 75,00

SCHMALENBACH, W. African art. New York, The Macmillan Company, (1954). Folio. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 148 illustrations (some in colours). 176 pp. - The author describes the different forms of civilization found in Africa. [Boeknr.: 27358 ]

€ 45,00

SCHOEMAN, Karel. (Ed.). Griqua records: the Philippolis captaincy, 1825-1861. Compiled and edited. Cape Town, 1994. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With illustrations. XXXIV,330 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 25. - This volume comprises a collection of official and semi-official documents relating the Captaincy which existed at Philippolis in the modern Free State from 1826 to 1861, when it was transferred to Kokstad, Griqualand East. They provide a comprehensive picture of a poorly-documented aspect of the history of the Northern Frontier. [Boeknr.: 34551 ]

€ 25,00

SCHONKEN, F.Th. De oorsprong der Kaapsch-Hollandsche volksoverleveringen. Naar het handschrift gewijzigd en, met gebruikmaking van S. de Jong's vertaling uit het Duitsch, uitgegeven door D. Fuldauer. Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger,1914. Wrappers. With portrait. XXIII,212 pp. [Boeknr.: 19085 ]

€ 35,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven .3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary half calf (modern boards), spine gilt. With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 4 illustrations and 27 (of 42) engraved plates by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676; large paper copy. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. - (Missing pp.291/292; portrait and 15 plates; last pp. stained).Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 36245 ]

€ 395,00

SCHOUTEN, Wouter. Reys-togten, naar en door Oost-Indien, in welke, de voornaamste landen, koningryken, steden, eilanden, bergen en rivieren, met haare eigenschappen, beneffens de wetten, godsdienst, zeden en dragten der inwoonders, en wat verder zoo van dieren, vrugten, en planten, aanmerkelyks in die gewesten is; naauwkeurig word beschreven. 3e druk. Amsterdam, Gerrit Tielenburg & Jan 't Lam, 1740.2 volumes in 1. 4to. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt (spine rep., hinges cracked but firmly holding). With titlepage printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait, 4 illustrations and 43 engraved plates (several folding) by C. Decker and J. Kip. (8),328; 253, (22) pp. First published in 1676 with the title Oost-indische voyagie; large paper copy with additional folding map: Nieuwe en nette zeekaart van de geheele waereldt. - Wouter Schouten (1638-1704) spent 7 years as a physician in the service of the VOC in the East 1658-1665. He was an observant traveller who explored inland into environs of nearly everey port-of-call. His travel-account stayed very popular for a long time because of his ample and vivid descriptions of the countries, the different peoples and anything of note concerning the animals, plants, etc. of Java, Amboyna, Ternate, Celebes, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Coromandel, Malabar, Persia, Arabia, Ceylon, etc. Because of the bad weather the fleet arrived on the return voyage in Bergen (Norway), where Schouten eyewitnessed the attack by the English in 1665. 'His book was extremely popular in northern Europe and was translated into German (1676) and French (1707 and 1725)' (Lach & Van Kley, Asia in the making of Europe, III,2, p. 955). - Belongs to the best travel stories written at the time. - Some light marginal waterstaining in the first leaves, otherwise fine. Tiele 991; Cat. NHSM I, p.174; Landwehr, VOC, 284; Mendelssohn II, p.279-80; Howgego p.947. [Boeknr.: 37617 ]

€ 2250,00

SCHUVER, Juan Maria. Travels in North East Africa 1880-1883. Edited by Wendy James, Gerd Baumann and Douglas H. Johnson. London, 1996. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With maps and illustrations. CVII,392 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 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 ]

€ 30,00

SÉGUIN, Lisbeth Gooch. Walks in Algiers and its surroundings. A new edition. London, Chatto & Windus, 1888.Original red pictorial cloth (spine discoloured). With 2 folding plans and 16 woodengravings. XII,502;32 pp. First published in 1878. - First handbook for the use of the traveller to Algiers in the English language. Lisbeth Gooch Séguin married Alexander Strahan and died in 1890.Theakstone p.241; Playfair 3720. [Boeknr.: 31888 ]

€ 75,00

SEGY, L. African sculpture speaks. (3rd edition). New York, Hill and Wang, (1961). 8vo. Cloth. With 276 illustrations. 264 pp. - The basic introductory book on African art. [Boeknr.: 26834 ]

€ 35,00

SEIPEL, Wilfried. (Hrsg.). Die Entdeckung der Welt. Die Welt der Entdeckungen. Österreichische Forscher, Sammler, Abenteuer. Wien, Künstlerhaus, 2002. 4to. Pictorial boards. With numerous illustrations (mostly in colours). 437 pp. 'Eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien mit Museum für Völkerkunde und des Bundesministeriums für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Naturhistorischen Museum und dem Heeresgeschichtlichen Mueum'. Focus on Ferdinand Lukas Bauer, Ferdinand Max, Karel Alexander Anselm, Ferdinand Stoliczka, Johann Natterer, Theodor Kotschy, Ida Pfeiffer, Oscar Baumann, Emil Holub, Emin Pascha, Richard Payer, Philipp Franz von Siebold, etc. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35176 ]

€ 45,00

SHARPE, Samuel. The early history of Egypt, from the old testament, Herodotus, Manetho, and the hieroglyphical inscriptions. London, Edward Moxon, 1836.4to. Old half cloth. With 6 plates. VIII,172 pp. First edition. - Samuel Sharpe (1799-1881) was an English Unitarian banker who, in his leisure hours, made substantial contributions to Egyptology and Biblical translation. - (With library stamp on title-page).Ibrahim-Hilmy II, p.232. [Boeknr.: 15129 ]

€ 95,00

SHAW, Th. Excavation at Dawu. Report on an excavation in a Mound at Dawu, Akuapim, Ghana. (Legon), University College of Ghana, (1961). 4to. Cloth, with dust-jacket. With 55 plates and 178 illustrations. VIII,90 pp. Detailed report of the scientific excavation of a 24.ft. high midden mound in Akwapim (Ghana) which appears to have been in use for about four hundred years from a date in the 14th or 15th century. [Boeknr.: 26869 ]

€ 45,00

SIEBER, R., D. NEWTON, M.D. COE. African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian art in the Indiana University Art Museum. Blomington, (1986). 4to. Wrappers. With 165 illustrations. 157 pp. [Boeknr.: 26827 ]

€ 30,00

SINZ, Herbert. Marokkanische Skizzen. München, Carl Röhrig, 1944.Sm.8vo. Original decorated wrappers. With photographic plates. 62 pp. Illustrated Moroccan sketches. [Boeknr.: 37571 ]

€ 25,00

SLEIGH, Dan & Piet WESTRA. De opstand op het slavenschip Meermin. Amsterdam, Cossee, 2012. Wrappers. With illustrations. 206 pp. The Meermin slave mutiny took place in February 1766 and lasted for three weeks. The Meermin was one of many slave ships owned by the Dutch East India Company (VOC). Her final voyage was cut short by the mutiny of her cargo of Malagasy people, who had been sold to Dutch East India Company officials on Madagascar to be used as company slaves in its Cape Colony in southern Africa. During the mutiny half the ship's crew and almost 30 Malagasy lost their lives. [Boeknr.: 33306 ]

€ 20,00

SMITH, Anna H. The spread of printing. Eastern hemisphere: South Africa. Amsterdam, Van Gendt & Co, 1971. Wrappers. With many maps and plates. 171 pp. From the series: The spread of printing. A history of printing outside Western Europe in monographs. Edited by Colin Clair. - 'This essay is, as far as is known, the first attempt to sketch the introduction of printing and its development to the beginning of the twentieth century in the whole of Southern Africa'. [Boeknr.: 33767 ]

€ 45,00

SMITH, H. Maynard. Frank Bishop of Zanzibar. Life of Frank Weston, D.D. 1871-1924. London, 1926. Original cloth. With portrait and 8 plates. XI,326 pp. Frank Weston (1871-1924) was the Anglican Bishop of Zanzibar from 1907 until his death 16 years later. [Boeknr.: 7979 ]

€ 25,00

SOMERVILLE, William. Narrative of his journeys to the Eastern Cape frontier and to Lattakoe 1799-1802. With a bibliographical introduction and a historical introduction and notes by Edna and Frank Bradlow. Cape Town, 1979. Cloth. With maps and plates. (6),255 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 10. - William Somerville, an Edinburgh doctor, accompanied the invading forces of Major-General Craig when the British took the Cape in 1795. He remained at the Cape for some years, accompanying Major-General Dundas to the eastern districts during the height of conflict on the frontier. Subsequently he accompanied an expedition to the Orange River. On both occasions he recorded the cultures of the indigenous people whom he met, and the flora and fauna. [Boeknr.: 34541 ]

€ 25,00

SOUTH-AFRICA. Caffers. (Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802-07).Handcoloured aquatint plate by L. Portman after J. Kuyper, depicting a man and woman with child from Bantu peoples in South-Africa. Ca. 13,5 x 9 cm. In: M. Stuart, De mensch zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol. - The first Dutch treatise on geographical anthropology. - Fine.Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 448; Tiele 1065. [Boeknr.: 32966 ]

€ 45,00

SOUTH-AFRICA. Monoemugi. (Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802-07).Handcoloured aquatint plate by L. Portman after J. Kuyper, depicting a man and woman of Zimbabwe, South-Africa. Ca. 13,5 x 9 cm. In: M. Stuart, De mensch zoo als hij voorkomt op den bekenden aardbol. - The first Dutch treatise on geographical anthropology. - Fine.Landwehr, Coloured Plates, 448; Tiele 1065. [Boeknr.: 32968 ]

€ 45,00

SOUTH-AFRICA. Scenes from the Sunny South. London, Harvey, Greenacre and Co., 1890.Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, a.e.g. With 76 photographic scenes. With bookplate of I. & F.W. Hosken. - 'The object of this work is to present in an attractive form and convenient size some idea of the beauty of the country, the style of buildings, and the mode of life in South Africa'. Including views of Johannesburg and Barberton during the first two years of their existence (SAB. IV p.139). - (First fly-leaf missing). - Fine. [Boeknr.: 35057 ]

€ 125,00

SOUTH-AFRICA. SOUTH AFRICA IN PRINT. - Catalogue of an exhibition of books, atlases and maps held in the South African Library, Cape Town .. in commemoration of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape 6 April 1652. Cape Town, Book Exhibition Committee Van Riebeeck Festival, 1952. Half cloth. With plates. XII,187 pp. [Boeknr.: 32805 ]

€ 35,00

SPARRMAN, Anders. A voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, towards the Antarctic polar circle, and round the world, but chiefly into the country of the Hottentots and Caffres from the year 1772, to 1776. Translated from the Swedish original. 2nd edition corrected. London, G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1786.2 volumes. 4to. Contemporary diced russia, gilt, rebacked. With engraved frontispiece depicting the Cape of Good Hope, large folding engraved map of the Cape of Good Hope (marginal tears repaired) and 9 engraved plates (4 folding). XXVIII,368; VIII,356,(1) pp. First English edition: London 1785; first Swedish edition was published in Stockholm in 1783: Resa till Goda Hopps-Udden; first edition in English was published in London in 1785. - Sparrman (1748-1820), a Swedish naturalist, went to South Africa with the Swedish East India Company. He made several excursions into the country in search of natural history specimens. It is described by Mr. Theal as the 'most trustworthy account of the Cape Colony and the various races of people then residing in it' that had been published in the eightheenth century. In 1772, J.R. Forster, engaged him to accompany Captain Cook on his second voyage as assistant naturalist. His account includes mention of a hairbreath escape from collision of Cook's two ships, the Adventure and the Resolution, not recorded elsewhere. Sparrman left the Resolution when it returned to Cape Town in March 1775. He resumed his naturalist studies in South Africa and also undertook ethnological research among the region's native Hottentot people. In 1778, Sparrman was back in Sweden, where he had been appointed president of the natural history collection of Stockholm's Academy of Sciences. Sparrman's account of Cook's voyage of 1772-75 helped popularize the newly devised Linnaen system of classification and nomenclature by applying it to the new varieties of plants and animals he had collected. It also includes some of the earliest ethnological studies of the native peoples of South Africa. - (Some light foxing). Mendelssohn II p.414-15; SAB IV, p.362; Beddie 1277; Scheybeler, Paolo Bianchi Collection, 339; Du Rietz, Kroepelien, 1222: apparently the best of the editions of the English version. [Boeknr.: 33191 ]

€ 2250,00

SPEKE, John Hanning. Les sources du Nil. Journal de voyage. Traduit de l'Anglais, avec autorisation de l'auteur par E.D. Forgues. 3me édition. Paris, Hachette, 1881.Original printed wrappers (sl. dam.), uncut. With 4 folding maps and 78 wood-engravings. 579 pp. First published in London in 1863: Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile. - John Hanning Speke (1827-64), English army officer, big game hunter, whose claim to have located the source of the Nile was proved correct after years of dispute. Speke, together with captain Grant, were the first Europeans to cross Equatorial Eastern Africa. His account is one of the cornerstone books of African exploration. It remains one of the 'absolutely vital sources of evidence on the history of East Africa in the ninetenth century (Oxford DNB).Ibrahim-Hilmy p.255; Czech p.260-261 (English ed.); Hess & Coger 417 (English ed.); Howgego IV, S53. [Boeknr.: 1758 ]

€ 175,00

STANLEY, Henry Morton. In darkest Africa or the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.2 volumes. Original green pictoral cloth (vol. I stained). With 2 steelengraved frontispiece portraits, 3 folding maps and 150 wood-engravings. XIV,547; XVI,540 pp. First American edition. - Account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley's (1841-1904) last African expedition (1887-1889) with 700 members. He ascended the Congo River and then marched across central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha, the German-born governor of southern Sudan's Equatoria province, who had been cut off from Anglo-Egyptian forces to the north since the outbreak of a Muslim revolt six years earlier. Together they explored the Semliki River and established it as the principal connection between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. While in the region, Stanley made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range (the fabled 'Mountains of the Moon') and arrived in Zanzibar in late 1889. He was the second European to cross Central Africa from west to east. Stanley had concluded treaties with various native chiefs which he transferred to Sir William Mackinnon's company and so laid the foundation of the British East African Protectorate - Internally good copy of Stanley's classic travel narrative, a monument in the history of African exploration.Hess & Coger 155; Howgego IV, p.876-877. [Boeknr.: 11891 ]

€ 375,00

STANLEY, Henry Morton. Caricature portrait. London, Vanity Fair, 1872.Chromolithographed portrait from the series Men of the day, with text 'He found Livingstone', published by the Vanity Fair Magazin. Ca. 31 x 19 cm. Fine caricature portrait of the Anglo-American journalist and colonizer in Central Africa Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904). The meeting of Stanley and Livingstone is one of the high points of African exploration using the phrase: 'Dr. Livingstone, I presume'. Stanley arrived to a heroic welcome in New York on 20-11-1872. [Boeknr.: 32281 ]

€ 75,00

STANLEY, Henry Morton. In darkest Africa or the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, governor of Equatoria. 5th edition. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1891.2 volumes. Original pictorial cloth. With 4 (3 folding) coloured maps, 38 plates and numerous wood-engravings. XV,529; XV,472;(2) pp. First published in 1890. - Account of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, Stanley's (1841-1904) last African expedition (1887-1889) with 700 members. He ascended the Congo River and then marched across central Africa in command of a relief expedition for Emin Pasha, the German-born governor of southern Sudan's Equatoria province, who had been cut off from Anglo-Egyptian forces to the north since the outbreak of a Muslim revolt six years earlier. Together they explored the Semliki River and established it as the principal connection between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. While in the region, Stanley made European discovery of the Ruwenzori Range (the fabled 'Mountains of the Moon') and arrived in Zanzibar in late 1889. He was the second European to cross Central Africa from west to east. Stanley had concluded treaties with various native chiefs which he transferred to Sir William Mackinnon's company and so laid the foundation of the British East African Protectorate - A very fine copy of Stanley's classic travel narrative, a monument in the history of African exploration.Hess & Coger 155; Howgego IV, p.876-877. [Boeknr.: 36676 ]

€ 375,00

STANLEY, Henry Morton. Mijne zwarte metgezellen en hunne zonderlinge verhalen. Naar het Engelsch door Johs. Dyserinck. Haarlem, De Erven Loosjes, 1894.Original pictorial brown cloth (rubbed). With illustrations by Walter Buckley. (12),367 pp. First published in London in 1893: My dark companions and their strange stories. - Entertaining collection of legends as told to Stanley by Central African tribes-people. [Boeknr.: 31719 ]

€ 65,00

STAVORINUS, Johan Splinter. Reize van Zeeland over de Kaap de Goede Hoop naar Batavia, Bantam, Bengalen, enz. gedaan in de jaaren 1768 tot 1771. Gevolgd van eenige belangrijke aanmerkingen over den aart, gewoonten, levenswijze, godsdienstplegtigheden en koophandel der volken in die gewesten. Leyden, A. en J. Honkoop, 1793.2 volumes in 1. Contemporary half calf, with red morocco title-label to spine. With folding map of the Ganges and the Cape of Good Hope by C. van Baarsel. XXIV,294; 146,(2) pp. First edition; with bookplate of Percival J.G. Bishop. - Stavorinus (1739-1788), captain and rear admiral of the Admiralty of Zeeland, commanded the ship Goes, which was part of the relief fleet under Commander Jacob Pieter van Braam, which succeeded in relieving the besieged Malacca in the battles from 29 May to 21 June 1784. In battles from 2 to 12 August and 29 October to 27 November 1784, Selangore and Riouw were successively liberated when the VOC got into serious difficulties there. 'This work affords an accurate and valuable account of the Cape in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, with an interesting description of Cape Town and its inhabitants' (Mendelssohn). Including also large accounts of Batavia and Bengal. His accounts were published by his son. - A key work on the Dutch in Africa and in the East. - Last 3 leaves sl. waterstained otherwise a fine copy. - Very rare. Mendelssohn II, p.426; S.A.B.IV, p.385; Landwehr, VOC, 296; Cat. NHSM I, p.178; Tiele 1044. [Boeknr.: 27409 ]

€ 1250,00

STELLENBOSCH. Stellenbosch 1679-1929. (Stellenbosch), Hortors Beperk, 1929. 4to. Pictorial cloth. With many photographic illustrations. 149 pp. Contributions by A.C. Bouman, J.L.M. Franken, J. du Plessis, W. Blommaert, J.A. Wiid, P. Serton and C.D. Marx. [Boeknr.: 35040 ]

€ 40,00

STERLING, Th. & G.H.T. KIMBLE. Ontdekkingen in Afrika. Den Haag, W. Gaade, (1964). 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With illustrations (several in colours). 153 pp. [Boeknr.: 32370 ]

€ 18,00

STOKRAM, Andries. Korte beschryvinghe van de ongeluckige wederom-reyse van het schip Aernhem (.. onder het gebiedt van Arnoudt de Vlamingh van Oudtshoorn). Ingeleid en van aantekeningen voorzien door A.J. Schneiders. Den Haag, Servire, 1942. Boards. With illustrated facsimile of the journal (Saeghman edition). 15,(16) pp. The author shipwrecked and lived seven months on the island of Mauritius. [Boeknr.: 6194 ]

€ 20,00

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 dust-jacket. 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. - Fine. [Boeknr.: 11246 ]

€ 75,00

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. Cape Town, 1982. Cloth. With plates. (10),462 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 13. - Hendrik Swellengrebel Jr (1734-1803) was the son of Hendrik Swellengrebel who served as governor for a number of years and retained extensive properties there. The younger Swellengrebel lived a comfortable life in the Netherlands, but visited the Cape between 1776-1777. Thereafter he retained an interest in Cape affairs. He became associated with the rebel Cape Patriot movement and did much to promote its economy. His letters contain much information on the social history of the colony in the last quarter of the 18th century. [Boeknr.: 34538 ]

€ 30,00

TANG, Dirk J. Slavernij. Een geschiedenis. Zutphen, Walburg Pers, 2013. Pictorial boards. With many coloured illustrations. 237 pp. [Boeknr.: 33090 ]

€ 35,00

TANGANYIKA. Tanganyika territory. Exhibition handbook. Issued by the British Empire Exhibition Central Committee of Tanganyika. London, Jas. Truscott & Son, 1924.Sm.8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. With large folding coloured map, several photographic plates and advertisements. 215,XXIII pp. German East Africa was transferred to British control under a mandate from the League of Nations. in 1920. It lasted until 1961, when the territory became independent. In 1964 it merged with Zanzibar to become the United Republic of Tanzania. - Rare. [Boeknr.: 37150 ]

€ 125,00

THEAL, George MacCall. Belangrijke historische dokumenten verzameld in de Kaap kolonie en elders. Kaapstad, Van de Sandt de Villiers & Co, 1896-1911. 3 volumes in 2. Red cloth (vol. I-II modern cloth). From the contents: Instructie van den commissaris Hendrik Adriaan van Rheede, 1685; Verscheidene dokumenten betrekking hebbende tot den oproermaker Estienne Barbier, 1739; Reis van den gouverneur Joachim van Plettenberg, 1778; The antiquity of man in South Africa; Bushman paintings; Reis naar Delagoa Baai in 1688; Reizen naar Inhambane in 1732 en 1733; Reis van den vaandrig Beutler in 1752; Reis naar Inhambane in 1770; Extracten uit de Resolutien van de Vergadering van Zeventien 1698-1708; Extracten uit de Resolutien van de Kamer van Amsterdam 1706; etc. - Scarce. [Boeknr.: 35032 ]

€ 275,00

THEAL, George MacCall. Korte geschiedenis van Zuid-Afrika van 1486 tot 1835. 2e verbeterde en vermeerderde uitgaaf. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1891. Original cloth. With 7 tinted plates and 12 maps (some folding or coloured). 365 pp. George McCall Theal (1837-1919 was the most prolific and influential South African historian, archivist and genealogist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.SAB IV p.478. [Boeknr.: 23306 ]

€ 95,00

THEAL, George MacCall. History of South Africa. Volume IV: From the foundation of the European settlement to our own times (1834-1854). London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1893. Original red cloth. With 6 maps (4 folding). 629 pp. - (With library stamp of Doctrina et Amicitia Amsterdam). [Boeknr.: 35026 ]

€ 30,00

THEAL, George MacCall. History of South Africa. Volume V: The Republics and native territories from 1854 to 1872. London, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1889. Original red cloth. With folding map. XV, 448 pp. - (With library stamp of Doctrina et Amicitia Amsterdam). [Boeknr.: 35027 ]

€ 30,00

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

€ 30,00

THOM, Alexander. Onderzoek naar den aard en koers der stormen in den Indischen Oceaan bezuiden de linie, ten einde derzelver oorsprong, uitgestrektheid ..en mede gepaard gaande verschijnselen te leeren kennen; met het praktisch doel om schepen in staat te stellen de nabijheid en betrekkelijke rigting der orkanen te kunnen bepalen. Uit het Engelsch vertaald door S. van Delden. Amsterdam, C.F. Stemler, 1849.Original blue boards (spine dam.). With folding chart of the Indian Ocean and 7 folding diagrams. XVI,368 pp. English edition published in London in 1845: An inquiry into the nature and course of storms in the Indian Ocean south of the Equator, with a view of discovering their origin, extent, rotatory character, rate and direction of progression, barometric depression...for the practical purpose of enabling ships to ascertain the proximity and relative position of hurricanes. Classic work by Thom, a surgeon in the Royal County Down Regiment. Much about Mauritius and the Rodriguez Hurricane of 1843.Cat. NHSM II, p.717 [Boeknr.: 20945 ]

€ 95,00

THOMPSON, George. Reizen en ontmoetingen in het zuiden van Afrika, behelzende een overzigt over den tegenwoordigen toestand dier kolonie; benevens eenige aanmerkingen over den aanwas en de vooruitzigten der Britsche landverhuizingen derwaarts. Uit het Engelsch veraald. Groningen, W. van Boekeren, 1828.2 volumes. Original half cloth, with red morocco title-labels on spines. With 2 aquatint frontispieces, folding map of South Africa and folding plan of Cape Town and 7 aquatint plates. XX,(2),439; X,457 pp. First Dutch edition, first published in English in London in 1827 Travels and adventures in Southern Africa. - George Thompson (1796-1889), who arrived in the Cape about 1818, was a successful merchant in Cape Town. He married a Dutch woman and travelled widely in southern Africa in the early years of the 19th century. 'In 1821, Mr. Thompson made a six weeks 'excursion to Albany 'to examine into the prospects of the British emigrants' .. he visited Port Elizabeth ('then a hamlet of only three or four houses'), Uitenhage, Graham's Town, Bathurst, George, and many other districts and settlements .. In 1823 and 1824 he proceeded to the Orange River and Bechuanaland, and his account of these regions is recognised as the most important description of this part of the continent published in the early part of the nineteenth century. The third division of the work comprises a review of the condition 'of the Dutch and British inhabitants, of the agricultural, commercial, and financial circumstances of the country and of its adaption of further colonisation. .. This valuable work contains a number of excellent engravings, some of which were contributed by the naturalist Wehdemann, and others by Mr. De Meillon and Dr. Heurtley' (Mendelssohn II, p.494). ' His Travels provides valuable descriptions of the geography, history and natural history' (Howgego II, p.586). 'Both Thompson's 'Travels' and his illustrations stand high in the field of Africana' (Gordon-Brown, Pictorial Africana, p.230). The historian Theal asserted that, 'This book is one of the best that has ever been written upon South Africa' and that the author�s 'powers of observation were keen, his mind free from prejudice, and his style of writing was clear'.- Some waterstaining otherwise a fine copy.Cat. NHSM I, p.209; SAB IV, p.490; not in Tiele and Mendelssohn. [Boeknr.: 34991 ]

€ 1250,00

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 series, 48-49. - George Thompson, who arrived in the Cape about 1818, was a successful merchant in Cape Town. He married a Dutch woman and travelled widely in southern Africa in the early years of the 19th century. [Boeknr.: 32769 ]

€ 45,00

THOMSON, C. Wyville. The voyage of the 'Challenger'. The Atlantic. A preliminary account of the general results of the exploring voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873 and the early part of the year 1876. London, Macmilland and Co., 1877.2 volumes. Contemporary straighted grained green morocco, gilt fillets round sides, with gilt vignette depicting an armed leg couped at the thigh, top edges gilt. With engraved portrait, 42 folding maps and tables and 176 wood-engravings. XXIX,424; XIV,396 pp. First edition, with bookplate of G.S. Foljambe Osberton depicting half a leg. - Sir Wyville Thomas Charles Thomson (1830-1882) was an eminent naturalist, was chosen by the Royal Navy to lead the scientific staff of a global expedition with the HMS Challenger. The expedition crossed the Atlantic in different latitudes, visiting the Canaries, Bermuda, Brazil, Tristan da Cunha and Ascension. The expedition was considered a great success and honours were showered on Thomson as a result. The Challenger Expedition (1872-1876) was a groundbreaking expedition for ocean science.- Some foxing and offsetting of the plates otherwise a very fine copy with interesting provenance.Borba de Moraes II, p.861; SAB IV, p.498; Spence 1197. [Boeknr.: 7920 ]

€ 550,00

THUNBERG, Carl Peter. Travels at the Cape of Good Hope 1772-1775. Based on the English edition London 1793-1795. Edited by V.S. Forbes. Translation from the Swedish revised by J. & I. Rudner. Contributions to the foreword by I. Rudner & J. Rourke. Cape Town, 1986. Cloth. With maps and plates. XLVIII,366 pp. Van Riebeeck Society, 2nd series, 17. - Carl Peter Thunberg (1743 -1828), a Swedish naturalist, entered the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as a surgeon. He stayed three years at the Cape and has been called 'the father of South African botany'. [Boeknr.: 34534 ]

€ 30,00

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, first series, 40. - Joseph Tindall, a Wesleyan missionary, worked in South-West Africa, initially with Jonker Afrikaner in Damaraland. His journal includes much information about local customs and conflicts between Damara groups. [Boeknr.: 32774 ]

€ 25,00

(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 of C. Robert Bignold. - 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. 'It is a delicious mixture of sensational subject-matter and deadpan delivery' (Robinson, Wayward Women, p.248). 'The volume will be found an object of particular curiosity, from the lively and artless manner in which it lays open the interior of the Court of the Bashaw of Tripoli. It contains, we believe, the only exact account which has ever been made publicly known of the private manners and conduct of this African Despot, and details such scenes and events, such sketches of human weakness and vice, the effects of ambition, avarice, envy, intrigue, as will scarcely appear credible in the estimation of a European'. (Preface). This is one of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. 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

TUNIS. COMPAGNIE TUNISIENNE FONCIÈRE, AGRICOLE & INDUSTRIELLE. Paris, Jacques Bélon, (ca. 1890).Share with decorated border and nice view of a plantation, with all 30 coupons attached. Ca. 30 x 40,5 cm. [Boeknr.: 31067 ]

€ 45,00

VALENTIJN, François. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryving der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java .. Suratte .. Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap de Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Dordrecht, Amsterdam, J. van Braam, G. onder de Linden, 1724-1726. Reprint. Franeker, 2002-2004. 5 volumes in 8. Folio. Artificial leather. With 241 portraits, maps, plates and illustrations. One of the most extensive works on the history of the Far East (including Persia), which never can be superseded as many of the documents of which the author made use, do not longer exist. François Valentijn (1666-1727) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who lived for many years on Amboyna and Java. During this period he collected an enormous mass of information, especially in the fields of history, geography and ethnology, concerning all parts of the world where the VOC was active: Indonesia, with large parts on Batavia and the Moluccas, Persia, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Cape of Good Hope, Japan, China and Formosa, etc.. The work is profusely illustrated with numerous fine engraved maps, plans, portraits and spectacular views. They are engraved by the best artists of the time like F. Ottens, J.C. Philips, G. Schouten, J. Goeree etc. mostly after designs by M. Balen. Apart from the fine engravings the work is of particular interest for its cartography. It contains interesting maps of Australia, probably drawn after manuscript maps now lost. For his descriptions of the natural history of Amboyna Valentijn used i.a. the unpublished 'Amboinsch Dierboek' by the famous naturalist Rumphius, of which the original manuscript has been lost. [Boeknr.: 24014 ]

€ 375,00

VALENTIJN, François. Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën, vervattende een naaukeurige en uitvoerige verhandelinge van Nederlands Mogentheyd in die gewesten, benevens eene wydlustige beschryving der Moluccos, Amboina, Banda, Timor, en Solor, Java .. Suratte .. Choromandel, Pegu, Arracan, Bengale, Mocha, Persien, Malacca, Sumatra, Ceylon, Malabar, Celebes of Macassar, China, Japan, Tayouan of Formosa, Tonkin, Cambodia, Siam, Borneo, Bali, Kaap de Goede Hoop en van Mauritius. Dordrecht, Amsterdam, Joannes van Braam, Gerard onder de Linden, 1724-1726.5 parts in 8 volumes. Folio. Contemporary half calf, spines gilt and with black title-labels (later boards). With engraved allegorical frontispiece, printed title-page in red and black, folding portrait of Valentijn, 19 portraits of the Governors-General, and 326 illustrations, maps, plans, bird's-eye views and plates (most of them double-page or folding; including fragments of Javanese manuscripts). First edition. -The most important early work documenting the history of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the East Indies and the Far East, which never can be superseded as many of the documents of which the author made use, do not longer exist. François Valentijn (1666-1727) was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church who lived for many years on Amboyna and Java. During this period he collected an enormous mass of information, especially in the fields of history, geography and ethnology, concerning all parts of the world where the Dutch East India Company was active: Indonesia, with large parts on Batavia and the Moluccas, Persia, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Cape of Good Hope, Japan, China and Formosa. The work is profusely illustrated with fine engraved maps, plans, portraits and spectacular views. They are engraved by the best artists of the time like F. Ottens, J.C. Philips, G. Schouten, J. Goeree etc. mostly after designs by M. Balen. Apart from the fine engravings the work is of particular interest for its cartography. It contains interesting maps of Australia, probably drawn after manuscript maps now lost. For his descriptions of the natural history of Amboyna Valentijn used i.a. the unpublished 'Amboinsch Dierboek' by the famous naturalist Rumphius, of which the original manuscript has been lost. - (Not inserted and also not mentioned in the plate-index is the portrait of Governor General De Haan). - With bookplates of J.C. Pabst and A.A.H. Stolk. - A truely desirable copy.Tiele 1121; Cat. NHSM p.502; Landwehr, VOC, 467; Ruinen C 44; Alt-Japan-Katalog 1570; Cordier, Bibl. Japonica (and) Indosinica col. 426-428 (and) col. 927-930; Nissen, ZBI, 4213; SAB IV, p. 549. [Boeknr.: 33496 ]

€ 39500,00

VERSTEGEN, Math. 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 ]

€ 18,00

VILJOEN, Deon & Piér RABE. Cape furniture and metalware. Cape Town, 2001. Oblong 8vo. Boards, with dust-jacket. With ca. 100 coloured plates, including period interiors. 120 pp. . The book offers fresh perspectives on the broader themes of domestic arrangements, social customs, status and economic activity in relation to furniture-making at the Cape during the Dutch and the British period in the 18th and 19th century. [Boeknr.: 21121 ]

€ 65,00

VILJOEN, Russel. 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

VINGBOONS, Johannes. Verzameling van pas-kaarten, dienende tot de vaart naar Oost- en Westindien; meest alle uitvoerig met de pen getekent: benevens eenige afbeeldingen van voorname eylanden, steden en sterktens, zo wel in de Spaansche Engelsche als Nederlands Indien gelegen: alle zeer net naar't leven met waterverven geschildert. (No pl., ca. 1660). Facsimile with introduction by J. van Bracht. Haarlem, Fibula-Van Dishoeck, 1981.Large folio. Artificial leather with gilt monogram of the V.O.C. and W.I.C. on frontcover. With 107 finely coloured maps, plans and panoramic views (many double page) of the erea covered by the charter of the Dutch East and West India company, with booklet with introduction by J. van Bracht and index in rear pocket. Limited edition of 1000 numbered copies printed. - This splendid facsimile contains handdrawn and painted maps, charts and views, dating from ca. 1660 from the secret map archives of the VOC and WIC. They have never been printed before. Depicting a.o. maps of Madagascar and the Gold Coast, India, Ambon, Achin, Ceylon, Cambodia, Taiwan, Thailand, Macao, Malacca, Japan, the Philippines, Venezuela, Guyana, Brazil and the Caribbean. - A very nice copy. [Boeknr.: 5996 ]

€ 450,00

VISSERING, Gerard. Een Hollander in Zuid-Afrika. Amsterdam, P.N. van Kampen & Zoon, 1900. Original printed wrappers. With portrait. 31 pp. Uitgave ten bate van het Herman Coster-Fonds. - 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).SAB IV, p.679. [Boeknr.: 7408 ]

€ 45,00

WALKER, Eric Anderson. The Great Trek. 2nd edition. London, Adam and Charles Black, 1938. Cloth, with dust-jacket (damaged). With 3 maps and 4 plates. XII,389 pp. The Great Trek was an eastward migration of Dutch-speaking settlers (called Voortrekkers) who travelled by wagon from the Cape Colony into the interior of modern South Africa from 1836 onwards, seeking to live beyond the Cape's British colonial administration. [Boeknr.: 35153 ]

€ 25,00

WALSH, Thomas. Journal of the late campaign in Egypt: including descriptions of that country, and of Gibraltar, Minorca, Malta, Marmorice, and Macri; with an appendix; containing official papers and documents. London, T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1803.4to. Later mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco title label to spine (bound by the Studio Bindery, Surrey). With 50 engraved plates, maps, and plans on 42 sheets (including 6 finely hand-coloured aquatint plates and 7 hand-coloured folding maps and plans including an overlay). VIII,(20),261; (6),145 pp. Second edition, first published in 1801. - Account of the 1800-1801 British campaign against Napoleon's remaining troops in Egypt. Thomas Walsh served as Captain in his Majesty's Ninety-Third Regiment of Foot, Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir Eyre Coote. His journal 'is distinguished by a wide interest in topography, antiquities, and social conditions, as well as purely military topics' (Prideaux 223). The fine engravings are by Samuel John Neele, after Thomas Walsh and the mapsare printed by A. Arrowsmith and Cadell & Davies. - A fine copy.Abbey, Travel, 266; Blackmer Collection 1767; Atabey Collection 1317; Gay 2278; Hilmy II, p.318. [Boeknr.: 1745 ]

€ 1450,00

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, first series, 38. - Theodor Wangemann was a director of the Berlin Missionary Society who came out to South Africa in 1866 to visit the mission stations throughout the country. This work, one of several which Wangemann wrote and a typical example of nineteenth-century German missionary literature, describes mission work in the Lydenburg district of the northern Transvaal. [Boeknr.: 32775 ]

€ 25,00

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. Vivienne Florence Beatrice de Watteville (1900-1957) was a British travel writer and adventurer. She is best remembered for taking charge of and continuing an expedition in the Congo and Uganda at the age of 24, when her father was killed by a lion. [Boeknr.: 8686 ]

€ 35,00

(WEEDA, Paulus). Korte uittreksels uit merkwaardige land- en zeereizen, uitgegeven door de Maatschappij: Tot nut van't algemeen. 2e stukje. Leyden, Deventer, Groningen, Mortier en Zoon, J. de Lange, J. Oomkens, 1842.Original printed wrappers (spine sl. dam.). With 5 folding maps. IV,149 pp. Voyages of Von Humboldt to America, Parry to the Arctic, Franklin to the Arctic, Denham & Clapperton in Africa, Web, Raper & Colebrooke to the Himalaya, Oxley & Sturt in Australia.Cat. NHSM I, p.109. [Boeknr.: 36198 ]

€ 95,00

WEINTHAL, Leo. (Ed.). The story of the Cape to Cairo Railway & River Route from 1887 to 1922. The romance of a great project and how it has materialised. London, The Pioneer Publishing Company Limited, 1923-26.4 volumes + map portfolio. Original black hard-grain half morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Profusely illustrated with mounted photographic portraits, halftone plates (many folding) and text illustrations, and folding maps, most in colour (of which 12 in the map porfolio). First edition. - The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route from 1887 to 1922. The iron spine and ribs of Africa. The Cape to Cairo Railway was an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing Africa from south to north. It would have been the largest and most important railway of that continent. It was planned as a link between Cape Town in South Africa and Port Said in Egypt. The project was conceived by Cecil Rhodes. By 1914 there was already a 2,600-mile link from Cape Town to Bukama in the Congo; two sections of river steamer and an isolated length of Congolese railway took the route to Stanleyville. In the north, the line was continuous from Cairo to Luxor and from Wadi Halfa to Kosti; these two sections were connected by 250 miles of Nile steamer, but the route to cross uncharted parts of the northern Congo and southern Sudan was not even surveyed by the time of publication, and the scheme was never completed.The contents include i.a. essays by Winston Churchill, Francis Younghusband, Harry Johnston, Theodore Roosevelt, and F.C. Selous, on the history, society, and natural conditions of the African states to be traversed by the prospective railway; the mercantile potential of these states and the benefit of rail transport; the railway engineering feats undertaken in East Africa; touristic topics, such as ethnographic studies of tribespeople; big-game hunting; the "mysteries" of the Great Zimbabwe; the progress of colonial society in Cairo; and genial fantasies concerning the future of an "unlocked" continent that would be crossed by great silver airships stopping airily at new cities to disembark their passengers; merchants, mining engineers, and families of colonial administrators' (See Merrington A Staggered Orientalism: The Cape-to-Cairo Imaginary", in Poetics Today 22.2, 2001). Added the rare SYNOPSIS of principal contents. The story of the Cape to Cairo Railway & River Route from 1887 to 1922. London 1922. Wrappers. Profussely illustrated. 50 pp. - A very attractive set of an encyclopaedic work. SAB IV, p.743-744 [Boeknr.: 36428 ]

€ 2750,00

WELCH, Sidney R. Europe's discovery of South Africa. Cape Town and Johannesburg, Juta & Co., (1935). Original cloth, gilt lettering. 365 pp. [Boeknr.: 35012 ]

€ 35,00

WERUMÉUS BUNING, A. De Ruijter's Afrikaansche reis. Een vergeten bladzijde uit het leven van onze grooten zeeheld. Aan het volk verteld. Rotterdam., D. Bolle, (1905).Original decorated cloth (sl. soiled). With portrait. 168 pp. De Ruijter's journey to West Africa and the West Indies, 1664-1665. [Boeknr.: 27340 ]

€ 35,00

WERZ, Bruno 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. Bourds, 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. Verdeel en heers. De deling van Afrika 1880-1914. Amsterdam, Bert Bakker, 1991. Boards. With illustrations. 521 pp. [Boeknr.: 25993 ]

€ 25,00

WET, Christiaan Rudolf de. Three years war (October 1899-June 1902). Westminster, Archibald Constable and Co., 1902.Original cloth (spine discoloured). With frontispiece portrait, folding map and 2 plans. 520 pp. First edition. - Christiaan De Wet (1854-1922), a Dutch Boer soldier, gives an important primary narrative of the Second Boer War.Mendelssohn I, p.460; SAB I, p.68. [Boeknr.: 35018 ]

€ 30,00

WEULE, Karl. Negerleben in Ostafrika. Ergebnisse einer ethnologischen Forschungsreise. 2. Auflage. Leipzig, F.A. Brockhaus, 1909.Original pictorial cloth (sl. rubbed). With folding map coloured in outline, 4 coloured plates and 191 photographic illustrations and plates. XII,524 pp. First published in 1908. - In 1906 Karl Weule (1864 - 1926), a German geographer, traveled to German East Africa. The report about his travels and research was published in German in 1908 and the following year in English as Native life in East Africa; the results of an ethnological research expedition. - Ample description of the little known south part of Tanzania, Makonde Plateau; profusely illustrated.Kainbacher p.450. [Boeknr.: 11340 ]

€ 95,00

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 ]

€ 25,00

WILD, John James. At anchor. A narrative of experiences afloat and ashore during the voyage of H.M.S. 'Challenger' from 1872 to 1876. London, Marcus Ward and Co., 1878.Folio. Original elaborated pictorial green cloth gilt (partly soiled), a.e.g. With coloured double-page map, 12 tipped-in chromo-lithographs and 169 typo etchings in the text. 198 pp. First edition. - The Challenger expedition, which embarked from Portsmouth, England on 21 December 1872, was a grand tour of the world covering 68,000 nautical miles organized by the Royal Society in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh. British scientist Charles Thomson led a large scientific team which accompanied the crew. Abundantly illustrated with topographical and ethnographical sketches. The fine coloured plates and illustrations are all by the author. They visited Teneriffe, Bermudas, Cape of Good Hope, Sydney, Torres Strait, Hongkong, Yokohama and Valparaiso. - A landmark journey circumnavigating the globe.Ferguson 18556; NZNB 6070; SAB IV, p.779; Spence 1258; Du Rietz 1347; Mendelssohn II, p.609-610. [Boeknr.: 1756 ]

€ 975,00

WILKES, Charles. Narrative of the United States exploring expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard, 1845.5 volumes. Contemporary speckled calf, spines with raised bands, gilt ruled and green morocco title labels. With 11 folding maps (10 folding), 64 steel-engraved plates and ca. 300 wood-engravings in the text. Official trade edition, this edition and all later editions later than 1845 appeared without the atlas (Haskell p.40); the official first edition, of which only 100 copies were printed, issued also in 1845. - The first major American expedition visited and explored the coast of South America, over 200 Pacific islands, Australia and New Zealand (1839-40), the Hawaiian Islands (1840-41), the northwest coast of America and California (1841) and the South Pacific again in 1841. In 1842 he visited South Africa. Wilkes did find icecovered land, now called Wilkes Land, west of Adélie Land. He also surveyed more than two thousand kilometres of Antarctic coastline, confirming the existence of a vast polar continent. The expedition was made up of a number of notable American scientists, and their botanical, natural history and geological findings are included. 'Wilkes was tried in a court-martial for numerous varieties of scandalous conduct, neglect of duty, cruelty, oppression and illegal punishment of seamen' (Conrad p.50). 'Charles Wilkes, no poster-boy of American polar exploration, was a flogging tyrant, paranoid and peevish, insecure and insensitive. Yet as 'Commander' of the United States Exploring Expedition of 1838-42, Wilkes achieved a great deal of lasting significance, not only in his relatively brief visit to Antarctica but throughout the four-year voyage, especially in the South Pacific Islands' (Stam, Books on ice, p.80). - A nice set of Wilkes�s great United States Exploring Expedition. Haskell 3, Cf. Sabin 103994; Hill 1866; Ferguson 5584; NZNB 6072; Mendelssohn II, p.610; O'Reilly/Reitman 995; Forbes 1575. [Boeknr.: 11901 ]

€ 2450,00

WILLINK, Robert Joost. The fateful journey. The expedition of Alexine Tinne and Theodor von Heuglin in Sudan (1863-1864). Amsterdam, University Press, 2011. 8vo. Wrappers. With many illustrations (several in colours). 456 pp. This compelling, richly illustrated study recounts the last African journeys of the intrepid Dutch traveller Alexine Tinne (1835-1869). [Boeknr.: 33056 ]

€ 75,00

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

€ 30,00

ZEE, Henri van der. 's Heeren slaaf. Het dramatische leven van Jacobus Capitein (1717-1747). (Amsterdam), Balans, 2000. Wrappers. With portrait. 176 pp. Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein (ca. 1717 - 1747) was a Dutch Christian minister of Ghanaian birth who was one of the first known sub-Saharan Africans to study at a European university and one of the first Africans to be ordained as a minister in the Dutch Reformed Church. He is credited with spreading the use of the written word in his native Ghana. Though a former slave, Capitein wrote a dissertation defending the right of Christians to keep slaves. [Boeknr.: 2815 ]

€ 18,00

ZUIDHOEK, Arne. De mooiste schepen van De Holland West-Afrika Lijn. Zaltbommel, Aprilis, 2006. Boards. With 150 photographic plates. 124 pp. [Boeknr.: 29065 ]

€ 20,00

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