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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

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

ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Afrikanische Wanderungen eines Naturforschers und Jägers. Deutsche autorisierte Ausgabe. Übersetzung von Max Kullnick. Berlin, Paul Parey, 1910.Original pictorial cloth, with gilt lettering (extremities of spine sl. dam.). With map and 48 plates after photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and drawings by Ph.R. Goodwin. XVI,464 pp. First German edition, first published in New York in 1910: African game trails. - Hunting adventures in British East Africa. 'One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost continnuously in print until the 1930s. Roosevelt's total bag was enormous even by the liberal standards of that era' (Czech p.238-39).Kainbacher p.348. [Boeknr.: 24786 ]