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AKELEY, Carl Ethan. In brightest Africa. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Cloth (soiled). With many photographic plates. XVIII,267 pp. Hunting stories in Uganda and Congo, including the story of killing a leopard with bare hands. Czech p.2. [Boeknr.: 35113 ]

€ 25,00

CUSSAC, J. Évêque et pionnier Monseigneur Streicher. Paris, Éditions de la Savane, (1955). Pictorial wrappers. With maps and photographic plates. 277 pp. Henri Streicher (1863-1952) worked in the Apostolic Vicariate of Victoria Nyanza, Africa. [Boeknr.: 23947 ]

€ 25,00

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


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