London: Blackwood's Magazine, 1863. Ephemera. An exerpt (pages 264-266 only) from Blackwood's Magazine, October of 1863, anouncing John Hanning Speke's return from his second attempt to discover the source of the Nile River. A rather scarce bit of ephemera. Tiny bit of tan at edges, faint wrinkle; else Fine. In modern stiff paper binding; blue, with a paper label on the front cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. View More...
London: Blackwood's Magazine, 1864. Famed African explorer John Hanning Speke returned from his second expedition, claiming to have discovered the source of the Nile. He was wrong, but it was a noble effort. One year after giving his report to the Royal Geographical Society, he died in a hunting accident. Here is the announcement of his death, from Blackwood's Magazine in October of 1864. Incomplete; pages 513-515 only. Fine condition, bright and clear. Bound in modern stiff green paper covers with a paper label on the front cover. . First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" -... View More...
London: Blackwood's Magazine, 1866. Ephemera. An exerpt (pages 205-224 only) from Blackwood's Magazine, August of 1866, with a summary of the expeditions to the source of the Nile by Speke, Grant, and Baker. A rather nice bit of historical ephemera, in modern stiff paper binding; blue, with a paper label on the front cover. Text is Fine; binding nearly so, with a smudge on the rear cover.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition. View More...
Buffalo: Phinney & Co., 1851. First published in 1849 by G.P. Putnam; this is a Very Good (Plus) copy of a Later Printing, from two years later. Institutional holdings, but not a common book in the trade. Brown cloth binding, decoratively stamped; decorations and titling on the spine in gilt. Clean text; 162 pages; frontis engraving and map, other illustrations. Contemporary signature (1855) on the FFEP, along with a bookseller chop. The front paste-down has an inked number, probably signifying a private library. There is a laid-in clipping (which looks of the era) of a song/poem at Page 106. ... View More...
London: Royal Geographic Society/John Murray, 1873. The Brazilian/Portuguese explorer Francisco Jose de Lacerda e Almeida led an expedition to what is now part of Zambia; Burton's translation was a significant boon to African exploration; this title is one of the more desirable in his canon. Burton's portion ends at page 164; the book also includes "Journey of the Pombetros" translated by B.A. Beadle and "Resume of MM. Monteiro and Gamitto" by Dr. C.T. Beke. Penzer notes that Burton had also done two appendices that were rejected by the Society as controversial. This is a Very Good (minus) co... View More...
London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. Captain Burton's expedition had the goal of curtailing the slave trade; say what one needs to regarding colonialism, Britain made true efforts during the mid-19th Century to stop the slavers. These are Very Good copies of the Second Edition (stated), which corrects the misnumbered page 181 in the foirst issue. Marbled paper-covered boards with leather tips and spine; titling and rules in gilt on the spine. Perhaps a 19th-Century rebind. Clean texts; spotting to the endpapers and title pages; otherwise clear, bright, and unfoxed. Volume I is xvii, 386 pages with ... View More...
London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1876. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition [Penzer, pp. 92-93] in a contemporary rebind. One of the scarcer Burton titles. Red cloth boards with tips and spine in red leather. Clean text; xii, 275 pages; marbled endpapers; top-edge is gilt. Indexed. With a tipped-in errata slip. Before the Title Page is a two-page illustration of a "Synoptical Table of the Paleo-Ethnological Remains of Central Italy." The textblock is Fine, fresh and bright, but the binding has issues. Both boards are present, but fragilr, with the front close to being disbound. The spine s... View More...
London/New York: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd. & E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1924. Published initially in 1856. This is a Fine copy of Dent's "Everyman's Library" edition [#500], which was "First Published in this Edition 1910" with this being the Second Printing, from 1924. Not common. Gray/green ribbed cloth binding with titling in gilt on the spine; blindstamped ornamental device on the front cover. Clean text; xx, 363 pages; with a 15-page catalog of Everyman titles (920 at this point) in the rear. A lovely little book, patiently awaiting its place on your nightstand.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fin... View More...
London & New York: J.M. Dent & Co. & E.P. Dutton & Co., 1910. This is a Later Printing from "The Everyman's Library Edited by Ernest Rhys" in Very Good condition. Green ribbed cloth binding with the Dent logo stamped on the front cover; Decorative titling in gilt on the spines. Clean text; xx, 363 pages; decorative endpapers. This printing lacks a specific publication date or the catalog seen in previous printings. Light bumping; creasing to the front panel; some splash/spots to the top-edge. A decent reading copy.. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. View More...
London/Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1875. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890) is most-famed for eitherr his African explorations or his erotica. But he also spent the summer of 1872 in Iceland, where he made his typical keen observations. Penzer notes that he wrote a sequel, but it was never published. These are Near Fine copies of the First Edition, a scarce title. Two volumes, in a nicely-done modern library rebind. Blue cloth with designs in green and silver; titling on the spine in green and gilt. Clean texts, very fresh, bright, and unmarked or foxed. Volume One has xix, 380 pa... View More...
New York: Horizon Press, 1961. First published in 1860, this is Burton's classic account of one of the greatest feats of 19th Century African exploration by the fascinating/adventuring polymath. Burton is always an engrossing read;, and this is considered by Alan Moorhead (who writes the Introduction here) to be his best-written book. These are Fine copies of a well-produced set of two volumes. Brick red cloth bindings with green cloth spines; titling on the spines in gilt and silver. Clean texts: xxiii, 412 pages; and vii, 468 pages, with Appendices and Index;. Reproduces the 35 illustrations... View More...
Stanford: Stanford General Books, 2006. An interesting take on the rivalry between Burton and Speke regarding the Source of the Nile; both are interesting (and difficult) historical characters. Speke won the race but not the Reputation Wars. This is a Fine copy of the First Edition [stated "Original Printing 2006"]; oddly, a scarce title. Black cloth binding with titling ingilt on the spine. Clean text; 140 pages. With Notes, Works Cited, and Index. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. View More...
Philadelphia, Springfield, Chicago, et.al.: Hubbard Brothers, Et.al., 1878. Joel T. Headley (1813-1897), clergyman and newspaperman (he edited Horace Greeley's New York "Tribune"), wrote several popular histories, including works on the American Civil War and another, later volume on Stanley. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition. The Title Page gives a bit of a summary of English imperial exploration: "Comprising all the late and really great achievements won in the exploration of the vast unknown region of equatorial Africa; chief among which are the finding of the lost Livingstone b... View More...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1854. First publ;ished in 1853; this is a Very Good copy of the Second Printing, from a year later. Brown publisher's cloth binding with gilt titling and nautical decorations on the spine and front cover. Clean text; xi, 552 pages; illustrated with maps and numerous engarvings. (Contains an interesting Note from the author, explaining how he was unable to do the final edit before publication, due to leaving on a second Polar expedition.) Exceptionally bright and supple textblock, unfoxed. Lightly rubbed at the margins, more so at the bottom tips; small ... View More...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1858. John Lander (1806-1839) and his brother Richard (1804-1834) were the first Europeans to follow the course of the Niger to its terminus in the Atlantic. First published in 1832; this is a Good copy of a Later Printing. Quercus speculates that this is part of Harper's "Famil;y Library" series, as it matches seen copies. This edition was printed in two volumes. Tthis is Volume II only, and is missing the cloth of its spine. The binding is brown cloth (which presumably had gilt titling at one time!). Clean text; vii, continuing from 9 to 337 pages. F... View More...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1839. John Lander (1806-1839) and his brother Richard (1804-1834) were the first Europeans to follow the course of the Niger to its terminus in the Atlantic. First published in 1832; this is a Very Good (Minus) set of an early printing from seven years later. Historical significance and not common. Two small volumes of Harper's "Stereotype Edition," numbers 35 and 36 of "The Family Library." Pebbled brown cloth bindings with gilt titling on the spines. Clean texts, bright and clear, with occasional spotting. Illustrations throughout. Volume One is xiii, map, then c... View More...
Philadelphia: G.G. Evans, 1858. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First American Edition, "Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast, Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean...To Which is Added a Historical Sketch of Discoveries in Africa. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings." Publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped on the covers; ruled, with gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; 446 pages. Very bright and clear; unfoxed; a couple of spots to the f... View More...
Philadelphia: J.W. Bradley, 1858. "Including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast, Thence Across the Continent, Down the River Zambesi, to the Eastern Ocean...To Which is added A Historical Sketch of Discoveries in Africa. Illustrated with Numerous Engravings." This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition of Stanley's famous travails in Africa. Brown publisher's cloth binding, heavily stamped with decorations; gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; xiv, then begins at "9" continuing to 440... View More...
Hartford/Newark/Toledo/Chicago/San Francisco: R.W. Bliss & Company [& Others], 1875. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition, "Published by Subscription Only" and "Abridged from the Original London Edition. With a Narrative of His Last Moments and Sufferings, Obtained from His Faithful Servants Chumash and Susi by Horace Waller, F.R.G.S." Brick red cloth binding, decoratively stamped and filled with gilt on the front cover with an image of Livingstone crossing a river carried on the shoulders of a native. Clean text; xvii, 448 pages. 28 other illustrations, and a map. Frontis po... View More...
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1866. The Scottish missionary David Livinstone (1813-1873) was one of several famous explorers, including Burton, Speke, and Baker, who shared the Victorian obsession with discovering the sources of the Nile. His brother Charles (1821-1873) likewise had his health broken by Africa. This is a Very Good copy of the First American Edition. Red cloth binding with black titling on the spine. Clean text; 2-page illustration of the Great Cataracts of the Zambesi, xxii, 638 pages, fold-out map, and a six-page publisher's catalog of "Books of Travel and Adventur... View More...
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