Southern African Exploration from Springbok Books
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WANDERINGS AND ADVENTURES IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
por Andrew Steedman
- Condição
- Usado - Good
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1835
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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Each volume has a tissue-guarded frontispiece and engraved title page. Illustrated with tissue-guarded steel engravings on plates and a folded map at the end of volume 1. The text pages are creamy white and for the most part free of foxing. The photos reveal the condition of these volumes.
The Appendices, which extend to 213 pages, also include a letter and… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA
por James Chapman
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- Usado - Good
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1868
- Encadernação
- Original binding, as issued
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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€ 602,42
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James Chapman's TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA, Comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting and Trading; With Journeys Across the Continent From Natal to Walvisch Bay, and Visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls
1868 Bell & Daldy, London, First Edition: 2 volumes. These original first editions are very, very rare.
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Travels in South Africa
por Reverend John Campbell
- Condição
- Usado - Good
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1822
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- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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€ 282,38
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You will not find a cheaper first edition anywhere else.
2-volume set bound into a single volume, 1822 first editions
Only one of the illustrations is an original hand-colored aquatint, all of the others are facsimile reproductions, for a total of 12 illustrations. The large folding map is a facsimile. 2 leaves of text are also facsimile. This book was formerly in… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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The Wild Sports of Southern Africa
por William Cornwallis Harris
- Condição
- Usado - Very Good
- Edição
- First British edition, First printing
- Published
- 1839
- Encadernação
- Original binding, as issued
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- 1
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The first British edition 1839
Contents complete with all plates present and fold-out map at rear. The ORIGINAL publisher's binding is still in very good condition with only age-related wear and staining to bottom corners of cloth, and pastedowns and 2 or 3 leaves in front and at end. We have never seen a nicer copy of this edition. Foxing is… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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Excursions in Southern Africa
por Lt-Colonel E. Elers Napier
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- Usado - Very Good
- Published
- 1850
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- 1
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2 Volumes, rebacked preserving much of the original cloth
Originally published in 1849, this set is the 1850 edition, This set is not plagued by foxing.
In 1846 Napier was sent to the Cape with other special service field officers to organize the native levies, and commanded bodies of irregulars during the Kaffir war of 1846-1847.
An account of the Cape Colony from… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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Personal Adventure in South Africa
por Reverend George Brown
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- Usado - Very Good
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1855
- Encadernação
- Original binding, as issued
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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€ 376,51
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This is a very rare book in original cloth binding, with gilt to spine and blindstamp to boards. See the photos, which provide the best details about condition. Cloth at spine heel splitting, and other wear as expected for a book from 1855.
A missionary's account of the Kaffir war of 1850-2. [The Reverend] Brown was stationed at Igqibira, a small… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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Ten Years North Of The Orange River
por John Mackenzie
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- Usado - Very Good
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1871
- Encadernação
- Original binding, as issued
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Original cloth. Some splitting outer hinges, and spine ends. A very rare first edition. See the photos, which provide the best information about condition. Preço do item
€ 423,58
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TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN EASTERN AFRICA
por Nathaniel Isaacs
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- Usado - Very Good
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1836
- Encadernação
- Full Leather Binding
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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€ 1.882,59
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2 volumes. First Edition. Illustrated with 4 stone lithographic plates including the only eye witness portrait of Chaka Zulu and a folding map of Port Natal.
A very good set
"Nathaniel Isaacs's account of Natal and Zululand is unique and, as the historian Theal remarks, "a very interesting book, indispensable to a student of early events in Natal". For it is to… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
por Francis Galton
- Condição
- Usado - Near Fine
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1853
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- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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€ 470,64
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Sturdily rebound first edition. Complete with four color chromolithographs, one monochrome plate, and four in-text engravings, plus colored folding map. Galton traveled and explored with Charles John Andersson.
Francis Galton's brilliant travel account of his time spent exploring the Tropics of South Africa. At the time of this expedition South West Africa was still little explored, with his vivid account filling… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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AFRICAN SKETCHES
por Thomas Pringle
- Condição
- Usado - Near Fine
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1834
- Encadernação
- Beautiful Full Leather Binding
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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€ 494,18
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"This volume reproduces the South African poems published [earlier in 1824] in EPHEMERIDES, and others which appeared in various periodicals to which the author was an occasional contributor. The NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN SOUTH AFRICA is published for the first time, having been delayed owing to Mr Pringle's duties as 'Secretary to the Society for the Abolition of Slavery… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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Livingstone's Travels and Researches in South Africa
por David Livingstone
- Condição
- Usado - Very Good+
- Edição
- Illustrated Edition
- Published
- 1860
- Encadernação
- Original binding, as issued
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- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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The edition offered here is the only one issued with color lithograph plates, and is rare. 12 chromolithograph plates.
David Livingstone (1813-73) undertook three great journeys through Africa, exploring vast regions unknown to Europeans. Appalled at the terrible effects of the slave trade on African life, he became a fierce abolitionist. His "Missionary Travels" was first published in London, 1857,… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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An Expedition of Discovery into the Interior of Africa
por Sir James Edward Alexander, K.L.S.
- Condição
- Usado - Very Good
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1838
- Encadernação
- Original binding, as issued
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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€ 1.670,81
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This 2-volume First edition, published in 1838, is extremely rare.
2 volumes, engraved frontispieces in each volume, folding map, 6 engraved plates and 7 engravings in the text, original blind stamped blue straight grained cloth, titled and decorated gilt on the spines, edges uncut, original endpapers intact, bookplate on each front paste-down endpaper and a corresponding small stamp on the front… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
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THE FAR INTERIOR
por Walter Montagu Kerr
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- Usado - Very Good
- Condição de sobrecapa
- No DJ, as issued
- Edição
- First edition, First printing
- Published
- 1886
- Encadernação
- Original binding, as issued
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Livreiro
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Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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€ 941,29
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First edition. Two Volumes: Frontispiece portrait of the author in volume 1 (an actual sepia photograph is mounted), engraved frontispiece in volume 2, numerous illustrations on plates as well as in-text, folding map at the end of volume 2 with the author's route indicated in red.
The images I have provided demonstrate the condition of these volumes, which have signs of… Ler mais sobre este item Preço do item
€ 941,29