Item 26534The Pilgrim's way in South Africa.
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London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1928. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Pilgrim's way in South Africa Add to Wish List
Item #26534
Price: $150
London: Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1928. First Edition. Read More Item Details for The Pilgrim's way in South Africa Add to Wish List
Item #26534
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Johannesburg, South Africa: Brenthurst Press, 1996-2004. Copy E of 25 (later 20) copies in full binding, for Robert S. Pirie. Presentation Bindings. Choice set of the third series of Brenthurst Library works on the history and natural history of South Africa, in finely executed presentation bindings (variously by John Mitchell..... Read More Item Details for [Brenthurst Series. Third Series] 1. The Jameson Raid: A Centennial Retrospective by Greg H. Cuthbertson. 2 Brian Warner and John Rourke. Flora Herscheliana: Sir John and Lady Herschel at the Cape 1834 to 1838 by Brian Warner and John Rourke. 3. The Siege of Mafeking, Vol. 1, edited by Iain R Smith. 4. The Siege of Mafeking, Vol. 2. 5. François Levaillant and the Birds of Africa by L. C. Rookmaker et al Add to Wish List
Item #305141
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Johannesburg [South Africa]: 17/6/31. A modest letter from one of the most popular South African novelists in English. reading in part: … as I am not very clear how successful I am I can’t, I’m afraid, tell you to what I attribute that success.” Born in Lithuania, Sarah Gertrude Millin..... Read More Item Details for Autograph letter signed "Sarah Gertrude Millin" to "Seymour Halpern" in response to Halper's inquiry regarding the key to success in life Add to Wish List
Item #309294
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London: Richard Phillips 6, Bridge Street, Blackfriars, by J.G. Barnard, 37, Snow-hill, 1807. First edition. A description of Senegal and Sierra Leone and the West African slave trade. The author was a surgeon on the British sloop Favourite. The striking illustrations are after his own sketches. Read More Item Details for Account of a Voyage to the Western Coast of Africa; performed by His Majesty's Sloop Favourite, in the Year 1805 being a journal of the events which happened to that vessel, from the time of her leaving England till her capture by the French, and the return of the author in a cartel Add to Wish List
Item #318999
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New Haven, Ct: Privately Printed, 1954. First edition. Read More Item Details for African Journal 1953-1954 Add to Wish List
Item #317894
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Birmingahm: C. Combridge, [1890]. Read More Item Details for Stanley and Africa also the Travels, Adventures and Discoveries of Captain John H. Speke.. Add to Wish List
Item #317014
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8 Duchess Street, Portland Place, London: August 20, 1872. “…light, sociable, agreeable …”. The famed African explorer, soon after his return to England and the publication of HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE (1872), writes that he would “would be delighted to have one dinner (light, sociable, agreeable, etc, etc) on Saturday..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter signed (“Hen. Stanley ”) to Madame (Olga de) Norikoff accepting a dinner invitation Add to Wish List
Item #56270
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De Vere Gardens: May 24, 1890. Stanley Applies for a Marriage License. Though Stanley writes in this letter to apply for a marriage it was actually Miss Dorothy Tennant who wooed Stanley and insisted on their marriage. The explorer suffered under his wife; she forbade his traveling to Africa again..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter Signed (“Henry M. Stanley”), applying for a “Special License for my marriage with Miss Dorothy Tennant …” [Tipped into:] Autobiography of Sir Henry Morton Stanley (Boston, 1909) Add to Wish List
Item #236875
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. First American Edition. Read More Item Details for Coomassie and Magdala: The Story of Two British Campaigns in Africa Add to Wish List
Item #314167
Price: $350
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American Edition. In Darkest Africa retells Stanley's adventures on his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of the Equatorial Province of Egypt, who was cut off after the fall of Khartoum. The expedition crawled at a snail’s pace, covering only three or four..... Read More Item Details for In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria Add to Wish List
Item #238899
Price: $500
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. First American Edition. In Darkest Africa retells Stanley's adventures on his expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of the Equatorial Province of Egypt, who was cut off after the fall of Khartoum. The expedition crawled at a snail's pace, covering only three or four..... Read More Item Details for In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria Add to Wish List
Item #339417
Price: $7,500
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1893. First edition. Inscribed to a prominent animal rights activist. Inscribed at length by Stanley on the title-page: "To the Baroness Burdett-Coutts, who has done so much for the better treatment of animals. This book which posits so many African morals upon the same subject is..... Read More Item Details for My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories Add to Wish List
Item #314795
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New York: Scribners, 1893. First American edition. Read More Item Details for My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories Add to Wish List
Item #317895
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London: William Clowes and sons [et al], 1890. Emin Pasha expedition through "Darkest Africa", including corrected proofs. A collection of rare proof sheets and printed lectures relating to Stanley's expedition to provide aid to the Emin Pasha, undertaken from 1887-1889, with numerous handwritten corrections. Stanley returned to England in 1890..... Read More Item Details for Set of lecture proofs relating to the Emin Pasha expedition Add to Wish List
Item #314866
Price: $3,000
London: Suttaby & Co, [1880]. A WEDDING GIFT FROM ONE OF STANLEY'S SENIOR OFFICERS. A wonderful souvenir from Stanley's wedding with a significant association. The inscription reads in part: "To Henry M Stanley Esq / Dear Sir, / Accept this book on this your nuptial day as a souvenir from..... Read More Item Details for The Christian Year … [with] STANLEY, Henry Morton. Single sheet message to General Ponsonby to pass thanks on to Queen Victoria for her message. December 6 1889 Add to Wish List
Item #301863
Price: $300
London: George Newnes, Limited, Soutrhampton Street, Strand, 1899. Read More Item Details for Through the Dark Continent Or The Sources of the Nile, Around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and Down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean Add to Wish List
Item #317098
Price: $450
[London]: Whitehall Court, 21st May, 1914. A letter from the widow of Henry M. Stanley. Here she writes to C. N. Furlong in Boston whose article on "La Guillotine sèche" describing his visit to Cayenne & the islands of French Guyana, she had read in Harper's Magazine in 1913. He..... Read More Item Details for Autograph Letter, signed, to Mr. C.N. Furlong. WITH: Letter Signed to President Clemenceau in French from the Minister of Colonies (D. Lebrun) 8, mai, 1914 about Lady Stanley's letter to Clemenceau and its misconception (with a typed copy of an English translation) Add to Wish List
Item #249670
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London: February 7, 1910. Two autograph letters, signed by Lady Dorothy Stanley, to American author, William Henry Rideing, regarding her husband, noted explorer, Sir Henry Morton Stanley. LADY STANLEY'S DETAILED REMINISCENCES OF HER HUSBAND, EXPLORER SIR HENRY STANLEY (14 PAGES/ TWO LETTERS). Dorothy Tennant (1855-1926) was born in Wales. She..... Read More Item Details for Two Autograph Letters, Signed. BY LADY DOROTHY STANLEY [nee Dorothy Tennant], TO WILLIAM HENRY RIDEING, ABOUT HER HUSBAND, EXPLORER SIR HENRY STANLEY Add to Wish List
Item #352113
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Chicago: Forbes & Co, 1907. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Truth about the Congo Add to Wish List
Item #258324
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London: John Murray, [1934]. First edition. Stephens wrote two books on big game hunting under the Malet pseudonym, the other dealing with Indian sport. This work includes hunting elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard, rhinoceros and the like based lightly on his own experiences, but mostly on those of such noted hunters..... Read More Item Details for Fair Game. The Open Air of Four Continents Add to Wish List
Item #317852
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London: 1923. First edition. Read More Item Details for Equatoria, The Lado Enclave Add to Wish List
Item #352672
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London: George Bell & Sons, 1899. Indian and Colonial Edition, "For Circulation in the Colonies and India only." Neufeld was a German merchant in search of gum-arabic who was captured by the Mahists in the Sudan, was released after the Battle of Omdurman. Read More Item Details for A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years' Captivity at Omdurman Add to Wish List
Item #26957
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London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852. First Edition in English. Read More Item Details for African Wanderings; or, An Expedition from Sennaar to Taka, Basa and Beni-Amer with a particular glance at The Races of Bellad Sudan...Translated out of the German by J.R. Johnston Add to Wish List
Item #318398
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Elgin, Ill: The Elgin Press, [1938]. First Edition. INSCRIBED. Inscribed on ffep. Read More Item Details for The Soudan's Second Sunup Add to Wish List
Item #352768