Voyages & Travel CATALOGUE 1493 MAGGS BROS LTD Voyages & Travel Catalogue 1493 Maggs Bros. Ltd. CONTENTS Africa . 1 Egypt, The Near East & Middle East . 14 Europe, Russia, Turkey . 32 India, Central Asia & The Far East . 44 Australia & The Pacific . 62 Central & South America . 83 North America . 98 Alaska & The Poles . 108 Cover illustration; item 1, Bowdich . MAGGS BROS. LTD. 48 Bedford Square London WC1B 3DR Telephone: ++ 44 (0)20 7493 7160 Email: [email protected] © Maggs Bros. Ltd. 2017 Printed by the Gomer Press, Ceredigion Design by Radius Graphics AFRICA A Fine Copy of a Classic Work on West Africa 1 BOWDICH (T. Edward). Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of other parts of the Interior of Africa. First edition. 2 maps (1 folding) and sketch map of Coomassie, hand coloured aqua- tint panorama & 6 further plates (with 8 images), & 5 pages of engraved music. 4to. Later very smart half red morocco with light red cloth boards, gilt, t.e.g. otherwise uncut. With the half title. Ix, 512pp. London, John Murray, 1819. £2,750 In 1814, after a spell in the family business and a period of study at Oxford, Bowdich secured a writership in the Royal African Company and promptly left England for Cape Coast Castle. He returned to West Africa in 1816, as part of the Company’s expedition to the Asante. Though orig- inally not appointed as leader, he “superseded his chief ... and through negotiations which subsequently proved controversial, formed a treaty with the king of Asante, which promised peace to the British settlements on the Gold Coast in return for commercial and political co-operation” (ODNB). After returning to England in 1818 he set about writing an account of the journey, which was published the next year. A Mission from Cape Coast Castle . proved popular, with its beautiful illustrations, lively style and “glowing account of Asante society and culture” (ibid) attracting a considerable readership. The folding plate showing the first day of the yam festival is one of the most interesting and elaborate ethnographic images to have been published in England prior to 1820. Abbey, 279; Cardinall, 492; Tooley, 95 . 1 Lovely Views of Kafirland Eighteen rare and interesting shots of diamond mining in South Africa. Although the first diamond miners were active in Pniel and Klipdrift as early as 1867, the 2 [GRAHAM (Lieut. Sir Lumley, Bart.) & ROBINSON (Lieut. Hugh).] rush really began with the discovery of the Star of Africa, a diamond weighing over Scenes in Kafirland, and Incidents in the Kafir War of 1851-2-3. From Sketches eighty carats in 1869. Shortly afterwards, diamonds were discovered at Kimberley, by two officers of the 43rd Lt.-Infantry. then known as Colsberg Koppie. By the end of 1871, over 30,000 men were mining First edition. 21 tinted lithographs on 18 plates. Folio. Contemporary green half (and panning) the area including the Vaal, Modder and Orange Rivers. These shots calf, spine gilt, slightly shelf worn, some occasional spotting. [1]pp. (double- document the early days of diamond mining in Klipdrift, Pniel, Du Toits and Kim- column, verso blank). London, Dickinson Bros., 1854. £3,750 berely before the De Beers consolidation. They include a variety of images depict- ing the daily life of the miners, the steady expansion of works and the concomitant A beautiful collection of lithographs. “The following Sketches give some idea of the development of infrastructure as the years progressed. appearance and duties of the British soldier in Kafirland as well as of the enemy he The images are as follows: has to contend with” (Preface). Mendelssohn I, p808; Abbey, 344 . 1. Klipdrift Scene of the first Diamond Diggings. 2. Pniel Diggings. Klipdrift in the Distance. 3. Old De Beers Diggings. 4. Du Toits Pan. The first of the Dry Diggings from Early Photographs of Mining in South Africa the Pan. 5. New Rush Kopje While being prospected in July 1871 (After painting). 6. New Rush a roadway in ... 1871. 7. New Rush. the erection of staging. Aug 1872. 3 GRAY BROTHERS. Gems from the Diamond Land. Souvenirs of the 8. The Mine Kimberley. 1872 (Folding. Unmounted with pencil title to rear.) 9. New Rush. Diggers’ Life. A General View of Roads in Aug. 1872. 10. The Circular Road. New Rush. 11. New Rush. 18 photographs (2 panoramic), 17 mounted on card, titled in manuscript. Image Interior of Mine. With so. reef staying. Jan 1873. 12. New Rush. The last of the red stuff - size: 205 by 140mm. Loosely inserted into a plum cloth album, spine missing, some Surface soil. July 1873. 13. New Rush. Panorama of Mine from the South Corner. March occasional foxing to backing card, small tear with minor loss (15 by 20mm) to 1874. (Folding). 14. New Rush. The North Reef with water in the mine. April 1874. 15. New image 16. Some images faded and scratched. Kimberley, [1874]. £5,500 Rush. General view of the interior from South. May 1874 16. New Rush Camp. From ... (3 sections, folding). 17. Our Labourers. 18. Homeward Bound. The Passenger Wagon. AFRICA 3 Thesiger’s Copy 5 LEO AFRICANUS. A Geographical Historie of Africa, Written in Arabicke and Italian by Iohn Leo a More, borne in Granada, and brought up in Barbarie. Wherein he hath at large described, not onely the qualities, situations, and true distances of the regions, cities, townes, mountaines, rivers, and other places throughout all the north and principall partes of Africa; but also the descents and families of their kings, the causes and events of their warres, with their manners, customes, religions, and civile government, and many other memorable matters: gathered partly out of his own diligent observations, and partly out of the ancient records and Chronicles of the Arabians and Mores. Before which, out of the best ancient and moderne writers, is prefixed a generall description of Africa, and also a particular treatise of all the maine lands and Iles undescribed by Iohn Leo. ... Translated and collected by Iohn Pory, lately of Gonevill and Caius College in Cambridge. First Edition in English. Folding engraved map. Large 8vo. Nineteenth century calf, rebacked. [8], 420pp. London, [Eliot’s Court Press] Imp. Georg. Bishop, 1600. £30,000 A lovely copy with a distinguished provenance. This formerly belonged to Wilfred Thesiger, who was born in Addis Ababa, and whose decade-long Big Game Hunting in East Africa exploration of the Empty Quarter is recounted 4 [KOLONIAL-HAUS] [East African Trophy Exhibition] in his 1959 classic, Arabian Sands. Leo Africanus (c.1485-c.1554), whose 98 photographs measuring 165 by 230mm and smaller. Oblong folio. Red Arabic name was Al Hasan Ibn Muhammad pebble-grain cloth. [Karlsruhe, 1903.] £6,500 Al-Wazzan Az-Zayyatti, or Al Fasi, was born in A fine example showcasing trophies from the German colonies in East Africa in the Granada and educated at Fez. He travelled exten- first years of the twentieth century. sively in northern Africa before being captured This album was compiled to commemorate an early exhibition at the Kolonial- by Christian pirates on his return from an ascent Haus of Karl Eisenbraber, which was established in 1899 and had numerous branches of the Nile to Aswan. The pirates, impressed all over Germany. The views here show the spectacular interiors - high ceilings, with his intelligence, presented him as a gift to elaborately decorated throughout. Pope Leo X who persuaded him to convert and Although the building was devoted to all German colonies, and included arte- stood sponsor at his baptism in 1520 when he facts from New Guinea and Samoa, the main exhibition was dedicated to the trophy took the name Giovanni Leone. He subsequently returned to Africa and died at Tunis. collections of big game hunters and East African luminaries such as Fritz Bronsart After leaving Cambridge, the translator John Pory (1570?-1635) became an von Schellendorf, the colonial governor Hermann Wissmann, Erich Lubbert, Wilhelm assistant to Richard Hakluyt who encouraged him to produce this work which is Langheld, Dr Stuedel, O. Neumann, and the animal trader Karl Hagenbeck. The game dedicated to Sir Robert Cecil and contains 60 pages of additional material consisting on exhibit includes, among others, zebra, rhinoceros, hippo, elephants, antelopes, of a general description of Africa and of places undescribed by Leo. He later became giraffes, lions, leopards, cheetahs, wildebeest, monkeys and gorillas. M.P. for Bridgwater (1605) and travelled extensively in Europe as far as Constantinople and visited Virginia in 1619-21 and 1623-24. AFRICA 5 Originally published in 1550 by Ramusio in Italian, this text subsequently became few days brought the number under his protection to 177, determined in two ways the basis of all future translations. Pory’s translation was a “major landmark in the all else that befell the mission” (ODNB). spread of knowledge of Africa in England” (Eldred Jones), and the book remained This letter includes an account of this time: “These people are chiefly captives a standard work of reference until the nineteenth century. It is credited by the OED and slaves rescued from the cruel hands of slave traders from Teth (a Portuguese with the first use of the words hippopotamus and zebra in the English language. settlement in Zambesi) or of the Njawa, a fierce tribe who have overrun the country and have burned innumerable villages [and] after slaughtering the men taken the Provenance: armorial bookplate of the Hon. Charles Howard, the “Gift of Rt. Hon Sir women and children captives we found it necessary for the peace of the country to David Dundas of Ochtertyre 1877”, thence in the library of the Earls of Carlisle; carto- help the inhabitants against these njawa.