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A portfolio containing the sheets on which the works were originally mounted, with ms. notes. 3). The First Ascent of the Kasai… First American edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt titling to spine, wear to head and foot of spine, some marking to boards. A good, partly unopened, copy. pp. xx, [1]-192. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1889. £17,500 The First Ascent of the Kasai … was published in 1889 — a handsomely illustrated volume that recorded the author’s part in an expedition to determine where the waters of the Kasai River emptied themselves. Charles Somerville LaTrobe Bateman joined the so-called ‘German Expedi- tion’ (despatched by the Geographical Society of Berlin under the commission of Leopold II) on the return-leg of the river-voyage, which had succeeded in its initial aim of descending the Kasai to the Congo at Kwamouth; thereby con- 1 firming the Kasai as a tributary to Though remarkable for a number of reasons, the pictures are arguably most the great river. Bateman and the exceptional for the intimate view they provide of the Bashilange-Baluba people, expedition leader, Dr. Wolf, were upon whom the expedition relied so heavily. As the trip from Leopoldville to tasked with ascending the Kasai in Luebo is finished by page 61 of The Ascent…, the majority of Bateman’s words order return the Bashilange-Baluba are given over to his time in the Luebo District, among the Bashilange, and his people (who had acted as guides for pictures reflect that weighting. the descent) to their homeland at Of the author very little is known, other than that which can be gleaned from the headwaters of the river. Once his book. His father was almost certainly Rev. C. H. Bateman (b.1813), which there they had a second objective can be deduced from the records showing that C. H. Bateman fathered Rev. to fulfil: to establish a station at James Henry La Trobe Bateman (b.1848), the brother to whom Charles calls, in the confluence of the Lulua with the preface to The Ascent…, his ‘amanuensis’ and aide in the production of the Luebo, as a port for the station of book. What became of Charles after he departed Luebo is unknown, but he did Luluaburg. not live far beyond that time, a sadness attested to by a gravestone in Carlisle’s Once aboard the steam-wheel Richardson Street Cemetery, bearing the date of his death: 05.08.1892. steamer Stanley and the steam- launch En Avant, they departed Leopoldville on the 30th of Sep- “Private and confidential” tember 1885 and arrived at their destination on the 7th of November 2 CHADDOCK (George A.) in the same year. Bateman then Narrative of a Voyage of Exploration in the served as an administrator for the S.S. “Maud” on the East Coast of Africa... Luebo District: performing a number of difficult functions, such as attempting to prevent slave raiding. He was eventually picked up by by the Stanley on the 18th Sole edition. Two maps (one folding). 8vo. Original printed wrappers, lightly of December 1886, when he, for the last time, looked ‘upon the dark woods and soiled, with a quarter morocco bookform box. 56pp. Liverpool, Lee & swirling waters’ of that territory (p.170). Nightingale, 1890. £2750 In addition to his primary duties as second-in-command to Wolf, Bateman This account of Chaddock’s expedition shows found time to create a remarkable visual record of the expedition, that passed how his crew on the S.S. Maud were able to navi- through the territories of the Chiplumba, Basongo-Meno, Bakuba and Bakete gate the waters of the Limpopo River, which the tribes. His drawings, watercolours and etchings of the native peoples, flora and Portuguese considered impenetrable. Departing fauna and river scenes, recorded things never before depicted (and in some cases Liverpool in 1883 on the steamer Maude, Chad- seen) by Europeans. They subsequently provided the basis for the excellent plates dock’s crew was almost entirely comprised of in his book, which illustrate, inter alia, Hippopotami on the southern shore of “young gentlemen” who’d not previously been Stanley Pool, Bakuba cups and knives, Lulua fish and Bakete hunters. to sea. They spent two months in Natal, and Bateman’s original works survived and are offered here for sale, collected were mistaken for slavers at the Rovuma River. together in an album with additional manuscript charts, passages from the book Despite resistance from the Portuguese authori- and other association material. Along with those images present in the volume ties, the Maude entered the mouth of the Lim- are works which were not included and do not appear in any other published popo on 14 April and navigated the river’s entire material. Some of the latter provide wonderful additions to Bateman’s narrative, length. Chaddock contends that in being the first such as the watercolour depicting the visionary Bashilange Chief Chilunga Meso explorer to chart those waters, Great Britain’s standing atop an islet framed by breaking waves. This picture, when put in the claim to the territory is indisputable. He sets out context of the passage it was presumably made to illustrate, acquires a sense his case, referencing no prior claim, the interna- of dramatic irony, as one learns of how Chilunga Meso was part-tricked into tional nature of the river (that it works through spending periods of inspired isolation on the islet, by an Angolese translator who three different countries) and the acquiescence was exhausted by the chief’s demands. of the Transvaal government. Indeed, the large AFRICA 3 folding map of Matabele Land is titled: “Map shewing the River Limpopo and The section title on page 5 “Travels in Barbary” is vigorously crossed out by the mouth. Also Native Territory not under the Direct Influence of any Power.” author who has added that “The title below is a barbarism of the printers”. The In addition to the narrative, Chaddock’s account reprints extracts from Captain tipped in manuscript notes are devoted to Tripoli, Tunis and Islam. Elton’s expedition, reports from the Mercantile Marine Service Association Reporter and the correspondence between himself and the Governor of Delgoa Bay. Very little is known of Chaddock, however contemporary reports of his expedition on the Maude were published in The American Naturalist (vol. 19, no. 9, September 1885, p.875), and twice in the Proceedings of the Royal Geo- graphical Society and Monthly Record of Geography, New Monthly Series, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Apr., 1885), pp. 239-249, and Vol. 7, No. 12 (Dec., 1885), pp. 841-874. Not in Howgego. Exceedingly rare, not on COPAC, not on OCLC. Author’s Presentation Copy to his Mother 3 GOLDMANN (Charles Sydney). With General French and the Cavalry in South Africa. First edition. Portrait frontispiece, 65 plates & 44 folding maps. 8vo. Panelled red & black morocco by Rivière, spine gilt, presentation inscription on front free endpaper. [xx], 462pp. London, Macmillan & Co., 1902. £800 With the following inscription: “To my dear mother, in deep affection and gratitude from her devoted son, Sydney.” “Few works on the war have been prepared with such thorough attention to detail, and every chapter is accompanied, at its conclusion, by a series of plans, 5 HOLUB (Dr. Emil). maps, and illustrations ...” (Mendelssohn). A precise account of French’s cavalry Von der Cap stadt ins Land Der Maschukulumbe. campaigns - excluding Natal - the work covers Colesberg, the Kimberley relief Reisen im sudlichen Afrika in den Jahren 1883-1887. expedition, the falls of Pretoria and Bloemfontein and the campaign in the eastern Transvaal. The appendices amount to a military manual, discussing cavalry, First edition.