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Voyages & Travel Catalogue 1450 voyages & travel voyages Voyages & Travel Catalogue 1450 catalogue 1450 catalogue maggs bros. ltd. bros. maggs Voyages & Travel Catalogue 1450 Contents Maggs Bros Ltd 50 Berkeley Square, London W1J 6AA Telephone 020 7493 7160 Fax 020 7499 2007 Email [email protected] Bank Account Allied Irish (GB) 10 Berkeleley Square, London W1J 5BA Sort code 23–83–97 Africa 5 Account number 47777070 IBAN GB94AIBK23839747777070 Egypt, Near & Middle East 14 BIC AIBKGB2L VAT number GB239381347 Europe, Russia & Turkey 22 Access/Mastercard and Visa India, Central Asia & Far East 28 Please quote card number, expiry date, name and invoice number by email, Australia & the Pacific 45 fax or telephone. South America 74 EU Members Please quote VAT/TVA number when ordering. Central America & West Indies 81 The goods shall legally remain the property of the seller until the price has been discharged in full. North America 88 Items with and * are subject to VAT Alaska & the Poles 97 Africa A BEAUTIFUL COPY 1 BAINES Thomas Explorations in South-West Africa Being an Account of a Journey in the Years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch bay, on the Western Coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. First edition. 3 folding maps, chromolithograph frontispiece & 8 other plates, with further illustrations in the text. 8vo. Fine original blind-stamped green cloth, spine gilt, headcap expertly repaired, bookplate to front pastedown. xiv, 535pp. London, 1864. £2500 Baines was appointed official artist to the Zambesi expedition in 1858 and travelled into the interior with Dr. Livingstone before leaving in 1861 to return to Cape Town. Following a severe illness, Baines set out himself to travel from the Western Coast to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. Mendelssohn I, p69–70; Hosken, p9. BY A F.R.G.S. 2 [BURTON Sir Richard F.] Wanderings in West Africa From Liverpool to Fernando Po. First edition, first issue. 2 vols. Folding map, frontispiece. 8vo. Original cloth, spine gilt, somewhat rubbed. viii, [ii], 303; [vi], 295pp. London, Tinsley Bros., 1863. £3250 Extremely rare. This binding, as found on Burton’s own copy, does not give the author’s name on the spine, but merely ‘By Left, from top to bottom a F.R.G.S.’, and has ‘Tinsley Brothers’ at the foot of the spine, Cabreyra Capt. Joseph de rather than ‘Tinsley / Brothers’. Penzer remarks that he had Item 10 only seen two copies bound thus: Burton’s own, and that in Moreau de Saint-Mery, M-L-E. the British Library. ‘It apparently was Burton’s original idea Item 110 to entirely suppress his name from the above work, and in his Anson, George own copy… there is no clue given as to the author’ (Penzer). In Item 54 choosing to attribute the work to ‘A F.R.G.S.’ Burton no doubt Turnbull, John intended to afront the R.G.S. with whom he was at the time in Item 92 dispute over the source of the Nile. White, John, The work is an edited version of his journal to Fernando Surgeon-General Item 94 Po, throughout which Burton refers to himself in the third Anson, George person as ‘the Consul’. This was what would now be known Item 53 as a ‘hardship’ posting and Burton notes that: ‘There is no 5 AFRICA AFRICA place where a wife is so much wanted as in the Tropics, but 5 then comes the rub—how to keep the wife alive’ (vol. I, p296.) DUNCAN John Penzer, p71. Travels in Western Africa in 1845 & 1846 Comprising a Journey from Whydah, through the Kingdom AN ASTONISHING ATTACK ON STANLEY of Dahomey, to Adofoodia, in the Interior. 3 First edition. 2 vols. Portrait folding map & 2 lithograph CHAILLE-LONG Charles plates. 8vo. Good original cloth, apart from a small hole ALS to Sir Samuel Baker affecting the spine of vol 1. xv, 304; xi, 315pp. London, 1847. Manuscript in ink. 4pp. 8vo. Fine condition. £750 Challes-les-Eaux, 23 June, 1892. £750* Duncan served on the disastrous 1841 Niger expedition which resulted in a tremendous loss of life. He returned to that part An American soldier, Charles Chaille-Long took part in the of the world just three years later on this expedition to locate battle of Gettysburg on the side of the Union in the American the Kong Mountains. This second expedition was almost as Civil War. He accepted a commission to the Egyptian army ill-fated as the first as Duncan soon ran out of money and was in 1869 and served under Charles Gordon in the Sudan and forced to rely on the notorious King Gezo for help. The map Uganda where he signed a treaty with Mutesa I of Buganda. depicts Duncan’s route from Whydah to Adafoodia. In 1874, he discovered Lake Kyoga and was the second Cardinall, 526. European to explore Lake Victoria. Having expressed regret that his arguments are popular in neither England nor America, Chaille-Long encourages 6 Baker to communicate any criticisms regarding his book HOLUB Dr. Emil L’Egypt et ses Provinces Perdu. He concludes the letter with a Von der Capstadt ins Land Der Maschukulumbe bitter attack on Henry M. Stanley: ‘I re echo heartily what you Reisen im sudlichen Afrika in den Jahren 1883–1887. say about this missionary business in Uganda. As you will see First edition. 36 parts. Numerous plates & illustrations. 8vo. in 1887 I made the attempt in the Nile Revue to expose the Original printed wrappers, some parts unopened, some shameless imposition by the fellow Stanley to give himself occasional minor spotting, with quarter morocco drop-back the reputation for sanctity which was widely accepted as box, spine gilt. Vienna, 1888. bona fide … [This has] done something to unmask the real £1500 character of this pseudo man of God…’ Holub’s account of his second expedition to South Africa. He arrived at the Cape in 1883 with the intention to traverse 4 the continent to Egypt. He crossed the Zambesi west of DALZEL Archibald Victoria falls and explored the area between it and the Kafue. The History of Dahomy However, the expedition was forced to return when it was an Inland Kingdom of Africa attacked by the Mashukulumbwe. Mendelssohn I, p733. First edition. Folding frontispiece map & 6 plates. 4to. Beautiful contemporary tree calf, gilt. xxxii, [iv], xxvi, THEY MUST LITERALLY BE 230pp. London, 1793. PACKED AS TIGHT AS IN A SLAVE SHIP £2750 7 [Niger Expedition 1841] A handsome copy. Dalzel travelled to Africa in 1763 as a ABRAHAM Dr. BUXTON T.F. & THOMSON T. surgeon. He spent three years on the Gold Coast, part of Group of correspondence regarding the Niger Expedition which time he held the position of Governor, and a further Eight ALS. Ms. in ink. 4; 3; 2; 3; 4; 4; 1; 4pp. 4to & 8vo four years as Governor of Whydah (now Ouida, Benin), before Liverpool, Deptford, Plymouth, Spitalfields, 3–30 March, 1841. returning to England in 1770. Dahomy constitutes a part of £4000 Africa that is now in Benin. The author contends that the trafficking of slaves in West Africa was preferable to the risk A fascinating, not to say ominous, correspondence between of human sacrifice. Further he contends that slavery liberated Thomas Fowell Buxton, politician and philanthropist the natives from the horror of living in Africa. (anti-Slave Trade), T.R.H. Thomson, member of the Niger 6 7 AFRICA AFRICA expedition (co-author of the account), and Robert Abraham, THESIGER’S COPY surgeon, of the Liverpool Journal. The letters evidently came 8 from Abraham’s as his letters are fair copies (with some pencil NORRIS-NEWMAN C.L. annotations), where the others are the originals. In Zululand With the British The 1841 expedition to the Niger is renowned for the First Edition. Original photographic & 3 other portraits, problems that beset it. The expedition’s purpose was to with 9 folding maps. 8vo. Fine original green cloth, gilt, disrupt the slave trade along the river. Although it began slightly rubbed. xv, 343pp. London, 1880. well, with the initial signing of treaties with tribal leaders £1250 prohibiting trading in slaves, it deteriorated rapidly with the onset of fever which claimed so many of the crew. Forty-one Thesiger’s bookplate to verso of frontispiece. men perished in seven weeks. In the catalogue of his books, Thesiger remarks ‘My Written prior to the expedition’s departure, the letters grandfather, by now Lord Chelmsford, commanded the relate directly to the problems subsequently suffered by British Force in the Zulu War. My grandfather’s troops the expedition. Abraham couldn’t be any clearer: ‘I say it is had shattered the Zulu army at Ulundi in 1879, but I never physically impossible for even one half of them to lie down begrudge those peerless warriors their earlier annihilating side by side on the floor. If they are to sleep in this cabin vitory over a British force on the slopes of Isandhlwana.’ they must literally be packed as tight as a slave ship. I assure ‘A full account of the campaign by a war correspondent you I do not exaggerate in the slightest degree. Decency, who was well acquainted with the country, and had a good comfort, and health will be alike impracticable. They will knowledge of the natives and their language and customs. be driven to sleep on the deck and I need not tell you what The author traverses the statement so often made that the consequences of that will be under the tropic. I wish Sir Bartle Frere ‘caused the war’, and maintains that the to blame no one, but to state the fact, and if possible avert difficulty which culminated in the hostilities had existed a the consequences.’ He continues ‘I have reason to know quarter of a century before the High Commissioner arrived that several of the gentlemen who have volunteered in the in South Africa, and that later on it became abundantly expedition are exceedingly disgusted with it, and would retire evident that Cetywayo had been actively preparing for war’ if they could with honour.
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