Southern African Exploration from Springbok Books

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… Read more about this item

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. NO OTHER COPY FOR SALE ANYWHERE ELSE AT THE TIME OF… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Original cloth. Some splitting outer hinges, and spine ends. A very rare first edition. See the photos, which provide the best information about condition.

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

"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… Read more about this item

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,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item