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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover. Half bound in leather and green cloth. Gilt stamping on black title label over spine. Bottom half of spine is lifting and revealing binding beneath. Covers are rubbed, but there are no significant markings. Binding is square and strong. Illustrated frontispiece of Captain Hugh Clapperton. Title page is dated 1831 in roman numerals. 279 pages. Interiors are clean and unmarked. A good copy. Captain Hugh Clapperton was a Scottish naval officer and explorer of West and Central Africa. Major Dixon Denham was an English soldier, explorer of West Central Africa, and ultimately Governor of Sierra Leone. Denham and Clapperton were always at odds with one another.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Poor. 1826. Africa, Exploration. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard; Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 255p, 104p 112p, large fold-out map, a small fold out map, one other fold-out and a few illustrations in text, appears to be complete, old rag paper, 1 small tear in text, rough cut fore-edges, rebound ex-library stsyle in brown cloth, as is 2/24.

1975 UK, softcover 192 blz. 116 foto's.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Third Edition. 467 pages (complete). Volume II only. A handsome copy of this thrilling journey of exploration from the fractious three explorers. At some stage in the past the book was handsomely rebound in full leather. Blind stamped decoration, gilt borders. The spine has gilt painted decoration and titling. The spine has four ridges. The boards are steady, healthy. Newer marbled end-papers. The contents are pleasing. The folded maps are a little mottled with foxing and age-related marks. They are otherwise neat, sure. The pages are tight, hale, sound, very clean, very clear, confident, most agreeable considering the age of the book! fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Ledereinband Ledereinband. Zustand: Gut. 3. Auflage. Mit Stichen und Karten, 471, 467 Seiten. 2 Bände. Leidereinbände mit Goldprägung auf dem Buchrücken. Einbände stellenweise etwas berieben aber insgesamt in gutem Zustand. Die Seiten überwiegend sehr sauber aber teilweise etwas stockfleckig. Die Karte im Anhang des 1. Bandes eingerissen. Insgesamt altersentsprechend guter Zustand. Schneller Versand und persönlicher Service - jedes Buch händisch geprüft und beschrieben - aus unserem Familienbetrieb seit über 25 Jahren. Eine Rechnung mit ausgewiesener Mehrwertsteuer liegt jeder unserer Lieferungen bei. Wir versenden mit der deutschen Post. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1590.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Second edition. 2 vol. 8vo. [5], vi-lxxxviii, [1], 2-321, [5]; [3], iv, [1], 2-413 pp. Half mid-nineteenth century calf over marbled paper boards with the spines in six compartments; all edges sprinkled red. Brown endpapers and pastedowns. Each volume illustrated with a frontispiece, volume one with several plates (one of which is in color), volume two with three additional plates. Some of the plates are folding maps. Howgego C33. Ibrahim-Hilmy 136. Contains essays on the languages, flora and fauna, and the histories of the regions Denham and Clappteron visited on this expedition. The volumes also contain a survey of Lake Chad. Lacks the labels on the spine, spines worn, the front board of volume one starting but remains attached. The title pages' bottom edges trimmed just below the date, a bookplate on each front pastedown.

French text. Atlas only. Scarce atlas to accompany the 3-volume account of Denham's explorations in West Central Africa. Denhan, Clapperton and Oudney were first Europeans to cross the Sahara Desert north to south. Includes the large (59x40 cm) engraved folding map. weight: 1.8 lb. Very good, light wear to corners and spine ends, spine label chipped, occasional foxing. Translated by Eyries et de Larenaudiere . 14 plates with illustrations, 4 full page maps, one large folding map. 35.5x26.5x1.5 cm. [4] pages plus plates Folio. Hardcover. Old marbled boards, gilt spine title on red label.

2 vols, 8vo, I: pp. xii, [4], 471, [1]; II: pp. iv, 467, [1]; with 13 plates and 2 folding maps, illustrations in text; occasional light spotting, foxing on plates, some tears to map in vol. 1 and repair to verso; a good copy; bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards, black morocco spine labels, turquoise endpapers, edges stained red; wear to spines, corners and edges, some rubbing to covers; with occasional stamps of the Free Public Library, Richmond, Surrey.Third edition recounting the attempt of Dixon Denham (1786-1828), Hugh Clapperton (1788-1827) and Dr Walter Oudney (1790-1824) to trace the course of the Niger river. With previous attempts to trace the Niger having ended in disaster, Denham, Clapperton and Oudney were dispatched on an expedition in 1822 to approach the river from Tripoli. A veteran of Waterloo and a friend of the Duke of Wellington, Denham was given command but treated his colleagues with such contempt that he soured relations between them from the start. After being delayed at Murzuq, the party crossed the skeleton-littered Sahara and reached Kuka (Kukawa) in the kingdom of Bornu (later Nigeria) in February 1823. Here the party separated, with Clapperton and Oudney making for Kano and Denham investigating Lake Chad. Following Oudney's death, Denham and Clapperton undertook a terrible desert crossing back to Tripoli and reached England in June 1825. Although it failed to find the Niger, the expedition opened much of north central Africa to European knowledge.'Denham, fêted in London as the hero of the expedition, and elected a fellow of the Royal Society, published his Narrative . in which he suppressed as much as possible all mention of his companions, and took the credit for some of their discoveries. Written in a lively style, and embellished with engravings of his own sketches, it became one of the classics of its genre' (ODNB).A first edition was published in 1826; this edition, the third, appeared two years later. Although the title-page and preface continues to make reference merely to 'the late Doctor Oudney', the truth was that Clapperton himself had died the previous year while being detained in the Fulani capital of Sokoto, and that Denham would soon join his erstwhile companions (although we should not call them friends), when he succumbed to malaria in June 1828 in the British colony of Sierra Leone (of which he had shortly before been appointed governor-general). Howgego C33/D18; Ibrahim Hilmy I, p. 172 (first edition).

Couverture rigide. Zustand: Bon. Edition originale. Voyages et découvertes dans le nord et dans les parties centrales de l'Afrique, au travers du grand désert, jusqu'au 10e d. de latitude nord, et depuis Kouka, dans le Bornou, jusqu'à Sackatou, capitale de l'empire des Felatah ; exécutes dans les années 1822,1823 et 1824 Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826 , .3 vol. in-8, [2] ff. , 366 et (1) pp. ; [2] ff. , 378 et (1) pp. ; [2] ff. et 428 pp. , relié dei veau époque , dos lisse orné avec tomaison et pièce d'auteur et titre rouge , tranches et plats cailloutées , petit manque à la charnière tome 2. Texte seul Première édition française, traduite par Eyries et de Larenaudiere. L'expédition anglaise partit de Tripoli, sous la protection du Bey, et explora cette partie de l'Afrique, alors peu connue, jusqu'au lac Tchad. Le voyage fut particulièrement aventureux, mais aussi fructueux sur le plan scientifique.On trouve en fin d'ouvrage un Essai sur la langue du Bornou, les vocabulaires des langues de Timbouktou, du Mandara, et du Begharni, par Klaproth. P2-6A.

Two volumes. 8vo. xii, [4], 471, [1]; iv, 467, [1] pp. 12 engraved plates, including 2 engraved frontispieces, wood-engravings, and 4 folding maps [2 being large folding maps entitled: "Travels & Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa," and 2 more are smaller: "Lake Tchad," "A Reduction of Belle's Map of Central Africa"], appendices; some offsetting from illustrations, some roughing of folded map edges, light tears along folds, lightly foxed. Original elaborate gilt and blind-stamped calf, all edges marbled; extremities rubbed. Bookplates of R. G. Lumley (1813-1884), 9th Earl of Scarbrough. Very good. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK, the first edition of which was published in 1826. The engravings are complete and based after drawings by Denham and Clapperton, superbly engraved by Edward Finden, one of the finest steel-engravers in England at the time. This narrative is compiled primarily from Denham's journal, with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk. A final section by Clapperton relates the westward journey from Lake Tchad to Sackatoo and includes an account of Oudney's death. Among the appendices are translations from the Arabic of letters and documents brought back by Denham and Clapperton, including a document relating to the death of Mungo Park. There is a translation from the Arabic of a geographical and historical account of the Kingdom of Tak-roor, from a larger work composed by Sultan Mohammed Bello of Hausa; vocabularies of Bornou, Begharmi, Mandara, and Timbuctoo; appendices on the zoology and botany of the regions based on samples collected by Dr. Oudney; a note on rock specimens; and a thermometrical journal kept at Kouka in Bornou. "Walter Oudney was appointed by Lord Bathurst, then colonial secretary, to proceed to Bornu as consul, accompanied by Hugh Clapperton. From Tripoli, early in 1822, they set out southward to Murzuk, where they were later joined by Dixon Denham, who found both men in a wretched condition. Eventually proceeding south from Murzuk on 29 November 1822, a great antipathy soon developed between Clapperton and Denham, Denham at one stage openly accusing Clapperton of having homosexual relations with one of the Arab servant boys. The accusation was almost certainly unfounded, leading the historian E W Bovill to write that "it remains difficult to recall in all the checkered (sic) history of geographic discovery. . . . a more odious man than Dixon Denham. The party eventually reached Kuka (now Kukawa in Nigeria) on 17 February 1823, having earlier become the first white men to see Lake Chad. Whilst at Kuka, Clapperton and Oudney parted company with Denham to visit the Hausa states. Denham remained behind to explore and survey the western, south and south-eastern shores of Lake Chad, and the lower courses of the rivers Waube, Logone and Shari. Clapperton and Oudney reached Bornu where they were well received by the sultan, and after remaining in the region until 14 December, they again set out for the purpose of exploring the course of the Niger River. However, only a few weeks later, Oudney died at Murmur on the road to Kano. Undeterred, Clapperton continued his journey alone through Kano to Sokoto, the capital of the Fulani Empire, where by order of Sultan Muhammed Bello he was obliged to stop, though the Niger was only a five-day journey to the west. Exhausted by his travels, he returned by way of Zaria and Katsina to Kuka, where Denham found him barely recognizable after his privations. Clapperton and Denham departed Kuka for Tripoli in August, 1824, reaching Tripoli on 26 January 1825. Their mutual antipathy unabated, they exchanged not a word during the 133 day journey. The pair continued their journey to England, arriving home to a heroes' welcome on 1 June 1825. An account of their travels was published in 1826 under the title Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the years 1822 - 1823 and 1824." - Wikip. Biographies: Dixon Denham was born in London. In June 1826 Denham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in December that year, promoted to lieutenant-colonel, he sailed for Sierra Leone as Superintendent of Liberated Africans. He was appointed governor of Sierra Leone in 1828 but, after administering the colony for only five weeks, died of fever at Freetown. Clapperton was born in Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. He succumbed to dysentery near Sokoto, Nigeria, and died in 1827 at 38 years of age. Oudney was also Scottish, received his doctorate from Edinburgh in 1817. During his journeys he collected plant specimens. Stricken by illness, Oudney died in January 1824 in the village of Murmur, located near the town of Katagum, Nigeria (see vol. II., pp.255-6). PROVENANCE: Richard George Lumley (1813-1884), 9th Earl of Scarbrough. Edmund Lodge, The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing, London, 1877, p. 526. REFERENCES: DNB; Ibrahim-Hilmy, prince, The literature of Egypt and the Soudan from the earliest times to the year 1885 [i.e. 1887] inclusive: a bibliography comprising printed books, periodical writings. . . manuscripts. . . etc. London: Trubner and co., 1886-87, p. 172 (1826 and other editions of Denham). See: Edinburgh Review, Sept. 1826, Art. VI, pp. pp. 173-219 for a very extensive assessment of the original edition of Denham.