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Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Volume one only (of two). xx; 435 pages. Large folding map at the rear, plates and illustrations in the text. Half-title present but may lack a front endpaper. Neat contemporary ownership inscription on the half-title. Just a little rubbed at tips in original blue cloth with bright lettering on the spine and central device on upper cover depicting two warriors. If matching up this is a bright copy with the gilt good. Note this volume is bound in blue cloth, it's more commonly found in brown cloth
Seller: Roger Collicott Books, Widecombe in the Moor, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. 2 vols. Original brown cloth with gilt titles and illustrations. Slight wear to covers: vol. 1. with slight edge dings and damp-staining/wrinkling to top rear corner around head of spine, corresponding damp to last third of contents, rear endpaper and large folding map neatly repaired; vol. 2. with slight edge rubbing and slight mottling to lower front board, lacks frot endpaper, large folding map neatly repaired. Overall an about very good set, vol. 2 unread with pages unopened.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.33 + shipping
Description: First Edition Hard Back. Translated by Nancy Bell. Both volumes handsomely bound in brown cloth with small gilt pictorial to the front, gilt vignette and titles to the spine. Volume I, is in very good condition with just a little surface wear to the rear. Volume II, has some fading to the front and rear boards, spine is creased with a slight lean. Internally the binding is still tight to both volumes. Page 107 to volume I has a small piece missing to the top left hand corner although not missing and fixed to the the top page of 106. While there is some heavy foxing throughout this is predominately to the rear and the pages in general remain clean and in good condition. Beautifully illustrated with many line drawings. Large folding maps to the rear of each volume have been sympathetically reinforced with cloth. Volume I, pp. xx 435. Volume II, pp. xii 397. Overall a good set. An African Adventure at its Finest.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This volume only (of 2). frontis, illustrations, folding map (partially reinforced), index, xx, 435p. Original blue cloth. Small gilt figures on front cover, with gilt animal head on backstrip. 24cm. Ends of backstrip lightly rubbed. Corner tips frayed. Translated (and slightly condensed) by Nancy Bell. One of the most sought-after of the late 19th century works on East African hunting and exploration. We have also had this in brown cloth.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$835.37 + shipping
Description: HEAVY. 2 volumes. xx, 435; xii, 397pp; index, appendix, glossary, 179 ills, 5 coloured maps (2 very large folding maps), errata. Or brown cloth with pictorial gilt vignette to front, gilt titles and antelope head vignette to spine. Some minor shelf wear (rubbing) at head and foot of spine, and corners; chip at topof spine on one volume; light rubbing to spine edges. Surface insect damage (silverfish) to spines, small chip to cloth surface (approx 8mm) above antelope on spine of Volume 1. The large folding maps have some linen reinforcing to verso near spine and along some folds but are complete and clean. Sporadic light to moderate foxing throughout but generally very clean tight copies with strong intact hinges. Scarce first English language edition of this important African exploration covering much of Equatorial East Africa including Zanzibar and Kenya, with visits to Kilimanjaro, time with Masai etc. The expedition was responsible for the discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie. In common with most African exporation books of the time there is copious material on hunting, indeed it seems to have been an obsession with massive numbers of animals killed and recorded. Size: Royal 8vo.
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, Australia
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: 2 vols, 8vo, pp. xx, 435; xii, 397, [1]; with a large coloured folding map at end of each volume, numerous illustrations and maps in the text (some full-page); very good in original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt, gilt vignettes to spines and upper covers, black endpapers; extremities slightly rubbed, a few small marks to covers.First English edition (first published in German in 1892). In 1887 and 1888 Count Samuel Teleki von Szek, an Austrian nobleman with an estate in Transylvania, undertook a sporting and exploratory expedition into the East African interior. Departing from Zanzibar with von Höhnel, he ventured into the region south of the Ethiopian highlands and there discovered Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie (now named Lake Chew Bahir).'We hurried as fast as we could to the top of our ridge, the scene gradually developing itself as we advanced, until an entirely new world was spread out before our astonished eyes. The void down in the depths beneath became filled as if by magic with picturesque mountains and rugged slopes, with a medley of ravines and valleys, which appeared to be closing up from every side to form a fitting frame for the dark blue gleaming surface of the lake stretching away beyond as far as the eye could reach. For a long time we gazed in speechless delight, spell-bound by the beauty of the scene before us, whilst our men, equally silent, stared into the distance for a few minutes, to break presently into shouts of astonishment at the sight of the glittering expanse of the great blue of the sky. At that moment all our dangers, all our fatigues were forgotten in the joy of finding our exploring expedition crowned with success at last' (Vol. II pp. 92-5).Czech p. 78 ('this scarce set represents African adventure at its finest').
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$962.07 + shipping
Description: First English edition, two volumes, 8vo. Frontispieces and numerous illustrations in the text, plus a folding map at the end of both volumes, marbled endpapers and sides. Both maps with strengthening and restoration to the reverse, several fold creases with some tearing but overall sound. Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf for E. Joseph in brown half morocco, t.e.g., gilt decorated spines. An account of a pioneering Austrian mission to Kenya. The lakes are now better known as Chew Bahir and Turkana respectively.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Two volume set. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spines and gilt particulars to front covers. Stated to have 179 original illustrations. One colored folding map to rear of volume I. Lacking foldout maps to volume II. Inscriptions to initial title pages. Foxing throughout, yet they remain clean copies with no previous owner's names or other markings. Wear to top and bottoms of spines (see image). 6.75 x 9.5 in
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$1026.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Better than the description sounds and overall a good tight copy of this scarce book, especially rare in the blue cloth binding; Binding: Orig. blue cloth gilt.; Condition notes: Both volumes have been damp affected and professionally repaired. New eps and parts of some pages; Illustrations: 179 original; Maps: 5 coloured; Pages: xx + 435; Edition/printing: 1st
Seller: Peter J. Ayre's Books, Somerset, United Kingdom
Price: US$1154.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A complete two volume set of Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie, being the First UK edition. A complete two volume set, being the first UK Edition.Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie is a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring and hunting expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 and 1888 written by his companion Lieut. Ludwig Von Hohnel. These works have been translated by Nancy Bell.Count Samuel Teleki was a Hungarian explorer who led the first expedition to Northern Kenya and the first European to see Lake Turkana.With in-text illustrations a folding map to the rear of volume one, missing the folding map to volume two. With a frontispiece to both volumes and twenty one full page plates to volume one and thirteen to volume two.Collated. Rebound with the original cloth boards restored. Externally, smart with some marks to the boards and bumping to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound with bright pages with some scattered spots throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$1295.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Vol 1 - 435pp/illus, maps (incl large color fold-out map showing the expedition route through Equatorial Africa. Vol 2 - 397pp/illus/maps with large fold-out in rear. Narative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring and hunting expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 and 1888. Set has standard library markings and rear pocket. Maps have light wear. Book is overwise clean.
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1327.66 + shipping
Description: 2 Vols, xx- 435, xii - 397 pages, 179 text and full-page illustrations, 5 coloured maps on two large folding maps at the rear. Presentation inscription to A F R Wollaston from his brother on the half title of vol 1 Wollaston signature with date 1902 on half title of vol 2 with his small armorial bookplate to the front paste down of each volume. Publishers' brown cloth with gilt standing natives to upper boards and gilt eland head and title to the spines. Some occasional spotting to prelims a very good + set. Translated from the 1891 German by Nancy Bell, " this set represents African adventure at its finest an excellent work of exploration and sport, this scarce set represents African Adventures at its finest". Hunting buffalo, rhino, eland, elephant etc While hunting elephant, Von Hohnel was injured from recoil when firing his heavy bore rifle from a prone position' Czech 139. Wollaston was an English medical doctor, ornithologist, botanist, climber, and explorer. After qualifying as a surgeon in 1903, Wollaston decided to spend his life on exploration and natural history, travelling extensively; he wrote books about his travels and work, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1907. He took up an offer from as a tutor at Cambridge, and was shot dead by Douglas Potts, a deranged undergraduate student.
Seller: Hereward Books, Ely, CAMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$1875.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xx, 435, [1]; xii, 397, [1]; 2 large folding color maps (both with short tears near the stubs, the second incorporating 3 inset maps), 179 illustrations in the text, a number full-page; contemporary full red polished calf, gilt supralibros on the upper covers of the Boston School, and with Boston School prize bookplates in each volume; lightly rubbed; very good. Czech, Africa, p. 78: "An excellent work of exploration and sport, this scarce set represents African adventure at its finest."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English Language Edition. Translated from the original German into English by Nancy Bell, one of the most noted translators of her day. Volume I: large octavo, pp xx, 435, frontispiece of Count Samuel Teleki von Zek, 21 black and white illustrated plates, 71 illustrations in the text, very large full color fold-out map, errata. Volume II: large octavo, pp xii, 397, frontispiece map showing the route of the expedition, 13 illustrated plates, 72 illustrations in the text, very large full color fold-out map, errata, appendix, index. Both volumes bound in publisher's brown cloth with gold decorations and spine titles. Spines on both volumes slightly slanted. All corners gently rubbed, ends of spines gently bumped. Volume II has a small dent to the spine. No cracked hinges. Binding sound. Both very large full color fold-out maps are clean and beautiful. The map in Vol I has some rubbing to the left inset map (not the main map) with a small loss. Both maps are backed with strong cloth tape along the left margin to prevent tearing when you unfold them. Neither map has any tears. Mild to moderate age spotting throughout both volumes that affects most pages. Pages with plates also spotted, but spotting is confined to the margins for almost all plates. An important title for both exploration and sporting/hunting. Czech says of this set "An excellent work of exploration and sport, this set represents African adventure at its finest." The expedition hunted buffalo, rhino, elephant, eland, and a variety of plains game. Howgego tells us that Count Samuel Teleki was a member of a prominent Hungarian family who was a wealthy member of the Hungarian Upper House. Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, son of Emperor Franz-Joseph I, recommended that Teleki turn his proposed African hunting safari into an exploration expedition as well as a hunting safari and he did so. Ludwig Von Hohnel was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy and member of the expedition, it was Hohnel who organized the expedition (no expense spared) and then wrote this book. Teleki and Hohnel were the first Europeans to set foot on Mount Kenya and climbed to an altitude of 4,300 meters. They discovered the last of the great African lakes to be discovered by Europeans and named them Lake Rudolph and Lake Stefanie. Lake Rudolph is now named Lake Turkana. The expedition had numerous difficulties and violent confrontations with Africans, exacerbated by Teleki's rough treatment of his own porters and tendency towards violent confrontation. For part of their journey, they had trouble in areas that the pacifistic Joseph Thomson had earlier crossed without incident. The expedition brought back more than 400 ethnographical objects, mostly from the Maasai and Kikuyu tribes as well as a large collection of plants and animals. Many of the illustrations in this book were drawn using photographs Hohnel took on the expedition, the most important of the photos were destroyed in WWII. Ships same or next business day. Please note this is a 2 volume set of slighty oversize hardbacks - international shipping will require substantial extra charges in addition to those quoted by this website. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$2116.56 + shipping
Description: First English Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp xx, 435; xii, 397; half-titles, folding coloured map at the end of each volume, portrait and many textual illustrations (some full page), original brown decorative cloth, fine. One of the most important journeys undertaken in East Africa, and a foundation work on the area. The first edition in German appeared at Vienna in 1891 being closely followed by a Budapest edition (1891-2). In 1885 Count Telecki set out from Zanzibar to Kilimanjaro and thence northwards to make the important discovery of the two lakes (which now lie on the borders of Ethiopia and Kenya). There are good accounts of the Masai and Kikuyu.
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2244.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 volumes. First Edition. Scarcest variant, bound in the blue decorated cloth. With 179 original illustrations including 36 wood-engraved full page plates and 5 coloured maps on two large folding map sheets. Tall 8vo, publisher's original pale blue cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt pictorial designs of African tribesmen and gazelles on top covers and spines, edges untrimmed. xx, 435; xii, 397 pp. A very handsome and pleasing set of this scarce first edition in the scarcest binding colour. Only light aging to the volumes, with corners and top and bottom of spine bumped and rubbed. A very attractive pair, now in clear protective covers. RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE MOST PREFERRED OF THE CLOTH COLOURS. The volumes are from the former library of Sir Albert (Bertie) Ruskin Cook, CMG, OBE (22 March 1870 – 23 April 1951) who was a British medical missionary in Uganda, and the founder of Mulago Hospital and Mengo Hospital. Together with his wife, Katharine Cook (1863–1938), he established a maternity training school in Uganda. There is a letter from his brother John (Jack) Cook to him laid in; discussing former friends and acquaintances. Both volumes have Sir Albert's bookplate pasted in. It is the first and only edition in English and was translated from the original German by Nancy Bell (N. D'Anvers).
Seller: Books & Cabinets, Market Rasen, United Kingdom
Price: US$2420.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition. 2 volumes 8vo., xx, 435; xii, 397 pp., 3 maps (2 coloured and folding, these partially reinforced with linen), 36 wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text, original brown pictorial cloth gilt, modern slip case, old ink inscription to first half-title else a fine bright set. "An excellent work of exploration and sport, this scarce set represents African adventure at its finest. Departing from Zanzibar the expedition hunted buffalo, rhinoceros, and a variety of plains animals in the neighbourhood of Mount Kilimanjaro. There was also considerable elephant hunting near Mount Nyiro, with additional elephant hunting near Lake Stephanie." - Czech. Czech p78.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2565.52 + shipping
Description: (London: Longmans Green & Co 1894). First UK Edition in 2 Volumes. 8vo, pp. xx, 435; xii, 397, [1]; with a large coloured folding map at end of each volume, numerous illustrations and maps in the text (some full-page). First published in German in 1892. Publisher's original brown cloth spines lettered in gilt, gilt vignettes of a gazelle to the spine, and of African tribesman to the top board of each volume; black endpapers (which are original). Each volume has the bookseller's ticket of Rowland Ward & Co Limited to the top left hand corner of the front paste-down. James Rowland Ward (18481912) was a British taxidermist and founder of the firm Rowland Ward & Co. Limited of 166 Piccadilly, London. The company specialised in and was renowned for its taxidermy work on birds and big-game trophies. Rowland Ward was also a well-known publisher of natural history books and big-game hunting narratives. Both volumes are inscribed by Rowland Ward to Charles Henry Sanford (an Anglo-American millionaire) whose book-plate adorns the front paste-down of each volume. The books are inscribed as follows: "To C. Sanford Esq:/ with Rowland Ward's/ Kind regards/ 1897". Interestingly, the book-plate of Charles Henry Ward was designed by Herbert Ward (1863-1919) who was a British sculptor, illustrator, writer, and explorer in Africa. He was a member of Henry Morton Stanley's Emin Pasha Relief Expedition and became a close friend of Roger Casement while they were working in the Congo. This is a very good (or slightly better) set with both the cloth bright and clean and the gilt un-tarnished. There is the usual light foxing throughout (a common fault with this book). The spine tips are a trifle softened. The black end-papers of each volume have a few short strips of tape residue (likely caused by the removal of a letter or perhaps a newspaper article put in by a previous owner). "An excellent work of exploration and sport, this scarce set represents African adventure at its finest. Departing from Zanzibar the expedition hunted buffalo, rhinoceros, and a variety of plains animals in the neighbourhood of Mount Kilimanjaro. There was also considerable elephant hunting near Mount Nyiro, with additional elephant hunting near Lake Stephanie." - Czech. Czech p78. Widely considered to be one of the great set of books on hunting and exploration of East Africa. Scarce with these attributes. Please note that due to the weight of these books shipping on this set may be a little more than that quoted by ABE (particularly for orders emanating from overseas). Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$3527.59 + shipping
Description: First edition in English of this excellent work of exploration and sport, noted for recounting the European discovery of Lake Turkana. Hungarian nobleman Samuel Teleki (1845-1916) developed an interest in the region north of Lake Baringo, in what is now Kenya, after learning of Joseph Thomson's expedition, which reported the supposed existence of a large, haunted lake further north. He was encouraged by Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria to turn an intended safari into a journey of exploration, and von Höhnel, a naval officer, "would equip and arm the expedition to the highest standards, money being no object" (Howgego). The party arrived in Zanzibar late in 1886, crossed to Pangani in January the following year and reached the foothills of Kilimanjaro by June, making an assault on the summit in which Teleki reached a height of 5,300 metres (von Höhnel turned back after 4,950). They continued north along Thomson's route through the Masai and Kikuyu homelands. They reached Lake Baringo in February 1888, and Lake Turkana the month after. Returning via Baringo, they followed the Rift Valley and passed the future site of Nairobi, arriving back at Mombasa in October with over 400 ethnographic objects and a large collection of plant and animal specimens. Von Höhnel's account originally appeared in German (1892). This English translation is also encountered in brown cloth, with no priority assigned. Many of the original photographs taken by Teleki and von Höhnel are believed to have been destroyed during the Second World War, so are only preserved by the drawings in the published account. Provenance: front pastedowns with the bookplate of Norman Douglas Simpson (1890-1974), Cambridge botanist who was in Africa throughout the 1920s, working for the Cotton Research Board at Giza and on irrigation projects across Egypt and Sudan while also collecting plant specimens for Kew. Czech p. 131; Howgego IV T11. 2 volumes, octavo. Original blue cloth, spines lettered and decorated in gilt, blind rules on boards enclosing gilt vignette on front, black surface-paper endpapers, edges uncut Wood-engraved frontispiece in vol. I, map frontispiece in vol. II, 2 large folding colour maps linen-backed at stub as issued, illustrations in the text. Spines cocked, headcaps and corners lightly rubbed and bumped, a few small markings to cloth, moderate foxing, very occasional marginal finger-soiling. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3575.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. First Edition. Scarcest variant, bound in the blue decorated cloth. With 179 original illustrations including 36 wood-engraved full page plates and 5 coloured maps on two large folding map sheets. Tall 8vo, publisher's original pale blue cloth lettered in gilt and with gilt pictorial designs of African tribesmen and gazelles on top covers and spines, edges untrimmed. xx, 435; xii, 397 pp. A very handsome and pleasing set of this scarce first edition in the scarcest binding colour and with a few old and occasional but small and discreet library markings. The set was part of a reference library and not a lending library, thus remains in very pleasing, as fine condition. Shelf numbers in the lower quadrant of the spines sometime discreetly coloured over in pigment matching the binding colour, only light aging to the volumes. A very attractive pair. RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE MOST PREFERRED OF THE CLOTH COLOURS. This is the scarce account of the exploring and hunting expedition of Count Samuel Telki Von Szek and Lieutenant Ludwig Von Höhnel to Eastern Equatorial Africa. Although the narrative was produced for the general reader and therefore deals more with the adventures and experiences then with the scientific work it contains considerable information of value. As the title suggest, the primary contribution of the expedition was the discovery of Lakes Rudolph and Stephanie in the mountainous region just northeast of Victoria Nyanza and thus adding one more piece to the great puzzle of the African watershed whose complexity had eluded European explorers for decades. There are also accounts of exploration during ascents of Mounts Kilimanjaro and Meru and considerable work of anthropological interest. This copy is in the rare blue cloth. It is the first and only edition in English and was translated from the original German by Nancy Bell (N. D'Anvers).
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
von Hohnel, L.. Discovery of Lakes Rudolph & Stefanie. Longmans Green & Co, London, 1894.
Price: US$6500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A narrative of Count Samuel Telleki's Exploring and hunting expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 and 1888. Two volumes: 435 pp, ill, colored folding map and 397 pp, map frontis, ill, folding map in rear. An excellent hunting book. Hunting between Zanzibar and Mt Kilimanjaro. They continued hunting throughout Kenya, of course around Lakes Rudolph & Stefanie. Much on big game as well as plains game. A lovely set in original highly gilt brown cloth with gilt vignettes on upper boards. One corner mildly bumped. The set is truly lovely.
Seller: Trophy Room Books, Agoura, CA, U.S.A.