Search Results: Travel-Africa from Rochdale Book Company

Staples Press, 1956. Cloth binding dull and faded, but a tight and sound reading copy. No dust jacket.

Johnannesburg, Hortors Ltd, (1938), pp. (10), 155 with 41 illustrations. Original cloth. Very good condition in rather frayed and used dust jacket. Small circular stamp on endpaper.

J.A. Allen & Co, 1966. Signed by the author. Colour frontis.Dust jacket just a little rubbed and price-clipped. Some fading to the covers, but clean, sound condition.

London, for the author, 1791. Includes "a Particular Account of the Royal Harem". Bound in full contemporary marbled calf, leather title label (little rubbed at one edge), complete with the folding map.Condition. Very light rubbing in places, endpapers browned at edges, some foxing to the map which has an old repair to the back, but a quite exceptionally attractive copy inside and out. This first edition is scarce; it is the second edition of 1793 which is more usually seen.

London, Edward Churton, 1836, two volumes in one, pp. xxiii, [3], 356, [ii], 402, folding map and four plates, probably lacking the half title to volume 2. Near contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Booards rubbed, but binding firm. Some internal soiling, mainly to the preliminary leaves of each volume, plate margins browned, but generally a sound copy. An important description of the Zulu nation. See Mendelssohn vol. 1, pp 760-761 for a lengthy paragraph on the book and its "valuable notes on the country, its language, population and customs of the natives".

London, George Philip & Son, 1890, second edition, pp. xx, 273 plus adverts. Frontis, numerous illustrations, folding map at end. Original pictorial cloth, just a little rubbed, spine dull, but a good, sound copy.