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Erscheinungsdatum: 1802
Anbieter: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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from Cairo to Mourzouk, the Capital of the Kingdom of Fezzan, in Africa.First edition. 2 large folding maps. 4to. Contemporary quarter calf, rubbed. iv, xxvi, 195pp. W. Bulmer & Co., London, Horneman was one of the unlucky four sent out by the African Association to find the source of the Niger and the direction of its flow. During his first expedition he reached Murzuk, but was forced to retreat to Tripoli. On his second attempt however he died somewhere on the Niger, without being able to inform the world of his accomplishments. Cox I, p398.
Verlag: Forgotten Books, London, 2012
Anbieter: Antiquariat Immanuel, Einzelhandel, Steinebach a.d. Wied, Deutschland
Zustand: flawless copy. 1. Orig. paperback. Reprint. From the contents: To Ummesogeir. Observations on the Desert. Antiquities of Siwah. Departure from Schiacha; Arrival at Augila. Observations on the Region of the Harutsch, etc.; Jahr: 2012; Format: Großoktav; Anzahl der Seiten: 195; Auflage: 1.; Zustand: 2 (flawless copy)Auf Grund der Versandkostenvorgaben von AbeBooks/ZVAB (die Versandkostenkalkulation richtet sich nicht nach Gewicht, sondern nach Anzahl der Artikel), kann es bei Titeln mit über 1000 Gramm Gewicht oder größeren Formaten zu höheren Portokosten kommen. Nach Bestelleingang erfolgt eine Anfrage, ob Sie einverstanden sind. 415 gr. 195 pages.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1802
Anbieter: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
Erstausgabe
First edition. 2 large folding maps. 4to. Modern half morocco, clumsy repair to title-page, scattered foxing throughout. iv, xxvi, 195pp. London, W. Bulmer & Co., Horneman was one of the unlucky four sent out by the African Association to find the source of the Niger and the direction of its flow. During his first expedition he reached Murzuk, but was forced to retreat to Tripoli. On his second attempt however he died somewhere on the Niger, without being able to inform the world of his accomplishments. Cox I, p398.
Verlag: W. Bulmer & Co. for G. & W. Nicol, London, 1802
Anbieter: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, USA
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First U.K. Edition. First printing. Quarto (27cm). Contemporary sprinkled calf, gold roll around outer perimeter of boards, board edges tooled in blind, titled in gilt on red leather spine label; plain endpapers; iv,xxvi,195,[1]pp, with postscript leaf paginated "188*" inserted after p.188; 3 maps (2 folding, with routes traced in color) compiled by J. Rennell and engraved by J. Walker. Bookplate of John Bacon Lawrey Morritt, Rokeby Park. Sound and clean, mild rubbing to board edges, spine leather dry and cracking, internally with a few scatted spots of foxing, one folding map with small tear at center fold but otherwise Very Good. Collated and complete. First English translation of Hornemann's travels, previously published in German (Weimar 1801). Hornemann, a student at Göttingen, was "engaged by the African Association [in London] with instructions to reach the River Niger by crossing the Sahara from Egypt." When Napoleon's army took Cairo, Hornemann managed to gain Napoleon's patronage for his journey. He joined a caravan heading toward Marzuq, and visited several oases before turning north to Tripoli. There he "sent despatches back to London," then joined a caravan heading south, and disappeared. Later information suggested that he had successfully crossed the Sahara but died of dysentery just north of the Niger. HOWGEGO I, H100.
Verlag: London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for G. and W. Nicol, 1802, 1802
Anbieter: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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First English edition; originally published in German in 1801. The accounts of Horneman (1772-1800), "the first European in modern times to traverse the north-eastern Sahara" (Ency. Brit.). He originally set out from Cairo to explore the Niger and locate its source on behalf of the African Association in London. This copy was gifted to the Aggrey House by Major Hanns Vischer (1876-1945), the Swiss-born British Africanist and colonial educationist. Aggrey House was a London hostel for African students established by the League of Coloured Peoples (LCP) in collaboration with the Colonial Office in 1934; Vischer presented this copy to the hostel's library that same year. However, the support of the Colonial Office made Aggrey House "part of a wider debate about the place of the politics of empire in Britain", in particular as it was seen as a rival of the West African Students' Union (WASU) hostel (Rosenhaft, Africa in Europe, p.86). While the Colonial Office claimed it sought to create "an African Club in London", "a real home" for Africans studying in Britain (Whittall, in Africa in Europe, p.84), WASU saw the Colonial Office's involvement to be an attempt to influence and control colonial students (WASU, The Truth About Aggrey House, n.p.). Cox I p. 398; Embacher, pp. 150-1; Henze II p. 624-628; Howgego I H100; Ibrahim-Hilmy I 309. Quarto (269 x 214 mm). Early 20th-century red-brown half calf, raised bands to spine, titles and decorations to spine gilt, buff boards block-printed with stylised floral designs in green, white, and yellow, same design to endpapers. 2 partially coloured engraved folding maps by James Rennell. Bookplate of the Aggrey House to recto of front free endpaper; black ink stamps of the same to verso of front free endpaper and recto of rear free endpaper; accession number in white to tail of spine and in blue ink to title page. Spine sunned, corners and edges of boards slightly bumped and worn, split to top of front free endpaper repaired with archival tape to both recto and verso, small chip on front free endpaper fore edge prelims, endmatter, and map-adjacent leaves lightly foxed, occasional minor spotting throughout, short closed tear to stub of first folding map.