Major Denham (49 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Volume II (only), 3rd Edition, wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners bumped and worn, boards showing and layers separating, entire spine missing, surface of covers faded and worn, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, some fingerprints on edges.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. . . . . Third edition. 8vo, hardcover, no dj. Volume 2. Bound in later black cloth, paper spine label reading simply "Africa". Good condition. Prev. owner's name at corner of title pg. Front & rear hinges cracked w/ front board loosening, first 4 signatures (bound groups of pgs) up to pg. 62 detached, laid in; however interior binding firm. Contents lightly & uniformly toned with just the slightest, very occasional spot of foxing, otherwise clean, unmarked; exterior quite clean, corners & spine ends not bumped. 467 pp., illus., frontispiece, 2 fold-out maps.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Amer. ed. 3 maps (2 folding), folding plate (bound as two plates in this copy), lxiv, 255, 104, 112p. Contemporary leather. 23 cm. Backstrip and cover edges heavily scuffed. First folding map wrinkled but complete. Lower corner of three text leaves torn off (substantial loss of text on one leaf). Archival tape repairs on another text leaf. Bookplates (one from an old Philadelphia institution).

hardcover. Condition: very good(-). First. Illustrations including 1 folding plate & 1 folding map (2 maps missing). 8vo, rebound in brown cloth with black leather spine label; library stamp on the title and last page; foxing throughout. Boston: Cummings, Hilliard and Carey & Lea, 1826. First American Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. HARDBACK BOUND IN A 19TH CENTURY FULL LEATHER BINDING, COMPLETE COPY WITH 3 MAPS INCLUDING FRONTIS MAP OF WHICH TWO ARE FOLDING, TWO FULL PAGE PLATES WITH ONE FOLDING. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES WITH 64 + 255 + 104 PAGES + 122 PAGE APPENDIX. MINOR AGE REALATED RUBBING & BUMPS TO COVER, SMALL SPRINGFIELD LIBRARY COMPANY PLATE TO INNER FRONT BOARD, FRONTIS MAP IS WORN & HEAVILY CREASED WITH SOME CLOSED TEARS & OLD REPAIRS [SEE IMAGE] CHIPS TO MARGIN OF TITLE PAGE, OCCASIONAL BROWNING, MARKS OR FOXING TO PAGES, OCCASIONAL CREASE TO PAGES. EXTERNALLY THE BOOK IS VERY GOOD WITH BOARDS WELL ATTACHED, INTERNALLY SOME FAULTS & IN GOOD - VERY GOOD CONDITION. EXTRA POSTAGE MAY APPLY FOR OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS ARE POSTED IN A STURDY BOOK BOX.

Comb Bound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Paginated in parts (approx 180pp), maps, appendices, Rolls of Honour. Pale green card with green plastic comb binding. Slightest of edge wear. Unclear whether this is a stencilled manuscript or stencilled publication. The frontis portrait is of poor quality.The history covers both World Wars and the inter-war period. Extensive Rolls of Honour by Battalion. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 3rd Edition. John Murray 1828 3rd edition 2 volume set. Leather over marbled boards. Covers show scuffing, rubbing and light bumping to extremities. No names. Volume 1: xii, contents, list of plates, pp471 NOTE MISSING MAP TO REAR. Volume 2: iv, pp407. A complete set except for one of the three maps that should be bound at end of Vol 1. All other maps/plates present. Volume one cracked at p16-17- first gathering sitting slightly proud of page-block. Both volumes have spotting/marking to end papers then just the odd mark/spot throughout. Plates show more spotting, text bright. Some offsetting from plates. Frontis slightly loose at bottom of vol 2. Good. 1.9kg packed-additional postage and tracking to be agreed for order outside UK thanks. Please note this will be considerably more than 500gm default quote.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 16mo. Hardcover. 4 volumes. Bound in marbled paper-covered boards with white vellum spines & corner points. 1st edition. Illustrated in b&w. Covers edge-worn & spines dulled. Solid bindings. Interiors very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2 Volume set. The boards of both volumes are edge worn with scuffing along the edges, knocked corners and marks on the spines. The page block of both volumes remain secure. Bookplate of a previous owner on the front paste down of both volumes. Browning along the edges of the pages in both volumes, not affecting text. Light damp marks on the early pages of Volume 1, not affecting text. Spotting throughout in both volumes. There are no ink inscriptions or annotations in either of the volumes. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Bound with the Narrative of Captain Clapperton's Journey from Kouka to Sackatoo and an appendix; "Translations from the Arabic, of various letters and documents, brought from Bornou and Soudan by Major Denham and Captain Clapperton". With three maps (two folding, including the large map of Northern and Central Africa. Octavo contemporary full calf with a black morocco spine label. Front outer hinge cracked, but sound. Light foxing to preliminaries, plates and text block edges, else a clean, bright copy.

Couverture rigide. Condition: 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.

Leather. Condition: Good. E. Finden (illustrator). The second edition of this important narrative regarding the Bornu Mission, an expedition which aimed to find the source of the Niger. The second edition, and first octavo edition of the work. First published in quarto earlier the same year. With a frontispiece, seven monochrome plates, one colour plate and a large folding map to volume one, and a frontispiece, one monochrome plate and two folding maps to volume two. Collated complete.Former lending library copy, with associated stamps. This important narrative written by Major Dixon Denham's, documents the first European expedition across the Sahara Desert, which was undertaken between 1822 and 1825 by Denham, Oudney and Clapperton. The expedition was organised in order to access the financially important trans-Saharan trade between Tripoli and Bornu, whilst also attempting to identify the source of the river Niger. The expedition was successful but there was notable disagreement between the three members.An early edition of this influential work. In contemporary half calf. Externally a trifle worn. Front joint of volume two is weak, and may detach with further handling. The remaining joints are slightly strained. Internally firmly bound. Lending library stamp to plates. Closed tears to folding plates. Scattered spotting. Good. book.

Leather. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition. 4to 11.5"; 2 volumes in one, 4to (268 x 211 mm). Engraved frontispiece, 32 engraved plates (one hand-colored) , 11 in-text woodcut illustrations (2 plans) , 6 engraved maps (5 full-page, one folding). (Some occasional spotting or offsetting. ) Modern half calf over green cloth gilt, smooth spine gilt, 3 black morocco lettering-pieces gilt, edges faintly marbled, marbled endsheets (chipping to lettering-piece, some small scuffs). Provenance: W. Conway (signature). FIRST EDITION of important explorations in Africa. The first volume is an official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Clapperton and Oudney were the original members of the party, to which Denham was added, but whose "arrogance, malice, and contempt for his colleagues from the start soured relations between them" (DNB). This famous "Bornu Mission" provided the earliest European report on the Central Sudan and Northern Nigeria. From the Mediterranean they reached Murzuk and Bornu on the west of Lake Chad, and eventually Sokota. Failing to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, Denham explored Lake Chad, and Oudney and Clapperton journeyed westward to the Niger. Clapperton continued alone after Oudney's death at Murmur, reaching Sokota and rejoining Denham at Kuka. On the second expedition Clapperton had been promoted to Commander and was sent back to Sokota to open up trade with the west coast. He died in 1827, having crossed Yoruba Country and the Niger. He was survived by his "servant" Richard Lander who carried on alone. Lander brought Clapperton's journals back to England and wrote the "Life of Clapperton" which appears in this second work. Hilmy, p. 172 (Narrative). Property from the Estate of Professor Ethan D. Alyea, Jr. , Bloomington, Indiana. Modern calf spine backing.

Extending across the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. xlviii, 335 + 269 [2] pp. One color plate; folding map; 36 engraved plates. 4to, modern full calf; gilt-lettered spine labels. First edition. There is a light tidemark affecting all of the plates and some of the text. Tight and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: sehr gut. Leinenband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, 15 x 9,5 cm. 304, 257, 259, 279 Seiten, mit ausfaltbarer Karte und 5, 3, 2, 2 Kupfern (teils mit Seidenhemdchen). Die Seiten 193-208 (Bd. I) zwischen den Seiten 272 und 273 dingebunde, im Titel gebrochen, unruhiger Schnitt, die anderen Bänden etwas bestossen und berieben, teils wenig gebräunt, so sehr gutes Ensemble. Inhalt: From Tripoli to Mourzuk, Excursion to Westward of Mourzuk, From Mourzuk to Kouka in Bornou, Kouka, Expedition to Mandara, Excursion to Munga and the Gambarou, Rainy Season at Kouka, Excursion to Loggarn and death of Mr. Toole, Journey to the Eastern Shores of the Lake Tchad and Return to Tripoli, Additional Notes on Bornou, Excursion from Kouka in Bornou to Murmur, wherd Dr. Oudney died, Excursion from Murmur to kano, Fraom Kano to Sackatoo , Return from Sackatoo, Captain Clappertons 2nd Expedition into Africa, and an Accout of his Death, from Richard Landers Journal in englischer Sprache.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First American edition. 255;104;112pp., 3 maps (two folding), one folded plate. Original quarter cloth and papercovered boards with printed paper spine label. Rebacked, slight wear to the label, old library label contemporary with the book on the front pastedown, owner's signature dated 1842, small tears on the title page, stain and old paper repair on a couple of pages, still a pleasing near very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries In Northern and Central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823 and 1824 by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton and The Late Doctor Oudney. Published by John Murray 1826. Leather bound. Rubbing to the boards on the front and back and toning to the spine edge and light bumped corners. Inside toning and foxing to first several pages. Some plate have water staining and some foxing. Please see the images and please ask for more photos or details where needed.

First edition; 4to (28 x 23.5 cm); presentation inscription to title, engraved frontispiece, 36 engraved plates, 1 of which hand-coloured, 6 engraved vignettes, all by Finden after the authors, large engraved folding map at rear, bookplate to paste-down, a little offsetting from plates; contemporary full green calf with joints professionally repaired, gilt rules to board borders, edges, and turn-ins, spine in six gilt compartments with gilt morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, a touch of toning to boards, a very good copy; xlviii, 335, [iv], 269, [ii]pp. Inscribed presentation copy of the most important African travel narrative at the time of its publication, with superb provenance. Presentation copies of this important work are rare with only around twenty thought to exist. Inscribed on the title-page: 'John G. Children Esq FRS / British Museum / with the author's best / wishes / D. Denham', and with the bookplate of Halstead Place, Children's home. John George Children (1777-1852) was a British natural historian who was Keeper of the Zoology Department of the British Museum from 1837 to 1840. In 1833 he was founding president of what became the Royal Entomological Society of London. He was however much more comfortable with mineralogy than zoology: he constructed a large galvanic cell with Sir Humphry Davy in 1813, conducting several experiments, and invented a method to extract silver from ore without the need for mercury in 1824. The official expedition to discover the course of the Niger from the starting point of Tripoli, rather than West Africa. Denham and Clapperton were part of the expedition led by the Scottish doctor Walter Oudney to open relations with the Fulani kingdom, whose legendary trading centre was Kano, in order to discover the source of the Niger, which was widely believed to flow into Lake Chad. Having crossed the Sahara and found no rivers entering Lake Chad, the party divided with Denham exploring the Shari River and Oudney and Clapperton (who shared a mutual loathing of Denham) proceeding to Kano. Oudney died enroute but Clapperton was received by the ruler of Kano, Mohammed Bello who, having first supplied an accurate map of the course of the Niger, later backtracked and supplied a different, more misleading, map when he realised the dangers of opening up his kingdom to foreigners. Clapperton rejoined Denham at Lake Chad and back across the Sahara. Gay 337; Hilmy I, 172; Lowndes I, 629; cf. Playfair, Tripoli, 154 (3rd ed.).

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1826 , 3 vol. de texte in-8, et un atlas . Texte ; relié plein veau glacé époque , dos lisse orné avec tomaison noire et pièce d'auteur et titre rouge , liserés sur les plats et coupes tranches et plats cailloutées .[2] ff. , 366 et (1) pp. ; [2] ff. , 378 et (1) pp. ; [2] ff.428 pp. , belle reliure . Atlas grand in-folio, demi basane moderne, illustré de 14 lithographies à pleine page (costumes, paysages etc.) et 5 cartes, dont une carte générale des voyages mesurant 640 X 470 mm. , réparation à la carte. Première édition française, traduite par Eyriès et de Larenaudière. 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. P1-3K.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dixon Denham (illustrator). 2nd Edition. hird 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 large 8vo. 19th century signed 3/4 green calf and boards by Cooper Book binders of Birmingham England, joints rubbed else very good the folding large map of Africa is fine, all plates excellent and clean and bright, there are 37 engravings all based on actual drawings executed by Denham during these voyages. This is first deep English penetration of Western Africa, a landmark in exploration. Signed by Binder.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. 1st Edition Thus. John Murray, London, 1826. : The Atlas volume to his voyages in Africa in hopes of tracing the course of the Niger River, Denham's expedition crossed the desert along the long-established Sahara trade route to the kingdom of Bornu (later Nigeria), a route littered with the skeletons of thousands of slaves abandoned there over the centuries. They sighted Lake Chad and reached the capital of Bornu, where they were welcomed by a spectacular array of some five thousand horsemen sent by the Muslim prophet who ruled Bornu in the king's name. Though delighted to meet them, he refused to let them continue their explorations, lest they meet some misadventure for which he would be blamed. Ultimately, the expedition returned to England having failed to find the Niger, but having opened much of north central Africa to European knowledge. Written in a lively style, and embellished with engravings of Denham's own sketches, this account became one of the classics of its genre (DNB). Denham was later appointed lieutenant-governor of the colony of Sierra Leone, where he died of the African fever in 1828. This is the Atlas folio volume, no tp, just he large fold out map and the plates all near fine some hand color, in a period. 3/4 greeen morocco and marbled boards most tissue guards in place, some full hand colored scenes and many remarkable natives with hand color, portraits of the great Muslim tribal army that greeted these intrepid explorers in the heart of Africa. 11 by 8 inches in folio format.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Second Edition. lxxxviii, 321 + iv, 413pp, 2 small, 1 large folding map, 12 plates, woodcuts to text, facsimile. '.in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824. Extending Across the Great Desert, and From Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire.' Light wear, few small blemishes, 1 plate reattached. 1.5kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1826. First edition, 4to, bound with the Narrative of Captain Clapperton's Journey from Kouka to Sackatoo; pp. x, [2], [xi]-xlviii (i.e. lxviii), 335, [1]; [4], 269, [1]; 38 engraved plates and maps (1 folding, 1 hand-colored), 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Modern half brown morocco over marbled cloth by Tamara Hennesey. Occasional light foxing to the peripheries of the plates and to the large folding map, else a fine copy with fragments of the original spine bound in at the end.

Hardcover. First edition. [43] 335, 269 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Thirty-seven plates, one colored, one large fold-out map and six wood-cut vignettes. Exploration of the lower River Niger and the Guinea Coast with most of the narrative by Denham, the entire project sponsored by the British government. Dr. Oudney died at the age of 32 in 1824 of tropical fever during this exploration. Appendices of Bornou, Begharmi, Mandara and Timbuctoo Vocabulary. Plates and text generally clean, , slight toning to tile at fore-edge with signature at head, blind stamp of South African bookseller blank free front endpaper. Modern, three quarter calf and marbled boards with two red leather spine labels printed in gilt. 2 vols. in one. Near fine.

Edition : Second edition., Contemporary full diced gilt calf with blind floral tooling along border, gilt raised spine in five compartments, single black morocco label on 2, board edges and inner dentelles gilt, marbled end papers with matching marbled edges. , Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, traveled from near Tripoli, south to Lake Tchad, with excursions into the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan. Dixon attempted to follow the circuit around Lake Tchad but was unsuccessful. Capt. Clapperton and Dr. Oudney journeyed west toward the Niger River, but the doctor only made it about a third of the way and died in Murmur. Capt.Clapperton continued west, but was prevented from passing beyond Sackatoo by the local Sultan. Denham and Clapperton eventually returned to Tripoli and went back to England. This book is based upon Denham's journal, with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk. The last part by Clapperton, reports on his westward journey which includes an account of Oudney's death. The engravings, after drawings by Denham and Clapperton, are engraved by Edward Finden, one of the finest steel-engravers in England at the time., Size : 8vo. , Complete with 15 hand-coloured engraved plates 3 of which are folding maps. With profuse in-text illustrations., Volume : 2 volumes., P. Vol.1- Frontispiece, title, dedicatory, preface v-xi, contents, list of plates, introductory chapter xvii-xxxviii, p.1-321; Vol.2- Frontispiece, title, contents, p.1-413 Occasional mild foxing in plates, otherwise a very good to fine example bound in handsome contemporary gilt full calf.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. [1826]. 3 vol. in-8° et 1 atlas in-4° ; (2)-366 pp.-(1)/(2)-378 pp.-(1)/(2)-428 pp., l atlas se compose ainsi : (2)-19 pl. et cartes h.-t. [1-19], demi-velin dos lisse très joliment orné, p. de titre et de tomaison en maroquin noir, filets or, palette or, rel. de l époque [atlas en demi-veau], bon exemplaire. Bruel, l A. E. F., 1292. Gay, 337. Édition originale de la traduction française. First french edition. Good copy.