Schweinfurth W (7 results)

fester Einband. XIII, 599; VII, 593 S. (23,5 x 22 cm) OPp-OU. 1. Aufl. Sehr guter Zustand. Auflage: 1 ISBN 3799513647. /// /// intern4a9s0k /// ///.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition. With the two portraits and the map. The detailed colour map of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition from coast to coast including the Congo Free State is complete but has a few closed tears. Frontispiece still has tissue paper intact. Very good indeed with bright gilt on spine and gilt decoration on the front board. Neat Lindley bookplate inside front board.Neat contemporary signature on half title page. Mary E. Lindley, Claremont House, 1889. Africana. Hardback. No dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Front and rear endpapers split at hinges, webbing holding well. Slight bumping to spine, small dent with loss of colour to front board. A Good tight book. ; The letters have been edited and annotated by the 4 named authors. Translated by Mrs R W Felkin. Pages partially uncut. Large folding map at rear with a small tear where joined to book. ; B & W frontis + Map; 9.1 x 6.0 x 2.0"; 547 pages.

Cloth Bound. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the scarce first edition, first issue, translated in to English by Mrs R. W. Felkin. Pasha (1840-1892) was an Ottoman-German Jewish physician and naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the Upper Nile. The Ottoman empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to Emin Pasha.Complete with the two tissue-guarded portraits of Pasha plus a large, folding coloured map (in excellent condition, with just one small blank margin repair. The text is in very good+, tight, clean condition. "Sutton 1889" inscribed on front end paper. Negligible age-browning. The brown cloth binding, with gilt titles and motif on front and spine, is in very good, tight condition, with very minor wear. 547 pages. See photographs of this actual book attached.

Condition: Very Good. xxviii, 547, 2 plates (portraits), folding col map. . HB. 8vo, orig. brown cloth, minor wear to extremities, gilt title to spine and gilt Arabic text to front board; orig. brown coated endpapers, paper split at head and foot of front hinge, but hinge still firm. Some occasional light spotting to text, minor foxing to plates, folding map with 5cm tear to blank inner margin, no damage to printed area of map. Vg. Inscribed to half-title, "Dr Gibson, With the translator's compliments and best thanks, Feb. 22. 1888". Edited by Prof. G. Schweinfurth, Prof. F. Ratzel, Dr R.W. Felkin and G. Hartlaub. Translated by Mrs. R.W. Felkin. First English edition (the German edition preceded this by a few months). A collection of letters and extracts from journals written by Emin Pasha during his residence in the Egyptian Sudan. Emin Pasha (born Eduard Schnitzer (1840-1892), of German-Jewish origin), was a physician, naturalist and colonial administrator. In 1878 he succeeded General Charles Gordon as Governor of Equatoria, southern Sudan. The Mahdist revolt would cut Equatoria off from the rest of the world from 1883 until 1888 when the relief expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley eventually reconnected with Emin.

8° Leinen. Condition: Gut. 262, 224, 248, 220, 228, 248, 200, 264, 224, 240 mit Schutzumschlag geringe Gebrauchsspuren am Einband und Block, Block sauber und fest ohne Einträge 134003 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 3800.

8° Leinen. Condition: Gut. 262, 224, 248, 220, 228, 248, 200, 264, 224, 240, 224, 234 mit Schutzumschlag geringe Gebrauchsspuren am Einband und Block, Block sauber und fest ohne Einträge 134004 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 3800.