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Hardcover. Condición: 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. Condición: 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. Condición: 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. Condición: 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.

Hardcover. Condición: 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.

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. Condición: 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. Condición: 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.

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.).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Dixon Denham Ilustrador. 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. Condición: 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.

Edition : Second edition, Contemporary full gilt calf, gilt raised spine in six compartments, double black morocco labels on 2 and 3. Marbled free 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 three folded maps, 12 engraved plates 1 of which is coloured. , Volume : 2 volumes Occasional mild foxing otherwise a very good to fine example bound in handsome contemporary gilt full calf.

2 volumes. First Octavo Edition and Second edition overall. With three folding maps including a a very large folding map at the end of Vol. I, one hand-colored engraved view, and 12 other engraved plates by Finden, and with a number of illustrations in the text. 8vo, three quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt lettering to the spines. lxxxviii, 321 pp; iv, 413 pp. A handsome and well preserved copy, light age evidence, the plates and text-blocks in good order and with some occasional notes in pencil by a learned reader. SCARCE AND IMPORTANT WORK. Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, traveled from Benioleed, near Tripoli, almost due 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. In the meantime, Clapperton and Oudney journeyed west from the lake toward the Niger River, but the doctor only made it about a third of the way and died in Murmur. Clapperton continued west, but was prevented from passing beyond Sackatoo by the local Sultan. He and Denham subsequently returned to Tripoli and crossed back to England. 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 several appendices are translations from the Arabic of various letters and documents brought back by Denham and Clapperton, including a document relating to the death of Mungo Park; 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. The engravings, after drawings by Denham and Clapperton, are superbly engraved by Edward Finden, one of the finest steel-engravers in England at the time.

Couverture rigide. Condición: Bon. Edition originale. DENHAM, MAJOR DIXON - CAPTAIN HUGH CLAPPERTON AND DOCTOR OUDNEY : NARRATIVE OF TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA IN THE YEARS 1822, 1823 AND 1824. LONDON (JOHN MURRAY) 1826. 2 VOL. GRAND IN-8°, 22 X 14, RELIES PLEIN VEAU CONTEMPORAIN, DOS A 5 NERFS, FILETS D'OR SUR LES PLATS ET LES FILS, ENCADREMENTS DORES SUR LES PLATS, TR. MARBREES, RELIURE ANGLAISE CONTEMPORAINE. 1 PLAT DETACHE, COIFFES UN PEU FROTTEES, COINS LEGEREMENT ENFONCES. SECONDE EDITION. LXXXVIII-321PPS; IV-413PPS. ILLUSTRE DE 3 CARTES DEPL. ET DE 12 PL. HORS-TEXTE DONT 1 EN COULEURS. PEU DE ROUSSEURS. PAYPAL : SURCOUT DE 5%. SECOND EDITION OF THE TRAVELS OF DENHAM AND CLAPPERTON FROM TRIPOLI TO LAKE TCHAD WITH EXCURSION INTO THE MOUNTAINS WEST OF MOURZOK IN FEZZAN. ILLUSTRATED WITH 12 PLATES, 1 IN COLOR, ENGRAVED AFTER THE DRAWINGS OF CLAPPERTON BY EDUARD FINDEN, 1 OF THE FINEST STEEL ENGRAVERS. HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY CALF BINDING. ONE SIDE WITH COVER DETACHED.

First Edition. Illustrated with one full page cartographic plan and a large folding map. 4to, later rebound in plain faux calf. xxiii, (3), 355 pp. A good reading copy of this important book, but without the portrait or title, though with the half-title complete. FIRST EDITION. "When the late Captain Clapperton made his way to Soccatoo for the first time, in the year 1824, he received the most flattering attentions and every mark of kindness, from Bello, the sultan of the Fellans, as they call themselves, or Fellatas, as they are called by the people of Soudan. This chieftain may be said to rule over almost the whole of that part of North Africa which is distinguished by the name of Houssa, though he appears to have lost a considerable portion of what his father, Hatman Danfodio, first over; and many of the petty chiefs still continue in a state of rebellion, some of them within a day's journey of this capital. In the course of frequent conversations held with this chief , at his usual reasoned of Soccatoo, Clapperton was given to understand, that the establishment of a friendly intercourse with England would be most agreeable to him; that he wished particularly for certain articles of English manufacture to be sent out to him to the sea-coast, where there was a place of great commerce belonging to him, named Funda: he also expressed a wish that an English physician and consul should be appointed to reside at another seaport, called Raka; to the former of which places, he said, he would dispatch messengers to bring up the articles from England; and to the latter he would send down a proper person to transact all matters of business between the two governments, through the intervention of the English consul; and he made no difficulty in declaring his readiness to adopt measure for putting an entire stop to that part of the slave-trade supposed to carried on by his subjects with foreigners." -From the introduction. Clapperton was the first European to report direct observation of Hausa countries.

in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Dr. Oudney, extending accross the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. First edition. Large folding map & 38 plates (1 coloured), with 5 woodcut vignettes. 4to. Contemporary calf, decorated gilt, is rubbed and scuffed. Later calf spine is decorated gilt, but joints are beginning to split. xlviii, 335, 272pp. London, On their meeting in Edinburgh "Oudney turned Clapperton's thoughts to African discovery. Lord Bathurst, then colonial secretary, appointed Oudney consul of Bornu, and employed Clapperton to accompany him in a journey to Central Africa. Major Dixon Denham [q.v.] volunteered to accompany the travellers from Tripoli to Timbuctoo. Proceeding south from the Mediterranean early in 1822 the travellers reached Murzuk, and by way of Musfeia and Zangalia arrived at Kuka in the kingdom of Bornu, on the west of Lake Tchad. Thence after great suffering they reached Sokota. They failed to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, but determined the positions of the kingdoms of Mandara, Bornu, and Houssa, and their chief towns; while Denham, after some other movements, explored Lake Tchad. Clapperton and Oudney journeyed westward to the Niger. At Murmur in January 1824 Oudney died and was buried by his friend. Clapperton proceeded alone to Kano, capital of Houssa, and to Sokota, the extreme point of the expedition in that direction. Although but five days' journey from the Niger, he was not allowed by the sultan to proceed westward. On 4 May he started on his return, was rejoined by Denham at Kuka, and reached Tripoli in January 1825, and England on 1 June" (DNB). This is as fine a copy as we have seen of this standard work; from the Earl of Derby's library with his bookplate. Copies are most unusual with plates printed on India paper.

in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Dr. Oudney, extending accross the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. Third edition. 2 vols. Folding map & 14 plates. 8vo. Fine contemporary half morocco, spines gilt with raised bands, marbled boards, very slightly rubbed at extremities. xvi, 472; iv, 468pp. London, On their meeting in Edinburgh "Oudney turned Clapperton's thoughts to African discovery. Lord Bathurst, then colonial secretary, appointed Oudney consul of Bornu, and employed Clapperton to accompany him in a journey to Central Africa. Major Dixon Denham [q.v.] volunteered to accompany the travellers from Tripoli to Timbuctoo. Proceeding south from the Mediterranean early in 1822 the travellers reached Murzuk, and by way of Musfeia and Zangalia arrived at Kuka in the kingdom of Bornu, on the west of Lake Tchad. Thence after great suffering they reached Sokota. They failed to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, but determined the positions of the kingdoms of Mandara, Bornu, and Houssa, and their chief towns; while Denham, after some other movements, explored Lake Tchad. Clapperton and Oudney journeyed westward to the Niger. At Murmur in January 1824 Oudney died and was buried by his friend. Clapperton proceeded alone to Kano, capital of Houssa, and to Sokota, the extreme point of the expedition in that direction. Although but five days' journey from the Niger, he was not allowed by the sultan to proceed westward. On 4 May he started on his return, was rejoined by Denham at Kuka, and reached Tripoli in January 1825, and England on 1 June" (DNB).

1st Edn. xlviii, 335, 269 pages, frontis + 34 engraved plates, 1 colour, 6 vignettes and large folding map some occasional spotting, the map of Bellos more so. Original full tan calf boards, later matching spine, some light rubbing to corners on the board. Denham and Clapperton and Dr Walter Oudney traveled from Benioleed to lake Tchad to Sokota, failing to ascertaion the source of the Niger. Denham spent time exploring Lake Tchad, Clapperton journeys westwards to the Niger in January 1824, Oudney died and was buried by his friends at Murmur. Clapperton journey's alone to Knao and Sokota , in May he started his return and was rejoined by Denham at Kula reaching Tripoli in January 1825.

First edition. Large folding map & 38 plates (1 coloured), with 5 woodcut vignettes. 4to. Later half calf over marbled boards, red morocco label to spine, gilt. xlviii, 335, [iv], 272pp. London, John Murray, On their meeting in Edinburgh "Oudney turned Clapperton's thoughts to African discovery. Lord Bathurst, then colonial secretary, appointed Oudney consul of Bornu, and employed Clapperton to accompany him in a journey to Central Africa. Major Dixon Denham [q.v.] volunteered to accompany the travellers from Tripoli to Timbuctoo.   Proceeding south from the Mediterranean early in 1822 the travellers reached Murzuk, and by way of Musfeia and Zangalia arrived at Kuka in the kingdom of Bornu, on the west of Lake Tchad. Thence after great suffering they reached Sokota. They failed to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, but determined the positions of the kingdoms of Mandara, Bornu, and Houssa, and their chief towns; while Denham, after some other movements, explored Lake Tchad. Clapperton and Oudney journeyed westward to the Niger. At Murmur in January 1824 Oudney died and was buried by his friend. Clapperton proceeded alone to Kano, capital of Houssa, and to Sokota, the extreme point of the expedition in that direction. Although but five days' journey from the Niger, he was not allowed by the sultan to proceed westward. On 4 May he started on his return, was rejoined by Denham at Kuka, and reached Tripoli in January 1825, and England on 1 June" (ODNB).    .

First edition, 4to, 2 volumes in 1; pp. x, [2], [xi]-xlviii (i.e. lxviii), 335, [1]; [4], 269, [1]; 38 engraved plates and maps (1 folding and backed with linen, 1 hand-colored), 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text; half brown morocco over marbled cloth, rebacked, old gilt-decorated spine neatly laid down; very good, sound copy. Denham (1786-1828) made extensive and important explorations in Africa. When he accompanied Bornuese troops in an expedition against the Fellatah, they were put to utter rout and only Denham escaped with his life "after encountering dangers and deprivations, his narrative of which reads like a frenzied dream.The work, which went through several editions, has numerous illustrations from sketches by the author, together with an Appendix of Natural History, and other notes" (DNB). He was later appointed lieutenant-governor of the colony of Sierra Leone where he died of the African fever. Ibrahim-Hilmy, p. 172.

in the Years 1822, 1823, and 1824, by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton, and the late Dr. Oudney, extending accross the Great Desert to the Tenth Degree of Latitude, and from Kouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Fellatah Empire. First edition. Large folding map & 38 plates (1 coloured), with 5 woodcut vignettes. 4to. Bound in contemporary blue calf, somewhat rubbed and scuffed, with short split to lower front joint. A little browning to plates (mainly marginal & otherwise protected by the tissue guards). Folding map somewhat foxed. xlviii, 335, 272pp. London, John Murray. On their meeting in Edinburgh "Oudney turned Clapperton's thoughts to African discovery. Lord Bathurst, then colonial secretary, appointed Oudney consul of Bornu, and employed Clapperton to accompany him in a journey to Central Africa. Major Dixon Denham [q.v.] volunteered to accompany the travellers from Tripoli to Timbuctoo. Proceeding south from the Mediterranean early in 1822 the travellers reached Murzuk, and by way of Musfeia and Zangalia arrived at Kuka in the kingdom of Bornu, on the west of Lake Tchad. Thence after great suffering they reached Sokota. They failed to ascertain the source and termination of the Niger, but determined the positions of the kingdoms of Mandara, Bornu, and Houssa, and their chief towns; while Denham, after some other movements, explored Lake Tchad. Clapperton and Oudney journeyed westward to the Niger. At Murmur in January 1824 Oudney died and was buried by his friend. Clapperton proceeded alone to Kano, capital of Houssa, and to Sokota, the extreme point of the expedition in that direction. Although but five days' journey from the Niger, he was not allowed by the sultan to proceed westward. On 4 May he started on his return, was rejoined by Denham at Kuka, and reached Tripoli in January 1825, and England on 1 June" (DNB). This is as fine a copy as we have seen of this standard work; from the Earl of Derby's library with his bookplate. Copies are most unusual with plates printed on India paper.