Travel & Exploration

Elisabeth Wolf (born 1873) 'Ohan of Benin' - Queen Ohan Akenzua, royal wife of Oba Akenzua II signed 'Elizabeth Wolf' (upper right), dated 'Sept ...

Herbert Ward (British, 1863-1919) Les Bantu (The Forest Lovers) signed 'Herbert Ward' (to base lower left); inscribed with the foundry mark 'E. G...

Anton van Wouw (South African, 1862-1945) Andorobo (hunter drinking) signed 'A v Wouw' (back left) and inscribed 'Foundry - G.Massa / Rome' (lowe...

AFRICA MUNSTER (SEBASTIAN) Africa Lybia Morenlandt mit allen königreichen so zu unsern zeiten darin gefunden werden, hand-coloured woodcut map, l...

AFRICA BLAEU (WILLEM) Africae nova descriptio, hand-coloured engraved double-page map, 10 costumed figures on the vertical margins and 9 oval vig...

AFRICA HONDIUS (HENRICUS) Africae nova Tabula, double-page hand-coloured engraved map, numerous ships, sea-monsters, animals (elephants, lions, c...

AFRICA L'Afrique suivant les dernières observations de M. Hass et des RR. PP. Jésuites, engraved map with hand-coloured outlines, light toning,49...

AFRICA DE WIT (FREDERICK) Totius Africae Accuratissima Tabula, hand-coloured double-page engraved map, decorative title cartouche, animal vignett...

WEST AFRICA HONDIUS (JODOCUS) Guineae Nova Descriptio, hand-coloured engraved double-page map, title cartouche and inset map of St. Thomas, Frenc...

WEST AFRICA DE WIT (FREDERICK) Tractus Littorales Guineae a Promontorio Verde usque ad Sinum Catenbelae, hand-coloured engraved double-page map, ...

ETHIOPIA ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM) Presbiteri Iohannis, sive, Abissinorum Imperii Descriptio, hand-coloured engraved double-page map, large cartouche wi...

EAST AFRICA DE WIT (FREDERICK) Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium a Promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin, hand-coloured engraved double-p...

ETHIOPIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR BLAEU (WILLEM) Aethiopia Superior vel Interior vulgo Abissinorum sive Presbiteri Joannis Imperium, hand-col...

Pieter Hugo Naudé (South African, 1869-1941) Grinding the Mealies signed and dated 'Hugo Naudé/ 1900' (lower right) oil on canvas 29.2 x 37.1cm ...

Frans David Oerder (South African, 1867-1944) Still life signed 'Frans Oerder' (lower right) oil on canvas 75 x 85cm (29 1/2 x 33 7/16in). Footn...

Thomas William Bowler (British, 1812-1869) View across Simon's Town Bay, Cape Town, South Africa inscribed 'Simon's Town Bay' (lower right) water...

Robert Gwelo Goodman (South African, 1871-1939) A Cape homestead signed 'R G/Goodman' (lower left) oil on canvas 51.1 x 61cm (20 1/8 x 24in). For...

LIVINGSTONE (DAVID) Autograph letter signed ('David Livingstone'), to Hamidi Mahamad, writing '...in acknowledgement of his good services...', sta...

[ALBERTI (JOHANN CHRISTOPH LUDWIG)] Zuid-Afrikaansche Gezichten, drop-head title single letterpress with descriptive text in Dutch, 4 hand-colour...

ANDERSON (JOHN CORBET) To India and Back by the Cape. By a Traveller... Subscriber's Copy, FIRST EDITION, list of subscribers, 17 lithographed pl...

ANDREWS (HENRY C.) The Heathery; or a Monograph of the Genus Erica... Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged, 6 vol., additional hand-coloured aq...

ANGAS (GEORGE FRENCH) The Kafirs Illustrated in a Series of Drawings taken among the Amazulu, Amaponda, and Amakoza Tribes; also, Portraits of the...

[ANSON (GEORGE)] A Voyage to the South-Seas, and to many other Parts of the World, Performed. . . By Commodore Anson... by an Officer of the Squad...

[ANSON (GEORGE)] THOMAS (PASCOE) A True and Impartial Journal of a Voyage to the South-Seas, and Round the Globe, in His Majesty's Ship the Centur...

BAINES (THOMAS) Explorations in South-West Africa being an Account of a Journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay... To Lake Ngami and ...

BARRINGTON (GEORGE) An Account of a Voyage to New South Wales, hand-coloured engraved title-page, 9 hand-coloured engraved plates, one folding ma...

BARROW (JOHN) A Voyage to Cochinchina, in the Years 1792 and 1793... with Sketches of the Manners, Character, and Condition of their Several Inhab...

BAUER (FRANZ ANDREAS) Delineations of Exotick Plants, Cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew. Drawn and Coloured, and the Botanical Characters Dis...

BERNADIN DE SAINT PIERRE (JACQUES) A Voyage to the Isle of France, the Isle of Bourbon, and the Cape of Good Hope, half-title, 4 hand-coloured fo...

[BERNARD (FRANCOIS)] Nederlandsch Afrika: of Historisch en Staatkundig Tafereel van den oorsprongelyken staat der Volkplantinge aan de Kaap der Go...

BOTELER (THOMAS) Narrative of a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, 4 lithographed plates, lacking half-title called...

BOTERO (GIOVANNI) Le relationi universali... novamente ristampate, & ricorrette -Aggiunta alla quarta dell'Inde, 8 parts in 1 vol., 8 titles with...

BREYNE (JACOB) Prodromi fasciculi rariorum plantarum primus et secundus... accedunt icones rariorum et exoticarum plantarum, engraved portrait of...

BURCHELL (WILLIAM J.) Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, large engraved map hand-coloured in outline (laid on lin...

BURMANN (JOHANNES) Rariorum Africanarum plantarum. Decas prima [-Decima], 10 parts in 1 vol., FIRST EDITION, first title printed in red and black...

[CHATELAIN (HENRY ABRAHAM)] Atlas historique, ou nouvelle introduction a l'histoire..., vol. 6 (with Africa section only), title printed in red a...

CORRY (JOSEPH) Observations Upon the Windward Coast of Africa, the Religion, Customs, &C. of the Natives; with a System Upon Which They May Be Civ...

DANIELL (SAMUEL) African Scenery and Animals at the Cape of Good Hope, 2 Parts (complete), 2 pictorial aquatint parts titles, 30 FINE HAND-COLOUR...

DANIELL (WILLIAM) Sketches Representing the Native Tribes, Animals, and Scenery of Southern Africa, from Drawings Made by the Late Mr. Samuel Dani...

DANIELL (WILLIAM) Sketches Representing the Native Tribes, Animals, and Scenery of Southern Africa, from Drawings Made by the Late Mr. Samuel Dani...

DAPPER (OLFERT) Gedenkwürdige Verrichtung der Niederlandischen Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in den Kaiserreich Taising oder Sina, 3 parts in 1 vol., ...

DIAMOND MINING 'An Account of a journey to the Diamond Fields in South Africa in 1872', manuscript notebook written by American Frederick W. Smith...

EKEBERG (CARL GUSTAV) Ostindiska Resa åren 1770 och 1771, FIRST EDITION, woodcut vignette on title, 5 folding engraved plates and one folding eng...

[GRAHAM (LUMLEY) AND HUGH ROBINSON)] Scenes in Kafirland, and Incidents in the Kafir War of 1851-2-3. From Sketches by Two Officers of the 43rd Lt...

GRANDPRE (LOUIS DE) Voyage a la côte occidentale d'Afrique, fait dans les annees 1786 et 1787; Contenant la description des moeurs, usages, lois, ...

HALL (WILLIAM HUTCHEON) AND WILLIAM DALLAS BERNARD Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; and of the Combined Na...

HARRIS (WILLIAM CORNWALLIS) Narrative of an Expedition into Southern Africa, During the Years 1836, and 1837, from the Cape of Good Hope, through ...

HARRIS (WILLIAM CORNWALLIS) Portraits of the Game and Wild Animals of Southern Africa Delineated from Life in their Natural Haunts, FIRST EDITION,...

HEISTER (LORENZ) Beschreibung eines neuen Geschlechts von einer sehr raren und überaus schönen afrikanischen Pflanze aus der Familie der Zwiebelge...

HERBERT (THOMAS) Some Yeares Travels into Divers Parts of Africa, Asia the Great. Describing More Particularly the Empires of Persia and Industan....

KEITH (GEORGE MOUAT) A Voyage to South America and the Cape of Good Hope, in His Majesty's Brig Protector, half-title, light spotting, untrimmed ...

KINDERSLEY (JEMIMA) Letters from the Island of Tenerife, Brazil, the Cape of Good Hope, and the East Indies, FIRST EDITION, half-title, engraved ...

KOLBE (PETER) Caput Bonae Spei hodiernum. das ist: vollständige Beschreibung des Afrikanischen Vorgebürges der Guten Hofnung, FIRST EDITION, ha...

KOLBE (PETER) Naaukeurige en uitvoerige beschryving van de Kaap de Goede Hoop... Waar by nog komt, een zeer nette en uit eige ondervinding opgemaa...

LA LOUBERE (SIMON DE) Du Royaume de Siam, 2 vol., second edition, woodcut device on titles, one engraved vignette, 40 engraved plates and maps (s...

LATROBE (CHRISTIAN IGNATIUS) Journal of a Visit to South Africa, in 1815, and 1816. With some account of the missionary settlements of the United ...

LAYARD (EDGAR LEOPOLD) The Birds of South Africa... New Edition. Thoroughly Revised and Augmented by R. Bowdler Sharpe, 12 hand-coloured lithogra...

LEFEBVRE (THEOPHILE) AND OTHERS Voyage en Abyssinie exécuté pendant les années 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, 1843... Album historique, ethnologique et a...

LEVAILLANT (FRANÇOIS) Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique, par le cap de Bonne-Espérance, Paris, Desray, An VI [1798]; Second voyage dans l'inté...

LEVAILLANT (FRANÇOIS) Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, dans les annés 1780, 81, 82, 83, 84 & 85, 2 vol. in 1, F...