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Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Carl Peters account of the German East Africa expedition
Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
PETERS, CARL (Dr.)
New light on Dark Africa: Being the Narrative of the German Emin Pasha Expedition, its Journeyings and Adventures Among the Native Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891. First English edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth, black endpapers. 9 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches (24 x 16 cm); xviii, 597, [1] pp.; frontispiece, 32 plates, folding map in pocket at rear. Light binding wear, some old damp-stain to the foot of the rear board, rear hinge starting to crack at the endpaper, but still a rather nice copy
Translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken, this work provides in English Peters' account of his effort to find Emin Pasha on the Upper Nile, approaching from Africa's East coast. A controversial effort, this was widely seen as a freelance effort to further German influence in Uganda and adjacent countries. Czech, (Africa) p. 218.
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Estate / Collection: The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
PETERS, CARL (Dr.)
New light on Dark Africa: Being the Narrative of the German Emin Pasha Expedition, its Journeyings and Adventures Among the Native Tribes of Eastern Equatorial Africa, the Gallas, Massais, Wasukuma, etc., etc., on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza. London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1891. First English edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth, black endpapers. 9 5/8 x 6 1/2 inches (24 x 16 cm); xviii, 597, [1] pp.; frontispiece, 32 plates, folding map in pocket at rear. Light binding wear, some old damp-stain to the foot of the rear board, rear hinge starting to crack at the endpaper, but still a rather nice copy
Translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken, this work provides in English Peters' account of his effort to find Emin Pasha on the Upper Nile, approaching from Africa's East coast. A controversial effort, this was widely seen as a freelance effort to further German influence in Uganda and adjacent countries. Czech, (Africa) p. 218.
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Auction: Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, ending Mar 7, 2024
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Timed Auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Bidding Will Open on February 22 and Close on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold a timed online auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books closing on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am. Explore the world through a fascinating range of offerings featuring maps, Americana, travel, sporting books, literary sets and the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection of Africana.
Esmond Bradley Martin
Esmond Bradley Martin (1941-2018) was educated as a geographer and philosopher. He and his wife Chryssee had an enduring fascination with Africa, and settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in the mid-1970s. He wrote extensively, oftentimes in conjunction with his wife, publishing works including Zanzibar. Tradition and Revolution, Hamish Hamilton, 1978; Cargoes of the east. The ports, trade, and culture of the Arabian Seas and western Indian Ocean, Elm Tree Press, 1978; and many other works on African history and conservation. In the late 1970s, he began extensive research into the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, which included substantial stints incognito posing as a buyer of illicit wildlife products. For a while, he served as special envoy for rhino conservation for the United Nations.
For about thirty years, beginning in the mid-1960s, Esmond Bradley Martin assiduously collected books and manuscripts on Africa and its history, acquiring a phenomenal collection of letters by many of the major English explorers of the nineteenth century, as well as numerous rarities from earlier centuries. He was buying at a time when troves of such material surfaced frequently at English auctions. Doyle was privileged to offer the first selection from his collection in the November 7, 2023 auction. We are pleased to present this second offering of property from The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection.
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