Beschreibung:

Zanzibar in Contemporary Times, a short history of the Southern East in the Nineteenth Century, 1st edition, Hurst and Blackett, 1905, monochrome plates after photographs, 2 single-page maps, occasional marks and a little spotting, author's presentation copy to De Castro F. Lyne, inscribed by the author to front endpaper, and dated 21 June 1905, with contemporary news cutting from the East African Standard to front pastedown, and manuscript transcriptions of letters from Buckingham Palace and the Middle Temple, acknowledging receipt of a copy of the present work (apparently in the author's hand), and further newscuttings to rear endpaper, original cloth, a little rubbed and soiled, with some discolouration to spine, together with Newman (Henry Stanley) , Banani: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom in Zanzibar and Pemba, 1st edition, [1898], folding colour map, monochrome illustrations after photographs, original pictorial cloth gilt, very lightly rubbed, plus Egerton (Lady Francis) , Journal of a Tour in the Holy Land, in May and June, 1840, 1st edition, Harrison & Co., 1841, tinted lithographed plates, some light spotting, and several plates waterstained, original blindstamped cloth gilt, partially detached along upper inner hinge, and other travel interest, principally relating to East Africa, including Eugene Politovsky, From Libau to Tsushima, A Narrative of the Voyage of Admiral Rojdestvensky's fleet to Eastern Seas..., 1906, R.N. Lyne, The Chathams in the 1880's, privately printed by the author, Bath, England, 1958, E.C. Richards, The Chatham Islands, Christchurch, 1952, A.C. Madan, Kiungani: Or, Story and History from Central Africa, 1887 (signed by the author), P.E. Pieris, Ceylon: The Portuguese Era, volume 2 only, Colombo, 1914, H.F. Macmillan, A Handbook of Tropical Gardening and Planting with special reference to Ceylon, 2nd edition, Colombo, 1914 (author's presentation copy to R.H. Lyne), etc., mostly original cloth, 8vo (14)