LOT 400 [TRAVEL & EXPLORATION]
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[TRAVEL & EXPLORATION] three titles relating to east africa (3) Fitzgerald, William Walter Augustine Travels in the Coastlands of British East Africa and the Islands of Zanzibar and Pemba… London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1898. First edition. Thick 8vo. 774 pp. Illustrated with frontispiece portrait, numerous photo-plates and text illustrations, plus 15 maps (five folding). Original brick red cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt with light edge wear; fore and bottom edges untrimmed; some foxing to endpapers; internally generally clean. Ex-library with rubber stamp on front paste-down and call number in pencil on same and on title-page. Yardley, Capt. John Parergon, or Eddies in Equatoria London and Toronto: J.M. Dent and Sons Ltd., (1931). First edition. 8vo. 288 pp. Illustrated with photo-plates, frontispiece, and a folding map. Foreword by Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby. Presentation copy, inscribed, dated (November, 1931), and signed in ink on front free endpaper by Yardley. Original brick red cloth stamped in blind and in gilt; dust-jacket with a few chips out of the top of the spine; moderately foxed with some discoloration at front, internally generally clean. Ex-library with rubber stamp on front paste-down and call number in pencil on same and on title-page. [Zanzibar] A Handbook of Zanzibar The Zanzibar Government, 1912. 8vo. 49 pp. Original stiff printed olive wrappers with some creasing, chipping, and discoloration at edges; ink ownership on front wrapper. Ex-library with book-plate on verso of front wrapper and call numbers in pencil on same and recto of first free leaf. PROVENANCE: The Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Alexander Weddell, Richmond, Virginia. Deaccessioned by The Virginia House Museum to benefit future preservation, acquisitions, and care of collections.
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