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Two 1890 punch cartoons on HM Stanley. B
Price: $50.00
Africa Explorers
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A collection of 16 single page illustrations and 5 large double page fold-out illustrations of HM Stanley’s Emin Pasha relief expedition, 1887-1889. B
Price: $990.00
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A collection of 15 illustrated pages from European periodicals on the travels of David Livingstone. B
Price: $420.00
Note: David Livingstone, 1813–1873, was a Scottish missionary and explorer in Africa and the first European to cross the African continent. From 1841 to 1852, while a medical missionary for the London Missionary Society in what is now Botswana, he crossed the Kalahari desert and reached (1849) Lake Ngami. He discovered the Zambezi River in 1851. Hoping to abolish the slave trade by opening Africa to Christian commerce and missionary stations, he traveled (1853) to Luanda on the west coast. Following the Zambezi River, he discovered and named Victoria Falls (1855) and reached the east coast at Quelimane, Portuguese East Africa (now Mozambique), in 1856. His Missionary Travels (1857) in South Africa is an account of that journey. 
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EXP 006Appointed British consul at Quelimane, he was given command of an expedition (1857–63) to explore the Zambezi region.
Livingstone returned to England (1864) and with his brother Charles wrote The Zambezi and Its Tributaries (1865). In 1866 he returned to Africa to seek the source of the Nile. He discovered lakes Mweru and Bangweula and in 1871 reached the Lualaba tributary of the Congo River. Sickness compelled his return to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika, where the journalist H. M. Stanley found him in 1871. Unable to persuade Livingstone to leave, Stanley joined him on a journey (1871–72) to the north end of Lake Tanganyika. In 1873 Livingstone died in the village of Chief Chitambo. African followers carried his body to the coast; it was sent to England and buried in Westminster Abbey. Livingstone's last journals were edited by Horace Waller (1874).
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Collection of 12 illustrated pages from European periodicals on the voyages of Jean Baptiste Marchand. B
Price: $360.00
Note: Jean Baptiste Marchand, (1863-1934), French general and African explorer, was born at Thoissey (Ain) on November 22, 1863. After four years' service in the ranks, he was, in March 1887, appointed a sub-lieutenant. In 1889 he was on active service in Senegal, was twice wounded and made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. He was promoted lieutenant in January, 1890, captain in 1892, and commandant (chef de battalion) in 1898. In the latter year he carried out his historic march on, and occupation of, Fashoda, and for this he was promoted to the high grade of commander in the Legion of Honour, having been previously (July 1895) raised from the grade of chevalier to that of officer. 
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EXP 005In January, 1900 he became lieutenant colonel, fought in the Boxer Rebellion in China, and was made colonel two years later. On the outbreak of war in August, 1914 he was serving on the staff of the governor of Belfort; but in September he was appointed to command the Colonial Brigade of the XIV Corps. He distinguished himself in that capacity, was cited in army orders, and in February, 1915 was promoted a temporary-general of brigade. The following May he assumed command of the 10th (Colonial) Division. He was wounded in September, 1915, and was made a grand officer of the Legion of Honour. On March 25, 1916 he was made a substantive-general of brigade. In the following October he was again wounded, and on March 17, 1917 received a second mention for distinguished service. On April 4, 1917 he was promoted general of division and confirmed in his appointment as commander of the 10th Colonial Division - an appointment which he held throughout the later campaigns on the western front. He retired from the army in 1919 with a high reputation as a leader of troops in battle. He was given the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour in 1920. He died in 1934.
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Collection of 11 illustrated pages from European periodicals on the exploration of Lieutenant Cameron. B
Price: $370.00
Note: Lieutenant Verney Lovett Cameron, 1844–1894, was an English traveler in Africa. As a naval officer, he served (1868) in the British expedition against Ethiopia and assisted in the suppression of the East African slave trade. He was sent (1873) by the Royal Geographical Society to relieve Livingstone but,
EXP 004 finding him dead, recovered his papers, explored and mapped Lake Tanganyika, and proceeded to the Atlantic, becoming the first European to cross equatorial Africa. His expedition was recorded in Across Africa (1877). In 1882 he explored the Gold Coast with Sir Richard Burton and was coauthor with him of To the Gold Coast for Gold (1883).
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A collection of 7 illustrated pages from various European periodicals on the exploration of Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza, for whom the capital of French Congo was named. B
Price: $210.00
Note: Born in Rome on January 26, 1852, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza was the seventh son of Count Ascanio Savorgnan di Brazzà, a nobleman of Udine with many French connections. Pietro was interested in exploration from an early age and won entry to the French naval school at Brest, graduated as an ensign, and went on the French ship Jeanne d'Arc to Algeria, where he was horrified to see French troops shooting down Kabyle insurgents.
His next ship was the Venus, which stopped at Gabon regularly, and in 1874, de Brazza made two trips, up the Gabon River and Ogoue River. He then proposed to the government that he explore the Ogoue to its source, and with the help of friends in high places, including Jules Ferry and Leon Gambetta, 
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EXP 003he secured partial funding, the rest coming out of his own pocket. He also became a naturalized French citizen at this time, adopting the French spelling of his name. In this expedition, which lasted from 1875-1878, armed with cotton textiles and tools to use for barter, accompanied by Noel Ballay, a doctor, Alfred Marche, a naturalist, a sailor and a dozen Senegalese infantrymen, Brazza charmed and talked his way deep inland. The French authorized a second mission, 1879-1882. Reaching the Congo River in 1880, Brazza proposed to King Makoko of the Batekes that he place his kingdom under the protection of the French flag. Makoko, interested in trade possibilities and in gaining an edge over his rivals, signed a treaty. Makoko also arranged for the establishment of a French settlement at Ncuna on the Congo's Malebo Pool, a place later known as Brazzaville. In 1886, he was named governor-general of the French Congo. 
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EXP 003Journalists' reports of the contrast between the decent wages and humane conditions there contrasted with the personal regime of Belgian King Léopold on the opposite bank, in the Congo Free State, made him some important enemies, and a mounting smear campaign in the French press led to his dismissal in 1898. By 1905, he was asked to look into the colonial conditions, which had deteriorated during his absence, but the National Assembly voted to suppress his embarrassing report, a copy of which was found amongst his personal effects after his death. He died suddenly of a fever at Dakar. There were rumors that he had been poisoned.
EXP 003The epitaph for his burial site in Algiers reads, "une mémoire pure de sang humain" ("a memory untainted by human blood"). A mausoleum was built in his honour in Brazzaville. On 30 September 2006, his remains were exhumed in Algiers and reinterred in Brazzaville on 3 October, along with those of his wife and four children. The decision to honor Pierre de Brazza as a founding father of the Republic of the Congo has elicited protests among Congolese. Mwinda Press, the journal of the Association of Congolese Democrats in France wrote articles quoting Théophile Obenga who depicted Pierre de Brazza as a colonizer and not a humanist, declaring him to have raped a Congolese woman, a princess and the equivalent of a Vestal Virgin, and to have pillaged villages, raising highly-charged questions as to why the colonizer should be revered as a national hero instead of national Congolese who fought against colonization .
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Three illustrated pages from Illustirte Zeitung on the lesser known exploration of Richard Buchta. B
Price: $100.00
Note: Richard Buchta (1845-94) was an Austrian explorer, born in Radlow, Galicia. In 1877 he visited Khartum, where Chinese Gordon, then Governor-General, facilitated his journey to Emin Pasha at Ladó, on the Upper Nile. In 1885 he made another tour through Egypt and through the desert to Fayum. 
EXP 002He was a collaborator on the first volume of Junker’s work on Africa and published the following works: Die obern Nilländer, etc., with 160 photographic views (1881); Der Sudan und der Mahdi, Das Land, die Bewohner und der Aufstand (1884); and Der Sudan unter ägyptischer Herrschaft (1888).
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A collection of 10 illustrated pages on lesser known African explorers of the 19th century. Included are Lieutenant Mizon, Captain Binger, Lieutenant Boffard-Coquat, M.G. Revoil, S.W. Baker and Lieutenant Young. B
Price: $300.00
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A collection of 20 chromo cards on Celebrated Exlorers by an unknown French manufacturer. M eh
Price: $400.00
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A compostie collection of 10 chromo cards on the same series of African explorers, but done by different French companies, as seen from the different adverts on the back. B eh AH
Price: $200.00