Catalogue 6 Books Items 51-100

51. Dale, The Ven. Godfrey. The Peoples of Zanzibar: Their Customs and Religious Beliefs (London, The Universities’ Mission to Central Africa, 1920). 1^st edn, 12 mo, 124 pp. $60

52. Da Silva Rego, A. Portuguese Colonization in the Sixteenth Century: A Study of the Royal Ordinances (Regimentos) (Johannesburg, Witwatersrand UP, 1965). Reprint of 1959 1^st edn, 12 no, 116 pp, paper cover. $10

53. Davis, William Morris. The Coral Reef Problem (New York, American Geological Society, 1928). 1^st edn, 8vo, 596 pp, 227 figs.

54. De Graaf, H. J. The Spread of Printing: Indonesia (Amsterdam, Vangendt & Co., 1969). 1^st edn, 8vo, 54 pp, map, plates. $25

55. De Grandpre, L. A Voyage in the Indian Ocean and to Bengal, Undertaken in the Year 1790; containing An Account of the Sechelles-Islands and Trincomale; The Character and Arts of the People of India; with some remarkable religious rites of the inhabitants of Bengal. To which is added, A Voyage in the Red Sea; including a description of Mocha, and of the Trade of the Arabs of Yemen; With some particulars of their Manners, Customs, &c.…(Boston, David Carlisle, 1803). 1^st USA edn, 12mo, 300 pp, original leather boards slightly cocked, some water stains and foxing, ffep torn. Pages 3-13 Seychelles, one of the earliest descriptions of the islands; 32-45 Trincomale; 45-123 Madras/Pondicherry/Kerikal/Coromandel coast of India; 123-196 Calcutta and Bengal; 208-286 Mocha. $375

56. Delano, Amasa. A Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres Together with a Voyage of Survey and Discovery, in the Pacific Ocean and Oriental Islands (Upper Saddle River, NJ, the Gregg Press, 1970). Facsimile reprint of 1817, 8vo, 599 pp, new. This book is the source for Herman Melville’s, Benito Cerino, and provides the first account of the Bounty episode published in the USA; Delano was in Mauritius in February 1794 and his voyage is mentioned in Toussaint’s, Early American Trade with Mauritius. Also includes: Australia, Cocos/Keeling, Christmas Island, Borneo Sumatra, Malaya, India, Ceylon. $45

57. De Monfried, Henry. Adventures of a Red Sea Smuggler (New York, Hillstone, 1974). 8vo, 287 pp, pictorial paper cover. Paperback edition of this 1935 autobiography. Includes a fine introduction to de Monfried’s adventures by Colin Wilson. $10

58. De Vere Allen, James. Lamu (Nairobi, Regal Press, n.d. but ca. 1972). 1^st edn, 8vo, 32 pp, 31 photos, map, decorative paper cover. $25

59. De Vere Allen, James. Swahili Origins (London, James Currey, 1993). 1^st edn, 8vo, 272 pp, 4 maps, 8 illus, decorative paper cover. new. $20

60. Devereux, Roy. Side Lights on South Africa (London, Sampson, Low, Marston & Co., 1899). 1^st edn, 8vo, 273 pp, large folding map in color. The title is misleading; in addition to covering the Cape Colony, the Rand, and Natal, there are also chapters on Bechuanaland, Rhodesia, Mozambique, Madagascar, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar. $75

61. Divine, David. These Splendid Ship’s: The Story of the Peninsular & Oriental Line (London, Frederick Muller, 1960). 1^st edn, 8vo, 255 pp, 25 illus, dj. $45

62. Doyle, Adrian Conan. Heaven Has Claws: Big Game Fishing Off the African Coast (New York, Random House, 1953). 1^st USA edn, 8vo, 245 pp, 24 illus, map, dj. Set on the East African coast between Pemba and Kilwa. $15

63. Durrell, Gerald. The Aye-Aye and I: A Rescue Mission to Madagascar (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994). 8vo, 175 pp, map, decorative paper cover. $5

64. Elisofon, Eliot. Java Diary (London, Macmillan, 1969). 1^st edn, 8vo, 298 pp, profusely illus with b/w and color photos, endpaper maps. Traces a natural history expedition to Udjong-Kulon on the western tip of Java. $20

65. Ellis, William. History of Madagascar Embracing the Progress of the Christian Mission and an Account of the Persecution of the Native Christians (Philadelphia, American Sunday-School Union, 1839). 1^st edn, 16 mo, 342 pp, map, small library label inside front cover. $125

66. Ellis, Stephen. The Rising of the Red Shawls: A Revolt in Madagascar 1895-1899 (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 1985). 1^st edn, 8vo, 214 pp, 3 maps, dj, as new. $20

67. Embree, Edwin R., M. S. Simon, and W. B. Mumford. Island India Goes to School (Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1934). 1^st edn, 8vo, 120 pp, 20 illus, endpaper map, beautiful decorative cover based on a Java batik. On education in the Dutch East Indies. $35

68. Farmer, H.V. Seychelles Postage Stamps & Postal History (London, Robson Lowe, 1955). 1^st edn, 8vo, 123 pp, 27 plates, 2 maps/one folding, dj. $100

69. The H. V. Farmer Collection of Seychelles (London, Robson Lowe, 1977). 1^st edn, 8vo, 20 pp, illus, decorative paper cover. This is an auction catalogue including an insert of prices realized for the sale of Farmer’s collection of Seychelles stamps held on May 11, 1977. There were 198 lots auctioned and nearly all seem to have gone for well beyond their anticipated price. Imagine what this collection would bring today! $75

70. Farrant, Leda. Tippu Tip and the East African Slave Trade (New York, St. Martin’s, 1975). 1^st edn, 8vo, 163 pp, 9 illus, endpaper map, dj. $35

71. Filliot, Jean-Michel. Histoire des Seychelles (Paris, Jouve, 1982). 1^st edn, 8vo, 225 pp, 94 color and b/w illus, folding map, decorative paper cover. $45

72. Filliot, Jean-Michel. Les Seychelles et la Revolution Francaise (Paris, Institut Francaise de Recherche Scientifique pour le Developpement en Cooperation, 1989). 1^st edn, 4to, 82 pp, 77 illus many in color, folding map, decorative paper cover. $35

73. Findlay, Alexander George. A Directory for the Navigation of the Indian Ocean, with descriptions of its Coasts, Islands, etc., from the Cape of Good Hope to the Strait of Sunda and Western Australia, including also the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf (London, Richard Holmes Laurie, 1882). 4^th edn, 8vo, 1304 pp, all 20 maps (4 full-page, 10 double page, 6 folding) of wind systems, hurricane tracks, currents, passages, various islands and harbors included. Spine title says Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal Directory. Original cloth, front hinge cracked, one corner broken, water mark on top quarter-inch of some pages. Text and maps in good condition. The standard navigational guide of the British Empire, following Huddart and Horsburgh. $275

74. Foster, Sir William. John Company (London, the Bodley Head, 1926). 1^st edn, 8vo, 286 pp, 24 illus, ads, dj. $50

75. Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. The East African Coast: Select Documents from the First to the Earlier Nineteenth Century (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1962). 1^st edn, 8vo, 314 pp, folding map, dj. $35. I also have an ex-lib copy for $25.

76. Freeman-Grenville, G. S. P. The Medieval History of the Coast of Tanganyika with special reference to recent archaeological discoveries (Berlin, Akademie-Verlag, 1962). 1^st edn, 4to, 238 pp, 6 plates, 2 folding genealogical tables, 3 maps. $100

77. Freire d’Andrade, Alfredo. Lourenco Marques (Porto, A. J. Da Silva Teixeira, 1897). 1^st edn, 8vo, 56 pp. $15

78. Furber, Holden. Bombay Presidency in the Mid-Eighteenth Century (New York, Asia Publishing House, 1965). 1sr edn, 8vo, 76 pp. Text of the three Heras Memorial Lectures given by Furber at St. Xavier’s College, Bombay, in 1962. $25

79. Garlake, Peter. The Early Islamic Architecture of the East African Coast (London and Nairobi, Oxford UP, 1966). 1^st edn, 4to, 207 pp, 16 plates, 84 figures/many folding. $200

80. Garsault, M.A. G., ed. Notice sur La Reunion (Paris, Librairie Africaine et Coloniale, 1901). 3^rd edn, 8vo, 308 pp, 36 photos, maps, decorative paper cover somewhat ragged, uncut. Prepared for the Exposition Universelle de 1900. $35

81. Gerbault, Alain. In Quest of the Sun: The Journal of the "Firecrest" (Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1930). 1^st USA edn, 8vo, 303 pp, photos, endpaper map. Pages 199-260 are on the Indian Ocean incl. Cocos-Keeling, Rodriguez, Reunion, Durban, Cape Town. $20

82. Ghaidan, Usam. Lamu: A Study of a Swahili Town (Nairobi, Kenya Literature Bureau, 1992). Repr. of 1975 1^st edn, 8vo, 94 pp, 52 photos, figs. and maps, decorative paper cover. $35

83. Gill, Frank. Intra-Island Variation in the Mascarene White-Eye Zosterops Borbonica (Anchorage, KY, American Ornithologists’ Union, 1973). 1^st edn, 8vo, 66 pp, color plate, 12 tables, 31 figures, paper cover. $15

84. Gotthold, Julia J. with Donald W. Gotthold. Indian Ocean (Oxford, UK, Clio Press, 1988). 1^st edn, 8vo, 331 pp, 804 annotated entries, as new. Vol. 85 of the World Bibliographical Series. $75

85. Greenbie, Sydney and Marjorie Greenbie. Gold of Ophir or the Lure that Made America (Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925). 1^st edn, 8vo, 330 pp 8 illus, endpaper map. On American trade to the East between the American Revolution and Civil War. $25

86. Greenway, James C. Jr. Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World (New York, Dover Publications, 1967). 2^nd revised edn, 520 pp, 86 figs, decorative paper cover. $15

87. Gray, Patricia. Thatch Cat (Glasgow and London, Blackie, 1975). 1^st edn, 8vo, 128 pp, dj. A children’s story set in Seychelles and very evocative of life there. $35

88. A Guide to Zanzibar (Zanzibar, Government Printer, 1952). 12mo, 146 pp, maps, 34 illus, ads. $45

89. Haight, M. V. Jackson. European Powers and South-East Africa: A Study of International Relations on the South-East Coast of Africa, 1796-1856 (New York, Praeger, 1967). 1^st edn, 8vo, 368 pp, 6 maps and charts. $20

90. Hall, Basil. Travels in India, Ceylon, and Borneo (New York, Benjamin Blom, 1972). Selected and edited with a biographical introduction by Prof. H. G. Rawlinson. Facsimile reprint of 1931 edn, 8vo, 272 pp, 4 illus. Hall’s travels occurred at the beginning of the 19^th century and here include, inter alia, chapters on Bombay, Madras, and Coromandel fishermen. $25

91. Hambani: A Traditional Tale from Zanzibar (New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1977). 1^st edn, 4 to, unpaginated. A children’s story adapted and lavishly illustrated by Charles Bible. $20

92. Hamilton, Genesta. Princes of Zinj: The Rules of Zanzibar (London, Hutchinson, 1957). 1^st end, 8vo, 272 pp, 15 illus. $30

93. Harrison, C. W. Francis, compiled and edited. Natal: An Illustrated Official Railway Guide and Handbook of General Information (London, Payne Jennings, 1903). 1^st edn, 8vo, 300 pp, 5 maps/ four in color/ two folding incl. a large map of Natal and a detailed map of British and Boer positions during the siege of Ladysmith, lacks one map, 266 photos offering a comprehensive view of Natal life. The cover is dirty and has bumps and small tears; the text and illus are fine. A valuable provincial and commercial history. $125

94. Hart, Henry H. Sea Route to the Indies: An Account of the Voyages and Exploits of the Portuguese Navigators,… (New York, Macmillan, 1950). 1^st edn, 8vo, 296 pp, torn dj. $30

95. Hass, Hans. Manta: Under the Red Sea with Spear and Camera (Chicago, Rand McNally, 1953). 2^nd printing, 278 pp, profusely illus with dozens of b/w photos, endpaper map, dj. $15

96. Hastings, Macdonald. After You, Robinson Crusoe: A Practical Guide for a Desert Islander (London, Pelham Books, 1975). 1^st edn, 8vo, 152 pp, map, dj. A memoir of five weeks as a castaway on Darros Island in the Amirantes, Seychelles, in 1960. $45

97. Heseltine, Nigel. Madagascar (New York, Praeger, 1971). 1^st edn, 8vo, 334 pp, 4 maps, 3 figs. $15

98. Higginson, S. J. Java: The Pearl of the East (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin, 1891). 1^st edn, 16to, 204 pp, folding map, ex-lib. $15

99. Hill, Ken. The Seychelles and Sri Lanka: Jewels in the Indian Ocean (London, New English Library, 1973). 1^st edn, 8vo, 178 pp, 2 maps, color photos, dj. $20

100. Hoare, Michael. The Seychelles Affair (New York, Bantam Press, 1986). 1^st edn, 8v0, 207 pp, illus, maps. About the 1981 coup attempt in Seychelles by the mercenary leader of Ye Ancient Order of Frothblowers. $50

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