‎Brander Bruce‎
‎The river Nile‎

‎Hanga on the Nile A Khanga on the River Nile.‎

‎Hanga on the Nile A Khanga on the River Nile. In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/Khanga na reke Nil A Khanga on the River Nile. Drawing by G. Fitz Clarence etched by R. Havell. Aquatint original coloring of the time of publication. London: John Murray 1819. Sheet 207x272 mm. SKUalb11910986e03a9b7d.‎

‎The Cross and the River: Ethiopia Egypt and the Nile‎

‎Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc 2001 250 pages 15 75x2 03x23 62cm. 2001. Cartonné jaquette. 250 pages. Cet ouvrage académique explore les relations historiques et contemporaines entre l'Éthiopie et l'Égypte en se concentrant sur l'influence du Nil Bleu et les dimensions religieuses culturelles et politiques qui ont façonné leurs interactions sur plus d'un millénaire. L'auteur analyse les perceptions mutuelles les mythes et les héritages qui ont marqué ces relations en tissant ensemble les thèmes politiques religieux et géographiques‎

‎livre en très bon état intérieur propre jaquette abîmée déchirures‎

‎Through the Dark Continent or the sources of the Nile around the great lakes of equatorial Africa and down the Livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. - [""ONE OF THE GREATEST JOURNEYS OF ALL TIME""]‎

‎London, Sampson Low, 1878. 8vo. 2 volumes, both in publisher’s original dark brown pictorially decorated cloth, with an elaborate pattern depicting the continent of Africa in black with the Nile crossing it in gilt. Below, also in black, a scene depicting natives roving on a river. Title and author in gilt lettering to front boards and spines. Light wear to extremities, mainly to upper and lower part of capitals. 3 cm tear to lower part of front hindge on vol. 2, otherwise fine and clean. XIV, (2), 522"" IX, 566, 32 (publisher's booklist, dated April 1878) pp. + 2 frontispiece portraits, 10 maps including 2 large folding maps in pockets at rear, 33 wood-engraved plates and many illustrations in the text.‎

‎First edition of this landmark account, ""One of the greatest journeys of all time"" (Jeal, Life of Stanley, p.202), on the search for the sources of the Nile. This epic journey, lasting for over two and a half years completed the work of Burton, Speke and Livingstone. ""The procession that departed from Bagamoyo (Tanzania) on 17 November 1874 stretched for more than half a mile and included dozens of men carrying sections of the Lady Alice, the boat named for his seventeen-year-old fiancée, with which Stanley intended to explore Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and Livingstone's Lualaba River. During the next two and a half years, the expedition would struggle in temperatures reaching as high as 138 degrees" the powerful Emperor Mtesa of Uganda and the Wanyoro chief Mirambo would consume a great deal of Stanley's time and test his diplomatic skills he would have to negotiate with a notorious Arab ivory and slave trader named Tippu-Tib for safe passage of his men through the great rain forest" and he and his men would fight more than thirty skirmishes and battles on land and water against hostile tribes.The geographic prizes Stanley achieved on this expedition were unparalleled. (See the two Stanley maps.) He spent almost two months circumnavigating Lake Victoria, confirming that the only outlet was at Ripon Falls and hence establishing for good, he thought, the source of the Nile. He scouted Lake Albert, then moved south and west to Lake Tanganyika, which he also circumnavigated, proving it had no connection with Lake Albert. Stanley then solved the remaining geographical puzzle, determining that the Lualaba was not part of the Niger or Nile rivers but ultimately flowed into the Congo. He reached the Atlantic Ocean on 9 August 1877, after a journey of more than seven thousand miles, in utter exhaustion. Back in London, he learned that Alice had not waited for him."" (Delaney, Princeton Visual Materials, online). Mansell IV p. 379 Hilmy, II, p.258 Mendelssohn (1979) IV, p.379.‎

‎The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922. VOLS I-III. Plus INDEX to Vols I., II. & III. [3 VOLS ONLY + MAPS & INDEX - Lacking vol iv. ] Vol I: The Romance of a Great Project and How it has Materialised; Vol II: The Main Line as it exists to-day from the Cape to the Nile Delta; Vol III: Variations of the Main Trunk Route and its Feeder Lines in Existence or Projected. Africa's Native Tribes and Wild Game; Index to Vols I, II and III. ‎

‎ London The Pioneer Publishing Co., Ltd, 1926. 29 x 23 cm, vol I: [xxxvi] + 727pp; vol II: [xx] + 510pp; vol III: [xvi] + 454pp. Dans le volume de cartes et d'index 12 cartes dépliantes et un index broché de 49 pp. Quatre volumes reliés demi chagrin noir et percaline olive, dos lisse, titre doré. Beaux exemplaires. Un quatrième volume a été publié par la suite, mais la collection est complète et à jour avec les quatre volumes initialement parus. Le projet imaginé par Cecil Rhodes comme "The Iron Spine and Ribs of Africa". En 1914, il existait déjà une liaison de 2 600 miles reliant Le Cap à Bukama, au Congo ; deux tronçons parcourus par des bateaux à vapeur fluviaux et un tronçon isolé du chemin de fer congolais prolongeaient litinéraire jusquà Stanleyville. Au nord, la ligne était continue du Caire à Louxor et de Wadi Halfa à Kosti ; ces deux tronçons étaient reliés par 250 miles de navigation fluviale sur le Nil, mais litinéraire traversant les régions inexplorées du nord du Congo et du sud du Soudan navait même pas fait lobjet de levés topographiques au moment de la publication, et le projet ne fut jamais mené à bien. Weinthal a produit cet ouvrage encyclopédique comme "un hommage tardif mais substantiel à lidée de Rhodes " Pour constituer le comité consultatif de ce projet titanesque, Weinthal recruta tous les survivants possibles ayant un lien avec Rhodes et lAfrique coloniale, tous les experts potentiels du continent, ainsi que tous les vice-rois, sirdars et gouverneurs coloniaux disposés à coopérer, du directeur général des chemins de fer sud-africains à Sir Abe Bailey, en passant par Flinders Petrie et Lord Lugard. Le contenu comprend des essais sur lhistoire, la société et les conditions naturelles des États africains que la future ligne ferroviaire devait traverser ; le potentiel commercial de ces États et les avantages du transport ferroviaire ; les prouesses dingénierie ferroviaire réalisées en Afrique de lEst ; des sujets touristiques, tels que des études ethnographiques sur les populations tribales ; la chasse au gros gibier ; les « mystères » du Grand Zimbabwe ; les progrès de la société coloniale au Caire ; ainsi que des fantasmes optimistes concernant lavenir dun continent « libéré » qui serait sillonné par de grands dirigeables argentés sarrêtant avec légèreté dans de nouvelles villes pour y débarquer leurs passagers : des marchands, des ingénieurs des mines et les familles des administrateurs coloniaux » (Merrington). ‎

‎Through the dark Continent or the Sources of the Nile around the Great Lakes of Equatorial Africa and down to the livingstone River to the Atlantic Ocean. Map and Illustrations. With a New Preface by the Author, written for this Edition. 2 Vols. - [THE TWENTIETH-ANNIVERSERY EDITION]‎

‎London, George Newnes, 1899. Royal 8vo. Both volumes in one original red full pictorial cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. All edges gilt. Very light wear to spine ends. 2 frontispieces. XXXII,400" XI,419 pp., 32 plates, 7 maps (one folding), textillustrations. Old owners name on half-title. Clean and fine.‎

‎The attractive twentieth-anniversery edition, with a preface ""reviewing a few of the amazing changes that have taken place in the regions described in the book"" since the first publication in 1878.‎