Catalogue 6 Items 1-50

1. Alberts, Jim. The Land of Two Moons: A Journey to the Southeasternmost End of the Red Sea New York, Vantage Press, 1984). 1^st edn, 8vo, 243 pp, photos, 2 maps. Entirely on Kamaran Island in the Red Sea between Yemen and Eritrea. $25

2. Album of Agra (Delhi, H. A. Mirza & Sons, n.d., ca. 1900). 1^st edn, 36 photos (each ca. 7 x 5 inches) with accompanying text. $20   SOLD

3. Alexander, D. Holiday in Mozambique: A Guide to the Territory (Cape Town, Purnell, 1971). 173 pp, 42 illus, 8 maps. $25

4. Ali, Salim. The Book of Indian Birds (Bombay, The Bombay Natural History Society, 1945). 3^rd edn, 12 mo, xliv, 438 pp, 188 full-page color plates and 24 b/w plates, dj. A very beautiful book. $40

5. Aley, Juma. Zanzibar in the Context (New Delhi, Lancer’s, 1988). 1^st edn, 8vo, 94 pp, illus. A political and cultural study of Zanzibar. $20  SOLD

6. Al-Maamiry, Ahmed Hamoud. Oman and East Africa (New Delhi, Lancers, 1980). 2^nd revised edn, 8vo, 151 pp, illus, dj. $35

7. Al-Maamiry, Ahmed Hamoud. Omani Sultans in Zanzibar (1832-1964) (New Delhi, Lancers Books, 1988). 1^st edn, 8vo, 87 pp, 13 plates, dj. $35

8. Anderson, William Ashley. South of Suez (New York, Robert M. McBride, 1920). 1^st edn, 8vo, 240 pp, 35 illus, dj. Pages 31-63 Aden, 65-139 Abyssinia, 141-149 Swahili Coast, 151-188 Zanzibar. $50

9. Arkin, Marcus. Storm in a Teacup: The Later Years of John Company at the Cape, 1815-1836 (Cape Town, C. Struik, 1973). 1^st edn, 8vo, 258 pp, 11 tables, 9 illus, dj. $35

10. Arnold-Forster, Rear-Admiral F.D. The Madagascar Pirates (New York, Lothrup, Lee and Shepard, 1957). 1^st edn, 8vo, 251 pp. $75

11. Atoll Research Bulletin, nos. 193-205 (Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1977). A collection of thirteen scientific reports including 4 on Aldabra, two on the Mascarenes, and one on Cosmoledo. $20

12. Attenborough, David. Bridge to the Past: Animals and People of Madagascar (New York, Harper & Bros., 1961). 1^st edn, 8vo, 160 pp, 32 plates, 4 illus, dj. $40

13. Attenborough, David. Zoo Quest to Madagascar (London, Lutterworth Press, 1961). 1^st edn, 8vo, 160 pp, 42 photos/5 in color. $25

14. Ayany, S. G. A History of Zanzibar: A Study in Constitutional Development 1934-1964 (Nairobi, East African Literature Bureau, 1970). 1^st edn, 8vo, 208 pp, 6 maps, 10 photos, dj. $20

15. Backhouse, Sally. Singapore (Harrisburg, Stackpole; Newton Abbot, David & Charles, 1972). 1^st edn, 8vo, 238 pp, 30 illus, 5 maps and diagrams, dj. A broad overview of the country in this Islands series. $20

16. Barnard, K. H. "Further Notes on South African Marine Fishes," Annals of the South African Museum (1948), pp 341-406, 5 plates, 17 figs. $15

17. Bassett, R. H. Romantic Ceylon: Its History, Legend and Story (London, Cecil Palmer, 1929). 1^st edn, 8vo, 253 pp, 17 illus, 2 maps, newspaper articles about Ceylon pasted in on black pages, not affecting text. $30

18. Bateman, George W. Zanzibar Tales Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa (Chicago, A. C. McClurg, 1901). 1^st edn, 12 mo, 224 pp, 20 illus drawn by Walter Bobbett. Ten Swahili stories translated by George W. Bateman. $90

19. Beamish, Tony. Aldabra Alone (San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1970). 1^st edn, 8vo, 222 pp, 24 illus, most in color, dj. $25

20. Bellamy, David. Half of Paradise (London, Cassell, 1979). 1^st edn, 8vo, 192 pp, profusely illus with color and b/w photos, numerous maps, endpaper maps. Entirely on two expeditions (1972 and 1975) to the Egmont Islands in the Chagos Archipelago. $25

21. Benedict, Burton. Indians in a Plural Community: A Report on Mauritius (London, HMSO, 1961). 1^st edn, 8vo, 168 pp, tables, photos, map. $40

22. Benedict, Burton and Marion Benedict. Men, Women, and Money in Seychelles (Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1982). 1^st edn, 8vo, 289 pp, dj, new. $35

23. Bennett, Norman Robert, ed., The Zanzibar Letters of Edward D. Ropes, Jr., 1882-1892 (Boston, Boston U. African Studies Center, 1973). 1^st edn, 8vo, 146 pp, 2 illus, paper cover. $20

24. Beny, Roloff and Aubrey Menen. India (New York, McGraw-Hill , 1969). 1^st edn, folio, 235 pp, 136 color plates, 17 decorative motifs, map, small tears in dj. A stunning showcase of Beny’s photography with text by Menen. $75

25. Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count de Benyowsky (London, Kegan, Paul, Trench, & Trubner, 1904). With an introduction, notes, and bibliography by Captain S. Pasfield Oliver. 2^nd edn, 12 mo, 636 pp, 2 illus, small library stamp on ffep. $75

26. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, J. H. Paul and Virginia (Philadelphia, Henry Altemus, n.d., but ca. 1891). 12 mo, 266 pp, 125 illus by Maurice Leloir including 13 full-page engravings, elaborate burgundy, green and gilt decoration on front cover and spine, teg, ribbon place marker, chip to cloth at top of spine. Identical illustrations as Toinet 488 but different pagination. $50

27. Sir Walter Besant’s ‘Bourbon’ Journal, August 1863 (London, Besant & Co., 1933). 1^st edn, 12 mo, 54 pp, etchings, map, dj. Besant, later a well known novelists, took this trip to Bourbon while he was mathematics professor at the Royal College in Mauritius. In Bourbon he climbed Le Piton des Neiges. $125

28. Biddulph, Colonel John. The Pirates of Malabar and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago (London, Smith Elder, & Co., 1907). 1^st edn, 8vo, 327 pp, illus, map of Malabar Coast. Pages 1-254/Pirates; 255-296/Englishwoman. $150

29. Botting, Douglas. The Pirates (Alexandria, Va., Time-Life Books, 1978). 1^st edn, 4to, 192 pp, profusely illus with color and b/w plates. $20

30. Boxer, C. R., ed. Further Selections from the Tragic History of the Sea 1559-1565: Narratives of the shipwrecks of the Portuguese East Indiamen Aguia and Garca (1559), Sao Paulo (1561), and the misadventures of the Brazil-ship Santo Antonio (1565)) (Cambridge, Cambridge UP for the Hakluyt Society, 1968). 1^st edn, 8vo, 170 pp, 13 plates, 2 folding maps, dj. $50

31. Brown, Mervyn. Madagascar Rediscovered: A History from Early Times to Independence (Hamden, CT., Archon Books, 1979). 1^st edn, 8vo, 310 pp, 10 maps, 22 photos, dj. $35

32. Bullen, Frank. The Cruise of the Cachalot: Round the World After Sperm Whales (New York, D. Appleton and Co., 1899). 1^st USA edn, 12 mo, 379 pp, 8 illus, map, pictorial cover. Bullen’s first book, based on his experiences as a New Bedford whaler, is a classic of the whaling literature, perhaps second in importance only to Melville’s Moby Dick. Kipling said this of the book, "It is immense—there is no other word. I’ve never read anything that equals it in its deep sea wonder and mystery…"Pages 97-148 set in the Indian Ocean, esp. Mozambique Channel, Comoros, Aldabra, Cosmoledo, Seychelles. $125

33. Bulpin, T. V. East Africa and the Islands (Cape Town, Howard Timmins, nd, but early 1950s). 1^st edn, 4to, 98 pp of b/w photos from East Africa and the Indian Ocean islands, endpaper map. $50

34. Bulpin, T. V. Islands in a Forgotten Sea (Cape Town, Howard Timmins, nd, but 1958). 1^st edn, 8vo, 435 pp, illus, endpaper map, dj. A wonderful history of the Indian Ocean islands. $60

35. Burgess Constance and Andrew Burgess. Little Koto A Boy of Madagascar (Minneapolis, Augsburg Publishing House, 1935). 1^st edn, 31 pages 5 ¼ x 4 inches, 14 full page drawings, decorative paper cover. A story about the life of a Malagasy child. $15

36. Busch, Briton Cooper. Whaling Will Never Do for Me: The American Whaleman in the Nineteenth Century (Lexington, Univ. of Kentucky Press, 1994). 1^st edn, 8vo, 265 pp, 5 tables, endpaper map, dj, new. A fine study of the often harsh life of the whaleman, richly drawn from accounts from the Indian Ocean and elsewhere. $25

37. Captain Buzurg ibn Shahriyar of Ramhormuz, The Book of the Wonders of India: Mainland, Sea and Islands (London, East-West Publications, 1981). Edited and translated by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville. 8vo, 124 pp, 10 illus, map. 136 tales and anecdotes from the 10^th century. $25

38. Caldwell, Elsie Noble. Satin Skirts of Commerce (New York, Richard R. Smith, 1945). 1^st edn, 8vo, 205 pp, 94 photos including, for instance, 12 from Seychelles. A journey from Cape Town to Hawaii. More than half is set in the Indian Ocean including chapters on Mozambique, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Seychelles, Goa, Bombay, Malaya, Java, etc. Inscribed by the author. $75

39. Carpenter, George H. "The Apterygota of the Seychelles," Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, vol. Xxxiii, sect. B, no. 1 (Dublin, Hodges, Figgis, & Co., 1916). 1^st edn, 8vo, 70 pp, 18 plates (238 figs.). $35

40. The Travels of the Abbe Carre in India and the Near East, 1672-1674 (London, The Hakluyt Society, 1947-1948). Three vols. Translated by Lady Fawcett and edited by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn. Series II, vol. 95, lvi, pp. 1-315, 2 illus, 3 folding maps; series II, vol. 96, lxxiv, pp. 317-675, illus, 3 folding maps; series II, vol . 97, xxiii, pp. 677-984, 3 illus, 3 folding maps. $225

41. Chatterton, E. Keble. The Old East Indiamen (Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, n.d. but 1913). 1^st edn, 8vo, 343 pp, lacks 24 of 33 illus. A wonderful early history of John Company. $35

42. Chippendale, Captain Harry Allen. Sails and Whales (Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1951). 1^st edn, 8vo, 232 pp, dj. The story of American whaling in the Southern Ocean, including Kerguelen, Madagascar and the Southwest IO, at the turn of the twentieth century. $25

43. Clayton, Anthony. The Zanzibar Revolution and its Aftermath (Hamden, CT., Archon Books, 1981). 1^st edn, 8vo, 166 pp, 3 maps, 2 plates, dj. $20

44. Cleveland, Richard. Voyages and Commercial Enterprises of the Sons of New England (New York, Leavitt & Allen, 1858). 4^th edn, 12mo, 407 pp. Narrative of voyages by this famous Salem sea captain, including Bourbon, Mauritius, South Africa, Batavia, East Indies. Pages 30-34 and 126-144 cover Cleveland’s experiences in Mauritius in 1793-1794 and 1799-2000. $100

45. Cochran, Hamilton. Freeboaters of the Red Sea: Pirates, Politicians and Pieces of Eight (Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1965). 1^st edn, 8vo, 223 pp, 12 illus, endpaper map, dj. Entirely on Indian ocean piracy. $40

46. Come to Java: Illustrated Guide to Java (Batavia, Official Tourist Bureau, 1926). 3^rd edn, 16 mo, 330 pp, profusely illus, large folding map, dj. $50

47. Cooper, Gordon. Isles of Romance and Mystery (London, Lutterworth, 1949). 1^st edn, 8vo, 80 pp, 40 illus. Includes chapters on Mauritius, Bali, Zanzibar and Pemba, and 4 pp on Seychelles. $30

48. Course, Captain A. G. Pirates of the Eastern Seas (London, Frederick Muller, 1966). 1^st edn, 8vo, 263 pp, 8 illus, dj. $50

49. Crofton, R. H. Zanzibar Affairs 1914-1933 (London, Francis Edwards, 1953). 1^st edn, 8vo, 164 pp, 6 illus, endpaper maps, dj. $50

50. Cumpston, I. M. Indians Overseas in British Territories 1834-1854 (London, Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1969). Reprint of 1953 1^st edn, 8vo, 198 pp. On the origins of indentured labor, primarily to Mauritius. $50

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