Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

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THE ZAMBESI AND ITS TRIBUTARIES
929. LIVINGSTONE (David) Autograph Letter Signed
to “My dear W”, Horace Waller, who accompanied
himonthe Zambesi Expedition, and later became his
biographer, 3 pp. 8vo, [Newstead Abbey] 3rd
March, 1865 [11073] £2,250
Concerning his journey and recent book The Zambesi and
its Tributaries. “I send you a piece of proof which having
looked over you will return quick & a separate slip saying
page so & so - line so & so is nonsense or anything you
like to say.” He refers to the incident on the Expedition
which led to the withdrawal of funds from the University
Missions. When attacked by hostile natives, Waller and
other members of the Expedition had opened fire. Against
the wishes ofBishop Mackenzie of Natal, the support of
the University Missions was withdrawn after criticism in
Oxford by Pusey. “In another part when saying that the
bishop had the votes of his party I add ‘who had been
previously as much opposed to hostilities as himself’.” He
jokes with Waller about his reception by the Manganja
tribe “How dreadfully you must have stank when the
Manganja asked if you had no soap Ugh!!”. He mentions
the reluctance of the Webbs of Newstead Abbey, to let him
go.
NEWS OF LIVINGSTONE’S AGNES
930. [LIVINGSTONE] GUTHRIE (Lord Charles)
Interesting ALS to Dr. Anderson concerning
Guthrie’s visit to South Africa, 4 pp. 8vo, signs of
mounting, R.M.S. “Balmoral Castle” at sea, 3rd.
October, 1911 [11155] £120
Guthrie, Scottish Senator of the College of Justice in
Scotland, is returning the manuscript report “of my
Lovedale Address... it really required nothing to be done
to it. It is a most admirable record from memory, and
wonderful.” He continues “I am re-reading Blaikie’s
Life of Livingstone which I bought at Lovedale. One is
struck by the emphasis with which he proclaimed in
season and out of season, that the Christianization and
civilization of the African must be achieved by native
agency, and that that agency must be trained by white
men and white women.” He continues with news of
Livingstone’s relatives “We were sorry to hear at Cape
Town from W. Moffat Livingstone’s brother-in-law, that
Mrs Livingstone Bruce, his niece, who gave us an
introduction to him has had a stroke of paralysis which
has affected her memory. She is the “Agnes” of
Livingstone’s letters, an able women, with a great look of
her father.”
Dr. Robert Anderson, who was assistant Commissioner of
Police at the time of the Jack the Ripper Murders, was
presumably engaged with Guthrie on behalf of the
Glasgow Missionary Society’s Lovedale Training College
at Alice.
931. LONG LANCE (Chief Buffalo Child) Long
Lance, FIRST EDITION, frontis portrait and 7
other plates of photographs, some slight wear, New
York, 1928 [11086] £65
An extraordinary and often reprinted work about the
Canadian Indians of the North West, it is rare to find the
First Edition.
932. LOCKHART (R.H.Bruce) Return to Malaya, ep
maps, London, 1945 [CF7829] £20
933. LOEWE (Michael) Records of Han Administration,
48 plates, 2 vols roy.8vo, Cambridge, 1967
[CF5272] £75
934. LOTI (Pierre) Madame Prune, translated from the
French by S.R.C. Plimsoll, FIRST ENGLISH
EDITION, 8 coloured plates by Mortimer Menpes,
some occasional faint spotting, original decorative
cloth, [1919] [CF4546] £25
935. [LOUIS XIV] Reglemens et Ordonnances Du Roy
Pour Les Gens De Guerre, faint marginal stain to
title and lower margins in vol 1, small marginal
wormholes in a central gathering in vol 2, 3 vols,
sm.8vo, speckled calf, rebacked, early library labels,
inscription on titles “Ex Biblioth. D. presidis de
Montesquieu cat. inscr.” Paris, 1680, 1681 & 1678
[11074] £350
The reign of the “Sun King” from 1643-1715, was one of
the longest, most glittering and autocratic. It was also
one of the most tempestuous periods in European History.
However he did found the “Hôtel des Invalides” in May
1676.
936. LUFF (John) The Hidden Years, [Hong Kong
1941-1945] text maps, portrait, Hong Kong, 1967
[CF4553] £50
An account of the Battle of Hong Kong, its occupation,
and of the Hong Kong Volunteers.
937. LYSTER (Thomas) With Gordon in China, Letters
from Thomas Lyster, Lieutenant Royal Engineers,
edited by E.A. Lyster, portrait frontis, slightly
spotted, cr.8vo, some slight wear, 1891
[11013]£125
938. LYTTON (Edward George Bulwer) Athens Its
Rise and Fall with Views of the Literature,
Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People
by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Esq., M.P., A.M. FIRST
EDITION, with errata slip and hf. titles in vol 1
only, some occasional spotting at the beginning and
end of volumes, 2 vols, original cloth, slight wear at
head and tail of spines, 1837 [11176] £250
939. MACDONALD (Robert M.) The Great White
Chief A Story of Adventure in Unknown New
Guinea, folding map, plates, some little spotting at
the begining cr.8vo, pictorial cloth, bright, 1908
[10905] £75
Although published as a boys adventure book, the author
whose first book this is, states in the preface “This is a
story, but the characters are real, and the incidents not
imaginary”.
940. MACGOWAN (J.) The Imperial History Of China,
Being a History of the Empire as compiled by the
Chinese Historians, thk. 8vo, dw,1973 [CF6990]£25