Sophie Cat 56 - Sophie Dupre

95 BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, PHOTOGRAPHS &OTHER CURIOSITIES ON VOYAGES &TRAVEL
974. MOFFAT. Wallis (J.P.R. ed.) The Matabele
Journals of Robert Moffat 1829-1860, 2 folding
maps, 2portraits, 1 coloured, 4 other plates, 2 vols
roy.8vo, spines faded, Oppenheimer Series, 1945
[CF10342] £85
975. MOHAMMED. Sale (George) The Koran;
commanly called the Alcoran of Mohammed:
translated from the original Arabic. With
Explanatory Notes taken from the most approved
Commentators. To which is prefixed, a Preliminary
Discourse 2 vols, contemporary hf. speckled calf,
gilt spine, slight wear 1812 [11404] £125
976. MOIR (Fred L.M.) After Livingstone an African
Romance, folding maps, plates, foredges spotted,
[1923] [CF7705] £45
The author was the founder of the African Lakes
Corporation.
977. MONTANDRE (M. de) & M. de Roussel. Etat
Militaire de France, pour l’année 1769, onzieme
édition Augmentée de différens détails sur la
Gendarmerie & les Maréchaussées sm.8vo, boards,
cloth spine, a little worn, Paris, 1769 [10766] £85
Included are notices on the governments of San Domingo,
Bourbon (La Réunion), Martinique, St. Lucia,
Guadeloupe & Gorée.
978. MOORE (Ellen Whitley Moore) Neo-Babylonian
Business and Administrative Documents With
Transliteration, Translation and notes, 4to, Ex Lib.,
Univ. Michigan, 1935 [CF3997] £15
979. [MORAVIAN CHURCH.] Weekly Accounts from
the Unity’s Elders’ Conference, - Monthly
Accounts... [&] Intelligence Relating to the
Bretheren’s Church, 57 issues, 400 pp approx. some
occasional dust soiling, 1858-1863 [10845] £150
The first 13 issues are weekly, the next 11 are monthly, the
remaining “Intelligence...” are also monthly. They all
relate to events and expenses of the Moravian Missions
across the world.
980. MORAVIAN MISSIONS. London Association in
Aid ofthe Moravian Missions - Particulars of Recent
Intelligence respecting the above Missions, 13
issues,each with a hf. page wood cut illustration of a
Mission, 208 pp, nos. 84 - 104, lacking 10 issues,
each stitched as issued, July 1865 - July 1875
[10844] £150
The Moravian Church, which has its origins in the 15th
century Hussite movement in Bohemia and Moravia, came
to London in 1734 en route to North American Mission
work. They were associated with John and Charles
Wesley, but on the foundation of Methodism which
became a mass movement, they dwindled to 40
congregations, about 5000 members. Publications about
their Mission works are rare. These reports are from
Missions in Antigua, Australia, Jamaica, Labrador,
Surinam, Kaffraria, Greenland, St. Kitts, Barbados, &
Lahoul near Tibet.
981. MORELL (John Reynell) Algeria: The
Topography and History, Political, Social and
Natural, of French Africa, large folding map, frontis
& 10 woodcut plates, text illusts, 1 page badly
opened, 1854 [CF7664] £150
982. MORISON (Samuel Eliot) The European
Discovery of America, The Northern Voyages A.D.
500-1600, The Southern Voyages A.D. 1492-1616,
numerous maps, coloured frontis’s, many
illustrations, 2 vols thk.8vo, some slight wear, New
York OUP, 1971-1974 [11417] £70
983. MORRIS (John) The Phoenix Cup, some notes on
Japan in 1946, plates, 1946 [CF4011] £20
The author, with the BBC, records Japan in defeat, after
an initial apathy set about the work of restoration and
renewell with a vigour, which he suggests surpasses the of
Germany.
984. MOYNE (Lord [Walter Edward Guiness])
Atlantic Circle with eighty reproductions of
Photographs by Lady Broughton, ep maps, some
spotting to the foredge, 1938 [CF7748] £20
In his yacht Rosaura, Moyne visited the Eskimo of
Greenland and the sites of extinct Norse Settlements in the
south. He then travelled South America to collect
archaeological and zoological specimens.
CUP OF HAPPINESS
985. MOZAMBIQUE. AWooden Goblet decorated in
geometric designs in the style of the Giryama,
bearing the name “FELISA NABEIRA” around the
upper part of cup, 7 ins. high, 4 ins. diameter, made
from a single piece of wood, rim worn, crack down
one side, uneven patina, c.1700 [11114] £1,850
Amost unusual example of native art being used for an
article of european use. This well worn goblet must have
been made at the instigation of a Portuguese Trader or
Merchant for his wife or paramoor, the name around the
edge of the cup being a rebus, for “Happiness within the
rim”. The history of the Portuguese in East Africa dates
back to the visit of Vasco da Gama in 1502. There was a
period of stagnation when Spain and Portugal had a joint
sovereign in the 17th century, but there was towards the
end ofthat century an increase in trade and missionary
activity from Portugal.
986. MURPHY (Dervla) Tibetan Foothold, FIRST
EDITION, map, plates, dw, 1966 [CF10272] £50
The author’s second book.
987. MURRAY (Lt. Alexander) Doings in China. Being
the Personal Narrative of anOfficer Engaged in the
Late Chinese Expedition, from the Recapture of
Chusan in 1841, to the Peace of Nankin in 1842,
lithograph frontis. spotted, modern binders cloth,
1843 [CF6902] £175
988. MYHILL (Henry) The Canary Islands, 7maps,,
numerous plates, 1968 [11266] £15
Written before the resort had become the fully fledged
tourist center it is today.