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188452579New York: John B. Alden 1884. First edition 12mo pp. 215 1; wood-engraved frontispiece portrait; evidence of pocket removal on rear pastedown label neatly removed from spine name eradicated from front free endpaper; all else very good and sound. <br/><br/> John B. Alden unknown books
187114190Philadelphia: Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1871. Hardcover. Near fine. Reprint complete in one volume. vi 9-434 pp. Publisher's green cloth with blind-stamped decoration gilt lettering on spine. Minor rubbing to corners previous owner's name and date on front flyleaf; otherwise unmarked clean and sound. Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger hardcover books
185613245London: Seeley Jackson and Halliday 1856. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Third thousand. vi 272 pp with color frontis in original blind-stamped cloth. Corners bumped chipping to head of spine bits of old paper stuck to front board. Occasional foxing otherwise clean and sound. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday hardcover books
18822150497G.P. Putnam's Sons 1882. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition. A bit musty ink name & date partially crossed out on front flyleaf. 1882 Hard Cover. v 374 2 pp. 8vo. A 19th century overview of Morocco and its citizens with illustrations throughout text. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
189020303Capetown: Grand Lodge of Western South Africa 1890. Softcover. Good. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4" sewn printed peach-colored wraps pp. 38 plus an errata slip tipped in the recto of the rear wrap with the membership form filled out in ink see below. Covers moderately worn with chips out at the sewing points on the spine a few small chunks out of the rear wrap no loss to text and a horizontal tear across the rear wrap. As per the membership form this was the property of Norman Hill Nesbitt inducted into the "Forbearance" Lodge on June 8 1892 as witnessed by the Lodge's Acting Secretary one K.H.M Stuart. Grand Lodge of Western South Africa unknown books
186513668New York: D. Appleton and Co 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in one: 179; 198 pp plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece of a hippo bathing in the Nile. Original green cloth with blind-stamped decoration and faded gilt lettering on the spine. Corners and spine ends rubbed evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding sound text clean with minor foxing. Fictional account founded on real experiences and adventures in South Africa in the early nineteenth century. Mendelssohn I 986. D. Appleton and Co hardcover books
189713079New York: Fleming H. Revell 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp with frontis portrait 19 illustrations and 2 maps 1 folding. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Spine cocked brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else very good. Good served as a Presbyterian missionary in West Africa from 1882 until his death in 1894. He traveled extensively in the region learning the Bulu language and making a study of native religious beliefs. He also collected entomological specimens on behalf of W.J. Holland of the Western University of Pennsylvania who contributed an Appendix to the book. Fleming H. Revell hardcover books
187652658New York: World Publishing House 1876. 8vo pp. xiv 15-271 1; wood-engraved frontispiece; bound with as issued: Lamping Clemens. The French in Algiers pp. 4 89 1; bound with as issued: Alby François Antoine. The prisoners of Abd-el-Kader pp. 4 93-178; original terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt; a good sound copy or better. <br/><br/> World Publishing House hardcover books
189052638Philadelphia: J. W. Keeler 1890. Subscription publication issued under a number of imprints; large 8vo pp. 2 17-576; 4 chromolithograph plates folding map hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations throughout many full-page; original red cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; hinges cracked vermin nibble at the bottom of the back cover covers unevenly sunned; a good copy. <br/><br/> J. W. Keeler hardcover books
184252611New York: Harper & Bros 1842. Stereotyped edition 12mo pp. 359 1; folding map wood-engraved half-title 9 wood-engraved plates and maps plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown cloth gilt-stamped spine; near fine. Issued as no. 16 in the Harper's Family Library series. <br/><br/> Harper & Bros hardcover books
189313102Toronto: Star Printing and Publishing 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Original blue cloth puckered in spots rubbed through at corners and spine ends. Binding sound contents clean. 353 pp with 51 gravure plates but lacking the folding map. The author traversed the Marotse country and visited the Gonye and Victoria Falls and continued to Bechuanaland Matabeleland and Mashonaland Mendelssohn I p. 788. "Despite Johnston's hunter-like attire and pose in the frontispiece this work is primarily one of travel. He does embark on hunts after hartebeest impala and ostrich and describes a lion hunt near Salisbury" Czech p. 146. Star Printing and Publishing hardcover books
1851WRCLIT82725Washington: Printed by Jno. T. Towers 1851. 16pp. Octavo. Printed wrappers. A bit of foxing early and late manuscript frank on rear wrapper old soft vertical fold two small adhesion spots on upper wrapper otherwise a very good copy. First edition. This address was delivered within a day of Payne's consecration as Bishop of Cape Palmas and Parts Adjacent in West Africa leading to his rank as the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Liberia. He served in Liberia for two decades during which the Episcopal Church built five churches two asylums and a hospital and ordained twenty priests. OCLC locates 16 copies. OCLC: 5005360. Printed by Jno. T. Towers unknown books
189011320Philadelphia: Reading and Company 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv 278 pp illustrated with portraits many of Africans maps and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose but none detached. Occasional smudged pages; text otherwise unmarked. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia which took them through Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior. Blockson 1628. Reading and Company hardcover books
185913088Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xv 256 pp with frontis portrait of Mrs. Hoffman. Recently rebound in black buckram. Mercantile library stamps on frontis and title page as well as the margin of three text pages. Otherwise quite clean. Virginia Hale Hoffman was born in Glastonbury CT in 1832. She married In 1850 she went to Liberia with her husband Reverend Cadwalader Colden Hoffman who was a member of the Episcopal mission. In Cavalla Liberia she learned the local language Grebo and supported the mission by teaching and working among the flock. She died of a pulmonary ailment in 1856 and here she is described as "worthy to be added to the catalogue of these martyrs for Christ who include women such as Harriet Newell and Anne Hazeltine Judson and the cause of the world's conversion." Lindsay and Blakiston hardcover books
184313337New York: Robert Carter 1843. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Third edition. xii 406 p in original cloth backed boards with mounted spine lanel. Cloth chipped at head of spine and along rear joint boards worn. Binding sound contents unmarked other than owner's signature on title page. Some foxing. Robert Carter hardcover books
189852544New York & Boston: Thomas Y. Crowell n.d. 1898. First American edition 8vo pp. xxx 3-299 1; 100 photographic illustrations throughout many full-page; original decorative green cloth stamped in black and gilt; lightly rubbed very good. Czech Africa p. 29: "A former English army officer Burrows was hired by the Belgian government as district commander of the Upper Well-Mobanghi region of the Congo." <br/><br/> Thomas Y. Crowell, n.d. hardcover books
189852651London: Methuen & Co 1898. First edition issued in the publisher's Colonial Library series small 8vo pp. vi 238 2; large folding map 4 plates; extra illustration mounted on front pastedown; original maroon cloth gilt-stamped spine extra cloth label 'Africa' also on spine; fine copy. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co hardcover books
18731954Philadelphia: National Publishing 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo pp 823 8 ads with map many engraved illustrations. Original purple cloth with gilt decoration. Spine sunned boards edgeworn binding sound and text clean. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of the Berry family of Trumbull County Ohio and Nevada County California on front free endpaper. Beadle writes in the Preface: "This work is simply a personal record of my five years' travel and residence in the new States and Territories - where I went what I did what I saw and what I thought about it . It was my prime object to make this work a startling novelty in one respect: by telling the exact truth about the particular points to which settlers are most urgently invited." Rittenhouse 25: "A personal memoir written in adventurous style." Howes B-269; Graff 212; Rader 307. National Publishing hardcover books
189712358Boston: Roberts Brothers 1897. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 133 pp ads with a gruesome frontis photograph of natives being hanged as spies. Original green cloth with decoration in gilt. Slight rubbing to corners gift inscription on front free endpaper mild foxing. A fictional account of the occupation of Mashonaland "in which Christ is depicted as visiting the camp fire of a trooper engaged in the expedition. The settlement of Rhodesia and the Jameson Raid are incidentally referred to with considerable animus" Mendelssohn II 281. Roberts Brothers hardcover books
184113094New York: G. Lane & P.P. Sandford 1841. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good. 317 pp in original blind-stamped cloth. Spine faded some edgewear small wormhole at fore edge moderate foxing throughout. Binding tight hinges secure. Shaw arrived in Cape Town in 1816 and soon established the first Wesleyan Mission Station in the interior of South Africa. The book offers a history of the European discovery of the Cape of Good Hope and the development of the colony with "numerous facts relative to missions.which were never before made public" and "notices of natural history referring to lions tigers &c." According to Mendelssohn II p. 308 the chapters on the Hottentots Bushmen Corannas Namaquas Kaffirs Bechuanas and other tribes "afford one of the best descriptions of the native races of South Africa published up to this period." G. Lane & P.P. Sandford hardcover books
189252613London: Longmans Green and Co 1892. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 376 24 ads; folding frontispiece map 4 other maps 3 folding 12 plates numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; the binding a little spotted and rubbed; sophisticated with several pertinent newspaper clippings tipped in randomly in the text previous owner's bookplate and signatures on half-title and title page. Mendelssohn I p. 115: "Mr. Bent made a careful examination of the remains of the ancient buildings in Mashonaland and was of opinion that they were erected by Arabians a race of North African explorers whose civilisation must have been of a high order: and he expressed great admiration for the beauty solidity and intricacy of the masonry . The author investigated the habits and industries of the Mashonas and the work deals not only with Mr. Bent's archaeological researches but serves as a pioneer book on Mashonaland under the Chartered Company." <br/><br/> Longmans, Green, and Co hardcover books
188152660London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons 1881. 12mo pp. 9 10-275 1 10 ads; double-page map 31 full-page wood-engraved illustrations 1 double-page; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; some wear at extremities and a small break in the cloth at the top of the front joint; all else very good. <br/><br/> T. Nelson and Sons hardcover books
18902221935<p>First edition. Octavo. Illustrated with 10 black and white text illustrations and full page plates. Original red gilt and black stamp pictorial cloth and spine minor rubbing; tiny tears at head and foot of spine. No dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. A very good solid tight copy. 240 pages. Gift inscription on verso of frontispiece.</p><p>In what is presumably the first state red and gold binding.</p><p>Includes informations on the Jews of Tangiers.</p> Estes and Lauriat hardcover books
18572926New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. viii 415 pp 8 publisher's catalogue with frontispiece illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt spine. Spine dulled one horizontal tear in spine cloth and additional splits along both front and rear joints. Internals sound and clean. Contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper. Perry's expedition was sent to Japan to induce the Japanese government to enter into diplomatic relations with the United States which Perry believed he could accomplish through a display of superior naval force. Hill 1332: "After his entry into Araga Harbor on July 8 1853 the Japanese were eventually compelled to accept a treaty.opening the ports of Hakodate and Shimoda. The most significant result however was that Perry's visit contributed to the collapse of the feudal regime and to the subsequent modernization of Japan." This is Hill 1333 "a compact abridgement of the Perry expedition narrative." D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
186457313Boston: October 26 1864. Three-page autograph letter signed 8" x 5"; separated at all folds resulting in six separate fragments but without loss of any text. Contained in an old envelope also with some separation at the folds. Luther Briggs 1822-1905 was a prominent Boston architect with many public commissions to his credit among them Liberia College in Monrovia. The letter relays a conversation Frary had with Joseph Jenkins Roberts the first president of Liberia: "President Roberts of Liberia College remarked to me that the College Building designed by you was actually worth more for college purposes than the buildings of the Institution at Fourah Bay Sierra Leone for educating missionaries though the latter cost more than sixty thousand dollars. They were erected by the English Church Missionary Society with I believe some aid from the Government. The building planned by you at Monrovia cost not much more than one third of that amount . As I have said this rests on no documentary evidence being only a remark made incidentally in private conversation. But I have a perfectly clear recollection of the remark and it seems to me worth something as shown that your labors were successful." <br/><br/> October 26 unknown books
