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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
191413055New York: Neale Publishing Company 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 708 pp with 2 maps and many illustrations from photographs. Publisher's blue cloth. Spine toned but legible; clean and tight. In addition to being a Presbyterian missionary the author was an accomplished linguist and a careful and interested observer of native life and natural history. Neale Publishing Company 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
19362585Indianapolis IN: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Good. 351 pp illustrations from photographs map endpapers. Very light shelf wear to boards gift nscription on dedication page; text clean binding sound. Dust jacket is rubbed along the folds has tape reinforcement to inside and some old not especially noticeable water damage. In a new mylar cover. The author and his companion recent college graduates decided to complete their education with a trip around the world. According to the jacket "they became bored with shipboard life and wanted to see what lay behind the mysterious fringe of the West African coast. And because everyone told them it couldn't be done they set out to cross African on motorcycles . They had plenty of hair-raising experiences but vastly more laughs." Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover books
1994244788New York: Judelson 1994. Limited. hardcover. very good. 19 full page color illustrations plus black & white text illustions. text in two sections of 47pp. one in Englsh one in Russian. 8vo three panelled linen-backed boards inside front panel has pasted down envelope containing two folded posters. New York: Paul Judelson Arts and Moscow: Avant-Garde 1994. A very good copy.<br/><br/> One of 1500 copies. Published in conjunction with Afrika's 1995 exhibition at the Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst MAK<br/><br/> Judelson unknown books
197186225New York: Africana Publishing Corporation 1971. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxiv 461p. Original blue boards. dj. 22cm. Jacket has a couple of modest water spots. <br/><br/> Africana Publishing Corporation hardcover books
1914919Buffalo N.Y: The Hammond Press 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. A fine first edition of a classic reference work on the fur trade. Brown cloth boards with gilt images and title stamping. One rubbed corner no other flaws in book. Binding is sturdy tight and square. Brown endpapers free of any writing. Text is clean a bright. Text is clean and bright. Rear pastedown has original price sticker from 1912: "Eastern Agent Geo. W. Reynolds" &etc. Map frontis. Illustrated throughout with black and white drawings. 5 372 pp including index. 6 9 1/4 inches tall octavo. It was Marcus Petersen who rst published in his book. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals" something that was different from the material used by the authors of earlier fur books. Petersen however con ned himself principally to the fur-bearing animals and the characteristics and distinguishing properties of different furs. He was. however the rst authority to compile a table giving the weights and the durability or wearing qualities of each fur and we believe that this table has been accepted as a standard by fur men everywhere. Mr. Petersen's idea of measuring the durability of all furs with otter natural and sea. as the standard fur skin rated at 100. was something that proved to be of great help to the industry and added great value to his book." The Fur Trade Review March 1921 The Hammond Press hardcover books
191052597New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1910. First edition American issue; 4to pp. xix 1 233 1; map 140 photographic illustrations by the author on 104 plates; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine t.e.g.; extremities rubbed the text lightly shaken; all else very good. Czech Africa p. 53: "Dugmore became famous as a wildlife photographer and naturalist with various titles to his credit. In this impressive volume he describes his efforts with James L. Clark in photographing big game during a trip across the Athi Plains eventually arriving at Guaso Nyiro. While his purpose was to photograph animals there are several hunting incidents concerning rhino and plains game." Published the same year by Heinemann in London. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page, and Co hardcover books
196416324Stanford CA: Stanford University Press 1964. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 90 pp text index bibliography and 96 b/w plates; several plans in the text. Publisher's brown cloth w/gilt lettering on spine. As new in a clean dust jacket with just a touch of shelf wear. Lawrence "directed archaeological investigations in Ghana from 1951 to 1957 and undertook the repair or restoration of the principal remaining buildings. He traces the growth and decay of all those still visible in West Africa and the peculiarities of some that have perished." Stanford University Press 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
195652624London et al.: published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press 1956. First edition small 8vo pp. xiii 1 166; fine copy in the dust jacket. Includes the Diary of Antera Duke an Efik slave-trading chief of the eighteenth century together with an ethnographic sketch and notes by D. Simmons and an essay on the political organization of old Calabar by G.I. Jones. <br/><br/> published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press unknown 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
190552574New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1905. First edition 8vo pp. x 364; portrait frontispiece folding map and 100 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 44 plates; original green cloth stamped in blue gilt and green on upper cover and spine; very good. This copy inscribed "To Mr. K. B. Coulter with the good greetings of the scribe Wm. Edgar Geil Clifton Springs NY Nov. AD 1906." <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover books
194952589Nairobi: East African Railways and Harbours n.d. 1949. First edition 4to pp. xii 582; 2 folding color maps 14 plates showing 20 portraits and illustrations; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small hole in cloth at top of spine else a very good copy. <br/><br/> East African Railways and Harbours, n.d. hardcover books
191152614London: Constable and Co 1911. First edition 8vo pp. xx 356; folding map printed in color 8 color plates and 74 half-tones on 38 plates; original orange cloth with pictorial onlay on the upper cover front cover stamped in black the spine in gilt; faint accession numbers at the base of the spine perforated stamp in the bottom margin of the title page small rubberstamp on final page of text; all else very good and sound. <br/><br/> Constable and Co hardcover books
1961920Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . A very near fine first edition complete in two volumes in a very good plus original slipcase. Publisher's orginal tan buckram with brown and gilt titling. Binding is strong sturdy and square on both volumes no writing no nameplates clean and bright inside. There are five tiny coffee drop stains on the front cover of volume I. In volume 2 two pages of the index have a dog ear fold which has been straightened out. The slpcase is very good: it has the original labels and shows a short bump on the front left lower corner. There is a minute area on the top edge where the slipcase paper has started to peel but all paper still present. These books look good smell good and are an important read on the history of the North American fur trade. xxvi 686 & viii 696 pp.indexed and illustrated with a bibliography.Octavo 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall. In her introduction to the 1954 edition of Hiram Martin Chittenden's The American Fur Trade of the Far West Grace Lee Nute Research Associate of the Minnesota Historical Society noted how well Chittenden's work has stood the test of time since its publication in 1902 but suggested that because of the specialized monographs published since that time "a vast literature is now at hand for anyone capable of welding it into a unified comprehensive history of the fur trade of the North American continent." The attempt has now been made and the result is a qualified success. Paul Chrisler Phillips devoted his life to the task; he died before its completion. J. W. Smurr provides the concluding chapters to this massive two volume work. Publication of the book handsomely accomplished by the Oklahoma University Press has been aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Here is the entire history of the North American fur trade from its inception as a gleam in the eye of European explorers and merchant-adventurers to its decline in the mid-nineteenth century with the shift in consumer interest to cheap textiles. The story is told in a basically chronological form although the vast area of the trade and the variety of European and American traders who conducted it require a constant process of starting again and again in time. The research is exhaustive. Though based principally on printed primary sources extensive use has been made of manuscript materials. Let it be said at once that Phillips' study helps correct the view held by most about the importance of the fur trade in inciting maintaining and expanding European settlement in North America. The evidence marshaled by Phillips goes far to prove that the lowly "trade" so readily ignored or slighted by kings at the time and by historians later played a more important role than is normally assigned to it. Indeed one can wonder whether the very establishment of English and French colonies on North American soil would have been accomplished but for the existence of fur-bearing animals and the Indian who was willing to trap them and exchange their pelts for European goods. Nevertheless by concentrating so exclusively on the fur trade Phillips tends to see all political movement in terms of a struggle for beaver. The Great War for Empire between France and Great Britain is presented in such a context as are other events which may perhaps legitimately be assigned more complicated origins. The integration of the sources mined by Phillips and the formal expression of his interpretation of them leave something to be desired. The sentences except in Smurr's concluding chapters flow in a harsh monotony. In a two volume work the unvarying style and the massive accumulation of fact become burdensome to the reader. The text is unrelieved by sensitive passages of summary interpretation or imaginative insight. The personalities of the traders do not "live" as they do in Chittenden's still useful though geographically and temporally more limited history. The book is splendidly illustrated with many original drawings of furbearing animals by Mary Baker as well as with more conventional illustrations drawn from a variety of sources. It has excellent maps. It is well designed and carefully printed. Its two volumes are indexed and paged separately. The indexing is reasonably full but as is usually the case in university-oriented publications it omits direct reference to the material objects trade goods costume items etc. associated with the trade and thus makes the museum scholar create his own index. In sum the book is a significant achievement and an important contribution to our knowledge of our past. ---- WILCOMB E. WASHBURN of the Smithsonian Institution in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 86 No. 2 Apr. 1962 pp. 210-212 University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books
195881093Rufisque: Imprimerie du Haut Commissariat 1958. Paperback. Very Good. 7 vols. Serie A B D E F G et H a T. Wrappers. 25cm. Covers unevenly browned. Contents sound and clean. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate inside front covers. French text. Serie G is actually a series of 9 slender booklets in a paper sleeve; the other six are single volumes. <br/><br/> Imprimerie du Haut Commissariat paperback books
248195Nok Publishers International. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Nok Publishers International unknown 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
190952622London: Seeley & Co 1909. First edition in English 8vo pp. xxiv xviii 2 21-504 8 ads; frontispiece 13 plates 5 double-page over 400 illustrations in the text; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine slightly darkened extremities rubbed; good and sound. Fire worship tattooing tests of manhood secret societies head-hunting cannibalism funeral rites etc. <br/><br/> Seeley & Co hardcover books
192452649London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1924. First edition 8vo pp. 409 1 4 Hogarth Press ads; frontispiece map; original terracotta cloth gilt-stamped spine; spine slightly sunned else very good and sound. Woolmer 48. <br/><br/> Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press hardcover books
