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18664755London: John Murray 1866. First Edition. Soft cover. VG. Volume the Thirty-Sixth. CXCVII 1-310 pp folding maps. Discovery of the Second Great Lake of the Nile by Samuel Baker with large folding map DuChaillu on a journey into Western Equatorial Africa with large folding map Lockhart's notes on Peking with folding plan Montgomerie on the Geographical Position of Yarkund sic and other places in Central Asia with small folding map Markham on the water supply in India with folding map account of the levelling from the Mediterranean to the Dead Sea with large folding map Veniukof on the Pamir and Sources of the Amu Daria with large folding map and Baines on Notes to a Map of Damaraland. Text uncut intended to be bound by orig purchaser. VG in orig printed wraps. John Murray unknown
178334326Holland: Not Atributed. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1783. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; . 43221pp pages; Africa: Ou Tableau Historique et Politique de LÉtat Originaire de la Colonie du Cap de Bonne-Esperance Comparé avec LÉtat Actuel de Cette Colonie. Modern half faux leather & cloth. Contents VG indeed. French language. Worldcat finds but two copies- scarce. . Not Atributed hardcover
1930205481930. Early twentieth century travel photo album compiled by "Jake"documents the working life and global mobility of a merchant ship crewman during the 1930s and 1940s with sustained visual attention to port cities across Africa the Americas and the United States. The album supports research into maritime labor informal American commercial presence abroad and everyday interactions between traveling workers and local populations under late colonial conditions. Photographs taken in Beira and Dondo in Mozambique and Angola Durban and Cape Town in South Africa and Accra in the Gold Coast record encounters shaped by European colonial infrastructures and tourist economies including images captioned "Typical Ricksha Boy" depicting South African rickshaw pullers in elaborate headdress and dress and scenes of women in Accra balancing baskets and trays of food. Additional captions such as "Sam and his 'girls'" showing uniformed workers marked "Sea View Hotel" and "me and my gals" portraying informal social contact provide direct evidence of how American maritime workers framed and recorded relationships with local communities. The album further situates this mobility within a broader circuit including the Panama Canal Mexico City and Vera Cruz and U.S. port cities such as Galveston New York and Boston.<br /> <br /> Travel photo album compiled circa 1930s to 1940s likely by an American merchant marine crewman identified as Jake. String-bound black cloth album containing 44 leaves with 218 silver gelatin photographs and postcards mounted or cornered in along with one original sketch of an African man. Images span multiple global locations including Beira Dondo Durban Cape Town Accra Vera Cruz Mexico City the Panama Canal Powell River Vancouver Galveston New York and Boston. Several photographs depict shipboard life and crew activity aboard the S.S. Nemiskam Park with additional images of small craft landings including African men canoeing crew members ashore. A sequence of photographs taken in Boston shows the compiler in maritime work gear wearing thigh-high boot wraps rubber gloves and an oxygen mask captioned "At last -- working for a change." Nineteen photographs document Mexico including rancheros and rancheras in embroidered dress scenes of bullfighting and crew members wearing sombreros and sarapes.<br /> <br /> This album provides a concentrated record of interwar and wartime-era maritime circulation linking North American labor to colonial and postcolonial port environments offering primary visual evidence of how working-class American travelers documented race labor and leisure across imperial geographies. The inclusion of commercial signage hotel uniforms and transport labor such as rickshaw pulling situates the photographs within local economies shaped by tourism and global trade while the Panama Canal images anchor the album within a critical artery of twentieth-century shipping and U.S. strategic infrastructure. The juxtaposition of African Mexican and U.S. scenes underscores the continuity of maritime networks that connected these regions and the album's captions provide insight into informal language humor and perception among traveling crewmen. Minor edge wear to album corners with some mounts loosening; leaves and photographs remain clean and stable. Overall very good condition. unknown
1848005412London: Hering & Remington 1848. Near Fine. 1 hand-colored lithograph 430 x 527 mm. image is 264 x 372 mm.; mat is 19.5 x 23.25 inches. The lithograph was created by Robert Carrick 1820-1905 of Day & Son after James Rattray's drawing. James Rattray 1818-1854 was a lieutenant in the British Bengal Army during the first Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842. The sketches he produced were published in 30 plates in Scenery Inhabitants & Costumes of Afghaunistan 1847-48. This is plate no. 14 showing two falconers from Kohistan Khudadard and Guldin with their hawks. Rattray saw them in September 1841 when they were part of the cavalry escort of his brother Captain Rattray. Green dealer's label on back of mat from Harold T. Storey London. Very scarce. In Near Fine Condition: lithograph is clean and bright; minor soiling to mat. Hering & Remington unknown
1878264950Verlag des DÖAV Graz Innsbruck. J. Lindauer`sche Buchhandlung München 1878. Hardcover Leinen Jahrgänge 1878-1890 ohne 1880. Weitere Autoren: Hanns Barth. 1878-1884 mit Lederrücken und -ecken 1885-1890 rotes Leinen mit Titelbild. Die Kartenbeilagen sind nicht mit dabei in einer separaten Leinenmappe sind die Karten für 1886-1890 dabei. 13 Bände zusammen. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen Exemplare einer Privatbibliothek mit Kennungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten tadellos gut. Verlag des DÖAV, Graz, Innsbruck. J. Lindauer`sche Buchhandlung, München, hardcover
1954022348Nichi-Bei Keizai-Domei Kenkyukai 1954. First Printing . Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Oversized touristry promotion book celebrating Japan of the early 1950s. Really wonderfully packed with photos of every aspect of Japanese life and photo tour of Japanese districts. Also includes charming prints and many contemporary ads. Front photos are dignified portraits the royal family. Interior is fresh and bright. Binding is sound with thick sturdy covers. Covers with bright well-preserved pictorial print. Spine is sunned and back cover has a heavy scratch. Edges rubbed as expected with spine ends a little frayed. Gift inscriptions covering front endpage. Very presentable overall. Due to weight more postage may be needed. <br/> <br/> Nichi-Bei Keizai-Domei Kenkyukai hardcover
188138668Des Moines IA: Board of Railroad Commissioners 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. A map and profile in a single volume which accompanied the Board of Railroad Commissioners Report. The first is a folded Railroad Map of Iowa engraved and printed by The Western Litho Co. measuring two feet by three feet. The second is a much larger 13 feet x 3 feet folded Profile of Grades of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway from McGregor to The Big Sioux River the Demoines and Fort Dodge Railroad the Chicago and North Western Railroad the Illinois Central and the Chicago Rock Island & Pacific. Both are folded and bound into the original brown cloth over limp boards measuring 6" by 9". Spine professionally replaced. There are no tears to the maps though they are very delicate and the paper can be easily torn. A little dust along upper folds. A handsome very good copy. <br/> <br/> Board of Railroad Commissioners hardcover
182860771London: James Duncan 1828. First Edition. Octavo 21cm. Brown calf with gilt rules to outer perimeter of boards rebacked titled in gilt on black and brown spine labels all edges sprinkled red; plain renewed endpapers; I: xxxvi4031pp; II: viii4502pp; one-page publisher's ad to rear of vol. II; frontispiece to vol. I 2 maps 1 folding in vol. II. Tight and straight but rebacked edgeworn heavily foxed two or three leaves with short tears reinforced with archival tape title page in vol. I partly detached: complete and just Very Good. <br /> <br /> John Philip 1775-1851 supervised the activities of the London Missionary Society in South Africa. He traveled widely and advocated for the better treatment of both indigenous South Africans and settlers. In this work "he exposed the various abuses perpetrated in Cape Colony and expounded the benefits of missions.he was able to persuade the colonial secretary Sir George Murray to remove all civil disabilities on 'free persons of colour' at the Cape and indeed throughout the British empire.he was fêted as a hero by the Khnoekhnoen but vilified by the settlers and officials" ODNB. THEAL p.234. MENDELSSOHN II p.160-1. James Duncan unknown
18431664William Curry: Dublin 1843. First. Hardcover. VG. Sinde Beloochistan etc. detailed in a series of letters by the late Col William H Dennie .with an appendix containing Col Dennie's correspondence with Lord Keane Sir Henry Fane etc. 223 pp folding map. Narrative of the war from a soldier present. A valuable record of military operations in the countries west of the Indus. VG in orig. blindstamped cloth. Spine tips professionally strengthened. Dublin hardcover
19422825England: Golden Cockerell Press 1942. First Ltd 500 Copies OBrien A 234. Half Leather. Near Fine. 62 pp #194 of 500 copies. OBrien A234. TE Lawrence's letters to H S Ede 1927-1935. Foreword and running commentary by H S Ede. Near fine in orig half morocco binding. Golden Cockerell Press unknown
1842361London: John Snow 1842. First Edition. Full leather. Very good. 2nd thousand. 8vo full light brown leather: front and rear panels diced calf spine has raised bands w/dec blindstamped design between bands dark leather label w/gilt title Marbled foredges w/matching marbled endpapers color frontis vignette title page folding map in fine condition -- Light rubbing and a few scuff marks to leather extremities bottom corners bumped light foxing to plates - Some foxing text mostly unfoxed binding is tight and straight. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa 1842 is an autobiographical account of missionary activity among the Tswana people of South Africa by the Scottish missionary and linguist Robert Moffat. It attracted a wide Victorian readership and became a classic narrative of missionary activity in Africa. John Snow hardcover
1959London: Royal Geographical Society. First. Marbled Boards. VG-Near Fine. and General Prejevalsky on the Orography of Northern Tibet. 15 85 pp ill large folding map to accompany second offprint. Two very early offprints of the RGS regarding discoveries reported in Central Asia by English explorers. Nicely bound in marbled boards with black gilt stamped leather spine label. Royal Geographical Society unknown
18684757London: John Murray 1868. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Volume the thirty-eighth. CXCVIII pp. 1-468 with maps and illustrations. Markham on Portuguese expeditions to Abyssinia Young Report on Livingstone Search ExpeditionGregory on Geography & Mountain Passes in British Columbia Montgomerie on a route survey Nepal to Lhasa with lovely very large folding map Whymper Journey to Alaska St John Country between Bushire and Teheran. Text uncut obviously intended to be bound by orig. purchaser. VG in orig printed wraps. The folding maps in all RGS volume are amazing almost works of art. John Murray unknown
18674756London: John Murray 1867. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. Volume the Thirty-Seventh. CLX pp. 1-372. with many folding maps mos colored. Incl. Johnson on Khotan Baikie on Bida to Kano Brewsher on Mesopotamia Findlay on Dr. Livingstone's Last Journey Goldsmid on Eastern Persia and Western Beluchistan Godwin-Austen on the Pangong Lake District of Padakh. Text uncut obviously intended to be bound by orig. purchaser. VG in orig. printed wraps. John Murray unknown
192415851London: A & C Black Ltd. . 1924. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Wear to extremities. Browning to endpapers. Occasional foxing. Blurb tipped in to front free endpaper ; Schweitzer's stay in French-controlled equitorial Africa. INSCRIBED in French by the doctor to title page. Bookplate to front pastedown of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 180 pages . A & C Black Ltd. hardcover
188444877Portland OR: A.G. Walling 1884. First edition. first printing First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 545 pages of an early history of Southern Oregon with portrait engravings of contributors and views of landmark homes some of which still exist and county maps. Smith; Pacific Northwest Americana 10706. Bound in original three quarter black leather over black pebbled cloth covered boards with lettering and rule stamped in gilt with original tannish flowered endpapers. All edges of the text block stained in red. Repaired interior hinges. A very good copy. <br/> <br/> A.G. Walling hardcover
19892827England: National Portrait Gallery 1989. First Ltd 75 Copies. Half Leather. As New. 248 pp profuse b/w & col ill. Lovely production on heavy coated stock. #46 of only 75 copies. signed by wilson on second free end paper where he also numbered the copies. As new in orig binding in like new orig slipcase. National Portrait Gallery unknown
000356Leyden Neth: Pieter Vander Aa 1727. Hardcover. Fine. Title continued: "mitsgaders de harde en Slaaffe Dienstbaarheyd des Schrijvers onder het wreede Jok der Turken in Egypten en hoe hy eyndelijk na veele uytgestane ongemakken in sijn vryheyd is hersteld. Als Mede een Beschrijving van verscheyde Eylande Steeden Zee-havens Oudheeden van Eypten Turkyen en het Heylige Land: ook de Gewoontens Zeden en Straf-oeffeningen deser volkeren. Door den Reysiger selfs beschreeven. Met een volkoomen Register en Konst-Printen verrijkt." 72 p. engraved title page vignette 1 leaf of a copper-plate engraved folded map: 4 in-text engravings; 36 cm. Signatures: A-I4 4to. Modern grey and brown decorative paper over boards with a modern printed black-on-grey label on the front cover reproducing part of the title page as a smaller scale within a double-ruled border. Text is in 130 numbered columns. Although there is no date of publication this appears to be from the series of travel accounts printed by Pieter vander Aa in 1727 De Aanmerkenswaardigste en Alomberoemde See- en Land-Reizen. The author Michael Heberer 1560-1623/33 has been called der pfälzishe Robinson or Robinson Crusoe of the Palatinate because of his unlucky sea voyages recounted here. The engraved map shows Heberer's route around the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea. The other engravings depict a ship wreck prisoners of the moors the freeing of some prisoners in Alexandria and the execution of others. Back cover of modern binding slightly soiled; otherwise in Fine Condition. Very scarce. Pieter Vander Aa hardcover
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hardcover
1960231931960. African press photo archive credited on the versos to Tomas D.W. Friedmann documenting images of anticolonial war apartheid labor urban growth and locals across Africa in 1970. These press photos translated events in Angola South Africa Nigeria and Tunisia into public facing articles for western audiences. At the time of production Angola was still fighting Portuguese colonial rule in 1970 while South Africa's mining economy and urban development remained bound to apartheid labor structures centered on Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand goldfields. Tomas D.W. Friedmann was a press photographer 1925-2012 traveled globally documenting Africaand its art. <br /> <br /> Photo archive of 9 silver gelatin photographs each 8" x 10" Africa circa 1960-1970. The archive belongs to the late colonial and apartheid era when American editorial photography often compressed Africa into legible news features of conflict labor ritual wildlife and into ethnic stereotypes for news splashes even as decolonization and liberation struggles were reshaping the continent.Verso labels identify specific scenes including "Nigeria: Kano / snake being charmed" "South Africa / Daggafontein gold miners pushing cart with ore underground" "Union of South Africa Johannesburg north-eastern section of town with sand-hills of the goldmines" "Tunisia: boy climbing palm tree and diving into Roman tanks below in which Gafsa boys swim" and two Angola captions describing "rebel held territory" where a patrol meets refugees in the bush and "early morning exercises at rebel army camp Serra de Canda deep inside rain forest." The group image depicts an Angolan rebel army that has been fighting liberation from Portugal since 1961. Another South Africa caption identifies a Durban whaling scene with Africans beginning to cut up a whale while one photograph of men and boys in furred ceremonial dress is marked in later handwriting "South Africa / Xhosa doctors." Light surface and edge wear minor curling otherwise clean and legible; overall very good condition. The group anchors itself in the historical upheaval of decolonization where armed resistance to Portuguese rule entrenched apartheid industry and postcolonial social change were being documented and mediated for western audiences. unknown
18514746London: John Murray 1851. First Edition. Soft cover. VG. Volume the Twenty-First. CII pp 1-248 pub list of books in rear. 6 folding maps Caucasus Middle Island of New Zealand Kumaon Central America Canal S Peru and a Mission to Central Africa by Dr. Barth. Interesting articles on all these places incl. a letter from David Livingston. Text uncut. VG in orig. printed wrappers. Intended for purchase to bind to their taste. John Murray unknown
18624751London: John Murray 1862. First Edition. Soft cover. VG. Volume the Thirty-Second. CLXXII pp. 1-586. 16 folding maps & illustrations. Yang.Tse Fiji Islands Harran North Palestine Borneo Africa Trans-Indus frontier of British India Wuzeristan sic Zulu countries North-west coast of Australia Lake of Issuk-kul. VG in orig. printed wraps. Text uncut. Intended to be bound by orig. purchase. John Murray unknown
19282232Oxford: Clarendon Pres 1928. First. Hardcover. VG. An historical sketch from the earliest times to the beginning of the twentieth century. 322 pp ill lengthy bibliography glossary large pull out folding map in pocket inside rear cover and index. Long respected work on the Gulf. VG and maybe even a little better than that in original blue cloth. Clarendon Pres hardcover
1908056947<p>London: Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good-. 1908. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover no jacket 224 pages 16 pages of ads "with sixty-one illustrations from photographs by the author and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Wilson and three maps" the red cloth spine is faded to brown spine-title a bit dulled but nice front cover remains bright two small areas of wear on the rear edge of the spine as well as the bottom corner-tips moderate cock to the spine and a short crack to the front hinge binding is secure foxing to the blank end-papers mild foxing to to the fore-edge more than half of the text pages are fine but several have rather mild foxing the illustrations and maps are in nice shape a few corner-creased pages short edge-tear to the illustrated page opposite page 114 the illustration itself is ok .</p> Hodder & Stoughton hardcover
0006099London: Richard Bentley 1852. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. chromolithograph of Mount Barkal Nubia folding map of the Nile River and a monochromatic plate. Octavo 455 pages; blue embossed publisher's cloth with the tag of Remnant & Edmonds of London at rear pastedown unopened untrimmed repaired tear at top of spine inked name on title-page light dampstain on fore-edge of the top cover. Note: publisher's cloth binding tag at rear from Remnant & Edmonds. <br/><br/>Lepsius was the foremost Prussian Egyptologist. His three-year expedition to Giza in 1842 established him as the Father of the scientific discipline of Egyptology. He was also a prominent scholar in African languages. This is a translation of his Briefe aus Aegypten Aethiopien und der Halbinsel des Sinai. His 12-volume work on the pyramids DENKMALER AUS AEGYPTEN UND AETHIOPIEN especially remains essential. Chromolithograph of Mount Barkal Nubia folding map of the Nile River and a monochromatic plate Richard Bentley hardcover
