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168661137Amsterdam: Wolfgang Waesberge Boom & van Someren 1686. First Thus. First French edition. Folio in fours 37cm. Contemporary mottled calf spine divided into seven compartments each tooled in gilt all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; vi53422pp; engraved title page 26 of 42 double-page line-engraved plates 55 in-text line engravings. Lacking 17 maps and plates including the large folding map of Africa. Bookseller's embossed stamp of F. R. Thorold Johannesburg to front free endpaper. Text complete collating 2o: π1 2 A-3Z4 4A2 signed $1-3 2K3 not signed. Generally tight with minor edgewear lower front joint starting to split very occasional spots of foxing but overall clean: a sound but obviously defective copy.<br /> <br /> The only French translation of this important 1668 text on Africa considered authoritative in its day despite the fact that its Dutch author never visited Africa instead relying on primary accounts of voyages. Extensively illustrated with depictions of people cities flora and fauna; this copy lacking almost all the maps but serviceable. Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom & van Someren unknown
181454002London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1814. Frontispieces & Plates. 2 vols. 4to. Recently bound in half brown calf and marbled boards spine labels gilt. Ex-library with small perforated stamp on title pages some browning of leaves. A very attractive set. Frontispieces & Plates. 2 vols. 4to. Pinkerton's collection of voyages was published over the course of six years in a total of seventeen volumes. The six volumes devoted to Europe comprise the largest section of the collection. They are "of great value for its texts which are sometimes given entire and sometimes abridged with as much as possible of the traveler's own language" Hill. <br/><br/>Pinkerton was something of a character. Having apprenticed to an Edinburgh solicitor upon the death of his father and receipt of his inheritance he immediately turned his back to a legal career and dedicated himself to literary matters. Through his works as a historian poet and playwrite he made friendships with the likes of Horace Walpole Walter Scott and Edward Gibbon and through his controversial religious views and short temper he eventually lost them. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme unknown books
182528390Ave-Maria-Lane London: Geo. B. Whittaker 1825 Book. Near Fine. Rebound Copy. First Edition. Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece including facts connected with the last days of Lord Byron extracts from correspondence official documents &c. By Edward Blaquiere Esq. Author of "The Origin and Progress of the Greek Revolution" &c. Blaquiere reports on his activities in Greece on problems and progress up to 1824 in the Greek War of Independence eyewitness descriptions of Byron's death at Missolonghi transcripts of original documents relating to those activities.Part I: Introduction -- Personal narrative of the author's arrival i-iv 167p. Part II: The last days of Lord Byron -- Funeral oration -- Account of the author's visit to Anatolico -- pages 1-47 Extracts from correspondence - items I-I-XLV pages 47-175 on total 340p. frontispiece inserted facsimile letter.Printed for Geo. B. Whittaker Ave-Maria-Lane London 1825. Overall a clean tight text slight foxing to preliminaries to the frontispiece and to pages i-ix. Nicely rebound in half cloth with marbled boards by the Hitchcock Bindery at Colby College A few light pencil notes on the end paper by a previous owner about Blaquiere's writings Else fine. Blackmer 150. Geo. B. Whittaker hardcover
18943843London: privately printed 1894. Small paper edition of 1000 copies. Hardcover. VG. now first completely Englished into verse and prose. Small paper edition 1000 copies. Printed on hand made paper for private circulation only. Copy #124. 313 pp. Penzer p 156 157.One of the more erotic books produced in the 1890s. Burton died before this was published so the prose portion was completed by L. SMithers. After the success of the Arabian Nights Burton decided to take on translation of another erotic work. VG in orig. vellum over paper boards. Little wear at corners spine nice. Crisp & clean throughout. Housed in a folding cloth covered case and then in a slipcase with gilt leather spine over cloth. Raised bands on spine. Box is a little better than vg showing wear at tips on edge of raised bands and corners. However it has protected the book. privately printed hardcover
1902002846London: Longmans Green and Company 1902. An historical account of the reconquest of the Soudan. Second edition revised first one volume edition. The text had been revised considerably and a new chapter added describing the ultimate destruction of the Khalifa and the end of the war. Scarce. 8vo pp xiv 381pp. Original red cloth gilt titles and pictorial gilt riverboat decoration to both spine and front board. With frontispiece maps and plans. All 14 color maps present - most are fold-out maps. Spotting and shelf wear to cover and spine . Only library markings are a Navy library sticker U.S.S. Leviathan inside front cover and an embossed Navy seal on the title page. Otherwise a tight clean book. Revised Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Longmans, Green and Company hardcover
1816404London: John Murray 1816. New Edition. Full Leather. VG. performed in the years 1795 1796 and 1797 with an account of a subsequent missions to that country in 1805. .to which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park. With an appendix containing geographical ill. of Africa by Major Rennell. 2 vol: 455 pp ill. folding map as frontis and a second one in text at p 364; 373 pp ill folding map in text at p 117. The handsome full leather binding. Boards appear to be contemporary with gilt deco and staming front and back. Spines appear to be 100 years later but expertly done to match the boards. Marbled end papers. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges marbled. John Murray unknown
182879713London: Murray 1828. Gebunden Hldr. Murray unknown
1762301756Tobias Lobeck G. Eichler Johann Michael Wagner Augspurg 1762. Hardcover Leder Die Jahresangabe ist ungefähr. Farbig Querformat kein Falz in der Mitte der Karten 15x11cm. Planispheirum und Weltkarten sind keine enthalten. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Sauber Fleckenfrei. Tobias Lobeck, G. Eichler, Johann Michael Wagner, Augspurg, hardcover
1774PHO-1474La Haye, Gosse et s.e., 1774-1781,11 volumes in 8°et 1 Atlas in-4, texte; XII-585, XII-386, XIII-586, XII-508, XII-407, VI-375 (1), XI-430 pages ,chaque volume comporte une gravure en frontispice d'après Eisen et une grande carte dépliante, et pour le supplément; XVI-604pp.,XV-574pp.,XV-492pp.,VIII-434pp.,avec un titre séparé Tableaux pour l’intelligence … 2ff. Et 23 tableaux dépliants ,reliure d'époque en plein veau ,dos lisse ornés,filets aux plats et roulettes à l’intérieur, tranches rouges , quelques coiffes usées, petits trous de ver,un tableau déchiré et son Atlas in-4 , 23pp. Et 50 cartes , relié pleine basane racinée époque, dos lisse avec pièce de titre et tomaison, petits frottements , coins usés
174585092Nuerenberg: Stein 1745. Gebunden. Stein unknown
190412465Berlin Gesellschaft für Erdkunde in Berlin, 1904. 743 S. 8° Oktav Hldr. 2 Bände
47326N.d. ca 1970s. Original large-format color print in presentation mat with title card affixed to mat below image. View size 49cm x 38cm ca 19" x 15"; overall dimensions 60cm x 51cm. Title card inscribed in black ink: "For Bob MacNeal a fellow photographer with best wishes / Arnold Newman" undated. Mat lightly soiled with a few small chips and abrasions to extremities; image clean and unfaded Near Fine. ca<br /> <br /> NOTE: the mat appears permanently fixed to the photograph as presented by the photographer; we have not attempted to examine the print outside the mat. Impressive large-format portrait by Newman here inscribed to one "Bob MacNeal" identified as a "fellow photographer" though we can find no photographers of the period who used this spelling. Possibly a misspelling of Bob MacNeil still active the prominent Canadian fashion photographer; possibly a misspelling of Bob McNeill d.2007 the prominent African-American documentary photographer; or possibly the correct spelling of an acquaintance of no notable prominence at all. Undated but ca. early 1970s a superlative image of the Ethiopian Emperor boldly inscribed and signed by Newman below image. unknown
1767207Cambridge England: J. Archdeacon 1767. First. Full Leather. Fair. containing dissertations .together with an account of Ancient Egypt in its most early state and of the Shepherd Kings.324 pp. errata page. 5 engraved folding maps 1 engraved folding plate. Text and maps are clean. Rear board detached. End papers are original. Scarce items that deserves a rebinding. J. Archdeacon unknown
178438202London: G. Nicoll and T. Cadell 1784. Map. Near Fine. Plate 36 from the atlas volume of Cook James; A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean: Undertaken by the Command of His Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere published by G. Nicoll and T. Cadell; London 1784. Writing engraved by T. Harmer. Wagner; Cartography of the Northwest Coast of America 696. Map printed border to border measures 15.25 x 26.5 inches plate impression 16.75 x 27.25 inches sheet 21.5 x 30 inches. An exceptionally nice uncolored copy. Request a higher resolution photograph if required. <br/> <br/> G. Nicoll and T. Cadell unknown
1946234091946. ColonialismReligion Archive of letters by Dr. John A. Reuling recording his 1946 missionary work in Africa across mid-century Portuguese Belgian British and South African colonial systems where evangelism was a tool of westernization and colonialism alongside education public health and agricultural training. Written during Reuling's first year as Africa Secretary for the American Board the letters track his movements through Elende Bailundo Currie Institute Chikore Mt. Silinda Mange Adams College Johannesburg McCord Hospital Groutville and other mission and colonial settings. Reuling criticizes mine compounds overcrowded townships migrant labor white settler indifference and extractive demand for "gold manganese copper diamonds etc." while also presenting mission schools and hospitals as tools for reshaping African society through Western medicine wage labor preparation and Christian discipline. Reuling calls for African church autonomy and African leadership yet his language remains paternal and administrative indicative of mid-century missionary attitudes towards development in Africa.<br /> <br /> John A. Reuling African Mission Letters. Angola Belgian Congo Southern Rhodesia Portuguese East Africa South Africa and Boston 1946. Archive of 10 typed letters 43 pages total including nine multi-page circular letters from Dr. John A. Reuling and one typed American Board Foreign Department letter to Rev. Henry A. Jessop. The letters are dated April 28 through December 17 1946 and include Reuling's sequential mission letters numbered 1 2 4 5 6 8 9 10 and 11 each circulated to "Dear Friends." The content covers colonial and mission administration in African schools hospitals mine labor township poverty public health and Christian churches.<br /> <br /> 1 Reuling John A. Letter #1. Elende Mission Station Cuma Angola Portuguese West Africa April 28 1946. Five-page typed circular letter tracing Reuling's route through London Lisbon Liberia Brazzaville Luanda Lobito Bay and inland Angola including his statement that correspondence between Galangue and Chilesso could require "over 400 miles of foot travel."<br /> <br /> 2 Reuling John A. Letter #2. Currie Institute Dondi Bela Vista Angola Portuguese West Africa June 10 1946. Seven-page typed circular letter describing Angola mission stations African pastoral ordination plantation and fishing labor and the economic damage caused when Western trade displaced earlier Ovimbundu caravan networks while "giving them nothing in return."<br /> <br /> 3 Reuling John A. Letter #4. Missao do Bailundo Teixeira de Silva Angola West Africa June 21 1946. Four-page typed circular letter on African schooling in Angola including overcrowded classes pupils walking 70 to 150 miles Currie Institute Means School for Girls Liceu fees and Reuling's statement that "the 20th century has caught up with the Ovimbundu."<br /> <br /> 4 Reuling John A. Letter #5. Chikore Mission Station Southern Rhodesia August 8 1946. Three-page typed circular letter assessing the Leopoldville Conference where mission and African delegates addressed urbanization industrial development mission-government relations education medicine African economic status and the claim that "Africa and Africans are subject to the same restlessness" affecting the postwar world.<br /> <br /> 5 Reuling John A. Letter #6. Mt. Silinda Institute Southern Rhodesia August 20 1946. Three-page typed circular letter on Mt. Silinda's industrial training teacher training hospital farm mahogany forest Association of Churches and African church responsibility for "full financial responsibility for its own work."<br /> <br /> 6 Reuling John A. Letter #8. Mange Mission Station Alto Maxixe Inhambane Portuguese East Africa September 6 1946. Four-page typed circular letter linking mission work in Mozambique to African church self-support South African General Mission cooperation coastal travel and mine recruitment that carried men from Mange to Johannesburg by ship and rail.<br /> <br /> 7 Reuling John A. Letter #9. Johannesburg Union of South Africa September 21 1946. Seven-page typed circular letter analyzing Johannesburg mining Orlando township mine compounds African teachers Bridgman Memorial Maternity Hospital and the colonial economy driven by American demand for "gold manganese copper diamonds etc."<br /> <br /> 8 Reuling John A. Letter #10. Adams M.S. Natal South Africa October 7 1946. Four-page typed circular letter on Adams Mission Station African nationalism Communist organizing McCord Hospital drought relief soil-cement housing and African leaders watching events in "Egypt Indonesia India."<br /> <br /> 9 Reuling John A. Letter #11. Groutville Mission Station Natal South Africa October 21 1946. Four-page typed circular letter on Adams College Inanda Seminary McCord Hospital South Coast churches Groutville Church Mr. Robbins Cuma and Chief Albert Luthuli.<br /> <br /> 10 Reuling John A. Typed letter to Rev. Henry A. Jessop. Boston Massachusetts December 17 1946. One-page typed American Board Foreign Department letter in which Reuling explains that he did not reach Umsunduze notes that he was preparing "to have my appendix out" and names American Board personnel including the Booths Sticks Bergsmans Kaetzels Rubensteins and his own children.<br /> <br /> The archive records missionary reform at the end of World War II through the lens of mid-century colonial development. Reuling's letters are especially strong coverage of African education and public health including operational details rarely present in formal mission reports such as pupils sleeping in adobe thatched houses pupils walking 25 to 30 miles to school a mission doctor being absent on furlough malaria treatment limited by quinine shortages and African nurses at McCord Hospital serving as "a positive demonstration" of African competence. They also preserve Reuling's paternal assumptions about African population including his his belief that mission intervention could guide African development and his insistence that Christian institutions could keep postwar unrest from turning violent. Original typed letters many stapled at upper left with fold lines scattered stains occasional edge wear. Overall good to very good condition. unknown
2828England: Whittington Press 1988. First Ltd 80 Copies. Full Leather. As New/Orig slipcase as New. Richard Kennedy. With a compantary by ET Leeds edited and with an introduction by JM Wilson with a memoir of ET Leeds by DB Harden and illustrated with line drawings by Richard Kennedy. Book is 140 pp. There is a separate slipcae with Kennedy's illustrations. Both like new. Inserted in front of book is notice from Whittington Press asking if one would like to be on their mailing list. Book illustrations and slipcase all as new. Whittington Press unknown
4to [32 x 25 cm]; xx, 452, [ii, errata and additions, often lacking] pp, engraved view Cape of Good Hope, 17 plates including four folding, other illus, tables. contemporary blind-stamped full calf, gilt spine title lettering, all edges gilted, rubbed, joints cracking with repair, few leaves lightly foxed including few plates, inscription & bookplate on endpaper, very good clean copy with nice wide margins. A pic Most plates include several figures including some of instruments and equipment. Norman 1056: 'With this monumental survey of the stars of the southern hemisphere, Herschel completed the task begun by his father William, who fifty years earlier had catalogued the northern celestial hemisphere. Using a twenty foot reflecting telescope, which he erected just south of Cape Town, Herschel swept the whole of the southern sky, cataloging nebulae, cluster and binary stars, carrying out the counts of over 68,000 stars.. . . he made detailed drawings and maps.' Honeyman 1663: 'The first great star-atlas of the southern hemisphere'. Includes a chapter on Halley's comet. Norman Catalogue 1056.
190272362Huerth 1902. kart. unknown
1587911000CGWittenberg:, Ambrosius Kirchner, 1587. Holzschnitt, 26,5 x 33,5 cm, Blattgröße 31 x 38 cm.
LBW-6893XVIII° siècle. Peinture originale sur toile montée sur chassis (58 x 47).
201016115Paris, Publié par firmin didot freres, 1839 ; grand in-12, cartonnage de l'éditeur. Les 6 volumes. Egypte ancienne , afrique ancienne de davezac , senegambie guinée de m.amédée tardieu, ile de l afrique par m.d'avezac, afrique orientale afriqyue centrale empire de maroc , egypte jusqu a la dominatio francaise par m.j.j. marcel . dos frotté.
1632LBW-8688[Paris, Melchior Tavernier, 1632]. 376 x 497 mm.
Cm. 28x22; pp. XCII, 543. Ritratto dell'esploratore in antiporta, 3 carte geografiche di cui 2 ripiegate fuori testo. Legatura coeva in piena pelle, dorso rifatto a 5 nervetti, con tassello titoli e ricchi fregi in oro, piatti con cornicetta a motivi floreali impressa a secco, tagli a spruzzo. Esemplare ad ampi margini, esente da firiture. Edizione originale 393
169379592Salisburgi: Joannis Paptistae Mayr 1693. Joannis Paptistae Mayr unknown
Paris, Ches l'Auteur au Galerie du Louvre, 1749. Grande incisone in rame all'acquaforte composta di due distinti fogli, cm 52,5 x 100 circa la parte superiore, cm 49 x 100 la parte inferiore, confini in colore d'epoca, titolo entro grande cartiglio allegorico con figure in alto a destra, in un piccolo riquadro in alto a sinistra è raffigurato il complesso delle isole di Acores (le Isole Azzorre), margine graduato su tutto il perimetro. Stretti margini, in parte rifilati, alcuni strappetti nei margini di congiunzione fra i due fogli, nell'insieme buon esemplare stampato su carta forte.
