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1722GAL2959Erffurt, Gedruckt und verlegt von Johann Michael Funcken, 1722. 1723. - 1. Europa: 70 Blatt. Teile 1-53 Länder, Landstriche, Gebiete, Inseln (je 1 Holzschnitt), 54: Ritterorden, 55 Wappen. 2. Africa: 100 Blatt, 37 Teile (auch Holzschnitte), H 33 x 22 cm, Halbpergament der Zeit. - Einband schadhaft, deutliche Gebrauchsspuren, untere Ecke nicht vorhanden, deshalb auch die ersten Seiten mit Fehlstellen unten. Teilw. stockfleckig. Seiten teilweise eingerissen. fest gebunden/ hardcover
183814801Précédé d'une excursion dans l'Arabie-heureuse. Carte manquante. Par MM. Ed. Combes et Tamisier 1835-1837.Édition originale. Paris, Louis Desessart - 1838.Reliure demi veau vert de l'époque. Dos lisse orné de faux nerfs filetés à froid et dorés. Pièces de titre et de tomaison brunes. Rares rousseurs. Très bon état. Format in-8°(22x14).
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
Firenze, Celli e Ricci, 1830 - 1843, tomi 25 rilegati in 27 volumi, in-16, legatura coeva in mezza pergamena con tasselli in pelle bicolore ai dorsi, titolo e filettature oro, piatti in carta marmorizzata, da c. 450 a 695 pp. a volume. Con 183 (su 209) tavole fuori testo incise in rame (la maggior parte acquerellate a mano). Una tavola ripetuta per errore e lasciata in bianco e nero. Diverse pagine con numerazione sbagliata, per errore tipografico.
191210063Berlin-Ch., Vita, Deutsches Verlagshaus, 1912. 4°. XXVI,402,(2); XXIV,508,(4); IX,(5),391,(1) S. Orig.-Leinenbände mit goldgeprägter Deckelvignette sowie goldgeprägtem Deckel- und Rücken Titel.
173115703Pierre Machuel Rouen 1731 1 vol. 2 ouvrages reliés en 1 volume in-12 de 3 ff.n.ch. 263 pp. et 2 ff.n.ch. 270 pp. 1 f.n.ch. (privilège), pleine basane brune de l'époque, dos à nerfs, titre doré.
179814625Tavernier Paris An VI (1798) 1 vol. In-8 de 4 ff.n.ch. 243 pp., demi-basane de l'époque, dos lisse orné, tranches jaunes.
184529615Gide Libraire Editeur | Paris 1845 | 14 x 21.50 cm | relié
18961300-15Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons 1896. gr.-8°. XVI, 576 S. Mit Titelportr., 15 Taf. u. 24 Abb. im Text v. C. Whymper u. 1 mehrf. gefalt. farb. Karte von Kahlamba und Libombo. OLn. Mit Einbandillustr. Einbd. staubfl. Karte m. Einriß im w. Rd. EA. des Erstlingswerkes.
183261957Paulin | Paris 1832 | 13 x 20.50 cm | 3 volumes reliés
187453482ABLeipzig und London, F.A. Brockhaus und Sampson Low, arwston, Low, and Searle, 1874. Ca. 22 x 13,5 cm. XIII S., 599 S., (3) Seiten, mit einer mehrfach gefalteten Karte, einer Farbendrucktafel und 77 Holzschnitten (teils auf Tafeln); XII S., (2) S., 561 Seiten, mit einer Karte und 47 Holzschnitten (teils auf Tafeln). Halbledereinbände der Zeit mit Rückengoldprägung. 2 Bände. [2 Warenabbildungen]
1632q6b1690beLugd. Batav., Apud Elzevir / Lugdunum Batavorum, 1632. 800 S. (die zwei teile sind durchgehend paginiert) + 16 S. Index, 6,5x11,5 cm. Einband etwas angeschmutzt, Pergaminrücken fehlt, die Bindung ist jedoch fest. Beitzvermerk aus dem Jahr 1721 (M. Joh. Albertus Bengel). Das Exemplar stammt also aus der Bibliothek von Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687 in Winnenden; 1752 in Stuttgart, ein schwäbischer lutherischer Theologe und ein Hauptvertreter des deutschen Pietismus.) Schnitte leicht angeschmutzt. Seitenkanten von Index etwas bestoßen, sonst gut. Leo Africanus, Geburtsname: al-Hasan b. Muhammed al-Wazzan al-Fasi / Al Hassan ibn Mohammed al Wazzan al Fassi, christlich getauft auf den lateinischen Namen Johannes Leo / Giovanni Leone (um 1490 in Granada; nach 1540 in Tunis) war ein Diplomat, Rechtsgelehrter, Übersetzer und Autor von Reise und Geographieberichten über Nordafrika, von berberischen Abstammung. Er bereiste von Marokko aus die Sahara und den Sudan und veröffentlichte seine Erkenntnisse in seinem Werk La descrittione dell'Africa (Die Beschreibung Afrikas, Erstausgabe 1550, italienisch), das über Jahrhunderte ein sehr einflussreiches Werk über die Geographie und Kultur von Nordafrika im europäischen Raum war. 12° [7 Warenabbildungen] Pergament
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
182613060London: John Murray 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Two volumes in one. lxvii 335; 269 pp complete with 38 engraved plates 1 colored and maps 1 folding 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Rebound in red buckram with leather spine label date erroneously printed as 1836 at foot. Occasional minor foxing and offsetting one closed tear to map.In hopes of tracing the course of the Niger River Denham's expedition crossed the desert along the long-established Sahara trade route to the kingdom of Bornu later Nigeria a route littered with the skeletons of thousands of slaves abandoned there over the centuries. They sighted Lake Chad and reached the capital of Bornu where they were welcomed by a spectacular array of some five thousand horsemen sent by the Muslim prophet who ruled Bornu in the king's name. Though delighted to meet them he refused to let them continue their explorations lest they meet some misadventure for which he would be blamed. Ultimately the expedition returned to England having failed to find the Niger but having opened much of north central Africa to European knowledge. Written in a lively style and embellished with engravings of Denham's own sketches this account became one of the classics of its genre DNB. Denham was later appointed lieutenant-governor of the colony of Sierra Leone where he died of the African fever in 1828. John Murray hardcover books
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
