Stanley Henry M.ABAA
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189352542London: Sampson Low Marston & Co 1893. First edition 8vo pp. iii-viii 335 1 30 2 ads; 46 wood-engraved illustrations a number full-page; original pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt white and green; cloth a little bubbled rear free endpaper excised spine a little soiled; in all a good copy or better. <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston, & Co hardcover books
189811853London: Methuen & Company 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxvii 319 pp illustrations 4 maps two folding. Introduction by George T. Goldie. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and vignette of soldiers on front board. Former mercantile library copy with bookplate on front pastedown and a few stamps. No external library markings. Corners lightly bumped some chipping/short tears to cloth at spine ends. One of the folding maps is quite delicate and has numerous tears partially mended on the verso with archival tape with some minor loss. Vandeleur a highly decorated officer in the Scots Guards participated in the Unyoro Expedition in 1895 the Niger Expedition in 1897 and served with the Egyptian Army in the Soudan expedition of 1898. He was awarded a grant from the Royal Geographical Society for his valuable work surveying more than 2000 miles of territory in East Africa and the Niger district. He was killed in 1901 when 250 Boers fired on his train. Methuen & Company hardcover books
188952643New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1889. First American edition 8vo pp. xx 192; 5 chromolithographs 6 etchings 6 wood-engraved plates 2 maps printed in color 1 folding and with a short tear other wood-engravings in the text; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover beveled boards; 2 institutional bookplates pocket removed from rear pastedown accession numbers of spine eradicated; a good copy minimally marked. <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover books
189858025London: Chapman and Hall 1898. First English edition pp xvi 520; with illustrations index folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed mild wear to bottom edge very good. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French government adding much to knowledge of the river and the inhabitants of the surrounding areas. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
189952559London: Chapman & Hall 1899. Second edition 8vo pp. xiv 365 1; frontispiece portrait and 28 plates 3 maps and plans; some rubbing of the binding but generally very good and sound in original green cloth stamped in gilt and with a red seal on the upper cover. Neufeld was imprisoned for 12 years in Omdurman after the fall of Khartoum. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
188152612Hartford: R. W. Bliss and Co 1881. 8vo pp. xiii 1 15-406 2 ads; wood-engraved frontispiece wood-engravings throughout many full-page; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front hinge cracked spine ends slightly chipped some spotting and rubbing; a good sound copy. <br/><br/> R. W. Bliss and Co hardcover books
189652558London & New York: Edward Arnold 1896. Fourth edition 8vo pp. xviii 2 636; 2 folding maps printed in color at the back one with a slightly ragged fore-edge gravure frontispiece portrait 21 plates by Talbot Kelly; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; some wear at the extremities small break in the cloth at the top of the spine; all else very good. <br/><br/> Edward Arnold hardcover books
189812969London: Chapman and Hall 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. xvi 520 pp with illustrations index folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed mild wear to bottom edge. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French government adding much to knowledge of the river and the inhabitants of the surrounding areas. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
188914049New York: Welch Fracker Company 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo 343 pp illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities a few pages chipped at the upper edge else fine. Loti traveled from Tangiers to Fez in the company of the French minister to Morocco and was most enthusiastic about his experiences delighting in the people and culture. Welch, Fracker Company 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
189152554London: Sampson Low Marston & Co 1891. First edition 8vo pp. xxvi 2 526; folding color map in rear cover pocket partially split at central fold but no loss 18 plates; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; the binding is quite worn and the extremities rubbed but the book is remarkably sound. <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston & Co 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
