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167545283Vesaliae: Andreaw ab Hoogenhuysen 1675. Gebunden. Andreaw ab Hoogenhuysen unknown
167545285Vesaliae: Andreaw ab Hoogenhuysen 1675. Gebunden. Andreaw ab Hoogenhuysen unknown
167545284Vesaliae: Andreaw ab Hoogenhuysen 1675. Gebunden. Andreaw ab Hoogenhuysen unknown
161538532Antwerpiae: Herdes Mart. NVII et Joann. Meyrsiym 1615. Gebunden. Herdes Mart. NVII et Joann. Meyrsiym unknown
182660784London: John Murray 1826. First Edition. First printing. Quarto 28cm. Later nineteenth-century grey calf gilt and blind rolls around outer perimeter of boards tooled in gilt on spine titled on red leather spine label all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xlviii33552691pp; frontispiece large folding map 1 hand-colored print 35 black and white engravings a few in-text wood engravings. Bookplate of traveler and classical scholar John Bacon Sawrey Morritt Esq. of Rokeby Park. A sound copy joints expertly conserved with green cloth lightly rubbed lower half dampstained throughout some leaves with visible tidelines some merely rippled otherwise bright and unfoxed: complete and Good. <br /> <br /> Extensively illustrated account of the Bornu Mission an expedition to find the source of the Niger in the kingdom of Bornu now Nigeria. Denham the leader of the expedition was "disastrous.pushy self-important and malicious" ODNB. The party traveled from Murzuk to Lake Chad through the Sahara Desert along a route reportedly scattered with skeletons. After the explorers' return to London Denham published this account of the journey "in which he suppressed as much as possible all mention of his companions and took the credit for some of their discoveries" ODNB. He was widely applauded and his account has been described as "the most interesting and important work yet published on the subject of African researches" Lowndes. Meanwhile his maligned colleague Clapperton returned to Africa where he soon died of dysentery. LOWNDES p. 629. Cf. WORK pp. 21 31. HOWGEGO C33 & D18. John Murray unknown
1847WRCAM52605New York: Showden & Prall 1847. 94pp. Original half morocco and marbled boards printed title label on front board. Spine perished boards and front endleaves detached. Tanned scattered foxing. Good. The earliest Mpongwe imprint for use among missionaries in Africa compiled by those working at the Gabun Mission operated by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Mpongwe was spoken along the Gabun and Ogowe rivers in French Equatorial Africa. Not in Darlow & Moule. Showden & Prall hardcover books
1852WRCAM45247New York: Published by the American Bible Society 1852. 104pp. Original cloth stamped in blind and gilt. Spine ends worn inked call number on lower portion of spine. Ex-Library of Congress duplicate with bookplate on front pastedown small perforated stamp on titlepage and ink stamp on verso of titlepage; additional bookplate on rear pastedown. Very clean internally. Good plus. Translated into this language of western Africa by missionaries of the American board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Gaboon. DARLOW & MOULE 6879. Published by the American Bible Society hardcover books
1850WRCAM45246Gaboon sic West Africa: Press of the A.B.C.F.M. 1850. 126pp. Small octavo. Contemporary half cloth and marbled boards. Spine ends worn splitting along spine boards a bit rubbed. Ex-Library of Congress duplicate with bookplate on front pastedown small perforated stamp on titlepage and ink stamp on verso of titlepage; additional ink stamp on front pastedown additional bookplate on rear pastedown. Text is quite clean. Good. What is asserted to be the first translation into Mpongwe of any part of the Bible made by the A.B.C.F.M. missionaries. Mpongwe was spoken along the Gabun and Ogowe Rivers in French Equatorial Africa. DARLOW & MOULE 6878. NORTH 736. Press of the A.B.C.F.M. hardcover books
19031692Calcutta: Thacker Spink 1903. 1903. Hardcover. VG. A guide for visitors. 612 pp ill folding map in front pull out folding maps in rear pocket. Complete with folding plates etc. Recased with new front free end paper. A most interesting guide book. VG. Thacker Spink hardcover
18751249London: Longmans Green 1875. First. Half Leather. VG. Whymper E. An account of a walk through part of the range and of an ascent to Elbruz in the summer of 1874. With illustrations engraved by E Whymper from photos taken during the journey and a map of the country traversed. 341 pp ill folding map. Half leather raised spine bands with elaborate gilt decorations in bands contrasting colored gilt stamped leather spine label marbled end papers. Fresh and clean and showing almost no wear as if the book was not read after the leather binding was done. A fine collector copy. Longmans Green unknown
19463883London: Intelligence Division 1946. June 1946. Hardcover. VG. 659 pp profuse ill plates many folding and large pull out folding map in rear pocket. Part of the geographical handbook series. The purpose of these handbooks was to supply a vast amount of information on various parts of the world. .and the final result shows that the compilers certainly met their goals. Excellent lengthy bibliography in rear. This volume was in fact produced and printed for official purposes during the war of 1939/45. Nice copy. Intelligence Division hardcover
197646327Flagstaff AZ: Northland Press 1976. First edition. first printing First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Number 11 of 75 copies signed by the contributors on a special limitation page; L.D. Clark Robert Mitchell Harwood Hinten Bunny L. Fontana John H. Schaefer Sarah Bouquet Ward Ritchie Jake Zeitlin R.H. Dillon William Everson Ansel Adams Jose Cisneros Al Lowman Paul Horgan Frank Waters Marc Simmons Eleanor B. Adams Margaret Maxwell W. David Laird and Donald C. Dickinson. Published in honor of Lawrence Clark Powell on his 70th birthday one of the Southwest's leading essayists and bibliographers. 159 pages. Bound in quarter black leather with red buckram cloth boards. A fine copy within a fine example of the publisher's slipcase. Issued without a dust jacket. <br/> <br/> Northland Press hardcover
1960169Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd 1960. First. Hardcover. VG/VG. Hughes A. 561 pp. folding map 50 col. ill. plates 49 photographic plates. Oliver & Boyd hardcover
18852766London: RH Porter 1885. First. Orig Pictorial Cloth. VG. Not paginated but collated complete with list of subscribers. A history of the Nile expedition of 1884-5 taken from author's diary sketch book Each sketch is accompanied by a description of the events leading up to that sketch. The illustrations are lovely. Internally this rare work is very clean and except for the original end paper free of foxing. The volume is complete with one colored sketch map and 37 colored lithographic plates. Although the covers and spine are good only the plates are in great shape. The original pictorial board binding shows wear especially at corners but the cover illustration is all present and clear. Orig. unprinted white spine soiled as expected. RH Porter unknown
1907241a0580London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. 1907. Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Total of 1270 pages in two volumes. Profusely illustrated with line diagrams black and white photographic plates and fold-outs. Heavily worn former library copy with usual library markings. Front free endpaper and half-title removed from Vol. 1. All hinges taped. Gilt lettering and decorations upon front boards worn but visible. First volume missing pages 327-330 which includes a plate. Tissue protector missing from plate at page 502 of v1. All other plates and protectors present. Bibliography. Index. Reading copy only. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. Hardcover
1897006878New York: Edward Arnold 1897. 471pp 4ads. with half-title. photogravure frontis. portrait 6 maps 5 folding some partly coloured & numerous illus. many full-page. original gilt-stamped cloth. Original cloth cover with gilt lettering and elephant head. First Edition. The expedition explored the unknown territory between Somaliland and Lake Rudolf. "At the time it was the universal opinion.that it would be impossible to enter the Galla countries let alone reach Lake Rudolf with less than two or three hundred well-drilled followers." from Introduction. Minimal markings - only inside front and back covers title page and spine - otherwise clean. All maps appear to be in excellent condition. Overall tight clean vg condition. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. Edward Arnold Hardcover
1775LBW-1275[1775-1781]. 670 x 485 mm.
1369330Paris; Bruxelles: A. Bohné; A. Lacroix, Van Meenen et Cie, 1860-1861 4 tomes in-8 reliés en 2 volumes, 370-(2), 318-(2), 337-(3), 304-(2) pages, 4 gravures en couleurs (en frontispice des tomes 1, 2, 3, 4), 1 carte dépliante à la fin du tome 4, 53 planches hors texte comprenant 92 gravures sur bois. Reliure demi basane bon état.
1841LBW-7803Nantes, 1841-1843. 3 pièces autographiées signées in-folio (43 x 28 cm) de (5) pp. au total; en feuilles, sur papier pelure.
1753LBW-5948Paris, Mr. Bellin, 1753. 885 x 552 mm.
1826LBW-7649Paris, 1826-1843. In-4 de 1 p. chacune ; apostilles marginales.
1855LBW-8603[Paris], Dépôt-Général de la Marine, 1855. 445 x 616 mm.
1834LBW-8665[Paris], Dépôt-Général de la Marine, 1834. 432 x 590 mm.