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184718978Stuttgart, Frankh, 1847. 16°. 2 Bl., 207 S. Lwd. d. Zt. mit goldgepr. Rtit. - (Weltpanorama. Eine Chronik der neuesten Reisen und Abenteuer bei allen Nationen der Welt 100-102).
186212179Washington DC: United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO 1862. Hardcover. Fine. Senate 37th Congress 2nd Session Document No. 108. The seminal legislation outlining the route and conditions for construction of the Pacific Railroad. Government document crating the Union Pacific Railroad Company. 12 pages. A handsome copy privately bound in red quarter leather with marbled boards. Tiny chip to very last page else fine. <br/> <br/> United States Geological Survey / USGS / Government Printing Office / GPO hardcover
190775557N.p.: N.p. 1907-1912. This officer was on the rise apparently as he was constantly moved from camp to camp. The album contains 214 original silver gelatin photographs. When he started the officer was based in India and up until photograph 154 all of the pictures are of sights in India Ceylon Mauritius and Rangoon. Thankfully very few of these are family portraits as the officer seemed to delight in the local people and terrain. He is next situated in Pretoria at King's Hill Harrismith. He seemed to have a relaxing time there mainly lounging around the army camp and a very nice one at that Robert's Heights. It was founded around 1905 by the British Army and called Robert's Heights after Field Marshal Lord Roberts. There are numerous captains and generals named in the album but we could not discern the photographer's name but we do know he was a avid golfer. While in Ceylon he took photographs of many of the greens at that course. He did this again in South Africa. There are also numerous photographs of the whole brigade in formation and on exercises. Included but not bound in are eight large photographs 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches mainly of military formations. Also included are five medium sized 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches photographs and these are of a more domestic nature. Most of the photographs in the album are 4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches and the vast majority of them are captioned. All housed in the original album of half red roan over red cloth. A few photographs loose from their stubs but hanging in there front joint split but the album still holding together. Really an essay could be written about this album but the cataloger ran out of time. N.p. hardcover
1931D14321931. Very Good. Stab binding bound with grey ribbon patterned cloth over boards 13 x 9.25 with handwritten titles on front board; contains 19 grey heavy cardstock leaves each featuring numerous b/w photographs more than 150 in all average size is 3 x 4.25 affixed to rectos and versos with photo-corners most of them labeled by hand in German with some English. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed else fine. <br/><br/>A lovely young African woman wearing robes a turban and a necklace clutches a pipe in her teeth and poses for the camera in front of a thatched roof house. The photograph bears the handwritten label Basutofrau aus dem Hinterland von East London. So begins this collection of images photographs taken by the author and postcards of Cape Town and South-West Africa in 1931. It offers a nice balance of the personal with images of the authors friends at picnics hiking with men in suits and hat and the ladies in dresses and high-heeled shoes! on ship and watching street performers and the more broadly interesting streetscapes and landmarks. The African people it seems were also generously willing to smile for the camera. Postcards have labels printed in English identifying Camps Bay Chapman Peak government buildings memorials etc. and the photographs taken by the author usually identify the place and date tidy penmanship in German and often with a quip. Though a few of the authors photographs are a little blurry or over-exposed most are nicely composed and all of the images photos and postcards are bright and clean. A pleasing amalgam. hardcover
191067670London Melbourne and Toronto: Ward Lock & Co. Limited 1910. First edition. Hardcover. 320pp. Duodecimo 19.5 cm Black cloth over boards with an illustrated paper label on the front board. With four illustrated plates by Amedee Forestier. Moderate rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Foxing to the preliminary leaves and rear endpaper. Bookseller's very discreet ticket on front pastedown. With no distinctive John Ruyle markings but the book fits all of his collecting criteria. Bertram Mitford 1855-1914 a contemporary of H. Rider Haggard wrote over 40 novels most of which are set in South Africa.<br /> <br /> An odd mystery novel set in Africa and England in which the main character inherits a haunted house. The novel also involves a vendetta and romance. Scarce. Ward, Lock & Co., Limited hardcover
190360910Halifax: F. King & Sons 1903. First Edition. First printing. Small quarto 26cm. Red cloth stamped in gilt; black coated endpapers; xii234xxxii pp; numerous black and white illustrations throughout. 1929 ownership inscription of C. T. Lawrence to half-title. Rubbed with small stains to cloth sewing shaken binding cracking around pp168-169 but internally clean: Good or better. <br /> <br /> Benin was a kingdom in modern-day Nigeria also known as the Edo Kingdom with no relation to modern-day Benin. The kingdom flourished from the 13th century until 1897 when the British sacked Benin City in a punitive expedition. A tremendous amount of looted art such as the Benin Bronzes that had decorated the royal palace arrived in Britain quickly catalyzing European interest in African art. <br /> <br /> Henry Ling Roth was an anthopologist and curator of the Bankfield Museum in Halifax Yorkshire. Only 320 copies of this work were printed. Uncommon in the trade. F. King & Sons unknown
1931D14321931. Very Good. Stab binding bound with grey ribbon patterned cloth over boards 13 x 9.25 with handwritten titles on front board; contains 19 grey heavy cardstock leaves each featuring numerous b/w photographs more than 150 in all average size is 3 x 4.25 affixed to rectos and versos with photo-corners most of them labeled by hand in German with some English. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed else fine. <br/><br/>A lovely young African woman wearing robes a turban and a necklace clutches a pipe in her teeth and poses for the camera in front of a thatched roof house. The photograph bears the handwritten label Basutofrau aus dem Hinterland von East London. So begins this collection of images photographs taken by the author and postcards of Cape Town and South-West Africa in 1931. It offers a nice balance of the personal with images of the authors friends at picnics hiking with men in suits and hat and the ladies in dresses and high-heeled shoes! on ship and watching street performers and the more broadly interesting streetscapes and landmarks. The African people it seems were also generously willing to smile for the camera. Postcards have labels printed in English identifying Camps Bay Chapman Peak government buildings memorials etc. and the photographs taken by the author usually identify the place and date tidy penmanship in German and often with a quip. Though a few of the authors photographs are a little blurry or over-exposed most are nicely composed and all of the images photos and postcards are bright and clean. A pleasing amalgam. hardcover books
1764WRCAM19511Lisbon: Miguel Rodrigues 1764. 2171pp. Folio. Dbd. Except for the lightest fore-edge dampstaining a near fine copy. A rare work describing the trial and verdicts in the case of nineteen men accused of the 1762 murder of Portugal's local auditor/councilor Joao Vieira de Andrade in the Cape Verde Islands off West Africa. The accused all Portuguese subjects were convicted resulting in eleven decapitations. The NUC cites only the John Carter Brown copy. Miguel Rodrigues unknown books
181914London: Richard Phillips 1819. First. Half Lthr Over Marbled Boards. Very Good. 107 pp. Index. Descriptions of books by Fitzclarence Bowdich Hallam MacMichael Hoare Baillie and Russell. Richard Phillips unknown
18910006161London & New York: Frederick Warne And Co. 1891. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. four folding maps in rear pockets 3 1 60 plates in colours tints and black & white numerous cuts in the text. Octavos pictorial brown cloth with crocodile pattern brown coated endpapers tips of spines repaired rehinged. Very handsome <br/><br/>Casati's record of an amazing decade in the center of Africa helping Emin Pasha Henry Stanley and David Livingstone among others to civilize the tribal areas. An amazing account. Four folding maps in rear pockets 3 1 60 plates in colours tints and black & white numerous cuts in the text Frederick Warne And Co. hardcover
16779Travel Album of over 225 photos from a tour of Europe North Africa and the Middle East in the 1920s; photos from France Italy Egypt Greece Constantinople Istanbul Monaco Switzerland Germany and England. This album takes us to a world of a century ago with 228 original silver gelatin prints 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Original brown cloth boards. 7 1/2 x 12 inches. 100 pages last 8 are blank. Pasted in 22 souvenir postcards of monuments from Brussels the Hague and Milan. c. 1921-1930. Album documents the travels of an American couple on an international vacation. Photos begin with journey leaving New York harbor "Aboard the Vallendam" headed towards France. They land in Cologne and their first stop is in Paris where they document their lodging "Our hotel in Paris "Victoria Palace" and include snapshots of famous landmarks including the Louvre Church of St. Genevieve the Trocadero the Eiffel Tower Tuileries Gardens and the Champ-Elysees. They visit Versailles and Trianon Palace and then travel around France to Rheims Nice and Eze a medieval village. They include many charming photos of coastal views and bucolic countryside.<br/><br/>They make stops at Monaco and Monte Carlo making sure to visit the famous Casino in its prime in the 1920's before boarding the next ship which would carry them across the Mediterranean Sea. Large image of a ship "Theophile Gautier" pasted in with the handwritten caption "Our boat on the Med. Sea and our home for more than two weeks." They sail past Stromboli on the way to Alexandria Egypt where they disembark to travel down the Nile River to Cairo. "Old Cairo and the Nile from the citadel." They visit the Great Pyramids and see the Sphinx. They travel to the Middle East. The next stop is Palestine and Jerusalem where they visit many important religious sites including "Garden of Geshsamine sic" Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Wailing Wall. They also take interest Islamic practices in the city as there is one snapshot of the group seated outside a mosque with the caption: "Group waiting to hear the Mohammedan call to prayer." They also tour Bethlehem Solomon's Quarries and Jewish University before moving on to other places: The Jordan River The Dead Sea Nazareth Galilee and Beirut. They travel on various ways during this time and document many markets and street scenes of a century ago. "Meeting a camel caravan."<br/><br/>They visit ancient sites in Greece such as the ancient city of Smyrna and the island of Rhodes home to the Colossus one of the ancient wonders of the world. Caption for a photo of the island's harbor reads "Rhodes showing the sight site of the ancient Colossus". In Athens they visit the Acropolis and even take a photo where they are standing inside the Parthenon no longer allowed for conservation reasons. They document Hadrian's Arch the Temple of Athena Nike "the wingless victor" Mars Hill the Temple of Theseus and Socrates' prison. They go to Constantinople renamed Istanbul in 1930 and take photos of "The Mosque of St. Sophia" Hagia Sophia. They travel up the boot of Italy with photos of Mt. Vesuvius Naples Rome Milan and Venice. In the capital city they visit the "Tomb of the Italy's Unknown Soldier" erected 1921 and visit the ancient forum in Rome. They take many photos in Venice documenting experiences such as a gondola ride and important landmarks such as St. Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace. The final leg of the trip is an overland journey through the Swiss alps through Lucerne and past the Rhone Glacier. They journey through southern Germany stopping at Baden-Baden Heidelberg and Bonn before making it back to their final destination: England. They go for a tour of Windsor Castle and take in the sights. "Eton College from Windsor." They also visit Oxford University and save two large pages for their photos of Shakespeare's former residences. "Anne Hathaway's Home" and "In the gardens at Stradford on the Avon - Both have Shakespear's sic house". 2 pages are detached. Very good condition. unknown books
18394733London: John Murray 1839. First Edition. Soft cover. VG. Volume the Ninth 1839 Part III complete in itself. pp 331- 538. 1 text plate and 2 plates & 2 maps bound in rear. Index. Text block uncut. Obviously meant to be bound by purchaser. Text block in nice condition as are plates and maps. Table of contents shown in other photographs. Does include Mr. G T Vigne's route to Kabul Kashmir and Little Tibet in 1834-8 and Antarctic Discovery in 1839 by Mr. Darwin. VG in orig. wraps. John Murray unknown
18434736London: John Murray 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. Volume the Thirteenth 1843. Part I. CV pp 1-198. Part of the early pages include additions to the library of books to May 1843 in the Royal Geographical Society Library and also a list of new members. Three folding maps new books from Murray bound in rear. Text uncut. Incl. Capt. Allen's excursion up the River of Cameroons expeditions to SOuth and Western Australia and elsewhere. In vg condition in orig. printed wraps. Obviously meant for purchaser to bind to their taste. John Murray hardcover
188912357Chicago;: Rand McNally 1889. First edition . Hardcover. Fine. The extended title continues; "With Special Chapters On Hunting The Grizzly Bear The Buffalo Elk Antelope Rocky Mountain Goat And Deer; Also On Trouting In The Rocky Mountains; On A Montana Round-Up; Life Among The Cowbys Etc." Adams: The Rampaging Herd 2060. Shields also authored the book Battle of the Big Hole. 339 pages illustrated with engravings plus 12 pages of ads in the rear. Lettering and illustration stamped in gilt. Border stamped in blind. Bound in original brown cloth. A contemporary owner's signature in pencil. A fine handsome copy. Covers show no wear and hinges are sound. <br/> <br/> Rand, McNally, hardcover
1890213233F. A. Brockhaus Leipzig 1890. Hardcover Leinen ohne Schutzumschlag Mit einem Brief von Henry Zustand: keine Beschädigungen eine kurze Widmung im Vorsatz mit Kennungen einer Kirchengemeinde. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen. Die beigelegte Karte des zweiten Bandes Übersichtskarte zum Zuge der Emin Pascha-Entsatz-Expedition quer durch Afrika ist im Falz mehrfach gerissen eine Ecke mit Fehlstelle. Die Profilskizze des Ruwenzori fehlt. Die Emin Pascha`s Provinz-Karte fehlt. Die Routenkarte fehlt. Der erste Band hat als Beilage lediglich einen 6seitigen handgeschriebenen Brief von Stanley an F.A. Brockhaus über Eigenschaften von "Emmi" und Verständigungsmöglichkeiten zwischen Deutschen und Engländern. F. A. Brockhaus, Leipzig, hardcover
189961991Deuxième édition revue et considérablement augmentée (Dictionnaire malgache français) ; Nouvelle édition (Dictionnaire Français malgache), 2 vol. in-8 reliure demi-chagrin noir, dos à 5 nerfs, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, Tananarive, 1899, XVIII-840 pp. ; Augustin Challamel, Librairie Maritime et Coloniale, Paris, 1899, XVI-860 pp.
Deuxième édition revue et considérablement augmentée (Dictionnaire malgache français) ; Nouvelle édition (Dictionnaire Français malgache), 2 vol. in-8 reliure demi-chagrin noir, dos à 5 nerfs, Imprimerie de la Mission Catholique, Tananarive, 1899, XVIII-840 pp. ; Augustin Challamel, Librairie Maritime et Coloniale, Paris, 1899, XVI-860 pp. Etat très satisfaisant pour cet ensemble réunissant ces deux dictionnaires complémentaires, dans leurs éditions de 1899 (reliures frottées mais parfaitement solide avec usures en dos, mors et coupes), provenant de la bibliothèque de la famille d'un ancien administrateur colonial à Madagascar dans les année 1901-1903. Français
1801197517Weimar, Verlag des Industrie-Comptoirs, 1801. M. 1 mehrf. gef. gest. "Charte von dem Vorgebürge der Guten Hoffnung" u. 1 Falttab. XX, 400 S. Hldr. d. Zt. m. Rsch. (Serientitel). Einbd. beschabt u. bestoßen, beide Deckel m. Beschäd. Vord. Vorsatz fehlt. Durchg. gebräunt u. braun- bzw. stockfl. (auch die Karte) sowie m. Nässespuren. St. verso Tit. (Bibliothek der neuesten u. wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen 5).
in-8 gr., pp. 159, bross. edit. Ediz. orig. Questa grammatica è il frutto degli studi dell'A. sulla tribù africana denka e dei viaggi da lui intrapresi nel 1853 su incarico del prete veronese Don Nicola Mazza. Ad accompagnare l'A. del viaggio fu il sacerdote vicentino A. Castegnaro e lo scopo era quello di progettare una missione nell'Africa centrale. Picc. mancanza al lembo superiore della copertina senza intaccare il testo. [090]
18401936-11Barcelona, Fomento o. J. [ca. 1840]. Tit., 352 S. Mit insges. 28 Stahlstich-Taf. HLdr. d. Zt. Berieb. Taf. stockfl. - (Panorama universal) EA
19791058691979 Paris, O.R.S.T.O.M., 1979. 280 x 215 mm, 290 pp. et 29 figures pleine page, pleine toile grège de l'éditeur sous jaquette illustrée.(105869)
1774PHO-1489La Haye, Gosse, 1774, 7 volumes in 8°, 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, relié plein veau tacheté époque, dos à nerfs ornés avec pièce de titre rouge et tomaison noire, tranches tachetées bleues, exlibris manuscrit aux titres, quelques coins usés, petits accrocs, reliure en bel état, texte seul.
Querformat. (ca. 12,8 x 17,4 cm). 7 Photographien. Original-Photographien ohne Bildrand, einige Rückseiten mit Beschriftung. Photographien mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, eine Aufnahme gerändert und mit kleinen Fehlstellen, sonst noch gut erhalten. Altersentsprechend guter Zustand. Die sehr interessanten Photographien zeigen Plantagenaufnahmen und mindestens einen afrikanischen Arbeiter, ein koloniales Gebäude sowie mehrere reizvolle Landschaftsaufnahmen (Bucht, Fluss, Gewässer). Die Aufnahmen haben vergleichbare Formate und fotografische Bildqualität, auch die Handschrift der vorhandenen Beschriftungen scheint weitgehend identisch. Ob es sich um denselben Urheber handelt, ist jedoch nicht zu klären. Eine der Photographien verweist über die Beschriftung auf das sogenannte "Victoria-Vorwerk". Es ist anzunehmen, dass es sich hierbei um Gebiete der Westafrikanischen Pflanzungsgesellschaft Victoria handelt. Es betrifft hier zudem eine Kakaoplantage, auch dies geht aus der Beschriftung und Bildinhalten hervor. Einige der Aufnahmen tragen rückseitig eine konkrete Beschriftung, diese seien hier wiedergegeben: Kakao im Victoria-Vorwerk. 22.3.1914 / Auf einer Pirateninsel / Ambasbucht / Ambasbucht / Haus für Pflanzungsassistenten. Auch die Orte Ambasbucht und Pirateninsel verweisen auf den Süden Kameruns. Die historischen Aufnahmen stammen also aus der deutschen Kolonialzeit selbst, erst mit Kriegsverlauf ab August 1914 wurden die Gebiete enteignet und anderen Kolonialmächten übergeben. Seltene historische Aufnahmen aus der Kolonial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte von Kamerun!
63841London: Published by “East Africa†East Africa Ltd. 1928. Tall 8vo. xvi 318 pp. Frontisp. map with numerous photo plates. Brown publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear edgewear rubbing w/ printed dark brown d.j. minor scuffing edgewear couple closed tears tidemarks at couple corners still VG-/G copy. First edition of this very scarce follow-up to this African adventurer’s “King of the Wa-kikuyu†and relates his adventures as an elephant ivory poacher in the Lado Enclave of East Africa and travels through British East Africa Uganda Belgian Congo and Ethiopia. He was the first Eurocaucasian trader to travel from Addis Ababa Ethiopia to the capital of Kenya. Boyes 1874-1951 first arrived in East Africa when Nairobi was largely uninhabited made friends with the Kikuyu was admitted to their blood brotherhood became their uncrowned king and later settled down as a coffee grower and dairy farmer. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Published by “East Africa,†East Africa, Ltd., hardcover
1956030080Cambridge University Press 1956. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The first volumes of the epic work by Joseph Needham. Volume IV is in two parts for a total of 5 books. All are First Editions excepting Vol. I which is a second printing. Publication dates range from 1956 to 1965. Replete with historical drawings graphs and diagrams and maps with many foldouts. Handsome pictorial covers. All are well-kept library reference copies in jackets with sturdy mylar wrappers excepting IV:1 which has had its wrapper removed. Library pockets labels & stamps. All clean and unmarked except Vol III has an unattractive dark brown stain coffee on two facing pages which has leaked onto the surrounding dozen or so pages and lightly to the bottom ends. Heavy hardbound set. Please note international shipping will be expensive. <br/> <br/> Cambridge University Press hardcover
