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188957805Washington: James C. Dunn later: American Colonization Society 1889. An incomplete and disparate run and with a major gap 1851-1870 88 issues in all volumes 16-18 in a bound volume but without a front cover the rest in wrappers; a few wrappers missing a few defective a number loose but present; edge tears chips and curls. Condition ranges from fair to very good. Included are volumes 14 1838 nos. 1-10 12; volume XV 1839 no.1-3 5-6 8-9 11 14-18; volume 16 1840 nos. 1 4-16 18 21 23-24; volume 17 1841 nos. 1-8; volume 18 1842 nos. 3-4 9-10 15-18 20 22-24; volume 26 1850 nos. 10-11big gap; volume 47 1871 nos. 1 11; volume 50 1874 nos. 1-4 8-9; volume 51 1875 no. 2; volume 53 1876 nos. 2-4; volume 54 1878 nos. 2-4; volume 57 1881 nos. 6-8; volume 59 1883 nos. 3-4; volume 64 1888 no. 4; volume 65 1889 nos. 2-4. Much on Liberia abolition slavery the Amistad case African colonization African languages etc. The African Repository and Colonial Journal title simplified in 1850 to African Repository was the official publication of the American Colonization Society which supported the migration of free American Blacks to Africa specifically to its colony of Liberia. It began publication in 1825 and ceased in 1892 and is a primary source for the early history of Liberia. <br/><br/> James C. Dunn [later: American Colonization Society] unknown books
186313920London: Tinsley Brothers 1863. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in the rarest binding state without Burton's name or FRGS on the spines but with a "second edition" slug on the title pages. This state was apparently unknown to Penzer and was probably the result of an attempt to boost sales by the publisher as the text is unchanged. Plate of Julu house is the frontispiece to Volume I and the map now detached and laid in is in Volume II. . Both volumes lightly bumped/rubbed but clean and sound. Small bookplate of F.H. Spencer on each front pastedown. Much to his dismay Burton's first consular posting landed him on a small desolate island off the coast of West Africa. He took every opportunity to leave the place exploring various parts of the mainland and making observations on cultural and traditions health and sanitary conditions and slavery among other things. The account of his journeys into Sierra Leone and Nigeria to investigate stories of gold and gold mining is credited with drawing public attention to mining prospects in the region. Penzer 71-72; Casada 70. Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
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
185345888New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1853. First Edition. Presumed Third Printing First Issue. Octavo 19.25cm; brown vertically-ribbed cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine triple-ruled border and decorative centerpieces stamped in blind to covers; pale yellow endpapers; iiviii1793pp. Inscribed in pencil on the front flyleaf: "Hon. J. Collamer / With respects of The Author" possibly Jacob Collamer judge and U.S. Senator from Vermont. Tiny chip to upper left corner of rear endpaper handful of dog-eared pages smoothed out else very Near Fine. Handsome copy of this volume Hawthorne edited for his friend and patron Horatio Bridge 1806-1893 a United States Navy officer. First printed in wrappers in 1845 Journal is the narrative of Bridge's trip on the USS Saratoga "the flagship of Commodore Matthew Perry with the mission to stop and search all American ships on the west coast of Africa that might be carrying slaves. That mission was fruitless they saw none but Bridge's comments on the efforts of the American Colonization Society in Liberia and on Africa in general were vivid" Moore Margaret B. the Salem World of Nathaniel Hawthorne p.135. An interesting printing not noted by BAL - "What appear to be first-issue sheets with the Putnam title page intact gathered in the same form as the Putnam publication are also found in a typical Ticknor format A binding.When Ticknor and Fields bought the Putnam plates for Mosses and Cruiser at the Bangs Bros. Trade Sale in New York March 1854 they may have acquired some Putnam sheets that were later bound up in Ticknor style and distributed in an effort to recover some of the purchase costs" Note: CLARK A14.1.c1. Presentation copies uncommon with only two noted in Rare Book Hub PBA 2019; Goodspeed 1910. cf.BAL 7597. George P. Putnam & Co unknown books
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
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
180415505London: T.Cadell and W. Davies 1804. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto. pp. ix 3 632 with 8 plates including frontispiece five of which are hand-colored. Recent full calf with new endpapers original red spine label preserved three armorial ink stamps on the top edge of the text block. Tissue repair to first page of table of contents ocasional foxing and minor soiling in the margins; overall quite clean and sound. "Barrow accompanied Lord Macartney's mission to the court of China in 1792 as his private secretary and the present account.is one of the best illustrated English travels on China. The eight plates are from drawings by William Alexander who also accompanied the embassy and later published his own work. The strict exclusion of Europeans by the Chinese emperors had left China very much terra incognita to the western world well into the nineteenth century. Barrow was an excellent observer and the text contains a number of descriptions and illustrations of Chinese artifacts and novelties. Among these are a plate depicting musical instruments extensive renditions of Chinese melodies in western western notation and a long description with illustration of an abacus" Hill 62. Historian Michael Adas notes that Barrow "interspersed descriptions of his travels and personal experiences with lengthy discussions of varying aspects of Chinese culture.His judgments on the quality of Chinese life and material culture tended to be favorable at the beginning of his residence in China but grew more and more disparaging as time passed." Unlike Jesuit writers who praised the sophistication of Chinese science and culture Barrow argued that a once-great civilization had been on the decline since the fifteenth century providing "an implicit contrast between static past-minded backward China and the continually improving foreward-looking industrializing states of Europe Adas Machines as the Measure of Man pp 179-180. Cox I:346; Cordier 2388. T.Cadell and W. Davies 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
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
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
189052638Philadelphia: J. W. Keeler 1890. Subscription publication issued under a number of imprints; large 8vo pp. 2 17-576; 4 chromolithograph plates folding map hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations throughout many full-page; original red cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; hinges cracked vermin nibble at the bottom of the back cover covers unevenly sunned; a good copy. <br/><br/> J. W. Keeler 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
187252516London: Tinsley Brothers 1872. First edition first issue binding 2 volumes 8vo pp. xii 2 503 1; vi 2 519 1; folding map highlighted in blue 11 wood-engraved plates including 2 frontispieces 4 full-p. sketch maps; original chocolate brown cloth gilt vignette on upper covers both volumes neatly rebacked with original spines laid down; previous owners' bookplates pertinent newspaper clippings tipped into both volumes at endpaper and half-title; a good sound copy. Zanzibar is Burton's account of the country and its natural history and Burton's and Speke's various journeys 1857-59 in the lake regions of east Africa including the discoveries of Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika. The final chapter is Burton's memorial of Speke with whom he had many points of divergence regarding the geographical discoveries at Victoria and the Nile basin. Spink Catalogue no. 49; Penzer pp. 88-89; Casada 72: "It is in my opinion among the most important of his African-related studies." <br/><br/> Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
188352639London: Chatto & Windus 1883. First edition small 8vo 2 volumes pp. xii 2 354 2 32 Chatto & Windus ads; vi 381 3; 2 folding maps chromolithograph frontispiece in vol. II a few illustrations in the text; original decorative red cloth stamped in red and black; spines soiled and spine extremities chipped; cloth a little soiled; good and sound. Penzer p. 106-7; Casada 65: "The work was an outgrowth of the trip Burton made with Cameron who was the first European to cross central Africa 1873-75 to explore the Kong Mountains and search for gold in the valley of the Ancobra River . Burton wrote virtually all of the first volume and much of the second although Cameron was an accomplished literary hand in his own right." <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
186452523London: Tinsley Brothers 1864. Second edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvii 3 7-386; vi 413 1; wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume; original dark purple cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover gilt lettering direct on spine; both spines sunned and spotted back cover of vol. I also spotted; all else very good and sound. In 1863 Burton went to Dahomey as a representative of the British government to persuade the King to stop his participation in the slave trade and human sacrifice. For the first edition see Spink 31; Penzer pp. 72-74; and Casada 47: "Thanks in part to the sensational nature of its subject matter this is one of the better known of Burton's works on Africa." <br/><br/> Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
186052513London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts 1860. First edition likely the second issue; 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 2 412; vi 2 468; engraved folding map hand colored in blue and green 12 chromoxylographs 22 woodcuts in the text; 20th century three-quarter green morocco gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments gilt lettered direct in 3 t.e.g.; the plates all with a small and discreet stamp in the margin not touching the image and the map with an old paper repair at the folds on the verso; otherwise a fine copy. There were two issues each in a different cloth binding. As the book has been rebound we can't be sure which issue this is except that the map is in volume II in this set which is where it should be in the second issue. Casada 42; Penzer p. 65-67. <br/><br/> Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts hardcover books
187652519London: Sampson Low Marston Low and Searle 1876. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xiv 2 261 1; vi 2 255 i.e. 355 1; largely unopened; 4 wood-engraved plates and 2 folding maps plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; a very good copy in a secondary unrecorded binding of original blindstamped terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spines. Sir Richard Burton 1821-90 is well known for his colorful career recorded in numerous books and articles as a diplomat explorer and ethnographer. In 1861 he was appointed consul to Fernando Po now Bioko in Equatorial Guinea remaining there for four years until he was transferred to Brazil. These volumes collate the expeditions and ethnographic observations made during his time there. In his preface Burton writes that the 'plain truth' about the African has not been told in Britain declaring that English occupation of West Africa has proved 'a remarkable failure'. First published in 1876 the second volume recounts a journey made from Fernando Po to Loango Bay and up the Congo River. Of particular interest is the penultimate chapter 'The slaver and the missionary in the Congo River' in which Burton expresses his ambivalence towards a European presence in Africa. Volume 2 also includes appendices containing geographical observations. Penzer p. 94; Spink 56; Casada 66: "This work covers the Fan people and the region of the lower Congo." <br/><br/> Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle hardcover books
187352572London: John Murrary for the Royal Geographic Society 1873. First edition 8vo pp. vii 1 271 1; large folding frontispiece map without tears and fine; original blue cloth gilt-stamped spine; perforated stamp in title page accession numbers on spine lightly rubbed else very good and sound. Burton's portion of the book ends on p. 164. Penzer p. 89 noting that Burton had also written two appendices which because of their controversial and critical nature were rejected by the R.G.S. "These appendices together with a preface were published privately at Trieste in July of the same year." Casada 85; Mendelssohn I p. 234. Have 2 copies. <br/><br/> John Murrary [for the] Royal Geographic Society hardcover books
186352623London: Tinsley Bros 1863. First edition 2 volumes small 8vo pp. viii 2 303; 6 295; folding map frontispiece in volume II; very slight rubbing but still a fine bright copy largely unopened in original purple-brown cloth author's name and title gilt-lettered direct on spine. This is the second state of the binding with Burton's name on the spine. Penzer pp. 71-2; Casada 70. <br/><br/> Tinsley Bros hardcover books
186352654London: Tinsley Bros 1863. First edition 2 volumes in 1 small 8vo pp. iii-viii 2 303 1; 4 295 1; frontispiece and a folding map; bound without the half-titles in contemporary half tan calf gilt-lettered spine; moderately rubbed else very good. Penzer pp. 71-2; Casada 70. <br/><br/> Tinsley Bros unknown books
189152605London & New York: Frederick Warne 1891. 2 volumes 8vo pp. xxi 1 376; xv 1 347 1; 4 folding color maps 3 printed in color inside back cover pockets 60 photographic or wood-engraved plates some tinted a few in color; original pictorial maroon crocodile-patterned cloth stamped in gilt silver and black; contemporary prize label Camden Road Collegiate School Cambridge on front pastedown of volume I; small breaks in the cloth at the top of both spines rear hinge on volume II starting; all else very good bright and sound. <br/><br/> Frederick Warne hardcover books
185613245London: Seeley Jackson and Halliday 1856. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Third thousand. vi 272 pp with color frontis in original blind-stamped cloth. Corners bumped chipping to head of spine bits of old paper stuck to front board. Occasional foxing otherwise clean and sound. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday 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
