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1877177228Edinburgh & London.: W. & A. K. Johnston. circa1877. Printed colour map 25 x 32.5 cm edge tears one affecting the lower border only two small chips from the upper margin corner repaired the map in very good condition. Map of North America with a small inset of the British Isles on the verso. Map of Southern Africa before the Scramble for Africa in the late 19th Century. . W. & A. K. Johnston. unknown
201142477Gambia: ArtWords 2011. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 212pp. Fine and unmarked but for Library of Congress "duplicate" stamp to title page. ".Consists of nineteen cases from 2005 to 2011 including some judgments of Justice A.S. Tahir; the pioneer Chairman of the Cadi Appeals Panel. ArtWords unknown
188352571London & New York: Blackie & Son Ltd.; Charles Scribner’s Sons c. 1883 1895. 12mo. 352 pp. plus 32 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Frontisp. 7 plates. Blue pictorial publisher’s cloth illustration on front cover in gilt brown green & blue gilt & blue lettering front cover & spine very slight shelfwear very minor rubbing faint offsetting on endpapers from binder’s glue still NF copy w/ former ownership signature dated 1895 on ffep. Early Blackie printing of this historical adventure of a young sea captain’s son fighting with General Wolseley in the Third Anglo-Ashanti War detailing the British advance the attack on Elmina the British victory at the Battle of Amoaful and the capture of the Ashanti capital city Kumasi. Blackie & Son, Ltd.; Charles Scribner’s Sons, hardcover
195062367London: Robert Hale Ltd. 1950. Tall 8vo. x 302 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Green publisher’s cloth gilt lettering on spine w/ d.j. cover art by CWB minor chipping head & foot of spine edgewear still VG/VG copy. First British edition of this adventure memoir recounting Ellen Waddil Gatti’s experiences on an expedition into the Belgian Congo in search of the rare Okapi with her husband Attilio Gatti detailing her efforts to build a jungle home grow a vegetable garden and experience with many of the Indigenous African peoples. Robert Hale, Ltd., hardcover
194463298New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1944. 8vo. xi 1 243 1 pp. Map illust. on title. Beige publisher’s cloth Africa map in green & black lettering on front cover map endpapers minor dustsoiling edgewear w/ d.j. cover art of Africa outline map red lettering chipping & soiling head & foot of spine edgewear creasing minor spotting still VG/G- copy signed by Wells w/ small elephant illustration by the author on half-title. First edition of this informative handbook written and prepared by Wells from his successful preparation lectures for Allied Armed forces moving into North Africa and West Africa during World War II. In addition he makes specific references to the strategic materials and human resources available across Africa’s vast size and large population during the War and forecasting future possibilities. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover
192963842London: H.F. & G. Witherby 1929. Tall 8vo. 223 pp. plus 1 pp. publisher’s ads. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates throughout by W. Woodhouse. Red embossed publisher’s cloth gilt lettering & ruling on spine minor bumping to couple corners edgewear to lower fore-edges dustsoiling to upper fore-edge minor sunning head of spine w/ d.j. wraparound cover art image of hunter shooting at a man-eater lion w/ brushfire in the background chipping & tear to head of spine w/ about 1.75 in. of loss to lettering chipping & edgewear to foot of spine some minor creasing still a VG/G- copy w/ mimeographed private library slip laid-in for M.R. Steele and bookseller’s label on rear pastedown. First edition stated of this work describing the author’s hunting adventures while leading an American hunting party through the African bush tracking down man-eating lions and rogue elephants. Chadwick 1882 had first emigrated to South Africa in the 1920’s and became a transport rider and member of the Bechuanaland Protectorate Police while working as a professional hunter earning a living selling ivory and lion skins from his trophies. The original dustjacket is exceedingly scarce with Ellen Herring of Trophy Room Books noting that they had only seen this one copy. H.F. & G. Witherby, hardcover
195759514New York: Wilfred Funk Inc. 1957. 8vo. 6 214 pp. Photo illust. maps on endpapers. Mustard-coloured cloth black lettering w/ d.j. cover art by Frank Cozzarelli minor chipping head & foot of spine creasing edgewear couple closed tears price-clipped still VG/G- copy. First edition of this memoir by a professional hunter who kills African crocodiles for their belly-skins on Lake Nyasa in East Africa. Wilfred Funk, Inc., hardcover
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
193862369London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1938. 8vo. viii 9-303 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illusts. Blue cloth gilt lettering on spine minor edgewear scuffing w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine minor creasing dustsoiling & slight sunning to spine still VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First British edition of this fascinating memoir of the noted American geologist-naturalist’s trek prospecting for gold iron ore and other metals in Sierra Leone and considered one of the earliest women geologists. She is perhaps best remembered for her fundamental geological descriptions of large areas in Sierra Leone Wyoming and New Hampshire later becoming a passionate environmental activist. Very scarce in dustjacket. See: Carol Frost Katharine Fowler-Billings: Pioneering Woman Field Geologist Trained in the Rocky Mountains Rocky Mountain Geology Vol. 37 No. 1 Spring 2002. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., hardcover
194357182London: Heath Cranton Ltd. 1943. 8vo. 168 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates maps. Light blue cloth dark blue lettering on spine minor rubbing head & foot of spine corners w/ d.j. cover art of “Ivory Coast Belle†minor shelfwear dustsoiling small tear lower fore-edge back cover still VG/G copy inscribed by author on ffep. to Leroy Holman and signed as well on title. Second printing inscribed of this memoir published as a benefit for the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund by a former British trading agent in the French Ivory Coast detailing his sailing and shipping adventures and experiences in Africa prior to World War II. Heath Cranton Ltd., hardcover
196912911London: Camera Press 1969. Black-and-white photograph on glossy paper 6.5 x 4.75 inches. Minor wear. Production ink stamps and printed descriptive label on verso. Small crease to upper left corner. Near fine. A striking press photo of Shirley Chisholm described on the printed label here as "Democrat; Representative from the Bedford-Stuyvesant district in Brooklyn New York; she is the first negro Congresswoman." Indeed she had been elected so just the previous year. She swiftly set her sights higher though when four years later she became the first African-American candidate to seek a major party's nomination for the presidency. The present image was published by Camera Press of London with their stamp on verso along with an ink stamp belonging to German press agent Greta Robok and the date stamped in the German style "30. Juni 1969." Early career photographs of Chisholm are decidedly rare. Camera Press unknown
190029227London: George Philip & Son Ltd. ca.1900. Early printing of this map by the cartographic publishing company. Finely rendered in colours. Large multi-folding map approximately 22" x 27" publisher's original protective wrappers printed in black. A very fine copy pristine and very near to mint. George Philip was born in Huntly Aberdeenshire to a staunchly Calvinist family but in 1819 George traveled to Liverpool where his brother Robert who was a nonconformist minister lived. In 1819 he became assistant to the Liverpool bookseller William Grapel and in 1834 set up his own business as a bookseller and stationer in Paradise Street Liverpool. He rapidly expanded the business by producing books particularly educational works and maps. Within his first year of trading to keep up with demand he had to move his business into larger premises at the Atlas Buildings in South Castle Street. <br> Philip used cartographers such as John Bartholomew the elder August Petermann and William Hughes to produce maps on copper plates. Philip then had these printed and hand-coloured by his women tinters. By the time he produced his county maps of 1862 he was using machine coloured maps produced on power-driven lithographic presses. 'His maps ranged from the expensive Imperial Library Atlas 1864 to an atlas costing as little as 3d. and although the bulk of his production was for the commercial and particularly the educational market he also produced important scientific maps notably of North America especially the Arctic and Pacific Northwest Africa and of the West Indies.<br> This is a very fine copy of a scarce map showing the extent of European possessions in North-East Africa before the end of the colonial period. George Philip & Son, Ltd. unknown
1880198271880. Very good condition. An albumen photograph of a mother and daughter in a natural setting arms loosely draped around each other's waists with the mother leaning on straw dwelling at the left. The mother wears a cloth around her waist and leg bands the daughter with striped beaded waist band and beaded loin cloth the breasts of both women are bare. 3 1/2 x 4 3/4". Printed on lightweight paper very small amount of loss upper right corner. Bright and clear image. hardcover
1890236581890. Very good condition. Four albumen studio portraits of indigenous Africans in tribal attire two of which depict women holding infants in their arms the third a striking portrait of a single woman. The fourth a sexist racist and pornographic image titled "The New Woman in S. Africa" showing a bare-breasted woman otherwise fully dressed in a western man's suit wearing a trilby and standing along side her bicycle. <br /> <br /> The images laid down on board with contemporary captions in ink written in German. The images roughly 4 x 5 1/2". One image with a vertical crack at right side. Board dusty at margins. unknown
188432731London: William Ridgway 1884-1885. 2 volumes plus Prospectus First Edition Illustrated with original photographs at the front of each volume. 8vo Very handsomely bound in fine three quarter polished calf over marbled paper covered boards the spines with raised bands double gilt ruled the compartments with elaborately gilt decorations within panels featuring corner and central tooling contrasting red and green morocco lettering pieces gilt. xx 380; xvii 513; 4 pp. A fine copy the handsome bindings in excellent and very pleasing condition the text-blocks clean and well preserved hinges tight and strong. An excellent set of this rare work. RARE FIRST EDITION. An important and rare work in which the author covers the War and subsequent events including Cetshwayo 's visit to England and his return to a broken Zululand. Colenso was a great admirer of Cetshwayo.<br> Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography Vol.1 page 356 – 357: states that the Zulu war may be divided into three periods the first of which is that treated of in " The History of the Zulu War" while this work covers the second and third periods. The author argues that " had the restoration of Cetywayo been carried out in the kind and honest spirit in which it was conceived long ere this the misery of Zululand would have been over." It is alleged that a certain portion of the inhabitants of Natal assisted by the Government officials had provoked the constant succession of wars and disputes between the British the Boers and the natives. Sir Bartle Frere Mr. Shepstone and others are accused of having worked up an agitation which transformed a peaceful situation with the Zulus into a position which ostensibly demanded an army of defence as an urgent necessity ; and this latter being at last conceded by the home Government no time was lost in changing the attitude of defence into one of offence which resulted in " one of the most needless and disastrous campaigns which ever disgraced our arms."<br> In the second volume there is an interesting account of the visit of Cetywayo to England and of his interviews with members of the Royal family and Lord Kimberley. The King spoke earnestly to the Colonial Minister on the subject of John Dunn's treachery and ingratitude and asked that he should not be allowed to settle in the country ; he however agreed to the terms set forth under which he was allowed to return to his kingdom. The work gives a clear account of the unhappy state of Zululand after the King's return until his death " again a prisoner " under the protection of the British Resident. The author like her father and sister was a strong champion of Cetywayo and was greatly grieved and indignant at the intrigues which are stated to have led to the ruin and death of the Zulu king who she asserts " stands out amidst all the chaos of South African blunders and wrongdoings . as grand a figure as any in modern history. His faith in our England wrought his downfall and his death. William Ridgway hardcover
131201Undetermined. very good. Oblong loosely tied album 28 X 40 cm. A total of 87 albumen photos mounted on linean backed stiff grey card boards mostly on both sides. Images for the most part are in excellent conditon with no offsetting and unfaded. very good The album comprises two components with the first 15 images being of Madeira. These images are all 17.5 X 23 CM in size. They are all captioned and signed in the image by the photographer Santos Madeira. The suject matter includes: towns people city views ethnographic agriculture and railways. An interesting selection all in excellent condition and from an unusual place. The second collection of images are all of South Africa. This lot includes a total of 72 images mostly ranging in size from 17.5 X 23 CM to 15 X 20.5 cm. The subject area's include: Cape Town Kimberley Diamond mine operations. Underground mining Native workers at the mine. An image of the de Beers share certificate Johannesburg and area 5 images of the interior of the Sterkfontein Caves and some agricultural scenes. A wonderful album full of interesting large format images in excellent condition. 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
190980546Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham 1909. First Edition. First printing. Tan buckram with applied photo-pictorial front cover illustration; 346pp frontispiece and 8 inserted leaves of photographic plates halftones. Externally a little dull with rubbing and fading to pictorial onlay and spine lettering; front hinge thinly cracked but holding; else complete and sound; Good or better. <br /> <br /> Camphor 1865-1919 was an A.M.E. Church missionary and President of The College of West Africa in Monrovia from 1896 to 1907. This volume of vignettes from his time spent in Liberia and the Interior was published following his return to America in 1908. The excellent photographic illustrations are uncredited but presumably by the author. BLOCKSON COLLECTION 100. WORK p.102. Jennings and Graham unknown
47326N.d. ca 1970s. Original large-format color print in presentation mat with title card affixed to mat below image. View size 49cm x 38cm ca 19" x 15"; overall dimensions 60cm x 51cm. Title card inscribed in black ink: "For Bob MacNeal a fellow photographer with best wishes / Arnold Newman" undated. Mat lightly soiled with a few small chips and abrasions to extremities; image clean and unfaded Near Fine. ca<br /> <br /> NOTE: the mat appears permanently fixed to the photograph as presented by the photographer; we have not attempted to examine the print outside the mat. Impressive large-format portrait by Newman here inscribed to one "Bob MacNeal" identified as a "fellow photographer" though we can find no photographers of the period who used this spelling. Possibly a misspelling of Bob MacNeil still active the prominent Canadian fashion photographer; possibly a misspelling of Bob McNeill d.2007 the prominent African-American documentary photographer; or possibly the correct spelling of an acquaintance of no notable prominence at all. Undated but ca. early 1970s a superlative image of the Ethiopian Emperor boldly inscribed and signed by Newman below image. unknown
187961206London: John Murray 1879. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Full green calf gilt and blind rules along board edges spine stamped in gilt titled on brown spine label; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xxii418pp; 3 maps 1 with color frontispiece and 10 relief plates with tissue guards additional in-text illustrations. Bookplate of the Earls of Derby. Bright and sound mild edge rubbing spine dry and rubbed one tissue guard lacking else Very Good or better. <br /> <br /> "The British consul to Mozambique Elton spent considerable time fighting the slave trade in the region. He explored the region around Lake Nyassa and enjoyed considerable sport.During his return to the coast he contracted fever and died. His journals were arranged edited and completed by his hunting companion H. B. Cotterill." CZECH p.55. John Murray unknown
195085374London: Andrew Dakers Ltd n.d. 1950. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 221pp. Light wear and scuffing to corners and spine ends sunning to extremities strong and tight; internally clean bookplate to verso of front flyleaf illustrated throughout; in a clean photographic dustkacket with some wear and shallow fraying to the extremities and a little soiling in places. A very good copy. <br /> <br /> A detailed and interesting anthropological study of the various peoples and tribes which make up the region we refer to as "The Congo." Necessarily presented in a rather sensationalist and at times less than respectful way it nevertheless embarks upon a journey of research and scholarship and completes it creditably; doing away with a number of preconceived beliefs about the region and contributing to the body of contemporary knowledge. Andrew Dakers Ltd unknown
185345888New York: George P. Putnam & Co 1853. 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
168661137Amsterdam: Wolfgang Waesberge Boom & van Someren 1686. First Thus. First French edition. Folio in fours 37cm. Contemporary mottled calf spine divided into seven compartments each tooled in gilt all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; vi53422pp; engraved title page 26 of 42 double-page line-engraved plates 55 in-text line engravings. Lacking 17 maps and plates including the large folding map of Africa. Bookseller's embossed stamp of F. R. Thorold Johannesburg to front free endpaper. Text complete collating 2o: π1 2 A-3Z4 4A2 signed $1-3 2K3 not signed. Generally tight with minor edgewear lower front joint starting to split very occasional spots of foxing but overall clean: a sound but obviously defective copy.<br /> <br /> The only French translation of this important 1668 text on Africa considered authoritative in its day despite the fact that its Dutch author never visited Africa instead relying on primary accounts of voyages. Extensively illustrated with depictions of people cities flora and fauna; this copy lacking almost all the maps but serviceable. Wolfgang, Waesberge, Boom & van Someren unknown
19617772Boston: Little Brown and Company 1961. First edition. 4to 28 2pp. Illustrations by Jane Carlson and inscribed by her with a sketch of Hubert on the ffep. Publisher's pink cloth stamped in black in illustrated jacket. Boards stained along bottom edge at spine. Jacket with light chipping and a few edge tears still nicely preserved and very good. <br /> <br /> Charmingly illustrated children's book about a hippopotamus from Southeastern Africa whose wanderlust makes him famous throughout the country and abroad. Scarce in jacket and with a lovely sketch by the illustrator. . Little, Brown and Company unknown
181760698Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. and Longman Hurst Rees Orme and Brown 1817. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22cm. Contemporary calf rebacked with red leather titled in gilt on black leather spine labels all edges sprinkled brown; plain endpapers f.f.e.p. renewed in vol. I both front endpapers renewed in vol. II; I: iii-xx 512pp; II: iii-viii536pp; 6 maps 3 folding. Lacking both half-titles but otherwise complete. Sound but lightly scuffed with leather dry and cracking near board edges; internally mostly clean a few leaves foxed. plates with minor foxing and offsetting: around Very Good. <br /> <br /> First geographical work by notable Scottish geographer Hugh Murray 1779-1846 best known for his 1834 Encyclopaedia of Geography. This work is an expansion of the 1799 overview of European knowledge of African geography written by John Leyden who never actually visited Africa. Printed by George Ramsay and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., and Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown unknown
