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177521529Paris 1775. Very good condition. Detailed copper engraved map of the Cape Verde Islands off the west coast of Africa and the present day country of Senegal. Map extends from Isle de St. Antoine down to Isle de St. Yago sic. Additional islands named include St. Vincent Ste Lucie I. Branca Isle de S. Nicolas Isle de Sal Isle de Bonavista Isle de St. Philippe ou de Fuego Isle de St. Jean ou Brava and Isle de May. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages".<br /> <br /> Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King.<br /> <br /> Ornate compass rose at center of map with rhumb lines. 11 1/4 x 9" with ample margins. Strong impression very clean. unknown
177521525Paris 1775. Very good condition. Detailed hand colored copper engraved map of the west coast of Africa from Gibraltar and Tanger down to the Canary Islands and Cape Verde Islands and Gambia. Many coastal cities and rivers named. From Prevost's "L'Histoire Generale des Voyages".<br /> <br /> Bellin 1703 - 1772 one of the most noted French mapmakers of the 18th century was named the hydrographer chief cartographer to the French Navy and later the Official Hydrographer to the French King.<br /> <br /> With compass rose. Folding 8 1/4 x 10" with ample margins. Strong impression very clean. unknown
185161963London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1851. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 21cm. Two volumes in brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt; blue and white printed endpapers with publisher's advertisements; xii244pp; vi248pp; 10 tinted lithographs some with hand coloring and 3 black and white lithographs. Errata slip in vol. I following contents. Binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds London to rear pastedown of vol. I. Ownership inscriptions of F. J. Young to front endpaper versos. Unfaded and straight frayed at spine ends vol. I with tear to cloth over rear joint and minor perforations to paper over interior hinges vol. II starting split to front joint short tears to cloth over both joints and short 2-in crack to rear hinge; occasional spots of browning but generally clean: Very Good. <br /> <br /> A Royal Naval officer's journals of visits to Dahomey a kingdom located in what is now southern Benin published with an antislavery intent: "It is the object of the author.to illustrate the dreadful slave hunts and ravages the annihiliations and exterminations consequent on this trade; and to bring prominently before the British public the sacred service they are rendering" through their efforts to halt the slave trade p.iv vol.I. NOT IN ABBEY. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans unknown
75584c.1950. . Silver gelatin print good tonal range and condition. <br /> <br /> [c.1950]. unknown
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
196461116Oxford: Clarendon Press 1964. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22.5cm. Blue cloth titled in gilt on spine in white and pink dust jacket; xxii4451pp; maps. With card reading "With the compliments of the author." Lightly rubbed at head and tail else Near Fine. Jacket browned at spine lightly rubbed at edges: Very Good. 61116. Clarendon Press unknown
181561210London: John Murray 1815. Second Edition. Quarto 28cm. Half-bound in later nineteenth-century brown calf and purple cloth rebacked all edges marbled; plain dark taupe endpapers; iii-xx1-3731pp; folding map at front with routes traced in red and blue occasional in-text figures. Bound with out half-title. Sewing sound but joints cracked amateur reinforcements to hinges general mild wear to boards internally with occasional spots of foxing but largely clean: just Very Good.<br /> <br /> Mungo Park 1771-1806 was an early explorer in Africa whose 1799 about his first journey along the Niger River Travels into the Interior of Africa earned him great popularity and is #16 in Blockson's Commented Bibliography. In 1805 he undertook a second expedition. He led his group overland to Bamako losing many members to dysentery. He reached Ségou and Sansanding in modern-day Mali and sailed on reportedly reached the Bussa rapids in modern-day Nigeria. But in late 1805 his party was attacked by native Africans who he had antagonized and Park drowned. His journal was sent back to the UK where it was published with statements from the expedition guides Amadi Fatouma and Isaaco. Exploration of the Niger ceased until after the Napoleonic Wars and the Niger Delta was not located by Europeans until the Lander expedition in 1830. HOWGEGO II P4. John Murray unknown
1842AQ24365London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons 1842. 46pp. Stitched as issued. Slight chipping to fore-edge of title page occasional spotting. An apparently unrecorded report of Her Majesty's Commissioner on the state of the British Settlements on the Western Coast of Africa specifically regarding the climate of the Gold Coast Sierra Leone and Gambia and its relation to the health of residences in those areas such as the detrimental effects of high temperatures and the spread of dysentery and fever. . First edition. Folio. Printed by William Clowes and Sons unknown
192963850New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1929. 8vo. xix 1 321 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illustrations & map endpapers by A.A. Jansson. Green pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art of gorilla in black giraffe on spine gilt lettering slight shelfwear very slight bumping to couple corners w/ d.j. wraparound Art Deco cover art of gorilla in the jungle by Jansson 1890-1960 noted artist on the Akeley expedition best remembered for the diorama in the American Museum of Natural History very minor sunning to spine light edgewear slight creasing still NF/VG copy. First edition of this work largely written by Mary Jobe Akeley recounting the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition to Africa in 1926. She has included here the long hunt for the 16-foot tall giraffe a family of 14 friendly lions in Tanganyika and the death of Carl Akeley 1864-1926 who sickened and died of fever on Mount Mikeno in the Belgian Congo. Mary Jobe 1878-1966 completed the expedition mapped parts of the Belgian Congo Kenya and Tanzania finished collecting specimens for the American Museum of Natural History as well as plant specimens and hundreds of photographs. Mary Jobe is well remembered for her Camp Mystic founded in 1916 for girls aged 8 to 18 who promoted healthy experiences in camping boating swimming horseback riding dancing and field athletics and was even visited by such explorers and naturalists as Vilhjalmur Stefannson Martin & Osa Johnson and others. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
193157866Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1931. 8vo. 8 320 2 pp. Photo frontisp. plates. Black cloth white lettering front cover & spine w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art of woman trekking into the Belgian Congo jungle minor chipping head of spine creasing & closed tear on back cover old tape repairs on verso still NF/G copy. First edition 2nd printing of this memoir detailing the efforts of this doctor to set up a bush hospital in the Belgian Congo in 1926 to research sleeping sickness at Minga Hospital near Wembo Nyama among the Batetela tribe remaining until 1931. Miller 1873-1958 had originally been placed by the Southern Methodist Church to Japan and then was the superintendent of the largest women’s hospital the Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai China before being sent to Africa. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
193263874New York NY: Dodd Mead & Co. 1932. 8vo. xviii 2 260 pp. Photo frontisp. 20 photo plates. Orange pictorial publisher’s cloth cover art of lion in black silhouette black lettering front cover & spine illustrated endpapers w/ d.j. cover art of lions by Arthur A. Jansson 1890-1960 noted artist on the Akeley expedition best remembered for the diorama in the American Museum of Natural History minor chipping head of spine edgewear light rubbing still NF/VG- copy. First edition of this sequel to Adventures in the Africa Jungle largely written by Mary Jobe Akeley recounting the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Expedition to Africa in 1926-1927. Although listed prominently as co-author Carl Akeley 1864-1926 sickened and died of fever on Mount Mikeno in the Belgian Congo and Mary Jobe 1878-1966 completed the expedition mapped parts of the Belgian Congo Kenya and Tanzania finished collecting specimens for the American Museum of Natural History as well as plant specimens and hundreds of photographs. She details her two months studying gorillas in the Congo pigmy tribes buffalo & lion hunting. Mary Jobe is well remembered for her Camp Mystic founded in 1916 for girls aged 8 to 18 who promoted healthy experiences in camping boating swimming horseback riding dancing and field athletics and was even visited by such explorers and naturalists as Vilhjalmur Stefannson Martin & Osa Johnson and others. Very scarce in original dustjacket. Dodd, Mead & Co., hardcover
193657745New York: National Travel Club 1936. 8vo. xiii 1 313 1 pp. Photo plates colour maps on endpapers. Black cloth gilt logo front cover lettering on spine minor shelfwear w/ d.j. extraordinary Art Deco cover art by Mahlon Blaine slight shelfwear rubbing NF/NF copy. First National Travel Club edition of this account of Mary Jobe’s expedition to explore the animals in Kruger National Park Portuguese East Africa and the Transvaal together with ethnological studies of the Zulu and Swazi peoples. See: Hunt The Outlandish Art of Mahlon Blaine p. 449. National Travel Club, hardcover
193614185London: Rhodesia House by Hazel Watson and Viney Ltd. 1936. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page photographs on virtually every page and a folding map showing the plan of the Elliptical Temple. 8vo publisher's original pictorially decorated wraps printed in red and black on the upper cover 86 2 pp. A fine copy usually well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY SCARCE WORK ON THE RUINS OF ZIMBABWE. Written by the curator of the Zimbabwe Ruins from 1910-1936. The rediscovery of the Zimbabwe Ruins in 1868 was due to Adam Renders an American hunter who unknowingly pitched his camp on the site of these Ruins and stumbled across the most profound mystery of Africa.<br> Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe near Masvingo. It was settled from around 1000 CE and served as the capital of the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe from the 13th century. It is the largest stone structure in pre-colonial Southern Africa. Major construction on the city began in the 11th century until the 15th century and it was abandoned in the 16th or 17th century. The edifices were erected by ancestors of the Shona people currently located in Zimbabwe and nearby countries. The stone city spans an area of 7.22 square kilometres 2.79 mi2. Population estimates vary. Earlier estimates suggest a peak population of around 20000 people. A recent study using archaeological ethnographic and historical evidence along with statistical modeling suggests that the sites population did not exceed 10000 people. The Zimbabwe state centred on it likely covered 50000 km˛ 19000 sq mi.<br> The site of Great Zimbabwe is composed of the Hill Complex the Valley Complex and the Great Enclosure constructed at different times and contained area for commoner housing within the perimeter walls. There is disagreement on the functions of the complexes among scholars. Some consider them to have been residences for the royals and elites at different periods of the site while others infer them to have had separate functions. The Great Enclosure with its 11 m 36 ft high dry stone walls that is constructed without mortar was built during the 13th and 14th centuries and likely served as the royal residence with demarcated public spaces for rituals.<br> Since the 1950s there has been consensus among archaeologists as to the African origins of Great Zimbabwe. Artifacts and radiocarbon dating indicate settlement in at least the 5th century with continuous settlement of Great Zimbabwe between the 12th and 15th centuries and the bulk of the finds from the 15th century. The radiocarbon evidence is a suite of 28 measurements for which all but the first four from the early days of the use of that method and now viewed as inaccurate support the 12th-to-15th-centuries chronology. In the 1970s a beam that produced some of the anomalous dates in 1952 was reanalysed and gave a 14th-century date. Dated finds such as Chinese Persian and Syrian artefacts also support the 12th- and 15th-century dates. Rhodesia House by Hazel, Watson and Viney Ltd. paperback
186324075London: 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 along with a small bookseller stamp and evidence of a few markings removed. 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
1333220545.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1330062418.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19511198F093Paris: G. Durassie 1951. 1st Edition . Paperback. Printed pages: 165. Very Good. 7.25 x 9.5 inches 18.5 x 24 cm. Original wraps. Page edges untrimmed and unopened. Very slight creasing to covers light browning to pages. A few fingerprints to margins otherwise clean throughout. Overall condition is Very Good. International postage will be less than the stated rate. Actual costs are Europe £11.00; USA £15.00; Oceania £16.00; Rest of World £18.00. A postage refund will be made after the order has been placed. Size: 7.25 x 9.5 inches 18.5 x 24 cm. G. Durassie paperback
22979LONDON. BRADBURY AGNEW & CO. C 1860. FIRST EDITION. HALF BLUE LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS RAISED BANDS ELABORATE GILT TOOLING TO THE SPINE. ILLUSTRATIONS BY IN COLOUR AND ETCHINGS BY JOHN PEEL. VOLUME 1 HAS SLIGHT TEAR TO GUARD PAPER OPPOSITE FRONTISPIECE. VOLUME 2 IS WORN AT THE EDGE OF THE SPINE. A VERY GOOD HANDSOME SET. LONDON. BRADBURY, AGNEW & CO. C 1860 hardcover
182179590Rorschachi: Ioannis Schroeter 1821. Gebunden. Ioannis Schroeter unknown
2007052840Denver CO: Sundance Publications 2007. First edition First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 158 signed on the half-title page by Abbott McCoy and McLeod. Mining produced tonnage requiring efficient transportation. W.A.H. Loveland developed the Colorado Central and laid track beside Clear Creek to reach Black Hawk and eventually Central City and Georgetown where the greatest mining claims lay. 416 pages with historic photographs maps roster car diagrams bibliography and index. Map endpapers. Fine in fine clear vinyl dust protector. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications hardcover
200742569Denver CO: Sundance Publications 2007. First edition First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Number 208 signed on the half-title page by Abbott McCoy and McLeod. Mining produced tonnage requiring efficient transportation. W.A.H. Loveland developed the Colorado Central and laid track beside Clear Creek to reach Black Hawk and eventuually Central City and Georgetown where the greatest mining claims lay. 416 pages with historic photographs maps roster car diagrams bibliography and index. Map endpapers. Fine in fine clear vinyl dust protector. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications hardcover
200742570Denver CO: Sundance Publications 2007. First edition First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Copy number 854 signed on the half-title page by Abbott McCoy and McLeod. Mining produced tonnage requiring efficient transportation. W.A.H. Loveland developed the Colorado Central and laid track beside Clear Creek to reach Black Hawk and eventually Central City and Georgetown where the greatest mining claims lay. 416 pages with historic photographs maps roster car diagrams bibliography and index. Map endpapers. Fine in fine clear vinyl dust protector. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications hardcover
200729410Denver CO: Sundance Publications 2007. First edition first printing First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Number 208 signed on the half-title page by Abbott McCoy and McLeod. Mining produced tonnage requiring efficient transportation. W.A.H. Loveland developed the Colorado Central and laid track beside Clear Creek to reach Black Hawk and eventuually Central City and Georgetown where the greatest mining claims lay. 416 pages with historic photographs maps roster car diagrams bibliography and index. Map endpapers. Fine in fine clear vinyl dust protector. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications hardcover
1989053332Denver CO: Sundance Publications Limited 1989. First edition First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Copy number 412 signed by Abbott on the half-title page. 376 pages with numerous vintage photographs some in color maps rosters and building car and locomotive diagrams bibliography and index. Errata slip laid in. Fine in fine original clear vinyl dust protector. <br/> <br/> Sundance Publications Limited hardcover
192452901Leipzig: List 1924. Gebunden. List unknown
