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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 books
195348281Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations 1953. First Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; stapled wrappers; 62pp. Light wear and scattered foxing to extremities some oxidation to staples else Very Good. Covers criticisms of the then-current system for native education in South Africa the aims of Bantu education proposed schemes for the re-organization of Bantu education and schemes of educational development for the period 1952-1962. Part of the Donaldson Blueprint Series. South African Institute of Race Relations unknown books
5706pgs. No date. No place. A collection of six pages with twelve illustrations of African natives. They are from an unidentified book probably from the 18th Century and are in very fine condition overall. Some of the images show a mother breast feeding a beheading combat and royalty. A fine assembly unknown books
198737337Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1987. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 26cm; black cloth with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xxiv2817pp; illus. Some trivial wear to lower board edges else Fine in a Near Fine lightly shelfworn dustjacket. Scholarly volume illuminating "the vigorously creative traditions of Yoruba art in Freetown Sierra Leone and shows how the city's secret societies have made these traditions an integral part of life in urban West Africa" from front flap. University of Illinois Press 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
197074157Cambridge MA: Africa Research Group 1970. ii 62p. wraps slightly worn with minor crinkling paper slightly browned 8.5x11 inches. "Written for the occasion of the International Development Conference held in Washington D.C. on February 24-26 1970 this pamphlet was produced by the Africa Research Group with active assistance of the Pacific Studies Center and the Committee of Returned Volunteers. Africa Research Group unknown books
197027996Cambridge MA: Africa Research Group 1970. Reprint. Octavo 21cm.; original yellow decorative staplebound wrappers; 212-20111-30pp. Minor insect damage to bottom edge of upper wrapper small chip to rear wrapper else About Very Good. "Reprint" series no. 7. Reproduces two articles originally published in the Monthly Review Giovanni Arrighi and John S. Saul's "Socialism and Economic Development in Tropical Africa" and Glyn Hughes's "Preconditions of Socialist Development in Africa. Africa Research Group unknown books
196648285London: Africa Bureau 1966. First Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; stapled wrappers; 12pp. Trivial wear to extremities else Fine. "The overwhelmingly important question in the Rhodesian crisis is now Rhodesia's vulnerability to economic sanctions. It is difficult to be exact in economic terms; we can only make rough estimates. It is even more difficult to say what the political effect of the economic damage may be. It is important to appreciate as accurately as possible the economic effects; the final conclusion about the effectiveness of sanctions must however be a political one" from introduction. Africa Bureau 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
1968118986Munich 1968. hardcover. Folding map. 164pp. 12mo cloth; cover soiled. Munchen 1968.<br/><br/> unknown books
1990191856L.O. Afrika 1990-01-01. Softcover. Very Good. 1990 Revised Gullah Festival Edition. Small paper cover stapled booklet is in very good condition with minimal wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. 42 pages. LO L.O. Afrika paperback books
1968117810Paris 1968. hardcover. One folding map. 8vo cloth. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1968.<br/><br/> unknown books
193321499New York: Robert M. McBride & Company 1933. Hardcover. Good. 251 pp with illustrated endpapers. Spine darkened some soiling and minor markings on endpapers; previous owner's plate affixed to half-title page; text clean and sound. No dust jacket. Robert M. McBride & Company hardcover books
191012961New York: J.B. Lippincott 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 368 pp indexed with 66 illustrations from photographs and a large folding map of Sierra Leone. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned but legible corners bumped name on bottom edge and front pastedown. Internally clean and sound. Record of the author's experiences during many years' residence in the colony where he traveled expensively and mapped "the far distant and then unknown parts of the Hinterland." Includes much on native life and customs. J.B. Lippincott hardcover books
195938051New York: American Committee on Africa 1959. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp.; illus. Some minor toning and dust-soil else Very Good. Includes an article on the newly elected first President of Guinea Sékou Touré during whose 26-year régime approximatley 50000 people would be killed. American Committee on Africa] unknown books
19911852Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiv 283 pp folding map illustrations with maps illustrations bibliography index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1972 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. 142. Includes documentation of voyages to England the Canary Islands Puerto Rico Tierra Firme and Avellaneda. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series but it other than the title it appears identical to this one. Kraus Reprint hardcover books
1967TB30750Englewood: Prentice Hall 1967. First Edition. Fine black and light red cloth covered boards with gilt tooling. In a near fine unclipped dust jacket with several small color flecks at the ends of the spine and across the upper edge of the front panel. The story of how the military forts and trading post of the Upper Missouri River contributed to the developement of the American West. 339 pages containing text notes and an index. Prentice Hall hardcover books
191152609Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co 1911. First edition 8vo pp. xiii 1 445; photographic frontispiece 35 leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos map endpapers; original tan pictorial cloth stamped in brown and gilt; lightly rubbed "294" in biro on front free endpaper; very good sound copy. Photographs by the author Emma Ayer who was the wife of the book collector Edward E. Ayer; this book is dedicated to him. <br/><br/> A.C. McClurg & Co hardcover books
196313686Paris: Presses Universitaires de France 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. Deuxieme Second edition. 532 pp w/map tables bibliography. Original printed wrappers. Light cover wear some spine creasing. Binding sound contents unmarked. Text in French. Presses Universitaires de France paperback books
192352645London: Ernest Benn 1923. First edition 8vo pp. 276; 2 folding maps 80 illustrations on 64 plates; original gray cloth stamped in gilt on spine; generally a very good copy. Czech Africa p. 13: "Barns was joined by noted rifle maker Sir Charles Ross on an expedition leaving Mombasa in 1921. The party hunted lion and rhino near the Ngorongoro Crater then traveled to the Lake Kivu region of the eastern Belgian Congo . Included among the photos is a snapshot of a poacher named Bowen with an elephant he bagged sporting a pair of tusks at 173 and 176 lbs." <br/><br/> Ernest Benn hardcover 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
1991TB10530Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1991. First Edition. First printing Fine in 1/4 cloth and paper covered boards. In a near fine dust jacket with faint creasing at the upper edge of the front panel. A description of life and nature in a remote valley in Montana as experienced by the author. Houghton Mifflin 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
198551265McMinnville Ore: Liliaceae Press 1985. Second revised edition small 4to pp. 146 2; diagrams maps and photographic illustrations in text; the history uses and production methods of a variety of "papers." In this instance "rice paper" refers to pith; white pictorial paper wrappers; fine. <br/><br/> Liliaceae Press unknown books
