332 résultats
1979110073London: The British Academy at the Royal Geographical Society 1979. 10p. including covers 5.5x8 inches economic reports and balance sheets very good in original stapled wraps. The British Academy at the Royal Geographical Society unknown books
191213356New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 291 pp with index illustrations and folding map. Original pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Corners bumped inscription partially erased from front endpaper all else very good. In his Introduction the author an American war correspondent compares Africa to the nineteenth century American West praising the "pioneers of the desert the jungle and the veldt" who are engaged in "the conquest of a continent by men with levels and transits drills and dynamite ploughs and spades with courage daring resource and tenacity unsurpassed in history." Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
192852630London: Stanley Paul & Co 1928. First edition 8vo pp. 285 1; 28 photographic illustrations on 16 plates; upper cover a bit stained light wear at extremities corners bumped; all else very good. Not in Czech although there are chapters on hunting elephant hippopotamus antelope and waterbuck. <br/><br/> Stanley Paul & Co unknown books
55New York; London: Fleming H. Revell Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated likely first American edition c. 1929. xix 609 pp 25 illustrations with index b/w illustrations from photographs. Author photograph tipped in as frontispiece. Foreword by "Dr. Laws of Livingstonia." Ex-library copy with normal markings stamps etc including call number label on spine. Binding is sound text is clean and bright. An account of Dan Crawford's life from his birth in Scotland through his 37 years in Africa. Due to size shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders. Fleming H. Revell Company hardcover books
18572926New York: D. Appleton & Co 1857. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. viii 415 pp 8 publisher's catalogue with frontispiece illustrations. Original brown cloth with gilt spine. Spine dulled one horizontal tear in spine cloth and additional splits along both front and rear joints. Internals sound and clean. Contemporary gift inscription on front endpaper. Perry's expedition was sent to Japan to induce the Japanese government to enter into diplomatic relations with the United States which Perry believed he could accomplish through a display of superior naval force. Hill 1332: "After his entry into Araga Harbor on July 8 1853 the Japanese were eventually compelled to accept a treaty.opening the ports of Hakodate and Shimoda. The most significant result however was that Perry's visit contributed to the collapse of the feudal regime and to the subsequent modernization of Japan." This is Hill 1333 "a compact abridgement of the Perry expedition narrative." D. Appleton & Co hardcover books
193227198New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1932. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. Clothbound 8vo. 317 pp. Second issue of Waugh's famous travel book covering his time in Ethiopia Zanzibar and beyond. A handsome very good copy in price-intact dustwrapper. Wrapper is lightly soiled and mildly age darkened at spine color. Nice copy. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
193052156Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1930. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper of first volume: "Mr. Malcolm B. Stone / with much appreciation of his interest in the work in tropical medicine / from Richard P. Strong" dated in year of publication. First printings. Two large octavo volumes 27cm; publisher's maroon cloth boards lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; xxvi1-568; ix569-1064pp; illus. Mild lean to text block of second volume else a tight Near Fine set lacking the dustwrappers. A major work in the history of public medicine. Strong 1872-1948 was the first professor of Tropical Medicine at Harvard and the foremost American authority on the subject. This important two-year expedition to Liberia and the Congo led by Strong in the company of seven fellow Harvard scientists was the first full-scale attempt to document the etiology of a variety of tropical diseases as well as documenting existing sanitary conditions in Liberia and colonial West Africa. The mission also collected a wealth of zoological and anthropological data that would inform various fields of Africa Studies for decades. Harvard University Press unknown books
189852651London: Methuen & Co 1898. First edition issued in the publisher's Colonial Library series small 8vo pp. vi 238 2; large folding map 4 plates; extra illustration mounted on front pastedown; original maroon cloth gilt-stamped spine extra cloth label 'Africa' also on spine; fine copy. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co hardcover books
190852577London: Edward Arnold 1908. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 359 1; xii 388 16 ads; 2 frontispieces 1 gravure one in color folding map printed in color 59 photographic plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spine; some spotting of the covers otherwise very good and sound. <br/><br/> Edward Arnold hardcover books
195532530Pretoria: The Government Printer 1955. 28th volume in the series covering the years 1954-55. Thick octavo; printed paper-covered boards; xvi 866pp. Covers tanned at board edges; mild external rubbing; very slight age-toning to text paper; a solid Very Good copy. Official statistics structure of government diary of laws descriptions of geography natural resources etc. A well-preserved copy uncommon thus. The Government Printer unknown books
197025406Addis Ababa Ethiopia: Population Programme Centre 1970. First Edition. Quarto 28cm.; decorative staplebound self-wrappers printed in blue and black; mixed pagination; illus. text printed from typescript. Some wear from handling else Very Good and sound. Initially published as a quarterly newsletter aimed at disseminating information on population problems in Africa between governments and voluntary agencies. This first issue includes forewords by R.K.A. Gardiner Executive Secretary of the Commision; Paul G. Hoffman Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme; and Milos Macura Director of the United Nations Population Division. Population Programme Centre unknown books
1976025814New York: United Nations 1976. 274 38 4 7p. b/w illus. original stiff wrappers quarto format United Nations. E/CN.14/HUS/16. United Nations unknown books
196252578New York: American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters 1962. 4to pp.46 2; photographically illustrated throughout some gruesome; this copy marked "Press Proof" on the first page of text; very good in original black printed wrappers. Atrocities in Katanga a breakaway state that proclaimed its independence from the Republic of Congo-Léopoldville on 11 July 1960 under Moise Tshombe leader of the local Confédération des associations tribales du Katanga CONAKAT political party Federation of Kata. <br/><br/> American Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters unknown books
180120702London: John Stockdale 1801. Hardcover. Near fine. First octavo edition and second edition overall. Six volumes uniformly bound in recent quarter leather and marbled boards complete with two large folding maps/charts and 17 folding plates; 2 pages of ads at the end of Volume VI. Occasional light foxing a couple small splits/tears to maps else fine. Signature of Alfred Fowler on the front free endpaper of Volume I and the rear pastedown of Volume II. Vancouver sailed by way of the Cape of Good Hope to Australia then to New Zealand Hawaii and the northwest coast of America -- discovering previously unknown geographical features in each locale. In three seasons' work Vancouver surveyed the coast of California with remarkable accuracy visited a number of the Spanish settlements in Alta California investigated the Strait of Juan de Fuca circumnavigated Vancouver island and disproved the existence of any passage between the Pacific and Hudson Bay. In all Vancouver's party sailed about 55000 miles in what Hill 1753 calls "one of the most important voyages ever made in the interests of geographic knowledge." Howgego I V13; Howes V-23; Sabin 98443. John Stockdale hardcover books
189811853London: Methuen & Company 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxvii 319 pp illustrations 4 maps two folding. Introduction by George T. Goldie. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and vignette of soldiers on front board. Former mercantile library copy with bookplate on front pastedown and a few stamps. No external library markings. Corners lightly bumped some chipping/short tears to cloth at spine ends. One of the folding maps is quite delicate and has numerous tears partially mended on the verso with archival tape with some minor loss. Vandeleur a highly decorated officer in the Scots Guards participated in the Unyoro Expedition in 1895 the Niger Expedition in 1897 and served with the Egyptian Army in the Soudan expedition of 1898. He was awarded a grant from the Royal Geographical Society for his valuable work surveying more than 2000 miles of territory in East Africa and the Niger district. He was killed in 1901 when 250 Boers fired on his train. Methuen & Company hardcover books
192113243Richmond VA: Presbyterian Committee of Publication 1921. Soft cover. Very Good. 201 pp with illustrations and map in original printed wrappers. Spine is sunned and has one chip in the paper at the head of the spine. Binding solid text unmarked. McCutchan was sent as a missionary to the Congo Free State in 1897 where he was soon outraged by the treatment of the natives he observed. He became one of the most vocal opponents of King Leopold's regime. Presbyterian Committee of Publication paperback books
19281268London: Longmans Green & Co 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii 623 pp with 12 maps 2 colored select bibliography index. Very light general wear to boards some offsetting and previous owner's label on endpapers contents clean binding sound. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on Dutch occupation colonization Parliament and Volksraad unification and other topics. Longmans, Green, & Co hardcover books
194552652London: Chatto & Windus 1945. 8vo pp. xxxiii 1 268 2; folding map 2 portraits; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine and a rather chipped dust jacket. Issued as no. 2 in the Central African Archives Oppenheimer Series. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
195652647London: Chatto & Windus 1956. 2 volumes 8vo pp. lvi 211 1; vi 213-462; color portrait frontispiece 2 folding maps 15 color plates from watercolors by Thomas Baines and Dr. John Kirk and another color plate from a lithograph by T. Picken; fine in original red cloth stamped in gilt dust jackets that on volume I with a small chuck out at the top of the spine. Volume I: Journals. Volume II: Journals continued Letters and Dispatches. Issued as no. 9 in the Central African Archives Oppenheimer Series. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19911853Kraus Reprint Limited 1991. Hardcover. Very Good. lxvi 104 pp folding map folding illustration with index. Name written on front pastedown underlining and annotations to preface; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1899 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. III. Includes versions of this voyage by Capt. Wyatt Robert Dudley and Abram Kendall. 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 Limited hardcover books
189052618London: John C. Nimmo 1890. First edition 8vo pp. xvii 1 378 32 ads dated January 1890; frontispiece portrait 32 plates and 1 color folding map with a short tear no loss; publisher's green cloth with gilt vignette of the "Stanley" steamship on front cover and gilt title on spine; very good sound copy. <br/><br/> John C. Nimmo hardcover books
1927318085London: Witherby 1927. First edition. Illus. 280pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarter mottled calf and marbled boards Fine. First edition. Illus. 280pp. 8vo. Witherby unknown books
195413169London: Paternoster Press 1954. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Uniform edition Number 4 in the Jungle Doctor series. 121 pp with 30 illustrations by Harry Swain. Edges of text block dust soiled otherwise minimal wear. Dust jacket is price-clipped chipped at the corners. Paternoster Press hardcover books
19911859Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. cxxxii 296 pp folding map with illustrations bibliography index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1902 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. X. 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
196713023London: Frank Cass and Co. Ltd 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second edition a reprint of the 1877 edition with a new introduction by A.G. Hopkins. xxii 355 pp. Boards are bumped at the corners and slightly sunned at the edges top edge is dust soiled. Binding is tight and square text unmarked. Dust jacket is chipped at the corners and has a few short tears. Whitford an English trader visited and wrote about nearly all the major commercial centers in West Africa. Frank Cass and Co., Ltd hardcover books
