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190552574New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1905. First edition 8vo pp. x 364; portrait frontispiece folding map and 100 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 44 plates; original green cloth stamped in blue gilt and green on upper cover and spine; very good. This copy inscribed "To Mr. K. B. Coulter with the good greetings of the scribe Wm. Edgar Geil Clifton Springs NY Nov. AD 1906." <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover books
188152660London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons 1881. 12mo pp. 9 10-275 1 10 ads; double-page map 31 full-page wood-engraved illustrations 1 double-page; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; some wear at extremities and a small break in the cloth at the top of the front joint; all else very good. <br/><br/> T. Nelson and Sons hardcover books
193752536New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 2 19-335 1; map endpapers frontispiece and 73 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 30 plates; original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt lightly chipped dust jacket. Gatti and his wife explore the Belgian Congo. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
193252575London: Hutchinson & Co 1932. First edition 8vo pp. 8 11-285 1 8 ads; frontispiece and 41 photographic illustrations on 19 plates; small scrape on upper cover else near fine in original green cloth gilt-lettered spine. <br/><br/> Hutchinson & Co hardcover books
190952622London: Seeley & Co 1909. First edition in English 8vo pp. xxiv xviii 2 21-504 8 ads; frontispiece 13 plates 5 double-page over 400 illustrations in the text; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine slightly darkened extremities rubbed; good and sound. Fire worship tattooing tests of manhood secret societies head-hunting cannibalism funeral rites etc. <br/><br/> Seeley & Co hardcover books
195013112London: Hollis and Carter 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Second impression. 343 pp indexed with illustrations map endpapers. One corner bumped else a fine copy. Dust jacket has a subtle stain and one short tear. Charles de Foucauld was a French monk who established a mission among the Tuareg people of southern Algeria where "for fifteen years he labored amid incredible hardships and solitude--and never made a convert." His solitary life of service has proved be a lasting inspiration to Catholic fraternal organizations and religious communities. Hollis and Carter hardcover books
1986184685San Francisco & New York: Freedom for South Africa Refugee Campaign 1986. Two brochures folded to 4.25x8.5 inches with basically the same information photos but differing fonts and designs and a short story of Sarah Ngobese. Fundraising brochures for the Ruvu Refugee Community Tanzania. Freedom for South Africa Refugee Campaign unknown books
1898921Chicago: The Werner Company 1898. First Edition. Paper covered Boards. Very good. Frederick Remington. A very good first edition Howes R206. Beveled beige paper covered boards show smudges and uniform staining from much handling. Joint starting about 2 inches from bottom. Mild bowing. All edges gilt. Previous owners' names on first free endpaper and title page. previous owner has made two small fine sketches on resaer pastedown. Semi-neatly inked date of 1900 appears to the right of the word "Remington" on the title page written on it after the book was printed ---- not a publication date. All onionskins and plates present with some waving. Oblong quarto 12" x 9 1/4" tall The first edition and only edition published by Werner appeared only in 1898 due to copyright challenges. No later Werner editions listed in Worldcat or on the market. See Publisher's Weekly Nov. 19 1898: "INJUNCTION AGAINST " REMINGTON'S FRONTIER SKETCHES." Judge Lacombe of the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York issued a temporary injunction on the 16th inst. against the American News Company in an injunction brought by Gen. Nelson A. Miles and Frederic Remington to restrain the News Company from selling a book entitled " Remington's Frontier Sketches." it is claimed in the bill of complaint that this book of sketches is an infringement of the copyright covering " Personal Recollections of Gen. Nelson A. Miles" a book which was published by the Werner Company of Akron Ohio and which was copyrighted by General Miles in 1896. The alleged infringing book purports to be published by the Werner Company. It consists of facsimile reproductions of fifteen sketches made by Frederic Remington as illus trations of General Miles's book. The temporary injunction is accompanied by an order returnable November 25 directing the American News Company to show cause why an injunction should not issue pending the action. It is understood that other booksellers will be proceeded against. Suit will also be begun against the Werner Company." The Werner Company hardcover books
186457313Boston: October 26 1864. Three-page autograph letter signed 8" x 5"; separated at all folds resulting in six separate fragments but without loss of any text. Contained in an old envelope also with some separation at the folds. Luther Briggs 1822-1905 was a prominent Boston architect with many public commissions to his credit among them Liberia College in Monrovia. The letter relays a conversation Frary had with Joseph Jenkins Roberts the first president of Liberia: "President Roberts of Liberia College remarked to me that the College Building designed by you was actually worth more for college purposes than the buildings of the Institution at Fourah Bay Sierra Leone for educating missionaries though the latter cost more than sixty thousand dollars. They were erected by the English Church Missionary Society with I believe some aid from the Government. The building planned by you at Monrovia cost not much more than one third of that amount . As I have said this rests on no documentary evidence being only a remark made incidentally in private conversation. But I have a perfectly clear recollection of the remark and it seems to me worth something as shown that your labors were successful." <br/><br/> October 26 unknown books
19911849Kraus Reprint Limited 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. lxviii 586 pp illustrations 1 folding with map index. Minimal wear to edges name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1899 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. I. Includes the Journal of Sir Thomas Roe and Letters from Roe to the Governor of Surat Lord Carew Lord Southampton King James and others. 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
19911855Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xliii 209 pp folding frontispiece illustration with maps index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1943 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. LXXVIII. Includes sections on the Last East-Indian Voyage Narrative of Thomas Clayborne Nautical Observations Fragment of a Journal Kept in the Ascension and an Exact Discourse of the Subtleties of the East Indians. Kraus Reprint hardcover books
195652624London et al.: published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press 1956. First edition small 8vo pp. xiii 1 166; fine copy in the dust jacket. Includes the Diary of Antera Duke an Efik slave-trading chief of the eighteenth century together with an ethnographic sketch and notes by D. Simmons and an essay on the political organization of old Calabar by G.I. Jones. <br/><br/> published for the International African Institute by the Oxford University Press unknown books
188452579New York: John B. Alden 1884. First edition 12mo pp. 215 1; wood-engraved frontispiece portrait; evidence of pocket removal on rear pastedown label neatly removed from spine name eradicated from front free endpaper; all else very good and sound. <br/><br/> John B. Alden unknown books
193013078New York: Fleming H. Revell 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 223 pp illustrated with line drawings by Oliver Whitwell Wilson. Brown pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Private library stamp on title page and bookplate on front pastedown brief gift inscription on front flyleaf; otherwise a lovely copy with minimal wear. Folklore of the Bura people of northeastern Nigeria. Say Boas in the introduction "Folk tales.are of particular interest because they illustrate with great clarity the mode of thought the homely wisdom and the ethical concepts of the people. In Africa more than among other so-called primitive tribes many a tale illustrates a proverb relating to the proper everyday behavior. The Negro is fond of moralizing by means of moralizing tales." Fleming H. Revell hardcover books
194252567New York: Books Inc. distributed by E.P. Dutton n.d. 1942. 8vo pp. iii-xi 3 499 1; 101 maps in the text; fine copy in original orange cloth gilt-stamped spine in a near fine dust jacket with one shallow chip. <br/><br/> Books, Inc., distributed by E.P. Dutton, n.d. hardcover books
13170London: Marshall Brothers. Hardcover. Good. ND c. 1911. ix 198 pp copiously illustrated with b/w plates. Green cloth boards have moderate wear; front board has a black ink spot. Gift inscription on front endpaper. The Church Missionary Society sent the author to Uganda in 1900 when she was 24 and she married a fellow missionary 2 years later. "The gently pygmies were her favorite converts and the 'Black Baganda' tribesmen of Bunyoro.her favorite storytellers. Her purpose in writing was as much to tell these stories of indigenous Ugandan culture as to proselytize" and "her books are remarkably free of missionary propaganda" according to Robinson Wayward Women P. 161. Marshall Brothers hardcover books
190820467London: Archibald Constable 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-. xvi 403 pp with color frontispiece many illustrations from photographs some folding five folding maps appendices index. Original red cloth boards rubbed at the edges and corners minor damage to cloth at upper spine. Mild spine slant but binding sound text unmarked and clean with almost no foxing. A detailed and beautifully illustrated account of the expedition Filippi led from April to September of 1906 to explore the snow range of Ruwenzori upon the borders of Congo and Uganda in the center of Equatorial Africa. Neate F27 describes this as the "classical reference work on this tropical range" noting that the party succeeded in climbing all of the principal peaks. Archibald Constable hardcover books
196713235London: Frank Cass and Company Ltd 1967. Hardcover. Very Good. Facsimile reprint of second edition 1802. vii 9-287 pp. Red cloth boards are slightly faded and dust soiled; top edge also dust soiled. Binding tight and square contents clean. Frank Cass and Company, Ltd hardcover books
16779Travel Album of over 225 photos from a tour of Europe North Africa and the Middle East in the 1920s; photos from France Italy Egypt Greece Constantinople Istanbul Monaco Switzerland Germany and England. This album takes us to a world of a century ago with 228 original silver gelatin prints 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Original brown cloth boards. 7 1/2 x 12 inches. 100 pages last 8 are blank. Pasted in 22 souvenir postcards of monuments from Brussels the Hague and Milan. c. 1921-1930. Album documents the travels of an American couple on an international vacation. Photos begin with journey leaving New York harbor "Aboard the Vallendam" headed towards France. They land in Cologne and their first stop is in Paris where they document their lodging "Our hotel in Paris "Victoria Palace" and include snapshots of famous landmarks including the Louvre Church of St. Genevieve the Trocadero the Eiffel Tower Tuileries Gardens and the Champ-Elysees. They visit Versailles and Trianon Palace and then travel around France to Rheims Nice and Eze a medieval village. They include many charming photos of coastal views and bucolic countryside.<br/><br/>They make stops at Monaco and Monte Carlo making sure to visit the famous Casino in its prime in the 1920's before boarding the next ship which would carry them across the Mediterranean Sea. Large image of a ship "Theophile Gautier" pasted in with the handwritten caption "Our boat on the Med. Sea and our home for more than two weeks." They sail past Stromboli on the way to Alexandria Egypt where they disembark to travel down the Nile River to Cairo. "Old Cairo and the Nile from the citadel." They visit the Great Pyramids and see the Sphinx. They travel to the Middle East. The next stop is Palestine and Jerusalem where they visit many important religious sites including "Garden of Geshsamine sic" Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Wailing Wall. They also take interest Islamic practices in the city as there is one snapshot of the group seated outside a mosque with the caption: "Group waiting to hear the Mohammedan call to prayer." They also tour Bethlehem Solomon's Quarries and Jewish University before moving on to other places: The Jordan River The Dead Sea Nazareth Galilee and Beirut. They travel on various ways during this time and document many markets and street scenes of a century ago. "Meeting a camel caravan."<br/><br/>They visit ancient sites in Greece such as the ancient city of Smyrna and the island of Rhodes home to the Colossus one of the ancient wonders of the world. Caption for a photo of the island's harbor reads "Rhodes showing the sight site of the ancient Colossus". In Athens they visit the Acropolis and even take a photo where they are standing inside the Parthenon no longer allowed for conservation reasons. They document Hadrian's Arch the Temple of Athena Nike "the wingless victor" Mars Hill the Temple of Theseus and Socrates' prison. They go to Constantinople renamed Istanbul in 1930 and take photos of "The Mosque of St. Sophia" Hagia Sophia. They travel up the boot of Italy with photos of Mt. Vesuvius Naples Rome Milan and Venice. In the capital city they visit the "Tomb of the Italy's Unknown Soldier" erected 1921 and visit the ancient forum in Rome. They take many photos in Venice documenting experiences such as a gondola ride and important landmarks such as St. Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace. The final leg of the trip is an overland journey through the Swiss alps through Lucerne and past the Rhone Glacier. They journey through southern Germany stopping at Baden-Baden Heidelberg and Bonn before making it back to their final destination: England. They go for a tour of Windsor Castle and take in the sights. "Eton College from Windsor." They also visit Oxford University and save two large pages for their photos of Shakespeare's former residences. "Anne Hathaway's Home" and "In the gardens at Stradford on the Avon - Both have Shakespear's sic house". 2 pages are detached. Very good condition. unknown books
1972203641New York: ECSA 1972. Two issues of the staplebound newsletter 8.5x14 inches 10 and 14 pages respectively. Holes punched at left for storage in binder; little impact on text only removing a few letters; some handling wear and toning occasional minor marginalia. Issues present are Ash Wednesday 1972 and Feast of the Nativity 1973. These issues are largely devoted to Namibia. The Episcopal organization pushed for fthe reedom of Namibians to strike and to pursue self-government. ECSA unknown books
195245894Nairobi: East Africa Tourist Travel Association 1952. 3rd ed. revised. Paperback. Very Good. photos double-page map 52p. Wrapper. 19cm. Age-toned. Cover subtitle: "Your Queries Answered." A factbook oriented toward both tourists and prospective immigrants. <br/><br/> East Africa Tourist Travel Association paperback books
1920258323London: Macmillan and Co 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Binding sound; spine slightly cocked; light bumping to extremities; light toning to binding; small mark to front endpapers otherwise no markings in text; illustrated with photographs. Very Good binding. Macmillan and Co unknown books
188052581New York: Atkin & Prout 1880. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 500; frontispiece the tissue guard for which is torn large folding map of North Eastern Africa; original green cloth gilt-stamped spine; spine a little spotted else very good and sound. Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 201-04. <br/><br/> Atkin & Prout hardcover books
194752627Zanzibar: privately printed 1947. Third edition 8vo pp. xii 312; double-page map; original cream cloth lettered in black on spine; some damp to the fore-edge of the upper cover; very good. <br/><br/> privately printed hardcover books
1650WRCAM12694Middleburg 1650. 33pp. Small quarto. Later three-quarter vellum and boards. Very good. This pamphlet includes references to Count Johan Maurits of Nassau and his fame as a soldier in America and Africa and as a governor. There is some mention of the West India Company as well. KNUTTEL 6899. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 650/62. hardcover books
