Afrique

Through Central Africa for the Bible

183New York: Fleming R. Revell Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated but Preface dated 1929. 208 pp illustrations from photographs map frontispiece. "This is just a story! It is not a history or a survey! It is the 'Log of the Lingua' the Bible Society's motor that tours East and Central Africa" foreword. Front hinge cracked; light soiling to boards and edges. No dust jacket. Fleming R. Revell Company hardcover books

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Riley James CaptABAA

What he saw and did in Africa. Being a narrative of the loss of the American brig Commerce wrecked on the western coast of Africa with an account of the sufferings of the surviving officers and crew who were enslaved by the wandering Arabs

187652658New York: World Publishing House 1876. 8vo pp. xiv 15-271 1; wood-engraved frontispiece; bound with as issued: Lamping Clemens. The French in Algiers pp. 4 89 1; bound with as issued: Alby FranÃƒÂ§ois Antoine. The prisoners of Abd-el-Kader pp. 4 93-178; original terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt; a good sound copy or better. World Publishing House hardcover books

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Riesenberg FelixABAA

The Golden Road

1962TB09439New York: McGraw-Hill 1962. Sixth Printing. Fine in decorated black cloth covered boards with a prior owner's name on the first free end paper. In a near fine dust jacket with slight tanning of the spine area. The 4th volume in the Trails of America Series. The trail that started in Mexico and went north up the California coast to San Francisco. McGraw-Hill hardcover books

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Reynolds Alexander JacobABAA

From the Ivory Coast to the Cameroons

192913666London: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 298 pp with 25 photographic illustrations and a folding map. Original blue cloth sunned at the spine. Binding sound text unmarked. No dust jacket. Account of the author's travels in West Africa with detailed and colorful if not always enthusiastic observations on local customs culture and commerce. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books

Walkabout Books · États-Unis32,00 $US≈ 27,08 €

RESEARCH GROUP FOR THE LIBERATION OF PORTUGUESE AFRICAABAA

Dependency and Underdevelopment: Consequences of Portugal in Africa. A Report

197125915Riverside CA: Research Group for the Liberation of Portuguese Africa 1971. First Edition. Folio 27.5cm.; original tape-backed pictorial wrappers; 445pp.; illus. text in double colum. Upper wrapper edges a bit toned else Fine. Study of the negative influence of the Portuguese colonial presence in Angola Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. Research Group for the Liberation of Portuguese Africa unknown books

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Remond GeorgesABAA

Aux camps Turco-Arabes. Notes de route et de guerre en Tripolitaine et en Cyrenaique. Ouvrage illustrÃƒÂ© de 60 gravures tirÃƒÂ©es hors text et de 6 cartes en noir

191349852Paris: Hachette & Cie 1913. First edition wrapper issue; small 4to pp. iii-xii 211 1; numerous photographic illustrations on plates and 5 maps in the text; near fine in original pictorial orange wrappers the spine slightly sunned. Hachette & Cie unknown books

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Reading Joseph H.ABAA

The Ogowe Band A Narrative of African Travel

189011320Philadelphia: Reading and Company 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv 278 pp illustrated with portraits many of Africans maps and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose but none detached. Occasional smudged pages; text otherwise unmarked. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia which took them through Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior. Blockson 1628. Reading and Company hardcover books

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Reading Joseph H.ABAA

The Ogowe band: a narrative of African travel

189052548Philadelphia: Reading and Co 1890. First edition 8vo pp. iii-xv 1 278; frontispiece portrait 64 plates 1 in color and 2 maps; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; slight wear else near fine. The author is described on the title page as the late secretary of the Gabon and Corsico Mission and acting commercial agent for the U.S. "All the scenes and incidents portrayed in this book are true the only fiction consisting in making these the experiences of the Ogowe Band instead of the author. All the descriptions of scenery were copied from diaries written upon the spot and are as accurate as it is possible to make them" preface. Reading and Co hardcover books

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Reade WinwoodABAA

The African sketch-book

187352625London: Smith Elder & Co 1873. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. x 2 483 1; vi 2 529 1 6 ads; 12 maps 3 folding 3 in color 10 wood-engraved plates; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper covers and spine; silver-dollar size rubberstamp on both title pages marked withdrawn similar stamp on p. 217 of vol. I small ink accession numbers on spines old manuscript notes on the recto of the rear free endpaper in vol. I regarding other books of African travel; all else generally very good. Smith, Elder, & Co hardcover books

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RAATS JI.; SOUTH AFRICA BUREAU OF CENSUS AND STATISTICS J. I.ABAA

Official Year Book of the Union and of Basutoland Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland. No. 27 1952-53

195428950Pretoria: Government Printer 1954. First Edition. Large thick octavo 25cm.; original blue printed paper-covered boards; viii1364pp.; folding color map plates folding brochure titled "History of the Kruger National Park" bound in between pp. 54 & 55. Spine slightly sunned else Very Good or better. Government Printer unknown books

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Purchas SamuelABAA

Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others Volume XVI 16

19651807New York: AMS Press 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Glasgow edition. xix 579 pp 1 folding map. Publisher's dark red cloth; no dust jacket. Light shelfwear previous owner's name on front pastedown else fine. Volume XVI only "contayning English Voyages to the East West and South parts of America: many Sea and Land Fights: Plantations in Guiana and many strange adventures of Englishmen amongst the Americans." Includes travels of Sir Francis Drake Peter Carder Thomas Candish Anthony Nivet Robert Harcourt John Lerius and others. AMS Press hardcover books

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Purchas SamuelABAA

Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others Volume VII 7

19911867New York: AMS Press 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Glasgow edition. xix 571 pp with maps. Publisher's dark red cloth; no dust jacket. Light shelfwear lightly bumped top corners previous owner's name on front pastedown else fine. Volume VII only "contayning navigations voyages and discoveries of the Sea-Coasts and In-land regions of Africa which is generally called Æthiopia by Englishmen and others; with peregrinations and travels by land into Palestinia Natolia and Syria." Includes travels of Sir Francis Alvarez Don John of Castro Don John Bermudez Matthew Paris and others. AMS Press hardcover books

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Purchas SamuelABAA

Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others Volume X 10

196517634New York: AMS Press 1965. Hardcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Glasgow edition. xv 525 pp with 1 map. Publisher's dark red cloth; no dust jacket. Light shelfwear previous owner's name on front pastedown else fine. Volume X only "contayning Praeteritorum or Discoveries of the World specially such as in the other Bookes are omitted." Includes travels of Antonio Galvano Caesar Frederick Richard Cocke Gasparo Balbi Thomas Coryat John Huighen van Linschoten and others. AMS Press hardcover books

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Purchas SamuelABAA

Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas His Pilgrimes Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others Volume XIV 14

196517633New York: AMS Press 1965. Hardcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Glasgow edition. xix 591 pp with 8 maps. Publisher's dark red cloth; no dust jacket. Light shelfwear previous owner's name on front pastedown else fine. Volume XIV only "contayning English Northern Navigations and Discoveries Relations of Greeneland Groenland the North-West Passage and other Arcticke Regions and later Russian Occurents; with a Description of the West Indies by Antonio Herrera." Includes travels of Jonas Poole William Baffin Robert Fotherby Robert Salmon John Catcher George Weymouth and others. AMS Press hardcover books

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Prinz von Maximilian Wied; Carl Bodmer; Donelly R. R. & SonsABAA

Travels in the Interior of North America

1955706Chicago: The Lakeside Press 1955. Advance Reading Copy. Wraps. Very good . Carl Bodmer. Untitled prospectus for a limited edition reprint of the book Travels in the Interior of North America by Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1832-34. Illustrated wrappers. With reproductions of paintings and drawings by Swiss artist Carl Bodmer who accompanied Maximilian. Excerpts from the proposed book and an invitation to readers for comments. Color reproduction of pronghorned antelope aquatint by Bodmer on cover. No record of the book having actually been published available. 10 pp. Quarto 12 x 9 inches tall. The Lakeside Press paperback books

Uncommon Works, IOBA, ABAA, ILAB · États-Unis40,00 $US≈ 33,84 €

Pinto Serpa Major Alexandre deABAA

How I crossed Africa: from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean through unknown countries; discovery of the great Zambesi affluents &c. Abridged from the original London edition which was translated from the author's manuscript by Alfred Elwes . Part I: The King's Rifle. Part II: The Coillard family. Published by subscription only

188158022Hartford: R. W. Bliss and Co 1881. Subscription edition abridged from the original London edition; 2 volumes in 1 pp. xiii 14-406 2 ads; with a map showing the author's route from Benguella to Durban and more than 60 engraved illustrations including 23 full-page plates; original plum cloth stamped in gilt on front board and spine; spine sunned but fully legible a bit of staining to front board corners bumped. Internally fine. Serpa Pinto a Portuguese explorer recorded details of much terrain previously unknown to Europeans. He was the fourth explorer to cross Africa from west to east and "was the first to lay down with accuracy the route between Bihe and Lialui" Britannica 11th ed. R. W. Bliss and Co hardcover books

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Pinto Serpa Major Alexandre deABAA

How I crossed Africa: from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean through unknown countries; discovery of the great Zambesi affluents &c. Abridged from the original London edition which was translated from the author's manuscript by Alfred Elwes . Part I: The King's Rifle. Part II: The Coillard family. Published by subscription only

188152612Hartford: R. W. Bliss and Co 1881. 8vo pp. xiii 1 15-406 2 ads; wood-engraved frontispiece wood-engravings throughout many full-page; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front hinge cracked spine ends slightly chipped some spotting and rubbing; a good sound copy. R. W. Bliss and Co hardcover books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis172,50 $US≈ 145,95 €

Peters Carl DrABAA

New light on dark Africa: being the narrative of the German Emin Pasha expedition its journeyings and adventures among the native tribes of eastern equatorial Africa the Gallas Massais Wasukuma . on the Lake Baringo and the Victoria Nyanza . Translated from the German by H. W. Dulcken

189152582London & New York: Ward Lock & Co 1891. First edition in English large 8vo pp. xviii 597 1; folding map in back cover pocket gravure frontispiece portrait 32 plates 50 illustrations in the text; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt white and black; spine ends chipped small break in the cloth on the lower joint one gathering extended; all else good and sound or better. Czech Africa p. 128: "A German counterpart to Henry M. Stanley's notable work In Darkest Africa this represents Peters' journey to find Emin Pasha on the Upper Nile but approach from Africa's east coast . This work is wonderfully illustrated particularly regarding the battles waged between the expedition and hostile tribes." Ward, Lock, & Co hardcover books

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Paul Chrisler Phillips; JW. Smurr J. W.ABAA

The Fur Trade. Complete in Two Volumes.

1961920Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good . A very near fine first edition complete in two volumes in a very good plus original slipcase. Publisher's orginal tan buckram with brown and gilt titling. Binding is strong sturdy and square on both volumes no writing no nameplates clean and bright inside. There are five tiny coffee drop stains on the front cover of volume I. In volume 2 two pages of the index have a dog ear fold which has been straightened out. The slpcase is very good: it has the original labels and shows a short bump on the front left lower corner. There is a minute area on the top edge where the slipcase paper has started to peel but all paper still present. These books look good smell good and are an important read on the history of the North American fur trade. xxvi 686 & viii 696 pp.indexed and illustrated with a bibliography.Octavo 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches tall. In her introduction to the 1954 edition of Hiram Martin Chittenden's The American Fur Trade of the Far West Grace Lee Nute Research Associate of the Minnesota Historical Society noted how well Chittenden's work has stood the test of time since its publication in 1902 but suggested that because of the specialized monographs published since that time "a vast literature is now at hand for anyone capable of welding it into a unified comprehensive history of the fur trade of the North American continent." The attempt has now been made and the result is a qualified success. Paul Chrisler Phillips devoted his life to the task; he died before its completion. J. W. Smurr provides the concluding chapters to this massive two volume work. Publication of the book handsomely accomplished by the Oklahoma University Press has been aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation. Here is the entire history of the North American fur trade from its inception as a gleam in the eye of European explorers and merchant-adventurers to its decline in the mid-nineteenth century with the shift in consumer interest to cheap textiles. The story is told in a basically chronological form although the vast area of the trade and the variety of European and American traders who conducted it require a constant process of starting again and again in time. The research is exhaustive. Though based principally on printed primary sources extensive use has been made of manuscript materials. Let it be said at once that Phillips' study helps correct the view held by most about the importance of the fur trade in inciting maintaining and expanding European settlement in North America. The evidence marshaled by Phillips goes far to prove that the lowly "trade" so readily ignored or slighted by kings at the time and by historians later played a more important role than is normally assigned to it. Indeed one can wonder whether the very establishment of English and French colonies on North American soil would have been accomplished but for the existence of fur-bearing animals and the Indian who was willing to trap them and exchange their pelts for European goods. Nevertheless by concentrating so exclusively on the fur trade Phillips tends to see all political movement in terms of a struggle for beaver. The Great War for Empire between France and Great Britain is presented in such a context as are other events which may perhaps legitimately be assigned more complicated origins. The integration of the sources mined by Phillips and the formal expression of his interpretation of them leave something to be desired. The sentences except in Smurr's concluding chapters flow in a harsh monotony. In a two volume work the unvarying style and the massive accumulation of fact become burdensome to the reader. The text is unrelieved by sensitive passages of summary interpretation or imaginative insight. The personalities of the traders do not "live" as they do in Chittenden's still useful though geographically and temporally more limited history. The book is splendidly illustrated with many original drawings of furbearing animals by Mary Baker as well as with more conventional illustrations drawn from a variety of sources. It has excellent maps. It is well designed and carefully printed. Its two volumes are indexed and paged separately. The indexing is reasonably full but as is usually the case in university-oriented publications it omits direct reference to the material objects trade goods costume items etc. associated with the trade and thus makes the museum scholar create his own index. In sum the book is a significant achievement and an important contribution to our knowledge of our past. ---- WILCOMB E. WASHBURN of the Smithsonian Institution in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 86 No. 2 Apr. 1962 pp. 210-212 University of Oklahoma Press hardcover books

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PATON Alan contr. AMERICAN COMMITTEE ON AFRICAABAA

Africa Today Vol. IV no. 6 November-December 1957

195738052New York: American Committee on Africa 1957. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled rear cover postally used with "Return to Sender" rubberstamp else Near Very Good and sound. Includes two contributions by the South African novelist Alan Paton including the poem "My Great Discovery. American Committee on Africa] unknown books

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Parsons Ellen C.ABAA

A Life for Africa Rev. Adolphus Clemens Good

189713079New York: Fleming H. Revell 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp with frontis portrait 19 illustrations and 2 maps 1 folding. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Spine cocked brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else very good. Good served as a Presbyterian missionary in West Africa from 1882 until his death in 1894. He traveled extensively in the region learning the Bulu language and making a study of native religious beliefs. He also collected entomological specimens on behalf of W.J. Holland of the Western University of Pennsylvania who contributed an Appendix to the book. Fleming H. Revell hardcover books

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Parkyns MansfieldABAA

Life in Abyssinia: being notes collected during three years' residence and travels in that country

185352524London: John Murray 1853. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xv 1 425 1; iv 432; folding map with route outlined in red 18 plates plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; recent half maroon morocco gilt-decorated spines in 6 compartments gilt-lettered direct in 2; old institutional rubberstamp in bottom margin of title pages both frontispieces a bit dampstained but overall a fine-looking copy. John Murray unknown books

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Parke Thomas HeazleABAA

My personal experiences in equatorial Africa as medical officer of the Emin Pasha Relief Expeditions

189152554London: Sampson Low Marston & Co 1891. First edition 8vo pp. xxvi 2 526; folding color map in rear cover pocket partially split at central fold but no loss 18 plates; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; the binding is quite worn and the extremities rubbed but the book is remarkably sound. Sampson Low, Marston & Co hardcover books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis143,75 $US≈ 121,63 €

Park MungoABAA

Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed in the years 1795 1796 and 1797. With an account of a subsequent mission to that country in 1805.To which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park. A new edition

181652526London: printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co 1816. 2 volumes 8vo pp. xx 551 1; xvi cxlix 1 cli-clxxvii 3 cliii-cviii i.e. ccvii 301 1 2 ads; large folding map with Park's routes hand-colored in outline; later quarter tan calf gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; a handsome and sound copy. Includes a Mandingo vocabulary at the back of volume I. Mungo Park 1771-1806 was the first European to reach the headwaters of the Niger following the river almost to the Senegal valley. His journal includes a detailed description of travel conditions natural history rivers and the customs of the various tribes. "Park's Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature and its scientific observations on the botany and meteorology of the region and on the social and domestic life of the negroes have remained of lasting value. Park's career was short but he made the first great practical advance in the opening-up of Central Africa" PMM 253 citing the first edition of 1799. Cox I 394. printed for John Murray by W. Bulmer and Co unknown books

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