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200222729Republic of the Gambia : United Nations Development Programme 2002. Group of United Nations Development Program UNDP materials includes: 1 September 2002 Second Draft The Government's Implementation of the Governance Programme and UNDP Support in The Gambia; A Consultant's Report Prepared by Prof. Haroub Othman Inst. of Development Studies Univ. of Dar es Salaam Tanzania; v 68 pages printed one side only; contents including political and constitutional history Independence & First Republic changes of 1994 Second Republic and details concerning good governance - civic education justice legislative bodies ombudsman army & security forces education political parties tentative work plan; with a few corrections and crossings-out in the text evidently a work-in-progress; a sticky note on cover states "To - R.R. Prof. Othman will finalize the report upon receipt of our final comments." spiral bound with clear plastic cover light wear in very good condition; 2 UNDP Working Paper Reflections on UNDP-Funded Projects in The Gambia: 2002-2003; Banjul The Gambia April 2003; 25 pages; glossy magazine format; color illustrations; topics inlcuding reports on fighting against social and economic exclusion UN volunteers in decentralisation and poverty reduction youth employment for environmental rehabilitation partnership to control and prevent HIV/AIDS sustaining livelihoods in rural areas more; with reference page; with preface and summary by John O. Kokonge UNDP resident representative & coordinator of the UN system; front cover photographs Manneh Kunda Kambeng Kafoo; Pupils of St. Theresa's Junior Secondary School with the President of the UN General Assembly; light wear; in very good condition; 3 Office of the United Nations ' Resident Co-Ordinator in The Gambia Synthesis of The Gambia - UN Country Team Development Forum 2003 Volume II March 2004; 30 pages; contents include: key issues for Gambia; volunteering in sustainable development; ownership in sustainable development; role of culture; with conclusions and recommendations list of contributors printed at UN House 5 Kofi Annan Street Cape Point Banjul; light wear; in very good condition; 4 Deepening our Partnerships: Reflections on UNDP - Funded Projects in The Gambia Volume II UNDP Working Paper Banjul The Gambia September 2004; 23 pages; color-illustrated magazine format; with preface and summary by John O. Kokonge; contents including national governance programme economic management HIV/AIDS natural disasters emergency procedures; policy and private sector development gender equality more; front cover illustration of UN Volunteer Mrs. Rose Clair-Charles and others at the Santa Yalla Support Society's Open Day; light wear; in very good condition; 5 The Gambia 2004 Seventh Round Table Conference Accelerating Implementation of The Gambia's PSRP Discussion Document draft: 8 Sep. 04 Brussels 2 November 2004; v 29 pages; printed one side only; with charts and graphs illustrating various aspects of the discussions at the conference including improving the enabling policy environment to promote economic growth and poverty reduction enhancing productive capacity and social protection of the poor and vulnerable; improving the coverage of unmet basic needs of the poor; building the capacity for local people-centered development through decentralization; mainstreaming gender equity environmental issues nutrition governance and HIV/AIDS awareness into all development programmes; with reference documents PRSP Policy and Implementation Matrix; spiral bound with clear plastic cover light wear in very good condition; 6 Republic of The Gambia the Gambia 2005 Seventh Round Table conference The Impact Assessment of the Growing Public Domestic Debt on the Gambian Economy Discussion Paper ; Sahel Invest Management Int. Bakau Newtown - Client UNDP Bakau March 2005; illustrated with economic graphs and charts illuminating the discussion; contents including macroeconomic performance during the period 1993 - 2003 factors underlying the growth of the public domestic debt; composition of the debt stock by instrument type and holder; sustainability ratios; impact of domestic debt & debt service on overall macroeconomic management; debt restructuring and reduction; reorganization and strengthening of the institutional framework for public domestic debt management; conclusions and recommendations; terms of reference & documents; spiral bound with clear plastic cover light wear in very good condition 2 copies; all of these in very good condition and of interest for the economic and social political history of The Gambia at the time. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. United Nations Development Programme Paperback books
197629006Mexico: n.p. 1976. First edition. Paper wrappers. Near fine copies with only a little rubbing at the corners. 8vo. In Spanish English or French. Includes Seminars volume plus 5 of 7 Abstracts volumes: 3. South Asia; Asia del sur.-4. SouthEast Asia Sudeste Asiatico.-5. China. Chine-6. Japan and Korea Japon y Corea.-7. Interarea. n.p. unknown books
195514781New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Good. First American edition first published in Great Britain in 1954 under the title "Orellana". xvii 354 pp with bibliography map. Lower corners lightly bumped else a fine copy with review slip laid in. Dust jacket ihas chipping short tears and some internal tape repairs. A fictionalized account described on the jacket as "an exciting and vivid reconstruction of the expedition of the first white men to descend the Amazon and to accomplish a journey from the Pacific to the Atlantic across South America--from Peru to Trinidad" under the leadership of Francisco de Orellana. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover 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
1847WRCAM52605New York: Showden & Prall 1847. 94pp. Original half morocco and marbled boards printed title label on front board. Spine perished boards and front endleaves detached. Tanned scattered foxing. Good. The earliest Mpongwe imprint for use among missionaries in Africa compiled by those working at the Gabun Mission operated by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Mpongwe was spoken along the Gabun and Ogowe rivers in French Equatorial Africa. Not in Darlow & Moule. Showden & Prall hardcover books
195419797New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1954. Second edition fully revised 8vo pp. xxix 3 634; with 200 illustrations and maps; original black cloth decorated in gilt dust-jacket; about fine in very good jacket with some fading at the spine and light edgewear. An important and popular book by one of the great Orientalists. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover 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
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
186452523London: Tinsley Brothers 1864. Second edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvii 3 7-386; vi 413 1; wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume; original dark purple cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover gilt lettering direct on spine; both spines sunned and spotted back cover of vol. I also spotted; all else very good and sound. In 1863 Burton went to Dahomey as a representative of the British government to persuade the King to stop his participation in the slave trade and human sacrifice. For the first edition see Spink 31; Penzer pp. 72-74; and Casada 47: "Thanks in part to the sensational nature of its subject matter this is one of the better known of Burton's works on Africa." <br/><br/> Tinsley Brothers 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
187114190Philadelphia: Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1871. Hardcover. Near fine. Reprint complete in one volume. vi 9-434 pp. Publisher's green cloth with blind-stamped decoration gilt lettering on spine. Minor rubbing to corners previous owner's name and date on front flyleaf; otherwise unmarked clean and sound. Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger hardcover books
189952559London: Chapman & Hall 1899. Second edition 8vo pp. xiv 365 1; frontispiece portrait and 28 plates 3 maps and plans; some rubbing of the binding but generally very good and sound in original green cloth stamped in gilt and with a red seal on the upper cover. Neufeld was imprisoned for 12 years in Omdurman after the fall of Khartoum. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
189920473New York: Harper and Brothers 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xxiii 940 ads with many plates including one folding panorama portraits and five folding maps. Plates are from photos by the author and drawings by R.W. Macbeth Clifford Carleton Harry C. Edwards E.F.W. Frohawk. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering illustration on upper board. Light soiling to boards and rubbing to corners early ownership inscription on front pastedown closed tear repaired on verso one map. Binding sound text clean. Narrative of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition which "sailed in the Windward to Franz Josef Land established winter quarters at Cape Flora Northbrook Island Sept. 1894 and repained for three years.Throughout this period the party made sledge journeys in the archipelago surveyed made scientific collections and kept a meterological record. The author's journal p 5-775 records day by day.the course of the expedition describes in detail the hunting weather ice conditions the polar night and its effects pony and dog sledging the terrain health food etc" Arctic Bib. 7943. Harper and Brothers 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
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
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
19691840Amsterdam: N. Israel 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes in one. pp 70 80 illustrations 3 b/w folding 2 in color. A fine copy in original clear plastic jacket. Bibliotheca Austaliana #64. Facsimile reprint of the 1806 London edition. N. Israel hardcover 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
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
13125Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated c. 1843. From the tenth London edition revised and corrected. xii 392 pp 10 pp publisher's ads. Text printed in double columns. Quarter red leather over marbled boards. Leather scuffed rubbed through at corners. Owner's signature dated 1850 on front free endpaper. Binding solid minor foxing else clean. Account of the British diplomatic mission led by Harris to establish relations with the ancient Christian kingdom of Shoa in the highlands of Ethiopia. They succeeded in negotiating a commercial treaty and also collected considerable scientific data during the journey. Harris was knighted for his services in 1844. T.B. Peterson hardcover books
191213232Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp. xvii 315 in attracticve original cloth decorated with map of Africa on front board trees on spine. Illustrated with plates from photographs and a double-page map. Spine lightly sunned else minimal wear. A.C. McClurg & Co hardcover books
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
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
185613245London: Seeley Jackson and Halliday 1856. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Third thousand. vi 272 pp with color frontis in original blind-stamped cloth. Corners bumped chipping to head of spine bits of old paper stuck to front board. Occasional foxing otherwise clean and sound. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday 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
