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182613060London: John Murray 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Two volumes in one. lxvii 335; 269 pp complete with 38 engraved plates 1 colored and maps 1 folding 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Rebound in red buckram with leather spine label date erroneously printed as 1836 at foot. Occasional minor foxing and offsetting one closed tear to map.In hopes of tracing the course of the Niger River Denham's expedition crossed the desert along the long-established Sahara trade route to the kingdom of Bornu later Nigeria a route littered with the skeletons of thousands of slaves abandoned there over the centuries. They sighted Lake Chad and reached the capital of Bornu where they were welcomed by a spectacular array of some five thousand horsemen sent by the Muslim prophet who ruled Bornu in the king's name. Though delighted to meet them he refused to let them continue their explorations lest they meet some misadventure for which he would be blamed. Ultimately the expedition returned to England having failed to find the Niger but having opened much of north central Africa to European knowledge. Written in a lively style and embellished with engravings of Denham's own sketches this account became one of the classics of its genre DNB. Denham was later appointed lieutenant-governor of the colony of Sierra Leone where he died of the African fever in 1828. John Murray 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
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
197139055Berkeley:: University of California Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 0520017226 . First edition. Near fine in a very good minor edge wear price clipped dust jacket. . University of California Press, hardcover books
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." <br/><br/> Ward, Lock, & Co hardcover books
192058321Cairo: Government Press 1920. 2 volumes folio pp. ix 7 262; volume II is a portfolio containing 16 loose folding plates plans surveys and maps some in color; folding color frontispiece map in volume I 7 tables 6 folding numerous tables and graphs in the text; original printed green paper-covered boards green cloth shelfbacks which are cracked chipped and on the second volume loose; but the text and all the illustrative material are fine throughout. Murdoch 1866-1957 a civil engineer assistant engineer on the first Aswan Dam project director-general of irrigation for the Egyptian Government subsequently Under Secretary of State for Public Works and finally adviser to Egypt's Minister of Public Works served in Egypt for 23 years. He was responsible for the planning and completion of overall drainage schemes for lower Egypt which finally dealt with about 3000000 acres. He also designed the Sennar Dam on the Blue Nile and put into operation the first stages of the Gezira irrigation schemes for the conversion of virgin land in the Sudan for cotton growing. His detailed report Nile Control published in 1920 was an early valuable guide to the effective water resource management of the Nile. <br/><br/> Government Press hardcover books
1964155London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. xiv 174 pp with principal dates index. "Here are chiefs kings poor scholars and soldiers. Sir Rex Niven writes of them and of their achievements with the humanity and deep understanding bred of his own long experience of Africa and her affairs" dust jacket. Light dust soiling to edges; else clean sound and tightly bound. Dust jacket has slight shelf wear. G. Bell and Sons, Ltd hardcover books
183952178London: printed for private circulation only by J. L. Cox and Sons 1839. 4to pp. 8 213; engraved frontispiece 2 other engraved plates; original brown cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover and spine; covers dampstained and the yellow-coated endpapers possibly renewed; all else very good and sound. The book was posthumously published. Having previously travelled in Italy Poland Russia Arabia Palestine Syria Canada and the United States Davidson 1797-1836 visited Fez and Marrakesh in Morocco and was on his way to Timbuktu when he was ambushed robbed and shot dead. His expedition continued onward to Timbuktu but were never heard from again. The interesting appendix contains extracts from letters written by Davidson and others to the Royal Geographical Society various locations in Morocco and the Sahara. See Howgego 1800-1850 D-4 p. 159 for details. <br/><br/> printed for private circulation only [by] J. L. Cox and Sons hardcover books
1994181593Johannesburg: NUM 1994. Newspaper. Two issues of the publication 8p. each in the format of a tabloid newspaper but printed in color on glossy paper with many photos. December issue has horrendous cover photos of diseased teeth from exposure to sulphiric acid in the mining process. Articles on labor disputes mine safety Cuba solidarity and more. NUM unknown books
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
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
191252521New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: T. Fisher Unwin 1912. First edition 8vo pp. 6 ix-xxiv 295 1; folding map and 56 photographic illustrations on 48 plates; light wear at the extremities especially the lower corners and very slight cracking at the top of the spine; original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons; London: T. Fisher Unwin hardcover books
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
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
193013242New York: Payson and Clark Ltd 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 338 pp with pictorial endpapers and drawings by Binder. Spine very slightly sunned else a fine copy. Dust jacket is lightly dust soiled and edgeworn and has some internal reinforcement with tape. A novel based on the author's experience living among the Didinga people of East Africa. Payson and Clark Ltd hardcover books
197037294N.p.: S.i. ca.1970's. Original illustrated poster silkscreened in red black and green on white stock measuring 47cm x 60cm 18.5" x 23.5cm. Tack holes to all corners masking tape remnants and inked name on verso with wear and a few short tears to extremities and an old dampstain along lower half of left edge; Very Good unbacked / B-. Attractive rustic image of two African women clapping beneath a quote from António Agostinho Neto 1922-1979. Neto served as the first President of Angola having led the MPLA in the war for independence. Known for his contributions to literature he is considered Angola's preeminent poet. The text quoted along the lower half is from his poem "Sculptural Hands": "I see beyond Africa / love emerging virgin in each mouth / in invincible lianas of spotaneous life / and sculptural hands linked together / against the demolishing waterfalls of old / Beyond this tiredness in other continents / Africa alive I feel it in the sculptural hands / of the strong who are people and roses and bread and future." Not found in OCLC though we note an example held at OMCA. S.i. 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
189313102Toronto: Star Printing and Publishing 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Original blue cloth puckered in spots rubbed through at corners and spine ends. Binding sound contents clean. 353 pp with 51 gravure plates but lacking the folding map. The author traversed the Marotse country and visited the Gonye and Victoria Falls and continued to Bechuanaland Matabeleland and Mashonaland Mendelssohn I p. 788. "Despite Johnston's hunter-like attire and pose in the frontispiece this work is primarily one of travel. He does embark on hunts after hartebeest impala and ostrich and describes a lion hunt near Salisbury" Czech p. 146. Star Printing and Publishing hardcover books
1994244788New York: Judelson 1994. Limited. hardcover. very good. 19 full page color illustrations plus black & white text illustions. text in two sections of 47pp. one in Englsh one in Russian. 8vo three panelled linen-backed boards inside front panel has pasted down envelope containing two folded posters. New York: Paul Judelson Arts and Moscow: Avant-Garde 1994. A very good copy.<br/><br/> One of 1500 copies. Published in conjunction with Afrika's 1995 exhibition at the Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst MAK<br/><br/> Judelson unknown books
1728BOOKS00671225144 contents and errata2 pages with 2 folding maps lacks frontispiece. Small Quarto 10" x 7 3/4". Rebacked in the 19th century leather retaining the original spine with raised bands and gilt decorative stamping and lettering to spine. Translated from the original Portuguese manuscripts by Jackim le Grande. First edition.<br /><br />Born in Lisbon he entered the Order of Jesus at the age of sixteen. In 1621 he was ordered as a missionary to India and in 1622 he arrived at Goa. With the intention of proceeding to Abyssinia whose Negus emperor Segued had been converted to Roman Catholicism by Pedro Páez he left India in 1624. He disembarked on the coast of Mombasa and attempted to reach his destination through the Galla country but was forced to return. In 1625 he set out again accompanied by Mendez the patriarch of Ethiopia and eight missionaries. The party landed on the coast of the Red Sea and Lobo settled in Abyssinia as superintendent of the missions in Tigre. He remained there until death deprived the Catholics of their protector the emperor Segued. Forced by persecution to leave the kingdom in 1634 Lobo and his companions fell into the hands of the Turks at Massawa who sent him to India to procure a ransom for his imprisoned fellow-missionaries. In this he was successful but could not induce the Portuguese viceroy to send an armament against Abyssinia. Intent upon accomplishing this cherished project he embarked for Portugal and after he had been shipwrecked on the coast of Natal and captured by pirates arrived at Lisbon. Neither at this city however nor at Madrid and Rome was any countenance given to Lobo's plan. He accordingly returned to India in 1640 and was elected rector and afterwards provincial of the Jesuits at Goa. After some years he returned to his native city and died there January 29 1678.<br /><br />Lobo wrote an account of his travels in Portuguese which appears never to have been printed but is deposited in the monastery of St. Roque Lisbon. Balthazar Telles made large use of the information therein in his Historia geral da Ethiopia a Alta Coimbra 1660 often erroneously attributed to Lobo see Machado's Bibliotheca Lusitana. Lobo's own narrative was translated from a manuscript copy into French in 1728 by the Abbe Joachim le Grand under the title of Voyage historique d'Abissinie. In 1669 a translation by Sir Peter Wyche of several passages from a manuscript account of Lobo's travels was published by the Royal Society translated in Melchisédech Thévenot<i>Relation des voyages</i> in 1673. An English abridgment of Le Grand's edition by Dr. Johnson was published in 1735 reprinted 1789. In a <i>Mémoire justificatif en réhabilitation des pères. Pierre Paëz et Jérôme Lobo</i> Dr. C. T. Beke maintains against Bruce the accuracy of Lobo's statements as to the source of the Abai branch of the Nile. See A. de Backer <i>Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus</i> edited by C. Sommervogel iv. 1893.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Old stamp and inscription on title page first folding map conspicuously restored second map tear restored else a very good copy notes to front end paper in period pen else about very good. La Veuve d'Antoine-Urbain Co hardcover 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
195881093Rufisque: Imprimerie du Haut Commissariat 1958. Paperback. Very Good. 7 vols. Serie A B D E F G et H a T. Wrappers. 25cm. Covers unevenly browned. Contents sound and clean. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate inside front covers. French text. Serie G is actually a series of 9 slender booklets in a paper sleeve; the other six are single volumes. <br/><br/> Imprimerie du Haut Commissariat paperback books
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
197148288Cambridge MA: Africa Research Group 1971. Reprint. Slim octavo 21.5cm; illustrated wrappers stapled; 12pp. Tiny nick to lower edge of front wrapper else Near Fine. An expose of the repression experienced in Ethiopia by the Ethiopian Students Union in North America. "Ethiopia is often portrayed as a country with a glorious tradition of rich and enduring civilization.But this image leaves out too much. Beneath the picturesque medievalism of kings and queens lies the overwhelming reality of the misery of our people who have borne the burden of this pageantry. The Ethiopian masses who made heroic sacrifices to safeguard the nation's independence have become subject to the most oppressive internal domination" from introduction. Africa Research Group unknown books
1995TB03776New York: Random House 1995. First Edition. First printing Fine In a fine dust jacket. By the author of The Russians. Random House unknown books
