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1900ZB336943London: South Africa Conciliation Committee 1900. 16 pp. extracted from larger bound volume good. softcover. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. London: South Africa Conciliation Committee paperback
186638290Salem OR: W.A. McPherson State Printer 1866. Hardcover. Very Good. Each 110 and 118 pages respectively. Preliminary and ending blank leaves removed. Several small date stamps and contemporary signature. Bound in half leather over marbled covers. A near very good copy with cover wear. <br/> <br/> W.A. McPherson, State Printer hardcover
1879516731879. South Africa. Cape of Good Hope. Acts of the Parliament of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope Sessions 1879 1880 1881 1882. Cape Town: Soul Salomon and Co 1879-1882. Four books in one with individual paginations. Octavo 6" x 9-1/2". Four books in printed wrappers bound into later quarter cloth over marbled boards with typewritten spine label. Some rubbing to spine ends with minor chip to head of spine. Ex-library. Location label to spine small inkstamp to title page. $125. The Cape Colony was established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. After occupying the colony from 1795-1803 Great Britain assumed formal control in 1806. British possession was recognized by the Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1814. A parliament was established in 1854. It existed until the colony was incorporated into the Union of South Africa in 1910. South Africa became an independent republic in 1961. These volumes offer valuable insight into the administration of the colony in its final decades. No complete sets and few individual volumes listed on OCLC. Sweet & Maxwell A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth 7:124. unknown
1972001667Internationale Des Americanistes 1972. Vol 2. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Internationale Des Americanistes 1972. Rome 3- 10 September 1972 Volume 2 - 677 pages. Text Italian English Spanish. German etc Contents include papers on Theory and Methodolgy Ethnography Structure and Cultural factors of change and language of the Carribean Cutural transformation on the Indigieous Indians Costums and Religion Hayley's Comet Panpipes and The PAcific Polish Collections Bororo Myth Stone Medicine Wheel Monuments Ontario Indians etc. etc Condition - slight cover wear & inside signature of previous owner otherwise very good . Vol 2. Paperback. Good/No Jacket. <br/><br/> Internationale Des Americanistes hardcover
1989026655London Lagos Port Harcourt: Saros International Publishers 1989. Book. Near Fine. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Near Fine Mild wear to spine ends/Very Good Edgewear 3cm tear to rear panel top edge near spine hinge; 8mm tear with associated crease to front panel bottom edge; some indentations & scuffing to the panel surfaces. Nigerian author's second collection of short stories. Saros Star Series 08. Expanded condition report on request. Saros International Publishers Hardcover
198987474Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 1989. Gebunden mit Schutzumschlag. Cambridge Univ. Press unknown
199086095Bonn: carthaus 1990. Gebunden. carthaus unknown
199921077New Delhi: Prabhat 1999. Gebunden mit Schutzumschlag. Prabhat unknown
19114821London: Constable 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Fergusson W. ADVENTURE SPORT AND TRAVEL ON THE TIBETAN STEPPES 1911 London 342 pp. Large foldout map 80 Ill. Travel and hunting. Internally very nice and tight. Orig. pict. Orig. printed cloth. Corners bumped hinges loose but binding folding firm. The book is vg only. Constable hardcover
18560006152New York: Derby & Jackson 1856. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. frontispiece illustrated title-page 6 plates. Duodecimo 432 pages blind embossed brown cloth featuring the head of a male lion spine darkened scuffed some wear foxing <br/><br/>"The book is written in simple words telling of great successes and hand to hand battles with the lion and portraying a hunter's feelings his anxieties and pleasures with literal fidelity - Introduction by the translator." Gerard was credited with killing 25 lions in 11 years around Algeria. He also nurtured a lion cub and raised it. He also describes panthers jackals hyenas stags antelope hawking wild boar etc. Whitehead was a New York lawyer and avid hunter too who authored CAMP-FIRES OF THE EVERGLADES. Frontispiece illustrated title-page 6 plates Derby & Jackson hardcover
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
2008014967Paris: Artcurial 2008. This is a near fine softcover copy with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out except for a discrete small handstamp from one of the major New York museums on the lower part of the title-page. Complete with DVD attached to inside rear cover. Text in French. This is a sale catalog the first one in a series on the history of French aviation. The sale was held in Paris at the Hotel Marcel Dassault on October 11-12 2008. Sale number: 01533. The first part of the sale marked 1ere Partie had three sections: 1 letters and manuscripts of Jean Mermoz; and 2 material documenting the Bleriot Type XI plane; and 3 Collection Monsieur A. et a divers. Jean Mermoz 1901- 1936 was a French aviator viewed as a hero by other pilots such as Antoine de Saint-Exupery and in his native France where many schools bear his name. He first met Antoine de Saint Exupery when they both worked at the Compagnie Générale Aéropostale. In 1933 Mermoz was appointed inspector general by Air France. That same year he arrived in Buenos Aires Argentina where he and Saint-Exupéry both worked for Aeroposta Argentina which would later become Aerolíneas Argentinas. Mermoz and Saint-Exupéry flew many dangerous flights for the then new air company. Unfortunately during a flight on December 7 1936 Mermoz was lost at sea. The second section of the sale contained photographs posters and other graphic ephemera about the Bleriot Type XI plane. including one of these actual planes dubbed "Traversee de la Manche" from 1909. There is a last section of the sale marked 2eme Partie which contained more French aviation photographs posters and ephemera. 385 lots in the complete sale. All illustrated in color. Bibliography. 11" high X 9" wide 122 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking. . Soft Cover. Near Fine. Artcurial Paperback
197164226Chicago: Third World Press 1971. First printing 8vo pp. 24; original printed wrappers light wear at edges else near fine. Menkiti's first collection of poetry published by Haki R. Madhubuti's Third World Press in 1971 in Chicago. Third World Press unknown
19291915London: G Bell 1929. First. Hardcover. VG. from Darius to Amanulla. 359 pp ill large folding map in rear. Interesting history of Afghanistan. Nice association copy. From the library of Col Richard Meinertzhagen noted British military officer and author with his bookplate and then with Christmas presentation inscription to his nephew Luke from Uncle Dick Xmas 1929. VG copy. G Bell hardcover
1965253469Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan 1965. Hardcover ohne Schutzumschlag Die Jahresangabe ist ungefähr. Zustand: keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen berieben abgeschabt. Ministry of Planning of the Royal Government of Afghanistan, hardcover
1830176607London.: Robert Jennings. 1830. Engraved map 11.5 x 14.3 cm showing route of European explorers faint added outline colour in an early hand and manuscript note to the verso in the same ink edges age-toned but in very good condition. Detailed pre-colonial map of Africa "Regions Unexplored" marked and "no fresh water to be found" on the west coast. An early manuscript inscription on the verso refers to Lander's ."wanderings of Clapperton" the Scottish naval officer and explorer. Richard Lander had returned with Hugh Clapperton's journal following his death and the account was published in the same year as Fenner's "Pocket Atlas of Modern & Ancient Geography" for which this map was prepared. . (Robert Jennings) unknown
1894177068Chicago.: Geo. F. Cram. 1894. Chromolithographed maps 54.3 x 34.1 cm sheet central fold a few small edge tears and marginal age toning but in very good condition. Detailed maps prepared for George F. Cram's 1894 "Standard American Atlas": one of the first American firms to publish a world atlas. Maps of Oceania and South Africa printed on the verso. . Geo. F. Cram. unknown
1877177229New York.: Ivison Blakeman Taylor & Co. circa1877. Printed colour map 27.5 x 21.7 cm large inset of Northern Africa and a smaller of Southern Africa two small edge tears lower corner neatly strengthened the sheet toned but the map in good condition unrelated text printed on the verso. Map of Africa as a whole before the Imperial race for colonies in the 1880s with interesting insets of Northern and Southern Africa. . Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. unknown
1961122New York: St Martins Press 1961. First American. Hardcover. VG/VG with minor rust colored spots. Climax of imperialism in the Dark Continent. 491 pp. Folding maps. St Martins Press hardcover
1981BOOKS057625INew York: Africana Publishing Company 1981. HC. very good w/very good dustjacket hardcover EX-LIB with marks. ISBN 0814905517 Ex-Lib with the usual markings. Nice tight copy. Africana Publishing Company unknown
190420071London: John Lane the Bodley Head. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spines sunned. Soiling/spotting to front boards. Internally a nice and tight copy with some spotting and browning to frontispiece tissue guard. Maps originally in rear pockets missing. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xix 276 xxi 297 pages . John Lane the Bodley Head hardcover
19852090202120810074San'ichishobo 1985. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 San'ichishobo paperback
1978663G2871U.S.A.: Brooklyn Museum 1978. Book. Good. Paperback. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 143 pages. Bibliography. Printed on glossy stock. Profusely illustrated in colour and black and white. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Brooklyn Museum Paperback
1949371867London: Africa Committee of the Communist Party 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Good set in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Physical description; two volumes. Contents; vol. 2: No. 1: January 1949 ; vol. 2: No. 2: February 1949. Subjects; Africa. Newsletters. Africa Committee of the Communist Party. Communism. London: Africa Committee of the Communist Party paperback
1895175108London.: Times Atlas of the World. 1895. Double-page folding map printed in colour 46.5 x 36.5 cm. edges gilt central fold with an inset map of Somaliland Somalia and the island of Sokotra key to European possessions outlined in colour small edge fold tears affecting the margin only and two other small edge tears slight toning at the edgaes but in very good condition. Attractive and detailed map prepared for the first edition of "The Times Atlas of the World". . (Times Atlas of the World). unknown