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191313321London: Church Missionary Society 1913. Hardcover. Good. 176 pp with color frontispiece map of east Africa many black and white photographs. Original green cloth boards with mounted illustration of a native warrior. Spine faded moderate edgewear corners bumped. Binding sound text unmarked. The author was a British poet and composer of hymns who married a Canadian missionary doctor and traveled and worked with him among the Kikuyu and Embu triebs of Mount Kenya. Robinson Wayward Women p. 156-7. Church Missionary Society hardcover books
191052597New York: Doubleday Page and Co 1910. First edition American issue; 4to pp. xix 1 233 1; map 140 photographic illustrations by the author on 104 plates; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine t.e.g.; extremities rubbed the text lightly shaken; all else very good. Czech Africa p. 53: "Dugmore became famous as a wildlife photographer and naturalist with various titles to his credit. In this impressive volume he describes his efforts with James L. Clark in photographing big game during a trip across the Athi Plains eventually arriving at Guaso Nyiro. While his purpose was to photograph animals there are several hunting incidents concerning rhino and plains game." Published the same year by Heinemann in London. <br/><br/> Doubleday, Page, and Co hardcover books
189811853London: Methuen & Company 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxvii 319 pp illustrations 4 maps two folding. Introduction by George T. Goldie. Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering and vignette of soldiers on front board. Former mercantile library copy with bookplate on front pastedown and a few stamps. No external library markings. Corners lightly bumped some chipping/short tears to cloth at spine ends. One of the folding maps is quite delicate and has numerous tears partially mended on the verso with archival tape with some minor loss. Vandeleur a highly decorated officer in the Scots Guards participated in the Unyoro Expedition in 1895 the Niger Expedition in 1897 and served with the Egyptian Army in the Soudan expedition of 1898. He was awarded a grant from the Royal Geographical Society for his valuable work surveying more than 2000 miles of territory in East Africa and the Niger district. He was killed in 1901 when 250 Boers fired on his train. Methuen & Company hardcover books
9527n.p. n.d. 1909. 8-1/4 in x 5-1/4 in. Dark brown pebbled calf marbled endsheets text block edges marbled. A log of statistics for South African gold mines in 1908. Edges rubbed interior fine. <br/><br/> unknown books
195826710London: Africa Bureau 1958. First Edition. Octavo 20cm.; original blue staplebound self-wrappers; 11pp.; printed entirely on blue stock. Extremities a bit toned else Very Good. Price cancel inside upper wrapper. Regarding suffrage in Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Africa Bureau unknown books
187752529New York: Harper & Brothers 1877. First American edition 8vo pp. xv 1 330 6 ads; frontispiece folding map hand-colored in outline 8 wood-engraved plates other wood engravings in the text; fine copy in original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 391 for the London edition of the previous year. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover 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
194972116Strand C. P. South Africa: Christian Council of South Africa 1949. Paperback. Good. 107p. Wrapper. 22cm. Some cover wear. <br/><br/> Christian Council of South Africa paperback books
190713742New York: American Tract Society 1907. Hardcover. Good. 484 pp with index illustrations from photographs and large folding map. Ex-library with a call number in black on the spine and a card pocket at rear. No other library markings. Boards have some old insect damage text has some foxing. Binding sound. American Tract Society hardcover books
5706pgs. No date. No place. A collection of six pages with twelve illustrations of African natives. They are from an unidentified book probably from the 18th Century and are in very fine condition overall. Some of the images show a mother breast feeding a beheading combat and royalty. A fine assembly unknown books
189020303Capetown: Grand Lodge of Western South Africa 1890. Softcover. Good. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4" sewn printed peach-colored wraps pp. 38 plus an errata slip tipped in the recto of the rear wrap with the membership form filled out in ink see below. Covers moderately worn with chips out at the sewing points on the spine a few small chunks out of the rear wrap no loss to text and a horizontal tear across the rear wrap. As per the membership form this was the property of Norman Hill Nesbitt inducted into the "Forbearance" Lodge on June 8 1892 as witnessed by the Lodge's Acting Secretary one K.H.M Stuart. Grand Lodge of Western South Africa unknown books
13168London: Lutterworth Press. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated. 190 pp in original orange cloth; no dust jacket. Corners lightly bumped one scuff mark on front board. Internals fine. Foreword by H.S. Keigwin. Chapters on marriage kinship coming of age taboos religious beliefs and practices etc. Lutterworth Press hardcover books
196046633Johannesburg: South Africa Department of Information n.d. ca. 1960s. First Thus. Octavo 24cm.; publisher's grey pictorial wrappers; 140pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrapper extremities rather worn and dog-eared with chip at spine crown rear cover a bit dampstained else Good or better. Originally issued as a series of five pamphlets covering topics such as education economic advancement and agricultural improvement. South Africa Department of Information unknown books
55New York; London: Fleming H. Revell Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated likely first American edition c. 1929. xix 609 pp 25 illustrations with index b/w illustrations from photographs. Author photograph tipped in as frontispiece. Foreword by "Dr. Laws of Livingstonia." Ex-library copy with normal markings stamps etc including call number label on spine. Binding is sound text is clean and bright. An account of Dan Crawford's life from his birth in Scotland through his 37 years in Africa. Due to size shipping charges may be more than standard for priority or international orders. Fleming H. Revell Company hardcover books
1959195445London: Chatto & Windus 1959. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Sold as a two volume set. No pencil or ink markings in text of either volume. Dustjackets of both volumes slightly soiled spines sunned. DJ's protected Mylar Covers. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Chatto & Windus unknown books
164421312Romae: Andree Phaei 1644. 4to pp. 18 93 1; engraved vignette title page 4 engraved plates 2 folding 1 double-p. 12 woodcuts in the text 1 hand-colored; bound with as issued: Romano De antiquis Romanorum ritibus Rome 1644 pp. 10 95-269 20; engraved vignette title page 10 engraved plates 2 folding 1 double-p. 2 double-p. and folding 18 woodcuts in the text; bound with: Romano De veteribus christianorum ritibus Rome 1645 engraved title page pp. 18 496 71; 6 engraved plates 1 double-p. 1 folding 1 folding and double-p. 8 woodcuts in the text; printer's woodcut device on the final leaf; bound in contemporary limp vellum front hinge broken the whole rubbed and worn internally very good. Graesse p. 59; Ibrahim-Hilmy p. 120. <br/><br/> Andree Phaei hardcover books
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
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
192852565New York: D. Appleton and Co 1928. First edition American issue; 8vo pp. xi 1 211 1; frontispiece and 41 photographic illustrations on 35 plates folding table of African languages folding map inside back cover pocket 1 drawing in the text; 2 small pressure stamps on title page else a fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine nearly fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Co hardcover books
192652615New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons The Knickerbocker Press 1926. First edition 8vo pp. xv 1 369 1; pictorial endpapers frontispiece and 42 plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; near fine throughout. Lacking the map which apparently is not found in all copies. <br/><br/> G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press hardcover books
189452719London: Longmans Green and Co 1894. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xx 435 1; xii 397 1; 2 large folding color maps both with short tears near the stubs the second incorporating 3 inset maps 179 illustrations in the text a number full-page; contemporary full red polished calf gilt supralibros on the upper covers of the Boston School and with Boston School prize bookplates in each volume; lightly rubbed; very good. Czech Africa p. 78: "An excellent work of exploration and sport this scarce set represents African adventure at its finest." <br/><br/> Longmans, Green, and Co unknown books
193052646London: Edward Arnold and Co 1930. First edition 8vo pp. iii-xv 1 399 1; 16 plates and a folding map; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine; extremities rubbed a few spots to the covers all else very good and sound. <br/><br/> Edward Arnold and Co hardcover books
193852600Oxford: Clarendon Press 1938. First edition 8vo pp. vi 2 584; 2 folding maps; spine slightly sunned else near fine in original red cloth gilt-stamped spine. <br/><br/> Clarendon Press 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
190852577London: Edward Arnold 1908. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 359 1; xii 388 16 ads; 2 frontispieces 1 gravure one in color folding map printed in color 59 photographic plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spine; some spotting of the covers otherwise very good and sound. <br/><br/> Edward Arnold hardcover books
