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2010055424Dakar Senegal: Amalion Publishing. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 2010. Hardcover. 2359260057 . Hardcover with dustjacket inscribed and signed by the author book is in excellent condition no remarkable flaws jacket has rubbing to the glossy surface and one short edge-tear the jacket is clean and presentable and a professional removable mylar cover is included "an audacious comprehensive exploration of the founding and growth of one of the most influential groups in Africa" illustrated and includes a bibliography; 498 pages; Signed by Author . Amalion Publishing hardcover
193220440Glendale CA: Arthur H. Clark Company 1932. First edition . Hardcover. Near Fine. American Waterway Series III. 465 pages with illustrations photographs maps and index. 1498 copies published. Bound in original blue cloth with lettering stamped in gilt. Top of text block in gilt. Untrimmed. Never read as pages remain uncut. A near fine copy. <br/> <br/> Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover
193227816Glendale CA: Arthur H. Clark Company 1932. First edition. first printing . Hardcover. Very Good. American Waterway Series III. 465 pages with illustrations photographs maps and index. 1498 copies published. Bound in original blue cloth with lettering stamped in gilt. Top of text block in gilt. Untrimmed. Never read as pages remain uncut. Front internal hinge professionally repaired. Corners lightly bumped. A very good copy. <br/> <br/> Arthur H. Clark Company hardcover
1956BIB310055London: The Universities' Mission to Central Africa. 1956 Vol I; 1957 Vol II;1962 Vol III; 1965 Supplement. Octavo Size approx 15.5 x 22.8cm. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. All dustjacket spines and edges are age-toned. Offset to free endpapers in all volumes. Previous owner's details to half-title page in each volume. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 313 326 468 8 pages. Volume I is the revised 6th edition. The remaining volumes are 1st edtions. Robust professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . Mixed Editions. Hardback. The Universities' Mission to Central Africa hardcover
1907289691Cassell and Company Limited London 1907. Hardcover Leinen ohne Schutzumschlag Thirty-Third Thousand Zustand: Keine Beschädigungen keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten leicht bestoßen berieben. Cassell and Company, Limited, London, hardcover
201519032London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Fine with no dust jacket. 2015. Softcover. Bound in pictorial stiff wraps a lovely 4 volume set showing minimal if any usage.; 9.25" x 6.5" . Bloomsbury Publishing paperback
193833954Toronto Canada: Ryerson Press 1938. First edition. first printing First printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. The story of transportation rivers canals roads and railroads through the whole range of the history of Canada describing the methods and relating them to the more general theme of the rise of Canadian civilization. The changing modes of transportation have influenced the whole course of Canadian development. 475 pages with all five foldout maps present. Complimentary plate from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace tipped in. Signature of C.A. Dunniway on the plate and on the title page. A number of pages remain unopened. Map endpapers. Fine in near fine dust jacket with two tiny tears and associated crease between. <br/> <br/> Ryerson Press hardcover
1907043488Mrs. Kate S. McDonald 1907. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Originally The Ashby Cavalry of the army of Northern Virginia and Chew's Battery. Sold clean copy in thick green covers. With several dozen illustrations. Nice bright gilt lettering to front. Spine lettering is a shade faded. Covers have average light vintage wear with some patchiness and a few small spots to the rear. Binding is cracked at the very rear of the book but holding firmly. Bulky thick book. <br/> <br/> Mrs. Kate S. McDonald hardcover
1982AF-11Boulder CO.: Westview Press 1982. Scholarly text presents a detailed historiography of South Africa before the beginning of large-scale mining operations in Kimberley in 1870. Topics covered include economy and social structure of the herders and hunters; Nguni people; the Sotho Venda and Tsonga; white settlers and the origin of a new society 1652-1778; the Eastern Cape frontier; cosolidation of a new society; the Zulu kingdom and Natal; Afrikaner republics and African states; etc. 476 pgs. Illustrated. Corners lightly rubbed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Westview Press Hardcover
198711052Camden SC: African Collection series - Briar Patch Press 1987. Collector's Reprint edition. . Full Red Leather hardcover. Very Good. Thick quarto oversized book. Gilt design and lettering on spine similar on cover. All pages edges gilt. Slight shelf wear to edges and corners of boards and pages. Slight scuffing to cover. 352 p. w/illustrations. The account of Cumming's hunting exploits in the Orange River country in the late 1840's. <br/><br/> African Collection series - Briar Patch Press hardcover
19871378Camden SC: Briar Patch Press 1987. Dlx Ltd Ed Rep: 500 Copies. Full Leather. Fine/Orig Slipcase Fine. 352 pp ill all edges gilt. new intro by Clendennon. The book originally published in 1852 has been popular for 150 years and readers will understand after perusing these pages. Part of the Briar Patch African Collection. Ltd ed of 500 copies. Book fine in like slipcase. Briar Patch Press unknown
186732920New York: G.P. Putnam & Co. 1867. Early Edition Revised. With and engraved frontispiece engraved title and textual illustrations by the author throughout. A map is called for but appears not to have been bound into this copy. 8vo handsomely bound in contemporary brown morocco over marbled paper covered boards edges and endleaves marbled the spine with raised bands separating the compartments lettered in gilt in two compartments decorated in the remaining compartments with gilt panels and central ornamental devices gilt. 522 pp. A very good copy indeed handsome and well preserved. Early printing in binding of Taylor's famous travelogue of Central Africa. Bayard Taylor was an American poet literary critic translator travel author and diplomat. As a poet he was very popular with a crowd of more than 4000 attending a poetry reading once which was a record that stood for 85 years. His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great Britain. He served in diplomatic posts in Russia and Prussia. <br> In 1851 he traveled to Egypt where he followed the Nile River as far as 12° 30' N. He also traveled in Palestine and Mediterranean countries writing poetry based on his experiences. Toward the end of 1852 he sailed from England to Calcutta and then to China where he joined the expedition of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry to Japan. The results of these journeys were published as A Journey to Central Africa; or Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile 1854; The Lands of the Saracen; or Pictures of Palestine Asia Minor Sicily and Spain 1854; and A Visit to India China and Japan in the Year 1853 1855.<br> He returned to the U.S. on December 20 1853 and undertook a successful public lecturer tour that extended from Maine to Wisconsin. After two years he went to northern Europe to study Swedish life language and literature. The trip inspired his long narrative poem Lars. His series of articles Swedish Letters to the Tribune were republished as Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures 1857. G.P. Putnam & Co. hardcover
185433044New York: G.P. Putnam & Co. 1854. Early Printing probably the first with added slug to the title-page. With and engraved frontispiece and textual illustrations by the author throughout. A large folding map is included at the rear of the volume. 8vo publisher's original red cloth decorated and lettered in gilt on the spine and with gilt pictorial vignette to the upper cover. 522 pp. An honest copy the hinges strong and tight the text-block mellowed as expected some old library markings internally the map with a closed tear. Early printing in issuance year of Taylor's famous travelogue of Central Africa. Bayard Taylor was an American poet literary critic translator travel author and diplomat. As a poet he was very popular with a crowd of more than 4000 attending a poetry reading once which was a record that stood for 85 years. His travelogues were popular in both the United States and Great Britain. He served in diplomatic posts in Russia and Prussia. <br> In 1851 he traveled to Egypt where he followed the Nile River as far as 12° 30' N. He also traveled in Palestine and Mediterranean countries writing poetry based on his experiences. Toward the end of 1852 he sailed from England to Calcutta and then to China where he joined the expedition of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry to Japan. The results of these journeys were published as A Journey to Central Africa; or Life and Landscapes from Egypt to the Negro Kingdoms of the White Nile 1854; The Lands of the Saracen; or Pictures of Palestine Asia Minor Sicily and Spain 1854; and A Visit to India China and Japan in the Year 1853 1855.<br> He returned to the U.S. on December 20 1853 and undertook a successful public lecturer tour that extended from Maine to Wisconsin. After two years he went to northern Europe to study Swedish life language and literature. The trip inspired his long narrative poem Lars. His series of articles Swedish Letters to the Tribune were republished as Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures 1857. G.P. Putnam & Co. hardcover
186719693John Murray 1867. 8vo. First Edition with engraved frontispiece engraved title-vignette 21 engraved plates and large folding map at end map mildly age-stained; dark red cloth upper board blocked in gilt chocolate endpapers uncut neatly rebacked to style a very good bright clean copy. With 32pp publisher's catalogue bound in at end. The author's second book is a vividly-written account of his second 1863-1865 expedition around the delta of the Ogooue in what is now Gabon. Here he is able to confirm his 'discovery' perhaps more accurately 'rediscovery' of the Gorilla a species previously unseen by outsiders since Biblical times and the actual discovery of the Giant Otter Shrew Potamagale velox; both species are illustrated. SCARCE. Hosken p.63. John Murray, hardcover
1874biblio352<p>Ex-Library Hardcover with Library embossements on Title page and Map and leaf of pages 499 and 500. Tight binding Unmarked text Many Illustrations Africa History Travel Journal</p> Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
19042154Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution 1904. First. Orig Printed Wraps. VG. pp 747-774 with plates 1-7 from the Smithsonian Report for 1903. Map showing a portion of Chinese Turkestan taken from Stein's original. Very scarce Stein offprint/ephemera. VG in original printed Smithsonian wrappers. Smithsonian Institution unknown
186220685New York: G. P. Putnam. 1862. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Gilt spine lettering a bit faded. Slight dampstaining to endpapers. Very small intendation to front board and first few pages. Very light foxing to first few pages. ; Dark green buckram boards with blindstamped linear decoration and gilt spine lettering. Beautiful steel engraved tissue guarded frontispiece. Rear fold-out "map of the course of the Nile and adjacent countries" with minor edgewear. Else handsome tight and clean. - Bayard Taylor was a successful travel writer. "A Journey to Central Africa" was published in the earlier part of his career. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 522 pages . G. P. Putnam hardcover
1969010567Philadelphia: M.E. Kalish Folkshul 1969. Cloth. Fine/Fair. A handsome copy printed on fine quality paper with bright and shiney attractively textured covers. Covers sturdy and snug. Endpages a little faded along edges. Thin plain paper jacket is still bright but has tears and soiling spots. Scarce. <br/> <br/> M.E. Kalish Folkshul hardcover
22194EDINBURGH. THOMAS CLARK. 1837. 'ON THE ATTACKS MADE UPON HIM AND HIS PENSION IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS BY THE DUKE OF BEDFORD AND THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE EARLY IN THE PRESENT SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT- 1796'. BOUND IN BLIND STAMPED CLOTH 50 PAGES PAPER LABEL TO THE FRONT BOARD WITH THE ORIGINAL PRICE OF 1s 6d. SOME FOXING TO THE EARLY PAGES BUT A VERY GOOD COPY. EDINBURGH. THOMAS CLARK. 1837. hardcover
20454HERVEY. LONDON. 1741. A CORRESPONDENCE OF 60 PAGES REBOUND IN MODERN GREY CARD. NOT DATED BUT 1741. A LETTER OF COMPLAINT FROM HERVEY TO SIR THOMAS HANMER 1677-1746 WHO WAS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. VERY CLEAN NEW END PAPERS. PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR AND SOLD ON LUDGATE HILL. HERVEY. LONDON. 1741 unknown
25856OXFORD L. LICHFIELD 1692. FIRST EDITION. 45 pp VERY NICELY BOUND IN HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARD NEW ENDPAPERS. HODY 1659-1707 WAS A PROFESSOR OF GREEK AT OXFORD AND THEOLOGIAN. THE LETTER CONCERNS HENRY DODWELL 1641-1711 WITH WHOM HODY WAS INVOLVED IN A CONTROVERSY REGARDING THE NON-JURING BISHOPS. VERY SCARCE. OXFORD, L. LICHFIELD, 1692 hardcover
20451E.D.W. JONES. 1688. BOUND COPY IN MARBLED CARD - NEW ENDPAPERS NEAT HAND-WRITTEN TITLE TO FRONT BOARD. THE FIRST LETTER THAT SPRAT WROTE TO THE EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX. 20 PAGES IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF DORSET AND MIDDLESEX LORD CHAMBERLAIN OF HIS MAJESTIES HOUSEHOLD CONCERNING HIS SITTING IN THE LATE ECCLESIASTIAL COMMISSION. In 1669 Sprat became canon of Westminster Abbey and in 1670 rector of Uffington Lincolnshire. He was chaplain to Charles II in 1676 curate and lecturer at St. Margaret's Westminster in 1679 canon of Windsor in 1681 dean of Westminster in 1683 and bishop of Rochester in 1684. He was a member of James II's ecclesiastical commission and in 1688 he read the Declaration of Indulgence to empty benches in Westminster Abbey. The suggestion was that he was playing at being Vicar of Bray. Although he opposed the motion of 1689 declaring the throne vacant he assisted at the coronation of William and Mary. As dean of Westminster he directed Christopher Wren's restoration of the abbey. E.D.W. JONES. 1688 unknown
24319LONDON T COOPER 1734. TWO PAMPHLETS VERY NICELY CASED TOGETHER IN MODERN BLUE BOARD QUARTER CLOTH NEW ENDPAPERS. VERY GOOD. 'A LETTER TO DR. CODEX ON THE SUBJECT.' 4TH EDITION 40pp. 'A PROPER REPLY TO THE AUTHOR.' 1734 FIRST EDITION 32pp. DR. CODEX WAS EDMUND GIBSON BISHOP OF LONDON. LONDON, T COOPER, 1734 hardcover
22196LONDON. J. ROBERTS. 1721. FINE MODERN BINDING HALF LEATHER OVER MARBLED BOARDS NEW ENDPAPERS AND PRELIMINARIES RAISED BANDS GILT TITLE ON RED SPINE LABEL. THE BOOK CONTAINS 2 PAMPHLETS: 1. A LETTER TO THE REVEREND MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE BY BENTLEY 24 PAGES; 2. SOME FARTHER REMARKS PARAGRAPH BY PARAGRAPH UPON THE PROPOSALS LATELY PUBLISHED FOR A NEW EDITION OF A GREEK AND LATIN TESTAMENT BY RICHARD BENTLEY 1721 BY CONYERS MIDDLETON PREFACE 6 pp. 74 pp. LONDON. J. ROBERTS. 1721 hardcover
23849LONDON FOR R BALDWIN 1758. SMALL OCTAVO pp vii 54. NICELY REBOUND IN STIFF MARBLED CARD NEW ENDPAPERS. A VERY NICE COPY. GIVES DETAIL OF THE DISPUTE ON THE ELECTION OF THE WARDEN OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INVOLVING DR. LOWTH THE FELLOWS OF NEW COLLEGE DR. PURNELL AND MR. GOLDING. LONDON, FOR R BALDWIN, 1758 unknown
