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197186225New York: Africana Publishing Corporation 1971. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. xxiv 461p. Original blue boards. dj. 22cm. Jacket has a couple of modest water spots. <br/><br/> Africana Publishing Corporation hardcover books
190017161New York: Cassell and Company 1900. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi 204 pp with three colored folding maps and 67 illustrations from photographs. Original green cloth with illustration of the authors on the front board. Minor insect damage to front board spine slightly toned some foxing to endpapers else quite sound and clean. The American husband and wife team were wealthy zealous and energetic explorers who together made many expeditions to the Himalayas. Fanny a suffragist as well as a bit of a publicity hound made sure the world knew of her achievements as a pioneering female climber. Among other achievements she held the women's altitude record for 28 years after her conquest of 23000-ft Pinnacle Peak in 1906. Robinson Wayward Women amusingly describes her as having "practically battered the Karakorams into submission first treading them over with her squat hob-nailed figure and then pinning them down on virgin maps and charts to take home for the various Geographical Societies of England and America to fight over." This is the account of their first Himalayan expedition 1898-99 during which they reached the Karakoram Pass and explored the Biafo Glacier Neate W124. Cassell and Company hardcover books
1996136603Washington DC: National Academy Press 1996. Softcover. VG- Ex-library with spine label bookplate few marks a corner bumped slightly. Brown & illus. wraps 308 pp. graphs charts. Addresses: The Context of Mortality and Morbidity ; Nutritional Status ; Obstetric Morbidity and Mortality ; Nervous System Disorders ; Mental Health Problems ; Cardiovascular Dieases Cancers and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases ; Injury ; Occupational and Environmental Health ; Tropical Infectious Diseases ; Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV Infection ; Demographic OVerview and State of the Data. National Academy Press unknown books
198522732Sierra Leone: Eastern Area Project 1985. viii 90 pages printed one side only; bibliography and list of senior staff and qualifications in the Eastern Area Project; chart illustrating achievement of program; economic and development charts within the text; illustrated with an 8 1/2" x 11" folding map of the Sierra Leone Integrated Agricultural Development Projects edge chipped no loss to data; the study ".undertaken with the expressed purpose of determining any possible impact the Eastern Integrated Development Project has on the small-holder population in Eastern Sierra Leone.exploratory survey of the entire project region. .several visits and discussions with farmers project officials and elders of the three districts involved Kono Kailahun and Kenema."; with summary and conclusions; original pink stapled paper wrap covers illustrated with a map of the country; spine with old tape; one page with paragraph torn away; some edge tips wear to binding; in good condition overall. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. Eastern Area Project Paperback books
1650WRCAM12694Middleburg 1650. 33pp. Small quarto. Later three-quarter vellum and boards. Very good. This pamphlet includes references to Count Johan Maurits of Nassau and his fame as a soldier in America and Africa and as a governor. There is some mention of the West India Company as well. KNUTTEL 6899. EUROPEAN AMERICANA 650/62. hardcover books
19401805885J.B. Lippincott Company 1940. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Orange cloth spine over boards not zebra-striped cover. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss ink stamp on title page. 1940 Hard Cover. 376 pp. 8 5/8 x 6. 83 illustrations including photographs featuring George Eastman founder of Eastman Kodak American author Jack London and film star Charlie Chaplin. A documentary travelogue of the adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson primarily in Africa and the South Seas. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
191352528London: Macmillan and Co 1913. First edition 8vo pp. xv 1 379 1 6 ads; folding table giving particulars of 25 felled elephants 27 photographic illustrations on 16 plates; some rubbing at the extremities otherwise a very good copy in original red cloth gilt-lettered spine. Czech Africa p. 156: "A pre-eminent elephant hunting title this details Stigand's big game hunting efforts primarily in British East Africa North Eastern Rhodesia Nyasaland and the Lado Enclave." <br/><br/> Macmillan and Co hardcover books
198980969Port Elizabeth: Monitor Publications 1989. Paperback. Near Fine. photos 144p. Wrapper. 30cm. Special Edition of "Monitor." <br/><br/> Monitor Publications paperback books
188158022Hartford: R. W. Bliss and Co 1881. Subscription edition abridged from the original London edition; 2 volumes in 1 pp. xiii 14-406 2 ads; with a map showing the author's route from Benguella to Durban and more than 60 engraved illustrations including 23 full-page plates; original plum cloth stamped in gilt on front board and spine; spine sunned but fully legible a bit of staining to front board corners bumped. Internally fine. Serpa Pinto a Portuguese explorer recorded details of much terrain previously unknown to Europeans. He was the fourth explorer to cross Africa from west to east and "was the first to lay down with accuracy the route between Bihe and Lialui" Britannica 11th ed. <br/><br/> R. W. Bliss and Co hardcover books
188152612Hartford: R. W. Bliss and Co 1881. 8vo pp. xiii 1 15-406 2 ads; wood-engraved frontispiece wood-engravings throughout many full-page; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front hinge cracked spine ends slightly chipped some spotting and rubbing; a good sound copy. <br/><br/> R. W. Bliss and Co hardcover books
188112959Hartford CT: R.W. Bliss and Company 1881. Hardcover. Very Good. Subscription edition two volumes in one abridged from the original London edition. xiii 14-406 pp plus one leaf of ads; with a map showing the author's route from Benguella to Durban and more than 60 engraved illustrations including 23 full-page plates. Publisher's plum cloth stamped in gilt on front board and spine. Spine sunned but fully legible a bit of staining to front board corners bumped. Binding solid hinges secure no markings. Serpa Pinto a Portuguese explorer recorded details of much terrain previously unknown to Europeans. He was the fourth explorer to cross Africa from west to east and "was the first to lay down with accuracy the route between Bihe and Lialui" Britannica 11th ed. R.W. Bliss and Company hardcover books
189052638Philadelphia: J. W. Keeler 1890. Subscription publication issued under a number of imprints; large 8vo pp. 2 17-576; 4 chromolithograph plates folding map hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations throughout many full-page; original red cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; hinges cracked vermin nibble at the bottom of the back cover covers unevenly sunned; a good copy. <br/><br/> J. W. Keeler hardcover books
19651807New York: AMS Press 1965. Hardcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Glasgow edition. xix 579 pp 1 folding map. Publisher's dark red cloth; no dust jacket. Light shelfwear previous owner's name on front pastedown else fine. Volume XVI only "contayning English Voyages to the East West and South parts of America: many Sea and Land Fights: Plantations in Guiana and many strange adventures of Englishmen amongst the Americans." Includes travels of Sir Francis Drake Peter Carder Thomas Candish Anthony Nivet Robert Harcourt John Lerius and others. AMS Press hardcover books
19911867New York: AMS Press 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Glasgow edition. xix 571 pp with maps. Publisher's dark red cloth; no dust jacket. Light shelfwear lightly bumped top corners previous owner's name on front pastedown else fine. Volume VII only "contayning navigations voyages and discoveries of the Sea-Coasts and In-land regions of Africa which is generally called Æthiopia by Englishmen and others; with peregrinations and travels by land into Palestinia Natolia and Syria." Includes travels of Sir Francis Alvarez Don John of Castro Don John Bermudez Matthew Paris and others. AMS Press hardcover books
196517634New York: AMS Press 1965. Hardcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Glasgow edition. xv 525 pp with 1 map. Publisher's dark red cloth; no dust jacket. Light shelfwear previous owner's name on front pastedown else fine. Volume X only "contayning Praeteritorum or Discoveries of the World specially such as in the other Bookes are omitted." Includes travels of Antonio Galvano Caesar Frederick Richard Cocke Gasparo Balbi Thomas Coryat John Huighen van Linschoten and others. AMS Press hardcover books
196517633New York: AMS Press 1965. Hardcover. Near fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1905 Glasgow edition. xix 591 pp with 8 maps. Publisher's dark red cloth; no dust jacket. Light shelfwear previous owner's name on front pastedown else fine. Volume XIV only "contayning English Northern Navigations and Discoveries Relations of Greeneland Groenland the North-West Passage and other Arcticke Regions and later Russian Occurents; with a Description of the West Indies by Antonio Herrera." Includes travels of Jonas Poole William Baffin Robert Fotherby Robert Salmon John Catcher George Weymouth and others. AMS Press hardcover books
193752536New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1937. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 2 19-335 1; map endpapers frontispiece and 73 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 30 plates; original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt lightly chipped dust jacket. Gatti and his wife explore the Belgian Congo. <br/><br/> Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1980TB03573New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1980. First Edition. First printing Near fine. In a very good but price clipped dust jacket with the ends of the spine area worn but without any chipping. The story of the Forty-Niners and their quest for gold in California. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1994TB02437New York: Orion Books 1994. First Edition. First printing Fine in 1/4 brown cloth and charcoal gray paper covered boards. In a fine dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Signed by author on the title page. Sub-titled: The Life and Death of an American River. Orion Books hardcover books
195131069Nairobi: Patwa News Agency 1951. Third printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. 12mo. 64 pp. Stated third impression of this pocket nature guide. With several illustrations. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author and dated in 1951. A handsome near fine copy in very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the base of the rear panel. Patwa News Agency hardcover books
192913666London: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 298 pp with 25 photographic illustrations and a folding map. Original blue cloth sunned at the spine. Binding sound text unmarked. No dust jacket. Account of the author's travels in West Africa with detailed and colorful if not always enthusiastic observations on local customs culture and commerce. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
192852630London: Stanley Paul & Co 1928. First edition 8vo pp. 285 1; 28 photographic illustrations on 16 plates; upper cover a bit stained light wear at extremities corners bumped; all else very good. Not in Czech although there are chapters on hunting elephant hippopotamus antelope and waterbuck. <br/><br/> Stanley Paul & Co unknown books
13110Boston: Small Maynard & Company. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated c. 1924. 303 pp indexed with 57 photographs and 2 folding maps. Publisher's green cloth shows light general wear; bookplate on front pastedown one plate and one map loose and laid in. Travel narrative of several months' journey on foot through the Congo with observations on Belgian administration village life and native customs. Small, Maynard & Company hardcover books
189812969London: Chapman and Hall 1898. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First English edition. xvi 520 pp with illustrations index folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed mild wear to bottom edge. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French government adding much to knowledge of the river and the inhabitants of the surrounding areas. Chapman and Hall hardcover books
189858025London: Chapman and Hall 1898. First English edition pp xvi 520; with illustrations index folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed mild wear to bottom edge very good. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French government adding much to knowledge of the river and the inhabitants of the surrounding areas. <br/><br/> Chapman and Hall hardcover books
