Afrique

Central Africa: naked truths of naked people. An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam west of the Bahr-el-Abiad White Nile . Illustrated from Col. Long's own sketches

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. Harper & Brothers hardcover books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis431,25 $US≈ 364,88 €

AFRICA BUREAUABAA

Central Africa and the Franchise: An Examination of the Federal Electoral Bill: 1958

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

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis35,00 $US≈ 29,61 €

Gold Mining South AfricaABAA

Central Administration: General Statistics 1908

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. unknown books

Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

Vandeleur SeymourABAA

Campaigning on the Upper Nile and Niger

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

Walkabout Books · États-Unis200,00 $US≈ 169,22 €

Dugmore A. A. RadclyffeABAA

Camera adventures in the African wilds being an account of a four months' expedition in British East Africa for the purpose of securing photographs of the game from life

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. Doubleday, Page, and Co hardcover books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis109,25 $US≈ 92,44 €

Crawford Emily May; Bishop of Mombasa Prefacep Stock Eugene ForewordABAA

By the Equator's Snowy Peak A Record of Medical Missionary Work and Travel in British East Africa

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

Walkabout Books · États-Unis50,00 $US≈ 42,31 €

Ofcansky Thomas P.; Casada James A. IntroductionABAA

British East Africa 1856-1963 An Annotated Bibliography

198513712New York: Garland Publishing 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Series: Themes in European Expansion: Exploration Colonization and the Impact of Empire. 474 pp indexed. Lists 3089 items. The first attempt to compile a comprehensive bibliography of English and foreign-language pamphlets and books pertaining to British East Africa Kenya Uganda Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Includes sections on each country as well as on Exploration Religion East African Campaign 1914-1918 Agriculture Mau Mau Revolt Medicine Slavery Wildlife. As new. Garland Publishing hardcover books

Walkabout Books · États-Unis150,00 $US≈ 126,92 €

Joseph SabinABAA

Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America. Volumes 1-20 part 1 to parts CXVI signed with original signed receipt from Sabin

18921078New York: Joseph Sabin 1892. First Edition First Printing. Three quarter leather. Very good . A very good plus first edition small paper copy. One of 525 copies issued. These are the works published in Sabin's lifetime. Signed by Joseph Sabin with original signed receipt from Sabin. Mixed set: small paper copy and stiff wraps on vol 20 all bound into three quarter leather with marbled boards and gilt accents.Bound by The University of Chicago Press. Moderate wear to crown foot and corners on various volumes. Top edge gilt. One volume has bent pages from poor shipping practice book edges pressed into one another. Marbled endpapers. On laid paper.Text is clean and bright. Vols. 1-19 "Edition 525 copies 8vo . and 110 copies on large paper." Publication was suspended from 1892 to 1927 when it was resumed with the parts numbered continuously with the last issued in 1892 Suspended with pt. CXV/CXVI v. 20 pt. 1/2 1892; This set shipped at actual cost. Joseph Sabin hardcover books

Uncommon Works, IOBA, ABAA, ILAB · États-Unis1 100,00 $US≈ 930,71 €

Masterson James R.; Brower HelenABAA

Bering's Sucessors 1745-1780 Contributions of Peter Simon Pallas to the History of Russian Exploration Toward Alaska

19481826Seattle WA: University of Washington Press 1948. Hardcover. Very Good. vii 96 pp folding maps. Light wear to edges minimal soiling to boards small stamp on front free endpaper; else clean and sound. No dust jacket. This volume "provides for the first time an English translation of the third near-contemporary compendium on the post-Bering voyages and thus completes the ready accessibility in English of all the main sources on these voyages" Foreword. Includes sections on Copper Island Chuckchi Peninsula Ivan Soloviev's voyage and other topics. University of Washington Press hardcover books

Walkabout Books · États-Unis40,00 $US≈ 33,84 €

North Africa Ortelius AbrahamABAA

Barbariae et Biledulgerid Nova Descriptio. Double-page map of North African region of Libya and the Sahara desert colored by a later hand

159040297N.p. 1590. Image area 19-1/2" x 12-7/8" in 28" x 23" mat. 1 vols. Imperfectly colored along crease down center small and unobtrusive dampstain in one corner. Still a nice piece. Image area 19-1/2" x 12-7/8" in 28" x 23" mat. 1 vols. Abraham Ortelius 1527-98 was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570 with later revisions and addendums was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps and contained a collection of plates engraved by Frans Hagenberg in a uniform size and format. The Theatrum preceded the first atlas of Ortelius' good friend Gerardus Mercator. In fact popular sentimental legend has it that Mercator delayed publication of his own work so that his younger friend's would appear first. Although this simply isn't true Mercator wasn't ready the legendary cartographer did complement Ortelius for the "care and elegance" he had put into the Theatrum. unknown books

James Cummins Bookseller · États-Unis450,00 $US≈ 380,75 €

Crawford DanABAA

Back to the Long Grass My Link with Livingstone

13111New York: George H. Doran. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Undated 1923. 373 pp with 33 illustrations from photographs and 3 maps. Front hinge repaired else a fine copy in the original dust jacket which has one internal tape repair. Dan Crawford 1870-1926 was a Scottish missionary who spent 37 years in Africa and identified unusually strongly with Africans and their culture. Here he retraces David Livingstone's last journey sharing a wealth of information about the land and the people. George H. Doran hardcover books

Walkabout Books · États-Unis60,00 $US≈ 50,77 €

Remond GeorgesABAA

Aux camps Turco-Arabes. Notes de route et de guerre en Tripolitaine et en Cyrenaique. Ouvrage illustrÃƒÂ© de 60 gravures tirÃƒÂ©es hors text et de 6 cartes en noir

191349852Paris: Hachette & Cie 1913. First edition wrapper issue; small 4to pp. iii-xii 211 1; numerous photographic illustrations on plates and 5 maps in the text; near fine in original pictorial orange wrappers the spine slightly sunned. Hachette & Cie unknown books

Rulon-Miller Books · États-Unis230,00 $US≈ 194,60 €

Meyerowitz Eva LR. L. R.ABAA

At the Court of An African King

196213307London: Faber and Faber 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 244 pp indexed illustrated with b/w photographs. Some dust soil to top edge otherwise clean tight unmarked. Dust jacket is price-clipped; else minimal wear. In 1946 the author acted as spokesperson for the Tekyiman people of what is now part of Ghana in their dispute with the British and Gold Coast governments over the sovereignty of nine villages incorporated into Ashanti territory in 1935. "A record of bureaucratic intrigue" and "a fascinating account of life in a west African state at every level" according to the dust jacket. Faber and Faber hardcover books

Walkabout Books · États-Unis22,00 $US≈ 18,61 €

SOUTH AFRICA APARTHEID LEE Franz JT. J. T.ABAA

Anatomy of Apartheid in Southern Africa

196648284New York: Alexander Defense Committee 1966. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; stapled wrappers; 43pp; illus. Light wear to extremities modest toning to rear wrapper with two small faint stains to upper front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good or better. Expose of state-sponsored apartheid in South Africa and Rhodesia. With several photographic illustrations halftones. The author was Executive Secretary of the Alexander Defense Committee organized in 1965 to advocate on behalf of the "Alexander Eleven" a group of anti-apartheid activists headed by Neville Alexander who were imprisoned under South Africa's "Sabotage Act" in 1963. Alexander Defense Committee unknown books

Lorne Bair Rare Books · États-Unis25,00 $US≈ 21,15 €

Africa 20th Century environmentABAA

An Environmental Impact Assessment Framework for Africa June 1994 Prepared By Seven Resource Persons Drawn Out of the Livingstone EIA Training Workshop Team

199422738Nairobi: United Nations Development Programme 1994. 6 19 pages; the resource persons include: Justo Z. Mabenge - Zimbabwe Janet Mutiso - Kenya Sharmala Naidoo - S. Africa Portia Segomelo - Botswana Vusumuzi F. Simelane - Swaziland Krispin Wafula - Kenya Pathias Muhwanga - Zambia; ".attempts to provide broad guidelines to help African countries integrate environmental concerns in their National Development Strategies NDS through appropriate political social and economic structures."; with attempts to ".capture those elements peculiar to Africa."; printed stapled paper wrap covers; little cover wear staple residue; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. United Nations Development Programme Paperback books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis45,00 $US≈ 38,07 €

Madox Richard; Donno Elizabeth Story edABAA

An Elizabethan in 1582 The Diary of Richard Madox Fellow of All Souls

19761903London: Hakluyt Society 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. xvi 365 pp maps one folding illustrations with index errata slip tipped in on half-title editor's compliments sheet laid in. Lightly bumped corners else fine. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear with two small less than 1/2 inch tears on front cover near spine. "As a circumstantial document the Diary provides diverse information ranging from details of the Oxford and London scenes and the organizational aspects of the trading venture to the customs of the natives of Sierra Leone including the earliest English record of an African language together with drawings of the flora and fauna" dust jacket. Hakluyt Society hardcover books

Walkabout Books · États-Unis20,00 $US≈ 16,92 €

AFRICA FURLONG EXPEDITIONABAA

An archive of material relating to C. Wellington Furlong's 1930 big-game hunting expedition to British East Africa as described below

50306For the lot of approximately 250 items $6000. a Correspondence with various government officials hunting guides and others involved with preparing and carrying out the trip including14 letters to Furlong typed and autograph one accompanied by four photographs of members of the expedition with trophies; five retained copies of letters from Furlong to the correspondents four telegrams seven typed and manuscript recapitulations of various aspects of the trip e.g. titles for the "Dance of the Nandi" film and a three page typed press release on the expedition dated Nairobi 27 March 1930 accompanied by a photograph of Furlong and two bearers with a leopard he has killed. b Two hunting licenses issued by the Uganda Protectorate to Furlong 22 April 1930 one "For a First Elephant" the other a "Visitor's Full Game License." c Three maps period road map of Kenya and Uganda published by Bullows and Roy for the Royal East Africa Automobile Assn.; Map Showing Cairo-Mombasa Route published by the Sudan Survey Dept Khartoum 1929; and a period National Geographic Society map of Africa. d An account book narrow 12mo 19 pp. 22 March - 8 June 1930 and approximately 125 receipts most partly printed for a wide range of services and material necessary for the trip. e 21 photographs in addition to those mentioned above many picturing Furlong in the field with his rifle and trophies some with Furlong's notations on verso and 34 unused photo postcards featuring tribesmen animals and scenery of East Africa. f 42 promotional pamphlets ca. 1925-1934 for the various parts of Africa along Furlong's route 36 of which are unrecorded on OCLC. The pamphlets were issued by African railway companies and governmental agencies outfitters e.g. Thomas Cook and "Safari Africa Limited" London ship lines and other travel agencies and taxidermy concerns. g A wooden carved string instrument from the Para Mountains in present day Tanzania with Furlong's ownership label "Col. Wellington Furlong / c/o Safariland Ltd. / Musical Instrument / Para Mountains" still attached; the instrument is shaped like a hollowed-out bread tray 27 x 7 1/2 inches three holes in the shape of crosses in the bottom six strings stretched across the opening. Furlong 1874-1967; American explorer army officer author artist and photographer embarked on this big game expedition in 1930 partly as an effort to recover relics of Sir Henry M Stanley in East and Central Africa. Gateway to the Sahara New York 1909 is among several books he published. A member of the Explorers Club he was the first American to explore the interior of Tierra del Fuego 1907-1908. Most of his personal papers are held by the Stefansson Collection at Dartmouth. unknown books

Bartlebys Books · États-Unis6 000,00 $US≈ 5 076,60 €

E. Hadfield authorABAA

AMONG THE NATIVES OF THE LOYALTY GROUP

1920258323London: Macmillan and Co 1920. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Binding sound; spine slightly cocked; light bumping to extremities; light toning to binding; small mark to front endpapers otherwise no markings in text; illustrated with photographs. Very Good binding. Macmillan and Co unknown books

Black Swan Books, Inc. · États-Unis60,00 $US≈ 50,77 €

Hilton Simpson MW. Melville William M. W.ABAA

Among the Hill-Folk of Algeria Journeys Amoung the Shawia of the Aures Mountains

192113256New York: Dodd Mead and Co 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 248 pp with 40 illustrations and a map of the Aures. Original green cloth bumped at the corners; binding tight and square contents clean. No dust jacket. Account of three winters the author and his wife spent in the remote hill country of Algeria collecting specimens of Berber handicraft for the Pitt-Rivers Museum Oxford. Dodd, Mead and Co hardcover books

Walkabout Books · États-Unis35,00 $US≈ 29,61 €

Europe North Africa Middle East Photo AlbumABAA

American Couple Photo Album c. 1920s: Bethlehem The Dead Sea Nazareth Galilee Monte Carlo Alexandria Cairo the Pyramids France Cologne Paris Nice Parthenon Greece Constantinople Rome Milan Venice the Swiss alps Germany and England

16779Travel Album of over 225 photos from a tour of Europe North Africa and the Middle East in the 1920s; photos from France Italy Egypt Greece Constantinople Istanbul Monaco Switzerland Germany and England. This album takes us to a world of a century ago with 228 original silver gelatin prints 2 3/4 x 4 1/2 in. Original brown cloth boards. 7 1/2 x 12 inches. 100 pages last 8 are blank. Pasted in 22 souvenir postcards of monuments from Brussels the Hague and Milan. c. 1921-1930. Album documents the travels of an American couple on an international vacation. Photos begin with journey leaving New York harbor "Aboard the Vallendam" headed towards France. They land in Cologne and their first stop is in Paris where they document their lodging "Our hotel in Paris "Victoria Palace" and include snapshots of famous landmarks including the Louvre Church of St. Genevieve the Trocadero the Eiffel Tower Tuileries Gardens and the Champ-Elysees. They visit Versailles and Trianon Palace and then travel around France to Rheims Nice and Eze a medieval village. They include many charming photos of coastal views and bucolic countryside. They make stops at Monaco and Monte Carlo making sure to visit the famous Casino in its prime in the 1920's before boarding the next ship which would carry them across the Mediterranean Sea. Large image of a ship "Theophile Gautier" pasted in with the handwritten caption "Our boat on the Med. Sea and our home for more than two weeks." They sail past Stromboli on the way to Alexandria Egypt where they disembark to travel down the Nile River to Cairo. "Old Cairo and the Nile from the citadel." They visit the Great Pyramids and see the Sphinx. They travel to the Middle East. The next stop is Palestine and Jerusalem where they visit many important religious sites including "Garden of Geshsamine sic" Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Wailing Wall. They also take interest Islamic practices in the city as there is one snapshot of the group seated outside a mosque with the caption: "Group waiting to hear the Mohammedan call to prayer." They also tour Bethlehem Solomon's Quarries and Jewish University before moving on to other places: The Jordan River The Dead Sea Nazareth Galilee and Beirut. They travel on various ways during this time and document many markets and street scenes of a century ago. "Meeting a camel caravan." They visit ancient sites in Greece such as the ancient city of Smyrna and the island of Rhodes home to the Colossus one of the ancient wonders of the world. Caption for a photo of the island's harbor reads "Rhodes showing the sight site of the ancient Colossus". In Athens they visit the Acropolis and even take a photo where they are standing inside the Parthenon no longer allowed for conservation reasons. They document Hadrian's Arch the Temple of Athena Nike "the wingless victor" Mars Hill the Temple of Theseus and Socrates' prison. They go to Constantinople renamed Istanbul in 1930 and take photos of "The Mosque of St. Sophia" Hagia Sophia. They travel up the boot of Italy with photos of Mt. Vesuvius Naples Rome Milan and Venice. In the capital city they visit the "Tomb of the Italy's Unknown Soldier" erected 1921 and visit the ancient forum in Rome. They take many photos in Venice documenting experiences such as a gondola ride and important landmarks such as St. Mark's Square and the Doge's Palace. The final leg of the trip is an overland journey through the Swiss alps through Lucerne and past the Rhone Glacier. They journey through southern Germany stopping at Baden-Baden Heidelberg and Bonn before making it back to their final destination: England. They go for a tour of Windsor Castle and take in the sights. "Eton College from Windsor." They also visit Oxford University and save two large pages for their photos of Shakespeare's former residences. "Anne Hathaway's Home" and "In the gardens at Stradford on the Avon - Both have Shakespear's sic house". 2 pages are detached. Very good condition. unknown books

Max Rambod Inc. · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

Malawi: British Central AfricaABAA

Album of Photographs of British Central Africa

19103013551910. Containing 70 silver print photographs of various dimensions many captioned in white ink. 1 vols. Large 4to 33.5 x 28 cm. Contemporary beige buckram 'Pictured Records' blocked in black on upper cover 'British Central Africa' added by hand in white; cover worn and a little stained upper joint partly split. Containing 70 silver print photographs of various dimensions many captioned in white ink. 1 vols. Large 4to 33.5 x 28 cm. A handsome album documenting missionary work in a little-known area. The party almost certainly attached to the Church of Scotland Mission evidently enjoyed their time in Africa as they proceeded from Tanganyika into Central Africa. Among the photographs are shots of a native witch doctor women preparing food native sports including pillow fighting as well as topographical images. The also found time to hunt and thirteen pages are dedicated to big game. There are images of eland lion leopard elephants koodoo bushbuck hippopotamus zebra reedbuck porcupine sable wild boar buffalo hartebeeste and wildebeeste. Lastly there is a photo of the Zomba Church belonging to the Church of Scotland Mission and one of the Blantyre Church which was completed in 1891. Inspired by the example of David Livingstone the Church of Scotland decided to establish a mission in Malawi in the mid-1870s. It was on the basis of their influence that Malawi became a British Protectorate. unknown books

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Jochum Helen ParkerABAA

Alaskan Journey

1980TB13511no city stated: Self Published 1980. First Edition. First printing Fine in blue cloth covered boards with white text on the spine. In a fine dust jacket. The author provides an historical account of her father's venture to Alaska during the gold rush of 1899 to assist in the development of a bank to safeguard the gold found by the miners. 153 pages including a bibliography text reproductions of contemporary photographs & illustrations by Janet K. Monteith. Self Published hardcover books

Town's End Books · États-Unis45,50 $US≈ 38,50 €

AFRIQUE COTE NORDABAA

Afrique Cote Nord A L'est Du Detroit De Gilbraltar Levant Entre La Mer Egee Et Le Canal De Suez

1968117810Paris 1968. hardcover. One folding map. 8vo cloth. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1968. unknown books

Argosy Book Store · États-Unis13,13 $US≈ 11,11 €

AfricaABAA

AFRIKA. Cape Town and South-West Africa 1931.

1931D14321931. Very Good. Stab binding bound with grey ribbon patterned cloth over boards 13 x 9.25 with handwritten titles on front board; contains 19 grey heavy cardstock leaves each featuring numerous b/w photographs more than 150 in all average size is 3 x 4.25 affixed to rectos and versos with photo-corners most of them labeled by hand in German with some English. Boards a little rubbed and scuffed else fine. A lovely young African woman wearing robes a turban and a necklace clutches a pipe in her teeth and poses for the camera in front of a thatched roof house. The photograph bears the handwritten label Basutofrau aus dem Hinterland von East London. So begins this collection of images photographs taken by the author and postcards of Cape Town and South-West Africa in 1931. It offers a nice balance of the personal with images of the authors friends at picnics hiking with men in suits and hat and the ladies in dresses and high-heeled shoes! on ship and watching street performers and the more broadly interesting streetscapes and landmarks. The African people it seems were also generously willing to smile for the camera. Postcards have labels printed in English identifying Camps Bay Chapman Peak government buildings memorials etc. and the photographs taken by the author usually identify the place and date tidy penmanship in German and often with a quip. Though a few of the authors photographs are a little blurry or over-exposed most are nicely composed and all of the images photos and postcards are bright and clean. A pleasing amalgam. hardcover books

Sanctuary Books · États-Unis500,00 $US≈ 423,05 €

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