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1968118986Munich 1968. hardcover. Folding map. 164pp. 12mo cloth; cover soiled. Munchen 1968.<br/><br/> unknown books
193013078New York: Fleming H. Revell 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 223 pp illustrated with line drawings by Oliver Whitwell Wilson. Brown pictorial cloth; no dust jacket. Private library stamp on title page and bookplate on front pastedown brief gift inscription on front flyleaf; otherwise a lovely copy with minimal wear. Folklore of the Bura people of northeastern Nigeria. Say Boas in the introduction "Folk tales.are of particular interest because they illustrate with great clarity the mode of thought the homely wisdom and the ethical concepts of the people. In Africa more than among other so-called primitive tribes many a tale illustrates a proverb relating to the proper everyday behavior. The Negro is fond of moralizing by means of moralizing tales." Fleming H. Revell hardcover books
200028955London: Struik Publishers Amplats. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 1868724131 . Text by Sandra Klopper. Color photographs throughout. First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Struik Publishers (Amplats) hardcover books
197025406Addis Ababa Ethiopia: Population Programme Centre 1970. First Edition. Quarto 28cm.; decorative staplebound self-wrappers printed in blue and black; mixed pagination; illus. text printed from typescript. Some wear from handling else Very Good and sound. Initially published as a quarterly newsletter aimed at disseminating information on population problems in Africa between governments and voluntary agencies. This first issue includes forewords by R.K.A. Gardiner Executive Secretary of the Commision; Paul G. Hoffman Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme; and Milos Macura Director of the United Nations Population Division. Population Programme Centre unknown books
189436380London: Richard Bentley and Son 1894. Third Edition. Illustrations by James Wolf and J. B. Zwecker. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter brown morocco and marbled boards. Spine sunned else fine. Third Edition. Illustrations by James Wolf and J. B. Zwecker. 1 vols. 8vo. The Second European to Reach the Falls of the Zambesi. "Mr. Baldwin's experiences are written in a simple and unostentatious manner but he went through more adventures than almost all of the great South Afriican travellers and hunters." Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn I 73-74 for 1863 second ed. Richard Bentley and Son unknown books
192413735Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 270 pp in original brown and red cloth. No dust jacket. Name stamped on front free endpaper otherwise unmarked with minimal wear. Binding tight and square. A collection of essays based on "material gathered during a sojourn of many years in the Southern Camaroon West Africa." Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
199093859Addis Ababa: UNECA 1990. iv73p. 5.75x8.25 inches introduction annexes very good booklet in stapled wraps. A plan for encouraging more popular representation in African development. UNECA unknown books
194252567New York: Books Inc. distributed by E.P. Dutton n.d. 1942. 8vo pp. iii-xi 3 499 1; 101 maps in the text; fine copy in original orange cloth gilt-stamped spine in a near fine dust jacket with one shallow chip. <br/><br/> Books, Inc., distributed by E.P. Dutton, n.d. hardcover books
185613245London: Seeley Jackson and Halliday 1856. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6" - 7" tall. Third thousand. vi 272 pp with color frontis in original blind-stamped cloth. Corners bumped chipping to head of spine bits of old paper stuck to front board. Occasional foxing otherwise clean and sound. Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday hardcover books
195938051New York: American Committee on Africa 1959. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp.; illus. Some minor toning and dust-soil else Very Good. Includes an article on the newly elected first President of Guinea Sékou Touré during whose 26-year régime approximatley 50000 people would be killed. American Committee on Africa] unknown books
195738052New York: American Committee on Africa 1957. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled rear cover postally used with "Return to Sender" rubberstamp else Near Very Good and sound. Includes two contributions by the South African novelist Alan Paton including the poem "My Great Discovery. American Committee on Africa] unknown books
191213232Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. pp. xvii 315 in attracticve original cloth decorated with map of Africa on front board trees on spine. Illustrated with plates from photographs and a double-page map. Spine lightly sunned else minimal wear. A.C. McClurg & Co hardcover books
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 books
1851WRCLIT82725Washington: Printed by Jno. T. Towers 1851. 16pp. Octavo. Printed wrappers. A bit of foxing early and late manuscript frank on rear wrapper old soft vertical fold two small adhesion spots on upper wrapper otherwise a very good copy. First edition. This address was delivered within a day of Payne's consecration as Bishop of Cape Palmas and Parts Adjacent in West Africa leading to his rank as the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Liberia. He served in Liberia for two decades during which the Episcopal Church built five churches two asylums and a hospital and ordained twenty priests. OCLC locates 16 copies. OCLC: 5005360. Printed by Jno. T. Towers unknown books
192352645London: Ernest Benn 1923. First edition 8vo pp. 276; 2 folding maps 80 illustrations on 64 plates; original gray cloth stamped in gilt on spine; generally a very good copy. Czech Africa p. 13: "Barns was joined by noted rifle maker Sir Charles Ross on an expedition leaving Mombasa in 1921. The party hunted lion and rhino near the Ngorongoro Crater then traveled to the Lake Kivu region of the eastern Belgian Congo . Included among the photos is a snapshot of a poacher named Bowen with an elephant he bagged sporting a pair of tusks at 173 and 176 lbs." <br/><br/> Ernest Benn hardcover books
19691840Amsterdam: N. Israel 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Two volumes in one. pp 70 80 illustrations 3 b/w folding 2 in color. A fine copy in original clear plastic jacket. Bibliotheca Austaliana #64. Facsimile reprint of the 1806 London edition. N. Israel hardcover books
190552574New York: Dodd Mead & Co 1905. First edition 8vo pp. x 364; portrait frontispiece folding map and 100 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 44 plates; original green cloth stamped in blue gilt and green on upper cover and spine; very good. This copy inscribed "To Mr. K. B. Coulter with the good greetings of the scribe Wm. Edgar Geil Clifton Springs NY Nov. AD 1906." <br/><br/> Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover books
180120702London: John Stockdale 1801. Hardcover. Near fine. First octavo edition and second edition overall. Six volumes uniformly bound in recent quarter leather and marbled boards complete with two large folding maps/charts and 17 folding plates; 2 pages of ads at the end of Volume VI. Occasional light foxing a couple small splits/tears to maps else fine. Signature of Alfred Fowler on the front free endpaper of Volume I and the rear pastedown of Volume II. Vancouver sailed by way of the Cape of Good Hope to Australia then to New Zealand Hawaii and the northwest coast of America -- discovering previously unknown geographical features in each locale. In three seasons' work Vancouver surveyed the coast of California with remarkable accuracy visited a number of the Spanish settlements in Alta California investigated the Strait of Juan de Fuca circumnavigated Vancouver island and disproved the existence of any passage between the Pacific and Hudson Bay. In all Vancouver's party sailed about 55000 miles in what Hill 1753 calls "one of the most important voyages ever made in the interests of geographic knowledge." Howgego I V13; Howes V-23; Sabin 98443. John Stockdale hardcover books
191012961New York: J.B. Lippincott 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 368 pp indexed with 66 illustrations from photographs and a large folding map of Sierra Leone. Publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt. Spine sunned but legible corners bumped name on bottom edge and front pastedown. Internally clean and sound. Record of the author's experiences during many years' residence in the colony where he traveled expensively and mapped "the far distant and then unknown parts of the Hinterland." Includes much on native life and customs. J.B. Lippincott hardcover books
189920473New York: Harper and Brothers 1899. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. pp. xxiii 940 ads with many plates including one folding panorama portraits and five folding maps. Plates are from photos by the author and drawings by R.W. Macbeth Clifford Carleton Harry C. Edwards E.F.W. Frohawk. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering illustration on upper board. Light soiling to boards and rubbing to corners early ownership inscription on front pastedown closed tear repaired on verso one map. Binding sound text clean. Narrative of the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition which "sailed in the Windward to Franz Josef Land established winter quarters at Cape Flora Northbrook Island Sept. 1894 and repained for three years.Throughout this period the party made sledge journeys in the archipelago surveyed made scientific collections and kept a meterological record. The author's journal p 5-775 records day by day.the course of the expedition describes in detail the hunting weather ice conditions the polar night and its effects pony and dog sledging the terrain health food etc" Arctic Bib. 7943. Harper and Brothers hardcover books
189952559London: Chapman & Hall 1899. Second edition 8vo pp. xiv 365 1; frontispiece portrait and 28 plates 3 maps and plans; some rubbing of the binding but generally very good and sound in original green cloth stamped in gilt and with a red seal on the upper cover. Neufeld was imprisoned for 12 years in Omdurman after the fall of Khartoum. <br/><br/> Chapman & Hall hardcover books
187114190Philadelphia: Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger 1871. Hardcover. Near fine. Reprint complete in one volume. vi 9-434 pp. Publisher's green cloth with blind-stamped decoration gilt lettering on spine. Minor rubbing to corners previous owner's name and date on front flyleaf; otherwise unmarked clean and sound. Claxton, Remsen, & Haffelfinger hardcover books
191152609Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co 1911. First edition 8vo pp. xiii 1 445; photographic frontispiece 35 leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos map endpapers; original tan pictorial cloth stamped in brown and gilt; lightly rubbed "294" in biro on front free endpaper; very good sound copy. Photographs by the author Emma Ayer who was the wife of the book collector Edward E. Ayer; this book is dedicated to him. <br/><br/> A.C. McClurg & Co hardcover books
186452523London: Tinsley Brothers 1864. Second edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvii 3 7-386; vi 413 1; wood-engraved frontispiece in each volume; original dark purple cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover gilt lettering direct on spine; both spines sunned and spotted back cover of vol. I also spotted; all else very good and sound. In 1863 Burton went to Dahomey as a representative of the British government to persuade the King to stop his participation in the slave trade and human sacrifice. For the first edition see Spink 31; Penzer pp. 72-74; and Casada 47: "Thanks in part to the sensational nature of its subject matter this is one of the better known of Burton's works on Africa." <br/><br/> Tinsley Brothers hardcover books
189713079New York: Fleming H. Revell 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp with frontis portrait 19 illustrations and 2 maps 1 folding. Green cloth boards with gilt decoration. Spine cocked brief gift inscription on front free endpaper else very good. Good served as a Presbyterian missionary in West Africa from 1882 until his death in 1894. He traveled extensively in the region learning the Bulu language and making a study of native religious beliefs. He also collected entomological specimens on behalf of W.J. Holland of the Western University of Pennsylvania who contributed an Appendix to the book. Fleming H. Revell hardcover books