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189352561Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons 1893. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xix 1 563 1; gravure frontispiece portrait 13 maps 9 in color 5 folding 2 in cover pockets 2 other maps in the text 54 plates 75 illustrations in the text; Geography Prize bookplate in vol. I dated Dec. 19 1900; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt; spines rather sunned and spine extremities a bit rubbed but the bindings are sound with no cracked hinges. <br/><br/> William Blackwood and Sons hardcover books
192152576London: Seeley Service & Co 1921. First edition 8vo pp. 479 1; 20 plates 44 diagrams in the text including a double-p. map and 5 maps 4 folding original pictorial black cloth stamped in green on upper cover and spine; covers spotted especially along the fore-edge of the upper cover and the extremities are worn Nairobi owner's signature on flyleaf else a good sound copy. <br/><br/> Seeley, Service & Co hardcover books
19911857Kraus Reprint Limited 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xlix 271 pp folding map illustrations with frontispiece bibliography index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Vol. III only. Reprint of the 1918 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. XLIII. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series but it other than the title it appears identical to this one. Kraus Reprint Limited hardcover books
199522737Maseru Lesotho: United Nations Development Programme 1995. 23 pages; black and white illustrations relating to articles regarding the World Summit for Social Development; and the relations and results in Lesotho of the UNFPA and social Development; Small Scale Industries Project WFP food for work programme; Lesotho heritage awareness UNV activities in Lesotho and general news on UN-inspired world initiatives; with chart illustrating "Lesotho's human development indicators: some comparative data"; last page with staff changes noted; the UNDP resident representative and editor was John O. Kokonge; color illustrated stapled paper wrap covers magazine style; light wear; in very good condition. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. United Nations Development Programme Paperback books
186129188Cape Town: Saul Solomon 1861. Quarto. xii 180 pp. plus photographically illustrated titlepage and sixteen mounted albumen photographs. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt with leather label. Light scattered foxing occasional faint offsetting from images. Photographs generally clean. Very good.<br/> <br/>With some of the earliest photographic images from South Africa with a striking portrait of a Basuto Chief.<br/> <br/>An early photographically illustrated book and the first such book printed on the African continent. The volume was made to commemorate the visit of Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha one of Queen Victoria's sons. The book was designed to showcase the colony which had hitherto been viewed in a less than positive light by the general British public. Prince Alfred was well-received by the colonists in South Africa and the volume contains many positive facts about the colony's usefulness to the British Empire. The book includes seventeen images by photographer Joseph Kirkman who was active in South Africa from 1859 to 1870. Some of the images in this volume are photographs of drawings or other artwork but others do capture live scenes along the Prince's route including a grand portrait of the African chief Moshesh and his advisors. The chief is pictured seated in the center of the image dressed in a top hat and suit holding a cane. The man seated next to him glowers at the camera and is draped in an animal pelt and holds a spear. Four men all in Western dress stand arrayed behind them. The images taken from life during the Prince's progress are as follows: Untitled image on the titlepage showing several men next to a rail car full of large rocks. In 1860 Kirkman and Frederick York were employed by the Government and the Harbour Board to photograph the tilting of the first truck of stone off the Breakwater by Prince Alfred. This is presumably an image from that scene. Graham's Town from the West The Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queenstown The Prince's Interview with the Tambookies Moshesh and His Counsellors The Prince and His First Wildebeeste The Prince's Travelling Equipage A rare and interesting work and notable for being the first photographically illustrated book produced in Africa.<br/> <br/>Not in The Truthful Lens. Saul Solomon unknown books
1861WRCAM49581ACape Town: Saul Solomon 1861. xii180pp. plus photographically illustrated titlepage and sixteen mounted albumen photographs. Quarto. Original publisher's gilt cloth rebacked with most of original spine laid down. Corners lightly worn. Contemporary ownership inscription on front fly leaf. Light foxing and toning heavier in some places. Most images clean though one or two with some light foxing at the edges. Very good. An early photographically illustrated book and the first such book printed on the African continent. The volume was made to commemorate the visit of Alfred Duke of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha one of Queen Victoria's sons. The book was designed to showcase the colony which had hitherto been viewed in a less than positive light by the general British public. Prince Alfred was well- received by the colonists in South Africa and the volume contains many positive facts about the colony's usefulness to the British Empire. <br> <br> The book includes seventeen images by photographer Joseph Kirkman who was active in South Africa from 1859 to 1870. Some of the images in this volume are photographs of drawings or other artwork but others do capture live scenes along the Prince's route including a grand portrait of the African chief Moshesh and his advisors. The chief is pictured seated in the center of the image dressed in a top hat and suit holding a cane. The man seated next to him glowers at the camera and is draped in an animal pelt and holds a spear. Four men all in Western dress stand arrayed behind them. The images taken from life during the Prince's progress are as follows: <br> <br> 1 Untitled image on the titlepage showing several men next to a rail car full of large rocks. In 1860 Kirkman and Frederick York were employed by the government and the Harbour Board to photograph the tilting of the first truck of stone off the Breakwater by Prince Alfred. This is presumably an image from that scene. <br> <br> 2 "Graham's Town from the West" <br> <br> 3 "The Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queenstown" <br> <br> 4 "The Prince's Interview with the Tambookies" <br> <br> 5 "Moshesh and His Counsellors" <br> <br> 6 "The Prince and His First Wildebeeste" <br> <br> 7 "The Prince's Travelling Equipage" <br> <br> Not in THE TRUTHFUL LENS. A rare and interesting work and notable for being the first photographically illustrated book produced in Africa. Saul Solomon hardcover books
1861WRCAM49581Cape Town: Saul Solomon 1861. xii180pp. plus photographically illustrated titlepage and sixteen mounted albumen photographs. Quarto. Modern three-quarter calf and marbled boards spine gilt leather label. Light scattered foxing occasional faint offsetting from images. Photographs generally clean. Very good. An early photographically illustrated book and the first such book printed on the African continent. The volume was produced to commemorate the visit of Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha one of Queen Victoria's sons. It was designed to showcase the colony which had hitherto been viewed in a less than positive light by the general British public. Prince Alfred was well received by the colonists in South Africa and the volume contains many positive facts about the colony's usefulness to the British Empire. <br> <br> The book includes seventeen images by photographer Joseph Kirkman who was active in South Africa from 1859 to 1870. Some of the images in this volume are photographs of drawings or other artwork but others capture live scenes along the Prince's route including a grand portrait of African chief Moshesh and his advisors. The chief is pictured seated in the center dressed in a top hat and suit holding a cane. The man seated next to him glowers at the camera and is draped in an animal pelt and holds a spear. Four men all in Western dress stand arrayed behind them. The images taken from life during the Prince's progress are as follows: <br> <br> Untitled image on the titlepage showing several men next to a rail car full of large rocks. In 1860 Kirkman and Frederick York were employed by the government and the Harbour Board to photograph the tilting of the first truck of stone off the Breakwater by Prince Alfred. This is presumably an image from that scene. <br> <br> "Graham's Town from the West" <br> <br> "The Reception of the Prince by a Burgher Escort near Queenstown" <br> <br> "The Prince's Interview with the Tambookies" <br> <br> "Moshesh and His Counsellors" <br> <br> "The Prince and His First Wildebeeste" <br> <br> "The Prince's Travelling Equipage" <br> <br> Not in THE TRUTHFUL LENS. A rare and interesting work and notable for being the first photographically illustrated book produced in Africa. Saul Solomon hardcover books
19911859Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. cxxxii 296 pp folding map with illustrations bibliography index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1902 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. X. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series but it other than the title it appears identical to this one. Kraus Reprint hardcover books
1992TB02985New York: Simon & Schuster 1992. First Edition. First printing Fine In a fine dust jacket. Simon & Schuster unknown books
194952589Nairobi: East African Railways and Harbours n.d. 1949. First edition 4to pp. xii 582; 2 folding color maps 14 plates showing 20 portraits and illustrations; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; small hole in cloth at top of spine else a very good copy. <br/><br/> East African Railways and Harbours, n.d. hardcover books
1947TB29393Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company 1947. First Edition. Near fine in gilt decorated red cloth covered boards with gilt text stamping & map end papers. An octavo of 8 1/2 by 5 3/4 inches. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with a 1 inch closed tear at the lower edge of the spine area and with light wear and rubbing across the top edge of the spine area and nicks over the tips of the boards. Signed by the author on a tipped in page. The second volume in The American Trails Series which followed The Wilderness Road. Three volumes were published by Bobbs-Merrill before the series was continued by McGraw-Hill. 331 pages w/ index. Bobbs-Merrill Company hardcover books
189052548Philadelphia: Reading and Co 1890. First edition 8vo pp. iii-xv 1 278; frontispiece portrait 64 plates 1 in color and 2 maps; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; slight wear else near fine. The author is described on the title page as the late secretary of the Gabon and Corsico Mission and acting commercial agent for the U.S. "All the scenes and incidents portrayed in this book are true the only fiction consisting in making these the experiences of the Ogowe Band instead of the author. All the descriptions of scenery were copied from diaries written upon the spot and are as accurate as it is possible to make them" preface. <br/><br/> Reading and Co hardcover books
189011320Philadelphia: Reading and Company 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv 278 pp illustrated with portraits many of Africans maps and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose but none detached. Occasional smudged pages; text otherwise unmarked. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia which took them through Sierra Leone Liberia Ivory Coast and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior. Blockson 1628. Reading and Company hardcover books
189852651London: Methuen & Co 1898. First edition issued in the publisher's Colonial Library series small 8vo pp. vi 238 2; large folding map 4 plates; extra illustration mounted on front pastedown; original maroon cloth gilt-stamped spine extra cloth label 'Africa' also on spine; fine copy. <br/><br/> Methuen & Co hardcover books
194826521Johannesburg: Rostra Printers n.d. ca. 1948. First Edition. 12mo 17.25cm.; original white printed staplebound card wrappers; 15pp. Extremities sunned textblock uniformly toned and brittle due to poor paperstock tiny loss to lower fore-edge corner of first few leaves and upper wrapper. Still Very Good. Anti-apartheid policy of South Africa's leading political party from 1934 to 1948 when it was supplanted by the National Party. Only a handful of copies located in OCLC; Boston U. only in the United States as of May 2015. Rostra Printers unknown books
186513668New York: D. Appleton and Co 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in one: 179; 198 pp plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece of a hippo bathing in the Nile. Original green cloth with blind-stamped decoration and faded gilt lettering on the spine. Corners and spine ends rubbed evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding sound text clean with minor foxing. Fictional account founded on real experiences and adventures in South Africa in the early nineteenth century. Mendelssohn I 986. D. Appleton and Co hardcover books
194552652London: Chatto & Windus 1945. 8vo pp. xxxiii 1 268 2; folding map 2 portraits; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine and a rather chipped dust jacket. Issued as no. 2 in the Central African Archives Oppenheimer Series. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
195352562London: Faber & Faber 1953. First edition 8vo pp. xlii 601 1; portrait frontispiece 4 maps 1 folding 36 illustrations on rectos and versos of 9 plates; near fine sound copy in original terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on spine. <br/><br/> Faber & Faber hardcover books
196813332London: Frank Cass 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Facsimile reprint of the 1906 edition. 564 pp indexed bound in red cloth. Light dust soil to top edge else fine. Dust jacket has light soiling at the edges and chipping to the corners and head of spine. Study of the religion and philosophy of the various tribes of the lower Niger including the Efik Ibo and Ibibio. Frank Cass hardcover books
196821479London: Frank Cass 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Reprint of the 1875 edition. Book is as-new dust jacket is sunned at the spine and price-clipped. Slavery Series No. 3. According to the dust jacket "Cooper's work was aimed at whipping up a state of public opinion which would force the British government into concrete diplomatic action to end Mohammodean and Portuguese slaving in East Africa. Frank Cass hardcover books
1976TB27246New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. An octavo measuring 9" by 6" with the cloth at the head and heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing and with two faint coffee stains to the fore edge of the text block. In a very good unclipped dust jacket with shallow "v" shaped narrow chips from the ends of the spine area and nicks to the fore corners of the panels. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1976TB18560New York: McGraw-Hill 1976. First Edition. First printing Near fine in red and blue cloth covered boards with silver colored text stamping on the spine. The cloth at the heel of the spine shows very minor rubbing; otherwise the book is in fine condition. In a very good dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap but with a 1/8" chip at the upper fore corner of the front panel and with two short 1/4" closed tears at the upper edge of the spine area with minor related creasing. The 14th volume in The American Trails Series and the most difficult title in the series to locate. 341 pages with index and bibliography. A very tight crisp and clean copy with no marks dates or prior owner's names or book plates. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1992TB01869New York: Harper Collins Pub 1992. First Edition. First printing Fine In a fine dust jacket. Harper Collins Pub unknown books
190613722New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons and Everett & Co 1906. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes pp xxix 31-291; x 14-288 appendices and index with 64 plates. Original red cloth with beveled edges gilt titles on spine. Spines lightly sunned minor edgewear to boards. Bindings tight and square contents clean. Penzer 311-312 expressing his disdain for the work; Casada 318 writes that "it is important at least in part for the reasons Penzer found so objectionable. It brings to the forefront Burton's shortcomings and opens up avenues of thought which needed and still need examination." This set comes from the personal collection of bibliographer James Casada. G.P. Putnam's Sons [and] Everett & Co hardcover books
19911852Millwood NY: Kraus Reprint 1991. Hardcover. Near Fine. xiv 283 pp folding map illustrations with maps illustrations bibliography index. Name written on front pastedown; else fine. No dust jacket. Reprint of the 1972 Hakluyt Society edition. Second series No. 142. Includes documentation of voyages to England the Canary Islands Puerto Rico Tierra Firme and Avellaneda. Please note: the image associated with this listing shows another volume in the same series but it other than the title it appears identical to this one. Kraus Reprint hardcover books
