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THE GREAT ZIMBABWE RUINS Mashonaland Southern Rhodesia

193614185London: Rhodesia House by Hazel Watson and Viney Ltd. 1936. First Edition. Illustrated throughout with full-page photographs on virtually every page and a folding map showing the plan of the Elliptical Temple. 8vo publisher's original pictorially decorated wraps printed in red and black on the upper cover 86 2 pp. A fine copy usually well preserved. FIRST EDITION OF THIS VERY SCARCE WORK ON THE RUINS OF ZIMBABWE. Written by the curator of the Zimbabwe Ruins from 1910-1936. The rediscovery of the Zimbabwe Ruins in 1868 was due to Adam Renders an American hunter who unknowingly pitched his camp on the site of these Ruins and stumbled across the most profound mystery of Africa. Great Zimbabwe was a city in the south-eastern hills of the modern country of Zimbabwe near Masvingo. It was settled from around 1000 CE and served as the capital of the Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe from the 13th century. It is the largest stone structure in pre-colonial Southern Africa. Major construction on the city began in the 11th century until the 15th century and it was abandoned in the 16th or 17th century. The edifices were erected by ancestors of the Shona people currently located in Zimbabwe and nearby countries. The stone city spans an area of 7.22 square kilometres 2.79 mi2. Population estimates vary. Earlier estimates suggest a peak population of around 20000 people. A recent study using archaeological ethnographic and historical evidence along with statistical modeling suggests that the sites population did not exceed 10000 people. The Zimbabwe state centred on it likely covered 50000 km˛ 19000 sq mi. The site of Great Zimbabwe is composed of the Hill Complex the Valley Complex and the Great Enclosure constructed at different times and contained area for commoner housing within the perimeter walls. There is disagreement on the functions of the complexes among scholars. Some consider them to have been residences for the royals and elites at different periods of the site while others infer them to have had separate functions. The Great Enclosure with its 11 m 36 ft high dry stone walls that is constructed without mortar was built during the 13th and 14th centuries and likely served as the royal residence with demarcated public spaces for rituals. Since the 1950s there has been consensus among archaeologists as to the African origins of Great Zimbabwe. Artifacts and radiocarbon dating indicate settlement in at least the 5th century with continuous settlement of Great Zimbabwe between the 12th and 15th centuries and the bulk of the finds from the 15th century. The radiocarbon evidence is a suite of 28 measurements for which all but the first four from the early days of the use of that method and now viewed as inaccurate support the 12th-to-15th-centuries chronology. In the 1970s a beam that produced some of the anomalous dates in 1952 was reanalysed and gave a 14th-century date. Dated finds such as Chinese Persian and Syrian artefacts also support the 12th- and 15th-century dates. Rhodesia House by Hazel, Watson and Viney Ltd. paperback

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Gascoigne, BamberBiblio.com

The Great Moghuls

1971223London: Jonathan Cape 1971. First. Hardcover. Near Fine/VG with minor rust colored spots. 264 pp ill incl many in colour. Moghul is the name that British and other European explorers gave to the Indian rules who had amassed great wealth and were noted rulers. Author and his wife spent 6 months in India and Pakistan travelling in the footsteps of the great moghuls in preparation for this book. Near fine in vg dj. Jonathan Cape hardcover

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Mirsky, JeanetteBiblio.com

The Great Chinese Travellers

19651953London: Unwin Brothers 1965. First. Hardcover. VG/VG. 309 pp text map. The last three thousand years and the travellers that first discovered China. VG in vg dj. Unwin Brothers hardcover

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Meredith, D (editor) (Includes Lucy KA Chippindall: Part 1 A Guide to the Identification of Grasses in South Africa; [Various]:Biblio.com

The Grasses and Pastures of South Africa Includes Lucy K.A. Chippindall--Part 1. A Guide to the Identification of Grasses in South Africa; Various--Part 2. Pasture Management in South Africa.

132464Central News Agency 1955 1st printing. 4to Very good no dust jacket. 771pp. Illustrated endpapers maps folding maps tables folding tables 32 color plates glossary index. Includes Lucy K.A. Chippindall Part 1. A Guide to the Identification of Grasses in South Africa Various Part 2. Pasture Management in South Africa. Illustrations by Gertrude E. Laurence & Cynthia Letty. Natural History Botanical Illustration--South Africa Botany--South Africa Grasses. Central News Agency Hardcover

Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB · Canada105,00 $US≈ 88,84 €

The Grand Lodge of Southern AfricaBiblio.com

The Grand Lodge of Southern Africa: Constitution And Laws / Die Grootlosie Van Suider-Afrika : Grondwet en Ordewette

6qrxzThe Grand Lodge of Southern Africa / Grand Lodge Office Cape Town. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Constitution and Laws: First adopted at a meeting of the GRAND LODGE held in Bloemfontein on Saturday 11 August 1962 / Revised Constitution and Laws adopted at the Annual General Meeting of Grand Lodge held at Krugersdorp on Saturday 9th August 1975. / Revised Constitution and Laws Part III and Amendments adopted at the Annual General Meeting of Grand Lodge at Bloemfontein on Saturday 26th August 1978. No edition or date stated c1978. Publication of English 113 pages and Afrikaans 113 pages. There is gilt on the spine and on the front cover. The boards are in near fine condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. The Grand Lodge of Southern Africa / Grand Lodge Office Cape Town hardcover

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The Grand Lodge of Southern AfricaBiblio.com

The Grand Lodge of Southern Africa: Constitution And Laws / Die Grootlosie Van Suider-Afrika : Grondwet en Ordewette

6qyodThe Grand Lodge of Southern Africa / Grand Lodge Office Cape Town. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Constitution and Laws: First adopted at a meeting of the GRAND LODGE held in Bloemfontein on Saturday 11 August 1962 / Revised Constitution and Laws adopted at the Annual General Meeting of Grand Lodge held at Krugersdorp on Saturday 9th August 1975. / Revised Constitution and Laws Part III and Amendments adopted at the Annual General Meeting of Grand Lodge at Bloemfontein on Saturday 26th August 1978. No edition or date stated c1978. Publication of English 113 pages and Afrikaans 113 pages. Name of the previous owner on the back cover. There is gilt on the spine and on the front cover. The boards are a little shelf rubbed. There is foxing on the first and last pages. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. The Grand Lodge of Southern Africa / Grand Lodge Office Cape Town hardcover

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Edwin William SmithBiblio.com

The Golden Stool: Some Aspects of the Conflict of Cultures in Modern Africa

2019Gyan-9789389545982Facsimile Publisher 2019. Paperback. New. 13.34 x 21.59 x 2.422. English Facsimile Publisher paperback

BookVistas · Inde57,14 $US≈ 48,35 €

Edwin William SmithBiblio.com

The Golden Stool: Some Aspects of the Conflict of Cultures in Modern Africa

2019Gyan-9789389545982Facsimile Publisher 2019. Paperback. New. 13.34 x 21.59 x 2.422. English Facsimile Publisher paperback

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Edwin William SmithBiblio.com

The Golden Stool: Some Aspects of the Conflict of Cultures in Modern Africa

2019Gyan-9789389545999Facsimile Publisher 2019. Hardcover. New. 14.34 x 22.59 x 3.46. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover

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Edwin William SmithBiblio.com

The Golden Stool: Some Aspects of the Conflict of Cultures in Modern Africa

2019Gyan-9789389545999Facsimile Publisher 2019. Hardcover. New. 14.34 x 22.59 x 3.46. English Facsimile Publisher hardcover

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[AFRICA -- GOLD MINING & GEOLOGY]. FOWLER-LUNN, Katharine [FOWLER-BILLINGS, Kay].Biblio.com

The gold missus. A woman prospector in Sierra Leone.

193862369London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. 1938. 8vo. viii 9-303 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates text illusts. Blue cloth gilt lettering on spine minor edgewear scuffing w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine minor creasing dustsoiling & slight sunning to spine still VG/VG- copy w/ former ownership markings on endpapers. First British edition of this fascinating memoir of the noted American geologist-naturalist’s trek prospecting for gold iron ore and other metals in Sierra Leone and considered one of the earliest women geologists. She is perhaps best remembered for her fundamental geological descriptions of large areas in Sierra Leone Wyoming and New Hampshire later becoming a passionate environmental activist. Very scarce in dustjacket. See: Carol Frost Katharine Fowler-Billings: Pioneering Woman Field Geologist Trained in the Rocky Mountains Rocky Mountain Geology Vol. 37 No. 1 Spring 2002. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., hardcover

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CARTWRIGHT, AP A PBiblio.com

The Gold Miners

1962005362Capetown SA: Purnell & Sons SA Pty. Ltd 1962. In chipped dj w/340pp. With a double page and a full-page col. map. num. text-illuss. and illus. end-papers by B. Gruzin. Story of the miners in the South African gold mines from 1885 to 1961. DJ has wear. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Purnell & Sons (SA) Pty. Ltd hardcover

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The Consolidated Goldfields Of South Africa LtdBiblio.com

The Gold Fields 1887-1937

1937000771London: The Consolidated Goldfields Of South Africa Ltd. An interesting history with nice black & white photos including a frontis of Cecil Rhodes. Cream cloth spine titled gilt & burgundy paper covered boards with gilt titles & crest / arms of the company. Spine a touch age toned. Very uncommon . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1937. The Consolidated Goldfields Of South Africa Ltd hardcover

Black Cat Bookshop · Royaume-Uni195,00 £GB≈ 222,65 €

Crowley, JohnBiblio.com

The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines

2005000464Subterranean 2005. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Crowley. This is number 370. Former owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Other than that virtually no wear and no markings to text. Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes not envelopes. Subterranean Hardcover

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Keay, JBiblio.com

The Gilgit Game

19795050Hamden CT: Archon Books 1979. First American. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1865-1895. 277 pp ill. text maps. Index. They came they saw and they conquered. Exploration of 40000 square miles of the world's highest mountains an unknown and impossibly remote wilderness which became for a while the flash point of Asia. Fine in near fine dj. Archon Books hardcover

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Northey, W Brook and Morris, CJ C JBiblio.com

The Ghurkas

1928250London: John Lane 1928. First. Hardcover. VG-Near Fine/VG with minor rust colored spots. Their manners customs and country. 282 pp ill foldout map. History of Nepal her soldiers and the people to managed to survive in this harsh land. A nice copy for the collector. VG-near fine in original cloth and in the original pictorial jacket which is VG some chipping where front and rear flaps fold over and at top of spine. A very pretty copy. John Lane hardcover

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Mobley, Harris WBiblio.com

The Ghanaian's Image of the Missionary An Analysis of the Published Critiques of Christian Missionaries by Ghanaians 1897-1965

197021501Leiden: E.J. Brill 1970. Hardcover. Near fine. 180 pp with index and bibliography. Boards very slightly bowed else fine. No dust jacket. Includes a brief history of Christian missions in Ghana followed by extensive analysis of 20th century critiques of those missions. E.J. Brill hardcover

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Mobley, Harris WBiblio.com

The Ghanaian's Image of the Missionary An Analysis of the Published Critiques of Christian Missionaries by Ghanaians 1897-1965

197013071Leiden: E.J. Brill 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. xi 180 pp with index and bibliography. Green cloth boards stamped in gilt. Boards very slightly bowed else fine. Studies in Religion in Africa No. I. "The aim of this study is to clarify the Ghanaian image of the missionary as expressed in the published critique of twentieth century Ghanaians.tracing both continuity and change over the entire period." E.J. Brill hardcover

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[SOUTH AFRICA] DU CANE, Hubert (trans)Biblio.com

The German Official Account of the War in South Africa. March 1900 to September 1900. The War in South Africa: The Advance to Pretoria After Paardeberg the Upper Tugela Campaign Etc. Prepared in the Historical Section of the Great General Staff Berlin

190662775London: John Murray 1906. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Green cloth stamped in gilt; x374pp; 9 folding maps 6 plates. Sound and straight through lightly rubbed with puncture to cloth over spine: Very Good. German Official Account of the War in South Africa March to September 1900. MENDELSSOHN I p.490. John Murray unknown

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an Eyewitness:Biblio.com

The German Conquest of England in 1875 and Battle of Dorking; or Reminiscences of a Volunteer

1925289928Reprinted from Blackwood`s Magazine by Porter & Coates 1925 Philadelphia 1925. Hardcover Pappe mit Leinenrücken und -ecken ohne Schutzumschlag describing the arrival of the German armada - destruction of the British fleet - the decisive battle of Dorking - capture of London - downfall of the English Empire. Die Jahresangabe ist ungefähr. Zustand: mit 7 eingerissenen und geklebten Blättern wenige Texteintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten gut. Reprinted from Blackwood`s Magazine by Porter & Coates 1925, Philadelphia, hardcover

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Evans, Richard JBiblio.com

The German Underworld: Deviants and Outcasts in German History signed by the author

301589Routledge 2015-01-19. hardcover. Very Good. 25 to 30 cm tall Quarto 4to. Signed. Signed by the editor. Previous owner's rubber stamp on endpapers. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Routledge hardcover

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Laurence, Robert, compiled byBiblio.com

THE GEORGE WALCOTT COLLECTION OF USED CIVIL WAR PATRIOTIC COVERS

193423828New York: Robert Laurence/self published 1934. First edition First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 261 pages with numerous black and white photographs of Union and Confederate covers with prices realized lait in. Bound in original green cloth with lettering and illustration stamped in gilt. Lettering on spine dulled. A near fine copy. Robert Laurence/self published hardcover

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Royal Geographical SocietyBiblio.com

The Geographical Journal

19014759London: Royal Geographical Society 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. VG. Vol XVII - January to June 1901. 740 pp maps folding maps illustrations. Incl. explorations by Sir Harry Johnston St Hill Hibbons Thomas Holdich on the geography of the northwest frontier of India Normal Collie exploring the Canadian Rocky Mountains Tanganyika and the Countries north of it Journey from Fort Jameson to the Kafue River Swedish Greenland Expedition. Worldwide exploration and discovery. VG in orig. blue gilt RGS style cloth. Royal Geographical Society hardcover

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Royal Geographical SocietyBiblio.com

The Geographical Journal

19104765London: Royal Geographical Society 1910. First Edition. Soft cover. VG. Volume XXV - January to June 1910. 803 pp many folding maps. Claude White in Bhutan Fanny Workman on the Hispar Glacier Survey on Brazil-Bolivia boundary Hodson on journeys in the Kalahari Desert Carruthers in Northwestern Arabia Glaciers in the Western Karakoram. Folding maps of Tigris-Euphrates Delta Hispar Glacier Northwest Arabia Kurdistan Southwest Africa and Eastern Karakoram.VG on orig blue gilt cloth in RGS style. Discoloration and spotting around top of binding internally very nice. Royal Geographical Society unknown

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