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1936026774Ottawa: King's Printer 1936. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 182p. cover a bit soiled from handling o/w sound. King's Printer Paperback
193047644Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. ca. 1930. Tall 8vo. Stiff printed gray softcovers w/ large tipped-in folding colour map 20 x 26.75 in. Minor shelfwear slight rubbing to corners still VG copy. First edition thus of this scarce pocket map of pre-World War II Ethiopia and North Africa. Rand McNally & Co., paperback
1935317109London: Hurst & Blackett Ltdnd 1935. First UK Edition. 256 16 adspp. 8vo. Three quarters maroon morocco with orange title label. Fine. First UK Edition. 256 16 adspp. 8vo. <br/><br/> Hurst & Blackett, Ltdnd unknown
1936223204Milano: A. Mondadori 1936. Complete set of the nine fascicoli 10x7.5 inches each sewn each with original covers fastened together flimsily into two volumes of hand-titled brown paper wrappers. The wraps are laid-lined stock far better than kraft but entirely inadequate to enclose this massive quantity of clay-coated text paper; one of the volumes has fallen apart and allowed loose terminal and preliminary leaves and edgewear. 720p. plus numerous unpaginated plates most tinted and maps most in colors totalling at least 800p. Find many photos taken from the air of terrain and towns; all photography is well-reproduced most maps rather beautiful. Complete no mangled leaves but handleable with some difficulty. Find close-ups of Italian servicemen Ethiopian POWs the latest military vehicles camels plat maps of military routes and engagements. No gore. A. Mondadori unknown
197560636Oxford: Clarendon Press 1975. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo 22cm; navy blue cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xiv3344pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper to J. Wayne Fredericks the former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs 1961-67: "To Wayne and Anne / A simple token of a sincere appreciation of friendship / Zwede / Xmas 1978." Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped lightly shelfworn with a few tiny tears and some wear to spine ends; Very Good. A substantial biography of Yohannes IV former Emperor of Ethiopia from 1871-1889. Gebre-Sellassie 1926-2008 was an Ethiopian nobleman historian and the great-great grandson of Yohannes IV who throughout his illustrious career served as governor of Shere Minister of Justice Mayor of Addis Ababa Ambassador to Somalia Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Ethiopia. Inscribed copies are uncommon. Clarendon Press unknown
19619000530100112878<p>Collectible Rare Ethiopian Illuminated Christian Art 1961. A Foot and a Half Tall! Folio 25 9 p. 32 color plates b/w ills. Good condition Marin County Library Markings. NO pocket. Fairly mild Ex-library markings. Scotch tape stains on boards but no tape. Preliminary page tape residue and that is where most of the libray markings are See 5th Scan B/W Illus. Color Plates Excellent Untouched. The quality and huge Folio scope of the Color plates is awe inspiring and Angelic. The Ethiopian Late Medieval art mixes bright Colorful African and Abstract Celtic with Hebrew and Christian Themes. Lindisfarne and Book of Durrow and Kells is more Western influence than Rome or Greece yet maintain their abstract Magical African and Hebraic Christian inspiration. Angels abide in the art here. See all our Three Geese In Flight Celtic Book Scans Cover Title page Ethiopian script Poor Priliminary page and Three Samples of the Thirty Two Color Master Works. As is.</p> New York Graphic Society Unesco hardcover
19545555Benrath Dusseldorf Germany 1954. Single fold menu 16.5 x 10 cm. edged in gold. With the crest of North Rhine-Westphalia. Menu for a diplomatic dinner given by Karl Arnold the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia for the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie. The dinner was given at the Pleasure Palace of Benrath in Dusseldorf. It has been proposed as a Unesco World Heritage Site. Dishes served at the dinner included: Austern-Cocktail Doppelte Kraftbruhe Ostender Steinbuttschnitte Kalbsmedallon Fr. Ananas - Eiscreme Kaseleckereien. The wines were almost exclusively wines of the Rhine: 1951 Bernkasteler Badstube 1952 Trittenheimer Olk 1949 Niersteiner Hipping Feinste Goldbeeren-Auslese Edelgewachs and a 1951 Niersteiner Vockenberg Spatlese. But the evening also included a 1949 Pommard and a Heidsieck Dry Monopole Brut. Fine. unknown
1908009235Paris: Masson Et Cie Editeurs 1908 1908-1909. OVERSIZED. Vol. I: xviii 440pp portrait frontis-piece 16 plates 3 folding maps 85 gravures. Vol. II: xv 1 388pp 23 plates and 79 illustrations. Vol. III: The Atlas 1908. All are uniformly bound in red paper pages printed on fine glossy paper pages uncut in Volumes I & II occasional foxing binding loose in Vol. II with covers tearing at spine edges. From the personal collection of Dr. Brooks Ryder 1918-1995 graduate of Harvard College Harvard School of Public Health and Tufts Medical School. Known for his Public Health expertise overseas throughout East Africa and Indonesia. Masson Et Cie, Editeurs paperback
1915508297N.P. 1915. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. An extraordinary portfolio of early 20th-century photographs of Ethiopia featuring eight large-format scenes from a Coptic Orthodox wedding in addition to eight 3x5 photos of Ethiopian children. The wedding photos depict a very formal liturgical ceremony with the bride and groom in ornate robes and crowns attended by priests acolytes deacons cantors and other ecclesiastics in fine vestments carrying the sacred liturgical items including many golden crosses and a richly ornamented Holy Gospel. One photo of the long procession shows a great crowd of attendees dressed in white robes. A previous dealer's description of this porfolio speculates that the great pomp of this ceremony might indicate that it was a royal wedding perhaps even the marriage of Esther Akhnoukh and Fahmy Bey Wissa described by the English Ethnographer S. H. Leeder. But in Leeder's own account he notes that the crowns and regalia are the property of the church a communal holding and the wearing of which is the right and privilege of all baptised faithful for one day in their lives. Photos mounted on original 11x14' mattes with just a bit of rubbing and toning to the extremities one photo with a tiny dampstain to the margin otherwise all photos are FINE entirely clean and sharp. The 3x5' photos of children are mounted four to a matte. These photos show children in joyful poses particularly showcasing their hairstyles one of which includes a oder girl with a large water gourd; two of the photos show children being swarmed by flies. The phtographer is unnamed but there are a fairly limited number of possibilities. It was almost certainly purchased by Rosenberg on his Travelling fellowship around 1921 putting the date of the actual photos sometime in the previous decade. Prior to the Italian invasion in the 30's Ethiopia was not an easy place to access and was simply not a destination for European travellers making professional photo-documentations of it far less common than its neighbor Egypt in the same time period. One tempting and plausible source would be one of the photographers of the Enno Littman-led 'Deutsche Aksum Expedition' which included extensive ethnographic investigations in the course of their larger mission of investigating the archaeological sites of the Kingdom of Aksum in northern Ethiopia and Eritrea. A noted Semiticist Littman lived among the Tigre people of Eritrea for a year before directing the Aksum expedition doing research for later linguistic and ethnographic publications including 'Tales Customs Names and Dirges of the Tigre Tribes' which includes ample descriptions of religious ceremony. Housed in a contemporary 11x16' portfolio sold by C. Roberson of London half black cloth over printed paste paper and ties to all three sides with moderate wear to the extremities and French liquor labels to the endpapers. With owner's label to the rear cover ex-libris Louis Conrad Rosenberg a noted architect whose 171 etchings and architectural illustrations and renderings have been archived in the University of Oregon Special Collections Division. After serving in the US Army and American Expeditionary Force during WWI Rosenberg joined the factulty of the University of Oregon. He and his wife Marie Louise Allen of Portland took advantage of a Traveling Fellowship granted by the UO and travelled extensively throughout the Mediterranean and the Levant for 2 years beginning in 1920. N.P. hardcover