Travels Of James Bruce Through Part Of Africa, Syria, Egypt, And Arabia Into Abyssinia To Discover The Source Of The Nile.
London: W. & R. Chambers, nd. (191-?) 8vo., orig. green pictorial cloth, viii, 358, (2)pp.ads. Ownership inscription o/w a fine copy.
London: W. & R. Chambers, nd. (191-?) 8vo., orig. green pictorial cloth, viii, 358, (2)pp.ads. Ownership inscription o/w a fine copy.
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DE GRAMONT, Sanche.
The Strong Brown God. The Story of the Niger River.
London: Hart Davis, MacGibbon, (1975). First edition. Cloth, 350pp. Fine in d/w.
Story of the European explorers who tried, first to find the fabled river and then, to reach its mysterious mouth. A fascinating book.
London: Hart Davis, MacGibbon, (1975). First edition. Cloth, 350pp. Fine in d/w.
Story of the European explorers who tried, first to find the fabled river and then, to reach its mysterious mouth. A fascinating book.
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HALLET, Jean-Pierre.
animal kitabu. New York: Random House, (1967). First edition. Signed by the author. Cloth, 292pp. Fine in a d/w with wear to the spine ends. "the author portrays in depth and with vivid detail the real animals of Africa as they live in their natural land."
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AFRICA). MARRIOTT, Michael.
Desert Taxi The Story of an Achievement by a Veteran London Taxi Cab. London: Longmans, Green, (1956). First edition. Cloth, viii, 150pp. Fine in d/w with wear to the top of the spine. Across the Sahara desert from Algiers to Kano (Nigeria) in a 20 year old London taxi.
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AFRICA). McLYNN, Frank.
Hearts of Darkness. The European Exploration . New York: Carroll & Graf, (1992). First edition. Cloth backed boards, x, 390pp. Fine in d/w. Story of the Victorians who explored Africa; Livingstone, Stanley, Burton, Speke and Baker.
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AFRICA). LANGEWIESCHE, William.
Sahara Unveiled. A Journey Across The Desert. New York: Pantheon, (1996). First edition. Cloth, (302)pp. Fine in d/w.
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AKELEY, Mary Jobe.
Carl Akeley's Africa. The Account of the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy African Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, (1931). Reprint. Cloth, 321pp. A good copy.
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ALLEN, Fletcher.
A Wayfarer In North Africa. Tunisia and Algeria.
London: Methuen & Co., (1931). First edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth, 243pp. Some notes in pencil o/w a near fine copy.
London: Methuen & Co., (1931). First edition. 8vo., orig. red cloth, 243pp. Some notes in pencil o/w a near fine copy.
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ANDERSON, Andrew A.
Twenty-Five Years In A Waggon. Sport and Travel in South Africa. London: Chapman and Hall, 1888. New edition in One Volume. (so stated). Tall 8vo., orig. green cloth, (xiv), (424), 40pp.ads dated "April 1889." With a folding map and illustrations. Inscription on halftitle, inner hinges cracked but o/w a near fine copy. ".....Mr. Anderson's book is almost unique of its kind. The author has undoubtedly a long and intimate acquaintance with those portions of the Dark Continent he so well describes....."
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ANDERSON, William Ashley.
South of Suez. New York: Robert McBride, 1920. First edition. 8vo., orig. tan pictorial cloth, xii, 240pp. Fine.
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ANON.
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone....Compiled from Reliable Sources.
London: Adam & Company, nd. (188-?) 8vo., orig. green cloth dec. in gilt, 324pp. Inner hinges badly cracked o/w very good.
London: Adam & Company, nd. (188-?) 8vo., orig. green cloth dec. in gilt, 324pp. Inner hinges badly cracked o/w very good.
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ANON.
The Life History of Doctor Livingstone, the Great Explorer, Including His Extensive Travels and Discoveries in South and Central Africa.........With a Biographical Sketch of Henry M. Stanley, Special Correspondent of the New York Herald.
Philadelphia: John E. Potter, nd. (187-?) 8vo., orig. blue cloth, 482pp. Inner rear hinge cracked, wear to spine ends but certainly very good.
Philadelphia: John E. Potter, nd. (187-?) 8vo., orig. blue cloth, 482pp. Inner rear hinge cracked, wear to spine ends but certainly very good.
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ARNOT, Frederick Stanley.
Garenganze; Or, Seven Years Pioneer Mission Work in Central Africa. With Introduction by Dr. A.T. Pierson. Containing Twenty Illustrations and a Map prepared by the Royal Geographical Society. London: James E. Hawkins..... nd. (189-?) Third edition, so stated. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth backed pictorial paper boards, (xiv), 276pp. A bit of scattered foxing, some light wear to the corners but in fact a near fine copy.
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ARROWSMITH-BROWN, J.H. (editor).
Prutky's Travels In Ethiopia and Other Countries. Translated and edited by....and annotated by Richard Pankhurst.
London: Hakluyt Society, 1991. Series II, Vol. 174. Tall 8vo., orig. blue cloth with a pictorial decoration in gilt on the upper board, xxviii, 546pp. Fine in d/w.
Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor, Iyasu II. He spent 17 months in the country they returned to Rome. Prutky travelled from Rome to Bohemia, and then to Alexandria.
London: Hakluyt Society, 1991. Series II, Vol. 174. Tall 8vo., orig. blue cloth with a pictorial decoration in gilt on the upper board, xxviii, 546pp. Fine in d/w.
Remedius Prutky, Franciscan missionary, was in 1751 appointed vice prefect of a mission sent to Ethiopia in response to an invitation by the then emperor, Iyasu II. He spent 17 months in the country they returned to Rome. Prutky travelled from Rome to Bohemia, and then to Alexandria.
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ASHTON, Hugh.
The Basuto. A Social Study of Traditional and Modern Lesotho. London: Oxford University Press, 1967. Second edition. Cloth, 359pp. Fine in an about fine d/w. First published in 1952, this book is based on the author's own studies and experiences when living in the village of a Basuto chief, and provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the Basuto people and their changing culture.
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BAKER, Samuel W.
Ismailia. A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Organized Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. London: Macmillan & Co,. 1874. In two volumes. First edition. Tall 8vo., orig. green with pictorial decoration in gilt on the upper covers and spines, viii, 447, 55pp.ads dated "October 1874;" viii, 588pp. There is a two inch tear in the folding map (no loss), bookplates, spines slightly cocked with some wear to the ends, but certainly a very good copy. "In 1869, at the request of the khedive Ismail, Baker undertook the command of a military expedition to the equatorial regions of the Nile, with the object of suppressing the slave-trade there and opening the way to commerce and civilization. Before starting from Cairo with a force of 1700 Egyptian troops, many of them discharged convicts, he was given the rank of pasha and major-general in the Ottoman army. Lady Baker, as before, accompanied him. The khedive appointed him Governor-General of the new territory of Equatoria for four years at a salary of £10,000 a year; and it was not until the expiration of that time that Baker returned to Cairo, leaving his work to be carried on by the new governor, Colonel Charles George Gordon. He had to contend with innumerable difficulties - the blocking of the river in the Sudd, the bitter hostility of officials interested in the slave-trade, the armed opposition of the natives - but he succeeded in planting in the new territory the foundations upon which others could build up an administration.He returned to England with his wife in 1874...He published his narrative of the central African expedition under the title of Ismailia (1874)."
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BAKER, Samuel.
The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia, And The Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1880. A New Edition. 8vo., brown calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, leather labels, school crest on upper board, inner dentelles gilt, (a prize binding), (xx), 413pp. Piece torn off title (approx. 1/2" deep by 2 1/2" long) affecting the tops of the letters in "Tributaries", outer hinges rubbed and tender (not cracked) o/w a very nice copy.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1880. A New Edition. 8vo., brown calf, raised bands, gilt compartments, leather labels, school crest on upper board, inner dentelles gilt, (a prize binding), (xx), 413pp. Piece torn off title (approx. 1/2" deep by 2 1/2" long) affecting the tops of the letters in "Tributaries", outer hinges rubbed and tender (not cracked) o/w a very nice copy.
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BAKER, Samuel.
The Nile Tributaries Of Abyssinia, And the Sword Hunters of The Hamran Arabs.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1868. Fourth edition. 8vo., orig. green cloth, xx, 413pp. Fine.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1868. Fourth edition. 8vo., orig. green cloth, xx, 413pp. Fine.
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BALDWIN, Wiliam Charles.
African Hunting and Adventure From Natal To the Zambesi Including Lake Ngami, The Kalahari Desert, & c., From 1852 To 1860. London: Richard Bentley, 1863. Second edition. Tall 8vo., cont. red half calf, cloth, x, 451pp. With a map, several plates (some tinted) and illustrations in the text. Titlepage and first few pages have some foxing, binding a bit rubbed but certainly a very good copy.
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BARROWS, David Prescott.
Berbers and Blacks. Impressions of Morocco, Timbuktu and the Western Sudan.
New York: Century, (1927). First edition. 8vo., orig. blue pictorial cloth, 251pp. A fine copy.
New York: Century, (1927). First edition. 8vo., orig. blue pictorial cloth, 251pp. A fine copy.
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