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Price: $14.94
Publisher: Brussels, G.P.O.: 1912
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 36979
Condition: Near Fine
20 pages; A report presented at the XIIth International Congress of Navigation, Philadelphia 1912 published by the Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses. Illustrated with two very large folding plans at rear. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $9.94
Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson: 1953
Seller ID: 37083
Condition: Near Fine
60 pages; Near FINE. Stiff Wrappers. The very first issue of this periodical published by the Institute of Education of the Gold Coast University with articles on "The rightsand obligations of Teachers by Prof. L.J. Lewis; Problems of English Pronunciation in the Gold Coast by P. D. Stevens; Some Unadjusted Boys by A. Taylor; etc. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
By: Baedeker, Karl
Price: $84.94
Publisher: Leipsig, Karl Baedeker: 1908
Edition: Sixth
Seller ID: 40331
Condition: Near Fine
With 24 maps, 76 Plans and 57 Vignettes. All maps and plans present and complete. Clean, and tight in original red cloth binding with bright gilt lettering at front cover and spine. Hinrichsen E251 Verlag Karl Baedeker, founded by Karl Baedeker in 1827, is a German publisher that pioneered worldwide travel guides. Usually referred to simply as "Baedekers", these excellent guidebooks contain important introductions to various regions of the world, along with specific information about routes and travel facilities; and historical descriptions of important buildings, sights, attractio... View more info
By: Bernus, Suzanne
Price: $9.48
Publisher: Paris, Universite De Paris: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 41058
Condition: Near Fine
Institut D'Ethnologie - Musee de L'Homme. Urban Ethnic relations in the Nigerian city of Niamey. Memoirs de L'Institut D'Ethnologie - 1 Text in French. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
Price: $24.94
Publisher: New York, The Century Co.: 1898
Seller ID: 40134
Condition: Very Good
xxiv, (2), 499 pages; Clean and tight in original reddish brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce OM GCVO PC FRS FBA (10 May 1838 – 22 January 1922) was a British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician. Bryce was an ardent Liberal in politics, and in 1880 he was elected to parliament for the Tower Hamlets constituency in London. Bryce's intellectual distinction and political industry made him a valuable member of the Liberal Party; he acted as Chairman of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education and in 1885 he was made Under-Secretary... View more info
By: De Magistris, L[uigi] F[ilippo]
Price: $49.94
Publisher: Roma [Rome], La Libreria dello Stato: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38791
Condition: Very Good-
2 pl. , 95 & color plates pages; Publisher's color pictorial wrappers, title printed in red -- the vivid cover depicts Benito Mussolini in a typical pose with a map of Africa behind him. Illustrations throughout, including color plates printed on rectos and versos which are hors texte (not included in pagination). Although the cover states that this work is "Il Libro della V Classe Elementare" -- the text and illustrations seem sufficiently advanced for adult readers. A very good copy of this scarce publication about the portions of Africa which the Italian Fascist government (in i... View more info
By: DeWet, General Christiaan Rudolf
Price: $49.94
Publisher: Paris, Felix Juven: (1902)
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 38638
Condition: Very Good
Nicely bound in light brown leather at spine and corners over marbled boards, pages untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait of the author, folding map at rear. Christiaan Rudolf de Wet (1854 – 1922) was a Boer general, rebel leader and politician. He was born on the Leeuwkop farm, in the district of Smithfield in the Boer Republic of the Orange Free State. De Wet is mentioned in Kipling's poem Ubique. De Wet took part in the early battles of the Boer War of 1899 in Natal as a commandant, later serving as a general under Piet Cronjé in the west. His first success was the surprise attack on Sanna... View more info
By: Durham, Frederick Alexander ; An African of Lincoln's Inn, Student-at-Law
Price: $749.99
Publisher: London, Elliot Stock: 1892
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 42034
Condition: Very Good
331 pages; Clean and secure in original light brown cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front board. Image of Liberian flag in gilt on front board. Some minor rubbing to lower corners and spine ends, cloth faded along outer edge of rear board. xxi, (3), 331 pp. Quite scarce. OCLC: 1468414 The author Frederick Alexander Durham was the son of schoolmaster George H. Durham of Santa Cruz and later of Trinidad, where he became a cocoa planter. Frederick was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1892 and published this "extraordinary criticism of imperialism and racism" The L... View more info
By: Friedman, Martin
Price: $19.94
Publisher: Minneapolis, Walker Art Center: 0
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 41975
Condition: Very Good+
72 pages; A wonderful exhibition catalogue of objects from the collection of the Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika / Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium. Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers. View more info
Price: $24.94
Publisher: Geneve, Musee d'Ethnographie: 2003
Seller ID: 40494
Condition: Very Good+
Bulletin du Centre Genevois d'Anthropologie, No. 6; 153 pages; Clean and tight in original glossy pictorial stiff wrappers. Blind stamp of previous owner on titlepage, otherwise clean and tight. OCLC: 66395291; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. View more info
![Image for The African Repository for 1872 - Vol. XLVIII, Nos. 1 thru 12 [12 issues complete]](/assets/images/product/38608.jpg)
Price: $124.94
Publisher: Washington, American Colonization Society: 1872
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 38608
Condition: Very Good-
This book comprises all twelve issues of The African Repository for the year 1872 bound together in plain black cloth with marbled page edges. Cloth has a tear at base of spine, ex-libris but no markings. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no foxing. Some of the articles include: The Diamond Fields of South Africa, The Bank of West Africa, The Caffres of South Africa, The Present African Slave Trade, Interesting Letter from Dr. Livingston, An African's Plantation, etc. In 1825 the American Colonization Society began this quarterly publication, The African Repository and Colonial Journal, e... View more info
Price: $99.94
Publisher: Washington DC, James C. Dunn: 1835
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39073
Condition: Very Good
396; 160 pages; With an Appendix, containing extracts from his Journal and other Writings; with a brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Cary. Contemporary full calf, edges of the boards showing considerable, deep rubbing, flat spine has the surface nearly rubbed away, hinges cracking, but still holding. A solid copy, but no longer handsome. Frontispiece portrait of Jehudi Ashmun w/ tissue guard. Scattered foxing throughout, with several gatherings somewhat toned brown. Jehudi Ashmun [1794-1828] reorganized the Liberian mission shortly after arriving in 1822 as principal Agent of the Ame... View more info
By: Harris, George W. ; Isabel Burton (Preface)
Price: $74.94
Publisher: London, George Philip & Son: 1892
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Seller ID: 41556
Condition: Very Good+
xx, 176 pages; Clean and tight in original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and a gilt image of a palm tree with the skyline of Algiers in the background. Marbled page edges. Pagination: xx, 176, plus many pages of ads at front and rear of text. OCLC: 461601633 Three folding maps, including: (1) 'Plan de la ville d'Alger' by O. Mac Carthy (scale 1: 5000), (2) 'Carte des chemins de fer de l'Algerie et de la Tunisie par L . Chappuis fils' (scale 1: 3,000,000) and (3) 'Les environs d'Alger' par O. Mac Carthy (scale 1: 120,000). Four full page photogravures on card stock, several b&w t... View more info
By: Hazard, John N
Price: $14.94
Publisher: New York, Columbia Law Review: 1965
Seller ID: 39697
Condition: Very Good
Reprint from the Columbia Law Review, Vol. 65; 31 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. OCLC: 10694596 Legal systems in French-speaking African nations. View more info
By: Huxley, Elspeth ; [Kim Roosevelt's copy]
Price: $39.95
Publisher: London, Chatto and Windus: 1956
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 42284
Condition: Very Good-
xv, (1), 315 pages; Original owner's signature on ffep "Kim Roosevelt / Nairobi, June 1960", a few pencil lines at margins, otherwise clean and tight in original teal cloth binding, quite faded at spine. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Rez... View more info
Price: $39.94
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1900
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 39607
Condition: Very Good-
160 pages; Rebound in mid 20th century full terra-cotta cloth, original printed front wrapper bound in at the end, spine lettered in gilt, green silk placemark. The paper is somewhat toned and brilttle throughout. There is a modern repair to the hinges to the title leaf and half title; two leaves in the first gathering have minor chipping and lost in the black fore-edge margins. This is the scarce reissue of the 1899 first edition, prompted by the on-going Anglo-Boer war. To quote from the author's introduction: The war with the Boers and the belated award of the Berne jJurists have so l... View more info
By: Laguerre, Andre
Price: $7.94
Publisher: New York, France Forever: 1942
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39653
Condition: Very Good
30 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Marc André Laguerre (1915 – 1979) was a journalist and magazine editor, best known as the managing editor of Sports Illustrated from 1960 to 1974. In the summer of 1927, his French father ( Léon James Laguerre) took a post at the French Consulate General in San Francisco, settling in the upper-class neighborhood of Sea Cliff. In 1938, he covered the Munich Agreement for the French daily Paris-Soir. When World War II broke out, he enlisted in the French Army as a corporal. His first assignment was on patrol on the Maginot Line. He... View more info
Price: $249.94
Publisher: Cape Town / London, Juta & Co / King, Sail & Railton: 1895
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 39538
Condition: Very Good-
480 pages; Contents clean and secure in original yellow glazed pictorial boards worn at spine; previous owner's name stamped inside front cover, label at spine. B&W illustrations throughout and both folding colour maps: Zambesia and South Africa; first map (Zambesia) has a closed tear repaired with archival tape on back. OCLC 557409391 Edward Peter Mathers was a correspondent for the Scotsman & Daily News during the Zulu War in 1879. Intrigued by the discovery of gold in South Africa in the 1880s Mathers made several treks through South Africa and Rhodesia, some of which he recounts in th... View more info
By: Millard, Candice
Price: $12.94
Publisher: New York, Doubleday: 2016
Seller ID: 41924
ISBN: 0385535732
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
400 pages; Clean and secure in original binding in bright nice dustjacket. "It should come as no surprise that Winston Churchill was an ambitious, young go-getter long before he became Sir Winston Churchill—but you might be surprised by how interesting his young life was. The son of Lord Randolph Churchill—who ascended to the position of leader of the House of Commons and Chancellor of the Exchequer before dying at the age of forty five—Winston Churchill set off as a young man to find glory on the battlefield, with an eye toward ultimately emulating his father’s success in politics... View more info
By: Renon, A.
Price: $14.94
Publisher: Tunis, Institut des Belles Lettres Arabes: 1946
Seller ID: 38949
Condition: Very Good+
Collection Le Bled; 95 pages; Clean and tight in original printed pink wrappers. Pages lightly toned. This early work, written in French, is a fascinating read for any poultry enthusiast or historian. Its 93 pages contain a wealth of information about poultry rearing by women in rural Northern Tunisia. Contents include a comprehensive guide to poultry related conversation with Arabic translation and grammatical and cultural notes, extensive commentary on poultry themed folklore of the region, a list of poultry based Tunisian proverbs and expressions, and a Tunisian fairy story about The Encha... View more info
