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Price: $10.95
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: $9.95
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: Bernus, Suzanne
Price: $9.95
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
By: Bryce, James ; ; [Hennen Jennings' copy]
Price: $34.94
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co.: 1900
Seller ID: 42401
Condition: Very Good+
lxi, (1), 499 pages; Clean and secure in original burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Folding colour map. OCLC 759610558 The author, James Bryce, later 1st Viscount (1838-1922) was a distinguished academic, historian and Liberal politician, who several of political offices.This broad-ranging work briefly describes the landscape, vegetation and wildlife of southern Africa, then gives a detailed account of history of the native and immigrant peoples inhabiting the region, followed by Bryce's relation of his journey through South Africa, also including Matabeleland and Mashonala... View more info
Price: $19.95
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: Chapin, Adele Le Bourgeois ; [SIGNED and inscribed to Mrs. Hennen Jennings ]
Price: $199.94
Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1932
Edition: First American Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 42337
Condition: Very Good+
Autograph; (xvi), 330 pages; Clean and secure in original slate blue cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Inscribed by the Author on ffep to Mary [Mrs. Hennen Jennings] - "To Dear Mary / with my love in memory / of our happy hitch / January [?] 19th to 26th 1933 / 2221 Massachusetts Ave / from Adele" Adele Chapin (1862-1938) was born in Belmont Plantation, St James, Louisiana to Louis Sosthenes LeBourgeois and Elizabeth Ann Charless. She grew up on the family plantation and was educated first at home with tutors preparing her three Yale-bound brothers and then at the Mrs... View more info
By: Davis, Richard Harding ; [Hennen Jennings' copy]
Price: $59.94
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's: 1900
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 42403
Condition: Very Good
xi, (1), 237, (5) pages; Secure in original red cloth binding with decorative stamping in black and red, spine cocked. OCLC 559517653 Original owner's name "Jennings" and brief inscription on ffep; some marginal notations in pencil. Frontispiece and 31 additional photographic illustrations. THE AUTHOR: Richard Harding Davis (1864 – 1916) was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish–American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political car... View more info
By: De Magistris, L[uigi] F[ilippo]
Price: $29.95
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: $29.95
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: $750.00
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: $19.95
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: $24.95
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: $99.95
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: $84.95
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: Hammond, John Hays ; [Mrs. Hennen Jennings' copy]
Price: $249.94
Publisher: New York, Farrar and Rinehart: 1935
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 42407
Condition: Very Good
Autograph; Clean and secure in original green cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines and front boards. Faded at spines, some offsetting from laid-in newspaper reviews. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the Author on ffep -- "To my devoted friend / Mary Coleman Jennings / In appreciation of my high / esteem for her father, her / husband and herself. / From / John Hays Hammond / March 1935." OCLC 472245289 John Hays Hammond (1855 – 1936), a mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. He was raised in the Gold Rush days of San Francisco in which his father R. P. Hammond and his fathe... View more info
By: Hammond, Mrs. John [Natalie] Hays ; [Hennen Jennings' copy]
Price: $224.94
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green: 1897
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 42393
Condition: Very Good+
(iv), 159, 32 (ads) pages; Secure in original burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front board. Text pages age toned. OCLC 315370775 Original owner's signature on Preface page "Hennen Jennings" James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920) was a mining engineer, born at Hawesville, KY. After attending private schools in London and Derbyshire, England, Jennings returned to Kentucky and set up a lumber business, but soon wanted to further his engineeering education. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard University in 1877 with the degree C.E. Jennings th... View more info
By: Hammond, Mrs. John [Natalie] Hays ; [Inscribed by the author to her husband]
Price: $399.94
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green: 1897
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 42392
Condition: Very Good-
Autograph; (iv), 159, 32 (ads) pages; Secure in original burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and front board. Cloth worn at spine ends, slightly cocked, corners slightly rounded, and a small bump to top of front board, some silverfishing to foredge, text pages age toned. INSCRIBED by the AUTHOR to her HUSBAND [John Hay Hammond] on verso of titlepage - "For Jack / With the unbounded / admiration & love / of his / faithful wife" -- a brilliant association copy. OCLC 315370775 The historic importance of this intimate association -- making this the de facto dedication co... View more info
By: Harris, George W. ; Isabel Burton (Preface)
Price: $74.95
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: $12.95
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: Headlam, Cecil ; Lord Alfred Milner ; (Viscount)
Price: $84.95
Publisher: London, Cassell and Co.: 1931
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 42429
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
ix, (1), 591 pages; Clean and secure in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine in very good dustjacket, with a small chip at head of spine and a narrow superficial tidemark at bottom edge (now in protective mylar jacket). Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, (1854 – 1925) was a British statesman and colonial administrator who played an influential role in the formulation of foreign and domestic policy between the mid-1890s and early 1920s. In 1897 Chamberlain appointed Milner to be High Commissioner for Southern Africa and Governor of Cape Colony. The situation resulting... View more info
