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Price: $15.00
Publisher: Paris:, Presses Universitaires de France, 1951.: 1951
Seller ID: BL3731
2 volumes. Series: Peuples et Civilisations, XX. Third edition. 8vo. [iv], 531, v; [iv], 533-948, [2] pp. Index. Original printed wrappers. A Beautiful copy. View more info
By: BOWDICH, Thomas Edward (1791?–1824).
Price: $2,500.00
Publisher: London:, John Murray, 1819.: 1819
Seller ID: LV1954
4to. [iii]-viii, [2], 512 pp. [a1 blank, not present]. Complete with a full set of plates: 2 engraved maps (1 folding frontispiece map: "Discoveries & Improvements in the Geography of Western Africa"), "Arabic Circular," 7 hand-colored aquatint plates (2 folding), wood-engraved "Ichonographical Sketch of Coomassie" [a street map], 2 music sheets (including the 4 page pl.), appendices; some plate offsetting, occasional foxing and stains, three neatly closed tears (gutter of title, plate facing p.275 (upper margin), p. 511-12). Modern gilt-stamped brown half-calf, five ra... View more info
Price: $1,400.00
Publisher: London:, Tinsley Brothers, 1863.: 1863
Seller ID: ME1008
2 volumes. 8vo. xvi, 333, [1], [2]; v, 306, [2] pp. Vol. I: Original photographic mounted photo as frontispiece plate, 1 plate (facing p. 149); vol. II: frontispiece engraving, folding map of "The Camaroons Mountains", 2 plates (facing pp. 128, 136). Total plates: 4. Ads included at rear of both vols. Partly unopened. Original blind-embossed dark green cloth, neatly rebacked with matching cloth and with original back-strips mounted to restore the original binding as fine as possible, retains original endleaves; upper corner dented (v. I). Very good +. First edition. Burton wrote this ... View more info
Price: $2,000.00
Publisher: London:, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1856.: 1856
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: ME1012
8vo. xl, 590, [595]-648 pp. 2 engraved maps, 4 chromolithographed plates, 7 figs., index. Early navy blue gilt-stamped calf, brownish/red spine label, all edges marbled. Bookseller's labels: R.J. Bush, 32 Charing Cross; Jake Zeitlin, Los Angeles [ca. 1932]. Inscribed: "Arthur Vickris Pryor with the best wishes of his friend Edmond L. Hanbury, on his leaving Eton, Election 1864." FIRST EDITION. The appendix skips section IV as usual, due to its discussion of female circumcision, and thus omitted during the print run. // PROVENANCE: Pryor and Hanbury owned a brewery in England: Inscribe... View more info
Price: $1,850.00
Publisher: London:, Tinsley Brothers, 1863.: 1863
Seller ID: ME1025
2 volumes. Small 8vo. viii, [2], 303, [1]; [vi], 295, [1] pp. Half-titles, folding map of "The West Coast of Africa"; some edge tears. Original publisher's dark maroon blind-stamped cloth, gilt-stamped spine titles, author cited as "R.F. Burton F.R.G.S." on spine. Bookplates of George Merryweather. Near fine. First edition; second issue binding [with Burton's name on the spine]. The first issue binding does include the author's name on the spine. "This may have been a slap at the Royal Geographical Society, for Burton was at odds with the organization's leadership at the t... View more info
By: GUATTINI, Le P. Michele Angelo de (d.1668) [of Gattina]; Denis DE CARLI of Piacenza.
Price: $750.00
Publisher: [London]:, for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, [circa 1744].: 1744
Seller ID: ME1040
Tall 4to. 483-519 pp. Printed in two columns; light foxing. Handsomely bound in period-style half calf marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt-stamped dark leather spine label. Near fine. Extracted from: vol. 1 of Awnsham Churchill's Collection of voyages and travels, 3rd ed., 1744-1746. // The author's account of native attire and his own views: "He only wore a clout of the bigness of a handkerchief made of palm-tree leaves, for decency sake, to cover that which modesty requires should be cover'd, and a cloke of European cloth reaching down to the ground; it was blue, a colour much estee... View more info
By: MEROLLA da Sorrento, Jerom [Girolamo].
Price: $800.00
Publisher: [London]:, for Henry Lintot and John Osborn, [1744?].: 1744
Seller ID: ME1051
Tall 4to. 521-616 pp. Printed in two columns; light foxing. Handsomely bound in period-style half calf marbled boards, five raised bands, gilt-stamped dark leather spine label. Near fine. THIS AN IMPORTANT WORK ON THE EARLY EXPLORATION FOR CONGO, a translation of Breve e succinta relatione del viaggio nel regno di Congo. Extracted from: vol. 1 of Awnsham Churchill's Collection of voyages and travels, 3rd ed., 1744-1746. Includes a single-leaf table of words from the Congo language "Conghese" – such as, "Cariabemba" = the devil, "Cacazumbu" = wizard, and "Pom... View more info
By: SNOWBALL, George J. (ed.).
Price: $80.00
Publisher: Oxford, et al.:, Pergamon Press, (1965).: 1965
Seller ID: M10311
FIRST EDITION. Thick 8vo. xxvii, 980 pp. Fold-outs, photos, illustrations, figs., tables, indexes; small inked correction on title. Green cloth, silver stamped cover and spine titles, original plastic wrapper; inner hinge a bit cracked, small pieces of tape on wrapper and front free endpaper. Very good. First Edition. View more info
By: STANLEY, Henry Morton (1841-1904).
Price: $120.00
Publisher: New York:, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890.: 1890
Seller ID: SW1250
2 volumes. 8vo. xiv, [2], 547, [1]; xvi, 540 pp. Frontis. portraits, 2 folding maps in rear pockets, plates, figs., index. Original green blind- and gilt-stamped pictorial cloth, showing a silhouette of Africa; some discoloration of covers, corners showing. Very good. A well-illustrated, if somewhat problematic, account of Stanley's famous journeys in Africa. At the time of publication, Stanley and other explorers were counted among the biggest celebrities in the western world. View more info
By: WILLIS, Bailey.
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Washington:, Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1936. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication No. 470. At head of title: Studies in: 1936
Seller ID: S2463
Washington:: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1936. Carnegie Institution of Washington, Publication No. 470. At head of title: Studies in Comparative Seismology., 1936. 296 x 235 mm. 4to. x, 358 pp. Color frontis., 72 plates, 16 figs., tables, bibliog., index. Gilt-stamped dark green cloth; lightly rubbed, corners bumped. Ex library spine label removed, rubber stamps, label in front paste-down removed. Very good. View more info
