Category: Africa

La Faillite de la Paix (1918-1939). I: De Rethondes a Stresa; II: De l'Affaire Ethiopienne a la Guerre.

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.
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Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a statistical account of that kingdom, and geographical notices of other parts of the interior of Africa.

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 raised bands, gilt-stamped...
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Science and Medicine in Central Africa: Proceedings of the Central African Scientific and Medical Congress. Held at The College of Further Education Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia 26-30 August 1963.

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.
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In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. 2 volumes.

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.
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East African plateaus and rift valleys.

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.
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