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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?â€“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...
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A Curious and Exact Account of a Voyage to Congo, in the Years 1666-1667.

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...
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Image for A Voyage to Congo, and several other Countries chiefly in Southern Africk. By Father Jerom Merolla da Sorrento, a Capuchin and Apostolick Missioner in the year 1682. Made English from the Italian.

A Voyage to Congo, and several other Countries chiefly in Southern Africk. By Father Jerom Merolla da Sorrento, a Capuchin and Apostolick Missioner in the year 1682. Made English from the Italian.

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" â€“ such as, "Cariabemba" = the devil, "Cacazumbu" = wizard, and "Pom...
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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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