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Baker, Sir Samuel W. The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs.
Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott and Co. 1869 Fifth Edition Cloth Good Mylar Sleeve 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
xix. 414pp. Illustrated with 25 wood engravings from the author's original sketches; 1 folding map; brown cloth boards with gilt titles; sculptured edges. shelfwear to head and tail of spine; one signature adrift but intact; lacks first ffep. . Corners rubbed. Minor scuffing. A description of the 1861-1862 exploration of the upper Nile tributaries aincluding natural history, topography, wildlife, and the Arabs inhabiting Abyssinia.
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95.00 CDN
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Bland-Sutton, Sir John Men and Creatures in Uganda.
London Hutchinson 1933 First Edition Cloth Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
A popular version of the author's previous book 'Man and Beast in Eastern Ethiopia' - an account of a journey to Kenya and Uganda in 1910. 252 pp. 94 wood engravings. Spine slightly cocked. otherwise unmarked, clean and brigjht.
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45.00 CDN
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Curtis, Natalie. (Ed.) Songs and Tales From the Dark Continent. Recorded From the Singing and the Sayings of C. Kamba Simango, Ndau Tribe, Portuguese East Africa and Madikane Cele, Zulu Tribe, Natal, Zululand, South Africa.
New York & Boston G. Schirmer 1920 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
xxiv, [2], 170 pp., frontis., plates, in- text illustrations; musical scores;translated lyrics. Songs, tales & proverbs of the Ndau tribe (Mozambique), and Songs & Tales of the Zulu tribe. In publisher's African fabric print binding. Small light area of discolouration on upper board.
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125.00 CDN
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D'Esme, Jean Afrique équatoriale
Paris Éditions Duchartre 1931 First Edition Cloth Near Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall Rene Moreau (photographs) Bernard Grosser (engravings)
Rare.Text in French. Images of an ethno- expedition to Cameroon Oubangui, Chari, Congo & Gabon.in 1930. Custom re-bound on publication with original card wraps included. 152 sensational; black and white full page photographic plates on Royal Cartridge paper stock. In-text wood engravings by Bernard Grosser. Owner bookplate on pastedown.
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250.00 CDN
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Fisher, John The Afrikaners
London: Cassell, 1969
Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. LOwner's name on endpaper, jacket price-clipped. Otherwise attractive books. 379 pages, select bibliography, index photo-illustrat ions.
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35.00 CDN
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Gordon, Lady Duff Last Letters from Egypt: To Which Are Added Letters From The Cape
London Macmillan & Co 1876 Second Edition Cloth Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Chronicles the author's travels in Egypt; includes her daughter's letters from the Cape of Africa. Gordon lived in London and was widely traveled. Her circle included Dickens, Thackeray, Meredith and George Eliot. She died in 1869 and was buried in Cairo. Blue cloth covers with gilt titling & Egyptian motifs stamped in blind. Minor edgewear to ends of spine. Armorial bookplate on pastedown.
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45.00 CDN
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Kidd, Dudley. The Essential Kafir.
London A & C Black Ltd 1925 Reprint Edition Decorative Cloth Near Fine Antique Condition 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
436 pp. 63 full pge illustrations, frontis, and folding map. Reprint of First Edition published 1904, Includes annotated bibliography. "Perhaps the most accurate, vivid, and complete description of South African native life ever produced". Sound square binding with sturdy joints and hinges. Owner bookplate on pastedown. A nice copy olf this scarce book.
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90.00 CDN
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Lawrence, T.E. Revolt in the Desert.
New York George H. Doran 1927 First American Cloth Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
pp. xvi 335. 16 plate illustrations, folding map; frontis. portrait after Augustus John; pictorial endpapers. Unmarked copy. Original publisher's brown buckram covers with clear title and decorative device; negligible wear. Lawrence's own vivid account of his time in the desert during the First World War, helping the confused armies of Arabia
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45.00 CDN
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Roosevelt, Theodore African Game Trails (Complete in Two Vols.)
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1920 Reprint Edition Cloth Very Good ++ No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
xii, 676 pp. 2 tissue-guarded frontispieces; 10 plates all collated. Roosevelt's great adventure after leaving the White House on safari with outfiter F.C. Selous over a one year period. The two volumes show negligible evidence of having been read. In tight, square bindings with one corner bumped; bright titles; owner name in neat handwriting on ffep. A nice set.
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110.00 CDN
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Stanley, Henry M. In Darkest Africa, Volumes II Only
New York: Scribner, 1890 Decorative Cloth Very Good ++ 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
In original green cloth blind-stamped covers with gilt titles and decorati on. Spine is square but there is shelf-wear at base and corners and spots on edge on base of text block; hinges and endpapers are original and very good. pp. xvi, 540. two folding maps, as called for, are present. The two folding maps are: "A Map Of The Route Of The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition Through Africa" and "A Map Of Em in Pasha's Province," Maps are intact in bright, clean original colours. No owner names.
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95.00 CDN
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Starr, Frederick Congo Natives. An Ethnographic Album.
Chicago Lakeside Press 1912 Numbered Edition Publisher's Cloth Very Good ++ Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Dedicated to Belgian King Albert and depicting the Native peoples of the Belgian Congo encountered during an expedition in the years 1905-06. 130 sepia photographic plates, most tissue-guarded. Faults include: publisher's green heavy cloth binding is lightly sunned at spine and in a one-third segment of the lower cover. Otherwise unmarked in firm, square, sturdy binding with unworn edges and corners. Owner bookp[late on pastedown.No marks, notes etc.
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1250.00 CDN
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