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André FROSSARD
LES GRANDS BERGERS
Un ouvrage de 171 pages, format 140 x 215 mm, broché, publié en 1992, Desclée de Brouwer, bon état
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: LFA-126730736
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Andy Abraham
An Introduction to Mathematics for Computing and IT Practitioners
Paperback / softback. New. paperback
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: B9781514344071 ISBN : 1514344076 9781514344071
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Andy Abraham
Andy Abraham - Remember When.
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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: 1907657967.G ISBN : 1907657967 9781907657962
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Angela Falco Howard, Abraham P Ho, L Y Chang, Lao Kan
Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from the Wei through the T'ang Dynasties
Taipei: National Museum of History 1983. 4to. 208 pp. Gray cloth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Bump to head of spine. Jacket mildly wrinkled at extremities with 1/2" tear to front panel. Text in English and Chinese. Inscribed by the author Angela Falco Howard. Inscribed by Author. Hardcover. Very Good. National Museum of History hardcover
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: x06410
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Anghik, Abraham
Abraham Anghik Ruben
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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: 0889152136.G ISBN : 0889152136 9780889152137
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Anita Abraham
Speaking Up : Manageable Meaningful and Student-Driven Conferences
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This practical teacher-friendly text considers strategies for managing the logistics of conferencing with 100 students and moving the preparation and direction of conferences from teacher to student. hardcover
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: ria9781475853704_inp ISBN : 147585370x 9781475853704
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Anita Abraham
Speaking Up: Manageable Meaningful and Student-Driven Conferences
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: 42704695 ISBN : 1475853718 9781475853711
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Anita Abraham
Speaking Up: Manageable Meaningful and Student-Driven Conferences
Hardback. New. This practical teacher-friendly text considers strategies for managing the logistics of conferencing with 100 students and moving the preparation and direction of conferences from teacher to student. hardcover
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: B9781475853704 ISBN : 147585370x 9781475853704
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Anke Abraham
Der Körper im biographischen Kontext
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
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: ria9783531138299_inp ISBN : 3531138294 9783531138299
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Ann Rose Abraham
Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization and Potential Applications
new. unknown
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: 44642996-n ISBN : 1774638576 9781774638576
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Ann Rose Abraham
Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization and Potential Applications
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: 44642996 ISBN : 1774638576 9781774638576
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Ann Rose Abraham
Carbon Nanotubes: Functionalization and Potential Applications
Hardback. New. Discusses carbon nanotubes-their properties structure design fabrication development engineering functionalization composites characterization and their use in automotive aeronautics energy hydrogen storage tissue regeneration biomedical applications agriculture energy and technical applications. hardcover
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: A9781774638576 ISBN : 1774638576 9781774638576
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Anna Abraham
Creative Brain
Paperback / softback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
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: ria9780262548007_inp ISBN : 0262548003 9780262548007
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Anna Abraham
The Creative Brain: Myths and Truths
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: 46164684 ISBN : 0262548003 9780262548007
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Anna Abraham
The Neuroscience of Creativity
Paperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Neuroscience of Creativity introduces readers to the fascinating study of creativity and the brain providing both the tools for further study and an explanation of the latest neuroscientific findings. Directed at a wide readership paperback
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: ria9781316629611_inp ISBN : 1316629619 9781316629611
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Anna Abraham
The Neuroscience of Creativity
Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Neuroscience of Creativity introduces readers to the fascinating study of creativity and the brain providing both the tools for further study and an explanation of the latest neuroscientific findings. Directed at a wide readership hardcover
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: ria9781107176461_inp ISBN : 1107176468 9781107176461
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Anna Abraham
The Neuroscience of Creativity
Paperback / softback. New. The Neuroscience of Creativity introduces readers to the fascinating study of creativity and the brain providing both the tools for further study and an explanation of the latest neuroscientific findings. Directed at a wide readership it is a helpful guide into creativity research for students researchers and non-specialists alike. paperback
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: B9781316629611 ISBN : 1316629619 9781316629611
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Anna Abraham
The Neuroscience of Creativity
Hardback. New. The Neuroscience of Creativity introduces readers to the fascinating study of creativity and the brain providing both the tools for further study and an explanation of the latest neuroscientific findings. Directed at a wide readership it is a helpful guide into creativity research for students researchers and non-specialists alike. hardcover
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: B9781107176461 ISBN : 1107176468 9781107176461
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Anne E Marteel–Parrish Martin A Abraham Anne Marteel- Parrish
Green Chemistry and Engineering
John Wiley & Sons pp. 376 . Hardback. New. John Wiley & Sons hardcover
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: 6774936 ISBN : 0470413263 9780470413265
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Anojulu, Abraham Christopher
Eternity-To Be Or Not To Be!
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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: 1594679029.G ISBN : 1594679029 9781594679025
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ANONIEM [KB-CAT: ABRAHAM DE VRIES GZN],
Bewijzen voor de echtheid en gelijkenis der oude afbeeldingen van Coster ter wederlegging van het IETS van den heer van Westreenen ten voordeele van het fonds voor de oprigting van het standbeeld
Haarlem: A.C. Kruseman 1847 48 pages original paper binding in good state clean text very good copy. Laurens Janszoon Coster Coster also spelled Koster born c. 1370 Netherlands-died 1440 Haarlem Dutch rival of Johannes Gutenberg as the alleged inventor of printing.Little is known of this early printer whose last name means sacristan his title as an official of the Great Church of Haarlem. He is mentioned several times in records between 1417 and 1434 as alderman tax assessor and treasurer and is presumed to have died in a plague that struck Haarlem in 1440 when his wife is recorded as a widow. unknown
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: #[66883]
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ANONYME
Hommage à Charles Péguy. Textes inédits de Charles Péguy. Reproduction de documents. Bibliographie
Gallimard NRF - sd - garnd In-8 broché - 102 pages - quelques illustrations
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: 95806
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anonyme
manuscrits: Le collège de Trèves et les jésuites. J. B DROÜET l’homme de Varennes. Abraham FABERT . Jean de WERTH (1594.)
Divers manuscrits : Le collège de Trèves et les jésuites 1617 1762 6 pages recto. Plan I origine Plan II domaines Plan III enseignement Plan IV professeurs. Une page tapuscrite à la société des lettres l’architecte du collège de France Antoine GRATAS ; - Sur J. B DROÜET l’homme de Varennes. 6 pages signature apocryphe de DROÜET, plus 2 pages sur les différents autographes de DROÜET- Sur Abraham FABERT 1599 1662 imprimeur à Verdun. Deux pages : guerre de Metz guerre des 4 rois. Jean de WERTH (1594.) mercenaire Duc de MERCOEUR né à Nomeny 15 septembre 1558.
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: 13847
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ANONYME - Paul ABRAHAM - Alfred GRUNWALD
Partition piano et chant ""Die Blume von Hawaii"" La fleur d'Hawaï Piano and vocal score ""The Flower of Hawaii""
Wiesbaden Berlin: Dreima Bühnen 1931. Fine. Dreima Bühnen Wiesbaden Berlin s. d. ca 1931 27.20 x 33.90 cm une feuille rempliée First edition of this vocal and piano score first cover illustrated by an anonymous artist. Apart from the title piece this set comprises five other scores. Fine copy despite some marginal creases. Dreima Bühnen unknown
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: 79330
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ANONYME - Paul ABRAHAM - Alfred GRÜNWALD
Partition piano et chant "Die Blume von Hawaii" [La fleur d'Hawaï]
Dreima Bühnen | Wiesbaden Berlin s. d. [ca 1931] | 27.20 x 33.90 cm | une feuille rempliée
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: 79330
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Anonymous Artist after Bloteling, Abraham (1640-1690)
Antique print etching Portrait of Michiel de Ruyter 1607-1676 - After A. Bloteling published 1676 1 p.
Half-length portrait of admiral Michiel de Ruyter in front of a seascape with a sea battle. On the bottom an inscription below a balustrade: ""MICHIEL ADRIANSZ. / DE RUYTER RIDDER. / van St. Michiel en den Oliphant. / Lt Admirael van Hollandt. et.""; above on the right: ""tweede deel fol: 173"". Used as illustration in: Leeven en daden der doorluchtighste zee-helden en ontdeckers van landen deser eeuwen. Beginnende met Christoffel Columbus . en eyndigende met . M.A. de Ruyter. Published in Amsterdam in 1676. In the same direction of the portrait at the Rijksmuseum by Christiaan Hagen RP-P-1905-3.NL Portret van admiraal Michiel de Ruiter met tekst onder het portret: Michiel Adriaensz. De Ruyter Ridder van St. Michiel en den Oliphant Admirael van Hollandt et. Michiel de Ruyter 1607-1676 is een van de bekendste zeehelden uit de Nederlandse geschiedenis. Zijn bijnaam is Bestevaer ofwel grootvader. Hij was een tijdlang zelfstandig ondernemer in de walvisvaart. De Ruyter behaalde tijdens de Engelse Zeeoorlog belangrijke successen tegen Engeland met als hoogtepunt de Tocht naar Chatham die in 1667 leidde tot een voor Nederland gunstige vrede. Engraving and etching on paper with some margins; plate mark: 165 x 131 mm total: 195 x 140 mm. In the right top the text: Tweede deel fol: 173. A visible fold in the bottom middle and a light diagonal fold in the right bottom. Print in passepartout size 350 x 250 mm. unknown
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: 60809
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Anonymous, Flemish|Abraham van Diepenbeeck|Hans Vredeman de Vries
Portfolio with drawings and prints of tombs and epitaphs Museum Etching Museum Quality A2
Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Met. Created in the 17th century 17th century. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
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: 340036
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Anonymous, Flemish|Abraham van Diepenbeeck|Hans Vredeman de Vries
Portfolio with drawings and prints of tombs and epitaphs Museum Etching Museum Quality A3
Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Met. Created in the 17th century 17th century. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Museum Etching museum quality in size A3. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
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: 340033
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Anonymous, Flemish|Abraham van Diepenbeeck|Hans Vredeman de Vries
Portfolio with drawings and prints of tombs and epitaphs Photo Rag Bright White A2
Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Met. Created in the 17th century 17th century. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Rag Bright White in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
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: 340034
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Anonymous, Flemish|Abraham van Diepenbeeck|Hans Vredeman de Vries
Portfolio with drawings and prints of tombs and epitaphs Photo Rag 308 Premium Quality A2
Contentum Ltd. Loose sheet. New. High-quality art print based on an original work from the Met. Created in the 17th century 17th century. Professionally printed on premium fine-art paper Photo Rag 308 premium quality in size A2. The artwork is printed with a white border museum-style presentation. Contentum Ltd. unknown
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: 340035
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Anquetil Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
Legislation Orientale 1778 French Edition
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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: 1104776138.G ISBN : 1104776138 9781104776138
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Anquetil Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
Legislation Orientale 1778 French Edition
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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: 1166052451.G ISBN : 1166052451 9781166052454
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Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
Zend-avesta Ouvrage De Zoroastre: Contenant Les Idées Théologiques Physiques & Morales De Ce Législateur . Qui Comprend L'introduction Au Zend-avesta . French Edition
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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: 1021774529.G ISBN : 1021774529 9781021774521
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Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
Zend-avesta Ouvrage De Zoroastre: Contenant Les Idées Théologiques Physiques & Morales De Ce Législateur . Qui Comprend Les Ieschts Sadés . French Edition
paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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: 1021181854.G ISBN : 1021181854 9781021181855
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Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
Zend-avesta Ouvrage De Zoroastre: Contenant Les Idées Théologiques Physiques & Morales De Ce Législateur . Qui Comprend L'introduction Au Zend-avesta . French Edition
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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: 1019732725.G ISBN : 1019732725 9781019732724
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Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
Zend-avesta Ouvrage De Zoroastre: Contenant Les Idées Théologiques Physiques & Morales De Ce Législateur . Qui Comprend Le Vendidad Sadé . French Edition
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
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: 1019732849.G ISBN : 1019732849 9781019732847
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Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe
Zend-avesta Ouvrage De Zoroastre: Contenant Les Idées Théologiques Physiques & Morales De Ce Législateur . Qui Comprend L'introduction Au Zend-av
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: 46335146 ISBN : 1021774529 9781021774521
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Anscher Abraham
Detailed Narrative of an 1883-1884 Expedition Through Southern Africa Written by Exploring Party Leader Abraham Anscher a Jewish Chicago Immigrant
Various places in South Africa Botswana 1884. Overall very good. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. Some wear to edges of initial and final few leaves slightly affecting text. Light even tanning. Written in a consistent legible script. An extensive and outstanding manuscript account of travel and exploration in southern Africa during late 1883 and early 1884 by Abraham Anscher a Polish Jewish immigrant to Chicago. The manuscript is composed in the form of a letter addressed to Edith Delia Rogalski but really comprises a travelogue or diary with entries written from September 1883 to mid-January 1884. Five additional letters accompany this account addressed to Edith's later husband Israel Jackson Roe; her parents Samuel and Sarah Rogalski; and her brother Benny. <br/><br/>Anscher's descriptions of his experiences in Africa cover a wide variety of topics including big game hunting; interactions with local indigenous peoples and their rulers; encounters with white missionaries traders and other hunters; ethnographic botanical geological and zoological observations and much more. His account is by turns dramatic and amusing interspersed with personal recollections of family and home cultural and religious notes his addressee was also a Polish-speaking Jewish immigrant to Chicago and reminiscences of earlier adventures in Colorado Utah the California gold fields and elsewhere.<br/><br/>Little can be readily discerned of the details of Anscher's biography beyond the pages of this manuscript. He was born in Mariampol then a part of Poland and today in Lithuania but clearly came to the United States at an early age and was well-educated. He was an adventurer at heart and spent several years in the West perhaps in the U.S. Army for part of this time and partly as a solo fortune seeker. At some point during the mid- to late-1870s he decided to take his adventuring talents to South Africa in order to satisfy his own wanderlust and to create a business of organizing guided African exploration and hunting. The stakes of his chosen profession are mentioned several times throughout his narrative such as when a party member dies of an unspecified illness "My lot is a very hard one just now and my position as promoter and chief adventurer is anything but enviable". From the additional letters present it is apparent that the young Ms. Rogalski was a former love interest of Anscher who spurned his affections and became engaged to a mutual friend. Indeed a letter here addressed to the fiancé offers an apology for presumption of writing to Edith in such a lengthy and cordial manner; at one time all of the individuals addressed by Anscher were a part of the same immigrant community in Chicago.<br/><br/>This absorbing account follows a lengthy excursion organized and led by Anscher across the Transvaal through Bechuanaland Matabeleland and beyond to a settlement he calls Tatti probably Francistown on the Tati River traveling through parts of modern-day South Africa and Botswana. They contain many details of great interest and his vignettes are well-written and dramatically delivered. An immense boa constrictor drops out of the treetops strangling a springbok before his eyes. He finds a five-year-old girl with a broken leg the only survivor of a village massacre; he sets her leg nurses her for a month and eventually conveys her to a missionary station. A young zebra joins the traveling party incurring the jealousy of the team's dogs. A large lizard is trained to sleep in a tent but only after his teeth are removed for safety. <br/><br/>His missive begins in medias res with his party already underway in South Africa near the Orange River in what he calls the "Tarka bush" during mid-September 1883. Anscher decides having missed his last opportunity to send mail "Now to put myself on guard against mischance and not be like the traditional foolish virgins who did not keep their lamps properly trimmed.to have a so-called running letter always open and ready" for his recipient. The group first traveled northeast near and along the Orange allowing Anscher to wax discursive concerning the river's wildlife:<br/><br/>"The wanderings of the river sometimes flowed through immense chasms over hung with stupendous precipices and then like a translucent lake with beautiful towering mimosas and willows reflected from its bosom and a rich variety of fine plumage though without a song; wild geese ducks snipes flamingoes in perfect security feeding on the banks beneath the green shade or basking in the sun's rays on the verdant islands far from the fowler's snare. The swallows also mounting aloft or skimming the surface of the mirror of the stream; while the ravens with their hoarse note might be seen seeking their daily food among the watery tribe or cawing on the bending tops of the weeping willows."<br/><br/>The party leaves the river and skirts the southern edge of the Kalahari to reach Lattakoo modern-day Dithakong a traditional departure point for excursions deeper into the interior of Africa during the 19th century. Thence they headed north again stopping often to hunt for food and sport:<br/><br/>"When on the Kama plains I went one night accompanied by Tytler and Winsloe and one native to a pool of water about two miles from camp. We did not wait more than about half an hour when we heard loud lapping at the water. The natives told me 'Ronimala ' be silent 'There is a lion.' Our next visitors were two buffaloes but we did not fire lest we attract the attention of the lions. Next came three giraffes and one we knocked over on the spot and wounded another but who got away. I have seen plenty of game in my time. I saw and hunted antelope and elk on the Laramie plains and in the Meek Mountains in America before the Union Pacific RR was built. I saw quite enough of buffalo in the Smokey Hills and Montana as well as south of the Green Horn Mountains between California and Arizona but such a variety of game big game and in such number as I saw some years ago in the Transvaal & Swaziland and hereabouts now I never saw anywhere."<br/><br/>As the excursion proceeds further into the interior their encounters with native tribes increases and Anscher observes them keenly and reports with a detailed if somewhat jaded 19th-century eye:<br/><br/>"The town of Kalabeg is already in the Matabele country. Of course they have no religion of any kind for there is no such thing as natural religion. Men acquire knowledge good or bad from instruction of men with more fertile brains. This holds good all the world over. The rainmakers here hold the position of prophets and divines of the so-called civilized countries. These rainmakers who are also the doctors and sextons have great influence over the minds of the people and are held in great estimation by them superior to that of their king who is likewise compelled to yield to the dictates of this personage the rainmaker. Nothing can exceed the freaks of fancy and the adroitness with which the rainmaker can awe the public mind and lead thousands captive at his will. Each tribe has one or more of them and they generally come from other countries for a prophet is seldom honored in his own country."<br/><br/>Arriving in Shoshong in what is now central Botswana Anscher meets some missionaries and witnesses a tribal gathering which leads him to remember the religious theories of a familial acquaintance back home:<br/><br/>"Was present at a Pitsoh or native congress this forenoon held by the natives about some tribe affairs. About 12000 natives present and wound up the proceedings with a war dance. As these tribes are considered by some religious enthusiasts to be of the lost tribes of Israel not your own but ours and as your uncle once spoke to me about them while at Chicago I would therefore request you to kindly tell him to disabuse his mind on this point and that the only peg whereon the so-called lost tribe maniacs hang their argument in favor of their hobby is that the natives practice a certain custom which history attributes to our father Abraham. But this ceremony takes place instead of at the age of 7 days old when they are about fourteen years old and even when older. But they have no tradition as to why it is done. If this simple custom entitles them to be call Jews why for my part they are quite welcome to the honor. But this is about all there is to build the theory on." <br/><br/>Despite his occasionally sarcastic and somewhat disparaging demeanor toward the natives he encounters Anchser seems overall to have a decent connection with them at a personal level and to understand a basic sense of shared humanity. In one particularly poignant episode Anscher meets a mother and father who have walked 300 miles to ransom their two teenaged sons enslaved by a local chief: <br/><br/>"Neither the man's looks nor ornaments excited the smallest emotion in the bosom of the chief and when he was solicited by one who felt something of a father's love to pity the old man who had walked so far and brought his all to purchase his own children he at last replied with a sneer that one of the boys died last year and for the other he wants an ox at least. 'But I have not even a goat' pleaded the old man 'the Matabele have taken all I had and destroyed my hut.' A sigh it was a heavy sigh burst from his bosom one dead and the other not permitted to see anymore. The chief walked off while the man sat leaning his head on the palm of his hand and his eye fixed on the ground apparently lost to everything but his grief. On taking up his trinkets to retire I told him to keep up a good heart that I would try to get him his boy. He started at the sound of my voice kneeled before me and laid down his trinket saying 'take all this but get me back my boy.' I got him his boy for a colored blanket and 1 lb. of tobacco."<br/><br/>When sad and homesick Anscher recalls his time in Chicago and in the West but it is often insufficient comfort. After departing Shoshong for Tatti Anscher must leave his group to "pioneer" a trail to the settlement:<br/><br/>"On the evening of my first day's journey I had to off-saddle a term used here on a waterless plain picketed my horse and went to bed minus my supper or dinner. I awoke suddenly by something touching me on my forehead like the cold nose of a dog but I could see nothing in the dark except my horse who was laying down poor fellow. After this occurrence I could sleep no longer. My head was hot my lips parched and had no taste even for a cigarette. I daresay some of you have experienced waiting for a train early in the morning in some out of the way small RR station where moments appear like days. Well waiting there is not a patch to lying in the dark in Africa's solitude waiting for daylight to come. I tried to divert my mind and think of anything but water but I could not do it! I tried to cool myself by thinking of Chicago in the month of Feb. but that only led me to snow and from snow to water. One may as well try Ovid's 'Remedia Amoris' to cure him from hankering after the girl he loves as to try Chicago in my case as a remedy when thirsty." <br/><br/>The difficulties of obtaining food and water establishing safe camp and finding routes through minimally charted territory evident in this final passage are an ever-present theme of the expedition but Anscher eventually guided his group to their destination where they intended to stay for a month or two before heading further north to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The final entries describe life at the settlement and how a Portuguese colonial explorer and administrator Alexandre de Serpo Pinto whom they met in camp would be entrusted with the present manuscript as he traveled to Namaqualand on the west coast of Africa in the hopes that it would eventually find its way aboard a ship bound for America. Pinto was a fascinating figure in his own right -- he explored the interior of Africa for Portugal in the 1860s and 1870s and after this meeting with our author became the Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar.<br/><br/>Anscher's trail goes somewhat cold after January 1884 when he relinquished control of this massive "running letter." An additional fragment of a later letter to Edith Rogalski included here forwarded via a mining acquaintance in Kimberly contains a few tantalizing details of his onward expedition including an attack on their party near Victoria Falls by a group of slavers led by "an American Negro." He was also working on a journal and taking photographs which are mentioned several times throughout this account but the survival of this other material as well as the ultimate conclusion of this expedition are not known. A wonderful unpublished account of African exploration by a seemingly unlikely and apparently otherwise unknown American character. A complete transcription of the manuscript is available upon request. unknown books
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: 1562
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Anscher Abraham
Detailed Narrative of an 1883-1884 Expedition Through Southern Africa Written by Exploring Party Leader Abraham Anscher a Jewish Chicago Immigrant
1884. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. Some wear to edges of initial and final few leaves slightly affecting text. Light even tanning. Written in a consistent legible script. Overall very good. 295pp. plus five additional letters totaling 60pp. altogether more than 38000 words. Composed mostly on small octavo sheets. An extensive and outstanding manuscript account of travel and exploration in southern Africa during late 1883 and early 1884 by Abraham Anscher a Polish Jewish immigrant to Chicago. The manuscript is composed in the form of a letter addressed to Edith Delia Rogalski but really comprises a travelogue or diary with entries written from September 1883 to mid-January 1884. Five additional letters accompany this account addressed to Edith's later husband Israel Jackson Roe; her parents Samuel and Sarah Rogalski; and her brother Benny. <br/> <br/>Anscher's descriptions of his experiences in Africa cover a wide variety of topics including big game hunting; interactions with local indigenous peoples and their rulers; encounters with white missionaries traders and other hunters; ethnographic botanical geological and zoological observations and much more. His account is by turns dramatic and amusing interspersed with personal recollections of family and home cultural and religious notes his addressee was also a Polish-speaking Jewish immigrant to Chicago and reminiscences of earlier adventures in Colorado Utah the California gold fields and elsewhere.<br/> <br/>Little can be readily discerned of the details of Anscher's biography beyond the pages of this manuscript. He was born in Mariampol then a part of Poland and today in Lithuania but clearly came to the United States at an early age and was well-educated. He was an adventurer at heart and spent several years in the West perhaps in the U.S. Army for part of this time and partly as a solo fortune seeker. At some point during the mid- to late-1870s he decided to take his adventuring talents to South Africa in order to satisfy his own wanderlust and to create a business of organizing guided African exploration and hunting. The stakes of his chosen profession are mentioned several times throughout his narrative such as when a party member dies of an unspecified illness "My lot is a very hard one just now and my position as promoter and chief adventurer is anything but enviable". From the additional letters present it is apparent that the young Ms. Rogalski was a former love interest of Anscher who spurned his affections and became engaged to a mutual friend. Indeed a letter here addressed to the fiancé offers an apology for the presumption of writing to Edith in such a lengthy and cordial manner; at one time all of the individuals addressed by Anscher were a part of the same immigrant community in Chicago.<br/> <br/>This absorbing account follows a lengthy excursion organized and led by Anscher across the Transvaal through Bechuanaland Matabeleland and beyond to a settlement he calls Tatti probably Francistown on the Tati River traveling through parts of modern-day South Africa and Botswana. They contain many details of great interest and his vignettes are well-written and dramatically delivered. An immense boa constrictor drops out of the treetops strangling a springbok before his eyes. He finds a five-year-old girl with a broken leg the only survivor of a village massacre; he sets her leg nurses her for a month and eventually conveys her to a missionary station. A young zebra joins the traveling party incurring the jealousy of the team's dogs. A large lizard is trained to sleep in a tent but only after his teeth are removed for safety. <br/> <br/>His missive begins in medias res with his party already underway in South Africa near the Orange River in what he calls the "Tarka bush" during mid-September 1883. Anscher decides having missed his last opportunity to send mail "Now to put myself on guard against mischance and not be like the traditional foolish virgins who did not keep their lamps properly trimmed.to have a so-called running letter always open and ready" for his recipient. The group first traveled northeast near and along the Orange allowing Anscher to wax discursive concerning the river's wildlife:<br/> <br/>"The wanderings of the river sometimes flowed through immense chasms over hung with stupendous precipices and then like a translucent lake with beautiful towering mimosas and willows reflected from its bosom and a rich variety of fine plumage though without a song; wild geese ducks snipes flamingoes in perfect security feeding on the banks beneath the green shade or basking in the sun's rays on the verdant islands far from the fowler's snare. The swallows also mounting aloft or skimming the surface of the mirror of the stream; while the ravens with their hoarse note might be seen seeking their daily food among the watery tribe or cawing on the bending tops of the weeping willows."<br/> <br/>The party leaves the river and skirts the southern edge of the Kalahari to reach Lattakoo modern-day Dithakong a traditional departure point for excursions deeper into the interior of Africa during the 19th century. Thence they headed north again stopping often to hunt for food and sport:<br/> <br/>"When on the Kama plains I went one night accompanied by Tytler and Winsloe and one native to a pool of water about two miles from camp. We did not wait more than about half an hour when we heard loud lapping at the water. The natives told me 'Ronimala ' be silent 'There is a lion." Our next visitors were two buffaloes but we did not fire lest we attract the attention of the lions. Next came three giraffes and one we knocked over on the spot and wounded another but who got away. I have seen plenty of game in my time. I saw and hunted antelope and elk on the Laramie plains and in the Meek Mountains in America before the Union Pacific RR was built. I saw quite enough of buffalo in the Smokey Hills and Montana as well as south of the Green Horn Mountains between California and Arizona but such a variety of game big game and in such number as I saw some years ago in the Transvaal & Swaziland and hereabouts now I never saw anywhere."<br/> <br/>As the excursion proceeds further into the interior their encounters with native tribes increases and Anscher observes them keenly and reports with a detailed if somewhat jaded 19th-century eye:<br/> <br/>"The town of Kalabeg is already in the Matabele country. Of course they have no religion of any kind for there is no such thing as natural religion. Men acquire knowledge good or bad from instruction of men with more fertile brains. This holds good all the world over. The rainmakers here hold the position of prophets and divines of the so-called civilized countries. These rainmakers who are also the doctors and sextons have great influence over the minds of the people and are held in great estimation by them superior to that of their king who is likewise compelled to yield to the dictates of this personage the rainmaker. Nothing can exceed the freaks of fancy and the adroitness with which the rainmaker can awe the public mind and lead thousands captive at his will. Each tribe has one or more of them and they generally come from other countries for a prophet is seldom honored in his own country."<br/> <br/>Arriving in Shoshong in what is now central Botswana Anscher meets some missionaries and witnesses a tribal gathering which leads him to remember the religious theories of a familial acquaintance back home:<br/> <br/>"Was present at a Pitsoh or native congress this forenoon held by the natives about some tribe affairs. About 12000 natives present and wound up the proceedings with a war dance. As these tribes are considered by some religious enthusiasts to be of the lost tribes of Israel not your own but ours and as your uncle once spoke to me about them while at Chicago I would therefore request you to kindly tell him to disabuse his mind on this point and that the only peg whereon the so-called lost tribe maniacs hang their argument in favor of their hobby is that the natives practice a certain custom which history attributes to our father Abraham. But this ceremony takes place instead of at the age of 7 days old when they are about fourteen years old and even when older. But they have no tradition as to why it is done. If this simple custom entitles them to be call Jews why for my part they are quite welcome to the honor. But this is about all there is to build the theory on." <br/> <br/>Despite his occasionally sarcastic and somewhat disparaging demeanor toward the natives he encounters Anchser seems overall to have a decent connection with them at a personal level and to understand a basic sense of shared humanity. In one particularly poignant episode Anscher meets a mother and father who have walked 300 miles to ransom their two teenaged sons enslaved by a local chief: <br/> <br/>"Neither the man's looks nor ornaments excited the smallest emotion in the bosom of the chief and when he was solicited by one who felt something of a father's love to pity the old man who had walked so far and brought his all to purchase his own children he at last replied with a sneer that one of the boys died last year and for the other he wants an ox at least. 'But I have not even a goat' pleaded the old man 'the Matabele have taken all I had and destroyed my hut.' A sigh it was a heavy sigh burst from his bosom one dead and the other not permitted to see anymore. The chief walked off while the man sat leaning his head on the palm of his hand and his eye fixed on the ground apparently lost to everything but his grief. On taking up his trinkets to retire I told him to keep up a good heart that I would try to get him his boy. He started at the sound of my voice kneeled before me and laid down his trinket saying 'take all this but get me back my boy.' I got him his boy for a colored blanket and 1 lb. of tobacco."<br/> <br/>When sad and homesick Anscher recalls his time in Chicago and in the West but it is often insufficient comfort. After departing Shoshong for Tatti Anscher must leave his group to "pioneer" a trail to the settlement:<br/> <br/>"On the evening of my first day's journey I had to off-saddle a term used here on a waterless plain picketed my horse and went to bed minus my supper or dinner. I awoke suddenly by something touching me on my forehead like the cold nose of a dog but I could see nothing in the dark except my horse who was laying down poor fellow. After this occurrence I could sleep no longer. My head was hot my lips parched and had no taste even for a cigarette. I daresay some of you have experienced waiting for a train early in the morning in some out of the way small RR station where moments appear like days. Well waiting there is not a patch to lying in the dark in Africa's solitude waiting for daylight to come. I tried to divert my mind and think of anything but water but I could not do it! I tried to cool myself by thinking of Chicago in the month of Feb. but that only led me to snow and from snow to water. One may as well try Ovid's 'Remedia Amoris' to cure him from hankering after the girl he loves as to try Chicago in my case as a remedy when thirsty." <br/> <br/>The difficulties of obtaining food and water establishing safe camp and finding routes through minimally charted territory evident in this final passage are an ever-present theme of the expedition but Anscher eventually guided his group to their destination where they intended to stay for a month or two before heading further north to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The final entries describe life at the settlement and how a Portuguese colonial explorer and administrator Alexandre de Serpo Pinto whom they met in camp would be entrusted with the present manuscript as he traveled to Namaqualand on the west coast of Africa in the hopes that it would eventually find its way aboard a ship bound for America. Pinto was a fascinating figure in his own right -- he explored the interior of Africa for Portugal in the 1860s and 1870s and after this meeting with our author became the Portuguese Consul in Zanzibar.<br/> <br/>Anscher's trail goes somewhat cold after January 1884 when he relinquished control of this massive "running letter." An additional fragment of a later letter to Edith Rogalski included here forwarded via a mining acquaintance in Kimberly contains a few tantalizing details of his onward expedition including an attack on their party near Victoria Falls by a group of slavers led by "an American Negro." He was also working on a journal and taking photographs which are mentioned several times throughout this account but the survival of this other material as well as the ultimate conclusion of this expedition are not known. A wonderful unpublished account of African exploration by a seemingly unlikely and apparently otherwise unknown American character. unknown books
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