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1861Best.-Nr. 61059London: Richard Bentley 1861. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22cm. Contemporary red calf tooled in gilt all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xvi6311pp; 2 color litho plates 2 black and white litho plates 9 intaglio plates and additional relief illustrations and maps. Inscribed to Alfred Henry Hudson from Joseph D. Gill 1864; bookplate of A. H. Hudson. Binder's stamp of H. & C. Treacher Brighton. Front board detached spine leather dry and cracking but textblock tight and mostly clean with a few spots of foxing and browning to tissue guards: Good. Davis 1812-1882 was a Christian convert who worked as a missionary in Tunis during the 1840s; from 1856-58 he was employed by the British Museum to work on archaeological digs at Tunis and Utica. These digs uncovered major Roman mosaics some of which are illustrated in color in this work. Richard Bentley unknown books
1907Best.-Nr. 61083London: John Murray 1907. Reprint. Octavo 23cm. Green cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine; plain endpapers; xii280pp; 9 folding maps and 2 halftone plates. A tight copy lightly rubbed at spine ends and corners browning to free endpapers but generally Very Good. German Official Account of the War in South Africa October 1899 to February 1900. See MENDELSSOHN II p.590. John Murray unknown books
1890Best.-Nr. 61099London: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington 1890. First Edition. Signed limited Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe. #230 of 250 copies printed. Quarto 30cm. Two volumes half-bound in black morocco and vellum stamped in gilt on front and spines. top edges gilt; plain endpapers; I: iixvi5291pp; II: iixvi472pp; 2 photogravure frontispieces 6 etchings 2 large color folding maps backed in linen 1 color folding map 1 color diagram 36 chine collé relief plates numerous in-text relief illustrations and a facsimile of a leaf from Stanley's original notebook. Untrimmed. Signed by author on limitation leaf; each etching signed in pencil by the artist G. Montbard. A sturdy set rubbed with minor external dustsoil red stains to front board of vol. 2 as though transferred from another book internally with occasional browning to edges plate supports browned and foxed otherwise clean: around Very Good. Stanley's account of the 1886-1889 expedition he led to rescue Emin Pasha Governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria after his administration was overwhelmed during the Mahdist War. The expedition passed through the Belgian Congo including a grueling five-month passage through the Ituri rain forest the darkness of which inspired this book's title. Eventually they reached Emin persuaded him to leave and made their way to the eastern cost. In Darkest Africa was published soon after the conclusion of the expedition initially to great acclaim. But as more information emerged from other participants detailing high levels of death and brutality in the expedition Stanley 's reputation suffered considerably. HOWGEGO IV S60. Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington unknown books
1866Best.-Nr. 61161London: Published for the Author 1866. An early impression but likely not the first lacking decorative gilt tooling to spine. Octavo 22cm. Green cloth boards blindstamped titled in gilt on spine; chocolate brown endpapers; xii516pp; prospectus for the author's "History of the Colony of Natal" tipped in at front; tinted lithographic frontispiece and 7 plates one black and white lithograph folding map with touches of hand color and 4 relief full-page plates. Bookplate of Arthur Wakefield Chapman. Lightly rubbed but generally sound and clean: Very Good. History and contemporary account of what is now South Africa by a Wesleyan missionary who had been in South Africa for 27 years. Theal noted in 1812 that "the first part of this book is fairly accurate the second part is correct to a letter" though the third section had become obsolete. THEAL p.141. MENDELSSOHN I p.725. 61161. Published for the Author unknown books
1815Best.-Nr. 61210London: John Murray 1815. Second Edition. Quarto 28cm. Half-bound in later nineteenth-century brown calf and purple cloth rebacked all edges marbled; plain dark taupe endpapers; iii-xx1-3731pp; folding map at front with routes traced in red and blue occasional in-text figures. Bound with out half-title. Sewing sound but joints cracked amateur reinforcements to hinges general mild wear to boards internally with occasional spots of foxing but largely clean: just Very Good. Mungo Park 1771-1806 was an early explorer in Africa whose 1799 about his first journey along the Niger River Travels into the Interior of Africa earned him great popularity and is #16 in Blockson's Commented Bibliography. In 1805 he undertook a second expedition. He led his group overland to Bamako losing many members to dysentery. He reached Ségou and Sansanding in modern-day Mali and sailed on reportedly reached the Bussa rapids in modern-day Nigeria. But in late 1805 his party was attacked by native Africans who he had antagonized and Park drowned. His journal was sent back to the UK where it was published with statements from the expedition guides Amadi Fatouma and Isaaco. Exploration of the Niger ceased until after the Napoleonic Wars and the Niger Delta was not located by Europeans until the Lander expedition in 1830. HOWGEGO II P4. John Murray unknown books
1879Best.-Nr. 61206London: John Murray 1879. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Full green calf gilt and blind rules along board edges spine stamped in gilt titled on brown spine label; all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xxii418pp; 3 maps 1 with color frontispiece and 10 relief plates with tissue guards additional in-text illustrations. Bookplate of the Earls of Derby. Bright and sound mild edge rubbing spine dry and rubbed one tissue guard lacking else Very Good or better. "The British consul to Mozambique Elton spent considerable time fighting the slave trade in the region. He explored the region around Lake Nyassa and enjoyed considerable sport.During his return to the coast he contracted fever and died. His journals were arranged edited and completed by his hunting companion H. B. Cotterill." CZECH p.55. John Murray unknown books
1938Best.-Nr. 61372Oxford: Clarendon Press 1938. First Edition. Octavo 23cm. Maroon cloth titled on spine; plain endpapers; viii584pp; two folding maps at rear. Sound and straight spine rubbed and slightly faded minor rubbing to edges: generally Very Good. 61372. Clarendon Press unknown books
1946Best.-Nr. 61379London: George Routledge & Sons 1946. Reprint. Octavo 24.5cm. Red cloth titled in gilt on spine; xvi4531pp; 24 halftone plates double-page map at rear. From the collection of J. Wayne Fredericks Deputy Assistant Secretary of State under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations with his ink ownership inscription to f.f.e.p. Sound but spine-sunned worn at corners and spine ends internally clean: Very Good. 61379. George Routledge & Sons unknown books
1743Best.-Nr. 61213Amsterdam: Jean Catuffe 1743. Third French edition. 12mo 18.5cm. Three volumes in blue pastepaper wraps with manuscript titles on plain paper spine labels; I: xxiv4282pp; II: xvi162pp; III: xx320pp; 5 folding maps and 25 line engravings one folding. Untrimmed and unbeaten. Cracks to paper over spine on vols II and III significant cracks to spine on vol. I wrappers lightly rubbed at edges with small abrasion on front wrapper of vol. I dampstaining to about 16 leaves in vol. III else clean: Very Good. Peter Kolbe 1675-1726 was an astronomer who traveled to the Cape of Good Hope in modern-day South Africa for astronomical research from 1704 to 1713. In 1719 he published this seminal work on natural history the Khoekhoen people and Dutch settlers in South Africa. The work became highly popular and was translated into multiple languages; this is the third edition in French. See MENDELSSOHN pp842-845 for the first edition and other translations. Jean Catuffe unknown books
1936Best.-Nr. 48166Toronto: Joint Committee on Summer Schools and Institutes of the Church of England in Canada 1936. First Edition. 12mo. Pictorial card wrappers printed in red; 48pp; illus. Mild cover soil else Very Good. Errata slip attached before first page of text; ink ownership stamp "Property of M.S.C.C. Library" inside front cover. Survey of the Church's missionary activities across the African continent. Photographic text illustrations throughout. Rare; no other copies noted in commerce and not separately catalogued in OCLC March 2020. Joint Committee on Summer Schools and Institutes of the Church of England in Canada unknown books
1965Best.-Nr. 54950Mazenod Baphatlalats: The Social Centre nd 1965. Quarto 25cm; thin cloth backstrip over illustrated tan wrappers titled in black; 28pp.; minor corner bend; small spot of discoloration; Very Good or better. South African play written in Sesotho language southern Bantu. The Social Centre unknown books
1930Best.-Nr. 52156Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1930. First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper of first volume: "Mr. Malcolm B. Stone / with much appreciation of his interest in the work in tropical medicine / from Richard P. Strong" dated in year of publication. First printings. Two large octavo volumes 27cm; publisher's maroon cloth boards lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; xxvi1-568; ix569-1064pp; illus. Mild lean to text block of second volume else a tight Near Fine set lacking the dustwrappers. A major work in the history of public medicine. Strong 1872-1948 was the first professor of Tropical Medicine at Harvard and the foremost American authority on the subject. This important two-year expedition to Liberia and the Congo led by Strong in the company of seven fellow Harvard scientists was the first full-scale attempt to document the etiology of a variety of tropical diseases as well as documenting existing sanitary conditions in Liberia and colonial West Africa. The mission also collected a wealth of zoological and anthropological data that would inform various fields of Africa Studies for decades. Harvard University Press unknown books
1977Best.-Nr. 48974New York: PAC 1977. First Edition. Octavo 21.25cm; pictorial card wrappers stapled; 436pp. Publisher's new address rubber-stamped on title page else Fine. Contents include an interview with the Congress's Theo Bidi and two official documents--the policy and programme and "Principles of a United Front in People's War." The Congress was first founded in 1959 "To forge foster and consolidate the bonds of African nationhood." p. 1. PAC unknown books
Best.-Nr. 47326N.d. ca 1970s. Original large-format color print in presentation mat with title card affixed to mat below image. View size 49cm x 38cm ca 19" x 15"; overall dimensions 60cm x 51cm. Title card inscribed in black ink: "For Bob MacNeal a fellow photographer with best wishes / Arnold Newman" undated. Mat lightly soiled with a few small chips and abrasions to extremities; image clean and unfaded Near Fine. ca NOTE: the mat appears permanently fixed to the photograph as presented by the photographer; we have not attempted to examine the print outside the mat. Impressive large-format portrait by Newman here inscribed to one "Bob MacNeal" identified as a "fellow photographer" though we can find no photographers of the period who used this spelling. Possibly a misspelling of Bob MacNeil still active the prominent Canadian fashion photographer; possibly a misspelling of Bob McNeill d.2007 the prominent African-American documentary photographer; or possibly the correct spelling of an acquaintance of no notable prominence at all. Undated but ca. early 1970s a superlative image of the Ethiopian Emperor boldly inscribed and signed by Newman below image. unknown books
1951Best.-Nr. 48167London: Edinburgh House Press 1951. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pictorial paper wrappers; 64pp; illus. Mild external wear; a few instances of light pencil marginalia; Very Good. Ownership stamp inside front cover "Property of M.S.C.C. Library / Toronto." In the publisher's series of "Background Books" intended for Sunday School readers to educate them on countries where the Church of England was conducting missionary activities. Edinburgh House Press unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 48285London: Africa Bureau 1966. First Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; stapled wrappers; 12pp. Trivial wear to extremities else Fine. "The overwhelmingly important question in the Rhodesian crisis is now Rhodesia's vulnerability to economic sanctions. It is difficult to be exact in economic terms; we can only make rough estimates. It is even more difficult to say what the political effect of the economic damage may be. It is important to appreciate as accurately as possible the economic effects; the final conclusion about the effectiveness of sanctions must however be a political one" from introduction. Africa Bureau unknown books
1953Best.-Nr. 48281Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race Relations 1953. First Edition. Slim octavo 21.5cm; stapled wrappers; 62pp. Light wear and scattered foxing to extremities some oxidation to staples else Very Good. Covers criticisms of the then-current system for native education in South Africa the aims of Bantu education proposed schemes for the re-organization of Bantu education and schemes of educational development for the period 1952-1962. Part of the Donaldson Blueprint Series. South African Institute of Race Relations unknown books
1966Best.-Nr. 48284New York: Alexander Defense Committee 1966. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; stapled wrappers; 43pp; illus. Light wear to extremities modest toning to rear wrapper with two small faint stains to upper front wrapper; contents clean; Very Good or better. Expose of state-sponsored apartheid in South Africa and Rhodesia. With several photographic illustrations halftones. The author was Executive Secretary of the Alexander Defense Committee organized in 1965 to advocate on behalf of the "Alexander Eleven" a group of anti-apartheid activists headed by Neville Alexander who were imprisoned under South Africa's "Sabotage Act" in 1963. Alexander Defense Committee unknown books
2011Best.-Nr. 42477Gambia: ArtWords 2011. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial glossy card wrappers; 212pp. Fine and unmarked but for Library of Congress "duplicate" stamp to title page. ".Consists of nineteen cases from 2005 to 2011 including some judgments of Justice A.S. Tahir; the pioneer Chairman of the Cadi Appeals Panel. ArtWords unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 38052New York: American Committee on Africa 1957. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's staplebound self-wrappers; 63pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and dust-soiled rear cover postally used with "Return to Sender" rubberstamp else Near Very Good and sound. Includes two contributions by the South African novelist Alan Paton including the poem "My Great Discovery. American Committee on Africa] unknown books
1959Best.-Nr. 38051New York: American Committee on Africa 1959. Octavo 22.5cm.; publisher's photo-illustrated staplebound self-wrappers; 23pp.; illus. Some minor toning and dust-soil else Very Good. Includes an article on the newly elected first President of Guinea Sékou Touré during whose 26-year régime approximatley 50000 people would be killed. American Committee on Africa] unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 34841London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd 1970. First Edition. Slim octavo 21cm; stapled wrappers; 18pp. Some pinpoint wear along spine-fold else a Fine copy. "This pamphlet does not attempt to deal with all aspects of the sale of arms to South Africa. It answers two popular fallacies: a that trade investment and friendship are persuading the South African government to abandon apartheid; and b that economic forces inside South Africa are eroding apartheid and bringing about political changes leading to a democratic and just society" from introduction. Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 34844London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd 1971. Third printing. Slim octavo 21cm; stapled wrappers; 131pp. A Fine copy. Discussion of the South African government's BOSS Bureau of State Security laws. Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd unknown books
1969Best.-Nr. 34842London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd 1969. First Edition. Slim octavo 20.75cm; stapled wrappers; 462pp; illus. Pinpoint wear to extremities else Fine. Discussion of the South African government's policy of mass "resettlement" which uprooted hundreds of thousands of people and moved them to so-called "homelands." One of the pillars of apartheid. Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd unknown books
1970Best.-Nr. 34884London: Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd 1970. Second Edition. Slim octavo 21cm; stapled wrappers; vi66pp. Some pinpoint wear to extremities and light dust-soil to rear wrapper else Near Fine. "Apartheid - or the system of "separate development" as the South African authorities prefer to call it - is not self-enforcing. It is maintained by an elaborate system of penal laws backed up by the powerful weaponry of a modern state. This study deals with the special character of law enforcement in a society where race distinction lies at the root of government policy" from introduction. Published for the International Defence and Aid Fund by Christian Action Publications Ltd unknown books
