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1925réf. 67226New York: French Bureau of Information 1925. 4to 12 numbers complete pp. 260; original upper wrappers bound in; bound in card backed in yellow library buckram; ex-Seattle Public Library with call number bookplate and stamping; the text clean very good. Each issues is largely comprised of short reports on economics and trade across the French empire. French Bureau of Information unknown books
1997réf. 63680Winona Lake Indiana: Eisenbrauns 1997. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xxi 1 552; xii 2 555-1041 1; decorative laminate boards; fine. "The goal of this publication is to provide a summary of what is currently known about the phonology of selected Asian and African languages . in an informative way while paying strict attention to what is most significant about the languages under investigation. Eisenbrauns unknown books
1979réf. 63843Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues 1979. 11" x 8½" pp. viii 55 9; map and 11 illustrations from photographs; fine in original red saddlestitched wrappers. Issued as no. 4 in the publisher's Working Papers in the Traditional Arts series. Rites amd ceremonies of the secret order or cult of Komo among the Bambara peoples of Africa. Institute for the Study of Human Issues unknown books
1977réf. 63844Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues 1977. 11" x 8½" pp. 2 30 6; 42; 11 illustrations from photographs in the first and tables in the text in the second; fine in original red saddlestitched wrappers. Issued as nos. 2-3 in the publisher's Working Papers in the Traditional Arts series. Institute for the Study of Human Issues unknown books
1977réf. 63842Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues 1977. 11" x 8½" pp. 4 41 1; 10 full-page illustrations; fine in original yellow saddlestitched wrappers. Issued as no. 1 in the publisher's Working Papers in the Traditional Arts series. "The original version of this working paper . was prepared at the Conference on Traditional African Architecture . September 24-26 1970 Smithsonian Conference Center Maryland. Institute for the Study of Human Issues unknown books
2018réf. 63894New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 2018. First edition 8vo pp. xiv 6 326 2; 3 maps 2 double-page; remainder dot on bottom edge else a fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
1998réf. 63987New Haven & London: Yale University Press 1998. First edition 8vo pp. xx 283 1; lexicon in double column; fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. The first comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of the Igbo language one of the three national languages of Nigeria. Michael J. C. Echeruo a native speaker of Igbo focuses on basic words and phrases that the twenty million speakers of Igbo encounter in everyday life-in conversation and in Igbo texts. Yale University Press unknown books
1992réf. 64021Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 1992. First edition 8vo pp. xiv 209 1; 4 maps 6 figures in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "A historical study of the relationship between political and environmental change in Tanzania's northeastern lowlands an impoverished region that has been afflicted by severe food shortages throughout the twentieth century" jacket blurb. University of Pennsylvania Press unknown books
1989réf. 64013London amd New York: Routledge 1989. First edition 8vo pp. 299 1; fine copy in original printed wrappers. "This study analyses the historical development of South African cinema up to he book's original publication in 1988. It describes the films and comments on their relationship to South African realities addressing all aspects of the industry focusing on domestic production but also discussing international film companies who use South Africa as a location. It explores tensions between English-language and Afrikaans-language films and between films made for blacks and films made for whites" Routledge. Routledge unknown books
1992réf. 63986Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press 1992. First edition 8vo pp. xiv 340; 24 illustrations on plates and 22 figures in the text; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Black Mountain is a chronicle of the struggles of many of the people - black and white - whose lives were rooted in one district of the South Africa highveld over the last hundred years. Thaba Nchu Black Mountain was the territory of an independent Africa chiefdom until it was annexed by the Orange Free State Republic in 1884. Smithsonian Institution Press unknown books
2001réf. 63898New York: Chartwell Books 2001. First American edition 4to pp. 171 5; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket. Chartwell Books unknown books
1995réf. 63988London & Boston: Faber and Farber 1995. First American edition 8vo pp. xv 1 477 1; pages toning else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The provocative story of African-descended people outside Africa spanning more than five centuries and a dozen countries of settlement from Britain Canada and the United States to Haiti Guyana and Brazil. Faber and Farber unknown books
1996réf. 64080Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press 1996. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 348; 2 figures 3 maps and 5 tables; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued in the Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies. "The emergence and disintegration of states often under conditions of appalling violence is a problem of primary importance in the world. Chad's long experience of civil strife and foreign intervention illustrates some of the fundamental difficulties involved in the attempt to achieve political stability through armed intervention" jacket blurb. University of Virginia Press unknown books
2007réf. 64097New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company 2007. First edition 8vo pp. xxii 778; map endpapers frontispiece 2 full-page maps 71 illustrations on rectos and verswos of 16 plates plus other illustrations in the text; fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket. "The first fully comprehensive history of America's involvement in the Middle East from George Washington to George W. Bush. W. W. Norton and Company unknown books
2007réf. 64170London: Hakluyt Society 2007. Large 8vo pp. x 404; 2 figures in the text and 8 maps; corrigenda leaf laid in as issued; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 18 in the Hakluyt Society's Third Series. Corrigenda sheet laid in. This volume offers annotated texts with biographical and historical introductions of four previously unpublished travel journals: the Journal of Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra 1775; the Journal of Commander Pringle Stokes on HMS Beagle in the Strait of Magellan 1827; the Journal of Midshipman Joseph Henry Kay on HMS Chanticleer 1828-31; and Jacob Wainwright's Diary of the Transportation of Dr Livingstone's Body to the Coast 1873-4. Hakluyt Society unknown books
1959réf. 64214Glasgow Johannesburg: Collins 1959. 16mo pp. 320; lexicon in double column; spine a bit sunned else a very good sound copy in original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Collins unknown books
1899réf. 64219London: Baptist Missionary Society and Kegan Paul Trench Trübner & Co. Ltd 1899. First edition small 8vo pp. xix 3 499 1; lexicon in double column; bookplate of the Baptist Missionary Society Mission House Library; original blue cloth spine a bit faded front hinge starting; good and sound. Baptist Missionary Society and Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co. Ltd unknown books
1971réf. 64226Chicago: Third World Press 1971. First printing 8vo pp. 24; original printed wrappers light wear at edges else near fine. Menkiti's first collection of poetry published by Haki R. Madhubuti's Third World Press in 1971 in Chicago. Third World Press unknown books
1853réf. 65055London: The London Printing and Publishing Company n.d. 1853. First edition 4to pp. 11 1 208; text printed in double column engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Ralph Abercrombie by W. Finden after Hoppner; 4 double-page Tallis maps hand-colored in outline with vignette illustrations of Cape Colony; Natal and Kaffraria; western Africa; and the islands of the Atlantic - Bermuda Madeira Azores and Cape Verde; tables in the text; bound in the publisher's original bright red blind-stamped florally decorated and textured cloth; gilt cover national symbol and title spine titles gilt and decorated. Binding with some edge wear; maps and text block in very good condition. Pages 1-12 consist of a list of subscribers and a "Home-Colonial Directory of Manufacturers Warehousemen &c." alphabetically organized and with description of good services on offer. The 4 maps are engraved by J. Rapkin. Maps are decorated with vignettes by H. Warren and H. Winkles engraved by J. Rogers W. Lacey G.R. Manwaring and W. Wrightson. A history and chronology of the British involvement in the British colonies as given in the title; OCLC notes that an illustrated and engraved title page appears only in Vol. 1 of this series of works by R. Montgomery Martin Esq. c. 1803-1868 the "late treasurer to the Queen at Hong Kong and member of Her Majesty's Legislative Council in China." Robert Montgomery Martin's History of the British Colonies was first published in 1834-5 and "occupies five volumes and slightly more than 3000 loosely-printed octavo pages. It offered the first comprehensive account of the globe-spanning version of the British empire which had taken shape in the course of the Napoleonic wars placing India and Canada under the same umbrella as Malta and Gozo." This "history" went through several iterations the last being The British Colonies issued in the 1850s which boasted a quite impressive list of subscribers including the Queen the Earl of Derby and the third Earl Grey" see Alex Middleton Robert Montgomery Martin and the origins of 'Greater Britain' at oradotoxdotacdotuk. The London Printing and Publishing Company, n.d. unknown books
1889réf. 63164London: George Philip & Son 32 Fleet Street 1889. First edition 8vo pp. xx 192; 5 chromolithographs 6 etchings 6 wood-engraved plates 2 maps printed in color 1 folding other wood-engravings in the text; original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine a very good sound copy. Bateman's account of his ascent up the Kasai River in south central Africa the first journey of its kind. "Bateman and the expedition leader Dr. Wolf were tasked with ascending the Kasai in order to return the Bashilange-Baluba people who had acted as guides for the descent to their homeland at the headwaters of the river. Once there they had a second objective to fulfil: to establish a station at the confluence of the Lulua with Luebo as a port for the station of Luluaburg. Aboard the steam-wheel steamer Stanley and the steam-launch En Avant they departed Leopoldville on the 30th of September 1885 and arrived at their destination on the 7th of November in the same year. Bateman then served as an administrator for the Luebo District: performing a number of difficult functions such as attempting to prevent slave raiding. He was eventually picked up by Stanley on the 18th of December 1886 when he for the last time looked 'upon the dark woods and swirling waters' of that territory p.170. "In addition to his primary duties as second-in-command to Wolf Bateman found time to create a remarkable visual record of the expedition that passed through the territories of the Chiplumba Basongo-Meno Bakuba and Bakete tribes. His drawings watercolours and etchings of the native peoples flora and fauna and river scenes recorded things never before depicted and in some cases seen by Europeans. They subsequently provided the basis for the excellent plates in his book which illustrate inter alia Hippopotami on the southern shore of Stanley Pool Bakuba cups and knives Lulua fish and Bakete hunters" geni.com. George Philip & Son, 32 Fleet Street unknown books
1974réf. 60793La Canada CA: Paulette Publishing Co 1974. Large 8vo pp. 2 ii 46; text on rectos only; 18 plates and illustrations; printed paper wrappers; spine slightly cocked else fine. A self-study manual based on the art monuments including three quizzes and a final test still sealed by perforation. Paulette Publishing Co unknown books
1938réf. 61276Amsterdam: N. v. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij 1938. 8vo pp. 12 130 2; fine in original printed wrappers. Gods and Cults in Ptolemaic Alexandria with sections on Gods and cults of Alexandria; Hellenistic poets and religion; List of Alexandrian citizen names; Phylene and Demen Alexandriens. N. v. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgeversmaatschappij unknown books
1910réf. 60065London: Macmillan and C. Limited 1910. 8vo pp. xiv 2 389 1 4 ads; better than 100 illustrations in the text plus 9 maps; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine t.e.g.; light rubbing lower hinge split bookplate of James Mead Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian very good. On safari for lions rhinos crocs elephants etc. Czech Africa p. 126: "Patterson revisits the infamous sites of Tsavo which he describes in his first book then treks into the Nyika or wilderness of British East Africa. Macmillan and C., Limited unknown books
1961réf. 60339London: Oxford University Press 1961. Revised edition 12mo pp. xii 325 1; green publisher's cloth; light toning to edges near fine in a very good slightly creased dust jacket. Oxford University Press unknown books
1963réf. 60620Nairobi: East African Posts & Telecommunications 1963. 4to pp. xxiii 1; 252 20 20; original staple-bound paper wrappers printed in black and red; paper toned wrappers a touch soiled and dogeared text clean very good. Includes yellow pages and a telegraphic address list. British Library only in OCLC. [East African Posts & Telecommunications] unknown books
