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1959réf. 67967Oxford: Oxford University Press 1959. Seventh printing 2 volumes 12mo pp. viii 635 1; 5 viii-ix 1548; lexicon in double column; fine copies in original terracotta cloth gilt-stamped spines and in fine and near fine price-clipped dust jackets. Ownership signature of Durant J. Imboden on front pastedowns. Oxford University Press unknown books
1910réf. 68156Lisboa: Typographia Universal 1910. First edition 8vo pp. 2 128 4; original printed tan wrappers; text and wrappers toned chips out from the spine and small losses at the gutter of the upper wrappers; all else good and sound. Rubberstamp on the upper wrapper from the Geographic Society of Lisboa and an old Portuguese institutional stamp. On the volcanoes of the Cape Verde Islands. Four in OCLC all in Europe. Typographia Universal unknown books
1926réf. 68193New York & London: Harper & Brothers 1926. First edition 8vo pp. xlviii 288; frontispiece 7 plates; original maroon cloth stamped in gilt and blind; fine copy preserving a very good original unclipped dust jacket with a slightly soiled spine. Pierre du Jarric 1566-1617 was a French Catholic missionary writer from Toulouse whose Histoire des choses plus memorables advenues tant ez Indes orientales 1608-14 "gives a comprehensive picture of the missionary enterprises of the Jesuits up to 1610 chiefly within the sphere of Portuguese interests" Wikipedia. Payne concentrates here on the chapters relating to the three Jesuit missions sent from Goa in 1580 1690 and 1594 to Akbar's court at Lahore. Part of the Broadway Travellers series edited by Sir E. Denison Ross and Eileen Power. Harper & Brothers unknown books
1884réf. 68266Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder 1884. First edition 8vo pp. xi 1 236 2; folding map color frontispiece 12 plates 2 folding plus other illustrations in the text; original decorated pictorial brown cloth stamped in gilt and black; old institutional rubberstamp on half-title otherwise a very good clean sound copy. Friedrich Heinrich Emanuel Kayser 1845-1927 was a German geologist and palaeontologist. Herder unknown books
1857réf. 68312New York: A. O. Moore agricultural book publisher late C. M. Saxton & Co. No. 140 Fulton Street 1857. First edition 8vo pp.xii 2 15-350 12 A. O. Moore ads; wood-engraved frontispiece 1 wood-engraved plate numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown cloth gilt-stamped spine; text moderately foxed top of spine chipped spine a little dull front free endpaper excised; a good sound copy. Several ownership signatures of Eddy Wilson on endpapers. Part 2 p. 191-228 has special title page: The Zulu-Kaffir imphee or "sweet reed" the Holcus Saccharatus of Linnaeus : comprising a description of its numerous varieties its mode of cultivation and the manufacture of sugar and other products from its rich saccharine juice / by Leonard Wray. A. O. Moore, agricultural book publisher, (late C. M. Saxton & Co.) No. 140 Fulton Street unknown books
1964réf. 68323Lagos: Bible Societies in West Africa 1964. Separate pagination for the O.T. and N.T. with a separate title page for the N.T.; 8vo pp. iii 1 5-832; iii 1 5- 254; text in double column; original black cloth gilt-stamped spine; front hinge reglued light wear very good. Wikipedia notes that the Hausa are a native ethnic group in West Africa. They speak the Hausa language which is the second most spoken language after Arabic in the Afro-Asiatic language family. Bible Societies in West Africa unknown books
1993réf. 66130New York San DiegoLondon: Harcourt Brace & Company 1993. First edition small 4to pp. 8 373 1; map endpapers color frontispiece several illustrations throughout the text; fine copy in a fine unclipped jacket. Errata slip laid in as issued. Harcourt Brace & Company unknown books
1924réf. 67224New York: French Bureau of Information 1924. 4to 12 numbers complete pp. 286 4 lacking the final leaf of text on all numbers starting with no.4 likely classifieds and subscription form; 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 good. Each issues is largely comprised of short reports on economics and trade across the French empire. French Bureau of Information unknown books
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
