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1856réf. 158411856. Burton Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or An Exploration of Harar. 1856. Published in 1856 this narrative records Burton's expedition to Harar a walled Muslim city in present-day Ethiopia that had long prohibited Christian entry and was widely believed to be inaccessible to Europeans. At a moment when British imperial interests and geographic knowledge of East Africa were expanding Burton's account provided one of the earliest sustained English-language descriptions of Somali territories and of Harar as a religious center and nexus within regional trade networks including the slave trade. His journey undertaken after earlier exploration with John Hanning Speke culminated in his detention by the Amir of Harar and a violent attack that left Burton permanently scarred by a javelin wound. The work stands at the intersection of exploration ethnography imperial intelligence gathering and nineteenth-century travel literature. Burton Richard F. First Footsteps in East Africa; or An Exploration of Harar. London: Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1856. First edition. Octavo. 648 pages. Four chromolithographic plates and two maps. Half calf over marbled boards with raised bands and gilt compartments; marbled endpapers and edges; gilt stamp of New South Wales Parliamentary Library to front. Moderate rubbing to boards and joints with small losses to calf; spine crackling and minor loss to gilt; occasional foxing and spot-soiling; lacking one tissue guard; possibly lacking half-title. Text complete and sound. Overall condition very good. unknown books
1824réf. 376899South Afrca 1824. Folio. Very Good a few margin tears 1 closed 2 with holes from seal generally sound some with postmarks. Folio. Report of Arrivals in Simons Bay Cape of Good Hope.which is l on the shores of Simon's Bay in False Bay on the eastern side of the Cape Peninsula. For more than two centuries it has been a naval base and harbour first for the British Royal Navy and now the South African Navy. The town is named after Simon van der Stel an early governor of the Cape Colony. 4 documents. 1823-24. Each SIGNED BY RICHARD WEATHERLEY HARBOR MASTER Report of Arrivals and Departures.Algoa Bay. Port Elizabeth. Eastern Cape SA 6 documents to Captain Francis Evatt important Commandant of Fort Frederick at Port Elizabeth. Each document signed by Evatt. 1824. unknown books
1870réf. 351805Paris 1870. Ink inscription on verso. Spotting in the image the image mounted upside down on the mount. Ink inscription on verso. unknown books
1638réf. 263796Amsterdam 1638. Copper engraved map colored in outline letterpress text on verso Abissinourm et Congi Regna Folios 352-353. 1 vols. Folio map 345 x 495 mm. Outline color. Small repairs to Nubia along old fold chiefly infill of blank areas. Very good. Copper engraved map colored in outline letterpress text on verso Abissinourm et Congi Regna Folios 352-353. 1 vols. Folio map 345 x 495 mm. Hand-colored map from the 1638 edition of the Mercator-Hondius Atlas. Includes frequent references to Amazons and locates "populi Antropophagi" just north of the Congo and Tritons and Sirens in Lake Victoria. Describes Nubia as "olim Christianam" and locates famous biblical queens of the time of Solomon along the banks of the Nile river. May locate the kingdom of Prester John on top of Amara Mons in the center of the map. A beautifully hand-colored map in excellent condition. Koeman I 8720:1A unknown books
1927réf. 318085London: Witherby 1927. First edition. Illus. 280pp. 8vo. Bound in modern three quarter mottled calf and marbled boards Fine. First edition. Illus. 280pp. 8vo. Witherby unknown books
1590réf. 40297N.p. 1590. Image area 19-1/2" x 12-7/8" in 28" x 23" mat. 1 vols. Imperfectly colored along crease down center small and unobtrusive dampstain in one corner. Still a nice piece. Image area 19-1/2" x 12-7/8" in 28" x 23" mat. 1 vols. Abraham Ortelius 1527-98 was a Flemish geographer of German origin. His major work Theatrum Orbis Terrarum 1570 with later revisions and addendums was the first modern atlas. It was based on contemporary charts and maps and contained a collection of plates engraved by Frans Hagenberg in a uniform size and format. The Theatrum preceded the first atlas of Ortelius' good friend Gerardus Mercator. In fact popular sentimental legend has it that Mercator delayed publication of his own work so that his younger friend's would appear first. Although this simply isn't true Mercator wasn't ready the legendary cartographer did complement Ortelius for the "care and elegance" he had put into the Theatrum. unknown books
1963réf. 63163London: Andre Deutsch 1963. First edition 8vo pp. 271 1; frontispiece plus 10 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 4 plates; light spotting on frontispiece and title page else a fine copy in a very good unclipped dust jacket. This copy inscribed by Mboya "To Mr. J. Wayne Fredericks with my personal best wishes and in expression of our appreciation for your interest and active support for Africa's freedom. T. Mboya. 4/3/64." Thomas Joseph Odhiambo Mboya 1930-1969 was "a Kenyan trade unionist educator Pan-Africanist author independence activist and statesman. He was one of the founding fathers of the Republic of Kenya" and he was the first Secretary-General of the Kenya African National Union. "Mboya's role in Kenya's politics and transformation is the subject of increasing interest especially with the prominence of American politician Barack Obama. Obama's father Barack Obama Sr. was a US-educated Kenyan who benefited from Mboya's scholarship program in the 1960s going on to get married during his stay there siring the future Illinois Senator and President. Obama Sr. had seen Mboya shortly before the assassination and testified at the ensuing trial. Obama Sr. believed he was later targeted in a hit-and-run incident as a result of this testimony" Wikipedia. Jacob Wayne Fredericks 1917-2004 was an American businessman and diplomat who served as the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs from 1961 until 1967 and often acted as a liaison with African liberation groups. Andre Deutsch unknown books
1847réf. 22096Paris: A Rene 1847. First Edition. Original printed green wrappers. Very good; untrimmed; text block split in volume 1; large light offset stain to one map; a bit of infrequent smudging. 8vo I - xvi 1 - 580pp. frontispiece 4 plates and a folding map; II - 4 1 - 622 2 - errata pp. 4 plates and a folding map. Delegorgue's parents died when he was young. At the age of 16 he began to sail around Europe northern Africa and the Antilles. As a young man he sailed to the Cape of Good Hope and travelled through southern Africa along with J.A. Wahlberg and F.C.C. Krauss both describing Delegorgue as a "naturalist" aboard the Mazeppa. He made repeated trips to southern Africa in 1841 and in 1842 hunting and collecting artefacts for the museums in Paris and Douai. The book offered here is an account of his three expeditions. The second volume includes a glossary of the Zulu language and catalog of butterflies. Several species have been named from the specimens he collected including the birds Columba delegorguei Coturnix delegorguei. Rookmaaker recounts the confusion around one of the few recorded specimens of the South African "blue bock" the hippotragus leucophaeus that is erroneously attributed to Delegorgue years after it was extinct. See Rookmaaker Zoological Exploration of Southern Africa pp. 259 & 301. A Rene unknown books
1908réf. 52577London: Edward Arnold 1908. First edition 2 volumes 8vo pp. xvi 359 1; xii 388 16 ads; 2 frontispieces 1 gravure one in color folding map printed in color 59 photographic plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spine; some spotting of the covers otherwise very good and sound. Edward Arnold unknown books
1939réf. 72770London: Luzac & Co 1939. 8vo pp. xiv 503 1; full blue cloth; small damp stain on top corner not affecting text near fine. Announced in the preface as the first book in a series of four on the history and culture of modern Egypt but no further titles appear to have ever been published. Luzac & Co unknown books
1912réf. 72979Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern 1912. 8vo pp. viii 2 160; portrait frontispiece and 9 plates from photographs of the Liberian mission; original full green cloth; light rubbing and edgewear owner's signature on free endpaper near fine. Jacob Kenoly was a black American who set out head a mission in Liberia. Methodist Book Concern unknown books
1959réf. 73264Soni: The Vuga Press 1959. 8vo pp. 304; 287 hymns with lyrics in Swahili; full original green cloth; edgewear dime-sized stain on upper board owner's signature on free endpaper text clean and sound; very good. Luther Seminary only in OCLC. The Vuga Press unknown books
1960réf. 73352London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1960. 7" x 4½" pp. 382 2 133 3; original black cloth stamped in gilt on spine; very good sound and clean. On the verso of the title page: "The New Testament and Psalms in Sintebele Tabele." The Ndebele are a Bantu-speaking people of Zimbabwe and the Transvaal of South Africa. U. Cal and the BL only in OCLC. British and Foreign Bible Society unknown books
1931réf. 73360Londres: Société biblique britannique et étrangère 1931. 7" x 4½" pp. 47 1; original limp black cloth stamped in blind edges stained red; near fine. Mamvu is a Central Sudanic language of northeastern Congo. Eleven in OCLC only Stanford and the American Bible Society in the U.S. Société biblique britannique et étrangère unknown books
1956réf. 73351London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1956. 7" x 4½" pp. 456; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; very good sound and clean. The Gbagyi are an ethnic group in central Nigeria. British and Foreign Bible Society unknown books
1956réf. 73333London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1956. First edition of the New Testament in Ndau; 6¾" x 4½" pp. 707 1; text in Ndau throughout; a very good sound and clean copy in original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine edges stained red. Nadu a Bantu language and ethnic group indigenous to south-eastern Zimbabwe. British and Foreign Bible Society unknown books
2006réf. 73332Harare: Bible Society of Zimbabwe 2006. 7½" x 5" pp. 856; 253 1; text in double column an in Shona throughout; generally fine throughout in original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Bible Society of Zimbabwe unknown books
1999réf. 73354Cape Town: UMbutho weBhayibhile woMzantsi-Afrika 1999. Twenty-sixth printing; 7½" x 5¼" pp. 1234; textin double column; original black cloth stampped in gilt on upper cover andspine edges stained red; very good sound and clean. With a presentation from a South African priest dated May 2000 on front free endpaper and a second inscription on the verso undated. Xhosa is an indigenous ethnic group of the Bantu language family native to Southern Africa. UMbutho weBhayibhile woMzantsi-Afrika unknown books
1982réf. 73331Cape Town: Lekgotla la Baebele la Afrika Borwa 1982. Third South African Impression 7¼" x 4¾" pp. 4 7-1039 1; 321 1; text in double column and in Tswana throughout; original black leather stamped in gilt on spine edges stained red; very good sound and clean. The Batswana Tswana are a Bantu ethnic group native to Southern Africa. Lekgotla la Baebele la Afrika Borwa unknown books
1951réf. 73370London: British and Foreign Bible Society 1951. 7¾" x 5¼" pp. 4 797 3; 2 277 7; text in double column; near fine in original black cloth stamped in gilt on spine edges stained red. Small ownership signature at top of front free endpaper. Translated by missionaries of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. About twenty people worked for the most part independently and the whole was edited by S.C. Pixley A.B.C.F.M. II Samuel chapter 18 vv. 24-33 which was omitted from the printing is supplied on p.797. Reprint of the 1883 edition see Darlow and Moule 9844. British and Foreign Bible Society unknown books
1976réf. 73377London: British and Foreign Bible Society. Kaapstad: Bybelgenootskap van Suid-Afrika 1976. 7½" x 5" pp. 527 1; text in double column with Afrikaans and English texts parallel; bookseller rubberstamp at base of front free endpaper and an old inscription on the front pastedown; all else very good sound and clean in original blue cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover. British and Foreign Bible Society. Kaapstad: Bybelgenootskap van Suid-Afrika unknown books
1974réf. 73391New York: Harper and Row 1974. First American edition folio pp. 208; color illustrations throughout; original full brown cloth price-clipped pictorial dust jacket; bookplate of R. Dixon Smith Jr. on front free endpaper dust jacket evenly toned near fine. Harper and Row unknown books
2001réf. 72563Florence: SCALA 2001. Large 4to pp. 571 5; parallel text in English German Dutch and Spanish; illustrated throughout; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. SCALA unknown books
1890réf. 71668London: Royal Geographical Society 1890. 8vo pp. 331-346 i.e. 16 pages; folding color map; extracted from The Proceedings of The Royal Geographical Society and bound in modern blue wrappers printed paper label on upper cover; fine. On October 6 1889 Meyer attempting to summit Kilimanjaro for the third time finally achieved his goal with the Austrian mountaineer Ludwig Purtscheller. This account was read at the Evening Meeting of the RGS April 14 1890. Royal Geographical Society unknown books
2002réf. 70047Lanham and New York: The Derrydale Press 2002. First edition 8vo pp. xii 189 7 blank; 8 pages of illustrations; gray and purple boards; fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on half title page. The Derrydale Press unknown books
