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1970rif. 70218Cairo: Cairo Demographic Center 1970. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 352; tables graphs and charts throughout; very good sound and clean in original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Issued as Research Monograph Series No. 1. Cairo Demographic Center unknown books
1956rif. 70217Cambridge: privately printed at the Riverside Press 1956. First edition 8vo pp. 6 122; portrait frontispiece; 14 figures in the text; very good sound and clean copy in original gray cloth-backed black cloth-covered boards gilt-stamped spine. Without a printed dust jacket as issued. A "fascinating account of Egyptian urology from the earliest recorded history to the present time. "The medical school of Alexandria . exerted a profound influence in all the countries of the Near East. The great Byzantine doctors invariably pursued their studies in the capital of Egypt before establishing themselves in Constantinople . Archaeological diggings in the ancient site of Upper Egypt have brought to light many fragments of Greek and Coptic papyrus; we can merely surmise that the studies of the great doctors of Alexandria were known in the country and that the medical works of the Hippocratic school of Galen and of Soranus were read" foreword. privately printed at the Riverside Press unknown books
1998rif. 70528Altenbrege: Oros Verlag 1998. 8vo pp. xx 296 4; text in English translated from the Arabic; white printed paper wrappers; fine. Oros Verlag unknown books
1956rif. 68974Washington D. C.: The Catholic University of America Press 1956. 8vo pp. 16 359 1; text in French; printed gray paper wrappers; wrappers faded at edge and spine text clean and sound near fine. A dissertation for a theology doctorate. The Catholic University of America Press unknown books
1912rif. 68982London: Macmillan and Co 1912. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 202 6 ads; over 70 illustrations tables etc. in the text; original blue gilt-stamped cloth; light wear a few pencil annotations largely in the bibliography at the back all else very good and clean. William Lawrence Gordon Balls 1882-1960 was a British botanist who specialized in cotton picking technology. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and made many practical achievements in cotton botany agronomy and entomology. Macmillan and Co unknown books
1991rif. 69036Cape Town: The Bible Society of South Africa 1991. Nineteenth impression; 7½" x 5½" pp. 1185 3; text in double column on India paper; 3 maps illustrations in the text; original black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; front free endpaper excised else fine. Revised by a committee under the direction of Otto Sarndal. Includes glossary. The Bible Society of South Africa unknown books
1949rif. 69066Paris: Societe d'Editions Geographiques Maritimes et Coloniales 1949. New edition 8vo pp. 860 2; text in double column; contemporary red library cloth; gilt title on spine; ex-library with call number on spine withdrawn stamps back pocket and blacked out stamp on verso of title page text clean and sound good. Societe d'Editions Geographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales unknown books
1966rif. 69277New York London Sydney: John Wiley & Sons 1966. First edition 8vo pp. x 2 674; near fine copy in original blue cloth gilt-stamped spine preserving the original dust jacket with a small chip at the top of the spine. John Wiley & Sons unknown books
1982rif. 69433Casablanca: Sochepress 1982. 6" x 4½" pp. 63 1; large color folding map of Casablanca approx. 31½" x 19½" with index of places of interest to tourists; very good sound and clean in original army green wrappers printed in red and white. Issued in the publisher's Guide Pol series. Sochepress unknown books
1991rif. 68594Bethesda: National Institutes of Health December 1990; revised February 1991. 4to pp. 2 xiv 483 1; printed from typescript; map plus 141 full-page illustrations from photographs; fine in green cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine. Daniel Carleton Gajdusek 1923-2008 was an American physician and medical researcher "who was the co-recipient with Baruch S. Blumberg of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibility of kuru implying the existence of an infectious agent which he named an "unconventional virus." In 1954 after his military discharge he traveled for a year in the Middle East North Africa and Europe. His journals correspondence and photographs were published in 1991 by the National Institutes of Health. "In 1996 Gajdusek was charged with child molestation and after being convicted spent 12 months in prison before entering a self-imposed exile in Europe where he died a decade later" Wikipedia. National Institutes of Health, December 1990; revised February unknown books
1981rif. 68749Worgl: Perlinger 1981. Second edition 4to pp. 275 1; illustrated throughout often in full-page and/or color; full black cloth map endpapers; fine in toned dust jacket with closed tear on upper panel. Perlinger unknown books
1819rif. 67124London: printed for Henry Colburn Conduit Street 1819. 2 volumes 8vo pp. xv 1 375 1; 4 396; folding map 7 hand-colored aquatints; original drab paper-covered boards printed paper labels on spines; light wear; very good and sound. First published in 1816 with 2 fewer aquatints and with the title Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa. Written by the sister-in-law of Richard Tully British Consul at Tripoli between 1783 and 1793. The female members of Tully's family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw's family. Thus the narrative contains a unique insight into the life of the Seraglio. The letters were published from the originals in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw his family and other persons of distinction. Also included are accounts of the domestic matters of the Moors Arabs and Turks. One of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century. "These letters will prove no less important to the political inquirer than amusing to the public at large; laying open much that will materially assist the comprehensive views of the stateman blended with all the rich entertainment that so greatly distinguished the correspondence of Lady Mary Wortley Montague" Preface. See Abbey Travel 299; Blackmer 1682; Tooley 493 for the 1816 edition. printed for Henry Colburn, Conduit Street unknown books
1969rif. 67560New York: Burt Franklin 1969. 2 volumes 8vo pp. viii 324 2; viii 237 3; generally fine in original green cloth gilt-lettered spine. Comprehensive catalogue originally published in 1851 covering voyages travels exploration mythology numismatics law government statistics science literature and languages of countries and cultures in Africa Asia and the East Indies. Burt Franklin unknown books
1907rif. 67546London: Sampson Low Marsden & Co.; Cape Town Port Elizabeth Johannesburg: J. C. Juta & Co 1907. 12mo pp. 24 ads numbered A-X lvi 478 75 ads including rear pastedown; large color folding map 12 other maps 11 folding and 11 in color; tables in the text; original pictorial gray cloth with some spotting the preliminary and terminal ads a bit toned otherwise very good. Sampson, Low, Marsden & Co.; Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Johannesburg: J. C. Juta & Co unknown books
1820rif. 67095London: printed for Edwards and Knibb 53 Newgate-Street 1820. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 144; original blue paper-covered boards tan paper shelfback printed title on spine; boards somewhat soiled spine toned extremities rubbed text clean; good an sound or better. Later inscription on flyleaf "Sir Matthew Nathan from L. A. Barker." Nathan was colonial governor serving in Sierra Leone Gold Coast Hong Kong Natal and Queensland. Contemporary signature on title page of "F. Cotton." "Issued with a view of affording information respecting the country reserved for the 1820 settlers which the editor asserts is not to be found in other works of South Africa" Mendelssohn. Most of the material appeared earlier in Narrative of the Loss of the Ship Hercules 1798 where Stout encountering a gale which rendered the ship unmanageable ran the ship ashore on the African coast. Remarkably all the crew reached the shore safely and the native Caffres were friendly and led the crew to Dutch settlements. Mendelssohn p. 445. printed for Edwards and Knibb, 53, Newgate-Street unknown books
1941rif. 67925Lourenco Marques Maputo: Imprensa Nacional de Mocambique 1941. 8vo pp. 306 2; text in Portuguese; printed paper wrappers; ex-library from the Biblioteca Popular de Lisboa spine split and chipped spine label library stamp on title page and one internal page corner bumped wrappers starting fair. The Chope language is a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique. Imprensa Nacional de Mocambique unknown books
1923rif. 67977London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited 1923. First edition 8vo pp. viii 344; frontispiece portrait 26 plates 2 folding mostly from photographs; original pictorial blue cloth gilt-stamped spine and upper cover; a good sound and clean copy. The Marquess one-time president of the Royal Geographical Society was all over the place on St. Helena in Napoleon's billiard room Victoria Falls Egypt Afghanistan the Hindu Kush Tunisia on the Zambesi Japan China etc. Hodder and Stoughton Limited unknown books
1959rif. 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
1910rif. 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
1926rif. 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
1884rif. 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
1857rif. 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
1964rif. 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
1993rif. 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
1924rif. 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
