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Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers. Very Good-. 1878. Hardcover. Boards with moderate wear to corners. Mild fraying to spine ends. Hinges have a bit of play. Rear map is torn ; Profusely illustrated and with a rear folding map in color. Detailed account on the early African explorers; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 605 pages .

London: Travel Book Club. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Light wear to tape repaired DJ ; Looking for (and finding! ) wild animals in Eastern Africa; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 249 pages .

London: Hutchinson & Co.. Very Good. Hardcover. Slight wear to extremities. Spine lettering faded ; No date, circa late 1940s. Account of the author's indeed adventurous life, much of which was spent in the navy; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 259 pages .

London: John Lane the Bodley Head. Very Good-. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spines sunned. Soiling/spotting to front boards. Internally a nice and tight copy with some spotting and browning to frontispiece tissue guard. Maps (originally in rear pockets) missing. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xix, 276, xxi, 297 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1948. Hardcover. Boards a bit tanned. Ex-lib with card and pocket on rear pastedown - no other markings. ; Unpaginated (ca. 120 pages). Numerous b&w photographs. A detailed description of Lambarene. Including an essay by Albert Schweitzer: Our Task in Colonial Africa ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Large fold-out map at front. The guide (in Italian) for the then Italian colonies in Africa: Eritrea, Amara, Harar, Addis Abeba, Galla & Sidama, Somalia. "Con 15 carte Geografiche, 16 piante di centri abitati, 10 piante di edifici, schizzi e stemmi"; Guida D'Italia Della Consociazione Turistica Italiana; 12mo - 7" to 7½" tall; 640 pages .

New York: Blue Ribbon Books. Very Good. 1931. Hardcover. Light shelfwear to boards. ; "The Chronicle of the first trans-african journey by motor truck from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Lagos on the Atlantic, Through Central Equatorial Africa". ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 371 pages .

London: Edward Stanford. Very Good. 1895. New Issue. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light marginal wear to a few maps. Vol. 1: Very light toning and foxing to first few pages. ; Green boards with gilt pictorial design and black lettering. Vol. 1: 9 maps and 77 illustrations. Vol. 2: 11 maps and 92 illustrations. ; Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvi, 639, [1]; xvi, 671, [1] pages .

New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679400214 . Light shelfwear to DJ and with one small inkstain ; An incisive and ultimately sad book about endangered wildlife in Africa, the conditions which give rise to poaching, the rampant corruption in government that contributes to the degradation of the environment. With maps in endpapers ; 8vo; 225 pages .

New York: Charles Scribner. Very Good. 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities and with gilt spine lettering fadedEx-lib with minimal markings. Browning to endpapers; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 348 pages .

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0394504186 . A country under the radar of most Westerners, the Sudan of the 70's is here examined ; 8vo; 239 pages .

London: MacMillan and Co.. Very Good+. 1879. New Edition. Hardcover. Binding not tight. Fold-out map and both hinges repaired. Wear to extremities and gutters. Boards faded with discoloration. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper; Author Baker credits Bruce, Speke, Grant, and rather immodestly, himself, for discovering the sources of the Nile. 42-page catalog of other Macmillan books follows main text ; B&W Illustrations; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xxv, pages .

London: Edward Stanford. Very Good. 1886. Second Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Back hinge started. Ex-lib with stamp on half-title page. No other markings. ; Beautiful green boards with gilt lettering and gilt vignette. Linear design in black. Edited by Sir Richard Temple. 12 maps and 73 illustrations. The Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel is based on Hellwald's "Die Erde und Ihre Völker". ; Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxxi, 723, [4] pages .

New York: George H. Doran Company. Very Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. Several pages creased and wrinkled and with a few small tears, but not affecting readability. Previous owner's name carefully printed to front free endpaper ; Meandering and occasionally frustrating account of Crawford's time as a missionary and explorer in Africa. The link with Livingstone is tenuous at best, as the erstwhile explorer died when Crawford was only three years old; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 373 pages .

Norwalk: Easton Press. Near Fine. 1990. Reprint. Hardcover. Color plates. AEG. Satin ribbon ; Roger Tory Peterson Field Guides of the World; 8vo; 415 pages .

New Haven And London: Yale University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ price clipped; "The 24 essays in this volume deal with the Anglo-German colonial rivalry that played such an important part in the "scramble for Africa" and with the subsequent forms of colonial administration that developed after the occupation of Africa by the European powers. (...) "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvii, 825 pages .

New York: Garden City. Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. Spine a bit sunned. Light rubbing to boards. Front hinge weakening. Former owner's name on first blank page ; Green boards. Maps in endpapers. Author Streeter turns his inimitable wit to a journey to Khartoum, to see camels, elephants, buffalo, etc~; B&W Photographs; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 277 pages .

New York: Garden City. Very Good+. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover; Fourth Printing. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly sunned. Bookplate. Edges a bit darkened. Back hinge started; Author Streeter turns his inimitable wit to a journey to Khartoum, to see camels, elephants, buffalo, etc. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 277 pages .

New York: Garden City. Very Good+. 1927. First Edition. Hardcover; Fourth Printing. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spine a bit darkened. Light soiling to back board. Else a handsome copy with binding tight ; Author Streeter turns his inimitable wit to a journey to Khartoum, to see camels, elephants, buffalo, etc. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 277 pages .

Cape Town: Townshend, Taylor, & Snashall. Very Good. 1907. Hardcover. Boards with light shelfwear. ; Still under British rule, South Africa as of 1907 is examined here. Numerous statistics, photos, and maps ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 316 pages .