Search Results: Africa & South America from Lawrence Jones

Pietermaritzburg: P. Davis & Sons, 1888. 2 volumes-complete. HEAVY. Contemporary green cloth with title and device of NSW Library of Parliament in gilt. Minor flecking to cloth, light foxing to page edges. Ex-parliamentary library with expected stamps. A very nice set of this compendium of Natal (South African) history to the middle of the 19th century. Quite a lot of material on the Zulus including Dingaan and Chaka. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1958. 224pp, 40 bw ills, map. Or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped, faded on spine with several small chips. Bookseller label to front pastedown. 20000 miles (30000km) in a small car through the jungles of Africa with a camera-plenty of adventures along the way. The journey takes in Belgian Congo, Tanganyika, Uganda, Bechuanaland, the Rhodesias, Mozambique, French Equatorial Africa and the north of South Africa in a circuitous and winding route.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Sao Paulo, Brazil: Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo, 1996. HEAVY. 237pp, num col ills. Pictorial glossy boards, no jacket. SLight fading to spine, a couple of tiny scuffs to rear edge of spine. The collection of the Sao Paulo Municipal Art museum. Text mainly in Portuguese with a section in English at rear.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Oblong 4to.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1923. xv, 256pp, bw ills. Or brown cloth with vignette of lion pride in black to front/title and stork in gilt to spine, no jacket. Prev owner bookplate (with name blacked out) on front pastedown, small bookseller label on front pastedown. Light toning to endpapers, some foxing to page edges. A very nice copy. Observations of South East African wildlife translated from the Afrikaans.. First English Language Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: The Travel Book Club., 1955. 249pp, index, bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Endpapers toned. Jacket torn and chipped with 2/3rds of spine panel lacking. Packed with great stories of hunting and filming wildlife in East Africa. Includes Tanganyika, Kenya, Congo.. Book Club. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1922. 359pp, bw ills. Or pictorial green cloth, no jacket. Prev owner small label inside front cover, even toning to page edges, spine a little faded. Travels in South America including Peru and travel down the Amazon.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. vii, 292pp, end-paper maps. Prev owner's name at the centre of the front flyleaf (map affected). Fore-edge uncut. Blue cloth boards, silver titles on the front board and on the spine. The author gives an 'airplane-view of the republics and most of the colonies which fringe and dot the Caribbean'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1971. xvii, 336pp, index, bibliography, glossary, bw ills, tables. Or red cloth in jacket. Prev owner name etc on front free endpaper. Split in rear spine fold of jacket, jacket spine faded. The Afipko village-group consists of 22 closely related villages among the Igbo peopel of Nigeria and presents a highly complex system of social groupings ranging from the basic patrilineal clan to the village-group as a whole. The author analyses the organisational forms of their society, defines the chains of authority and examines the question of individual leadership.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo.

London: Allen Lane, 1982. 336 pages, 24 pages of b/w illustrations, glossary, bibliography, index. Spine slightly cocked. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. Based upon 'the explorers' letters and diaries and the printed records of their journeys, the book provides an illuminating impression of the continent and its inhabitants as they appeared to Europeans before the age of colonialism changed both for ever'.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1983. 336pp, index, bibliography, maps, bw ills. Or blue boards with blue cloth spine in jacket. Front flap creased, spine slightly faded. An excellent overview of early African exploration. Using letter. diaries and printed records of Mungo Park, James Bruce, Richard Burton, John Speke, Livingstone, Stanley and others the author gives a gripping account of the search for the sources of the Nile, NIger, Congo and other rivers of Africa. Also presents a fascinating picture of the slave trade, desert nomads, canibals, pygmies and wild animals. An illuminating view of pre-colonial Africa.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Harare, Zimbabwe: Tutorial Press, 1994. 143pp, index, bibliography, num col photographs, bw sketches, maps, diagrams. Blue boards in jacket. Lightest of edge wear to jacket. The history of the falls, natural history and people of the region-with stunning photographs.. Revised Editio, Fourth Printing.. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Norton, Larry (sketches). 4to.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980. Reprint. 304 pages, maps, reading guide, index. Pictorial card cover. The author recreates the story of the long exploitation of men, women, and children, captured, bought, or kidnapped from Africa by European slave traders to labor in the mines and on the plantations of the western hemisphere and it simpact on African history, especially the colonial era.. Revised and Expanded Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Trade Paperback.

New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, 1991. 120pp, index, further reading, appendix, num full page col plates. Or brown cloth in jacket. Near new. The art of a wide variety of African peoples from across the continent ranging from hair to gold and ivory; basic secular tiems such as hats and basket to signifiers of prestige such as headdresses and masks; religious and oracular obects and more.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.

Washington D.C.: Department of the Navy., 1956. HEAVY. 1099pp, bibliography, appendices, bw ills, maps. Or pictorial card. Front cover splitting at spine (approx 1/2), silverfishing to cover, crude label at top front corner, prev owner name on title page. Massive volume on Sudanese ticks by the head of Department of Medical Zoology, US Naval Research Unit No 3, Cairo. Includes preliminary reviews of 3 genera (Boophilus, Margaropus and Hyalomma).. First Edition. Soft Cover. Good. 4to.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. xxx, 356pp, index, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. As new. Facsimile edition appearing as Volume 1 in the Library of African Adventure series. Selous is acknowledged as one of the greatest of the African big game hunters. This book was originally written and published at the request of Teddy Roosevelt.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Caldwell, E.. 8vo.

New York: Dover Publications, 1971. xxiv, 203pp, 200 bw plates (378 ills), map, bibliography, sources. Minor edge wear to card covers. Dover original publication presenting 378 African designs sourced from the work of the Ndebele, Ashanti, Zulu, Masai, Bushongo, Mangbetu, Bariba, Toma, Baule and other tribal traditions. Designs from carved ivory, helmet masks, wooden combs, altar slabs, shields, textiles, wall and doors are shown and identified as to their original use.. First Dover Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 1991. 225pp, endpaper maps. Or white papered boards with olive cloth spine, in jacket. Jacket price clipped with very slight edge weat and slightest of fading to spine. Matthiessen shares his journeys in Africa over many years, and shows us vanishing worlds. Along the way we are made aware of the human lives oppressed by bankrupt political regimes and threatened by the ravaging of land and wildlife.. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute., 1965. xii, 251pp, index, bibliography, folding map, appendices. Or blue cloth in jacket. Slight edge wear to cloth, jacket shipped at head of spine. Minor edge wear and light toning to jacket. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1980. 304pp, index, map. Or card. Near new. From the 15th to the 19th century perhaps 50 million men, women and children were captured, bought or kidnapped from Africa by European slave traders to labour in mines and plantations of the western hemisphere. . Revised & Expanded Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990. Foreword by David Hisking. 227pp, illustrated throughout in full colour, distribution maps, appendix, glossary, indexes: general, common names, scientific names, tinted end-papers. Or cloth boards with lightly worn corners, in dust-jacket. While the photographers capture the essence of each of 82 species of African raptors, the text conveys a strong plea for the preservation of these spectacular and environmentally valuable animmals.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to.