Search Results: Africa from Rulon-Miller Books

London: Ernest Benn, 1923. First edition, 8vo, pp. 276; 2 folding maps, 80 illustrations on 64 plates; original gray cloth stamped in gilt on spine; generally a very good copy. Czech, Africa, p. 13: "Barns was joined by noted rifle maker Sir Charles Ross on an expedition leaving Mombasa in 1921. The party hunted lion and rhino near the Ngorongoro Crater, then traveled to the Lake Kivu region of the eastern Belgian Congo ... Included among the photos is a snapshot of a poacher named Bowen with an elephant he bagged sporting a pair of tusks at 173 and 176 lbs."

Chicago: Third World Press, 1971. First printing, 8vo, pp. 24; original printed wrappers, light wear at edges, else near fine. Menkiti's first collection of poetry published by Haki R. Madhubuti's Third World Press in 1971 in Chicago.

New York: Books, Inc., distributed by E.P. Dutton, n.d., 1942. 8vo, pp. [iii]-xi, [3], 499, [1]; 101 maps in the text; fine copy in original orange cloth, gilt-stamped spine, in a near fine dust jacket with one shallow chip.

Washington: James C. Dunn [later: American Colonization Society], 1889. An incomplete and disparate run and with a major gap 1851-1870, 88 issues in all, volumes 16-18 in a bound volume but without a front cover, the rest in wrappers; a few wrappers missing, a few defective, a number loose, but present; edge tears, chips, and curls. Condition ranges from fair to very good. Included are volumes 14 (1838), nos. 1-10, 12; volume XV (1839), no.1-3, 5-6, 8-9, 11, 14-18; volume 16 (1840), nos. 1, 4-16, 18, 21, 23-24; volume 17 (1841), nos. 1-8; volume 18 (1842), nos. 3-4, 9-10, 15-18, 20, 22-24; volume 26 (1850), nos. 10-11[big gap]; volume 47 (1871) nos. 1, 11; volume 50 (1874), nos. 1-4, 8-9; volume 51 (1875), no. 2; volume 53 (1876), nos. 2-4; volume 54 (1878), nos. 2-4; volume 57 (1881), nos. 6-8; volume 59 (1883), nos. 3-4; volume 64 (1888), no. 4; volume 65 (1889), nos. 2-4. Much on Liberia, abolition, slavery, the Amistad case, African colonization, African languages, etc. The African Repository and… Read More

Edition limited to 300 copies, 8vo, pp. [2], 30; inserted color portrait of Burton, 7 full-page maps (2 printed in color); fine in original blue wrappers printed in gilt.

San Francisco: Amaranth Press, 1978. Edition limited to 50 numbered copies (this, no. 5), signed by Gentry; folio calendar for 1979, consisting of a title leaf and 12 leaves, one for each month of the year, tabular-bound; each month with an illustration of a Nile animal by Linnea Gentry; generally fine throughout. "The material in this calendar has been adapted from original Egyptian antiquities as identified in their captions."

Paris: Hachette & Cie, 1913. First edition, wrapper issue; small 4to, pp. [iii]-xii, 211, [1]; numerous photographic illustrations on plates and 5 maps in the text; near fine in original pictorial orange wrappers, the spine slightly sunned.

London & 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.

Washington, 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.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1963. First edition, 8vo, pp. 311, [1]; newspaper shadow on pp. 26-7, else a fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with a small scratch on the back panel. This copy inscribed by Modisane "Especially for Wayne Fredericks. Maybe some day I'll show you the site of Sophiatown - and make you an honorary Zulu. Sincerely, Bloke Modisane, London, Sept. 1963." Sophiatown is a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg, South Africa. Modisane (1923-1986) was a South African writer, actor, and journalist. In this, his first book, Modisane "detailed his despair at the bulldozing of Sophiatown (mirroring Can Themba's short story "Requiem for Sophiatown") and his frustration and anger with apartheid. As a result, the book was banned in South Africa in 1966" (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… Read More

London: The London Printing and Publishing Company, n.d., 1853. First edition, 4to, pp. 11, [1], 208; text printed in double column, engraved portrait frontispiece of Sir Ralph Abercrombie by W. Finden after Hoppner; 4 double-page Tallis maps hand-colored in outline with vignette illustrations, of Cape Colony; Natal and Kaffraria; western Africa; and the islands of the Atlantic - Bermuda, Madeira, Azores, and Cape Verde; tables in the text; bound in the publisher's original bright red blind-stamped florally decorated and textured cloth; gilt cover national symbol and title, spine titles gilt and decorated. Binding with some edge wear; maps and text block in very good condition. Pages 1-[12] consist of a list of subscribers and a "Home-Colonial Directory of Manufacturers, Warehousemen, &c." alphabetically organized and with description of good services on offer. The 4 maps are engraved by J. Rapkin. Maps are decorated with vignettes by H. Warren and H. Winkles, engraved by J. Rogers, W. Lacey, G.R.… Read More

New York: Doubleday, Page, and Co, 1910. First edition, American issue; 4to, pp. xix, [1], 233, [1]; map, 140 photographic illustrations by the author on 104 plates; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; extremities rubbed, the text lightly shaken; all else very good. Czech, Africa, p. 53: "Dugmore became famous as a wildlife photographer and naturalist with various titles to his credit. In this impressive volume, he describes his efforts with James L. Clark in photographing big game during a trip across the Athi Plains, eventually arriving at Guaso Nyiro. While his purpose was to photograph animals, there are several hunting incidents concerning rhino and plains game." Published the same year by Heinemann in London.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 330, [6] ads; frontispiece, folding map hand-colored in outline, 8 wood-engraved plates, other wood engravings in the text; fine copy in original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Ibrahim-Hilmy, p. 391 for the London edition of the previous year.

New York: John B. Alden, 1884. First edition, 12mo, pp. 215, [1]; wood-engraved frontispiece portrait; evidence of pocket removal on rear pastedown, label neatly removed from spine, name eradicated from front free endpaper; all else very good and sound.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, 510, 2 (ads); 2 folding maps, 17 wood-engraved plates, 11 wood engravings in the text; a near fine, bright copy in original green cloth, gilt-stamped spine.

Groningae: in aedibus J. B. Wolters, 1909. 8vo, pp. viii, 104; publisher's red cloth stamped in gilt; text lightly toned, else near fine. Of the administration of the Egyptian kōmōn (i.e. Khnum, also Khnemu, ancient Egyptian god of fertility), in the age of the Lagids, the Ptolemaic dynasty sometimes referred to as the Lagid dynasty (after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus), a Macedonian Greek royal dynasty which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period. Their rule lasted for 275 years, from 305 to 30 BC. The Ptolemaic was the last dynasty of ancient Egypt.

Romae: Andree Phaei, 1644. 4to, pp. [18], 93, [1]; engraved vignette title page, 4 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 double-p.), 12 woodcuts in the text (1 hand-colored); bound with, as issued: Romano, De antiquis Romanorum ritibus, Rome, 1644, pp. [10], 95-269, [20]; engraved vignette title page, 10 engraved plates (2 folding, 1 double-p., 2 double-p. and folding), 18 woodcuts in the text; bound with: Romano, De veteribus christianorum ritibus, Rome, 1645, engraved title page, pp. [18], 496, [71]; 6 engraved plates (1 double-p., 1 folding, 1 folding and double-p.), 8 woodcuts in the text; printer's woodcut device on the final leaf; bound in contemporary limp vellum, front hinge broken, the whole rubbed and worn, internally very good. Graesse, p. 59; Ibrahim-Hilmy, p. 120.

New York: Chartwell Books, 2001. First American edition, 4to, pp. 171, [5]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket.

New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1928. First edition, American issue; 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 211, [1]; frontispiece and 41 photographic illustrations on 35 plates, folding table of African languages, folding map inside back cover pocket, 1 drawing in the text; 2 small pressure stamps on title page, else a fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, nearly fine dust jacket.

Glasgow, 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.