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Algiers Illustrated
by Wrigley, M.
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1889
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£323.36
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London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12.5" x 9.5", in original cloth boards with title in gilt, later contrasting cloth spine and corners. Some abrasion to edges of boards, foxing to title page and a few tissue guards; binding tight, plates clean. Includes very brief introductory text ("These views of Algiers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Morocco From a Motor [INSCRIBED]
by Vernon, Paul E.
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- Used - Very good
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- very good
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- First Edition
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- 1927
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£202.10
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London: A. & C. Black, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 9" x 6.5", 184 pp, with index, folding map, and 48 color plates. A handsome copy in publisher's pictorial cloth and matching dust jacket, inscribed on the front free endpaper "To W.S. Hallett with all good wishes, Paul E. Vernon Jan 9/31." Very light bump to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Au Pays de Palmiers
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£161.68
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Bruxelles: O. De Rycker. Softcover. very good-. Undated, ca. 1924. 8.25" x 5.5", [26] pp, with many half-tone photographs, in illustrated stapled wrappers. Light dust soiling, text block detached from wrappers, otherwise very good. A rare promotional booklet for Huileries du Congo Belge (HCB), a subsidiary of the British soap manufacturing company Lever Brothers. The French-language text describes the… Read more about this item Item Price
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West African Studies
by Kingsley, Mary H.
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1901
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- Hardcover
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£68.71
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London: Macmillan, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition, with additional chapters. xxxii, 507 pp + 4 pp ads. Index, frontis portrait, 27 plates from photographs, folding map of Tropical West Africa. Foxing to front matter, small stain on spine, else clean and sound. No dust jacket. Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was an English ethnographer, writer, and explorer whose… Read more about this item Item Price
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Simen, Its Heights and Abysses. A Record of Travel and Sport in Abyssinia, with Some Account of the Sacred City of Aksum and the Ruins of Gondar
by Maydon, H.C.
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1925
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£242.52
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London: H.F. & G. Witherby, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 244 pp, with frontispiece, 11 plates, an attractive folding "Sketch Plan of the N.E. Face of the Simen Escarpment," and five full-page maps in the text. Bound in original green cloth. Old dampstain visible at rear joint and on rear endpapers (only), upper corners bumped, bookplate of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Ghanaian's Image of the Missionary, An Analysis of the Published Critiques of Christian Missionaries by Ghanaians, 1897-1965
by Mobley, Harris W.
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- Used - Near fine
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- 1970
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- Hardcover
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£40.42
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Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1970. Hardcover. Near fine. 180 pp, with index and bibliography. Boards very slightly bowed, else fine. No dust jacket. Includes a brief history of Christian missions in Ghana, followed by extensive analysis of 20th century critiques of those missions. Item Price
£40.42
Constitutions and Bye-Laws of the Grand Lodge and Subordinate Lodges of the Independent Order of Good Templars with Amendments to August 1890
by Grand Lodge of Western South Africa
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- 1890
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- Softcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£36.38
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Capetown: Grand Lodge of Western South Africa, 1890. Softcover. Good. 4-3/4 x 7-1/4" sewn printed peach-colored wraps, pp. 38 plus an errata slip tipped in, the recto of the rear wrap with the membership form filled out in ink (see below). Covers moderately worn, with chips out at the sewing points on the spine, a few small chunks… Read more about this item Item Price
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A History of South Africa
by Walker, Eric A.
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- Used - Good
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- First Edition
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- 1928
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£24.25
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London: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xii, 623 pp, with 12 maps (2 colored), select bibliography, index. Very light general wear to boards, some offsetting and previous owner's label on endpapers, contents clean, binding sound. No dust jacket. Includes chapters on Dutch occupation, colonization, Parliament and Volksraad, unification, and other topics. Item Price
£24.25
Sorcerers' Village
by Davis, Hassoldt; Davis, Ruth (Photography)
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- Used - Very Good
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- First Edition
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- 1955
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£14.55
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New York, NY; Boston, MA: Duell, Sloan, and Pearce; Little, Brown, and Co, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. x, 334 + illustrations, with map. Spine is lightly sunned; light wear to boards; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Davis' account of his expeditions to Africa including tales of cannibalism, sacrifice, Genii, and magic. Item Price
£14.55
The Land and Life of Africa
by Wrong, Margaret
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1935
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£12.13
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London: Edinburgh House Press, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 144 pp + illustrations front photographs, bibliography, index, folding map of Africa. Light shelf wear, "Colorado Christian Woman's Missionary Society" written on front pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. "An effort has been made to let Africans speak for themselves. They do not all speak with… Read more about this item Item Price
£12.13
Through Central Africa for the Bible
by Roome, Wm. J.W.
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£16.17
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New York: Fleming R. Revell Company. Hardcover. Good. Undated, but Preface dated 1929. 208 pp + illustrations from photographs, map, frontispiece. "This is just a story! It is not a history, or a survey! It is the 'Log of the Lingua,' the Bible Society's motor that tours East and Central Africa" (foreword). Front hinge cracked; light soiling to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Nine Great Africans
by Niven, Sir Rex
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- Used - Near fine
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- near fine
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- First Edition
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£20.21
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London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. xiv, 174 pp, with principal dates, index. "Here are chiefs, kings, poor scholars and soldiers. Sir Rex Niven writes of them and of their achievements with the humanity and deep understanding bred of his own long experience of Africa and her affairs" (dust jacket). Light… Read more about this item Item Price
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Living Africa, A Geologist's Wanderings Through the Rift Valleys
by Willis, Bailey
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- Used - Very good
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- First Edition
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- 1930
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- Hardcover
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£20.21
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New York: Whittlesey House, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. xv, 320 pp, with color frontispiece, index, illustrations (from photos and drawings by the author), maps (one folding). Short tear in cloth along rear joint at head of spine, paper cracked over front hinge, occasional penciled lines in the margine; else sound and clean. No dust jacket.… Read more about this item Item Price
£20.21
David Livingstone, Family Letters 1841-1856, Volume Two, 1849-1856
by Livingstone, David; Schapera, I. (editor, Introduction)
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- Used - Near fine
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- very good
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- First Edition
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- 1959
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£16.17
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 320 pp, with references, index, map. Offsetting from dust jacket to front endpaper, else a fine copy. Dust jacket is price clipped; rear panel lightly soiled. "David Livingstone's letters are the most important source of information about his activities, beliefs and opinions. The present collection, drawn… Read more about this item Item Price
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Into Morocco
by Loti, Pierre
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- Used - Near fine
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- First Edition
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- 1889
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- Hardcover
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£121.26
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New York: Welch, Fracker Company, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo, 343 pp, illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt, image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities, a few pages chipped at the upper edge, else fine. Loti traveled from… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wanderings in West Africa from Liverpool to Fernando Po
by A F.R.G.S. [Burton, Richard Francis]
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- 1863
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- Hardcover
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Chehalis, Washington, USA
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£1,616.80
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London: Tinsley Brothers, 1863. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes in the rarest binding state (without Burton's name or FRGS on the spines), but with a "second edition" slug on the title pages. This state was apparently unknown to Penzer and was probably the result of an attempt to boost sales by the publisher, as the text is unchanged.… Read more about this item Item Price
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Three Years of War in East Africa
by Buchanan, Angus
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- Used - Fine
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- 1969
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- Hardcover
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- 9780837120263
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£32.34
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New York: Negro universities Press, 1969. Hardcover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the 1919 edition. xxi, 247 pp, with index, illustrations, folding map. Brown cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Clean, tight, unmarked. No dust jacket. Item Price
£32.34
British East Africa, 1856-1963, An Annotated Bibliography
by Ofcansky, Thomas P.; Casada, James A. (Introduction)
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- Used - Fine
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- First Edition
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- 1985
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- Hardcover
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£121.26
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New York: Garland Publishing, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Series: Themes in European Expansion: Exploration, Colonization, and the Impact of Empire. 474 pp, indexed. Lists 3089 items. The first attempt to compile a comprehensive bibliography of English and foreign-language pamphlets and books pertaining to British East Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, and Zanzibar). Includes sections on each country, as… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Banyankole. The Second Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa [AND] The Bagesu and other Tribes of the Uganda Protectorate, The Third Part of the Report of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition to Central Africa
by Roscoe, John
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- Used - Near Fine
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- 1968
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- Hardcover
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£20.21
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Gregg Press, 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine. Two volumes in one, reprints of the 1923 and 1924 Cambridge editions. 176; 205 pp, with folding maps and illustrations; both volumes indexed. Light dust soil to fore edge, else a fine copy in the original green cloth. No dust jacket. Item Price
£20.21
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The Mission: Or, Scenes in Africa Written for Young People [Two Volumes in One]
by Marryat, Captain [Frederick]
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- Used - Very Good
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- 1865
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- Hardcover
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£40.42
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New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. Two volumes in one: 179; 198 pp, plus publisher's ads. Frontispiece of a hippo bathing in the Nile. Original green cloth, with blind-stamped decoration and faded gilt lettering on the spine. Corners and spine ends rubbed, evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding sound, text clean,… Read more about this item Item Price
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