Search Results: Titles starting with N from Michael Graves-Johnston

Oxford: [no publisher], 1981 Wrpps, 8vo. ii,83pp. errata slip, biblio. Containing five papers by Andrzejewski, James, Pankhurst, Selassie and Wainwright. With Selassie's signature to the front-endpaper. A very nice signed copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O]

Oxford: [no publisher], 1981 Wrpps, 8vo. ii,83pp. errata slip, biblio. Containing five papers by Andrzejewski, James, Pankhurst, Selassie and Wainwright. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O]

Pamyatniki Armyanskoi Epigrafiki 1. S 3 Autotipicheskimi talitsami. Izdanie Anieskago Muzeya Drevnostei. Petrograd: Tipografia Imperatorskoi Academii Nauk, 1914 Wrpps, Imp.4to. iii,6pp. 3 plates On Armenian inscriptions in the Marmaschen monastry. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's printed grey wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[ ]

Helsinki: Museovirasto 1979 Wrpps, 8vo. 209pp. 158 illustrations, maps, biblio. With summary and captions in English. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O]

By a man of the world, (Phillips, Charles, 1787-1859.) London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1854 Sewn as issued, 8vo. 35pp. Extremities rather dusty and chipped. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[ ]

Illustrated by two maps, sixteen etchings, and twenty-eight wood-cuts. London: Hamilton, Adams and Co., and York: John L. Liney, 1844 8vo. xvi,648,lvi pp. 16 plates, 28 text-illustrations, 2 folding maps (1 with the route marked in red), appendix. James Backhouse (1794 - 1869) Quaker missionary and botanist spent three months touring Mauritius and approximately a year and a half in South Africa visiting missions, schools, hospitals and prisons. Careful repair to inner margin of title page, faint stain to upper margin of plates, the spine rebacked retaining the original backstrip (now rather worn and faded), a nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's dark green blindstamped cloth with most of the tissue guards to the plates still in place. [Mendelssohn: I: 62]. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless… Read More

By R. De May, Captain of the said regiment. London: Printed for Sir Richard Phillips and Co., 1819 Disbound, 8vo. 28pp. A very nice copy of the first edition. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[ ]

In two volumes. London: Chapman and Hall, 1853 Later binder's dark green cloth, Cr.8vo. (1). xxviii,343pp. (2). viii,359pp. folding map, appendix. James Richardson (1806-1851) was an English traveller in Africa and an anti-slavery campaigner. This is the account of the author's third expedition published posthumously. He travelled from Tripoli in the company of the German explorers Barth and Overweg. After crossing the Sahara and reaching Zinder, he died shortly after leaving the town on 4th March 1851. Small "Withdrawn" stamps of the H.M. Stationary Office on each half title, a very good set of the first edition in a dark green cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new… Read More

with illustrations of the Geology, Mineralogy, and Zoology. By Hugh Murray, Professor Jameson, and James Wilson. With a map, plans of the route of Park, and of Denham and Clapperton: and thirteen engravings by Branston. Fifth Edition. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, nd. [circa 1845] Olive green calf, Cr.8vo. 472pp. 13 illustrations, 3 maps ( 1 folding,) index. The first edition of this famous compilation was published at Edinburgh in 1799 by John Leyden, and Hugh Murray the geographer assisted in later editions and re-issues. As a eighteenth century moral philosopher Leyden was more interested in the manners and customs of the Africans rather than the achievements of travellers, and the book reflects this ethnological interest. During the first half of the nineteenth century, this became one of the most influential books on Africa, published in French as well as English editions, the last edition being published in 1853. Spine rubbing to head, a very nice copy in a contemporary green calf with… Read More

Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 87, No. 5. City of Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, 1932 Wrpps, Med.8vo. ii,13pp. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B]

With a map and appendices. Published with the sanction of her Majesty's Government. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street., 1856 Med.8vo. xvi,456pp. frontispiece, title vignette, folding plan, folding map by Arrowsmith, appendices. "...the British Government collaborated with MacGregor Laird in a third attempt to penetrate the Niger from the sea. Baikie's expedition explored the Niger and Benue during 1854. But the most remarkable fact about Baikie's expedition was that none of its members lost their lives;..." - [J. D. Fage: A History of West Africa] The spine rebacked in a matching cloth retaining the original backstrip, armorial bookplate of Walter Howard Wilkin, a nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's blind stamped dark blue cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless… Read More

S 36 risunkami v tekstirle i kartoiu Ussuriiskago kraia. [Our Far East (Three years in Ussurii Country). With 36 figures in the text and the map of the Ussuri region.] S.-Peterburg: Izd. A. F. Devriena, 1897 Half calf, 8vo. xi,468pp. 36 illustrations, folding map. A description by the Russian traveller and researcher Dmitry I. Schreider of the Ussuri River Region between Russia and China including Vladivostok and of the various ethnic inhabitants of the Russian Maritime Province. He describes Russia's migration and resettlement policies with regard to China and particularly the relationships between the Russians and the Chinese workforce who are mostly immigrants from the Chinese Empire. The Ussuri River flows north and forms part of the Sino-Russian border which is based on the Sino-Russian treaty of 1860, until it joins the Amur River as a tributary at Khabarovsk. Old cyrillic signature to head of half title, spine slightly rubbed, rubbing to fore-edge of upper board resulting in a… Read More

Oxford: Clarendon, 1987 8vo. 320pp. 8 plates, biblio., index, dw. A signed presentation copy from the author with an accompanying letter. A very nice signed copy of the first edition in the publisher's cloth with the dust-wrapper. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O]

Catholic International Outlook, 195 - 196. London: Sword of the Spirit, nd. [1959] Wrpps, 8vo. In two volumes. (1). The Congo and the Union. 24pp. (2). Pan-Africanism: East and West. 25pp. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's wrappers. [B15] We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B]

Educational Research Series No. 46. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1936 Wrpps, 8vo. 179pp. frontispiece and 8 plates, map, biblio. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's grey wrappers. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[ ]

Translated by Alice Werner. London: Sir Issac Pitman, 1909 Binder's maroon buckram, Med.8vo. xxiv,431pp. 4 colour plates, numerous monochrome illustrations, index. The English translation of the first edition, an ex-library copy with the occasional ink stamp in the margins, rebound in maroon buckram. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B]

In two volumes. Bureau of International Research Harvard University and Radcliffe College. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1928 Roy.8vo. x,1101pp. 2 maps, index, biblio. (1). xiii,1045pp. 3 maps (1 colour folding). (2). x,1101pp. 2 maps, biblio., appendices, index. The author spent fifteen months visiting the countries of sub-Saharan Africa as well as the European capitals responsible for their administration. "The purpose of this report is to set forth ther problems which have arisen out of the impact of primitive peoples with an industrial civilization, and to show how and to what extent these problems are being solved by the governments concerned." Despite the slightly unfortunate title this remains probably the foremost and most important survey of the continent in the inter war period. Spine rubbed and worn, a nice set of the first edition in the publisher's dark blue cloth with the signature of the historian Richard Paves to the front endpaper. We have been selling… Read More

Cape Town: Argus Printing and Publishing Company, 1918 Contemporary brown cloth with original colour-printed front wrapper bound-in, 8vo. xi,252pp. colour frontispiece and numerous illustrations, erratum and addendum slips tipped in. Charles Lindsay Temple (1871-1929) was acting governor and, after the amalgamation in 1914, lieutenant-governor of Northern Nigeria. From the library of Sir Frederick William Cavendish-Bentinck, 8th Duke of Portland, with his book-plate. A very nice copy of the first edition. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are… Read More

A Copious Selection of Passages for the Study of Social Anthropology from the Manuscript Notebooks of Sir James George Frazer. Arranged and Edited from the MSS. by Robert Angus Downie. London: Percy Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd., 1939 4to. vii,390pp. 4 maps, index, dw. Frazer's compilation of anthropological data from numerous sources chiefly written during the nineteenth century, a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's blue cloth with the dustwrapper. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice.… Read More

London: MacMillan and Co., 1914 8vo. xx,516pp. + 2pp. advertisements, 36 plates of art and artifacts, (8 coloured), 92 further illustrations on plates, several text-illustrations, folding map, index, t.e.gilt. A little rubbing to head and tail of spine, a good copy of the first edition in the publisher's green cloth from the Tylor Anthropology Library of the University of Oxford with their bookplate, spine stamp in gilt and neat inkstamp to title and half-title. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may… Read More