Africa
Mandoa, Mandoa! A comedy of irrelevance
New York: Macmillan Co., 1933. First American edition, 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 393, [1]; fine copy in original green cloth stamped in brown on upper cover and spine, near fine dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine. A novel concerning the "imaginary principality in the center of Africa, untouched by..... More
French enterprise in Africa, The personal narrative of Lieut. Hourst of his exploration of the Niger
London: Chapman and Hall, 1898. First English edition, pp xvi, 520; with illustrations, index, folding map. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Corners bumped and rubbed, mild wear to bottom edge, very good. Hourst explored the Niger from Timbuktu to the sea on behalf of the French government, adding much..... More
Rensegnements divers et compte rendu de l'assemblee generale du 13 Mars 1949
Brussels: INCIDI, [1949]. 8vo, pp. [8], 326, [2]; text in French with some portions in parallel English text; green paper wrappers; wrappers sunned with a few stains, corner bumped, clean and sound, very good. Previously the International Colonial Institute, the INCIDI was a collection of independent "distinguished citizens" to "facilitate..... More
Early days in East Africa ... With a foreword by Lord Cranworth
London: Edward Arnold and Co., 1930. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xv, [1], 399, [1]; 16 plates and a folding map; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine; extremities rubbed, a few spots to the covers, all else very good and sound. More
Narrative of discovery and adventure in Africa, from the earliest ages to the present time: with illustrations of the geology, mineralogy, and zoology
New York: Harper & Bros. 1842. Stereotyped edition, 12mo, pp. 359, [1]; folding map, wood-engraved half-title, 9 wood-engraved plates and maps, plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; near fine. Issued as no. 16 in the Harper's Family Library series. More
The Kilima-njaro expedition: a record of scientific exploration in eastern Equatorial Africa, and a general description of natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilama-njaro district
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1886. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 338; xv, [1], 572, 36 (ads); gravure frontispiece portrait, wood-engraved vignette title page, 6 maps (2 folding, some in color), 14 plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black, white and gilt..... More
Inscribed by the first president of Zambia
A humanist in Africa. Letters to Colin Morris
[London]: Longmans, [1966]. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 136; fine copy in a near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Introduction by Colin M. Morris. This copy inscribed by Kaunda "To Wayne Fredericks in grateful thanks for this long-standing firm relationship. K. 6/4/67." Kaunda was the leader of the Northern Rhodesia's United..... More
Phonologies of Asian and Africa (including the Caucasus)
Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1997. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxi, [1], 552; xii, [2], 555-1041, [1]; decorative laminate boards; fine. "The goal of this publication is to provide a summary of what is currently known about the phonology of selected Asian and African languages ... in an informative..... More
In a custom binding for Henry Arthur Johnstone
The far interior: a narrative of travel and adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the lake regions of Central Africa
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Livingston, 1887-86. Second edition of volume I, first edition of volume II; 2 volumes 8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 316; viii, [2], 318; mounted albumen frontispiece portrait by H. S. Mendelssohn, folding map printed in color, 20 wood-engraved plates, plus other wood engravings in the..... More
Digging for lost African gods. The record of five years archaeological excavation in North Africa ... with notes and translations by Edgar Fletcher Allen
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1926. First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 369, [1]; pictorial endpapers, frontispiece and 42 plates; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; near fine throughout. Lacking the map which apparently is not found in all..... More
On the backwaters of the Nile: studies of some child races of central Africa ... and a preface by Peter Giles...
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. First edition, 8vo, pp. [6], ix-xxiv, 295, [1]; folding map and 56 photographic illustrations on 48 plates; light wear at the extremities, especially the lower corners and very slight cracking at the top of the spine; original blue pictorial cloth..... More
Groot woordeboek Afrikaans-Engels / English-Afrikaans
Pretoria: J. L. Van Schaik, 1968. Tenth edition, 8vo, pp. 1340; text in two columns; green cloth gilt; light bumping and edgewear, text clean and sound, very good. More
Kenya ... with an introduction by Professor Gilbert Murray
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition, 8vo, pp. 409, [1], [4] Hogarth Press ads; frontispiece map; original terracotta cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine slightly sunned, else very good and sound. Woolmer 48. More
The last journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa. From eighteen hundred and sixty-five to his death. Continued by a narrative of his last moments and sufferings, obtained from his faithful servants Chuma and Susi, by Horace Waller...
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. First American edition, 8vo, pp. 541, [1], 6 (ads); portrait frontispiece, double-page color map, large folding color map in back cover pocket, 20 wood-engraved plates, 25 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; lightly..... More
Central Africa: naked truths of naked people. An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, west of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile) ... Illustrated from Col. Long's own sketches
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..... More
Discovery of lakes Rudolf and Stefanie: a narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's exploring & hunting expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888 ... Translated by Nancy Bell (N. D'Anvers)
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xx, 435, [1]; xii, 397, [1]; 2 large folding color maps (both with short tears near the stubs, the second incorporating 3 inset maps), 179 illustrations in the text, a number full-page; contemporary full red polished calf, gilt..... More
The rise of our East African empire: early efforts in Nyasaland and Uganda
Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1893. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xix, [1], 563, [1]; gravure frontispiece portrait, 13 maps, 9 in color (5 folding, 2 in cover pockets), 2 other maps in the text, 54 plates, 75 illustrations in the text; Geography Prize bookplate in vol..... More
Nile control. A statement of the necessity for further control of the Nile to complete the development of Egypt and develop a certain area in the Sudan, with particulars of the physical conditions to be considered and a programme of the engineering works involved
Cairo: Government Press, 1920. 2 volumes, folio, pp. ix, [7], 262; volume II is a portfolio containing 16 loose folding plates, plans, surveys and maps (some in color); folding color frontispiece map in volume I, 7 tables (6 folding), numerous tables and graphs in the text; original printed green paper-covered..... More
The British colonies. The British possessions in Africa Div. VII [spine title]
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..... More
Zur anthropologie der buschmänner
Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1926. 4to, pp. [1], 436 535, [2]; text illustrations and four plates, text in German. An offprint from Erich Kaiser, Die diamantenwuste sudwestafrikas Bd. II, S. 436-490. Printed paper wrappers; wrappers soiled and chipped on spine and ends, light crease to plates, text clean and sound. Martin's..... More
Deserts idle
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...... More
Known to Obama, Sr.
Freedom and after
[London]: Andre Deutsch, [1963]. First edition, 8vo, pp. 271, [1]; frontispiece, plus 10 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 4 plates; light spotting on frontispiece and title page, else a fine copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. This copy inscribed by Mboya "To Mr. J. Wayne Fredericks..... More
Decoding Egyptian hieroglyphs. How to read the secret language of the pharaohs ... Foreword by Joann Fletcher
New York: Chartwell Books, [2001]. First American edition, 4to, pp. 171, [5]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine, unclipped dust jacket. More
Secret sculptures of Komo: art and power in Bambara initiation associations
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, [1979]. 11" x 8½", pp. viii, 55, [9]; map and 11 illustrations from photographs; fine in original red saddlestitched wrappers. Issued as no. 4 in the publisher's Working Papers in the Traditional Arts series. Rites amd ceremonies of the secret order or..... More