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| This selection contains 38 title(s) on 2 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| ALEXANDER, CAROLINE One dry season: in the footsteps of Mary Kingsley Bloomsbury, 1989, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7475 0078 9.Fine /Fine.Scarcely used.(14), 291 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 4015 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| ANDERSSON, CHARLES JOHN Lake Ngami: or explorations and discoveries during four years' wanderings in the wilds of South Western Africa C.Struik (Pty) Ltd, 1987, Facsimile reprint of 1856 2nd edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 86977 341 0.As new /As new.Two expeditions, on one of which the author was accompanied by Francis Galton to the Ovambo country, and the other when he went alone to Lake Ngami.Pioneering descriptions of Namaqualand, Damaraland and the Ovambo country.xviii, 546 pp. latin index of species. In English. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 | JP¥ 5928] Book number: 3418 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BAUMANN, O. (TRANSLATED BY G.E. ORGAN) Ngorongoro's first visitor East African Literature Bureau, 1969, 3rd printing; translated from the original work of 1892.Paper covers.V.g./No Jacket.Pocket book, with photographs and map, in the series 'Ngorongoro Conservation Area Booklets'; this appears to be no.1 of the series.26 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 3437 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| BROWN, JOHN The thirsty land Travel Book Club, n.d.(c.1960), Book Club edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. Edges of jacket frayed.Former owner's signature on ffep.192 pp. In English. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 3347 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CAMPBELL, FFYONA On foot through Africa Orion, 1994, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.1 85797 946 X.V.g./V.g. Jacket clipped, internally near fine.A modern odyssey from Cape Town to the Med on foot.x, 349, (1) pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 3653 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DU CHAILLU, PAUL B. Exploration and adventures in equatorial Africa Laurie (Live Books Resurrected), 1945, Facsmile reprint of the 1861 Laurie edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./V.g. In original dust wrapper, chipped at tip of spine.Classic travel book, reprinted from the John Murray edition of 1861.xxviii, 179 pp. map. In English. GBP 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 56.25 US$ 83.3 | JP¥ 7410] Book number: 3363 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CHAPMAN, F. SPENCER Lightest Africa Chatto & Windus, 1955, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.V.g./No Jacket.Fore-edge spotted.Travels in Africa.288 pp. In English. GBP 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 4.5 US$ 6.66 | JP¥ 593] Book number: 3352 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| CHAPMAN, ABEL, WITH A MEMOIR BY GEORGE BOLAM; ILLUSTRATIONS BY W.H. RIDDELL & THE AUTHOR Memories of fourscore years less two, 1851-1929 Gurney & Jackson, London, 1930, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Fair.Jacket chipped at top and bottom of spine, browned at edges; internally v.g.with slight tanning towards page edges.Top edge gilt, fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed.A companion volume to 'Retrospect'.xix, 257, (3) pp. In English. GBP 60.00 [Appr.: EURO 67.25 US$ 99.96 | JP¥ 8892] Book number: 3413 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DAVIS, JOHN GORDON Operation Rhino Michael Joseph, 1972, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7181 0888 4.V.g./V.g. Little used; slight edge wear.224 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 6187 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DENTI DI PIRAJNO, ALBERTO A grave for a dolphin Andre Deutsch, 1956, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.V.g./Good.Jacket frayed at tip of spine, internally very good, end papers a little tanned.Written by an Italian duke, this book details his experiences as a doctor and administrator in Italy's African colonies.Not a translation; the book was originally written in English.192 p. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 3695 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| DRUMMOND, HENRY Tropical Africa Hodder and Stoughton, 1895, 6th edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.Good /No Jacket.Prize bookplate on front pastedown.Spine bumped at extremities, hinge just starting to split; folding map torn at one hinge; prize bookplate.Otherwise a tidy copy.xiv, 228, (16) pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 3359 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| GALTON, FRANCIS (EDITED BY G.T. BETTANY) Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa, being an account of a visit to Damaraland in 1851 Ward, Lock & Co. 1890, 3rd edition.Green cloth, gilt titling on spine.Good /No Jacket.From 'The Minerva library of famous books'.Donor's inscription (dated 1892) on ffep.Spine starting, especially at rear hinge; tips and edges of spine worn.xviii, (2), map, 320, (4) pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 3411 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| HECK, LUTZ Animal safari: big game in South West Africa Methuen, 1956, Translation from the German edition of 1955.Hard covers, no dust jacket.V.g./No Jacket.Former owner's discreet signature, spine a little sunned, otherwise a very good copy.xii, 212 pp. In English. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 | JP¥ 4446] Book number: 3365 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| HOLUB, EMIL Seven Years in South Africa volume 2 (only) Africana Book Society, Johannesburg, 1976, Facsimile reprint of 1881 edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 949973 16 5.As new /As new.Volume 2 only (lacks vol.1).A classic account of travels, translated into English from the original Czech by Ellen E.Frewer, and produced to a high standard of production, including tissue guards to plates, by the publisher.(4), ix, 479 pp. In English. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP¥ 2964] Book number: 3420 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| JOHNSON, MARTIN Congorilla George G.Harrap, 1936, Reprint of 1932 edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.V.g./No Jacket.Slight tanning to pages.236 pp. In English. GBP 10.00 [Appr.: EURO 11.25 US$ 16.66 | JP¥ 1482] Book number: 6184 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LORIMER, NORMA By the waters of Africa: British East Africa, Uganda, and the Great Lakes Robert Scott, 1917, 1st edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.Good /No Jacket.Hinges starting, owners' signature on ffep, slight edge wear to spine.In English. GBP 56.00 [Appr.: EURO 62.75 US$ 93.3 | JP¥ 8299] Book number: 5483 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| LOVERIDGE, ARTHUR Tomorrow's a holiday: twelve glorious months hunting rare species in Tanganyika Panther, 1956, Originally published in 1951.Paper covers.Good /No Jacket.Cover creased, torn at rear, mild foxing to edges.328 pp. In English. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP¥ 1186] Book number: 3373 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| MACAULAY, RORY Crocodile trader The Adventurers Club, London, 1960, Book Club edition.Hard covers, no dust jacket.V.g./No Jacket.Capturing live crocodiles - the lowdown on a man who 'went bush'.208 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 3360 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| MACKIE, JOHN The life adventurous: a personal record of battlefield, bush and prairie Jarrold & Sons, n.d.(c.1900), 1st edition.Red cloth, gilt title on front board and spine.Good/No Jacket.Spine sunned, prize book plate on end paper, t.p.slightly dusted.Outer and bottom edges untrimmed; top edge gilt.Frontispiece portrait of the author.403 pp.In English. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 | JP¥ 5928] Book number: 2544 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| MILLAIS, JOHN GUILLE A breath from the Veldt Henry Sotheran & Co. London, 1899, New edition, first published in 1895.Hard covers, no dust jacket.Good /No Jacket.Front free end paper and the next two pages (the first blank, the second with half-title) detached, edge-wear to extremities of spine, corners bumped.A much enlarged edition, with more than 100 pages added to the original version.x, 345 pp. In English. GBP 1900.00 [Appr.: EURO 2128.25 US$ 3165.4 | JP¥ 281577] Book number: 3790 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| MOORHEAD, ALAN The Blue Nile Four Square, 1964, Paperback edition, first published in 1962.Paper covers.Good /No Jacket.Slight tanning of page edges.318, (2) pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 3377 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| MOORHEAD, ALAN The White Nile Penguin, 1963, 1st paperback edition, originally published in 1960.Paper covers.Good /No Jacket.Slight tanning of page edges.384 pp. In English. GBP 6.00 [Appr.: EURO 6.75 US$ 10 | JP¥ 889] Book number: 3378 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| MURPHY, DERVLA South from the Limpopo: travels throughout South Africa John Murray, 1997, 1st edition.Hard covers, dust jacket.0 7195 5789 5.V.g./Fine.Fine except for p.197, which seems to have been read in the shower.A typically seat-of-the-pants account of travels in South Africa at a time of great transition (straddling the elections of 1994).Written as a journal, it completes her coverage of Africa following journeys to Madagascar, Cameroon, Ethiopia and the region of E.Africa from Zimbabwe to Kenya.She shocked a doctor in Natal by confessing to being an atheist.Her close collaboration with the Murrays has, as ever, produced a work of enduring quality.xv, 432 pp. 29 monochrome photographs. In English. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP¥ 1778] Book number: 2187 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| MURRAY, JON; EVERIST, RICHARD; WILLIAMS, JEFF South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland Lonely Planet Publications, 1996, 2nd edition, first published in 1993.Paper covers.0 86442 323 3.V.g./No Jacket.Little used.698, (6) pp. In English. GBP 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.75 US$ 8.33 | JP¥ 741] Book number: 4088 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. | ||
| PHILLIPPS-WOLLEY, CLIVE ET AL. Big game shooting Longmans, Green & Co. 1894, 2 vols.Pictorial hard covers.Good /No Jacket.Covers worn and stained, internally with sporadic foxing.In English. GBP 180.00 [Appr.: EURO 201.75 US$ 299.88 | JP¥ 26676] Book number: 3948 Click here to order or inquire at Acanthophyllum Books. |
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