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Archives de la Mission de La Karuzi (Urundi) Vol. II: Cartes du bassin de la Karuzi A. - Sols; B. - Vegetation
1961 , 2 large folding col maps. . Unbound. 2 large (89x113cm) maps in orig. card folder. Withdrawn from an institutional library. Good.. Maps showing soil and vegetation type in Karuzi Province, central Burundi..
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Keywords: Burundi; East Africa; Africa
Richard Carew of Antony. The Survey of Cornwall
Augustus M. Kelley 1969 334, portrait frontis, 10 maps. . HB. Vg in d/w. Name to endpaper.. Edited, with an Introduction by F.E. Halliday. With the maps of John Norden. US edition (first published by Andrew Melrose, London, 1953). Richard Carew (1555-1620) was a British antiquary and translator. He was High Sheriff of Cornwall in the 1580s, and wrote The Survey of Cornwall (1602), a topographical and cultural survey, and only the second county history published in England. Included here are other works by Carew: Godfrey of Bulloigne, a romantic epic poem translated from Tasso's Italian version; two essays: The Examination of Men's Whits and The Excellencie of the English Tongue; also A Herring's Tail, an amusing 'poeticall fiction'.. [9780678075043]
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Le Colonie Italiane Di Diretto Dominio Con appendice sul possedimento delle Isole Italiane Dell'Egeo
Ministerio Delle Colonie 1929 170, b/w photos, b/w illus, maps. . HB. 8vo, rebound in qtr. Cloth, gt, marbled paper boards. Vg. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his bookplate.. Text Italian. An account of the colonies of Italy, including Somalia, Eritreia, Libya, and Islands of the Aegean..
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Keywords: Colonial Africa; Italy
Jugoslavia Vol. I: Physical Geography
Naval Intelligence Division 1944 337, 44 b/w plates, 99 text figs, 1 folding map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, some wear to front corner. Includes large fold out map in rear pocket.. Geographical Handbook series - for official use only. B.R. 518 (Restricted). In 1915 a Geographical Section was formed in the Naval Intelligence Division of Admiralty to write Geographical Handbooks on various parts of the world in order to supply, by scientific research, material for discussion of naval, military and political problems..
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Keywords: Geology; Yugoslavia
L'empire du Prêtre-Jean Vol. 1: L'Éthiopie Antique; Vol. 2: L'Éthiopie MédiévaleL'Empire du Prêtre-jean
Librairie Plon 1957 xxxvii, 304; [4], 360, 46 b/w plates, 58 text figs, one folding map. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo, orig. limp leatherette boards (a little marked), author's name in white to front boards (smudged to Vol. 2), with red leather title pieces added to spines by a later owner. Good. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his bookplate.. Text French..
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Keywords: Ethiopia; East Africa; Africa
Nottingham and Its Region
British Association for the Advancement of Science 1966 xxiii. 538, col frontis, 24 b/w photos, maps, figs. . HB. Cloth. A very good ex-lib. with only one ink stamp to front pastedown. Book-plate of James Marmaduke Edmonds (1909-1982), British geologist, Curator of the Geological Collections of the Museum at Oxford between 1955-1976, and founder of the Oxford Geology Group.. Divided into six parts: Physical Background (including Geology, Geomorphology, Weather and Climate, Soils, Vegetation, Fauna, The River Trent, Hydology, The Water Supply), Human Development, The city of Nottingham, Other Urban Centres, Nature Conservation Scientists, Inventors and Technologists..
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Abyssinian Journey
John Miles 1935 xv, 247, 14 b/w photos, 1 map. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, spine slightly faded. Vg. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his bookplate. Another owner's name inked out.. Preface by S. Charlety, translated from French by E.G. Rich. Marcel Griaule (1898-1956) was a French author and anthropologist, between 1928 and 1933 he participated in two large-scale ethnographic expeditions—one to Ethiopia, which forms the basis of this work..
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Cornish Moods
Halsgrove 2003 144, numerous col photos. . HB. Fine in d/w.. In this work, the photographer, Oliver Hawker makes a personal selection of his favourite photographs taken during a year.. [9781841142630]
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Geography for Schools Pt. I - Practical Geography
Clarendon Press 1887 viii, 71, [1] + 36 (publisher's ads), 25 figs (4 folding). . HB. small 8vo, orig. cloth, stamped in black, a little dusty. Vg. With bookplate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford. Bowman (1874-1942) was Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy and Crystallography.. .
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On a Protractor for use in Constructing Stereographic and Gnomonic Projections of the Sphere
1908 20, 4 plates (1 printed on tissue). . PB. Wrappers, detached. Small stamp to front cover. Good.. Reprint from The Mineralogical Magazine No.69. pp 93-112. Arthur Hutchinson (1866-1937) was Professor of Mineralogy, at the University of Cambridge. In 1908 Hutchinson devised and put on sale 'at a reasonable price' a protractor for constructing stereographic and gnomonic projections which bears his name and became widely used. He described his protractor in this paper which includes a historical appendix on the projections of the sphere..
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The Last of Free Africa
The Century Co. 1928 xvi, 361, b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt (slightly rubbed), spine faded. Light foxing to prelims. Vg. From the library of entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020), who had a particular interest in Ethiopia, with his bookplate.. The account of an expedition into Abyssinia with observations on the manners, customs, and traditions of the Ethiopians with some pungent remarks on the anomalous political situation that, at present, obtains between this ancient kingdom and the nations of the world..
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Keywords: Abyssinia; East Africa; Ethiopia; East Africa; Africa
Elements of Modern Geography
William Blackwood & Sons 1885 297, . . HB. 8vo, blind-stamped boards, some wear to spine, otherwise vg.. 9th edition, Fifty-First Thousand. A classic textbook of the Victorian era 'now extensively introduced into many of the best schools in the kingdom'..
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A Survey of Southampton and its Region
British Association for the Advancement of Science 1964 xviii, 349, 56 b/w photos, text figs, maps, 2 folding maps (1 col). . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth. From an institutional library, with their printed bookplate, but with no stamps/labels/markings. Vg.. Prepared for the meeting of the British Association held in September 1964. A detailed survey. Part I: The Character of the Region (including Geology, Geomorphology, Hydrography, Soils, Weather, Hydrology, Botany, Zoology, Land Use); Part II: The Historical Background (Wessex, Place-Names, Pre-historic and Roman Settlemement, History of Southampton); Part III: The Character of the Town of Southampton (Social Pattern, Economic Activity, Port, Communications, Civic Scene, Ordnance Survey, Univeristy, Planning)..
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Twentieth-Century Indonesia
Columbia University Press 1973 xiv, 413, 1 map, b/w photos. . HB. 8vo, qtr leather. Plates slightly trimmed. From the library of the entomologist and traveller Guillaume Marie de Rougemont (1945-2020).Vg.. Introduction states From almost any standpoint--geological, biological, historical, cultural-the Republic of Indonesia is complex. Even the country's official motto, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, emphasizes ethnic heterogeneity, the courtly Javanese phrase being translatable as 'Unity in Diversity'. This book is intended to unravel some of the complexities; to make Indonesia clearer in the mind's eye, and more intelligible to Westerners.". [9780231035477]
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La Nouvelle Géographie Universelle, la Terre et les Hommes. VIII L’Inde et L’Indo-Chine
Librairie Hachette 1883 [iv], 982, [1], 7 col maps, 203 maps in text, 84 wood engravings. . HB. 4to (275x200mm), orig. attractive leather-backed cloth by Ch. Magnier, spine with four raised bands and gilt dec. to compartments depicting geographer's tools (compass, dividers and set square), dec. cloth boards with design in black and gilt showing points of the compass, aeg, some wear to corners. Lacking one map ‘Carte d’Ensemble’. Short tears to two maps. Small, faint water stain to pp 899-920. A good copy in a very attractive binding.. Text French. First edition. Vol. VIII covers India and Indo-China. Jacques Élisée Reclus (1830-1905) was a French geographer, writer and anarchist. His major work was the 19-volume La Nouvelle Géographie Universelle published between 1875 and 1894, written mostly in Switzerland, where Reclus was an exile of the 1871 Paris Commune. The maps were drawn by his friend, cartographer, Charles Perron (1837-1909). This work was ‘profusely illustrated with maps, plans, and engravings and characterized by a brilliance of exposition that gives his work permanent scientific value.’ (Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1910-1911)). The full page wood engravings illustrate views and races of people. Reclus was awarded the gold medal of the Paris Geographical Society for this work in 1892..
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Keywords: China; Asia; India; South Asia; Asia