The Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore: Africa
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Treks & Palavers.
London: Seeley, Service & Company, 1938. Hardcover. DJ with light wear and small chips. ; Posted to Nigeria as a Political Officer, Capt. Oakley recounts his time furthering the cause of the Empire. With map and photos; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 300 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket.
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USD 70.00 [Appr.: EURO 65.5 | £UK 55.5 | JP¥ 11186]
Catalogue: Africa
Home From Sea.
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to DJ; South African author Packer writes of her upbringing ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 250 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket.
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USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3196]
Catalogue: Africa
Life in Abyssinia [Two Volume Set] Being Notes Collected During Three Years' Residence and Travels in That Country.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1854. First American Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light chipping to bottom spines. Former owner's name on title pages. Vol. 1: First few pages with slight discoloration to one corner. A bit of browning to frontispiece and title page initiated by the tissue guard. Very light foxing to last few pages. Vol. 2: Moderate foxing to first few pages and light foxing to last few pages. Front hinge has a bit of play. Else a very handsome copy. ; Mid-19th century adventures in Abyssinia, known today as Ethiopia. "Life in Abyssinia is one of the most literary and idiosyncratic of the nineteenth-century travel narratives of Africa. " Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. Vol. 59, No. 2, Social Stratification in Swahili Society (1989) , pp. 260-262 (3 pages). Dark green boards with blindstamped pattern. Gilt spine lettering and gilt pictorial design of an indigenous soldier on spine. 12 b&w illustrations. Rare, especially in this condition. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 350 [10],355 [4] pages. Very Good+.
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USD 425.00 [Appr.: EURO 397.5 | £UK 336 | JP¥ 67913]
Catalogue: Africa, East
Cry, the Beloved Country a Story of Comfort in Desolation.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. early printing. Hardcover. DJ spine sunned, lightly torn and with some chipping. Fore edge lightly soiled ; The human hero of this story is an old and humble Zulu parson, from the hills above Ixopo, who sets out for Johannesburg, "the city of evil," in search of his only son ; 8vo; 278 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket.
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USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 47 | £UK 39.75 | JP¥ 7990]
Catalogue: Africa
Cry, the Beloved Country a Story of Comfort in Desolation.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948. early printing. Hardcover. DJ browned, lightly torn and with some chipping. ; The human hero of this story is an old and humble Zulu parson, from the hills above Ixopo, who sets out for Johannesburg, "the city of evil," in search of his only son ; 8vo; 278 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket.
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USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 47 | £UK 39.75 | JP¥ 7990]
Catalogue: Africa
Sub- Tropical Rambles in the Land of the Aphanapteryx Personal Experiences, Adventures, and Wanderings in and Around the Island of Mauritius.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1873. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. An unusually handsome copy with tight binding and all maps in VG+ condition. ; Pike was an American Consul in Mauritius ; Ex-Lib; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; xviii, 511 pages. Very Good+.
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USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 280.75 | £UK 237.25 | JP¥ 47938]
Catalogue: Africa
Madami My Eight Years of Adventure with the Congo Pigmies.
New York: Prentice Hall, 1954. Hardcover. DJ with moderate wear and chipping. Former owner's name stamp on front free endpaper. ; Killer leopards, columns of ants devouring anything in their path, poison plants, awakening to find yourself in the jaws of a crocodile--wouldn't YOU like to visit the pigmies in the Congo? Author Putnam and husband run a hospital amongst the pigmies. Maps in endpapers and B&W illustrations throughout; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket.
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USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.5 | £UK 31.75 | JP¥ 6392]
Catalogue: Africa
Madami My Eight Years of Adventure with the Congo Pigmies.
New York: Prentice Hall, 1954. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing and soiling. Artistic ink drawings to half title page and copyright page. Ink notations at end of each chapter and end of book ; Killer leopards, columns of ants devouring anything in their path, poison plants, awakening to find yourself in the jaws of a crocodile--wouldn't YOU like to visit the pigmies in the Congo? Author Putnam and husband run a hospital amongst the pigmies. Maps in endpapers and B&W illustrations throughout; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages. Very Good.
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Catalogue: Africa
African Game Trails [Two Volume Set] an Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter- Naturalist.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. Later Printing. Hardcover. Both volumes show light wear and a bit of soiling. ; Two volume set, consecutively paginated. Dark green boards with blindstamped linear design and gilt spine lettering. Each volume has a frontispiece and 5 illustrations. ; B&W Photographs; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 676 pages. Very Good+.
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USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 70.25 | £UK 59.5 | JP¥ 11985]
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With Flash- Light and Rifle Photographing by Flash- Light at Night the Wild Animal World of Equitorial Africa.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Hardcover. Boards darkened and with gilt spine lettering faded. ; Shooting animals in Africa, sometimes with a gun and sometimes with a camera. Author Schillings has an interesting tale to tell ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 421 pages. Very Good.
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USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 4794]
Catalogue: Africa
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest.
London: A & C Black Ltd. 1924. Hardcover; Fourth Printing. Wear to extremities. Browning to endpapers. Occasional foxing. Blurb tipped in to front free endpaper ; Schweitzer's stay in French-controlled equitorial Africa. INSCRIBED in French by the doctor to title page. Bookplate to front pastedown of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 180 pages. Very Good.
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USD 900.00 [Appr.: EURO 841.75 | £UK 711.25 | JP¥ 143815]
Catalogue: Africa
Adventurer's in Paradise.
London: Travel Book Club, 1955. Hardcover. Light wear to tape repaired DJ ; Looking for (and finding! ) wild animals in Eastern Africa; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 249 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket.
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USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14.25 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2397]
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Milestones in African History.
Philadelphia: Chilton Book Company, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to price clipped DJ; A comprehensive view of the teeming continent's history; Milestones in History; 8vo; 150 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket.
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Mauretania Warrior, Man & Woman.
London: Gerlad Duckworth & Co. LTD, 1951. Third Edition. Hardcover. A trip to Morocco and across the Sahara to Libya to the ruins of Leptis Magna. English travel writer Sitwell was among the first Europeans to see some of the remote locations in Morocco and Libya. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 328 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
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USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 | £UK 23.75 | JP¥ 4794]
Catalogue: Africa, North
The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State [2 Volume Set] a Story of Work and Exploration.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. Hardcover. Boards a bit sunned and lightly soiled. Volume I: Hinges cracked and map at rear loose but present. Internally NF including maps and with binding tight ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 528, 483 pages. Very Good-.
The Complete Traveller Antiquarian BookstoreProfessional sellerBook number: 3330
USD 400.00 [Appr.: EURO 374.25 | £UK 316.25 | JP¥ 63918]
Catalogue: Africa
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