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A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE SUDAN. The second edition of A Biographical Dictionary of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1967. xvi, 409 pages. original red cloth gilt. Octavo. A fine copy.
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A DRAGON APPARENT. Travels in Indo-China.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1951. 317 pages. Colour frontispiece and many black & white plates. Original red cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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A HISTORY OF EGYPT From the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. 634 pages. Illustrated with 220 maps and illustrations. Original decorative cloth gilt. Dust-wrapper. A facsimile reprint of the second edition published in 1909. A fine copy in a very good dust-wrapper.
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A HISTORY OF SIERRA LEONE.
London: Oxford University Press, 1963. Reprinted from corrected sheets of the first edition. First published 1962. vii, 773 pages. Two folding maps at rear. Original blue cloth gilt. Octavo. No dust-jacket. A fine copy.
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A NARRATIVE OF THE LOSS OF THE GROSVENOR East Indiaman, which was unfortunately wrecked upon the coast of Caffraria, somewhere between the 27th and 32d Degrees of Southern latitude, on the 4th of August, 1782, compiled from the examination of John Hynes, one of the Unfortunate Survivors. By Mr. George Carter, Historical Portrait Painter upon his passage outward bound to India. Containing a Variety of Matter respecting the Sufferers, Never before made Public; With Copper Plates descriptive of the Catastrophe, engraved from Mr. Carter's designs.
London: At the Minerva Press for J, Murray… and William Lane, 1791. [4], 174 pages. Illustrated with a folding engraved frontispiece, and 3 other engraved plates. Original boards crudely re-backed with sheep. Octavo. First edition. This is a rather sad copy. The corners have been trimmed, presumably where once turned down; there is soiling throughout; one of the plates has a piece missing from the blank outer margin; the frontispiece is splitting along one fold, and has been crudely re-attached to the title. A complete, but poor copy, of a rare book.
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A WINTER'S JOURNEY UP THE NILE. 1876-77.
Birmingham: Printed by the "Gazette Co, Limited.", No date [1877-78]. 79, [1 blank], [14] pages. Illustrated with nine original mounted albumen photographic prints. Recently rebound in quarter calf, gilt. Quarto. First edition. Some light browning and occasional spotting; else a very good copy of a rare book. WorldCat records only two copies in the U.K. and three in the United States.
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ABYSSINIA. Through the Lion-Land to the Court of the Lion of Judah. With 80 illustrations and two maps.
London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd, 1901. xvi, 342, [2 ad’s] pages. Original blue cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Spine repaired at head & heel; binding a little tired and worn; but a good, clean copy.
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AFRICA VIEW.
London: Chatto & Windus. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. First edition. 455 pages. Illustrated with 34 black & white plates, and a folding map. Original black cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Some light wear to binding, but a very good copy.
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Afrikanische wanderungen EINES Naturdorschers und Jägers. Deutsche autorisierte Ausgabe. Übersetzung von Dr. Max Kullnick. Mit 48 Illustrationen auf 48 Tafeln nach Photographien von Kermit Roosevelt und anderen Mitgliedern der Expedition und nach Zeichnungen von Philip R. Goodwin.
Berlin: Paul Parey, 1910. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. xvi, 464, [4 ad's] pages. Illustrated throughout. Original pictorial blue cloth, gilt. 4to. First German edition. Touch of wrinkling to the head of spine; else very good.
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AMERICAN SCENERY; or, Land, Lake, and River Illustrations of Transatlantic Nature. From Drawings by W. H. Bartlett, engraved in the first style of the art, by R. Wallis, J. Cousen, Willmore, Brandard, Adlard, Richardson, &c. The Literary Department
London: George Virtue, 1840. Two Volumes. Hardcovers. Volume I: iv, 140 pages. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, vignette on engraved title, map, and 65 full-page engravings. Volume II: iv, 106 pages. Illustrated with 52 full-page engraved plates and a vignette on engraved title. Bound in half calf, gilt, with elaborately tooled panels. Quarto. Some very light occasional foxing; bindings a little rubbed; bookplates; else an excellent set.
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AUSTRALIA ILLUSTRATED.
98 full-page engraved plates from the work published by Virtue, circa 1870. The plates disbound and loose in Volume I only of the two volume set. No text or maps – only 98 of the original 113 plates. Some light browning to the edges of some of the plates; else very good.
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Avec Les VAINQUEURA DE TABORA Notes d'un colonial Belge en Afrique Oriental Allemande. Preface de M. Jules Renkin. Cinquiene Edition.
Paris: Perrin et Cie, 1918. Softcover, bound in half cloth over marbled boards, gilt titling to spine. Text-block browning, else very good.
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AWAY O QUEBEC A Gay Journey to the Province. Twenty Four Drawings by D. Putnam Brinley.
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Limited, 1937. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 286 pages. Original cloth gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Presumed first edition. Wrapper a little worn at edges and head & heel of spine; else a very good copy. Signed by the author on the title-page.
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BILL BAILLIE His Life and Adventures.
Melbourne: Whitcombe and Tombs, Limited, Non date. (1908.). [viii], 160pp. Illustrated throughout with colour plates and monochrome drawings within the text. Original pictorial cloth. Oblong quarto. First edition. Boards a little bowed; head and heel of spine a trifle worn; a little shaken throughout; else a very good copy.
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CANADIAN SCENERY Illustrated. From Drawings by W. H. Bartlett. The Literary Department by N. P. Willis, Esq. Vol. II.
London: George Virtue, 1841. 1 volume only (Vol. II). Hardcover. [6], 116 pages. Illustrated with an engraved vignette title, and 64 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary half calf gilt, with elaborately tooled panels. Quarto. Some very occasional patches of light foxing; bookplate; bindings a little rubbed; else a very good copy of volume two only.
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Cassell’s HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE SOUDAN. Illustrated.
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, No date [circa 1890]. Six volume set in the original red pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Spines a little faded; else an excellent set.
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CENTRAL AFRICA: Naked Truths of Naked People. An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Marraka Niam-Niam west of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile). Illustrated from Colonel Long’s own sketches.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. xv, [1 blank], 330, [6 ad’s] pages. With a portrait frontispiece, twenty other illustrations, and a folding map. Original pictorial green cloth. Octavo. First edition. Cloth marked and worn, and with traces of a small label to the spine; hinges just cracking; else very good.
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CHINA TO CHITRAL with 69 photographs taken by the author.
Cambridge.The University Press, 1951. [i-iv],v-x,[xi-xii], 1-123pp. 69 black & white photographs plus 4 maps. Red publisher's cloth gilt. Dust wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Previous owner's note in ink to front free endpaper. Light spotting to fore-edges, and very slight browning to endpapers. Dust wrapper un-price-clipped and has very minor wear to corners and head and heel of spine with very slight spotting and soiling to rear fore-edge of wrapper. Index page to rear has slight crease to upper edge; else, an excellent copy.
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CHINESE CENTRAL ASIA with an Introduction by Francis Younghusband K.C.S.I.
London.Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1926. [i-vi],vii -xvi, 1-306,[1], plus 8pp adverts to rear. 56 illustrations including coloured frontispiece and 5 panoramas, plus 2 maps including that on front endpapers. Original red cloth gilt with gilt stamped device to front board. Octavo. First U.K. Edition. Prize bookplate to verso of half-title. Some spotting to endpapers and fore-edges. Else a very good copy.
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COMITÉ SPÉCIAL DU KATANGA 1900-1950.
Buxelles: Éditions L. Cuypers, 1950. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 327 pages. Illustrated throughout. Original faux morocco, gilt. 4to. Number 230 from an edition of 285 copies. Boards a little marked; else very good.
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