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Natal and Kaffraria; Steel Engraved Map

By: TALLIS, John; MONTGOMERY MARTIN, R.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, John Tallis & Company: 1851

Seller ID: 053683

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Very Good +

Decorative, steel engraved map with contemporary hand-coloured outlines of counties, routes, roads etc. From 'Tallis's Illustrated Atlas' of 1851 published in London at the time of the Great Exhibition. Engraved by John Rapkin. This map from a recently disbound Atlas. It is accompanied by the original two page printed description. Also available is a copy of the original title page of the Atlas from which this map was removed. The map illustrates Natal in South Africa including Kaffraria. Included are decorative vignettes of the Entrance to Port Natal; and a large vignette of Port Natal and To...
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Western Africa; Steel Engraved Map

By: TALLIS, John; MONTGOMERY MARTIN, R.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, John Tallis & Company: 1851

Seller ID: 053684

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Very Good +

Decorative, steel engraved map with contemporary hand-coloured outlines of counties, routes, roads etc. From 'Tallis's Illustrated Atlas' of 1851 published in London at the time of the Great Exhibition. Engraved by John Rapkin. This map from a recently disbound Atlas. It is accompanied by the original two page printed description. Also available is a copy of the original title page of the Atlas from which this map was removed. The map illustrates Western Africa from St. Louis [Senegal] on the northern coast, to the Bight of Biafra in the south. Included are decorative vignettes of Christiansbo...
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Cape Colony; Steel Engraved Map

By: TALLIS, John; MONTGOMERY MARTIN, R.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, John Tallis & Company: 1851

Seller ID: 053685

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Very Good +

Decorative, steel engraved map with contemporary hand-coloured outlines of counties, routes, roads etc. From 'Tallis's Illustrated Atlas' of 1851 published in London at the time of the Great Exhibition. Engraved by John Rapkin. This map from a recently disbound Atlas. It is accompanied by the original two page printed description. Also available is a copy of the original title page of the Atlas from which this map was removed. The map illustrates Cape Colony in South Africa. Included are decorative vignettes of Christiansborg; Cape Coast Castle; Sierra Leone; and Bakel. The map itself is very ...
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Figures in Ebony: Past and Present in a West African City

By: TONG, Raymond

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Cassell: 1958

Seller ID: 23259

Binding: Cloth Boards, Gilt Titles

Condition: VG+

History of the West African region known as Benin, a province of Nigeria. 131pp, photo illustrated. Bright, clean, unmarked copy with a sound binding. Dustjacket, unclipped and in a protective brodart, is very bright and clean. Minor top edge wear. Weight, 340g. We use both the Canada Post and the United States Postal Service and offer very competitive postal charges - based on actual costs, no overcharging. Images always available. Shipped well packed. [Maximum postage to anywhere within Canada is now approx US$15.00- up to 5kg total weight, boxed, insured, trackable and faster than regular ...
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Road to Ophir: The Autobiography of a Prospector

By: TREMLETT, Rex

Price: $8.00

Publisher: London, Adventurers Club:

Seller ID: 29318

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

The author recounts many of his experiences as a prospector in Africa. 190pp, illustrated. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding, no wear to cloth. Dustjacket shows a sun-darkened spine and minor edge wear. Weight, 420g.
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African and Oceanic Art

By: TROWELL, Margaret and NEVERMANN, Hans

Price: $13.50

Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc: 1968

Seller ID: 29257

Binding: Cloth, Gilt

Condition: Near Fine

A volume in the series 'Panorama of World Art'. 263pp, 287 plates, including 154 in full color, 2 maps, illustrated endpapers. Bright, clean, unmarked copy. Tight, square binding. No wear to cloth. Slight age soiling to dustjacket and one, small margin tear to foot of front panel. Heavy book weighing 1.15kg.
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West Africa: A Background Book from Ancient Kingdoms to Modern Times

By: TRUPIN, James E.

Price: $8.95

Publisher: New York, Parents' Magazine Press: 1971

Seller ID: 11079

ISBN: 0-8193-0490-5

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Fine

History of peoples and countries of West Africa - Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Benin etc. 246pp, illustrated, maps. Bright copy with a sound binding. Dustjacket has bright. clean front panel but a slightly soiled back panel.
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Man in Africa

By: TURNBULL, Colin M.

Price: $8.75

Publisher: Anchor/Doubleday, Garden City, 1976:

Seller ID: 3139

Description of the cultures of Africa from Cairo to the Cape - spread of Islam, totemism, craftsmanship, music, witchcraft, divination, slavery, women and government. 8vo, 313pp, illus, photo illus. Hardcover in tan cloth with price-clipped dustjacket. VG/G+
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African Achievement: Building Tomorrow in British Africa [1945]

By: UNITED KINGDOM INFORMATION OFFICE

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Ottawa, U. K. Information Office: 1945

Seller ID: 055378

Binding: Stapled Wrappers

Condition: Fine

Booklet published at the conclusion of WWII propagandizing British Africa and its Progress. 20pp, photo illustrated, map at rear. Fine condition. Faint stamp 'Army Education/Pacific Command' to the front wrapper. Ships via inexpensive Canada Post Lettermail within North America, in card sleeve. From $3.00 to $6.50 depending on exact weight and location. Image available. Enquire for rates to Worldwide destinations.
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Antique Postcard of Egyptian Men in Traditional Costume

By: UNKNOWN PUBLISHER

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Egypt, Unknown Publisher:

Seller ID: 052746

Condition: Near Fine

Attractive, color litho postcard showing two Egyptian men and a little boy, wearing traditional costume Only identification on the divided back is the - Nr. 211/1. Antique, circa 1910. Unused and unmarked. Embossed figures and embossed, stippled background.
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Anaomy of Traditional Markets in Nigeria: Focus on Ibadan City

By: VAGALE, L. R.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Ibadan, The Polytchnic: 1974

Seller ID: 036813

Binding: Pictorial Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Study of Traditional Markets in a Nigerian City. Vii, 46pp, photo illustrated, maps, charts. Very clean copy with firm binding showing very little wear. 32.5cm tall. Weight, 708g.
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Structure of a Nigerian Town: Outline Development Proposals for IWO, 1969-1989

By: VAGALE, L. R. - Editor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Ibadan, MInistry of Lands: 1969

Seller ID: 036814

Binding: Pictorial Cloth

Condition: VG+

Prepared in the Technical College, Ibadan, by the final year students of town planning 1969 class under the guidance of Professor L. R. Vagale, United Nations Advisor. Oblong, 15.25"x10.25", 67pp, photo illustrated, maps, folding plates etc. Very clean, tight copy. Front cover has pasted-on illustrations with small corner piece lost. Attractive book. Editors 'compliments' slip etc, lain in. 39cm wide. Weight, 1.2kg.
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Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola [1605-1612]

By: VAN DEN BROECKE, Pieter

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, K. L. CameroHakluyt Society: 2000

Seller ID: 11499

ISBN: 0-904180-68-9

Binding: Cloth, Gilt Titles

Condition: Fine

First English translation of those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe four trading voyages made to Africa in the early seventeenth century. Edited and translated by J. D. La Fleur. Hakluyt Society, Third Series, No. 5. 139pp, maps. Mint copy, as issued.
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Bantu customs in mainland Tanzania

By: VAN PELT, P.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Tabora, Tanzania, T.M.P. Book Dept.: 1971

Seller ID: 043353

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: Near Fine

Bantu customs in mainland Tanzania. vii, 199 p. map. 19 cm. OCLC Number: 763366. A very bright and clean copy, unmarked. Tight, square binding, no spine creases. Near new except for slight wear to some edges. Weight, 173g.
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Warrior Marks: Female Genital Mutilation and the Sexual Blinding of Women

By: WALKER, Alice and PARMAR, Pratibha

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace: 1993

Seller ID: 34800

ISBN: 0151000611

Binding: Cloth

Condition: As New

1st ed. 8vo, 373pp, photo illustrated. Hardcover in red cloth and green paper boards, with dustjacket. Rmainder mark to bottom edge. otherwise, almost 'as new'. Fine/Fine. Weight, 1kg.
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Map of Egypt; 1808

By: WILKES, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, John Wilkes: 1808

Seller ID: 053687

Condition: Good Very Good

Antique Copper Engraved Map of Egypt from North Latitude 31.5 degrees south to North Latitude 24.5 degrees. Black and white, as published, no colour. At foot of map is stated - 'London Pubd. as the Act directs April 11th, 1808 by J. Wilkes'. Size of map within heavy black borders is 18.5cm by 23.2cm. Clean white, thick paper, no foxing, stains, tears, creases, marks etc. Adequate margins for matting. We ship worldwide by mail at cost.
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Saat : the native slave-boy of Khartoum : one of Sir Samuel Baker's expedition to the Albert Nyanza

By: WILKINSON, Thomas Edward

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: 1898

Seller ID: 10238

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG+

A account of a Slave Boy in the Sudan in the late 19th century - a Christian interpretation. OCLC Number: 82154269. 74pp, frontis view of Khartoum. 6pp publisher's catalog at rear. Interior is bright and clean. Gift inscription dated 1898 to the ffep otherwiseunmarked. Sound, tight binding. Red cloth with attractive illustrated front board is clean, perhaps a little darkened. Above average copy. Weight, Scan available.129g.
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African art, an Introduction

By: WILLETT, Frank

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Praeger Publishers: 1975

Seller ID: 044010

Binding: Printed Card Wrappers

Condition: VG+

Introduction to the art of sub-Saharan Africa. OCLC Number: 146401. Description: 288 p. illus. (part col.), maps, plan. 22 cm. [Praeger world of art series]. Bright, clean copy, unmarked. Attractive, unused bookplate to the ffep. Tight, square binding with a light, central crease to the spine. Weight, 435g.
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The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Southern Africa

By: WILLIAMS, Gwyneth and HACKLAND, Brian

Price: $7.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1989

Seller ID: 036578

ISBN: 0028974719

Binding: Cloth

Condition: VG+

Survey of the political landscape of 11 countries located in southern Africa. 1st U.S. edition, 8vo, 339pp, maps. Hardcover in black cloth with dustjacket. Fore-edge has black felt-pen mark as does ffep. Otherwise, bright and clean. Weight, 534g.
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Introduction to the History of Central Africa, An

By: WILLS, A. J.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 34219

Binding: Printed Wraps

Condition: Very Good

History of the present day areas of Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia. 412pp, maps. Bright, clean, unmarked interior. Tight, square binding. Light creasing to spine. Clean, unmarked and uncreased wrappers. Weight, 590g.
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Category: Africa