Africa from Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore

Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company. Very Good. 1889. New Edition. Hardcover. Boards with a bit browning and with moderate wear to extremities. ; A large tome, containing a very throrough history of the discovery of Africa. 500 b&w illustrations from wood engravings and 2 outstanding color illustrations. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 606, [2] pages .… Read more about this item

New Haven And London: Yale University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ price clipped; "The 24 essays in this volume deal with the Anglo-German colonial rivalry that played such an important part in the "scramble for Africa" and with the subsequent forms of colonial administration that developed after the occupation… Read more about this item

London: Collins. Very Good+. 1967. Third Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. ; Color Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 415 pages .

London: Edward Stanford. Very Good. 1895. New Issue. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Light marginal wear to a few maps. Vol. 1: Very light toning and foxing to first few pages. ; Green boards with gilt pictorial design and black lettering. Vol. 1: 9 maps and 77 illustrations. Vol. 2: 11 maps and 92 illustrations.… Read more about this item

London: Edward Stanford. Very Good. 1886. Second Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Back hinge started. Ex-lib with stamp on half-title page. No other markings. ; Beautiful green boards with gilt lettering and gilt vignette. Linear design in black. Edited by Sir Richard Temple. 12 maps and 73 illustrations. The Stanford's Compendium of Geography… Read more about this item

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company. Very Good+. N.D.. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; Introduction by Henry M. Stanley, dated 1898. Present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. The author was serving as an English officer in the Government of The Congo Free State from 1894 - 1897 and witnessed cannibalism (among many other… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good-. 1891. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on first blank pages. Volume 1: Front hinge has a bit of play. Small closed tear to front free endpaper. Small dark stain on first few pages, not affecting text or pictures. Volume 2: Front hinge started. Else a… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam. Very Good. 1862. Eleventh Edition. Hardcover. Gilt spine lettering a bit faded. Slight dampstaining to endpapers. Very small intendation to front board and first few pages. Very light foxing to first few pages. ; Dark green buckram boards with blindstamped linear decoration and gilt spine lettering. Beautiful steel engraved tissue guarded… Read more about this item

Milano: Consociazione Turistica Italiana. Very Good+. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Large fold-out map at front. The guide (in Italian) for the then Italian colonies in Africa: Eritrea, Amara, Harar, Addis Abeba, Galla & Sidama, Somalia. "Con 15 carte Geografiche, 16 piante di centri abitati, 10 piante di edifici, schizzi e stemmi"; Guida D'Italia Della Consociazione Turistica… Read more about this item

New York: Rinehart & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1956. Hardcover. Light chipping and small tears to DJ. ; Over a twenty year period, noted explorer and film producer Cotlow journeyed deep into Equitorial Africa in search of the ancient cultures - and the perfect photograph ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9"… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Very Good+. 1875. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Organized by Ismail Khedive of Egypt". Rebound in brown buckram boards with gilt spine lettering using the original front board covering. Map in new rear pocket. Three tissue guarded frontispieces, one of which is steel engraved. Many b&w illustrations. Color front map of the… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Co.. Very Good. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Former owner's name on first blank page. ; The author was a silent movie director and explorer. This is an adventure in the middle of Africa: Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, Angola, Lunda, Belgian Congo, Uganda and French Equatorial Africa ; B&W… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan and Co.. Very Good+. 1879. New Edition. Hardcover. Binding not tight. Fold-out map and both hinges repaired. Wear to extremities and gutters. Boards faded with discoloration. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper; Author Baker credits Bruce, Speke, Grant, and rather immodestly, himself, for discovering the sources of the Nile. 42-page catalog of other… Read more about this item

New York: The Century Co.. Very Good. 1925. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Lettering and pictorial design slightly faded. Faint occasional foxing, not affecting readability - a bit more apparent on first few pages; Green boards with ornate illustrations to front and spine. Author Alexander-Powell traverses Africa, west to east, from the northern tip… Read more about this item

London: John Lane the Bodley Head. Very Good-. 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. Spines sunned. Soiling/spotting to front boards. Internally a nice and tight copy with some spotting and browning to frontispiece tissue guard. Maps (originally in rear pockets) missing. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xix, 276, xxi,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Hubbard Brothers. Very Good-. 1878. Hardcover. Boards with moderate wear to corners. Mild fraying to spine ends. Hinges have a bit of play. Rear map is torn ; Profusely illustrated and with a rear folding map in color. Detailed account on the early African explorers; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 605 pages .… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover; Third Printing. DJ chipped and with small open and closed tears. Former owner's writing to endpapers. ; The author describes the then recent archeological discoveries. Including 38 b&w illustrations from photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages .

New York: Blue Ribbon Books. Very Good. 1931. Hardcover. Light shelfwear to boards. ; "The Chronicle of the first trans-african journey by motor truck from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Lagos on the Atlantic, Through Central Equatorial Africa". ; B&W Photographs; 8vo; 371 pages .

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+. 1948. Hardcover. Boards a bit tanned. Ex-lib with card and pocket on rear pastedown - no other markings. ; Unpaginated (ca. 120 pages). Numerous b&w photographs. A detailed description of Lambarene. Including an essay by Albert Schweitzer: Our Task in Colonial Africa ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .… Read more about this item

New York: Prentice Hall. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 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… Read more about this item