Africa

# 48880

ARIF, Aida S.

Arabic Lapidary Kufic in Africa. Egypt – North Africa – Sudan

.A study of the development of the Kufic Script (3rd – 6th Century A. H. / 9th – 12th Century A.D.). London : Luzac & Company, 1967. Octavo, orange cloth lettered in gilt, illustrated dustjacket (marked) pp. xv; [blank]; 75; [blank]; 36 black and white photographic plates; 117; [blank]; a touch of foxing to edges, …

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# 13440

ALVARES, Francisco, 1465-c.1541; CORSALI, Andrea, 1487-?

Warhafftiger Bericht von den Landen,

auch geistlichem vnd weltlichem Regiment, des Mechtigen Könige in Ethiopien : den wir Priester Johan nennen, wie solches durch die Kron Portugal mit besondern vleis erfündiget worden. beschrieben durch Herrn Franciscum Aluares, so derhalben sechs Jahr lang an gedachts Priester Johans Hoffe verharren müssen ; aus der Portugallischen vnd Italianischen Sprache in das Deutsche gebracht, …

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# 37099

RAY, John (1627-1705)

[NATURAL HISTORY; PALESTINE; ASIA MINOR; ARABIA; ETHIOPIA etc.] A collection of curious travels and voyages,

in two parts; the first containing Leonhart Rauwolff’s Itinerary into the Eastern countries; as Syria, Palestine, or the Holy Land, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Assyria, Chaldea, &c. Translated from the High Dutch by Nicholas Staphorst. The second taking in many parts of Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, Arabia Felix, and Petraea, Ethiopia, the Red-Sea, &c. From the observations of …

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# 13747

KLINGER, Johann Georg; MULLER, Johann Wolfgang

Relations de divers voyages curieux

Also titled: Description de differens peuples remarquables des cinq parties du monde. Nuremberg : J. G. Klinger, 1805-1807. Second edition. Original box of red paper over card, 114 x 100 x 105 mm, with gilt embossed decoration, the lid lettered in gilt Jeu de voyage des cinq parties du monde (corners bumped); the box in three compartments: …

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# 47313

[HOFMANN, Karl Friedrich]

L’homme cultivé, ou Tableau des différentes périodes de culture et de civilisation,

que le genre humain a parcourues depuis l’origine des sociétés jusqu’à nos jours. Ouvrage destiné à entretenir la jeunesse en l’instruisant et en lui formant le coeur. Enrichi de 50 gravures enluminées et de deux Cartes géographiques. Traduit de l’allemand d’après la seconde edition revue et augmentée. Leipzig : Bruder et Hofmann, [1812]. Square duodecimo (140 x 120 …

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# 35516

BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

[CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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# 49394

BECHER, A. B.

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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# 49410

STANLEY, Henry M.

In darkest Africa.

Or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. London : Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (edges rubbed, corners bumped, hinges a little cracked), patterned endpapers, pp. xvi; 529, xvi; 472, large folding colour maps (the largest with a long tear at joint), …

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# 24306

Mendes Pinto, Fernão (d. 1583); Cogan, Henry (translator)

The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies.

With a relation and description of most of the places thereof ; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave : written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the …

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# 47286

[WAKEFIELD, Priscilla; MILLS, Alfred, illustrator]

[COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

Paris : Guyot et de Pelafol, 1816. 32mo (68 x 60 mm), original calf, boards with decorative borders in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (a little worn at the junctions of the head and outer joints), marbled endpapers; 96 pp. with a frontispiece and 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world; binding …

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# 45944

A. LION (publisher)

[GAME] Nouveau jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel, ou Tableaux des capitales de l’univers.

[Paris] : [A. Lion], n.d. [c.1845]. Original box of thick card, 230 x 290 x 40 mm, the lid with paste-down chromolithograph; containing 18 sections of playing board (each 125 x 215 mm), each with a paste-down lithograph illustrating five different locations, mostly major cities (all 90 locations illustrated are briefly described in an accompanying …

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# 49070

GROSVENOR, Gilbert (editor)

Map of Africa and adjoining portions of Europe and Asia

Prepared especially for the National Geographic Magazine. Washington : National Geographic Society, 1922. Folding map, printed in colour, 790 x 715 mm, dissected and laid on linen, showing the continent of Africa mostly under colonial administration, extending to Madagascar and Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, southern Europe and the Arabian Peninsula, including the Persian Gulf, …

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# 49242

TRENDELL, A. J. R.

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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# 47645

d'EICHTHAL, Gustave

[POLYNESIAN MIGRATIONS + LANGUAGES] Histoire et origine des Foulahs ou Fellans.

Paris : Librairie orientale, 1841. Series: Mémoires de la Société ethnologique. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers (darkened and with minor stains, lengthy paper split along spine, dog-eared corners); half title with the author’s presentation inscription in ink; pp. xii, 296, folding map of Africa at rear; pale water stain to fore-edge margin …

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# 27985

Dépôt de la guerre

Carte topographique des environs d’Alger

d’Aprés les levés et les reconnaissances des Officiers d’Etat-major et autres documents. Paris : Publiée par le Depôt de la Guerre; Imprimerie chez Kaeppelin, 1856. Engraved by Erhard Schieble. Engraved map, dissected and laid on linen, 680 x 1010 mm, printed label. French colonial map of Algeria, invaded by the French in 1830 and occupied with much …

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# 48584

ROSCOE, Rev. John

The Baganda. An account of their native customs and beliefs

London : Macmillan, 1911. Octavo, gilt-letter cloth (edges lightly rubbed, gilt-stamp of the the New South Wales Library of Parliament to upper board), pp. xx, 525, 81 black and white photographs, two folding maps, parliamentary library stamp to title page, a very good copy. A description of the traditional societies in Uganda prior to European …

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