History: Africa from The Owl at the Bridge

VOLUME TWO ONLY. Of the tombs of Thebes which the writer was able to examine, he writes (p. 177), "I observed every thing I met with, and put into my pockets all the portable fragments I found: among the latter was a charming little patera, of baked earth, a morsel worthy of the best age of the arts... figures of… Ler mais sobre este item

Title continues: Being the Catalogue Raisonné of the Mendelssohn Library of Works relating to South Africa, including the Full Titles of the Books, with Synoptical, Biographical, Critical, and Bibliographical Notes on the Volumes and their Authors. Together with Notices of a large number of Important Works not as yet included in the Collection, based on Information gathered by… Ler mais sobre este item

Hammond was an American mining engineer employed by Cecil Rhodes in South Africa; he was involved in the Jameson Raid (1895/6), captured & sentenced to death, eventually released on payment of a fine; he promoted many hydroelectric and mining projects. VOLUME TWO ONLY. Pages 387-813, index, plates; 23 cm. Bound in green cloth, spine faded, no dust… Ler mais sobre este item

Two bookseller catalogues. Quaritch 1017, 385 items, illus.; Lake 51, 158 items. Both in paper covers; both Good or better. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0318.

Two bookseller catalogues listing books on Eastern lands. Salloch, Orientalia, 72 pages, 235 items, xvi plates with 25 illustrations plus 2; Brill, Again the East, 1660 items, 26 illus. Both stapled in pictorial paper covers; both Good. Sold as a lot. Stock#ofc0263.

London, Allison & Busby, 1987. Soft Cover. 256 p., index, 20 cm. Arranged by country: Azania (South Africa), Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana, Tanzania, and smaller states. Stock#36536 (s-b). Vg/ paper.

NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1945; reprint Mansfield Center CT, Martino Pub., 2007. Hard Cover. vii, 40 p., illus., XX plates (incl. plans) on 10 leaves; 28 cm. In the season of 1925-26 the expedition of the Metropolitan Museum found at Der el-Bahri a catacomb containing some sixty bodies of soldiers who had been slain in battle. A first… Ler mais sobre este item

London, Faber and Faber, [1990]. Soft Cover. 222 p., 19.5 cm. First published 1959. Autobiography of a black man growing up in South Africa. Stock# 33,190. Vg/ paper; good.

Originally published London, 1886-1888; reprint Martino [1994]. "Dedicated to H. H. the Khedive Ismail." Hard Cover. Octavo; two volumes in one, vii, 398, [2], 459 pages; 23 cm. Detailed collations, plate listings, and author index for 20,000 titles, with strengths in archaeology and the occult. Stock#34865x / house. Fine; new from publisher, in red binder's cloth.

Salisbury, N.C., Documentary Publications, 1978. series: Lost Documents on the Third Reich Volume III. Hard Cover. vii, 207 p.; 28.5cm. "Almost from the first months of Hitler's coming to power, both the leaders and various agencies of the Third Reich began a determined effort to politicize their onetime African colonies.' This book contains 50 documents dated from 1933 to… Ler mais sobre este item

London, Cambridge UP for Hakluyt Society, 1976, #147. Hard Cover. xvi, 365 p., index, plates (one folding). Antedating the chartering of the East India Company by nearly twenty years, and "Chronicling, in the main, the initial (albeit abortive) attempt to establish a spice trade in the Moluccas, The Diary of Richard Madox... provides... details of the Oxford and London… Ler mais sobre este item

Hardcover. xxix, 275 pages, color frontispiece, plates (part color), portrait, folding map; 23 cm. A description and history of Siwah Oasis on the western frontier of Egypt. The author, who served in the British Army Camel Corps during World War I, wrote, and made the paintings that illustrate, the book while serving in the Frontier Districts Administration, and knew the… Ler mais sobre este item

Offprint from Revue d'Ethnografie, Tome IV no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1885.. Notes on the Oued-Rir and its Inhabitants and on Some Monuments of the Algerian Sahara. [417]-451 pages, 4 illus. Stapled in paper covers; paper darkened, a bit brittle; good. Stock#28567.

New York: Robert Carter... 1850.. Hard Cover. 451 p., 7 plates. First published as A Pastors Memorial of Egypt, London, 1843. The plates are: Mount Arafat, frontispiece; Acqueduct near Rome, p. 33; Jerusalem, p. 242; Mt. Zion, p. 255; The Mount of Olives and Garden of Gethsemane, p. 267; Mt. Carmel, p. 359; Ruins of Tyre, p. 365. Ibrahim-Hilmy… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Hard Cover. 434, [1] p. Glossary. Endpaper maps. The South African novelist's first book. A historical novel about the Great Boet Trek to the Transvaal 1834-1848. Stock #100,792x. Vg/no dj. South Africa Literature Fiction

Paris: Chez Bleuet jeune, An Vii, 1798. "Nouvelle édition, ornée de cartes géographiques, et augmentée d'une table alphabétique des matières." First published 1785 (cf. Cioranescu 59673). This much-expanded edition was probably issued in response to the interest aroused by Napoleon's taking a French army, and savants as well, to Egypt in May 1798. Hard Cover. Three volumes:… Ler mais sobre este item

Boston, Houghton Mifflin [1991].. Soft Cover. xii, 404 p., illus.; maps, 21 cm. This river,2716 miles long, drains all of Central Africa. "Few places in the world have suffered as much terror and bloodshed as the Congo has in the past six hundred years." Stock #29,407. VG/ wrappers.

Mansfield Center, Conn.: Martino Pub., 2009. Catalogue Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Nos. 38001-39384. This catalogue illustrates and describes statues of the various ancient Egyptian gods, their size, materials with which they were fashioned, etc. Any inscriptions have been written out in hieroglyphs but not translated. Volume I is illustrated with several figures; Volume II… Ler mais sobre este item

Hardcover. xvi, 334 pages including illustrations, genealogical tables, diagrams, plates (1 folding), portrait, folding map, index; 24 cm. This book, by the medical officer of the Somaliland Protectorate, is mainly an account of the Somali people and is the result of ten years' acquaintance with that race. The flora and fauna and the economic resources of the country are… Ler mais sobre este item

"First American Edition / Reprinted 1988." Selected and introduced by Anthony Sattin. Florence Nightingale traveled to Egypt with friends and wrote letters which her sister published in a small edition in 1854. Hardcover. 224 pages, Illustrations (some color); 19.5 x 23 cm. Red gift inscription inside front cover/ dust jacket price clipped; Near Fine. Stock#28130/h.