Zomba, Nyasaland Protectorate: Government of Nyasaland, 1932. First. Hardcover. 436 pp, ill, colored folding map, ads front and rear. Geology, historial information, tribal settlements, warfare, natives, government, southern and northern provinces, animal and bird life, education, the King's Agrican Rifles (KAR), & miscellaneous information. Internally okay, externally the binding is..... More
Dulles, VA: Potomac Books, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Richard Francis Burton in Africa. 1910 VA 302 pp. ill. Genius, hero, misfit, egomaniac, madman, bigot, revolutionary, misanthrope, gypsy - and explorer. All have been used to describe thia great African adventurer - a man who risked uncertain paths into the unknown..... More
Cairo: Government Press, 1919. First. Orig Printed Stiff Boards. Ministry of Public Works, Zoological Service, Cairo. 119 pp + 31 colored plates on thick paper. Intended to be as complete a list as possible of the birds of Egypt. Also has in front a large colored folding map of Egypt..... More
New York: Random House, 1991. First American. Hardcover. 738 pp, ill. 1st Amer ed. White man's conquest of the dark continent from 1876 to 1912. Near fine in like dj. More
Amsterdam/Cape Town: Balkema, 1961. First. Hardcover. 332 pp. Profuse ill in color & b/w. Folding plate in rear. More
London: John Murray, 1816. New Edition. Full Leather. performed in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797 with an account of a subsequent missions to that country in 1805. ...to which is added an account of the life of Mr. Park. With an appendix containing geographical ill. of Africa by Major..... More
London: Harvill Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Nomads of the Jade Sea. 242 pp, profuse color ill. Large format. In the far northern reaches of Kenya, (The Rift Valley) on the shores of Lake Turkana, lives a group of nomads. The area is so poorly endowed that it cannot support..... More
NY: Pantheon, 1981. First. Hardcover. Four expeditions to the arctic, the congo, the Gobi Desert and Siberia. 184 pp, maps, profuse ill. Four expeditions related by the author with the help of the American Museum of Natural History. Near fine in like dj. Interesting reading. More
London: Quarter, 1981. First. Soft cover. 141 pp, ill. Manuscript left by Philby and finally published about the visit f the Queen of Sheba to King SAolomon. Fine in near fine dj. More
New Jersey: David McKay, 1966. First American. Hardcover. 319 pp. ill. More
London: Richard Phillips, 1813. First. Plain Linin Over Paper Boards. to the Cape of Good hope, Isles of Bourbon, France and Seychelles, to Madras, and the Isles of Java, St Paul and Amsterdam. 112 pp. Folding map frontis. Bookplate of Percival Bishop. Plain binding deserves to be replaced as this..... More
London: Smith, Elder, 1873. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes: 483 & 529 pp, ill, 6 maps. Early African exploration, some big game and hunting as well as on slave trading regions. Author also discovered a new route from Sierra Leone to the River Niger crossing Africa from west to east..... More
New York: St Martins Press, 1961. First American. Hardcover. Climax of imperialism in the Dark Continent. 491 pp. Folding maps. More
London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1916. First Edition. Soft cover. Volume XLVII No 1 January 1916. 80 pp, large folding map, 1 folding plate. Railway development in Africa, the Kivu Country by Sharpe, Journey across Tsa-Rung by Kingdon-Ward. VG in orig. blue printed wraps. Small over stamp on front cover..... More
London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume XV - January to June 1900. Six issues in one volume. 724 pp, profuse folding maps, flat maps and illustrations. Worldwide exploration. Good only in orig. blue gilt RGS style cloth. Corners bumped, top of spine worn, chipped w/slight loss..... More
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Vol XVII - January to June 1901. 740 pp, maps, folding maps, illustrations. Incl. explorations by Sir Harry Johnston, St Hill Hibbons, Thomas Holdich on the geography of the northwest frontier of India, Normal Collie exploring the Canadian Rocky Mountains, Tanganyika and..... More
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume XXXI January to June 1908. 752 pp, profuse folding maps (some colored) and illustrations. Exploration f Nun Kun by Workman, The Gorge and Basin of the Zambezi, Northwest valley of the Amazon, Mountaineering expedition to the Himalaya of Garhwal, Through Eastern..... More
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1908. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume the XXXII - July to December 1908. 699 pp, folding maps and ill. Some scientific results of Antarctic expeditions by Gregory, Journey to South of the Tana River, East Africa, Aurel Stein's expedition in Central Asia, several article on New Zealand..... More
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume XXXIII - January to June 1909. 788 pp, profuse folding maps and text sketch maps. Danish North-East Greenland Expedition, Sven Hedin's Journey in central Asia and later his Journey in Tibet, FIfty Years of Nile Exploration, The Panama Canal in 1908..... More
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume XXIV - July to December 1909. 754 pp + text and sketches maps and many folding maps. Including 3 large colored folding maps of Antarctic by Shackleton, map of Uganda Congo Boundary and Nile map. Articles incl Central Asia by Hedin..... More
London: Royal Geographical Society, 1910. First Edition. Soft cover. Volume XXV - January to June 1910. 803 pp, many folding maps. Claude White in Bhutan, Fanny Workman on the Hispar Glacier, Survey on Brazil-Bolivia boundary, Hodson on journeys in the Kalahari Desert, Carruthers in Northwestern Arabia, Glaciers in the Western..... More
London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume XL- July to December 1912. 732 pp, ill, folding maps. Rear hinge end papers separated but hinge is holding. Exploration in the Panjkora Kohistan by Godfrey, articles on volcanic rifts with maps, mountains of northern Sikkim and Gahrwal, Journey to..... More
London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume XXXVII - January to June 1911. 760 pp, profuse folding maps and ill. Sixth journey to Persia by Sykes, Duke of Arbuzzi to Karakoran Himalayas, Map of part of northeast Borneo, more on Sykes' and Carruthers' journeys in Persia and..... More
London: The Royal Geographical Society, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume XLI - January to June 1913. 667 pp. Folding maps. Norwegian South Polar Expedition by Amundsen with folding map, Southern Nigeria and Alaska- Canada Boundary, From the Victoria Nyanza to the Kisjii Highlands, Amundsen's South Pole review, The Antarctic Disaster..... More
