Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1910-1915. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Vol.I: Tales, Customs, Names and Dirges of the Tigre-Tribes; Text in Tigre (xvii. 288pp). - Vol.II: Tales, Customs, Names and Dirges of the Tigre-Tribes; English Translation (x. 344pp). - Vol.III: Songs of the Tigre-Tribes; Text..... More
London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1799. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xix, 376pp., 9 plates, 1 folding map, vii, 368pp., 20 plates, viii, 324 (32 )pp., 10 plates, including frontispieces in each volume. Contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering on black labels and gilt ruling on spines. Speckled..... More
[London]: [Printed for A. and J. Churchill], [1704]. Hardcover. Small Folio. (1) 612-756pp. Bound in modern half-calf over marbled boards with gilt lettering and blind-stamped decorative ruling on spine. Marginalia. N.B.: extracted from Churchill, Awnsham (ed.), A Collection of Voyages and Travels, vol. 1. Part I (pp. 611-650): The preface..... More
London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1816. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. xiii, (2) 370pp., 5 aquatints, 1 folding map. Bound in half calf over decorative paper-covered boards. Marbled edges. Color frontispiece. Two plates are signed engraved by R. Havell & Son. Comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his..... More
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davis, 1803. Second edition. Hardcover. Quarto. viii, (18) subscribers, (2) directions to binder, 275 (1), (4) 163 (1)pp., 43 plates, including folding maps and views. Bound in modern brown leather over marbled boards, with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece..... More
Hanover: Published by the Author, 1863. Second English Language Edition. Octavo. xxii, 376 (1)pp., 5 plates with rose tissue guards, 1 folding map. Rebacked retaining original dark emerald cloth binding with decorative blind-stamped framing on cover, gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Modern cream endpapers. With five woodcuts and a...... More
Paris: Jacques Vincent, 1745. First edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo. ix, (9) 262pp. Original full calf with gilt lettering, tooling and ruling on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Marbled endpapers. Publisher's device on title page. Decorative head and endpieces. Decorative initials. Remarkable travelogue of the expedition up the Nile to Aswan, documenting..... More
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816. First edition. Hardcover. Quarto. viii, 157pp., 1 folding map, 1 folding specimen. Original three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spine; raised bands. Tan endpapers. Frontispiece folding map of the Nile. Separate title pages for two chapters. "...on their arrival..... More
London: William Crofts, 1836. Ex-Library First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. iv, 412pp., 26 plates, incl. frontispiece, three of them in color, 2 folding maps. Rebacked three-quarter leather, retaining marbled boards with gilt lettering on black label of spine; raised bands. Tan endpapers. Color frontispiece. Allen Francis Gardiner (1794–1851) was a British..... More
Paris: Dentu, Imprimeur – Libraire, 1800. Hardcover. Octavo. xxxviii, 371, 1 folding engraving, 2 folding maps, (3) 391 (1)pp., one plate. Rebound in modern aubergine calf, light brown at spines, with decorative blind-stamped frame, gilt lettering on red leather label and gilt ruling on spine. Speckled edges. Cream endpapers. Illustrated..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1878. First American edition. Hardcover. Small Quarto. xiv, 522, ix, 566pp., 32 plates, 8 maps bound in, two of them folding, plus 2 folding maps in color in pocket at rear. Original burgundy pebbled leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering..... More
Bruxelles; Paris: Editions N. E. A., 1929. First edition. Softcover. Folio. 286, 284pp. Original half leather over cloth with gold illustrations on covers and spines, and gilt lettering on spines. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Original colored wraps bound in. Captivating study with an exceptional photographic and illustrated documentation on..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8 1/2 x 6"). xxv, [1], 408, [2]pp. Modern 3/4 crushed morocco over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and illustration to spine. Raised bands. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Emperor Menelik II. First edition..... More
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London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Inscribed "Miss Nyren & ... the true friends of many years. With all good wishes from the author. W. C. Willoughby. 14. April, 1900" on front free endpaper. Oblong Octavo. 64pp. Original tan cloth with beveled edges, gilt lettering..... More
London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1860. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 326pp. Original full calf with with gilt framed vignette, gilt lettering and decorative ruling on cover, gilt lettering on red leather label, decorative ruing and tooling on spine; raised bands (School Binding). Marbled edges. Ribbon marker. "... Writing as..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Johann Georg Fleischer, 1790. First German edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 12 leaves, 317pp., 6 plates, incl. frontispiece, (1) 336pp., 5 plates, 14pp. (register). Bound in three quarter calf over light brown boards with gilt tooling on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Engraved title pages..... More
Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1928. Eighth edition. Softcover. Duodecimo. ccii, 480pp., 21 maps, 85 plans. Original soft red cloth boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine, and debossed, decorative ruling on covers and spine. Marbled edges. Two ribbon markers. Frontispiece map. First published in 1877 this guide has been updated..... More
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1869. Fifth edition. Hardcover. Sm.8vo. xix. 414pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Beveled edges. Some chipping to head and tail of spine. Corners rubbed. Minor scuffing. "With the bookplate of Bruce Bryan, the noted author and long time curator of the Southwest Museum..... More
Hartford: O.D. Case & Co., 1868. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6 1/4"). xx, [21]-624pp. Original burgundy pebbled cloth with gold lettering to spine. First edition of Baker's second account of the 1861-5 Nile expedition, "a classic of exploration and big game hunting" (Czech), elaborating on his previous..... More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo.xvi,275,(1)pp. Index. Rebound in 3/4 red morocco, gilt decorated spine with 5 raised bands. T.e.g. Illustrated with a frontispiece map highlighted in red, and 8 woodcut plates. Extremities and front hinge with some rubbing, but still perfectly sound. Travels..... More
London: W. Thacker & Co., 1898. First English language edition. Hardcover. Quarto (9 x 6"). 335, [1]pp, [4]pp (Publisher's catalogue). Original gilt-stamped brown cloth, with gold lettering to spine and front cover. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Illustrated throughout with 38 in-text and full-page b/w illustrations and photographic reproductions, this work, first published..... More
Paris: NP, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Oblong 16mo. Unpaginated. Decorative marbled paper covered boards with gold lettering and decoration on front cover. Book housed in publisher's slipcase, with gold lettering on front cover and spine. For the Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris held in 1931, the organizers published a series..... More
New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1905. First American edition. Hardcover. Quarto. XLIII, [1], 459pp. Original red cloth with gold-stamped illustration on front cover and gold lettering on spine and front board. Frontispiece protected with a tissue-guard. A "detailed description of the ruins of Great Zimbabwe* - the first..... More
Paris: NRF Gallimard, 1951. Later printing (7th edition). Softcover. Large octavo. 533, [3]pp. Full brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Original wraps bound in. Printer's device on title-page. Scarce and fascinating work being an ethnographic diary, in the style of Bronislaw..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891, (©1890). First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 2 volumes xiv, 547, (1); xvi, 540pp. Index. Original pictorial green cloth stamped in darker green and black and lettered in gilt. Illustrated with two steel engraved frontispieces, 150 text woodcuts (some full-page, 1, a color printed land..... More