Category: African History

Trader Horn: Being the Life and Works of Alfred Aloysius Horn: The works written by himself at the age of seventy-three and the life, with such of his philosophy as is the gift of age & experience taken down here and edited by Ethelreda Lewis. With a Foreword by John Galsworthy.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Simon and Schuster, MCMXXVII.

Seller ID: 2161gls

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), tissue-protected frontis., map illus. endpapers, viii + 302 pp. Very Good, with former-owner bookplate and lightly rubbed edges. From Foreword: This is a gorgeous book, more full of sheer stingo than any you are likely to come across in a day's march among the bookshops of wherever you may be. These untutored memories of youth adventuring long ago in a wild place, recorded with an untutored pen in a Johannesburg dosshouse, are like the gold ore of that so-called golden City, as Alfred Aloysius Horn would call it, except indeed that the proportion of gold in...
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Fugitive in the Jungle. Translated from the German by Oakley Williams.

By: Mattenklodt, Wilhelm.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1931. First Edition.

Seller ID: 61394bd

Octavo, orange cloth (hardcover), 292 pp. Map. Good; spine faded, head of spine frayed, smallish stain near foot of spine, interior clean and tight.
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Mit Schwert & Flugschar in Sachsen und Sudwestafrika.

By: Mehnert, Gottreich Hubert.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Glanz & Gloria Verlag, (2007).

Seller ID: qms1278

Octavo, paperbound (stiff, photo. illus. wrappers), 128 pp. Very Good+, with lightly rubbed edges. From lower cover: Freunde dieses Genres haben den Rittmeister der Schutztruppe, G. H. Mehnert, bereits in den vorherigen Werken, Kurzgeschichten aus Sudwestafrika sowie in der letzten Veroffentlichung Kriegsgeschichten aus Sudwestafika, kennen gelernt. Darin erzahlte er uber seine schlimmen Eriebnisse bei den Eingeborenenaufstanden, uber seine Jagdabenteuer sowie uber den Aufbau seiner Farm mit taglichen Anekdoten...
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The Nile. Photographs by Kazuyoshi Nomachi. Introduction by Geoffrey Moorhouse.

By: Nomachi, Kazuyoshi; Photographer.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston: A Bulfinch Press Book - Little, Brown and Company, (1990). First U. S. Edition.

Seller ID: 50645bd

Square quarto, charcoal boards (hardcover), silver letters, map illus. endpapers, 190 full-color illustrations, 193 pp. Near-Fine in a Near-Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: More than four thousand miles in length, the Niule is the longest river on Earth. Its power and mystery have held mankind in thrall from the dawn of history, and Kazuyoshi Nomachi not only has photographed the splendors of the Egyptian Niule -- from the mysteries of the pyramids at Aswan and Luxor to the bustle of Cairo and Alexandria -- but has also traveled in the footsteps of explorers, from Hrodotus to Livingston...
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Flammen uber Deutschost: Der Maji-Maji-Aufstand in Deutsch-Ostafrika 1905-1906, die erste gemeinsame Erhebung schwarzafrikanischer Volker gegen weisse Kolonialherrschaft. Ein Beitrag zur deutschen Kolonialgeschichte.

By: Nuhn, Walter.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Bernard & Graefe Verlag, (1998). First Edition.

Seller ID: qms354

Octavo, red boards (hardcover), map illus. endpapers, 292 pp. Fine (As New) in a Fine (As New) dust jacket. From jacket: In den Jahren 1905/06 ereignete sich im heutigen Tansania eine der grossten Tragodien in der Kolonialgeschichte Schwarzafrikas. Im Maji-Maji-Aufstand erhoben sich erstmals in grosser Zahl verschiedenste Volkerschaften und Stamme gegen die weisse Fremdherrschaft. Beflugelt von einem schutzenden Zaubertrunk zogen die Eingeborenen mit noch nie gekanntem Fanatismus gegen die deutschen Kolonialtruppen in den Kampf und setzten diesen sehr schwer zu. Es dauerte geraume Zeit, ...
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The Doors of Senegal: Les Portes du Senegal.

By: Overton, Cleve and Jude Anderson.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Washington: Diaspora Voices Press, (2007). First Edition.

Seller ID: vita5430

Signed and Inscribed by Cleve Overton. Quarto, slick color-illustrated boards (hardcover), [ii], 86 pp. Color photographs throughout. Fine.
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South African Tragedy: The Life and Times of Jan Hofmeyr. Abridgement by Dudley C. Lunt.

By: Paton, Alan.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1965).

Seller ID: 71342bd

Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, map illus. endpapers, xii + 424 pp. Fine, in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear. From dust jacket: The story of South Africa today is inextricably bound to the life of Jan Hofmeyr. For Hofmeyr represented perhaps the last hope for a liberal policy in government as opposed to the present extremist policies of apartheid. The life of J. H. Hofmeyr had an inner drama that was exciting and unique: there was a strange childhood; a prodigious academic career crowned by a brilliant Oxford record; the principalship of a university ...
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African Voices: An Anthology of Native African Writing.

By: Rutherfoord, Peggy; Editor.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [MCMLVIII).

Seller ID: 4431s

Octavo, burgundy cloth, gilt letters, 208 pp. Former owner stamp; otherwise, Fine in an edgeworn dust jacket. ÔThis is the first collection of native writing to be published in this country. Carefully and comprehensively prepared...it presents a varied and creative writing, prose, and poetry, from all parts of Africa -- writing rich in invention and worthy to stand with any national culture in literary quality and scope...' ÔThis is us! Africa speaking to Africa and to the world...'
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African Punch-Out Masks.

By: Smith, A. G. and Josie Hazen.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1994.

Seller ID: vas5300

Quarto, softbound, 6 plates. Fine. From lower cover: Experience the magic and excitement of Africa with this wonderful collection of colorful and exotic punch-out masks based on actual tribal artifacts. Six masks, including a spotted hyena mask worn by the Dogon of Mali, a circular and striped Bateke mask, an elaborately patterned and beaded Bakuba dance mask from the Congo, a mysterious Lumbo mask from Gabon and two more are excellent sources of educational fun for costume parties, scouting programs, Halloween trick-or-treating, school projects and rainy days in the house. African Punch-...
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The Land and People of Algeria.

By: Spencer, William.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, [1969]. Portraits of tne Nations Series.

Seller ID: 28309

1st edition. Octavo, gray cloth, 156 pp. Photos, map. Fine in a slightly chipped 8dust jacket.
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Abbeokuta; Or, Sunrise within the Tropics: An Outline of the Origin and Progress of the Yoruba Mission.

By: Tucker, Miss [Charlotte Maria].

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London: James Nisbet and Co., 1854.

Seller ID: 800014m

4th edition. Duodecimo, full polished calf, calf label, 278 pp. 2 fold-out maps, 2 lithographic plates in color, 4 woodcut plates. Very Good; covers are lightly scuffed.
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Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen.

By: Tyldesley, Joyce.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York: Viking, [1999]. First American Edition.

Seller ID: 00087s

Octavo, black cloth & orange boards (hardcover), xiv, 232 pp. FIne (As New), in like dust jacket. Illus. with plates, figures, maps, photos, chronologies. ÒJoyce Tyldesley uses a combination of archaeological, textual, and artistic evidence to provide a detailed discussion of the life and times of Nefertiti, set against the background of the heretical and ephemeral Amarna court. Nefertiti is a radical re-creation and the first full-scale biography of one of the most mysterious, powerful, and beautiful women of the ancient world.Ó
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Volkerkundliche Aufzeichnungen aus dem Notizbuch eines Kamerun-Missionars, 1890-1914.

By: Valentin, Peter.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 1978.

Seller ID: 50155s

Octavo, yellow stapled wrappers, 37 pp. Near-Fine, with faint soiling to covers.
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Category: African History