Livingston's Travels and Researches in South Africa by Livingstone, David - 1859: A Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa

44 pages. Royal octavo (9" x6 3/4") issued in wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. Relaciones Geograficas del Siglo XVIII. First edition, limited to 100 copies of which this is number 38.Manuscripts collected by Franciso del Paso Troncoso. In the archives of the "Real Academia de Historia de Madrid" and "The Archives of the Indies of Seville."George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in… Read More

42 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster. Edited by L Vargas Rea. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 80.Modern scholarship continues to be deeply indebted to the labors of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, less for any extended completed studies or synthesis than for a lifetime of collecting historical materials of the greatest importance to continuing investigation. His activities in Europe during the 23 years he spent searching out, copying and preparing for publication a vast store of prime documentary materials for the pre-Conquest and colonial history of Mexico have been abundantly documented. Paso y Troncoso saw his prime mission as twofold. First, he proposed to gather and publish as complete a corpus of Sahagun documents as possible. His interest in the great Franciscan had stemmed from the days when Paso y Troncoso as a young man had helped Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta prepare the latter's Bibliografia mexicana… Read More

Cape Town, South Africa: Siber Ink, 2004. 209 pages including Index. Square tight, uncreased, unmarked and clean.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

ix+366 pages. Small octavo ( (7 1/4" x 4 1/4") in the original leather binding with black label in gilt to spine. (Howes:354) First printed in 1806 in London in three volumes. Second printing.Thomas Ashe (1770-1835), was born in Dublin, Ireland and was a soldier and memoirist. Much of his life was checkered with intrigue and fraud. His Memoirs and Confessions (1815) is an autobiographical account of 'criminal and delinquent' escapades beginning with the seduction of a girl in France. In America he edited the National Intelligencer, and was arrested when attempting to steal treasures from churches in Latin America. His Travels in America first appeared in 1806. The narrative, chronicles Ashe's travels by flatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1806 and is one of the first travelogues written by a foreigner to comment specifically on the American inhabitants of the region. A unrestrained hatred of Americans can be found throughout the work. While the account is interesting and highly readable… Read More

Indio California, 1967. HBDJ, 1967, 1st Limited Edition, NF+/GOOD, DJ Spine sunned with DJ Extremity tiny chips tears wear, binding and text are in great shape, Orange buckram Titled in gold gilt on spine cvr,Saga of young man who left his boyhood home in Maine, traveled with circus then settled in Palm Springs California. Author moved here in 1931 & knew many of old timers who moved here lured by search for Gold & found famous Iron Chief mine in Eagle Mountains. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Charles C. Colley,.

44 pages. Royal octavo (9" x6 3/4") issued in wrappers. From the library of George M Foster. Relaciones Geograficas del Siglo XVIII. First edition, limited to 100 copies of which this is number 38.Manuscripts collected by Franciso del Paso Troncoso. In the archives of the "Real Academia de Historia de Madrid" and "The Archives of the Indies of Seville."George McClelland Foster, Jr born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, on October 9, 1913, died on May 18, 2006, at his home in the hills above the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as a professor from 1953 to his retirement in 1979, when he became professor emeritus. His contributions to anthropological theory and practice still challenge us; in more than 300 publications, his writings encompass a wide diversity of topics, including acculturation, long-term fieldwork, peasant economies, pottery making, public health, social structure, symbolic systems, technological change, theories of illness and wellness, humoral medicine in… Read More

42 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's wrappers. From the library of Professor George M Foster. Edited by L Vargas Rea. Limited to 100 copies of which this is number 80.Modern scholarship continues to be deeply indebted to the labors of Francisco del Paso y Troncoso, less for any extended completed studies or synthesis than for a lifetime of collecting historical materials of the greatest importance to continuing investigation. His activities in Europe during the 23 years he spent searching out, copying and preparing for publication a vast store of prime documentary materials for the pre-Conquest and colonial history of Mexico have been abundantly documented. Paso y Troncoso saw his prime mission as twofold. First, he proposed to gather and publish as complete a corpus of Sahagun documents as possible. His interest in the great Franciscan had stemmed from the days when Paso y Troncoso as a young man had helped Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta prepare the latter's Bibliografia mexicana… Read More

Cape Town, South Africa: Siber Ink, 2004. 209 pages including Index. Square tight, uncreased, unmarked and clean.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

ix+366 pages. Small octavo ( (7 1/4" x 4 1/4") in the original leather binding with black label in gilt to spine. (Howes:354) First printed in 1806 in London in three volumes. Second printing.Thomas Ashe (1770-1835), was born in Dublin, Ireland and was a soldier and memoirist. Much of his life was checkered with intrigue and fraud. His Memoirs and Confessions (1815) is an autobiographical account of 'criminal and delinquent' escapades beginning with the seduction of a girl in France. In America he edited the National Intelligencer, and was arrested when attempting to steal treasures from churches in Latin America. His Travels in America first appeared in 1806. The narrative, chronicles Ashe's travels by flatboat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in 1806 and is one of the first travelogues written by a foreigner to comment specifically on the American inhabitants of the region. A unrestrained hatred of Americans can be found throughout the work. While the account is interesting and highly readable… Read More

Indio California, 1967. HBDJ, 1967, 1st Limited Edition, NF+/GOOD, DJ Spine sunned with DJ Extremity tiny chips tears wear, binding and text are in great shape, Orange buckram Titled in gold gilt on spine cvr,Saga of young man who left his boyhood home in Maine, traveled with circus then settled in Palm Springs California. Author moved here in 1931 & knew many of old timers who moved here lured by search for Gold & found famous Iron Chief mine in Eagle Mountains. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Charles C. Colley,.