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Secker and Warburg, London, 1953, (First Published 1953). [First Edition]. 223pp, short 8vo, red cloth -- Binding moderatley cocked -- Good to very good condition in good+ dust jacket which has moderate wear Quantity Available: 1 Category: Africa; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 000704.

New York. 4to, illustrated wraps, b&w and color illustrations, prices realised laid in loose -- Very good condition (kb) Quantity Available: 1 Category: Africa; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 007459.

African Lakes Corporation Limited of Glasgow and Blantyre, Nyasaland, 1958. Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. 8vo, orig cloth, 107pp -- Paper bookstore label (Lusaka Bookshop) pasted to bottom rear corner of front cover -- Some fading & soiling to cloth, a few tape marks Good+ condition Quantity Available: 1 Category: Africa; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 000339.

London: John Snow, 1842. First Edition. Full leather. Very good. (2nd thousand). 8vo, full light brown leather: front and rear panels diced calf, spine has raised bands w/dec blindstamped design between bands, dark leather label w/gilt title Marbled foredges w/matching marbled endpapers, color frontis, vignette title page, folding map in fine condition -- Light rubbing and a few scuff marks to leather extremities, bottom corners bumped, light foxing to plates - Some foxing, text mostly unfoxed, binding is tight and straight. Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (1842) is an autobiographical account of missionary activity among the Tswana people of South Africa by the Scottish missionary and linguist Robert Moffat. It attracted a wide Victorian readership and became a classic narrative of missionary activity in Africa.

Berlag in Leipzig, R. Boigtlander, 1905. [First Edition]. 558pp, royal 8vo, pictorial buckram, illustrated -- Light wear, a couple of very small light colored spots on front cover, small oval private library stamp on verso of title page and on last page of text, internally clean and tight -- Overall ve ry good condition Quantity Available: 1 Category: Africa; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 000739.

Published by the City Council of Pretoria. For Private Circulation, (1955). Tall 8vo, cloth, 36pp, illustrated, index -- Very good or better in good+ dust (with a few chips) jacket Quantity Available: 1 Category: Africa; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request Inventory No: 000388.

New York - Akron, O. - Chicago: Saalfield, 1900. child. Hardcover. Good +. 8vo., pp.38, cloth covers w/blind stamped illus of a chimp, illustrated with photographs. Four pages publishers ads at rear. -- Head and heel of spine and corners have wear. Binding a little soiled (mostly on the back cover). -- "1 edition published in 1900 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide."-world catalog. -- Overall Condition. "This children's book, containing many photographs, is an account of an early experiment in the training and education of a "monkey who wore dresses, played with dolls, set at the table to eat, rode a bicycle and did hundreds of amusing things". The book was listed in Saalfield Publishing's Christmas Book List in 1900 and was offered for sale for 50 cents. Buhre's account, although describing Tess with affection, reflects some of the less enlightened ideas of her time on primate well-being".-onprcrarebookcollection. -- An interesting account of the capture in the wilds of Africa, the return… Read More