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COOPER, Joseph.
The Lost Continent; Or, Slavery and the Slave-trade In Africa, 1875. With observations on the Asiatic Slave-trade, carried on under the name of labour traffic, and some other subjects.
London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1875..
8vo. pp. viii, 138, [10]ads. folding coloured map. A bright partly unopened copy in original cloth (slight spotting to rear covers, some foxing throughout). First Edition.
$410 USD Book Number: AOPeCOOP99 Order / Enquire

CORNET, Joseph.
A Survey Of Zairian Art The Bronson Collection.
Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1978..
4to. pp. 379. profusely illus. (many colour, most full-page). several maps. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$103 USD Book Number: ARNSuCOR62 Order / Enquire

CORNET, Joseph.
Art de L'Afrique Noire Au Pays Du Fleuve Zaïre.
Brussels: Arcade, 1972..
4to. pp. 367, [4]. Profusely illus. in b/w, several tipped-in colour plates. biblio. index. cloth. dw. slipcase.
$599 USD Book Number: stela386 Order / Enquire

COULSON, David & CAMPBELL, Alec.
African Rock Art Paintings And Engravings On Stone.
[New York]: Harry N. Abrams , Inc., [2001]..
4to. pp. 256. 189 colour illus., 120 line illus., 7 maps. biblio. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.
$92 USD Book Number: ABE-277140 Order / Enquire

CROMER, [Evelyn BARING, first] Earl of [1841-1917].
Modern Egypt.
New York: Macmillan Company, 1908..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xviii, [2], 594; xiv, 600. original cloth (spine ends trifle frayed, Vol. II rear hinge partly cracked). First American Edition of this important contemporary account of Egypt under British occupation and events leading up to it . The author was British controller-general of the Egyptian public debt during 1879, and agent and consul-general in Egypt from 1883 to 1907. Britain occupied Egypt after it had fallen into serious financial and political difficulty, and it was Cromer who was mainly responsible for the consolidation of British rule in Cairo. Unpopular with Egyptian nationalists, Cromer was eventually forced to resign in the wake of protests over the punishments handed out to Egyptians following the 1906 Denshawai Incident.
$300 USD Book Number: elala3137 Order / Enquire

DE AMICIS, Edmondo.
Morocco Its People And Places.
Philadelphia: Henry T.Coates & Co., 1897..
2 Volumes. 8vo. pp. viii, 253; viii, 226. folding colour map & 50 photogravures. tissue guards with legends. original elaborately gilt-stamped cloth, t.e.g. (some soiling to cloth, extremities bit frayed). First Edition of this English Translation by Maria Hornor Lansdale.
$150 USD Book Number: elala3758 Order / Enquire

DEAKIN, Ralph.
The Tour Of The Prince Of Wales To Africa And South America.
Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott Company, [1926]..
8vo. pp. xxi, 302. 46 illus. on 32 photo-based plates incl. frontis. index. cloth (covers with a few small stains). Uncut & largely unopened. First American Edition. The Prince of Wales visited Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Nigeria, Cape Town, Basutoland, Natal, Transvaal, Rhodesia, St. Helena, Montevideo, Argentina, Chile and the Andes.
$125 USD Book Number: elala5689 Order / Enquire

DECKEN, Carl Claus, Baron Von der [1833-1865].
Reisen in Ost-Afrika in den Jahren 1859 bis 1861. Bearbeitet von Otto Kersten.
Leipzig & Heidelberg: C.J.Winterische Verlagshandlung, 1869-71..
2 Volumes. large 8vo. pp. xix, [1], 335, [1], [2 leaves]; xvi, 454, [2]. 11 folding lithographed maps (10 in colour), 2 steel-engraved plates (incl. frontis. portrait), 2 mounted albumen photos, 3 lithographed plates (2 in colour), 21 wood-engraved plates (5 tinted & 1 double-page), & 41 wood-engravings in the text. original cloth (spine ends of Vol. I bit chipped, some light to moderate foxing). First Edition of this account of the German naturalist and traveller's early explorations in the East African interior. Von der Decken was the first European to make a serious attempt at scalling Mount Kilimanjaro and provided the most accurate estimates to date of the height of both Kibo and Mawenzi, its principal peaks. On his second attempt, in 1862, he managed to ascend to a height of 14,200 feet and described Kibo as a 'mighty dome, rising to a height of about 20,000 feet, of which the last three thousand are covered in snow'. Two further voumes of scientific results were published at a later date and are not present here. Von der Decken was later murdered with three other Europeans by Somali at a town called Bardera in October 1865, while exploring the Juba river. Gay 3013. Ibrahim-Hilmy I 161.
$2997 USD Book Number: elala541 Order / Enquire

DEWEY, William J.
The Jerome L. Joss Collection of African Headrests at UCLA.
Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History University of California, [1993]..
4to. pp. 215. profusely illus. in colour. some b/w. biblio. cloth. dw. (slight cockling to lower margins). Published in conjunction with an exhibition.
$90 USD Book Number: stela1092 Order / Enquire

DICK-READ, Robert.
Sanamu Adventures in search of African Art.
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964..
8vo. pp. 271. 8 double-sided plates, frontis map & numerous illus. in b/w. cloth dw. (extremities of dw. rubbed). First Edition.
$50 USD Book Number: alyssa283 Order / Enquire

DINESEN, Isak [Karen BLIXEN].
Out Of Africa.
New York: Random House, [1938]..
8vo. pp. ix, 389. cloth. dw. (edges of dw. bit chipped & with a few repairs on verso). First American Edition.
$450 USD Book Number: elala3402 Order / Enquire

DOYLE, Sir A[rthur] Conan [1859-1930].
The Crime of the Congo.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1909..
8vo. pp. 1 p.l., ix, [1 leaf], 128. original cloth (lightly soiled, 2 marginal stains). First American Edition. Green & Gibson B8b.
$225 USD Book Number: elala3692 Order / Enquire

DRAYSON, Alfred W[ilks] [1827-1901].
Sporting Scenes Amongst The Kaffirs Of South Africa.
London & New York: G.Routledge & Co., 1858..
8vo. pp. xiv, 327 + 48(publisher's catalogue). with half-title. 8 chromolithographed plates & 1 b/w plate by Harrison Weir after drawings by the author. original blind & gilt-stamped cloth (extremities bit frayed, inner hinges cracked, occasional light foxing). First Edition, First Issue. "An account of hunting and sporting experiences in Kaffraria and Natal. The author joined a party of Boer hunters who were making an excursion into the plains under the Drekensburg mountains, near the sources of the Mooi river. He remarks on the wonderful eyesight possessed by these people and their contempt for the English as sportsmen...There is a good account of the natives with many notes of the fauna of the country.' The second issue and second edition were illustrated with different black and white plates by Dalziel after Joseph Wolf. Mendelssohn p. 486. Rev. Mendelssohn II p. 101.
$500 USD Book Number: elala5480 Order / Enquire

DRUMMOND, Henry.
Tropical Africa.
New York: Scribner & Welford, 1889..
12mo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 228. 6 folding maps. several text illus. (some full-page). original gilt-stamped cloth (extremities trifle frayed, tear along map fold - no loss). First American Edition. Including chapters on the white ant, the mimicry of African insects, the Zambesi and Shire Rivers, Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, &c.
$231 USD Book Number: AUMopDRU32 Order / Enquire

DRUMMOND, W[illiam] H[enry] [1845-1879].
The Large Game And Natural History of South and South-East Africa. From The Journals Of.
Edinburgh: Edmonston And Douglas, 1875..
8vo. pp. 2 p.l., [vii]-xxi, 428. with half-title. partly coloured map. chromolithographed frontis. & title vignette, & 12 tinted lithographed plates. 1 tinted lithographed vignette & 19 wood-engraved vignettes. contemporary half chagrin (rubbed). armorial bookplate of Canadian capitalist, Sir George Stephen. First Edition. Account of the author's hunting adventures at the Cape, mainly in Tongaland, Zululand, and Swaziland, from 1867 to 1872, with chapters on buffalo, rhinoceros, elands, elephants, lions, leopards, antelope, game birds, and hunting with dogs. Mendelssohn II 105. Czech 52.
$950 USD Book Number: elala1255 Order / Enquire

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