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Baden-Baden: Woldemar Klein Verlag. Very Good-. 1950. Paperback. 66 pages; Contents clean and secure in original yellow pictorial wrappers; dust soiling to wrappers. Contents include: Ferdinand Herrmann - On the Material, Subject Matter and Style of African Sculpture; Eckhart von Sydow - The Animal in African Sculpture; Julius F. Glück - The Art of Brass in Africa; Heinz Lucas - African Masks; Ferdinand Herrmann - On the Interpretation of African Sculpture; Elsa Dziomba - A European Sculptor in South Africa. 124 photographs of traditional objects, 43 photographs of contemporary African art. From the collection of Stefan P. Munsing [1915-1994] who worked in New York City as a designer for Hans Knoll, Norman Bel Geddes and RCA. Munsing served in the Army in World War II, then as Chief of the Monuments, Fine-Arts & Archives Section in Munich. The MFAA was an Army unit locating stolen artworks which had disappeared into the huge Nazi hoards during the war. [The "Monuments… Read More

New York: Farrar and Rinehart. Very Good. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Autograph; Clean and secure in original green cloth bindings with gilt lettering at spines and front boards. Faded at spines, some offsetting from laid-in newspaper reviews. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the Author on ffep -- "To my devoted friend / Mary Coleman Jennings / In appreciation of my high / esteem for her father, her / husband and herself. / From / John Hays Hammond / March 1935." OCLC 472245289 John Hays Hammond (1855 – 1936), a mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. He was raised in the Gold Rush days of San Francisco in which his father R. P. Hammond and his father's close friend William P. Coleman played significant roles. John Hays Hammond took his first mining job as a special expert for the US Geological Survey 1879-1880 in Washington, DC. He returned to California in 1881 to work for Senator Hearst, the mining magnate and father of William Randolph Hearst. In 1882, he was… Read More

Washington: American Colonization Society. Very Good-. 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. This book comprises all twelve issues of The African Repository for the year 1872 bound together in plain black cloth with marbled page edges. Cloth has a tear at base of spine, ex-libris but no markings. Contents clean and tight, unmarked, no foxing. Some of the articles include: The Diamond Fields of South Africa, The Bank of West Africa, The Caffres of South Africa, The Present African Slave Trade, Interesting Letter from Dr. Livingston, An African's Plantation, etc. In 1825 the American Colonization Society began this quarterly publication, The African Repository and Colonial Journal, edited by Ralph Randolph Gurley (1797-1872). The journal promoted both colonization and Liberia. Among the items printed were articles about Africa, letters of praise, official dispatches stressing the prosperity and steady growth of the colony, information about emigrants, and lists of donors. Ralph Randolph… Read More

Boston: Houghton, Mifflin. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1963. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Photographs; 213 pages; Contents clean and secure in original green cloth binding, in very good price-clipped dustjacket with some small chips. From the introduction by Sir Julian Huxley - "The best collection of wild life photographs I have ever seen." PROVENANCE: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib… Read More

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center. Very Good+. First Edition. Paperback. 72 pages; A wonderful exhibition catalogue of objects from the collection of the Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika / Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Tervuren, Belgium. Clean and secure in original glossy pictorial wrappers. .

New York: Viking Press. Very Good-. 1944. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Drawings; 213 pages; Contents clean and secure in original gray cloth binding, slight lean. Former owner's name and address on ffep "Kermit Roosevelt / XXXXX / April, 1960" -- this would be Kermit Roosevelt III (father of Kermit Roosevelt IV, later referred to as "III" since his granfather's death in 2000). PROVENANCE: From the collection of Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000), the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and was the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's… Read More

London: The Illustrated London News. Very Good+. 1885. First Edition. Print. The Illustrated London News; No. ; Vol. LXXXV; 1 pages; Image measures 14.5 X 9 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. Full page engraving with several illustrations from the March 28, 1885 issue of The London Illustrated News depicting The Bechuanaland Expedition -- From Sketches by Our Special Artist, Mr. Julius M. Price of Methuen's Horse. Julius Mendes Price (1857 – 1924) was an artist, war correspondent, explorer, traveller, journalist and caricaturist for Vanity Fair (signed "Imp", "Jmp" or "jmp"). He was a special war artist and correspondent for the Illustrated London News. For journalist purposes he enlisted as a trooper in Methuen's Horse and served in the Bechuanaland campaign 1884–1885 and continued serving with the regiment until it was disbanded. Several of his newspaper serial reports were later published in book form. Sir… Read More

London: Trubner & Co. Very Good. 1890. Third Edition. Hardcover. lxxviii, 314 pages; Contents clean and secure in original dark blue cloth binding with bright gilt lettering at spine and front board; cloth rubbed at spine ends and corners (rounded); lacks blank at end of text. Cetywayo and His White Neighbours, or Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal and the Transvaal is a non-fiction book by H. Rider Haggard, his first full-length published work and was based on his time in South Africa. Rider Haggard travelled to southern Africa in 1875 and remained in the country for six years, during which time he served as Master of the High Court of the Transvaal and an adjutant of the Pretoria Horse. The "Cetywayo" of the title is the Zulu king Cetshwayo kaMpande, who pursued, but failed to achieve a peaceful relationship with the British. The work was first published in 1882 with Haggard paying Trubner and Company 50 pounds to produce 750 copies of the book. Despite… Read More

Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. Fine. 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968; xxx, (2), 887 pages; Clean and secure in original red cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Unread, virtually as new. The Congo Crisis and its Aftermath, 1964-1968 The volume consists of two sections. The first part of the volume, covering 1960 to 1963, documents the chaotic nature of the Congo crisis and the pervasive influence of U.S. Government covert actions in the newly independent nation. They also provide the analysis that is at the core of policy formulation with regard to covert action. The second part of the volume, covering 1964 to 1968, documents the continuation of the U.S. covert political action programs and their role in providing paramilitary and air support to the Congolese Government in an effort to quell provincial rebellions. The documentation illustrates a gradual shift in policy to engage other nations in the stabilization of… Read More

London: The Illustrated London News. Very Good+. 1879. First Edition. Print. The Illustrated London News; No. 2105; Vol. LXXV; 1 pages; Image measures 14.5 X 9 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. This illustrated titlepage of the October 18, 1879 issue of The London Illustrated News has a banner illustration of the City of London with the River Thames in the foreground showing a steam paddle boat and several boats with teams of rowers. The primary illustration depicts The Captivity of Cetewayo: The King Fishing over the side of the transport Natal in Simon's Bay. Cetewayo kaMpande ( c. 1826 – 1884) was the king of the Zulu Kingdom from 1873 to 1879 and its leader during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. Cetewayo consistently opposed the war and sought fruitlessly to make peace with the British, and was defeated and exiled following the Zulu defeat in the war. The British then returned to Zululand with a far larger and better armed force, finally capturing the Zulu capital… Read More

Bruxelles: Societe Des Chemins De Fer Vicinaux Du Congo / Imprimerie Lelateur. Very Good. 1948. Sixth. Paperback. 639, (1) pages; Complete and secure in original pictorial wrappers; institutional mark on tp stamped "withdrawn", small ink number at base of spine, otherwise clean and unmarked. Wrappers worn and chipped along yapped edges. Two folding maps at rear, complete with just a couple small holes at corner of folds; paper toned and fragile. OCLC 66288446 A detailed guide to the means of travel and the various sights and activities of interest to both business and tourist travellers. Much history and cultural information, economic and business information, as well as geographic, flora and fauna guidance (scientific and related to hunting and fishing). Illustrated with b&w photographs. The Société des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux du Congo (lit.?'Company of Minor Railways of the Congo'), known as CVC or Vicicongo, was a railway company that operated… Read More

London: The Illustrated London News. Very Good+. 1884. First Edition. Print. The Illustrated London News; No. ; Vol. LXXXIV; 1 pages; Image measures 14.5 X 9 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. Full page engraving with several illustrations from the October 25, 1884 issue of The London Illustrated News depicting Dinner to the Earl of Dufferin, the new Viceroy of India at Belfast AND Our Dispute with the Boers - Sketches in Bechuana Land. Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin (1826– 1902) was a British public servant and prominent member of Victorian society. In his youth, he was a popular figure in the court of Queen Victoria, and became well known to the public after publishing a best-selling account of his travels in the North Atlantic. He reached the pinnacle of his diplomatic career as eighth Viceroy of India in 1884. This engraving depicts a dinner held in Belfast in honor of his appointment. .

London: The Illustrated London News. Very Good+. 1885. First Edition. Print. The Illustrated London News; No. ; Vol. LXXXV; 1 pages; Image measures 14.5 X 9 inches; matted measures 22 X 14 inches. Full page engraving with several illustrations from the February 21, 1885 issue of The London Illustrated News depicting "En Route to Bechuanaland" - Sketches on Board The Pembroke Castle by A Trooper of "Methuen's Horse" .

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Very Good. 1966. Paperback. xii, 221 pages; Former owner's name boldly signed on half-title - "Kim Roosevelt," otherwise clean and tight in original pictorial wrappers. Includes a glossary and an index, customary life pattern of an African culture in Cameroon. Written by an archaeology couple describing the chief monarch (Fon) of Bafut, first introduced by Geral Durrell's "the Bafut Beagles." The Fon, an impressive, complex figure, represents a significant link between the old Africa and the new. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul… Read More

New York: France Forever. Very Good. 1942. First Edition. Paperback. 30 pages; Clean and tight in original printed wrappers. Marc André Laguerre (1915 – 1979) was a journalist and magazine editor, best known as the managing editor of Sports Illustrated from 1960 to 1974. In the summer of 1927, his French father ( Léon James Laguerre) took a post at the French Consulate General in San Francisco, settling in the upper-class neighborhood of Sea Cliff. In 1938, he covered the Munich Agreement for the French daily Paris-Soir. When World War II broke out, he enlisted in the French Army as a corporal. His first assignment was on patrol on the Maginot Line. He later served as a liaison to the British forces at Arras, and remained with them until the Battle of Arras forced their retreat. He stayed with the British forces until the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940, where he was one of the last to be evacuated. .

Mount Vernon, NY: Jonas Bros. Taxidermists. Near Fine. 1939. First Edition. Original Printed Stiff Wrappers. Autograph; 48 pages; Clean and secure in original zebra patterned wrappers. Established in1908, Jonas Brothers Taxidermy continues to be one of the nation's premier taxidermy studios. This 1939 publication describes their mission, their taxidermy services, samples of their products, care of trophies, museum examples, guns and ammunition, game recipes, and hunting tips. Well illustrated with dramatic photographs. Laid-in is a signed manuscript note on printed letterhead of the "Office of the Director The National Museum of History and Technology / Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560" The note reads: "Greetings / from / Daniel J. Boorstin" Boorstin was director of NMAH from 1968–1973. This publication was presented by him to Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Very Good-. 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. 348 pages; Boston: Very Good-. 1916. First Edition. 348 pages; Portrait frontispiece, tissue-guarded, PP. 348 including Foreword, List of the 4 Full Page Maps (South Africa, Plan of Battle of Colenso, German South-West Africa, South and Central Africa) . Footnotes, full page Genealogical Table, Appendix 1: Botha's Life Dates; 2: The Dinizulu Agreement; 3: The Vereeniging Treaty, Index. OCLC 2651328 Former owner's name in pencil on ffep - "H. Jennings. " Contents clean and secure in original tan cloth binding with faded lettering at spine. One inch superficial stain at head of spine, not affecting contents. James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920) , a mining engineer, born at Hawesville, KY. After attending private schools in London and Derbyshire, England, Jennings returned to Kentucky and set up a lumber business, but soon wanted to further his engineeering education. He graduated from the Lawrence Scientific… Read More

London: Thomas Nelson. Near Fine. 1953. Pamphlet. 60 pages; Near FINE. Stiff Wrappers. The very first issue of this periodical published by the Institute of Education of the Gold Coast University with articles on "The rightsand obligations of Teachers by Prof. L.J. Lewis; Problems of English Pronunciation in the Gold Coast by P. D. Stevens; Some Unadjusted Boys by A. Taylor; etc. ; Experience the pleasure of reading and appreciating this actual printed item. It has its own physical history that imbues it with a character lacking in ephemeral electronic renderings. .

London: Chapman & Hall. Good+. 1902. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Contents clean and secure in original light red cloth binding; binding has general soiling and strip of color loss at bottom of rear board; former owner's name on rear endpaper "Margaret Scriber" and title copied out in ink on half-title, otherwise unmarked. Frontispiece drawing of Hilda's house in the Cape; text illustration of humanely killing a crab.. In addition to dozens of recipes, Hilda provides guidance on how to raise poultry, trating animals kindly and human ways to kill lobsters, crab, rabbits and poultry. There is another section on home remedies, locust destruction, other agricultural and animal husbandry notes for Natal, Transvaal, etc. A fascinating volume published during the gold boom at the turn of the last century in South Africa. Though not marked as such, this volume came from the collection of the Hennen Jennings family. James Hennen Jennings (1854-1920), a… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co.. Very Good+. 1900. Hardcover. lxi, (1), 499 pages; Clean and secure in original burgundy cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine. Folding colour map. OCLC 759610558 The author, James Bryce, later 1st Viscount (1838-1922) was a distinguished academic, historian and Liberal politician, who several of political offices.This broad-ranging work briefly describes the landscape, vegetation and wildlife of southern Africa, then gives a detailed account of history of the native and immigrant peoples inhabiting the region, followed by Bryce's relation of his journey through South Africa, also including Matabeleland and Mashonaland, part of the Portuguese territories, Basutoland and the independent republics of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State with extensive observations and commentary on the economic and socio-political situation. Originally published in 1897, Bryce's work provides an important reference for the history and contemporary context in South… Read More