Search Results: African History from SequiturBooks

Accra : Statistical Service, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. 2 volume set, also includes Demographic and Economic Characteristics of the Ashanti Region. Softcover. Good bindings and covers. Shelf wear. Small tears to front wrap. Pages unmarked. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

PAYSON AND CLARKE LTD, 1/1/1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket,in mylar. 1st printing stated. Good binding and cover. Minor cracking and tearing to dust jacket with minimal loss. Clean, unmarked pages. The endpapers consist of a pictorial map that provides a dialect key to the different countries. Contains 103 original folk-tales, compiled from all over Africa, all of which were chosen by one of the 20th century's most important French poets. Ships daily.

Tinsley Brothers, 1863-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 2 volume set. Bound in publisher's green cloth. Gilt lettering. Hardcover. Hinges cracked. Generally clean. Torn with loss to spine ends. Tear to end pages. V.1 is lacking frontispiece, V.2 is lacking map. v.1 (333 p.), v.2 (306 p.); illustrations ; 20 cm. <br> "While serving as British Consul to the Spanish colony of Fernando Po, Burton joined a mission from Lagos to Abeokuta, the capital of the Egba Yoruba tribe. This work details the journey, with particular attention to the local customs, people, flora and fauna." Hosken p 34; Penzer p 70.

Ohio University Press, 2010-01-05. Hardcover. Like New. 8x5x0. Signed. [Personal copy of Philip D. Morgan, contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page.] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. ix, 235 p., map, 23 cm. Morgan wrote "Ending the Slave Trade: A Caribbean and Atlantic Context

David Phillips Publishers, 1991. Paperback. Like New. 9x6x1. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Edinburgh : Archibald Constable, 1808. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in contemporary calf. Quarto, 29 cm. Rebacked, with modern spine. xiv, 504, 4 pages. 22 plates total: frontispiece portrait, 19 plates, 2 folding maps. Travels to discover the source of the Nile. Bruce attempted to find the source of the Blue Nile by traveling to Ethiopia, where the source was reputed to be located. He began his journey in Egypt in 1768, navigating the Red Sea to Jiddah, landing in Arabia and Massawa. His party set out from Gondar to the Ethiopian highlands, eventually reaching Lake Tara and Gish Abay, the source of the Blue Nile, in 1770. From Gondar, he began the arduous 1200 mile trek through the Sudanese desert back to Cairo. When he returned to Britain his incredible accounts were met "by scepticism concerning the truth of Bruce's claims" -DNB. In 1790 he published his 5 volume "Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile" to support his account of his travels.… Read More

Hurst and Blackett, 1907. Hardcover. Good. 2 Volumes, fronts., plates, ports., maps (1 fold.) Bound in contemporary blue cloth. Gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spines. Sunning to spine and covers. Splitting occurring. Library bookplate on inside front board, library marks on spine. Perforated holes on title pages. TEG. Clean, unmarked pages with minimal toning. Foldout map in excellent condition. This is an oversized or heavy book, that requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

Knopf, 1998-04-14. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor Shelf wear, Remainder mark on end page, Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Henry Holt and Company, 1875. Hardcover. Acceptable. x, 494 p. illus. 22 cm. Leather spine, marbled boards. Clean, unmarked pages. Rubbing/wear to cover. Hardcover. Library stamps and markings. Boards detaching. Ships daily.

Watson Publishing International, 1984-06. Hardcover. Like New. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover and dust jacket. Ships daily.

Pantheon Books, New York, 1/1/1953. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. 10x9x0. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. XXI, 357 p. : ill. ; 31 cm. Bollingen series, 32. This is an oversized or heavy book that requires additional postage for international delivery outside of Canada and the US.

Cambridge University Press, 2001-04-01. Paperback. Like New. 9x7x0. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

St Martins Pr, 1978. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Softcover. Edge wear, creased. Owner's name on verso.

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997-06-01. Paperback. Like New. 9x5x0. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.

Howard Univ Pr, 1992-10-01. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

Dover Publications, 1958-06-01. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x0. [From the library of Dr. Ralph Gomes, Howard University.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small tear to tail of spine. Small markings to wraps, else unmarked. <br> Dr. Gomes was a professor at Howard University for 49 years in sociology and criminology. He was also a former Olympic athlete, representing Guyana in the 1960 Rome summer Olympics. Besides his scholarly work, Gomes was active in the black liberation movement. He had an impressive and deep collection of black art, historical advertising and iconography that spoke of the passage of black people and how they sought to record their life stories. His collection spanned from slavery, to antebellum life, to Jim Crow, to the Harlem Renaissance, to sport, to the civil rights movement.

International african institute, 1963. Paperback. Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor chipping/creasing to spine. Generally clean. Light wear. Stamped on end pages. XVII, 243 p. ; 22 cm.

Oxford University Press, 1958-01-01. 5th impression. Hardcover. Very Good. [The Works of E. E. Evans-Pritchard] Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. xxiii, 302 pages : illustrations, maps. John Powck, Cambridge, 1958. <br> Evans-Pritchard was a Oxford social anthropologist. First published 1940.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989-09-01. Paperback. Good. 8x5x0. From the library of noted scholar Sara Berry. Softcover. Shelf wear. Small stain to corner. Scattered highlighting and markings, presumably by Berry.

Routledge, 1998-05-22. Paperback. Like New. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Light wear. XII, 204 p.