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1. BELLOTTI FELICE. Translated from the Italian by Mervyn Savill. Fabulous Congo. illus. with end-paper maps, & 62 plates t/out. some full page pub. London Andrew Dakers Limited, 1954 1st. ed. or. green cl. roy.8vo. pp.224 Covers the people, animals, and mining of the Congo. Very good copy.   Price: $40.00
2. CHESI GERT Voodoo - Africa's Secret Power. profusely illus. with plates t/out. some full page & mostly col. maps on end papers, pub. Austria Perlinger, 1980 or.cl. d/w. 4to. oblong pp.276 fine copy in very good, illustrated dustwrapper. Fine copy.   Price: $75.00

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3. CHILVERS HEDLEY A. The Seven Lost Trails Of Africa Being a record of sundry expeditions, new and old, in search of buried treasure. illus. with frontis. & 7 full page plates t/out. 9 maps; pub. London Cassell & Co 1931 2^nd ed. Very good copy.   Price: $40.00
4. CRAWFORD  D. Thinking Black. 22 years without a break  in the  long grass of Central Africa. with col. frontis. &  20 full  page  plates t/out. 3 col. &  tipped-in.  pub.  Lond. Morgan & Scott 1913 or.blk. glt.dec.cl. 8vo.  pp.XVI.486,38 little rubbed & sl tear to spine otherwise v/good.   Price: $50.00
5. FIFE C.W. DOMVILLE Savage Life In The Black Sudan. An account of an adventurous journey of exploration amongst wild and little known tribes inhabiting swamps, dense forests, mountain-tops, & arid deserts hitherto almost unknown, with a description of their manner of living, secret societies & mysterious & barbaric rites. illus. with frontis. & 14 full page plates t/out. 2 folding maps; pub. Lond. Seeley Service & co. Ltd. 1927 1st ed. or. black cl. glt. ltg. to spine, 8vo. pp.284. fine.   Price: $115.00
6. FARRELLY M. J. The Settlement After The War In South Africa pub. London United Kingdom MacMillan & Co Limited 1900 1st. ed. or. red cloth gilt lettering to spine, 8vo. pp.322. Appendices. An investigation into the settlement after the Boer War, including a description of Afrikaaner policy, together with its effect on the Afrikaans population. Little damp staining to rear pages and e/paper, otherwise good copy.   Price: $95.00
7. FORAN W. ROBERT A Cuckoo In Kenya. The Reminiscences of a Pioneer Police Officer in British East Africa. illus. with frontis. & 46 full page plates t/out. e/paper maps, pub. Lond. Hutchinson 1936 or. green cl. 8vo. pp.356,24 advts. sl. rubbed else v/ good copy.   Price: $425.00
8. FRASER DOUGLAS Through The Congo Basin illus. with frontis. & 63 b/w photo plates and 5 maps, 3 folding; pub. London Herbert Jenkins Limited, 1927 1st. ed. or. black/green-bordered, moss green cloth-covered boards/black titles, 8vo. pp.284. Several ex.lib.stamps on the f/free e/paper and several smaller ones t/out. cloth sl. browned at spine, otherwise v/good.   Price: $75.00

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9. GEIL WILLIAM EDGAR A Yankee In Pigmy Land illus. with frontis. & 100 full page plates t/out. pub. London Hodder & Stoughton 1908 or. grey/pink card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.XII.410. "A journey across Africa from Mombasa through the Great Pigmy Forest to Banana." Alightly chipped at spine, lacks frontis. else very good.   Price: $75.00
10. GLOVER Sir JOHN HAWLEY The Voyage Of The Dayspring. Being the Journal of the late Sir John Hawley Glover, R.N. G.C.M.G. together with some account of the Expedition up the Niger River in 1857. By A. C. G. Hastings with an introduction by Lady Hastings. illus. with frontis. (portrait) illus. with 20 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Bodley Head 1926 1st ed. or. dark grn./aqua. cl. 8vo. pp.230. very light spotting to edges else fine copy.   Price: $120.00

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11. GLASSMAN L. Views Of CapeTown and South Africa. illus. with 22 pages of photo plates t/out. many full page; pub. CapeTown L. Glassman "The" Feather Shop Tivoli Buildings nd. handwritten 'August 1916' or. brown covered boards gilt lettering to front board; 8vo. oblong pp.26. paper binding to spine torn, lacks piece, otherwise v/good.   Price: $55.00
12. HUXLEY ELSPETH White Man’s Country. Lord Delamere and the Making of Kenya. illus. with 22 photographic plates and 5 folding maps, pub. London 1956 ed. Two volumes, or.cl. d/w.’s 8vo. pp. Vol.I,316 Vol.II,334. Inscription f/free e/paper, d.w.’s slightly chipped, with some minor loss, else fine.   Price: $200.00

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13. LYALL ARCHIBALD Black & White Make Brown. The first account in English of a journey in Portuguese Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands. illus. with 33 b/w photos inc. maps pub. London William Heinemann, 1938 1st.ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.304 sl. foxing to edges else fine.   Price: $200.00

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14. PATTERSON  J.H.  (Leiut. Col.) In The Grip  Of  The  Nyika. Further  Adventures in British East Africa. Account of  the author's two expeditions through the Nyika or wilderness in British  East Africa.  pub. Lond.  Macmillan  1909  or.cl. glt.ltg. to spine 8vo. pp.XIV.392,2. fine.   Price: $85.00
15. MAGOR THOMASIN - African Warriors. The Samburu. Design by Barney Wan. profusely illus. with plates t/out. maps, mostly full page & col. pub. London Harvill, 1994 or. cl. d/w. folio, pp.256 "Evocative images of the lives of the warrior herdsmen, the women, children and elders, their rituals, hairstyles, body-painting, dances and feast days," as well as a cohesive picture of one of the last surviving warrior peoples of Africa.   Price: $85.00
16. PHILLIPS MRS LIONAL Some South African Recollections. Mention of Australian contingent and Boers. illus. with frontis. & 36 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Longmans 1899 or. moss green cl. 8vo. pp.X.184. flecked, small chip at top of spine, ex travelling lib.   Price: $175.00
17. PRETORIA Municipality The City of Pretoria and Districts An Official Handbook Describing the Social, Official, Farming, Mining, and General Progress and Possibilities of the Administrative Capital and Surrounding Districts illus. with with maps and over 40 full page black and white photo plates; the fold-out frontis panorama has been torn in half. pub. Johannesburg South African Railways, 1913 1st. ed. original brown decorated buckram 12mo. pp.164 Edges slightly foxed, lacks half of frontis. fold out panorama else fine.   Price: $45.00

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18. RITTER  E.A.  Shaka Zulu. The Rise of  the  Zulu  Empire. illus. with col. frontis. & 12 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Longmans 1955 1st.ed. or.brn.cl. 8vo. pp.XVI.383.   Price: $50.00
19. RUSSELL   ARCHER  Gone  Nomad.  Twenty   Years Vagabond Wanderings in Three Continents. Covers travel, trading  and hunting  in  Africa.  illus. with frontis. &  8  full  page plates t/out. pub. Syd. Angus & Robertson 1936 1st.ed.  or. ornge.cl.  8vo. pp.X.230. The author was reporter  for  the Syd. Morning Herald, The Herald etc. sl. sunned to spine  & spots else very good.  Price: $45.00 
20. SCOBIE ALASTAIR Women Of Africa illus. with 24 b/w. text plates t/out. pub. London, Cassell, 1960, or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.VIII.184 Research on the private lives of African women when great changes were taking place in their traditional lifestyles, with many aspects in danger of being lost as outside influences and expectations increased. Covers all aspects of native women's' lives including adornment. love, marriage arrangements, domestic homelife and family, travel, witchdoctors and magicians and racial mixing. A near fine copy.   Price: $40.00
21. SILBERBAUER GEORGE B. Hunter And Habitat In The Central Kalahari Desert illus. with b/w. text plates t/out. index, figures and tables, pub. Cambridge University Press, 1981 or. card wrappers, (paperback), 8vo. pp.330. Thorough analysis of G/wi society, describing their social, political and economic organization and their living patterns. Fine.   Price: $35.00
22. STANLEY RICHARD & Alan Neame. Ed. by. The Exploration Diaries Of H.M. Stanley. Now first published from the original manuscript. illus. with e/paper maps & 6 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. William Kimber 1961 1st ed. or.cl. d/w. 8vo. pp.208. sl. tear to d/w. else fine.   Price: $55.00
23. SOUTH AFRICAN SCENES And Native Studies. Souvenir Album  of views. (photo plates t/out. all full page)  pub.  Cape Town   nd.191-?   or.  dk.blu.  and  blk.   lettered   wps.cr.4to.obl. pp.unnumbered (32) almost fine.  Price: $50.00 
24. WARD HERBERT Five Years With The Congo Cannibals. illus. with portrait frontis., numerous plates and text illustrations by the author and V. Perard, W.B. Davis, pub. Lond. Chatto & Windus, 1890 blue pictorial cloth, borders in orange, top and bottom front board, central figure of Native dancing in black, titles in gilt on spine, 4to., pp.XXXIII.308, Ward could personally converse with the people, thereby obtaining accurate information of the region. Re-backed in blue cloth, retaining original cloth covers and spine. W/stain to lower f/free e/papers. Otherwise a very good tight copy.  Price: $550.00
25. WATT Mrs. STUART In The Heart Of Savagedom. Reminiscences of Life and Adventure During a Quarter of a Century of Pioneering Missionary Labours in the Wilds of East Equatorial Africa. illus. with map & 62 full page plates t/out. pub. Lond. Pickering & Inglis nd. 3rd ed. 191-? or. grey, blue and black dec. cloth cr.8vo. pp.422. fine copy.   Price: $75.00

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