The control of cattle ticks in East Africa.
Nairobi: Cooper, McDougall and Robertson. 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 27. Front wrap marked, light foxing to title page, good condition.
Africa
The Nigeria Handbook
London: Crown Agents for Oversea Governments and Administrations, 1956. 8vo, original cloth boards, colour frontis, b&w plates, maps (one folding), bibliography, pp x 339. Six maps inserted in rear pocket, in good condition. Loosely inserted later map. D.j. covered in clear adhesive. Very good in good d.j.
Nigeria in Costume
Shell Company of Nigeria, 1960. Illus. John Danford. 4to, original blue cloth boards, 48 full-page colour plates with accompanying text, red endpapers, top edge red, pp 103. Minor rubbing to boards, clean, very good condn.
Naar Zuid-Afrika
np: np, 1938. Brochure, 4to, pp. 16, b/w photos, maps, brochure waxs previously folded, wraps, light rubbing along fold, good Tourist brochure on South Africa, text in Afrikaans.
Wildlife & Safari In Kenya, a comprehensive guide-book for travellers
Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House, nd c( 1967). Royal 8vo, pp. 384, colour and b/w plates, b/w photos, photographic endpapers, original cloth bds., few marks, good, in d.j. spine sunned, rear slightly yellowed, edges frayed, protected. Collection articles on the parks and wildlife of Kenya. Extensively illustrated.
The Lake of the Royal Crocodiles
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1939. 1st ed., 8vo., pp x, 300, col plate ills., b/w maps, b/w text ills., sl marks edges, sticker front pastedown ep., or bds, sl rubbed edges, v.g, in dj sl frayed and marked, protected. An Englishwoman's study of the Bemba tribe of Northern Rhodesia in.....
King of the Wa-kikuyu
London: Methuen, 1911. Octavo, half-leather boards with gilt to spine, b&w frontis portrait plate of the author, b&w plates, map, pp xv, 320. Lacks three plates: the map of Wa-Kikuyu land is present. Ex-library with fairly minimal markings, spine rubbed, good condition. Scarce.
Three Years With Lobengula and Experiences in South Africa
Bulawayo: Books of Rhodesia, 1975. Octavo, cloth boards, dustjacket, folding map, pp (vii), 160 plus reproduction of original ads. Very good condition in good d.j. Facsimile reproduction of the 1894 edition, with new foreword and illustrations.
Kalahari, Rivers of Sand
Johannesburg: Southern Book Publishers, 1989. 4to, pp. 160, v.g. cond in d.j., full pg. colour plates.
Better farming in Nyanza = Ukulima bora katika Nyanza = Temisiet ne kaigai en Nyanza
Nairobi: Eagle Press, 1956. Oblong 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 140. Two related pages loosely inserted. Some wear to wraps, good condn. Guide to agriculture. Text in English, Swahili, and Kipsigis.
THE CANARY ISLANDS
London: A& C Black, 1911. 1st ed., 8vo., pp vii, 172 (iii advts), col. fronts., col. plates, fold. map, foxing to edges, prelims, missing f.f.ep., or. cl. bds., sunned spine, bumped corners, shaken, tear (1cm) to top of spine, sm stains, o/w v.g.
Important Grassland Plants of Kenya
Nairobi: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, 1951. 8vo, original cloth boards, b&w plates, b&w illus, pp x, 124.Previous owner's signature ffep, very good condn.
Masai Range Resources, Kajiado District
Nairobi: United States Agency for International Development, 1962. 8vo, wraps, b&w illus, pp 48. A little light marking to wraps, o/w very good condn. The author, at the Agency for International Development, was Range Management Advisor to Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Government of Kenya. Illustrated with photographs of.....
The Improvement of Cattle in British Colonial Territories in Africa
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1953. 8vo, wraps, b&w plates, pp 144. Author's presenation copy, signed by author (Faulkner). Front wrap and spine chipped, previous owner's signature front wrap, good condn.
Six Months' Service in the African Blockade, from April to October 1848, in Command of H.M.S. Bonetta
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1969. 8vo, original green cloth boards, gilt title to spine, folding map, pp ix, 145. Previous owner's bookplate to rear free endpaper, o/w fine. Account of the slave trade.
The Monuments of Southern Rhodesia
The Commission for the Preservation of Natural and Historical Monuments and Relics, 1953. 8vo, cloth boards, dustjacket, b&w plates, folding map, pp. 128. D.j. has wear and closed tears to edges and chip from spine. Boards good, internally clean and firm, good condn.
Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa: Being an Account of a Visit to Damaraland in 1851 by Francis Galton, F.R.S., with a New Map, and an Appendix, Bringing up the History of Damaraland to a Recent Date …
London: Henry Frowde. 8vo, original leather board with gilt decoration (school prize plate front board), b&w frontis, b&w plates, marbled endpapers, marbled edges, pp xx, 320. N.d., c. 1890. Lacks backstrip, boards loose, very rubbed to edges, previous owner's inscription. Map called for is present but loosely inserted. Reading copy.....
Secret Africa
London: Stanley Paul, 1936. 8vo, original cloth boards, b&w frontis, b&w plates, pp 287. Fading/marking to top edge of front board, some rubbing corners and head and foot of spine, one plate loose, previous owner's signature front pastedown, good.
The Source of the Blue Nile. A record of a journey through the Soudan to Lake Tsana in western Abyssinia, and of the return to Egypt by the valley of the Atbara. With a Note on the Religion, Customs, Etc. of Abyssinia.
London: Smith Elder & Co, 1905. with an Entomological Appendix by E.B. Poulton. Octavo, original cloth boards with gilt decoration, b&w plates, folding map, pp 315. Ex-library stamps. Some fraying to rear edge of spine, and light crease to cloth near bottom edge of front board.
Bantu Folk Lore (Medical and General)
Connecticut: Negro Universities Press, 1970. Reprint, 8vo, pp. (vi) 112, small mark fore-edge, original cloth boards, very good. Originally published in 1906, this edition reprinted from an original copy held at Harvard College Library.
Characteristic Traits of the Creolian and African Negroes in Jamaica &c. &c.
Kingston: Caldwell Press, 1976. Folded wraps, pp 24. Number 277 of a limited edition of 300. light creasing upper pages. Very good condn. First published in 1797 in Jamaica.
The Battle for Zimbabwe: the final countdown
Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2003. 1st ed., 8vo, xii, pp. 308, index, b/w & colour plates, b/w maps, as new,as d.j. This is the story of Zimbabwe based on interviews with local people which takes you behind the scenes of government and opposition politics.
The Nandi. Their Language and Folklore.
Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Edited with a new introduction by G.W.B. Huntingford. 8vo, original cloth boards with gilt, dustjacket, b&w illus, pp xxiii, 329. Ex-library markings, inscription rear endpaper, o/w very good condn. First published 1909.
The Nandi of Kenya. Tribal Control in a Pastoral Society.
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1953. 8vo, original cloth boards, b&w illus, maps (some folding), pp xiii, 169. Very good in like d.j., protected.
Précis of Information concerning the British East African Protectorate and Zanzibar
London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1901. Tall octavo, papered boards, quarter cloth, pp 133. Includes the three folding maps. Ex-library. Corners of boards stained. Fair condition. Uncommon.