Saransk: Izd. Mordovskogo Nauchno-issledovatel'skogo Instituta, 1941. Hardcover. 58 plates, 135p. Blue cloth; small illustration mounted on front. 35cm. Edges rubbed. Endsheets and text pages sound but browned and somewhat brittle (acidic paper). No Jacket. Russian text. More
![Habitat Rural en Afrique: Photo Interpretation. [cover title]](/pictures/thumb/87541.JPG?v=1522873729)
Paris: Editions Technip, 1975. Paperback. 3 thin booklets and 12 two-sheeted maps (8 of which have accompanying clear plastic overlay) laid in a thin flapped paper portfolio. 28 cm. We don't know whether the other 4 maps in this uncommon portfolio should also have overlays. French text; Two booklets ("Introduction"... More
Providence: Snow & Farnbam Printers, 1905. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, 28p. 22cm. No jacket. Rankin, a white Congregational minister, served as President of Howard University, 1899-1903. More
n.p. n.d. Paperback. several photos, (13)p. Softcover in original wrapper. Former owner's name stamp. Ex lib. (Harvard College Library). Faint duplicate stamp on front wrapper. First leaf roughly opened along top with some loss of blank margin. Reprinted from volume 44 of The Southern Workman. Titustown is an African American... More
Moskva: Nauka, 1979. Hardcover. 133p. Original black cloth. 26cm. Minor wear. Facsimile reproduction of the unique scroll of a draft copy of the Arabic text of a waqf document dated 1299 from Bokhara (and supplemented by an old Persian translation made before 1661). Brief (3 1/2 page) English summary at... More
Nova Lisboa (Angola): Edicao do Municipio, 1958-1963. Paperback. 4 vols. 2100p. Wrapper. 23cm. Moderate wear. Portuguese text. More
London: The Christian Herald, n.d. [1904]. [1st ed.?]. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), illustrations, 100p. Thin flexible blue cloth. 19cm. Endpapers browned. According to the first paragraph in this ten-year old's autobiography, his mother's ancestors were African and Indian, and his father's were French and Indian. Many, if not most, of the... More
London: Printed in the Year, 1659. 1st ed. Hardcover. [2], 6p. No separate wrapper present. Later full leather. 19cm. Modest chip at head of backstrip. Cover moderately warped. Several blank leaves (now somewhat foxed) added at end to bulk out this thin item. Former owner's name (dated 1905) on endpaper... More
Boston: Lee and Shepard; NY: Charles T. Dillingham, 1883. Hardcover. vii, [8]-145p. plus (1)p. advertisement for Greey's gallery in Boston. Decorated olive-green cloth. 19cm. Light cover soil. Tiny hole in backstrip. Fraying and wear at ends of backstrip and at cover corners. Former owner's name stamp on floral endpaper. Signed... More
Portsmouth: Heinemann; London: James Currey, (c. 1995). Hardcover. index, xiii, 331p. Original green cloth. dj. 23cm. More
Soissons: Chez N. Hanisset, Imprimeur & Marchand Libraire, n.d. [Privelege du Roi/colophon dated 1699]. Hardcover. (10), 218, (4)p. Contemporary leather. 16cm. Extremities worn. Front joint split. Back cover stained along outer portion. Contents reasonably sound (some foxing and wear). "Pour Monsieur De Corneille De L'Isle. De la part de M.... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, (c. 1962). 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. photos, index, xxvii, 206p. Original cloth covered boards. dj. 21cm. Jacket has a light streak. INSCRIBED on half-title in 1993 by Hoagland (signing as "Mahlon"). Hoagland is most remembered for his involvement in the discovery of transfer RNA... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1890. 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. Translated by A. H. Keane. frontis, illustrations, folding map, index, viii, 528p. [final page misnumbered as 582]. Original green cloth. Pictorial illustration (three African men) on front cover. 23cm. Spine slightly sloped. Small tear in map. Minor foxing on endpapers... More
[Rome, N.Y.]: 1880. 27cm. Some browning and a small stain. Splitting at ends of one of the later folds (probably for mailing). Good. Laid in with this is a partly printed receipt for payment of $100 for treatment of "cancer of left breast." The receipt appears to be dated in... More
Baltimore: The Maya Society, 1937. 2nd ed. (also identified as Library edition). Hardcover. numerous small black & white illustrations, 3 maps, 162p. Original blue boards. 25cm. No Jacket. Modest cover scuffing and wear. Minor spine slope. Shallow dent in back strip. No jacket. The illustrations and at least one of... More
Chicago: Chicago Local Committee on Mission among Israel, 1901. Paperback. 93. Wrapper. 24cm. Moderate cover soil and minor chipping. Age-toned. Edited by E. N. Heimann. "With brotherly greeting from the editor" written in ink across top of front cover. An attempt to convert Jews to Christianity. More
![The Case of Walter W. Broom, a Statement of Facts. Please Assist and Ask Your Friends. Prompt Aid is solicited. [cover title]. Anne E. M'Dowell.](/pictures/thumb/75983.JPG?v=1488549343)
[Philadelphia]: 1879. Paperback. 20p. No separate wrapper. 21cm. Pencilled initial and a date on lower right corner of first page. Vertical fold. Browning on outer leaf. Broom appears to have been an Englishman who came to America in 1864 and promptly became an agent for the Loyal Publication Society in... More
Leyden: E. J. Brill, 1932. 1st ed. Hardcover. 2 folding maps (including a large one in a cover strap), photos, xxv, 248p. Original cloth. 24cm. Lettering on publisher information at bottom of backstrip missing a couple of letters. Foxing mostly on page edges and in margins; pages next to endpapers... More
Chicago: Washington Printers, (1967). Paperback. 143p. Dark blue felt covered flexible wrappers. 28cm. Slightly musty. An African American church. Compiled by a Publication Committee, chaired by Judge L. Barber who has INSCRIBED this copy. More
Malibu: Undena Publications, 1978. 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xxii, [2], 297p. Original binding. 28cm. No Jacket. Minor cover spot. More
Black & white Photograph. 5 1/2 inches x 8 inches. Modest wrinkling, soil and wear. Written (probably by Eslanda Robeson) in partially faded green ink on back: Paul Robeson Jr aged 3 years 1930. Boxed stamp also on back: Reproduction by Mme. S. Georges, 51 S. John's Road, London, S. W. 11. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. 1st ed. Hardcover. photos (only a few), map, index, xi, 388p. Original cloth. dj (price-clipped). 23cm. More
[Kyoto]: n.d. [probably 1946]. Paperback. Thin paper portfolio containing eight printed black & white sketches of various non-military scenes in Kyoto. Size of sketches various slightly but approx. 21 x 26cm. Sketch of "Daigo-ji Pagoda" on front of portfolio wrapper. The Sixth Army was disbanded in 1946. We know nothing... More
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1974. Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, xi, 226p.Original two-toned (black & yellow) boards. 24cm. No jacket (s published?). M.B.R.A.S. Reprints, Reprint No. 3. More
