Alger et Ses Environs
Paris: Hachette, 1920. Paperback. photos, maps (3 double-page). Original wrapper. 16cm. Reglued. At head of title: Guides Diamant. French text. More
North Africa
Algerie Tunisie Tripolitaine. -- Malte.
Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1930. Hardcover. index, folding maps, cxi, 495p. Blue cloth. 16cm. No Jacket. Les Guides Bleus (series). French text. More
Sites et monuments: Tunisie: Tunis - Environs de Tunis - Tunisie septentrionale et Kroumerie - Sousse et Tunisie centrale - Sfax - De Gafsa au Djérid - Gabès et sud Tunisien - Ile de Djerba
Paris: Touring-Club de France, 1902. Hardcover. photos, 119p. plus (1) leaf (map). Burgundy cloth. 29cm. Marbled endpapers. French text. "Sites et Monuments" appears to have been a series of volumes describing various parts of France and the French Empire. More
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New York: n.d. [Postmarked in 1963]. Paperback. 23p. (pagination includes cover three pages). 22cm. Postmark and other shipping information on back cover (which also has some wrinkling and wear. The shop whose offering include items from North Africa as well as Sub-Saharan Africa, was located at 407 Bleeker Street in..... More
The Mzab
London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, n.d. [1954?]. Paperback. 4 plates (on 2 leaves), 12p. Original wrapper. 29cm. Pages rippled. Recent label mounted on front cover identifying this as from the library of H. A. R. Gibb. "With the Author's Compliments" written in ink along top of..... More
Annual Review ... 1977
Casablanca: (1977). Paperback. photos, 52p. Original wrapper. 28cm. We don't know how many of these "Annual Reviews" were published. More
The Passing of the Shereefian Empire
Westport, Ct: Negro Universities Press, (1970). Hardcover. frontis, illustrations, 2 folding maps, xii, 532p. Red cloth. 22cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the 1910 Edinburgh edition. More
Fighting the French in Morocco
London: Alston Rivers, (1932). 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. frontis (portrait), photos, 255p. Blue cloth. 21cm. WWI item. Translated by H. J. Stenning. More
La Langue Berbere: Morphologie, le Verbe, Etude de Themes
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1929. Paperback. [vii]-lii, 268p. Original wrapper. 24cm. Backstrip browned. Former owner's name. Light foxing. Collection du Centenaire de l"Algerie, 1830-1930: Vie Intellectuelle et Artistique. (series). More
Melanges; Africains et Orientaux
Paris: Maisonneuve, 1915. Paperback. 390p. Original wrapper. 26cm. French text. Scholarly essays, mostly about North Africa with a couple on Ethiopia. More
La Religion Musulmane en Berberie: Esquisse d'Histoire et de Sociologie Religieuses. Tome I: Etablissement et Developpement de l'Islam en Berberie du VIIe au XXe Siecle
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1938. Paperback. 411p. Original wrapper. 26cm. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate inside front cover. French text. Appears to have been the only volume published. More
The Franco-Moroccan Conflict, 1943-1956
New Haven: Yale University Press, (1968). 1st ed. Hardcover. 5 maps, index, xxxv, 680p. Original cloth. dj. 24cm. Translated by Marianna Oliver, Alexander Harrison and Bernard Phillips of Vols. I and II of Le Conflit Franco-Marocain, 1943-1956 (1963). More
Notes d'Ethnographie et de Linguistique Nord-Africaines Publiees par L. Brunot et E. Laoust
Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1924. Paperback. iv, 272p. Original wrapper. 26cm. Cover rather foxed and worn (chipping, cellophane tape reinforcement around front joint, etc.). Former owner's name. Moderate browning. French text. Publications de l'Institut des Hautes Etudes Marocaines, tome XII. More
Misurata: A Market Town in Tripolitania
Durham [England]: University of Durham, n.d. [1968]. Paperback. 34p. Original wrapper. 24cm. Research Paper Series No.9 (1968). Dept. of Geography. More
Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt; Being a Personal Narrative of Events
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. 1st Amer. ed. Hardcover. frontis, xi, [5], 416p. Original cloth-backed boards. 24cm. Extremities worn (corners a bit rounded). Contents sound and clean. No Jacket. More
La Litterature Algerienne de Langue Francaise et Ses Lectures: Imaginaire et Discours d'Idees
Ottawa: Editions Naaman, (1974). Paperback. 251p. Wrapper. 21cm. French text. More
Tribes of the Sahara
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1960. 1st ed. Hardcover. frontis, maps, photos, index, xx, 295p. Cloth (corners faded). dj. 23cm. Author's "working copy." This interesting work sought to debunk some of the myths, exaggerations, and misinformation spread by missionaries, lecturers and others. Briggs has handwritten various corrections and additions here and..... More
Catalogue No. 351. The Iberian Peninsula the Maghrib and Africa (Except Egypt) Mainly from the Collection of Prof. R. Basset
Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1962. Paperback. 170p. Softcover in original green wrapper. 20cm. Contents moderately browned. Backstrip faded. 2555 items are listed and priced. More
Souvenirs of Military Life in Algeria
London: Remington and Co., 1886. Hardcover. Vol. II ONLY (of 2). 260p. Original brown cloth. 23cm. Some chipping at head of backstrip. Binding detached from contents at both hinges. Ex lib. (internal markings from the Mercantile Library); contents otherwise sound although rather brittle with some minor chipping on fore-edge. More
Sources inedites de l'Histoire du Maroc. 1ere serie. Dynastie Saadienne. Archives et Bibliotheques de France. Tome 3: 1617-1665 et Addenda 1533-1591
Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1933. Deuxieme edition (Reimpression photomechanique). Paperback. This volume only. facsimiles, folding map, cvi, 769p. Original wrapper. 29cm. Backstrip split vertically and reglued (but without hiding the split). Corner heavily creased on back cover. Contents sound, clean and unopened, From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with..... More
Present State of the Empire of Morocco...Translated from the French
New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1967. Hardcover. 2 vols. bound in 1. folding map, index, 377, 427p. Original orange cloth. Corners bumped. Light scuffing and soiling. Former owner's name. 21cm. No Jacket. Reprint of the London edition of 1788. More
Le Sahara: Souvenir d'une Mission a Goleah
Paris: Plon, 1881. Paperback. map (as frontis), ii, 290p. Original wrapper. 19cm. Backstrip worn and has a couple of vertical splits (which have been reglued). Shaken. Light foxing. From the John R. Willis Collection of Africana with his bookplate. French text. More
Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904)
Berkeley: University of California Press, (c. 1994). 1st ed. Hardcover. index, xxiii, 370p. dj. 23cm. More
The Garamantes of Southern Libya
Cambridge: Oleander Press, 1970. 1st U.K. ed. Paperback. maps and plans (including frontis, photos, 47p. Softcover in original wrapper. 21cm. More
The Ways of the Desert: Ninth Edition Revised and Augmented With Commentaries by The Emir Abd-el Kader
Austin: University of Texas Press, (1971). 1st ed. in English. Hardcover. illustrations, index, xiii, 193p. dj (price-clipped). 23cm. Translated from the French by Sheila M. Ohlendorf. More