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1 Bruce, James Travels of James Bruce Through Parts of Africa, Syria, Egypt, and Arabia into Abyssinia to Discover the Source of the Nile
London and Edinburgh W. & R. Chambers 1897 New and Expanded Edition Full Leather Very Good Duodecimo 12 Illustrations 
Scuffed full blue calf, raised bands, with the emblem of Clifton College of Bristol, England, in gilt on the top cover. 005729 
Price: 95.00 USD
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2 Bryx, Felix Voodoo-Eros. Ethnological Studies in the Sex-Life of the African Aborigines
New York Privately Printed 1933 Revised Edition Paper-covered Boards Very Good  Sm 4to 
Endpapers bare traces of there once being a dj pasted there. 003837  
Price: 45.00 USD
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3 Casati, Gaetano (Major) Ten Years in Equatoria And The Return With Emin Pasha, 2 volumes.
London and New York Frederick Warne And Co. 1891 First Edition hardcover Very Good Octavos 
Four folding maps in rear pockets (3 + 1), 60 plates in colours, tints, and black and white, numerous illustratons in the text. First Edition, pictorial brown cloth with crocidile pattern, brown coated endpapers, tips of spines repaired, rehinged. Very handsome. Casati's record of an amazing decade in the center of Africa, helping Emin Pasha, Henry Stanley, and David Livingstone among others to "civilize" the tribal areas. 
Price: 600.00 USD
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4 Harries, Lyndon Swahili Poetry
London Oxford 1962 First Edition Cloth Fine and Bright Near Fine With darkening Spine 8vo 
005343 
Price: 75.00 USD
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5 Stanley, Henry M. How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa: Including an Account of Four Months Residence with Dr. Livingstone.
Toronto James Adam and Co. 1873 Hardcover Very Good Small Quarto With Maps and Illustrations After Drawings By the Author 
Small quarto, terra cotta-colored cloth with gilt pictorial designs on front cover and spine; a little chipping at spine edges. xiii +736 + 4 pages of publisher's ads. Folding frontispiece map has some tape repairs; two other folding maps in text. Illustrated with many black and white plates. Front hinge starting, light rubbing, else in nice, bright condition. 006388 
Price: 150.00 USD
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6 Stanley, Henry M. In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria, Two Volumes
New York 1891 Hardcover Very Good Octavos 
Two volumes, dark green cloth covers, stamped in gilt, with outline of the continent of Africa in darker green and black on front covers. Illustrated with steel engravings, and other black and white illustrations, plus color maps in rear pockets. Vol. I: xiv [2] 547 pages; one color folded map in rear pocket with tear along one fold. Volume II: xvi + 540 pages and two folded color maps in rear pockets; small tears at margins of larger map. One page color profile sketch of Ruwenzori and the Valley of the Semliki bound in text. Some wear at head and foot of spines and tips. Small stickers removed from endpapers. Front hinge starting in Volume 2. Notwithstanding, nice, bright copies 006387 
Price: 225.00 USD
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