London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1946. First Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. viii, 61 pp, with 11 illustrations and a map. Original stapled wrappers toned around the edges, text block detached from wraps, else very good. Aimed at British schoolchildren in Northern Rhodesia to help foster "good relations and understanding between the European and the African." Includes a handy list of "dos and don'ts " ("Don't call the African a Nigger" ; "Don't presume that the African is your inferior because he has a black skin"). (Item #13115)

Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xv, 256 pp, with frontis portrait of Mrs. Hoffman. Recently rebound in black buckram. Mercantile library stamps on frontis and title page, as well as the margin of three text pages. Otherwise quite clean. Virginia Hale Hoffman was born in Glastonbury, CT in 1832. She married In 1850, she went to Liberia with her husband, Reverend Cadwalader Colden Hoffman, who was a member of the Episcopal mission. In Cavalla, Liberia, she learned the local language (Grebo) and supported the mission by teaching and working among the flock. She died of a pulmonary ailment in 1856, and here she is described as "worthy to be added to the catalogue of these martyrs for Christ [who include women such as Harriet Newell and Anne Hazeltine Judson] and the cause of the world's conversion." (Item #13088)

London: John Murray, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. Two volumes in one. lxvii, 335; 269 pp, complete with 38 engraved plates (1 colored) and maps (1 folding), 6 wood-engraved vignettes in the text. Rebound in red buckram with leather spine label, date erroneously printed as 1836 at foot. Occasional minor foxing and offsetting, one closed tear to map.In hopes of tracing the course of the Niger River, Denham's expedition crossed the desert along the long-established Sahara trade route to the kingdom of Bornu (later Nigeria), a route littered with the skeletons of thousands of slaves abandoned there over the centuries. They sighted Lake Chad and reached the capital of Bornu, where they were welcomed by a spectacular array of some five thousand horsemen sent by the Muslim prophet who ruled Bornu in the king's name. Though delighted to meet them, he refused to let them continue their explorations, lest they meet some misadventure for which he would be blamed. Ultimately, the expedition returned to England having failed to find the Niger, but having opened much of north central Africa to European knowledge. Written in a lively style, and embellished with engravings of Denham's own sketches, this account became one of the classics of its genre (DNB). Denham was later appointed lieutenant-governor of the colony of Sierra Leone, where he died of the African fever in 1828. (Item #13060)

New York: Harper and Brothers. Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing, c. 1890s. 314 pp, with 24 illustrations and a sketch map of part of western Africa. Inscribed with a line from the text and signed and dated by Du Chaillu in December 1900. Spine toned but fully legible, with mild wear to the tips; else a fine copy. Du Chaillu was a prolific traveler and anthropologist who gained fame in the 1860s as the first modern outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas. Later he was first to describe the Pygmy people of central Africa (a report received with much skepticism). This book is an account of Du Chaillu's second trip to Africa, in 1863, on which he concerned himself primarily with studying native culture. Signed copies are rare. Although it is not marked as such, this copy comes from the library of Kermit Roosevelt. (Item #12267)

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated, c. 1898. xxx, 299 pp, illustrated. Original green cloth; Some rubbing/abrasion to boards, fraying to spine ends. Binding tight, hinges secure, text unmarked. Burrows served several years in British Army in India. After his retirement, he was recruited to serve as a District Commander in the Congo Free State. During his three years at the post, he devoted considerable time to the study of the region's little known native tribes, including the Mangbettou, Ababwas, Azande, Maigoes, Mabode, and Mongvus. The book also includes a chapter on elephant hunting near the Well River (Czech p. 47). (Item #13066)

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp, indexed, with 47 illustrations (most from photographs) and 3 maps (1 folding). Publisher's orange cloth stamped in black, with image of a native with bow and arrow on the front board. Some dust soiling, spine lightly sunned, occasional foxing. Ethnographic study of the Bakonde and their neighbors inhabiting the Kasempa District of Northern Rhodesia. Discusses tribal customs surrounding childhood, marriage, puberty and pregnancy, and death and burial; religious practices, witchcraft, divination, charms and talismans, omens and dreams, hunting, warfare, etc. Also includes a chapter on the Kongamoto, a mysterious, pterosaur-like flying animal that today remains a subject of cryptozoological speculation. (Item #13069)

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1913. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 316 pp, with 32 photographic plates and a folding map. Publisher's orange cloth stamped in gilt. Moderate foxing, else clean and sound. Torday describes his extensive travels in the Congo between 1900 and 1907, offering detailed observations on the folklore and customs of the tribes he encountered. "While this is primarily important as an ethnological study...there are incidents of hunting lion, leopard, hippopotamus, and buffalo" (Czech, p. 285). (Item #13044)

London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1900. Hardcover. Good. Second edition, issued in one volume. xiv, 512 pp, with index, illustrations, and 8 colored maps (5 folding). Original blue pictorial cloth, with some abrasion to front board, moderate edgewear. U.S. Torpedo Naval Station bookplate on front pastedown and blind stamp on plates and maps. Binding sound but not as tight as it could be; contents clean. A historical survey of British exploration, trade, and governance in West Africa, covering Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ashanti, Nigeria, the Fulah Empire, exploration of and trade on the Niger, the slave trade, missionaries, etc. (Item #13064)

Chicago, IL: A.C. McClurg & Co., 1901. Hardcover. Very Good-. 224 pp, illustrated by Walter Bobbett. Publisher's pictorial brown cloth. Mild spine slant, rubbing to extremities, previous owners' small bookplate and signature on front endpapers. Folk tales translated from the Swahili. (Item #12262)

London: Hollis and Carter, 1950. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Second impression. 343 pp, indexed, with illustrations, map endpapers. One corner bumped, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has a subtle stain and one short tear. Charles de Foucauld was a French monk who established a mission among the Tuareg people of southern Algeria where "for fifteen years he labored amid incredible hardships and solitude--and never made a convert." His solitary life of service has proved be a lasting inspiration to Catholic fraternal organizations and religious communities. (Item #13112)

New York: McBride Books, 1962. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. 278 pp, illustrated, in original cloth. A clean, tight copy with some spotting to top edge of the text block. In the British dust jacket (Putnam), which has light soiling to the rear panel. Attempts to sort fact from myth on subject such as black magic, native clairvoyance, rainmaking, witch doctors and tribal medicine, firewalkers, snake charmers, etc. One of the scarcest of Green's many works on Africa. (Item #13104)