Baltimore, 1839. The Slaves of the Amistad [The Amistad Affair] [within] Niles' National Register. Baltimore: William Ogden Niles, Saturday, September 28, 1839. An early account of the legal proceedings in the Amistad affair, (which led way to the Supreme Court case United States v. Schooner Amistad; 1841), printed within Niles'.....
Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 1839. HAZARD, Samuel, [editor]. Schooner Amistead. [within] United States Commercial & Statistical Register Philadelphia: William F. Geddes, 1839. Full Description: [ANTI-SLAVERY]. HAZARD, Samuel, [editor]. Schooner Amistead. [The Amistad Affair] [within] United States Commercial & Statistical Register. Philadelphia: William F. Geddes. Wednesday, September 11, 1839. An early.....
London: Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806. First edition. Quarto (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 inches; 266 x 212 mm). xviii, [2], 447, [1, blank] pp. With twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates and maps, two of which are double page and one which is folding. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked.....
London: John Murray, 1819. Uncut in Original Boards. With Seven Hand-Colored Aquatint Plates BOWDICH, T[homas] Edward. Mission from Cape Coast Castle to Ashantee, with a Statistical Account of that Kingdom, and Geographical Notices of Other Parts of the Interior of Africa. London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Quarto (11 5/16.....
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1842. First edition. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 211 x 135 mm). 177, [1, colophon] pp. We could find no copies at auction since 1977. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Black morocco spine label. Spine lettered and stamped in gilt. Previous.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To The Gold Coast For Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 7/16 x 4 15/16 inches; 189 x 126 mm). xii, [1, contents], [1, blank], [1]-354,[2,], [32, publisher's advertisements]; [2, blank], [i]-vi, [1]-381.....
Philadelphia: Nathaniel Wiley, 1804. Full Description: CLARKSON, Thomas. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species,. Particularly the African: In Three Parts. Translated from a Latin Dissertation, which was honoured with the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785... with Additions. Philadelphia: Nathaniel.....
Kingston, Jamaica: United Printers Ltd., 1963. Full Description: GARVEY, A. Jacques. Garvey and Garveyism. Kingston, Jamaica: United Printers Ltd., 1963. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 3/8 inches; 215 x 135 mm). [4], 287, [1, blank] pp. With two black-and-white photographic plates. We could only find two other copies.....
Antwerp: Joan. Latium, 1556. De Totius Africae Descriptione Libri IX.. Antwerp: Joan. Latium, 1556. Full description: LEO AFRICANUS, Joannes. De Totius Africae Descriptione Libri IX. Antwerp: Joan. Latium, 1556. First Latin edition of this famous description of Africa, first published in Italian as "Descrittione dell”Africa" in 1550. A translation by.....
London: Printed by Tho. Johnson for the author, 1670. Full Description: OGILBY, John. Africa: being an accurate description of the regions of Aegypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedulgerid, the land of Negroes, Guinee, Aethiopia, and the Abyssines, with all the adjacent islands, either in the Mediterranean, Atlantick, Southern, or Oriental Sea.....
Lambarene, 1949. N.p., N.d., ca. 1949]. One page black and white printed directory of Albert Schweitzer's Hospital he founded in 1913, located in Lambarene, now Gabon. Inscribed by Schweitzer in blue ink, three lines. Signed "A.S." The top half of the page is a black and white illustration of the.....
London: James Madden, 1848. . ST. JOHN, James Augustus. Oriental Album. Charaters, Costumes and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile. Illustrated from Designs Taken on the Spot by E. Prisse. With Descriptive Letter-press by James Augustus St. John. London: James Madden, 1848. First edition. Folio (21 1/2.....
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1890. association]. RIOU, Edouard [artist]. [Collection of five original pencil, pen and ink and gray wash drawings on tinted paper or wooden blocks, from In Darkest Africa]. [N.p.: n.d., circa1890]. Each drawing measures 6 3/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 162 x 105mm. Each is either drawn on a wooden block.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. With Eighty-Three Plates and Maps, of Which Sixteen are Engraved by Blake STEDMAN, Captain J.G. Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition, against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; from the year 1772, to.....
London: Printed for J. Johnson and J. Edwards, 1796. . Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam,. in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions, viz. quadrupeds, birds.....
London: Tallant and Allen, [i.e. John Cassell], 1852. . Uncle Tom's Cabin. With Illustrations London: Tallant and Allen, [i.e. John Cassell], 1852. Full Description: STOWE, Harriet Beecher. [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. Uncle Tom's Cabin. With Illustrations London: Tallant and Allen, [i.e. John Cassell, n.d.c.a. 1852]. Rare early edition bound from the.....
London: C. Whittingham, 1803. Full Description: WINTERBOTTOM, Thomas. An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone; to which is added an account of the present state of medicine among them. London: C. Whittingham, 1803. First edition. Two octavo volumes (8 1/4 x 5 inches; 210 x......