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ASPECTOS POLITICOS DA AFRICA ACTUAL.
Lisboa. 1962. 317pp. Illustrated, with fold-out present. Wrps. Covers lightly soiled and age-toned but otherwise a very good, clean copy.
$15.00
BOLAHUN: An African Adventure.
New York:G.P. Putnam's Sons. (1952). 248pp. Illustrated. Hardcover. Binding is lightly worn at the edges with some fading to the covers and sun-fading down the spine. Interior is clean and free of stray markings, though there is some mild age-toning to the page edges. Overall, this is a very good copy.
$15.00
LADY ANNE BARNARD AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 1797-1802.
343pp. Illus. Original green cloth. Previous owners book-plate pasted down on front fly-leaf. A very good, tight clean copy. Minor wear at ends of spine.
$28.50
THE ALBERT N'YANZA. GREAT BASIN OF THE NILE, AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE NILE SOURCES
London; Macmillan and Co., 1867. 2 vols. Hard Cover, no jacket. xxx+371pp, and x+372pp. Condition is Good. Gilt decorated green cloth boards are shelf worn, have bumped corners, and some fabric fraying at the extremities; the gilt decoration remains bright; NOTE that on Vol 1, the upper front corner of the board has been nibbled away, about 3/8" on each side of the corner. Vol 1 has a newspaper photo taped to one of the endpapers. Light foxing, primarily to preliminary pages of both volumes. Fold out map also lightly foxed with small tear at margin where attached to volume. Otherwise pretty clean and securely bound. "I must take the reader of these volumes by the hand, and lead him step by step along my rough path from the beginning to the end; through scorching deserts and thirsty sands; through swamp, and jungle, and interminable morass; through difficulties, fatigues, and sickness, until I bring him, faint with the wearying journey, to that high cliff where the great prize shall burst upon his view - from which he shall look down upon the vast ALBERT LAKE, and drink with me from the Sources of the Nile!" (cfm)
$75.00
THE LONG TREK. Around the World with Camera and Rifle.
347pp. Illus. Inscribed presentation copy. Library-card pocket pasted inside back binding. Looks like it was a private collector. Ends of spine lighly frayed, otherwise a very good tight clean copy.
$80.00
THE PILGRIMS' WAY IN SOUTH AFRICA. With a Frontispiece in Colour By R. Gwelo Goodman. Also, 32 Photogravures from Photographs By Lancelot Ussher.
London:Oxford University Press. 1928. Light wear at ends of spine; light foxing on various sections of book; otherwise; a clean tight and satisfactory copy.
$16.50
BYZANTIUM AND BULGARIA. A COMPARATIVE STUDY ACROSS THE EARLY MEDIEVAL FRONTIER
Berkeley, CA:University of California Press. (1975). 232pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good, clean condition. No previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is lighty shelf-worn at edges with several small tears, still very good.
$35.00
CONSTANTINE PORPHYROGENITUS AND HIS WORLD
London:Oxford University Press. 1973. 767pp plus 5 maps (1 folding) at rear. Hardcover with dust jacket. In very good, clean condition with a very good, slightly rubbed and shelf-worn, dust jacket.
$125.00
ECONOMIC EXPANSION IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE 900-1200
Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. (1989). 1st edition. 298pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. Both the book and dust jacket in near fine condition. No previous owners marks or signatures and virtually no wear to jacket or edges.
$40.00
IMPERIAL BYZANTINE PORTRAITS. A Verbal and Graphic Gallery
New Rochelle, NY:Caratzas Brothers, Publisher. 1982. x+206pp. 1st edition. Illustrated. Hardcover. Red boards lightly soiled and shelfworn. Internally, pages are clean and bright. No previous owners marks or signatures. A very good copy.
$35.00
THE RED CHURCH, ATTEMPT AT ITS RESTORATION
Bulgaria; 1956. Hardcover, no dj. 75pp + 28 unpaginated album pages at rear. Good+ condition. Oversized (245mmx345mm) tan cloth boards pretty clean with a bit of sun toning; titling on spine is faded. Slightly bowed. Binding beginning to crack a bit. Owner and bookseller marks to ffep. Otherwise clean internally. Text in Bulgarian, French, and English. Deals with the restoration of Bulgaria's Red Church, including architectural drawings and photographs, some in color. (cfm)
$70.00
THE RELUCTANT EMPEROR. A BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN CANTACUZENE, BYZANTINE EMPEROR AND MONK, C.1925-1383
(Cambridge):Cambridge University Press. (1996). xi+(2)+203pp. Ilustrated. 1st edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Edge points gently bumped but otherwise a very good, clean copy inside and out. Dust jacket in very good condition.
$35.00
THE TWILIGHT OF BYZANTIUM. Aspects of Cultural and Religious HIstory in the Late Byzantine Empire. Papers from the Colloquium Held at Princeton University 8-9 May 1989
(Princeton, NJ): Department of Art and Archaeology Program in Hellenic Studies Princeton University. (1991). 1st edition. xx + 281pp. Illustrated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Both book and dust jacket in very good to near fine condition. No previous owners marks or signatures.
$95.00