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New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971 Quarto. Brown cloth. A fine copy in spine-faded, price-clipped pictorial dust jacket. A photo-essay of African culture.. ... more information

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971 Quarto. Special binding in brown leatherette. A fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. A photo-essay of African culture.. ... more information

New York: Random House, 1957 First edition. Illustrated with numerous color and black & white plates, including frontis, and maps. Some rubbing to the extremities and wear to the dust jacket. Else a fine copy.. ... more information

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. First English language edition. Thick quarto. Brown cloth, lettered in gilt. Pictorial dust jacket and slipcase. Some light fading to slipcase, else a fine copy. A photo-essay concerning Egyptian archaeology.. ... more information

Berne: Kummerly and Frey, 1962 First American edition. Quarto. A fine copy with dust jacket. A study of the history and culture of Egypt.. ... more information

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1980 First edition. Quarto. A fine copy with spine-faded dust jacket. An overview of ancient Egyptian art.. ... more information

New York: The Century Co., 1912 Early reprint. Small quarto. Illustrated by Jules Guerin. A fine copy. A beautifully illustrated look at Egyptian history.. ... more information

New York: Doubleday, 1992 First edition. Oblong quarto. Illustrated with nearly 100 full page color photographs by Robert Lyons. Text by Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz. Brick cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket has a small 1/4 inch tear at head of spine, else a very fine copy. A photo-essay of life in modern Egypt.. ... more information

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970 First edition. Tall octavo. Illustrated with numerous color and black & white photos. Corners slightly bumped and some rubbing to the edges, also to the extremities of dust jacket. A very good copy.. ... more information

New York: Atheneum, 1986 First American Edition. xix, 314pp. Illustrated with 40 photographs and 9 maps and diagrams. Biographical notes, bibliography, index. Cloth-backed boards. A fine copy with fine pictorial dust jacket. Excellent story of the South African diamond and gold strikes in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and of the exploits and exploitations of South Africa's mining magnates such as Cecil Rhodes, Barney Barnato, Solly Joel, Julius Wernher, Paul Kruger, and J.B. Robinson: finan... more information

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978 First American edition. Quarto. A fine copy with quite faded dust jacket. An examination of life in the Sahara Desert.. ... more information

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969 First English language edition. Quarto. A fine copy with dust jacket. A study of the natural history of the Sahara Desert.. ... more information

New York: Pantheon Books, 1955 First edition. Texts translated with introductions by Alexandre Piankoff. Small folio. Pp. xxi, [1], 149. plus 64 full-page photographic plates. Also includes a frontispiece, 2 gold facsimile plates, 8 folding black & white plates, and text illustrations. Two-tone brown and tan cloth, gilt. A very fine copy with plain dust jacket (repaired at spine) and matching cloth slipcase. Bollingen Series XL-2. The second volume of the series (complete in itself) on Egyptian religion... more information

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1964 Octavo. Illustrated with black & white photographs, drawings and maps. Index. Blue cloth with gilt lettering and decoaration. Spine and edges faded, else a fine copy in chipped and spine-faded pictorial dust jacket. A study of the history of Egypt as through its archaeological heritage.. ... more information

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966 First American edition. Illustrated with photographs by Christina Loke. Quarto. Dust jacket has some wear and a tear along the spine (although, it is very hard to see). A fine copy. A study of the wildlife of Kenya, with descriptions and photographs of over 150 animals from the country's wilderness.. ... more information

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1972 First edition. Small oblong quarto. A fine copy with dust jacket. A study of African natural history and anthropology.. ... more information

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.), 1976 First edition. 4to. Color photos by Lee Boltin, black & white photos by Harry Burton. Gilt-lettered dark blue cloth. Small smudge on front cover, else a fine copy with dust jacket.. ... more information

Cape Town: Howard Timmins, 1973 Revised edition, first published in 1961. Small quarto. [8], 187pp. Illustrated throughout with period photographs as well as drawings by P.W. Wheeler and Roy Taylor; endpaper maps. Index. Orange boards lettered in white. Foot of spine and two corners slightly jammed. A near fine copy with price-clipped pictorial dust jacket (lightly chipped at spine ends). Story of South Africa's great gold mining industry and the first mining camp, Pilgrim's Rest, and of one of the ... more information

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1986 Octavo. Black and white photographs, map endpapers, bibliography, index. Tan paper boards, black cloth spine, silver lettering. Front and rear free endpapers starting to seperate, else a fine copy in pictorial dust jacket. The story of Mary Kingsley, Victorian explorer/adventurer/writer in Africa. . ... more information