Africa

Cowen, Charles. Johannesburg, the Golden Centre of South Africa. Photographs by D. H. Davies. Johannesburg: No publisher, 1900? 12mo (small book). 19 pages of text mounted inside left front cover. Inside rear cover 24 accordion-fold photographs. Good hardcover with taped spine. Accordion-fold detached, not affecting photographs. Name stamp on verso of first photograph. Some tape marks on rear cover. #17920. $125
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Hazlewood, Arthur. Rail and Road in East Africa: Transport Co-Ordination in Under-Developed Countries. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1964. xiv, 247 pages. Index. Diagrams. Tables. Folding frontispiece map. East African Institute of Social Research and Oxford University Institute of Economics and Statistics, Monograph 7. Label pasted over title imprint: Reprints of Economic Classics, Augustus M. Kelley, Publisher, New York, 1965. 'This book is a study in the economics of freight transport in Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda. It deals with the railway tariff, road transport licensing, and road-rail competition.' - Front jacket panel. Good hardcover. Exlibrary: spine label, stamps black out on top, fore and bottom edges, stamps on title page, call number on copyright page; stamp and pocket on rear flyleaf. #27032. $20
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Kashambuzi, Eric M. Critical Issues in African Development. New York: Rivercross Publishing, Inc., 1977. 1st printing. xxi, 197 pages. Bibliographical references. A study of sub-Saharan economic policy, conditions and populations, including a chapter on 'Poverty, Society and Environment in Africa: The Case of Zambia'. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. Stamp on title page, 'Review Copy, Not for Sale or Return'. ISBN 0944957919. #23491. $12.50
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Mansvelt, N. Hollands-Afrikaanse Liederbundel. Volgens opdracht van het Hoofdbestuur der Nederlandsch Zuid-Afrikaansche Vereeniging. Met veler medewerking verzameld door Dr. N. Mansvelt. Amsterdam, Kaapstad: Holl. Afr. Uitg. Mij. & Pretoria-Johannesburg: J. H. De Bussy, 1916. 2e druk. Small 4to (medium-large book). 153 pages. Music. First published in 1907. Text in Dutch. Hardcover binding. Bookplate inside front cover, name and name label on flyleaf, name stamp on upper right hand corner of title page. #17924. $50
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Oxley, John. Places of Worship in South Africa. Halfway House, South Africa: Southern Book Publishers, 1993. 1st edition, 1st impression. 4to (large book). xii, 208 pages. Index. Color and black-and-white photographs. Endpaper photographs. Describes 56 religious sites in South Africa's Cape Province, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State. Very good hardcover in very good dust jacket. ISBN 186812424X. #24626. $30
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Penning, L. Onder de Vrijstaatsche Vlag. Een Verhaal uit den Engelsch-Zuid Afrikaanschen Oorlog. Leiden: D. Donner, 1901. 183 pages. Text in Dutch. Pictorial cloth-covered hardcover. Top edge of title page missing, not affecting text. Corners very slightly worn, some foxing, else Very Good. #17919. $150
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Penning, L. Transvaalsche Historische Verhalen. De Helden van Zuid-Afrika. Een Verhaal uit den 'Trek' der Afrikaansche Boeren uit de Kaapkolonie naar de Transvaal. Gorinchem: F. Duym, 1900. 4e druk. 3 gekleurde platen en portret. First published Gorinchem: Duym, 1897. This is the first volume of three volume set, which reprints a number of the author's works. Each volume is complete in itself. Volume 2, De Helden van Zuid Afrika; Volume. 3, De Ruiters van Zuid Afrika. Cf. Voorwoord by de Tweede Druk. Text in Dutch. Pictorial red cloth binding. Marginal tears on pages 163/4 and 165/6 not affecting text. Pages browning. Very good hardcover. #17921. $150
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Waszklewicz-Van Schilfgaarde, B., and H. D. Van Broekhuizen. Paul Kruger's Tocht. Getrouwde beschrijving van Oom Paul's bezoek aan Frankrijk, de Rijnprovincie en Nederland, opgeluisterd door illustratien naar momentphotographien. 's-Gravenhage: A. Abrahams & Leiden: Blankenberg, 1900. 107, 7 (Music) pages. Photographs. Text in Dutch. Good pictorial wrapper, front cover detached, binding weak. Partially unopened pages. Text complete and condition very good. #17922. $50
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