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Excavation of burial mounds in Ngorongoro Crater

By: Leakey, M.D.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: 1966

Seller ID: 1004

SIGNED ILLUSTRATED ORIGINAL PAPER BY MARY LEAKEY DESCRIBING DISCOVERIES AT ONE OF HER EXCAVATIONS IN AFRICA. 10 inches tall offprint from Tanzania Notes and Records, No. 66, December, 1966. Blue printed paper covers, age-toned, stapled, 12 pp, 3 figures, 4 black & white plates, signed by author on cover, very good. MARY DOUGLAS LEAKEY (1913 - 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilized Proconsul skull, an extinct ape now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also discovered the robust Zinjanthropus skull at Olduvai Gorge. For much of her career she worked with...
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Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa

By: Livingstone, David

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Bros., Publishers: 1858

Seller ID: 641

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF DR. LIVINGSTONE'S FAMOUS FIRST EXPLORATION OF AFRICA, RICHLY ILLUSTRATED AND WITH FOLDING MAPS, COPY OF VIRGINIA PHYSICIAN AND LAWYER. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, publisher's brown cloth binding, blindstamped covers, gilt title to spine, signature of Jos. A. Waddell to front endpaper, steel engraved portrait of author, tissue guard, wood engraving of tsetse fly to title page, double-page frontis wood engraving of Victoria Falls, xxiv, 732 pp, 43 wood engravings, 22 of which are full-page, fold-out section across south-central Africa, 2 fold-out maps bound at back, ea...
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Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864

By: Livingstone, David and Livingstone, Charles

Price: $110.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers: 1866

Seller ID: 335

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF CLASSIC ILLUSTRATED ACCOUNT OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION BY THE LIVINGSTONE BROTHERS. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, original brown pebbled cloth binding, gilt title to spine, 2-page frontis wood engraving of bird's eye view of the great cataracts of the Zambesi, plus 35 full page illustrations throughout the text, and large folding map at rear. Corners bumped, edges worn, spine faded, edges soiled, pages age-toned but crisp and unmarked, map clean with closed tear at upper left corner, repaired on back with archival tape. Good+. DAVID LIVINGSTONE (1813 – 1873) was a Scotti...
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Pamphlets on Insects, Injurious and Beneficial

By: Lounsbury, Charles Pugsley

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Cape Town, South Africa, 1897 - 1924

Seller ID: 952

UNIQUE BOUND COLLECTION OF EARLY 20TH CENTURY ORIGINAL PAPERS CHRONICLING THE WORK OF A YOUNG AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST WHO REVOLUTIONIZED AGRICULTURAL PEST CONTROL IN SOUTH AFRICA. 10 inches tall hardcover, red buckram binding, gilt title, library call letters to spine, bookplate of University of Tennessee Library (withdrawn) to front paste-down, typescript table of contents, 63 offprints, some signed by the author, some with handstamp or signature of previous owner, H. A. Morgan, many with illustrations, some color. Covers soiled, edges worn, edges of several papers chipped, some pages browned, ...
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Kamongo

By: Smith, Homer W.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Viking Press: 1932

Seller ID: 644

1932 FIRST EDITION OF HOMER SMITH'S BESTSELLING STORY OF KAMONGO--THE AFRICAN LUNGFISH--AND ITS IMPORTANCE TO UNDERSTANDING OUR EVOLUTION. 8 1/2 inces tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding, blindstamped title to cover, gilt title to spine, 167 pp. Cover edges and spine sun-faded, darkened area front endpaper (presumably from previous newspaper clipping storage), text unmarked and very good; dust jacket price-clipped, edges chipped. A good copy of the true first edition in jacket--now scarce. HOMER WILLIAM SMITH (1895-1962) not only became the dean of renal physiology but emerged as ...
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Category: Africa

Excavation of burial mounds in Ngorongoro Crater

Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa; including a sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa

Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864

Pamphlets on Insects, Injurious and Beneficial

Kamongo