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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: New. pp. 558.

Illustrated card cover. Zustand: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 290mm x 200mm (11" x 8"). xvii, 454pp/. Facsimile of the Pioneer Publishing Co Ltd edition of 1924.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

8vo. pp. 248. 5 tipped-in photographic illus. (incl. frontis. portrait) & numerous text illus. original cloth (some discolouration to covers, adhesion damage on pp. 94-95 affecting several words on twelve lines). First Edition of this biography of the South African mining magnate. Robinson [1840-1929] made a fortune mining diamonds at Kimberley and gold in the Witwatersrand. His ruthless business practices earned him the title of 'Old Buccaneer'.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and marked. The top of the spine has been neatly repaired. Includes 5 tipped in photograph plates on 4 boards. Internally, minor marks. Otherwise clean. Tightly bound. [ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

32,5x21,5 cm. 404 pp. + 2 folding plates. Richly illustrated and with numerous advertisement Later calf-backed boards, covers bound in. Front cover and first leaves with repair to upper left corner, otherwise a very good copy. This is the 7'th issue of this annual, filled with interesting articles on different subjects from all over Africa.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good. Weinthal, Leo (illustrator). Hardbacks, half-morocco, gilt titles to spines. 29cm x 24cm. xxxvi, 727pp; xx, 510pp; xvi, 454pp; xii, 455pp,12pp; 49pp. Complete set of volumes 1 to 4 & Atlas volume with 12 loosely maps as called for. 5 further maps in the main volumes. Numerous illustrations throughout all vols. nd. Bindings a little marked and worn. Watermark to top edge of vol. 2, with it effecting page 385 in that volume. A very heavy set (over 15kg), with additional postage required for orders outside the UK. (utsbox2).

Zustand: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed with some marks. Occasional page-edge browning and minor marks within. 290mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). xxxvi, 727pp; xx, 510pp; xvi, 454pp; 49pp, maps; + plates. 82 plates & maps (31 coloured, 28 sepia, 38 fold-out) + over 1,200 b/w photographs. University of Cape Town Library. Very heavy set significant extra shipping needed for overseas. Black hardback half-leather cover with green boards.

and the 50 page index to volumes 1 to 3, the index to volume 4 being at the rear of that volume. 1st edition. 5 volumes including the slipcase of maps and the index which constitutes the 5th volume. With a total of 17 coloured folding maps, 5 being called for in the 4th volume, where in fact 3 are present, the other two being bound into the 3rd volume. Illustrated with profuse plates (some coloured, some portraits), diagrams and further maps. 4to. A very good set in the publisher's half black morocco with green cloth boards. xxxvi,728pp - & - xx,510pp. - & - xvi,454pp. - & - xii,456,12pp - & - 50pp (plus the 12 maps). Pioneer Publishing Company. London.

Zustand: Good. Not dated. assume 1923. 4to. In publisher's half Leather binding. Leather is black with olive cloth to boards. Binding is rubbed and worn at edges. Contents generally VG. Institution bookplate to endpapers. One map has a 1inch tear a couple have been misfolded. For further details/ pictures please message us. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Three Vols + Index Volume. (Lacking Vol IV). 4to., bound in publisher's three-quarters black morocco gilt with green buckram boards, t.e.g. Vols I-III illus with sepia tissue-protected portraits, b/w plates and maps (some foldout) plus some in colour; Map and Index Vol complete with all 12 foldout maps in card case to front pastedown, plus 49pp index, illus with b/w plates and a map. Vol I: [xxxvi] + 727pp; Vol II: [xx] + 510pp; Vol III: [xvi] + 454pp. Clean set with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. Inner hinges of Vols I-III reinforced with green tape. Vol I front inner hinge beginning to split. Foxing to edges to Vols I-III. Slight rubbing to boards, board edges and corners, and a few marks. Ovefrall a VG set. (SHELF 133) PLEASE NOTE: very Heavy set - Postage outside the UK WILL incur a surcharge: BEFORE ORDERING PLEASE CONTACT US VIA E-MAIL FOR AN ACCURATE QUOTE. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Compiled, Illustrated and Edited by Leo Weinthal. London: The Pioneer Publishing Co., Ltd., 1923 Publisher's gilt decorated black half-morocco, 4to. (1). The Record and romance of an Imperial Project; how it materialised to date; and the Story of its Creators. Forewords by J. C. Smuts, The Earl Buxton and Sir Francis Younghusband. viii,xxxvi,727pp. 351 plates, (10 coloured, 6 folding), numerous text illustrations, 17 photo plate insets, 8 maps, (1 folding). (2). The Main Line as it exists to-day from the Cape to the Nile Delta. ii,xx,510pp. 209 plates, (3 coloured, 9 folding), numerous text illustrations, 8 photo plate insets, 6 maps, (1 coloured folding). (3). Variations of the Main Trunk Route and its Feeder Lines in existence or projected. Africa's Native Tribes and Wild Game. ii,xvi,454pp. 152 plates, (6 coloured), numerous text illustrations, 5 photo plate insets, 6 maps, (2 coloured folding). (4). Index to volumes I., II. & III. ii,49pp. 2 plates, 13 maps, (12 folding, 11 coloured). A massive compilation on the countries of Africa along the route of the railway, the associate editors were Sir Alfred Sharpe, C. W. Hobley, Gerald H. Lepper, Charles Rudy, Alfred J. Clevely, Charles Sheldon, W. Ingram-Lyon and William J. Brand. Containing contributions by the famous africanists of the day. A fourth volume (not present here) "Supplementary to the Story of the Cape to Cairo Route, and dealing exclusively with the Finance, Commerce and Industry of the Countries served by the Route" was published in 1926. A very good copy of the first edition. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B].

First edition, complete with the map volume, of this suitably lavish tribute to one of the most glorious failures of the empire, the project conceived by Cecil Rhodes as "The Iron Spine and Ribs of Africa". By 1914 there was already a 2,600-mile link from Cape Town to Bukama in the Congo; two sections of river steamer and an isolated length of Congolese railway took the route to Stanleyville. In the north, the line was continuous from Cairo to Luxor and from Wadi Halfa to Kosti; these two sections were connected by 250 miles of Nile steamer, but the route to cross uncharted parts of the northern Congo and southern Sudan was not even surveyed by the time of publication, and the scheme was never completed. Weinthal produced this encyclopaedic work as "a belated but substantial tribute to Rhodes's idea. As an advisory board for this Brobdingnagian project, Weinthal recruited every possible survivor with a connection to Rhodes and to colonial Africa, every likely expert on the continent, and every amenable viceroy, sirdar, and colonial governor, from the general manager of the South African Railways to Sir Abe Bailey, Flinders Petrie, and Lord Lugard. The contents include essays on the history, society, and natural conditions of the African states to be traversed by the prospective railway; the mercantile potential of these states and the benefit of rail transport; the railway engineering feats undertaken in East Africa; touristic topics, such as ethnographic studies of tribespeople; big-game hunting; the "mysteries" of the Great Zimbabwe; the progress of colonial society in Cairo; and genial fantasies concerning the future of an "unlocked" continent that would be crossed by great silver airships stopping airily at new cities to disembark their passengers; merchants, mining engineers, and families of colonial administrators" (Merrington). Other prominent contributors were Sir Percy Fitzgerald on "Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson;" Sir Harry Johnston on the native languages along the route; the late Captain Selous on big game; and Flinders Petrie on "The Trail of the Ancients on the Route"; there is also an extract from Churchill's My African Journey, accompanied by a portrait. Typescript labels and library plates to the front free endpapers record the bequest of this set to Barclays Bank by Lady Caulcutt, widow of Sir John (1876-1943), longtime director of Barclays, in 1944. See Merrington, "A Staggered Orientalism: The Cape-to-Cairo Imaginary", in Poetics Today 22.2, Summer 2001. 4 quarto text vols and 1 map portfolio. Profusely illustrated with mounted photographic portraits, half-tone plates (many folding) and text illustrations, and folding maps, most in colour (of which 12 in the map porfolio). Original black hard-grain half or quarter morocco, green cloth sides, spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed in places, corners worn (bumped in map porfolio), scattered faint marking to sides, mild finger-soiling to edges of text-blocks, two small punctures to vol. 1 spine, contents clean and fresh. A very good set.

London, The Pioneer Publishing Company Limited, 1923-26. 4 volumes + map portfolio. Original black hard-grain half morocco, spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Profusely illustrated with mounted photographic portraits, halftone plates (many folding) and text illustrations, and folding maps, most in colour (of which 12 in the map porfolio). First edition. - A luxurious production documenting the completion of the most important engineering project undertaken in Africa up until that time, a project that Rhodes had identified as being essential for the economic developement of South Africa. The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route from 1887 to 1922. The iron spine and ribs of Africa. The Cape to Cairo Railway was an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing Africa from south to north. It would have been the largest and most important railway of that continent. It was planned as a link between Cape Town in South Africa and Port Said in Egypt. The project was conceived by Cecil Rhodes. By 1914 there was already a 2,600-mile link from Cape Town to Bukama in the Congo; two sections of river steamer and an isolated length of Congolese railway took the route to Stanleyville. In the north, the line was continuous from Cairo to Luxor and from Wadi Halfa to Kosti; these two sections were connected by 250 miles of Nile steamer, but the route to cross uncharted parts of the northern Congo and southern Sudan was not even surveyed by the time of publication, and the scheme was never completed. The contents include i.a. essays by Winston Churchill, Francis Younghusband, Harry Johnston, Theodore Roosevelt, and F.C. Selous, on the history, society, and natural conditions of the African states to be traversed by the prospective railway; the mercantile potential of these states and the benefit of rail transport; the railway engineering feats undertaken in East Africa; touristic topics, such as ethnographic studies of tribespeople; big-game hunting; the "mysteries" of the Great Zimbabwe; the progress of colonial society in Cairo; and genial fantasies concerning the future of an "unlocked" continent that would be crossed by great silver airships stopping airily at new cities to disembark their passengers; merchants, mining engineers, and families of colonial administrators' (See Merrington A Staggered Orientalism: The Cape-to-Cairo Imaginary", in Poetics Today 22.2, 2001). Added the rare SYNOPSIS of principal contents. The story of the Cape to Cairo Railway & River Route from 1887 to 1922. London 1922. Wrappers. Profussely illustrated. 50 pp. - A very attractive set of an encyclopaedic work. SAB IV, p.743-744.