New Yok and Munich: The Museum of African Art, 1996. First. Quarto, 257 pages. Soft cover no dust jacket. Tight binding. Text and pages are clean and unmarked. Profusely illustrated throughout in color and B&W plates. Light rubbing and fading to covers, and light chipping around the edges and corners. Blue spine with text in white. Shelve with African Art. Consignment LR. More

Michigan: University of Michigan Museum of Art, 1985. large octavo in wraps. VG. Light shelf and edge wear to wraps. Book contains 15 color plates and very many black and white photos, both large and small. 288pp. Shelve in African Art section. Spine is brown with black text. LR CONSIGNMENT. More

New York: The Center For African Art, 1990. quarto in cloth with DJ. VG+/VG+. Light shelf and edge wear to DJ. DJ spine is faded. Binding is solid. Book contains 110 large black and white and color photos (mostly color). 194pp. Shelve in African Art section or front table. DJ spine is faded red with white text. LR CONSIGNMENT. Alcove One Window. More

Paris: Editions Albert Morance, 1956. First Edition. Folio; Fair; 16 pp. of text and 50 plates illustrating 79 works of art, housed in the original portfolio; brown cloth spine with gilt text; yellow papered boards with photographic image to front; brown ribbon tie closure; cracking to spine at joints, but but not detached; duct tape mends to interior at spine; slight sunning to exterior; heavily rubbed corners; text block consists of disbound illustrations in paper wrappers; images slightly toned; arts- non Western. NOTE: This heavy oversize item will incur extra shipping costs; LR Consignment. More

Bruxelles: n. publ. 1910. Folio; 290 pp. Bound in modern buckram; leather spine label. Odd volume. With folding maps, 29 pages of plates, many illustrations in the text. VG; some sunning to spine, sunning and soiling to boards; interior clean and tight. Text in French. LR Consignment. additional shipping may be necessary due to size/weight restrictions for international/expedited orders. More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. Ninth Edition. Octavo, two volumes; G+; full bindings of blue cloth; spine faded to green, with gilt lettering; mild staining; some shelf wear; corners bumped; some wear to head and tail of spine; mild foxing to text block; previous owners' names at front paste down; pages else clean; LJ consignment; case 8 1/2. More

London: Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1939. First Edition. Octavo, 485 pages; G-; full binding of blue cloth; spine faded to light blue with gilt lettering; moderate shelf wear; covers and spine faded; corners bumped; upper edge of back board bumped; back hinge split and repaired; wear to head and tail of spine; all edges foxed; previous owner's name at front free end paper; both hinges split; contains black and white photo plates throughout; contains maps in pocket at back of volume; pages clean; LJ consignment; shelved Case 8 1/2. More

Philadelphia, PA: Historical Publishing Company, 1889. New Edition. Quarto, 606 pages, [2] ads; VG-; bound in publisher's olive cloth, olive lettering and black palm tree on spine; spine cocked; age-toning to pages; profusely illustrated with 500 engravings, some in color; frontispiece with tissue-guard slightly bled onto title page; sticker of the "Library Baltimore Academy of the Visitation' on front pastedown; MA consignment; shelved case 9. More

luanda: Instituto De Investigacao Cientifica de Angola, 1971. Octavo, 427 pages; VG; Beige/off-white image along spine with red text. General rubbing and edgewear along covers, rubbing & slight bumping to corners, binding strong; Pages have some age-toning to them (to be expected), otherwise clean and free of markings, book contains several B&W images, two folding maps, and an errata bound at the rear of the book.; WT Consignment; Shelved case 9. More

London: Robert Jennings, [1830], 1828. First Edition. Octavo; G; bound in 3/4 burgundy calf, marbled boards, spine with gilt titling; moderate wear and rubbing to binding, including front board largely detached, part of marbled paper on front board peeling, chipping to head and tail of spine; small ink splatter to top edge of text block, impacts top edge of Columbia and Brazil maps; with 80/81 plates, lacking the final plate (Intermediate Geography). With 55 maps illustrating the modern world and 25 of 26 maps illustrating the ancient world; Calligraphic title page to both parts; Scales differ.; RR consignment; shelved case 9. More

Nürnberg: Verlegung des auxtoris Gedruckt bey Johann Ernst Adelbuler, 1731. Folio; G; bound in faded red cloth, faded titling to front cover; moderate wear, including fraying to corners, spine largely detached, remnants of cloth ties to boards; With title page, 42 pages of text in German, 14 maps of the celestial sphere, 77 terrestrial maps; all celestial and 73 terrestrial maps hand-colored contemporaneously; lacking allegorical frontispiece engraved by Casper Luyken and the portrait of Charles VI in black and white; the backs of the majority of maps with a child's drawings, majority in pencil, some crayon, circa 1880, very sparse pencil to the maps themselves; some scattered repair; title page missing the lower fore corner, does not impact text; With a fully global collection of maps, including the constellations, both the Copernican and Tychonic models of the orbits, maps of both hemispheres, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Maps of North America do include the names of some Native American Tribes. Interestingly, the maps are inconsistent as to whether California is an island. The title vignette is a map of the world as seen from above the north pole, includes California as an island. All maps with emblematic cartouches and ornamented with engravings.; consignment; shelved map case. More