Guy Burrows (64 results)

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

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Hardcover. Green library buckram. 299 pp. BW illustrations. good- (ex-library with expected marks, plus blind stamp on title page, and blind stamp and perforation stamp on all full page plates. soiling in the margins from use. book was rebound with acidic end papers, which should be removed. some wear and soiling to cloth, with toning to spine).

Hardback. Condition: G+. No Jacket. Guy Burrows (illustrator). None Stated. 299 pp, photos and drawings by author, book and contents are solid, the front inside hinge is repaired with book tape , rear hinge is cracked, but is still tight, endpapers have some soil, the covers are tight and have soil and wear, mostly on the corners and edges, the date 1898 came from the end of the introduction, since no date was on the title or copyright page, this is a solid and usable copy of this book.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book offers a glimpse into the little-known land of the African pygmies, exploring their customs, beliefs, and way of life. The author, an English military officer, spent several years on a Congo expedition, and his vivid account reveals the challenges and triumphs of immersing himself in a vastly different culture. Beyond its ethnographic value, the book also delves into the broader historical and political context of the region, shedding light on the impact of European colonization on African societies. The author's deep respect for the pygmy people is evident throughout, as he challenges preconceived notions and provides a nuanced understanding of their complex social structures, belief systems, and relationship with the surrounding environment. This book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and culture of Central Africa, and its insights into the lives of the pygmies offer a unique perspective on human diversity. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book presents a scathing critique of the administration of the Congo Free State under King Leopold II of Belgium. It delves into the brutal realities of colonial rule, exposing the exploitation of the Congolese people and the systematic violence perpetrated against them in the pursuit of rubber and ivory. Drawing upon the author's firsthand experiences as a district commissioner, the book sheds light on the complicity of the state and commercial companies in perpetuating a regime of terror. Through vivid descriptions and documented evidence, it exposes the hypocrisy of Leopold's claims of philanthropy, revealing the devastating consequences of unchecked greed and power. The book's exploration of themes such as slavery, cannibalism, and the role of missionaries offers a nuanced understanding of the complexities of colonial encounters. It raises profound questions about the nature of civilization, the impact of European imperialism, and the responsibilities of nations towards indigenous populations. Ultimately, the book serves as a powerful indictment of a dark chapter in human history, urging readers to confront the legacy of colonial exploitation and to recognize the enduring struggle for justice and human dignity in the Congo and beyond. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First American Edition. 299p octavo, illustrated. A very good tight copy in original green cloth. Name on front fly leaf.

N.Y. & Boston, n.d. XXX,299 pp. Ills. Cloth.

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Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st American edition, 299pp., portrait frontipsiece, photo-illustrations and sketches by the author, with an introduction bby H.M. Stanley, bound in green cloth lettered and decorated in black, edges lightly rubbed, library stamped to front paste-do wn, small stamp very cleanly removed from spine otherwise a very good copy. Although many stories have been written about the African Congo, the author writes about his experiences and about the place he visited where no other white man had gone.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 338. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1898 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 338.

LeatheBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 376. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1903 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 376.

LeatheBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 344. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1898 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 344.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 340. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1898 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 340.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 342. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1898 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 342.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 382. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1903 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 382.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1898 Hardcover Near Fine/No Dust Jacket Thomas Y Crowell & Co, Pub, NY, 1898; with Introduction by H M Stanley; with Illustrations from Photographs and Sketches by the Author; near fine condition; bound in green, decorative, hard cover cloth; minor rubbing to corners, else fine; Captain Bu.

Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xxx, [3]-299. with half-title. frontis. portrait & 99 text illus. (many full-page). original cloth (rubbed, front hinge cracked, few institutional rubberstamps & labels, occasional light marginal soiling). First American Edition. During his three-year stay in the Congo Free State, Burrows commanded the Welle-Mobanghi division and the Makua (Upper Welle) and Rubi-Welle Zones.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; Introduction by Henry M. Stanley, dated 1898. Present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. The author was serving as an English officer in the Government of The Congo Free State from 1894 - 1897 and witnessed cannibalism (among many other adventures). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxx, 299 pages.

Condition: Very Good. First edition, first printing. Hardback. 1st edition, 1st impression, March, 1903. Original blue cloth with gilt titles and flag motif to front. Covers with slight wear and rubbing to edges, slight marking to front pastedown and endpaper, slight foxing to frontis and title page, very lightly shaken, otherwise near very good indeed, clean copy. No jacket. Complete with folding colour map.

Second impression. 8vo. Original navy blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt and sky blue. A very good copy of an uncommon book, with a little wear to the edges. Ownership inscription to half-title. Illustrated with 140 photographic reproductions and black and white maps, with a folding colour map to the rear. A vehement parting shot at the administration of The Congo Free State, in particular revealing its use of violence and economic exploitation, written by a former district commissioner there during the final years of Leopold II's direct rule.

First edition, early impression. A copy with outstanding provenance and an important Association Copy and a Presentation Copy. The Volume is Autographed and Presented by the publisher and signed by the recipient, William Hoffman, himself a noteworthy explorer who accompanied Stanley to Africa. Three historically significant letters are tipped into the volume including one from Stanley himself, which refers directly to Capt. Burrows, the author of the book as well as to the Congo State and the 'proposal to push the new Railway from Stanleyville East." A second letter from Lieutenant Cloesen, Chef de Zone and dated Feb. 1893, from Wells River, Central Africa states in part that "The Arabs are in great numbr with plenty of guns, close to Nyangara.Nyangara will try and give them a hiding. WE SHALL HAVE TO MAKE WAR WITH THE ARABS." The last letter from Bullinger, dated May 25 1899, Mogandjo, Africa, refers to the state of the author's health: "Awfully glad to hear Burrows is on the mend.please send me 1000 cartridges. I have 110 out emposte & only about 600 odd here. Thanks for the fusils a piston". Over 100 illustrations from photographs, one sketch map, one colour folding map. 8vo, publisher's original dark red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover, light blue and gilt image of a flag with a large single star on upper cover. xxviii, list of illustrations, 276, appendix, index,18 (publisher's list) pp. A sturdy and solid copy with expected evidence of use. The owner was one of the group that accompanied Stanley to Africa and it is clear that he used his books and read them with fervour. FIRST EDITION, RARE AND IMPORTANT AND A COPY WITH ESPECIALLY INTERESTING PROVENANCE AND WITH THE INCLUSION OF THREE HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT LETTERS LINKING BURROWS WITH BULLINGER, CLOESEN, HOFFMAN AND STANLEY. At the turn of the century, the Congo State in Africa was under the colonial rule of the Belgian monarch King Leopold II. In this orgiastic period of Western imperialism, every major power was scrambling for pieces of the newly opened African continent and their careless footsteps tended to leave smaller forces crushed in their wake. This book is an exposé written by the disgruntled Belgian ex district commissioner of the Aruwimi district of the Congo Free State bluntly describing the "scandalous rule" of the Belgian government in the Congo, complete with illustrations of natives submitting to Belgian torture and accounts of their excessive forced labour. One of the chapters is a section by former Congo State Service agent Edgar Canisius entitled "A Campaign Among Cannibals" in which (despite its formidable title) the author takes a sympathetic stand on the natives with further descriptions of their floggings and mistreatment at the hands of the Belgians. This interesting and detailed narrative brings the reader closer to imperialistic realities and injustices, devoid of much Euro-centric glossing. There are a great profusion of Stanley-Hoffman documents in Belgium, the RGS London and the Wellcome Library and in the Africa Museum. Hoffman remained in contact with Stanley for many, many years and was consistently involved with African affairs during his time in Britain. There is an interesting study of the six pygmies from the Congo who were in Britain 1905-1907 and Hoffman was their interpreter for 15 months. He worked for the Force Publique of the Congo Independent State in the 1890s, and was left £300 in Stanley's will (1904). Stanley of course wrote many books on his incursions and discoveries in Africa. He was a significant explorer, one of the first British explorers to open up the vast continent to western travelers and interests. He was a friend and colleague of Livingstone and the discoverer of the Congo and the pioneer who made possible the Congo Free State, and finally an elder statesman active in the affairs of the African continent even into the 20th century. Among his books are: THROUGH THE DARK CONTINENT; THE CONGO. FOUNDING OF THE FREE STATE; IN DARKEST AFRICA; MY KALULU; HOW I FOUND LIVINGSTONE; MY EARLY TRAVELS as well as many others.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A lovely copy of Guy Burrows' treatise on the issues faced by Central Africa, including the terror of Leopold II, to whom the work is dedicated. The first edition, fourth impression, of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one colour folding map, six plates, and many full-paged and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.A study into the issues of Central Africa at the turn of the century.Interestingly this work is dedicated to Leopold II of Belgium, though the work also condemns him and his behaviour as the absolute rule of the Congo Free State, a position he held from 1885 to 1908. The King's administration pleaded ignorance to the atrocities the Belgium's committed in the Congo.Written by Captain Guy Burrows.'A Campaign Amongst Cannibals' by Edgar Canisius is incorporated.From the library of I. and F. W. Hosken, who owned an extensive library of works on Africa.Eighteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor rubbing to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Front hinge is starting but firm. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some odd spots. Very Good. book.