Niger, First Edition (12 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. First U.S. Edition. ix, 419pp w index of Vols I-III. Indexed illustrations including frontis w tissue guard intact. Brick red cloth w gold lettering to cover and spine. Bumping to corners. Light wear to head and tail. Binding square and sound. Volume I and II also available. Quarto - 285 x 220mm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good EX-LIBRARY. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket. First Edition. 1. Auflage. Wien:: Springer - Verlag, 1954. Sehr gutes exemplar. Bibliotheksexemplar. PRÃPARATIVE MIKROMETHODEN IN DER ORGANISCHEN CHEMIE von H. Lieb und W. Schà niger (mit 139 textabbildungen); und MIKROSKOPISCHE METHODEN von L. Kofler und A. Kofler (mit 136 textabbildungen). Literatur. WITHDRAWN stamp, and a few other library markings on the endpapers. Text pages are clean. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Illustrated with micrographs, photos, and figures. Tables. Graphs. Bibliographical references. Bound in the original blue cloth, lettered in shiny gold on the spine and front cover. . First Edition. 1. Auflage. Hard Cover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY./No jacket. 8vo. vi, 236pp.

Disbound. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Edition. Pages 485-474. Last page loose. Light wear. This is an original book review from the 19th century. ; Octavo (standard book size).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Original cloth covers. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Dustjacket taped at all edges into plastic cover. Rear flap of dustjacket pasted to rear pastedown. Spine lean. Later endpapers. ; Ex-Library; 12mo.

8°, illustr. Original-Broschur. Condition: Gut. 56 S., farb. ill. Frz. / Engl.; Einband gering berieben und begriffen, gutes Exemplar, sehr selten! 04-06-99 Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann zur Zeit in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei. Bitte beachten Sie: Auf Grund der vorgegebenen Versandkosten von AbeBooks / ZVAB kann es bei Büchern über 1 kg oder bei mehrbändigen Werken zu höheren Versandkosten kommen. Please note: Due to the shipping costs specified by AbeBooks / ZVAB, there may be higher shipping costs for books over 1 kg or for multi-volume works. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 160.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. CROWTHER, Samuel Ajayi (c.1809-1891) First African Bishop in the Anglican Church. Autograph Letter Signed. Ware, 16 June 1877. Single sheet, written in ink on the recto; original horizontal folds. Light creasing from folding; small loss to top left. Very good. A letter written during Crowther's episcopate as Bishop of the Niger, declining an invitation to preach at Red Lion Church on account of his impending departure: 'no Sunday or week day available in June, and in July I shall be on the voyage for Africa.'  Samuel Ajayi Crowther, born in present-day Nigeria, was captured and enslaved as a child, liberated by the Royal Navy, and educated in Sierra Leone. Ordained in the Church of England, he became in 1864 the first African bishop in the Anglican Communion, serving over the Niger mission during a formative period of missionary expansion in West Africa. The present letter dates from a return visit to England and refers directly to his voyage back to Africa during his tenure as bishop. Letters from Crowther are uncommon on the market. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Befriedigend. 1. Auflage. Paperback, acceptable, 143 S. auf deutsch, Coverbug hinten, Ecken bestoßen, Randläs., innen sauber, keine Eintragungen. Mit Karten, Klappkarte mit Läs. Die Niger-Republik liegt in Zentralafrika (Mittelafrika) ein Binnenstaat, der sogar fast ohne Tschadsee auskommen muss. Ein Land mit hoher Geburtenrate, das nicht immer allen Nahrung bietet; Die Hauptstadt Niamey liegt überhaupt nicht auf dem "Hauptgebiet", sondern im westlichen (südwestl.) "Wurmfortsatz". - Niger ist nicht Nigeria, liegt zwischen Tschad und Mali südlich von Libyen und Algerien. SW: Kunsthandwerk, Theatergruppen, Volkslieder, Zinder Niamey, Tuareg, Haussa, Mauri. Aus dieser Reihe haben wir zurzeit noch 2 Titel! Der Niger liegt plötzlich 2023 im "Fokus", im Brennpunkt der Weltpolitik und des öffentlichen Interesses genau wie die anderen Nachbar- und Binnenstaaten Sudan, Mali mit Timbuktu, Zentralafrikanische Republik u.a. China hatte schon seit Jahren großes Interesse an den Ländern Afrikas. Statt englisch oder französisch und geschweige denn deutsch - die Zeit deutscher Kolonien endete etwa 1915/17. - Buch auf deutsch & sofort lieferbar.

4 volumes. First Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout with frontispieces, photographic plates and folding maps and charts and including a folding map stored in the pocket at the end of Vol. IV. 8vo, publisher's original light blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, all volumes housed in their original printed dustjackets. [xiv], 406; xiv, 306; xii, [307]-[596]; x, [597]-798 + maps and illustrations pp. A very fine copy of each volume, essentially as pristine, the spine panels of the dustjackets just a tad mellowed. FIRST EDITION OF EACH VOLUME. Landmark works on the discovery and exploration of the Niger and its adjacent environs. Laing, whose letters are provided in Vol. I is credited with making the first recorded discovery of Timbuktu by a European. Laing's purpose was to explore the Niger itself and he traveled the ancient route from Tripoll in the north to Timbuktu in the south before setting off on the Niger passage. Hornemann's route, different than Laing's, began in Cairo and ended somewhat east of Timbuktu and farther down river than where Laing began his river journey. The first part of Vol. I prints The Journal of Friedrich Hornemann's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the years 1797-98, the second part prints The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing from 1824-1826. Vol. II - IV provide a long and useful introduction and print the Narative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the Years 1822, 1823 and 1824 by Major Denham, Captain Clapperton and the Late Doctor Oudney Extending Across the Great Desert tot the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude, and From Koouka in Bornou, to Sackatoo, the Capital of the Felatah Empire. Vol III being Major Denham's Narrative and Vol. IV the Journal of An Excursion from Kouka in Bornou Through Soudan, to Soccatoo, the Capital of Bello, Sultan of the Felatahs. Denham and Clapperton, in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney, travelled from Benioleed, near Tripoli, almost due south to Lake Tchad, with excursions into the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan. Dixon attempted to traverse the circuit around Lake Tchad but was unsuccessful. In the meantime, Clapperton and Oudney journeyed west from the lake toward the Niger, but the doctor only made it about a third of the way, and died in Murmur. Clapperton continued west, but was prevented from passing beyond Sackatoo by the local Sultan. He and Denham subsequently returned to Tripoli and crossed back to England This narrative is compiled primarily from Denham's journal, with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk. A final section by Clapperton relates the westward journey from Lake Tchad to Sackatoo and includes an account of Oudney's death. Among the several appendices are translations from the Arabic of various letters and documents brought back by Denham and Clapperton, including a document relating to the death of Mungo Park.

4to (165 x 247 mm). (322) ff. (a-c10, d-z8, A-P8, Q-R6). 28 lines, single column. With two full-page woodcuts (Niger disputing with Jews; Christ's entry into Jerualem), each repeated, one in contemporary hand colour; two smaller in-text woodcuts regarding the Divine Name, woodcut Hebrew letters in the grammar section. First woodcut initial overpainted in gilt, blue, green, and red ink, other woodcut initials hand-coloured in various colours; Lombardic initials hand-painted in red ink. Full blindstamped pigskin on four raised double bands, initialled "F.S.I" and dated "1590" on upper cover; manuscript date "1477" on spine, manuscript title "Stella Meschiah" on fore-edge. Two original brass clasps. First German edition: the revised and considerably expanded vernacular version of the author's "Tractatus contra perfidos Judeos" ("Treatise against the treacherous Jews") published in 1475. This and the Latin edition together count as the first German-printed books in which Hebrew typefaces were used. They are also the first to contain a printed Hebrew grammar and are widely considered the first antisemitic works printed in Germany. - In this work, the Dominican friar Petrus Nigri (1435-83) extrapolates from his extensive studies of the Old Testament and the Talmud that the Jewish religion is not only false but anti-Christian. "For Nigri, as for his successors, the agreement with the learned tradition proves that his own interpretation of the Bible is correct (and thus the Jewish interpretation is incorrect) [.] The Jewish faith is assumed to be consistently anti-Christian, and the Jews are assumed to nourish a burning hatred of Christians, which can be expressed in usury and anti-Christian prayers, as well as in the desecration of the host or in menacing bloodlust" (cf. de Boer, pp. 54f.). - This edition is notable for containing the first printed representations of contemporary Jewish people. The two full-page woodcuts appear twice - in one instance, fully hand-coloured. The first image caricatures Jews, giving them ugly features and expressions; they are also shown wearing the compulsory yellow rotulus (ring) that marked Jews as outsiders in German society. The scene echoes Nigri's participation in the Regensburg colloquy by showing a disputation between a Dominican and a group of Jews. The second image depicts Christ entering the gates of Jerusalem. - Ironically, although Nigri clearly resented the Jewish community and he made it his mission to convince Jews to convert to Christianity, his Hebrew grammar became a widely read standard work, and there was no other Hebrew language reference book printed in Germany until Reuchlin's "De rudimentis hebraicis" in 1506. "Despite making some errors, Nigri is recognized as one of the best scholars of Hebrew among his Christian contemporaries" (Library of Congress). As the printer, Konrad Fyner, did not have Hebraic moveable type, all Hebrew letters are woodcut. - In the lower margin of the Hebrew grammar section are two bibliographical annotations in Latin, dating from the mid-18th century. They quote from vol. 13 of J. G. Schelhorn's "Amoenitates literariae" (Frankfurt, 1730), identifying Niger's as the first printed compendium of Hebrew grammar, and from the catalogue of the Bibliotheca Reimanniana (Hildesheim, 1731), where it is stated that "this work is so rare that there are such who doubt whether it was in fact ever published". Indeed, since a copy sold for 760 Reichsmark at Karl & Faber's auction 6 in 1932, a single copy has come to auction (offered at Sotheby's in 2015 and again in 2019). The only other known privately owned copy was offered at Sotheby's in 1919 (the Huth copy). All but the Faber copy were in 19th century bindings, and in none of them were any woodcuts coloured. - Spine laid down with vellum repairs; thongs of lower clasps weakened; binding tight. Very occasional marginal staining; altogether an excellent copy of an excessively rare publication. - Bound in 1590 for an owner "FSI", probably in Southern Germany (blindstamped binding). Front free endpaper has 17th century ink ownership of Ottobeuren Abbey in Bavaria ("Monasterii Ottenburani", partially effaced); other important works from the same collection were in the London Library and the Helmut N. Friedlaender Library. Two mid-18th century bibliographical annotations, apparently by a German scholar, near the end. Latterly in the collection of the German-born publisher and literary agent Felix Guggenheim (1904-76), who emigrated to California in 1940. On loan to the Los Angeles Jewish Book Month Committee for an exhibition in 1948 (then insured for $2,000). - H 11886*. Goff N-258. GW M27104. BMC II 516. BSB-Ink N-206. Proctor 2464. ISTC in00258000. J.-H. de Boer, "Die Differenz explizieren. Sprachformen gelehrter Judenfeindschaft im 16. Jahrhundert", in: M. Prinz / J. Schiewe (eds.), Vernakuläre Wissenschaftskommunikation (Berlin, 2018), pp. 47-86.

Folio, woodcut printer's device to title and verso of final leaf, woodcut historiated initials; original white pigskin binding over wooden boards, blind-tooled to a panelled design, roll-tooled borders including one with images of the psalmist and evangelists, another with humanist medallion portraits (including those of Erasmus, Luther and Melanchthon), spine with four raised bands, later paper label at head giving title in places. First edition: a handsome copy in contemporary monastic pigskin binding of this mid-sixteenth century compendium of geographical knowledge by the Venetian writer Dominicus Marius Niger, edited by Wolfgang Wissenburg. In the tradition of the great classical geographer Strabo, Niger provides a description of the principal regions of the earth, together with accounts of the habits, customs and laws of its various peoples. The first eleven chapters describe the geography of Europe; four chapters deal with Africa, and are followed by eleven concerning Asia. This edition also contains the Geographia of Laurentius Corvinus and an epitome of Strabo by Hieronymus Gemuseus, first published in 1539. Hakluyt would later produce ten arguments to prove that the Northwest Passage had been successfully sailed: the first century BC writer Cornelius Nepos can't have been wrong, he says, " And for the better proof that the same authority of Cornelius Nepos is not by me wrested to prove my opinion of the North-West Passage, you shall find the same affirmed more plainly in that behalf by the excellent geographer Dominicus Marius Niger, who showeth how many ways the Indian sea stretcheth itself, making in that place recital of certain Indians that were likewise driven through the north seas from India, upon the coasts of Germany, by great tempest, as they were sailing in trade of merchandise". Adams records only two copies at Cambridge (CUL and John's), while OCLC identifies about 15 library copies, but this is a rare work on the market, with no copy appearing at auction in the last fifty years. No copy is held in an Australian library. --- Ralegh's interest in Niger's work is noted by Nicholas Popper (Walter Ralegh's History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance, 2014) who references ". the notes [Ralegh] took while reading the work of Marius Niger. Very little is known about Niger beyond the fact that he also edited a 1518 edition of Ovid's Amores, but, after the Petri printing house's 1557 edition of his Geographiae, he enjoyed a wide readership in Elizabethan England. Wolfgang Wissenburg, the editor of this edition, explained in his preface that the manuscript version of the work was "tarnished both by neglect and by worms, but it also had been polluted and depraved by a certain corruptor into whose hands it unfortunately had come." Correcting the manuscript had taken significant labor, as Wissenburg explained: "if not for repeated intense reading of the ancients, I would not have been able to understand the genuine sense and mind of the author and restore his places and meanings. Correcting Niger's commentaries against ancient texts might have been a suspect method for a travel narrative, but it ably reconstructed his method of compilation. Niger had constructed the text by synthesizing ancient geographical and historical works into an experiential narrative, and his information on Bactria and Sogdiana was cribbed almost entirely from Ptolemy's material, with periodic additions from Plutarch, Quintus Curtius, and others. Thus, Wissenburg's technique of correction imitated Niger's method of composition. Ralegh often cited Niger regarding the geography of Asia both in the notebook and in the History, and he relied heavily on Niger for Bactria and Sogdiana. Niger's descriptions of these areas appeared both in Ralegh's notes and on the maps themselves.". . Provenance: From the Fürstliche Fürstenbergische Hofbibliothek at Donaueschingen, the great German aristocratic library (contents dispersed between 1980 and 2000). Marginal dampstains to first 25 leaves (preface and index), an excellent copy in contemporary binding, small portions of the pigskin worn in two places revealing oak boards beneath.

Folio (222 × 300 mm). 49 unnumbered ff. (wants first blank: a12-1, b-c10, d12, e6). Single column, 37 lines. With numerous outline woodcut initials, including a large capital E with a tree. Two pages rubricated. Hebrew letters in woodcut. Bound in late 19th century blind-tooled pigskin on five raised bands, attractively blindstamped in the gothic style with floral roll-tools and multiple rules framing a loose semé of fleurs-de-lis. First edition of the "Treatise against the treacherous Jews", the most infamous of the earliest anti-Jewish polemics, but also the first Hebrew grammar to appear in Germany and the "the first attempt to use Hebrew characters in a Latin incunabulum" (Gordin, 322). Of the utmost rarity, not seen on the market since 1928. - Petrus Nigri, a late medieval Dominican friar, dedicated much of his life to missionary work aimed at converting Jews, serving as a scholar, preacher, and polemicist. His sermons and writings attacked what he called Jewish "blindness" and "stubbornness" and included accusations of Jews exploiting Christians through usury and feeling entitled to commit violence against them. He used to deliver his sermons partly in Hebrew and engaged in public disputations with believers of the Jewish faith, having learned the language, and become familiar with its literature during his studies in Salamanca and Montpellier by associating with Jewish children and attending lectures given by rabbis. - The Hebrew characters consist of the Hebrew alphabet and three Hebrew words on fol. 10. These are not printed from movable type, but from a wood block. In no instance during the 15th century was movable Hebrew type employed in non-Hebrew works, even when it might easily have been obtained from Jewish printers. - With some 80 marginalia in a contemporary German hand, the printed text partly rubricated in red by the same. - A single complete copy known in auction records (Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3523). A severely defective copy was listed by Sotheby's two years earlier (21 Dec. 1915, lot 183, wanting 7 leaves), while Maggs, in 1928, offered a large copy in vellum (cat. 509, no. 2084: "This book forms a landmark in the history of Hebrew printing [.] probably the earliest printed anti-Jewish work"). - An exceptionally wide-margined copy with temoins. On thick paper, only slightly spotted or smudged at the beginning and very unsignificantly browned in the outer edges. - From the collection of the German-born publisher and literary agent Felix Guggenheim (1904-76), who emigrated to the California in 1940. On loan to the Los Angeles Jewish Book Month Committee for an exhibition in 1948 (then insured for $1,500). - H 11885*. Goff N-257. GW M27101. Proctor 2463. Hawkins, p. 64. BMC II 514 (very imperfect). ISTC in00257000. Alexander Gordin, "Hebrew Incunabula in the National Library of Israel as a Source for Early Modern Book History in Europe and Beyond", in: Cristina Dondi (ed.), Printing R-Evolution and Society 1450-1500: Fifty Years that Changed Europe (Venice, 2020: Studi di storia, 13), pp. 321-338.

First edition. 6pp. Docket title to verso of final leaf. A trifle creased, some very short tears to margins. A rare survival, ordered to be printed by the House of Commons, of copies of correspondence concerning the setting up of a British expedition to Niger to attempt to repress the foreign slave trade. The expedition, organised by the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa, was ultimately mounted in 1841 using three British iron steam vessels to travel to Lokoja, at the confluence of the Niger River and Benue River, where treaties against the slave trade where achieved - despite significant casualties from illness amongst members of the expedition - with the cities of Aboh and Idah. OCLC records copies at four locations (Florida, Harvard, NYPL, and Oxford); COPAC adds no further. Size: Folio.