Belgian Congo, Signed (22 results)

Paper. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Journal Reprint. 3 page article from the Biochemical Journal, Vol. 37, No. 3, 1943 noting the experiments with cinchona alkaloids in the treatment of bird malaria. With tables of results. Article has been horizontally folded. PERSONAL COPY OF AUTHOR. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. The cover shows minimal wear. Inscription from author on title page. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. HBDJ, 1949, 1st edition, 1st Printing, 12mo hardcover, attractive illustrated cloth covers in Blue & Black of Airplane in Clouds, Interior Nice tight Clean, F/NF-, AS-IS DJ light rub, wear & tiny Chips Extremities & tiny hole in front, small mended tears DJ, 265 pgs, Signed by Author.

[0-87417-323-X] 1998, 1st printing. (Hardcover) Fine in near fine dust jacket. 103pp. Signed by the author. Map endpapers. "When World War II began, esteemed Nevada writer Robert Laxalt was an undergraduate at California's University of Santa Clara. Like most men of his generation, he was eager to seerve his country in its armed forces. However, a childhood illness that left him with a heart murmur disqualified him for military service. Frustrated in his attempts to enlist and shunned by his Nevada neighbors as a draft dodger, Laxalt in desperation used his family's political connections to get himself appointed as a code officer at the U.S. Legation in the Belgian Congo". Locale: Belgian Congo; Nevada--United States. (Military, Memoir, Military, World War II).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Kline was the son of William Jay Kline and co-published The Amsterdam Evening Recorder and Daily Democrat. With black and white photographs and a map describing the trip. Light wear and toning to covers. A very good+ copy. ; Octavo; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inscribed by author in French in black pen to a Vice Governor General of Congo in six lines to top Half title page. Text is in French. 6 x 8 1/2 Book; binding tight, minor chipping to top edges else boards straight and clean; text has mild bumping to top corner and to top edge to few pages with small soil spot to top edge, price in blue pen to fourth and fifth pages with mild toning to edges, appears gently read. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Author(s)86 pages (complete) plus advertising pages. In general fair to poor repair. The linen-cloth cover is worn and generously handled. The front cover has a healthy length-long crease - this does not alter the strength of the cover. The spine has wear and minor tear to the seams. The cover is glued, the book is stapled. The stapled binding is strong and sound. The pages have handling wear to the edges. The pages themselves are clean, clear, confident, bold, sure, neat, well ordered, competent. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. signed.

With many pictures. 196 S. 28,5 x 21,5 cm, Hldr. Used, but good condition. / Leichte Gebrauchsspuren, sonst gut erhalten. This Limited Edition version of African Game-Lands has been published in a edition limited to 100 copies as part of the first printing of the book. This volume is Number 23. Signed by Sherman Gray, Paul D. Webster, Theodore J Holsten Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Nachhaltige Buchlieferung - Stabile, plastikfreie Verpackung.

First edition of the author's journals from this expedition, 1/100 copies (this #22), signed by the author's son, the editors, and Paul Webster, President of the Boone and Crockett Club. 4to. xxx, (2), 196 pp. Illustrated from photographs from the expedition, plates, map, illustrated endpapers. Cf. Czech Africa, p. 66: "[Gray] was accompanied by professional hunter Philip Percival during his hunts on Tanganyika and Kenya where he encountered lions and other game, including elephant bagged near the Tana River, and roan, lechwe, and giant sable taken in Angola. Publisher's burgundy bonded quarter-leather and patterned boards, board slipcase with cloth ends. (11298).

4to [27 x 20 cm]; 2 volumes, xxvi, 568; ix, 569 - 1064 pp, 476 illustrations (some color printed plates) text figures, 9 maps. orig crimson cloth, gilt lettering, dust jackets (rubbed, chipped with one having large section missing), else a fine clean set, with a presentation inscription on the author's card, signed by author to Horace Binney, paperclipped to title with rust mark. A most interesting survey of Liberia and Belgian Congo related to medical and natural conditions. Much of the travel was by foot across Africa. The first volume deals mainly with social and medical conditions, and especially of the little known inhabitants of tribal Liberia and their living conditions but also covers geology, flora, zoology. The second volume is a comprehensive survey of the natural history, with emphasis on birds, mammal, insects and reptiles. Very well illustrated. Not often found with both dust jackets and author's signature. Strong, professor of tropical medicine at Harvard, was accompanied by other physicians and zoologists on the expedition. Conover 659. A picture of this book is available on request.

Hardcover. In two volumes. First edition. Signed presentation inscription from the author. 4to., orig. maroon cloth, xxvi, 568, ix, 569-1064pp. With illustrations including some in color, figures in the text and nine maps. Inner hinge of volume one reinforced, rubber stamps, rubbing to spine ends o/w a very good set. An interesting survey of Liberia and the Belgian Congo. Much of the expedition was conducted on foot, overland and the areas dealt with included medical conditions, flora, fauna, geology and the natural history of the area. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Printed at the J. Leighton Wilson Press. Published in 1932 per World Cat. Scarce book as only copies found are in institutional settings. 619 pages which includes the Appendix. Signed by the author on the first blank page in and inscribed to Bishop C. C. Alleyne, A.M. D.D. The brown cloth covers show some wear at the edges. The hinges are good. The inside pages look unmarked. The author graduated from Fisk University in 1901 with the highest honors. She had decided to become a Presbyterian missionary and after traing left for Africa in 1902. She spent more then 30 years there. With no apparent training in Linguistics, she spent over 10 years in compiling this dictionary. A huge scholarly undertaking. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Printed at the J. Leighton Wilson Press. Published in 1932 per World Cat. Scarce book as only copies found are in institutional settings. 619 pages which includes the Appendix. Signed by the author on the first blank page in and inscribed to Bishop C. C. Alleyne, A.M. D.D. The brown cloth covers show some wear at the edges. The hinges are good. The inside pages look unmarked. The author graduated from Fisk University in 1901 with the highest honors. She had decided to become a Presbyterian missionary and after traing left for Africa in 1902. She spent more then 30 years there. With no apparent training in Linguistics, she spent over 10 years in compiling this dictionary. A huge scholarly undertaking. Signed by Author(s).

Limited edition, no. 34 of 100 copies, signed by author's son, the president of the Boone and Crockett Club Paul D. Webster, and editors Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Frontispiece and illustrations after photographs, limitation page, half-title. xxx, 196 pp. 4to. Limited edition version of Gray's 1930 work Originally issued in an excerpt only in the supplement to The Sportsman magazine, Vol. VIII, No. IV, October, 1930. Publisher's quarter maroon morocco and patterned paper siudes, all edges gilt, in open-faced cloth and paper over boards slipcase Frontispiece and illustrations after photographs, limitation page, half-title. xxx, 196 pp. 4to Limited edition, no. 34 of 100 copies, signed by author's son, the president of the Boone and Crockett Club Paul D. Webster, and editors Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Signed.

Limited edition, no. 73 of 100 copies, signed by author's son, the president of the Boone and Crockett Club Paul D. Webster, and editors Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Frontispiece and illustrations after photographs, limitation page, half-title. xxx, 196 pp. 4to. Limited edition version of Gray's 1930 work. Publisher's quarter maroon morocco and patterned paper siudes, all edges gilt, in open-faced cloth and paper over boards slipcase Frontispiece and illustrations after photographs, limitation page, half-title. xxx, 196 pp. 4to Limited edition, no. 73 of 100 copies, signed by author's son, the president of the Boone and Crockett Club Paul D. Webster, and editors Theodore J. Holsten, Jr. and Susan C. Reneau. Signed.

First Edition. Inscribed on front endpaper of first volume: "Mr. Malcolm B. Stone / with much appreciation of his interest in the work in tropical medicine / from Richard P. Strong," dated in year of publication. First printings. Two large octavo volumes (27cm); publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spines and front covers; xxvi,[1]-568; ix,569-1064pp; illus. Mild lean to text block of second volume, else a tight, Near Fine set, lacking the dustwrappers. A major work in the history of public medicine. Strong (1872-1948) was the first professor of Tropical Medicine at Harvard, and the foremost American authority on the subject. This important two-year expedition to Liberia and the Congo, led by Strong in the company of seven fellow Harvard scientists, was the first full-scale attempt to document the etiology of a variety of tropical diseases as well as documenting existing sanitary conditions in Liberia and colonial West Africa. The mission also collected a wealth of zoological and anthropological data that would inform various fields of Africa Studies for decades. Signed.

Condition: Book fine, slipcase near fine. 1995 Missoula, MT, 195pp, illus, ltd to 100 signed, numbered, leatherbound, slipcased copies. Prentiss Gray was a prominent Boone & Crockett member who made an extensive African hunting trip in 1929. He kept meticulous diaries, which are now being published for the first time. Among other game, he shot a rare giant sable in Angola. Produced with 120 photographs taken by the author and his wife Laura. They were guided by the famous PWH Philip Percival in Kenya where they hunted for antelope as well as members of the big five. Introduction by Tony Dyer.

Condition: VG. Cambridge 1930 Harvard. 2 volumes. 4to., 1064pp., photo illustrations, color plates, original printed hardcovers. Name stamp inside front cover of Volume I. Presentation card signed by Strong tipped onto the front free blank of Volume II. VG, a few light marks on the covers of Volume II, no DJ. 2 volumes.

to the President of Peru, (Manuel Cardamo, 1842-1904, President 1895 and 1903-1904), hastening to inform him "that Her Royal Highness Princess Albert of Belgium, My beloved Niece, has been happily delivered on the 10th of this month of a Prince who has received the names of Charles Théodore Henri Antoine Meinrad", (1903-1983, Count of Flanders, Regent 1944-1950), he is sure from "the ties of good understanding which exist between Belgium and the Republic of Peru" that the President will "share in the joy", 1 side 9" x 7", Laeken, 12th October two neat filing holes in left margin, barely touching two letters (Translate) Very Dear and Great Friend, I hasten to inform Your Excellency that Her Royal Highness Princess Albert of Belgium, My beloved Niece, has been happily delivered on the 10th of this month of a Prince who has received the names of Charles Théodore Henri Antoine Meinrad. The ties of good understanding which exist between Belgium and the Republic of Peru are for Me sure guarantees that Your Excellency will share in the joy which this happy event brings Me. I pray Your Excellence to accept the expression of the wishes that I form for the prosperity of the Republic of Peru and of the high regard and inviolable friendship with which I am, Very Dear and Great Friend, Your Sincere Friend [Signed] Leopold Laeken, 12th October 19031983,

(Remigio Morales Bermúdez, d. 1894, President from 1890), acknowledging his letter recalling Don José Francisco Canevaro as the Peruvian Envoy, expressing his satisfaction at the way he had discharged his duties, and desiring a continuation of the good relations between their countries, signed also by Auguste Beernaert, 1829-1912, Prime Minister of Belgium 1884-1894, 1 side 4to., Laeken, 6th June.

Belgian Congo photo archive documenting colonialism and segregated settlement in Paulis, Jadotville, and at Kiubo Falls in 1946-1947, while Belgian rule expanded displacing Congolese communities from political power and control over local resources. Made by an unidentified traveler or colonial observer, the group moves between industrial sites, river traffic, town streets, waterfalls, village compounds, and posed encounters with Congolese residents, placing daily life beside the infrastructure of empire. Jadotville, in Katanga, had been built within the orbit of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and the copper economy that tied the Congo to European industry; Paulis belonged to the northeastern colonial administrative network that extended surveillance, mission activity, and commercial penetration into local societies. By the later 1940s, these systems were producing wealth for Belgium and foreign markets through forced and controlled labor regimes. Photo archive of 36 black and white silver gelatin photographs, various sizes, ranging from 2.5" x 3.5" to 5" x 7", Belgian Congo, 1946-1947. Nine photographs are identified to the Paulis region in 1946, including versos inscribed in French with "Habitations Européens à Paulis," "Pavillon de l'hotel," and "Le Kigoma sur le fleuve." These images show European-style houses set among palms, a large riverside or lakeside steamer, a broad colonial street with automobiles and low commercial buildings, thatched structures, and Congolese figures posed near village compounds and along a tree-lined road. The remaining photographs, from Jadotville and Kiubo Falls in 1947, include multiple views of the falls from overlooks and near the waterline, several repeated compositions of cascades and riverbanks, a dense electrical installation with transformers and steel framing, public crowd scenes, dugout canoes on calm water, groups standing beside temporary camp structures, and additional views of thatched settlements, large shade trees, and Congolese men, women, and children positioned before houses or in open clearings. Several photographs set European-built environments against Congolese dwellings and occupied landscapes, making the colonial dichotomy apparent within this grouping. Waterfalls, river steamers, electric infrastructure, and ordered streets mark the channels through which copper, labor, and administrative authority moved outward to Belgian and international markets, while the photographs of Congolese settlements and residents show the populations who bore that reorganization of land and economy. In the late colonial Congo, extraction and transport depended on African labor under coercive conditions, and urban growth in places such as Jadotville advanced through racially unequal housing, wage structures, and civic access, leaving Congolese people concentrated in subordinate quarters or rural zones even when their work sustained the entire system. Light wear and occasional creasing; several versos inscribed in French; overall very good condition. An intimate look into Belgian colonial rule at the point where industrial wealth, infrastructure, and local displacement met on the ground. Signed.

(Manuel Pardo, 1834-1878, President 1872-1876), hastening "to inform Your Excellency that the Queen. has given birth on the 30th July to a Princess", Clémentine, he is sure from the ties of friendship between their countries that the President will join in his joy, signed also by Foreign Minister Count d'Aspremont-Lynden, 1815-1889, 1 side 4to and conjugate blank, Laeken, 19th August Clémentine Albertine Marie Léopoldine was born at Laeken on July 30, 1872 and died at Nice, France on March 8, 1955. She married Prince Napoléon Victor Jérôme Frédéric Bonaparte (1862 - 1926), head of the Bonaparte family.