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The Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, Etc. by Ellis, A. B - 1887
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The Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Their religion, manners, customs, laws, language, Etc.
by Ellis, A. B
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First edition. Chapman and Hall. London. 1887. 8vo. vii, 343pp. 16pp publisher's catalogue dated 1893. Frontispiece map. Musical notation p328-330. Original cloth, gilt, blind stamped decoration to covers. Floral endpapers. Hinges a little tender. Some light spotting to prelims and catalogue. Light edge wear and fraying to head of spine. Signature dated 1909 to half title.
Alfred Burdon Ellis (1852 – 1894) British Army officer and ethnographer.
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John Millington Synge's Work As A Contribution To Irish Folk-lore And To The Psychology Of Primitive Tribes
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Origen y Modo de Contar de los Indios
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33 pages. Octavo (8" x 6 1/4") issued in wrappers. Edited by Luis Vargas Rea. From the library of professor George M Foster. First edition limited to 100 copies of which this is number 55.Faustino Galicia Chimalpopoca or Faustino Chimalpopoca(tl) Galicia was born In 1805 in the present town of San Pedro Tluac. His mother's name is unknown, but Don Alejo Andr Chimalpopoca Galicia was his father, who was one of the ruling families of the area and an official of the village and could trace his lineage to the precolonial rulers. As a member of one of these ruling families he enjoyed privileges that were not available to the farmers of the village. He attended school in the local village. His godfather was the local priest and he was able to get him into a Jesuit College in Mexico City, the Colegio de San Gregorio. There, he was admitted to prepare as a lawyer. After several years of study at this school received a law degree. After finishing his studies he was devoted to the teaching Nahuatl…
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FRONTIERS ARE NOT BORDERS A Brief Account of a Journey to Meet and Understand the Peoples of the World
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New York: Coward - McCann, Inc.. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket; DJ is worn and torn at edges. DJ has large tear at top edge. ; With comments by Helen Chappell Hanks. ; B&W Illustrations; 61 pages .
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AN AMERICAN'S GUIDE TO BRITAIN ~Expanded & Completely Updated
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NY: Scribners, 1983. FINE condition in FINE dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1983. FIRST PRINTING of REVISED EDITION. AS NEW, bound in green cloth with map drawings on front and back endpapers in hunter green pictorial dust jacket. Square and tight, UNREAD, original price intact. 'A former cultural attache at the American Embassy in London shares his knowledge of many places most tourists never see.' 'The author seems to have gone everywhere, read everything and eaten in every kind of place along the way. --Smithsonian.' Illustrations. Index.. Revised Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.
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South America : Observations and Impressions
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NY: The Macmillan Company, 1912. Hard cover in original cloth. Published NY: The Macmillan Company, 1912, third printing, November, 1912. 8vo., xxiv+611pp.+5 maps in color (4pp.ads). Panama (pre-canal), Peru, Incas, Andes, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil. Blue cloth with gilt tiles, previous owner name on fly leaf, else near fine, clean, bright.. Hard. Near Fine/No Jacket. 8vo.
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THE TSHI-SPEAKING PEOPLES OF THE GOLD COAST OF WEST AFRICA. Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, etc
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The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc.
by Ellis, A. B. (Alfred Burdon) [1852 - 1894]
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Some rubbing. VG. Textual map African Ethnology Benin Press Chicago 1964 Reprint. vii,343 pp. 23x16cm, orig. cloth, A facsimile reprint of the 1887 edition. Contents: Introductory; Religious Beliefs; General Deities; Srahmantin and Sasabonsum; Local Deities; Deities Worshipped by Particular sections of the Community (Company, Market, Town, and Family Tutelary Deities; TheTutelary Deities of Individuals; Deductions; The Priesthood; Psycholatry and Human Sacrifices; On Fetishism; Oaths, Oreals, Omens, Etc.;Family Divisions and Animal Worship; Division of and Mode of Reckoning Time; Religious Ceremonies and Festivals; Ceremonies at Birth, Marriage, and Death; State Ceremonies; System of Government; Laws; Language; Music; traditions and Folk-Lore.
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The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc.
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1887. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's maroon cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; floral endpapers; vii,[1]-343pp; map frontispiece. Endpapers darkened, but joints sound; slight external rubbing and a few tiny chips to marginal extremities of text; text quite fresh and still a solid, attractive copy, easily VG. Contemporary, embossed private library stamp to rear endpaper (W.H. Smith & Son / Library / 186 Strand). Anthropological study of the Twi people of the Gold Coast (now Guinea), based on Ellis's observations as a British army officer during and after the Third Anglo-Ashanti War (1873-1874).
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South American Journals 1858-1859
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Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum, 1937. Limited Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 209pp. Marbled boards, black spine, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, slipcase. Corners lightly rubbed, spine lettering mildly sunned, contents are clean and some pages still unopened. Slipcase is lightly edge-chipped. One of 481 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press.
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal
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lvi+342 pages with frontispiece, 6 maps including two folding maps, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and pictorial representation of the ship Victoria embossed on front cover with cover and blind stamped ruled edges with original jacket. Edited by Michael Roe. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, second series, volume 131. First edition.In 1794, Charles Bishop sailed from Bristol as master of the Ruby, a trading ship bound for north-west America. He had instructions to procure otter furs fro the Indians and then to proceed to Canton via japan and sell the cargo. During the years 1794-1802, he rounded South America to reach the Pacific coast, then visited the Pacific islands and the coasts of Asia and Australia. In the Moluccas, he sold the Ruby and purchased the Nautilus; correspondingly, the test is divided into two sections. This narrative is Bishop's journal of his voyages and relates a minor epic of adventure,…
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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Volunteers in the African Bush: Memoirs from Sierra Leone
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Indianapolis: Dog Ear Publishing, January 2013. Trade Paperback. Fine. Slight reading wear to corners, otherwise pristine. Not from a library. No remainder mark. Not clipped. Not damaged. Suitable for gifting. 163 pages. The 25 authors of this book were volunteers in the first Peace Corps rural community development project in Africa: Sierra Leone, 1965-67. They are also the first group to tell a collective story of Peace Corps volunteers, anywhere. The Peace Corps was in its infancy then, and memories of John Kennedy were strong among the young volunteers. Sierra Leone was also in its infancy in the first few years after independence, before military coups and tribal warfare became common. The authors forthrightly recount their feelings of loneliness and isolation, and their frightening experiences with secret societies and witchcraft, but their uniquely optimistic "can-do" American attitude brought most through a great life experience.
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Emin Pasha in Central Africa, being a collection of his letters and journals. Edited and annotated by Professor G. Schweinfurth, Professor F. Ratzel, Dr. R.W. Felkin, and Dr. G. Hartlaub.
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TRAVELS IN EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND
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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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Berenstain, Stan and Jan: The Berenstain Bears Go To Camp ( A First Time Book) Random House 1982 First Edition. Number line starts with 1. Ex-lib hardcover library-bound edition Brown cloth boards. Good Condition/ No dust jacket included. A nice find for Berenstain Bears fans.
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Panama: And The Canal In Pictures and Prose
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Russian Embassies to the Georgian Kings (1589-1605)
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2 Volumes: xxxii+368 pages with frontispiece, five folding maps and ten plates; ix+[369]-640 pages with frontispiece, two folding maps, six plates, bibliography and index. Octavo (8 3/4" x 5 1/2") issued in blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt sailing ship to front cover. Translated by Anthony Mango. Second Series, volumes 138 and 139. First edition.By the early sixteenth century the loosely knit kingdom of Georgia had disintegrated from the strong monarch of the middle ages to a number of small states and principalities. This internal disunity made the Georgians easy victims of the power politics of the neighboring Ottoman and Safavid empires, and by the end of the century the southward drive of the Russians intensified the struggle for military and diplomatic control over the whole of the Caucasian isthmus. As a result of this struggle seventeen embassies were exchanged between the Russian tsars and the Georgian kins ruling in Kakheti during the years 1564-1605. W E D Allen and Anthony…
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