Manichean Aesthetics: The Politics of Literature in Colonial Africa
University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. Softcover. Great condition. Cover has light wear, but is bright. Binding is tight, and inside is clean and unmarked. More
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Comentarios do Grande Afonso de Albuquerque, 2 vol., 4th ed.
Coimbra, 1923. Hardcover. Two volumes Leather spine and marbled boards. Shelfworn. Owner stamp on title page. "... capitao geral que foi das Indias Orientais em tempo do muito poderoso Rey D. Manuel o primeiro deste nome." Afonso de Albuquerque was the 1st Duke of Goa. He was a...... More
Romanticism and Colonial Disease
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. Soft cover. Cover is lightly worn on edges and creased on back, but text and images are clear and bright. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
Beyond Man: Race, Coloniality, and Philosophy of Religion
Duke University Press, 2021. Soft cover. Cover edges are gently worn. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
La Emigración Extremeña a Indias: siglo xvi
Imprenta Universitaria, 1948. Soft cover. Spanish edition. Signed by author. From the library of George M. Foster. Cover is tanned, scuffed, and chipped along edges. Light red smudge marks on front cover, partially covering text but not affecting legibility. Spine is tanned and text is faded, but legible. Pages..... More
Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain and France c.1500 - c.1800
Yale University Press, 1995. Hard cover. Cover is rubbed. Corners of spine are lightly bumped, but binding is tight. Blue ink annotations on some pages, not affecting legibility of text. Pages are otherwise clean. More
Historia da Expansao Portuguesa no Mundo, 3 vol.
Editorial Atica, 1937-1940. Hardcover. Three volumes. Large quarto. In Portuguese. Half leather binding. Heavily illustrated, with foldout maps and charts and color plates. More
Manual Compendio de el Regio Petronato Indiano, Para fu mas facil uso en las materias conducentes a la Practica
Antonio Marin, 1755. Softcover. No covers. The textblock is solid, but there is chipping all around the first few pages. Small wormholes throughout. As-Is. More
Country of Poxes: The Germs and the Taking of Territory
Fernwood Publishing, 2022. Soft cover. Cover edges are slightly worn. Back upper cover edge is creased. Text block is lightly stained, but readability is not impacted. Pages are unmarked. More
Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; The Country, People, Customs, etc. Interspersed with Many.
Hartford: O.D. Case, 1868. Hardcover. Cloth, 23 cm, 608 pages, with black & white illustrations and two maps complete. Very good copy but for some very light foxing in pages. More
Nella Citta dell'Amore: Passioni Illustri a Venezia (1816 - 1861)
Milan: Fratelli Treves, 1923. Paper. Paper, 20 cm, 234 pages, with monochrome plates. Contains sections on Byron, Shelley, George Sand, Richard Wagner, etc. Text in Italian. Condition fair only with some small stains, minor creases and closed tears at edges of covers, vertical creases on spine, and with some discoloration..... More
Saga America: A Startling New Theory on the Old World Settlement of America Before Columbus
Times Books, 1983. Soft cover. Pithy gift inscription on front end paper. Cover is lightly faded, worn on edges, and lightly soiled/stained. Book edge has a couple stains. Inside pages are clean and unmarked. More
Eldorado: Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire
G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1859. Hard cover. Eighteenth edition. Covers heavily worn and soiled with chipping and splitting on spine; front board partially detached. Tanned and foxed throughout. As is. More
Forme e colori di via Regionale Italiana: Volume 3 (Venezia Tridentina).
Bologna, I: N. Zanichelli, 1929. Paper. Illustrated wrappers, 25 cm, 141 pages (pages uncut at top), 174 black & white illustrations. Published in three volumes, this being Volume 3 only. Detailing social life and customs in Italy. Text is in Italian. Good. More
Vues du Kremlin de Moscou et de ses Environs: Aquarelles et Lithographies du XIXe Siecle.
Paris: Alain de Gourcuff Editeur, 1994. Hardcover. Boards, 31 cm, 153 pages, with color plates. Text in French. In an illustrated boards slipcase. Very good copy in a very good slipcase. More
Travels among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine Including a Journey from Nazareth t the Mountains Beyond the Dead Sea, and from thence through the Plains of the Hauran to Bozra, Damascus, Tr
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. Hardcover. Half-leather, recently rebound, 30 cm, xv + 669 pages, folding map frontispiece, illustrations at the heads of each of the 28 chapters. Very good copy but for light foxing; newly rebound half leather by Star Bookworks. More
Hand-Book of Universal Geography; Being a Gazetteer of the World.
New York: Putnam & Co., 1853. Hard cover. Cloth, 21 cm, 856 pages. Putnam's Home Cyclopaedia. Good copy but for slight foxing, some fraying and rubbing to edges of cover, somewhat discolored cloth. More
A Narrative of the Expedition Sent by Her Majesty's Government to the River Niger in 1841 Under the Command of Captain H. D. Trotter, in two volumes
London: Richard Bentley, 1848. Hard cover. Cloth. Re-backed some time ago, with most of both spines laid down. More
The Journals of Major-General C.G. Gordon, C.B. at Kartoum
Houghton Mifflin, 1885. Hardcover. Printed from the original manuscripts. With an introduction and Notes by A. Egmont Hake. Covers edgeworn, with some chipping on spine. Owner's name written on first blank page. More
Early Days at Council Bluffs
Byron S. Adams, 1916. Hardcover. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Cover board are lightly worn, particularly on corners. Spine is sunned, not affecting legibility of text. Spine is cracked, but binding is secure. Some pages are stained, not affecting legibility of text. Pages are..... More
Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India
Palgrave, 2002. Soft cover. Great condition. Bottom front cover corner is creased. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
Fatal Revolutions: Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature
University of North Carolina Press, 2012. Hard cover. Jacket is lightly rubbed and worn along edges. Back jacket flap is sunned, not affecting legibility. Cover corners are lightly bumped. Binding is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. More
Tancopanican Chronicle 1830 - 1834.
Wilmington: Louise duP. Crowninshield and Pierre S. duPont, 1950. Hardcover. Pink box containing seven pamphlets bound by pink ribbons, 16 cm, with a small frontispiece illustration of the estate's piazza and two other black & white illustrations in the text. Contents: Preface, Foreword, I: Visitors March 18 to Dec. 3first..... More
Cuba Desde 1850 a 1875: Coleccionde Informes, Memorias, Proyectos y Antecedentes Sobre el Gobierno de la Isla de Cuba
Imprenta Nacional, 1873. Hardcover. In Spanish. From the Ministerio de Ultramar. Leather spine and board covers. Shelfworn, with bare corners. Portion of the title pages is missing. More
The Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
University of South Carolina Press, 2001. Hard cover. Jacket edges are gently worn. Spine is cracked but secure. Cover edges are worn. Inside is clean and unmarked. More