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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. xv+342 with frontispiece, appendixes, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") issued in brown cloth with gilt lettering. Edited and translated into English by J W T Allen, compiled in memorian with notes and studies by various Makerere colleagues, African, American, Asian, British and European. 1st edition. The present work began as a new edition of the Swahili text by J W T Allen, using modern orthography and developments in Swahili philology since the turn of the century (1903), when the volume was first published. It is complete and unabridged, except for the omission of a summary of the Law of Islam on certain matters. The Africans who wrote the Desturi were "pure Swahili persons" around the town of Bagamoyo in Tanzania, directly opposite Zanzibar Island. Int eh 1890s they were asked by Dr Carl Velten, a German linguist, to write down the traditions and customs of their people, which they did in Swahili, using Arabic script. From his introduction to the volumes he published in 1903, it is clear that Dr Velten was the compiler, and that a good part of Swahili prose, who had also reworked the whole and given it homogeneity and distinction of style. This master was Bwana Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari of Bagamoyo, who is recorded by Dr Velten as being Lektor at the Oriental Seminar in Berlin, where he taught Swahili. Condition: Dust jacket back fold over edge chipped along edge, else a very good copy in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Good+ condition in worn dust wrapper in protective cover, octavo, mid brown cloth spine with tan cloth boards, Lonsdale initial and crown in gilt on front, titles and gilt across spine, neat gift inscription dated 1962 on front free end paper, Foyles booksellers label on front end paper, one instance of marginalia - the list of winners of the Grand National stop at 1954, a previous owner has completed from 1963 to 1967. otherwise text is clean and bright and the binding firm, illustrated with a colour plate frontis piece and 69 other illustrations on plates and 5 other illustrations in text (there is a discrpancy between the dust wrapper and the number of plates called for; 334 pages including index. [QP]. Various (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Two pamphlets, complete. Original publisher's brown paper wrappers. Text printed in black ink. April-May 1906 and November-December 1907. 6" x 9 3/4." All pages of both pamphlets, complete. Part I: 81 pages, three misbound pages to another pamphlet ("Diplomatic History. Trade Unions"), and twelve pages of advertisements for other books in back. Part II: 118 pages and twelve pages of advertisements for other books in back. Pages of Part I are clean and intact except for light age toning. Covers of Part I are clean and intact except for slight browning and a few small chips and closed tears limited to edges. Part I is a Very Good copy. Pages of Part II are clean and intact overall but have light age toning and moderate browning to a few pages in front and back. Covers of Part II are clean and intact overall but have a large chip measuring 2 1/2" x 3 1/2" in upper-right corner on front (text unaffected), slight browning, a few smudges to front, and several chips along edges. Part II is a Good copy. Together as a set, Parts I and II are Good. A two-part set of pamphlets about Maryland during the English Civil Wars. Part I is Nos. 11-12 (November-December 1906) in Series XXIV of the Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science. Part II is Nos. 4-5 (April-May 1907) in Series XXV of the Johns Hopkins series. Both pamphlets authored by Bernard C. Steiner. The Johns Hopkins series was published monthly and edited by H. B. Adams, J. M. Vincent, J. H. Hollander, and W. W. Willoughby. …

Condizione: Very good. 1954, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp334, colour frontispiece, black and white illustrations, tan cloth spine over beige boards in dustwrapper.