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many books that are stacked on top of each otherseveral open books sitting on a table next to each other on a table
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4 - (Africa) – 6 works
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(Africa) – 6 works - GAY (Jean). Bibliography of works relating to Africa and Arabia. A systematic catalogue of all French works and the principal works in foreign languages dealing with the geography, history, commerce, literature and arts of Africa and Arabia. Turin, 1890 (reprint, 1999). In-8, IX, 312 pp, publisher’s cloth binding. Nearly 3,700 works described. Index of places. Index of proper names. - CARDINALL (A. W.). A Bibliography of the Gold Coast. Accra, 1931 (Reprint, 2002). In-8, [2 ff], XIX, [2 ff], 384 pp, publisher’s grey cloth. The turbulent history of this African country up to 1930 is fully captured in the 5,168 references contained in this bibliography. - HÉDIN (Louis). A Study of the Forests and Timber of Cameroon under the French Mandate. Preface by Mr Auguste Chevalier. Paris, Larose, 1930. In-8, paperback. 230 pp, fold-out map, plates. - BRUEL (Georges). Bibliography of French Equatorial Africa. Paris, Larose, 1914 (Reprint, 2003). In-8, [2 ff], IV, 326 pp., publisher’s cloth binding. 7,029 titles, arranged by author. Anonymous articles from periodicals are listed separately under the titles and periodicals. Subject index. - BROC (Numa). Illustrated Dictionary of 19th-Century French Explorers and Great Travellers. Africa. Paris, 1988. Large in-8, 346 pp, publisher’s binding with illustrated dust jacket. Volume illustrated with portraits, a frontispiece and maps. The author provides a bibliography for each figure and, most helpfully, cites his sources. - LEWIN (Evans). Subject Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Empire Society (formerly the Royal Colonial Institute). London, 1930 (Reprint, Martino Publishing, 2005). Large 8vo, publisher’s binding. [4 ff.], X, 582 pp, CXXIII pp, [1 f] errata.
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About the sale In preparation – The Jean-Paul Delon Bookshop Collection, Part I (Bibliography – Scholarship – Bibliophilia)
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