Weinthal Leo Ed (9 results)

Illustrated card cover. Condition: Very Good. Facsimile Edition. VG : in very good condition without dust jacket as issued. 290mm x 200mm (11" x 8"). xvii, 454pp/. Facsimile of the Pioneer Publishing Co Ltd edition of 1924.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 4th Edition. Travel guide with Arabic woman overlooking Nile, softcover, bilingual guide book and useful hints to Nile area from the Delta to Uganda and British East Africa, small 8vo, many photos, maps, tourist data on rail travel, hotels, restaurants, much social data for this period, great ads, 312pps, 4th edn, f/o map. Rare.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Cover slightly worn, bottom of back damp-stained. Owner's name on fpd. Underlining in tp. Clean and tight. Rare. No py, 1912? ii-xvii + 314 + xix-xxviii pp, frontispiece, illustrations, portrait, map, fold-out plate. 12mo. 351 pp. English. E. G. Ravenstein (illustrator). …

32,5x21,5 cm. 404 pp. + 2 folding plates. Richly illustrated and with numerous advertisement Later calf-backed boards, covers bound in. Front cover and first leaves with repair to upper left corner, otherwise a very good copy. This is the 7'th issue of this annual, filled with interesting articles on different subjects from all over Africa.…

3 Vol. (3 Bde.) + Index/Maps, gr. 8°, OHLdr. sehr schöne Exemplare.

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition. Covers rubbed with some marks. Occasional page-edge browning and minor marks within. 290mm x 220mm (11" x 9"). xxxvi, 727pp; xx, 510pp; xvi, 454pp; 49pp, maps; + plates. 82 plates & maps (31 coloured, 28 sepia, 38 fold-out) + over 1,200 b/w photographs. University of Cape Town Library. Very heavy set significant extra shipping needed for overseas. Black hardback half-leather cover with green boards.…

Compiled, Illustrated and Edited by Leo Weinthal. London: The Pioneer Publishing Co., Ltd., 1923 Publisher's gilt decorated black half-morocco, 4to. (1). The Record and romance of an Imperial Project; how it materialised to date; and the Story of its Creators. Forewords by J. C. Smuts, The Earl Buxton and Sir Francis Younghusband. viii,xxxvi,727pp. 351 plates, (10 coloured, 6 folding), numerous text illustrations, 17 photo plate insets, 8 maps, (1 folding). (2). The Main Line as it exists to-day from the Cape to the Nile Delta. ii,xx,510pp. 209 plates, (3 coloured, 9 folding), numerous text illustrations, 8 photo plate insets, 6 maps, (1 coloured folding). (3). Variations of the Main Trunk Route and its Feeder Lines in existence or projected. Africa's Native Tribes and Wild Game. ii,xvi,454pp. 152 plates, (6 coloured), numerous text illustrations, 5 photo plate insets, 6 maps, (2 coloured folding). (4). Index to volumes I., II. & III. ii,49pp. 2 plates, 13 maps, (12 folding, 11 coloured). A massive compilation on the countries of Africa along the route of the railway, the associate editors were Sir Alfred Sharpe, C. W. Hobley, Gerald H. Lepper, Charles Rudy, Alfred J. Clevely, Charles Sheldon, W. Ingram-Lyon and William J. Brand. Containing contributions by the famous africanists of the day. A fourth volume (not present here) "Supplementary to the Story of the Cape to Cairo Route, and dealing exclusively with the Finance, Commerce and Industry of the Countries served by the Route" was published in 1926. A very good copy of the first edition. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[B].…

First edition, complete with the map volume, of this suitably lavish tribute to one of the most glorious failures of the empire, the project conceived by Cecil Rhodes as "The Iron Spine and Ribs of Africa". By 1914 there was already a 2,600-mile link from Cape Town to Bukama in the Congo; two sections of river steamer and an isolated length of Congolese railway took the route to Stanleyville. In the north, the line was continuous from Cairo to Luxor and from Wadi Halfa to Kosti; these two sections were connected by 250 miles of Nile steamer, but the route to cross uncharted parts of the northern Congo and southern Sudan was not even surveyed by the time of publication, and the scheme was never completed. Weinthal produced this encyclopaedic work as "a belated but substantial tribute to Rhodes's idea. As an advisory board for this Brobdingnagian project, Weinthal recruited every possible survivor with a connection to Rhodes and to colonial Africa, every likely expert on the continent, and every amenable viceroy, sirdar, and colonial governor, from the general manager of the South African Railways to Sir Abe Bailey, Flinders Petrie, and Lord Lugard. The contents include essays on the history, society, and natural conditions of the African states to be traversed by the prospective railway; the mercantile potential of these states and the benefit of rail transport; the railway engineering feats undertaken in East Africa; touristic topics, such as ethnographic studies of tribespeople; big-game hunting; the "mysteries" of the Great Zimbabwe; the progress of colonial society in Cairo; and genial fantasies concerning the future of an "unlocked" continent that would be crossed by great silver airships stopping airily at new cities to disembark their passengers; merchants, mining engineers, and families of colonial administrators" (Merrington). Other prominent contributors were Sir Percy Fitzgerald on "Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson;" Sir Harry Johnston on the native languages along the route; the late Captain Selous on big game; and Flinders Petrie on "The Trail of the Ancients on the Route"; there is also an extract from Churchill's My African Journey, accompanied by a portrait. Typescript labels and library plates to the front free endpapers record the bequest of this set to Barclays Bank by Lady Caulcutt, widow of Sir John (1876-1943), longtime director of Barclays, in 1944. See Merrington, "A Staggered Orientalism: The Cape-to-Cairo Imaginary", in Poetics Today 22.2, Summer 2001. 4 quarto text vols and 1 map portfolio. Profusely illustrated with mounted photographic portraits, half-tone plates (many folding) and text illustrations, and folding maps, most in colour (of which 12 in the map porfolio). Original black hard-grain half or quarter morocco, green cloth sides, spines lettered and decorated in gilt. Extremities lightly bumped and rubbed in places, corners worn (bumped in map porfolio), scattered faint marking to sides, mild finger-soiling to edges of text-blocks, two small punctures to vol. 1 spine, contents clean and fresh. A very good set.…

London: The Pioneer Publishing Co., (1923-1926). 4to. Uniformly bound in orig. hf. morocco with the portfolio in orig. qtr. morocco. Spines gilt panelled. Green cloth boards slightly flecked. Profusely illustrated with mounted photographic portraits, halftone plates (many folding), text-illusts., and folding mostly coloured maps of which 12 in the map portfolio. 1st ed. Former owner's name on front fly-leaves, otherwise a fine, handsome, and complete set. NOTE: This exhaustive work on one of the most difficult engineering projects of its age is, as stated by J.C. Smuts in the foreword, a "monumental record of African pioneering". There are over 2000 pages of text and the illustrations are exceptional in every regard. There are numerous portraits being actual tipped in sepia photographs, colour plates and breathtaking maps. Though the works centers on the railway and river route, it also encompasses virtually every aspect of British exploration, pioneering and development in Africa. Weinthal has compiled this great work from a list of sources and contributors that would all by themselves constitute a great Africana library. To name just a small percentage of them we find: Winston Churchill, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Johnston, Flinders Petrie, Frederick Selous, J.C. Smuts and Francis Younghusbands. While the focus stays largely on the route and development of the rail line there is no shortage of information on the native peoples, the game and wildlife, the gold and diamond mining operations, the geography, the cartography and much, much more. …