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Madagascar:

Abinal et Malzac, Les RR.PP. SJ . DICTIONNAIRE MALGACHE - FRANCAIS (ORIGINAL BOOK, NOT A REPRINT)
Tananarive 1921 3rd Mission Catholique. Madagascar. In French. Hardcover. Octavo, 883pp. (double column), 1/2 leather with raised bands and red marbled paper-covered boards with mounted printed green paper spine label. Marbled end papers. Good, text lightly and evenly toned, a bit worn, rear inner hinge beginning to crack, edges worn. Binding secure. (a10815)
$195.00 Arthus, Gothard . DIALOGUES IN ENGLISH AND MALAIANE LANGUAGES
NY 1974 Walter Johnson reprint of the London 1614 edition. The English Experience Number 640. "Dialogues in the English and Malaiane languages: or, certaine common formes of speech, first written in Latin, Malaian and Madagascar tongues by the diligence and painfull endeavour of Master Gotardus Arthusius, a Dantisker and now faithfully translated into the English tongue by Augustine Spalding, merchant for their sakes, who happily shall heareafter undertake a voyage to the East-Indies." sm8vo., 78pp., red cloth with blue label. Fine. (a26129)
$55.00 Basse, Eliane . ETUDES GEOLOGIQUE DE SUD-OUEST DE MADAGASCAR
Paris 1935. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France. No. 24. In French. 2 volumes bound as one. Lg.4to., pages 1-96, 97-157, photo plates, maps, illustrations, red buckram. VG plus. (a17040)
$175.00 Boiteau, Pierre . CONTRIBUTION A L'HISTOIRE DE LA NATION MALGACHE
Paris 1959 lst Editions Sociales.Preface par E. Tersen. 431pp. Text VG,slightly, evenly browned (not brittle) in Fine full black leather, raised bands, gilt lettering. (a25272)
$55.00 Condominas, George . FOKON'OLONA ET COLLECTIVITIES RURALES EN IMERINA
Paris 1960 Berger-Levrault. Imperialism in Madagascar. In French. Hardcover. Octavo, 234pp., full leather. VG. (a25302)
$40.00 Ellis, Rev. William . THREE VISITS TO MADAGASCAR DURING THE YEARS 1853-1854-1856 INCLUDING A JOURNEY TO THE CAPITAL
London 1859 John Murray. Hardcover. Large octavo, 476pp., illustrated with woodcuts from photographs, maps, steel engraved portrait of Ellis, original cloth boards with new paper spine. Good, new endpapers, a few pages lightly foxed. (a70709)
$130.00 Gafftey-Smith, Laurence . HANDS TO PLAY
London 1975 1st Routledge & Kegan Paul. A record of Britain's occupation of Vichy-France Madagascar during the Second World War. Hardcover. Octavo, 211pp., cloth. VG plus, slight rubbed spot on front blank where two price tags once were, in Good DJ. (a68311)
$75.00 (yeast) . YEASTS IN FEEDING A SYMPOSIUM
Miwaukee 1948. Octavo, 107pp., index, wraps. VG. (a25255)
$40.00 Hoffman, Bernard G. . ACCOUNT OF A VOYAGE CONDUCTED IN 1529 TO THE NEW WORLD, AFRICA, MADAGASCAR AND SUMATRA, TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN WITH NOTES AND COMMENTS
1963. Article at pp.1-79 a single issue of Ethnohistory. Several additional articles in issue as well. Octavo, original wraps. VG. (a76740)
$75.00 Houlder, J. A. . OHABOLANA OU PROVERBES MALGACHES
Tananarive 1960 Lutherienne. Traduit et annotes en Francaise par M. H. Noyer. Sm.8vo., 216pp., wraps. VG. (a28542)
$55.00 Lhande, Pierre . MADAGASCAR 1832-1932
Paris 1932 Plon. 12mo., 265pp., photo illus., wraps. In French. Good, cover a bit worn, text browned. (a28450)
$30.00 Linell, Folke . CONTRIBUTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF MADAGASCAR
Lund 1936 Gleerup. 4to., 35pp., photo plates, original wraps. Small institution stamp inside front cover. Good, light wear. (a16722)
$65.00 Malzac, Le. R. P. SJ . VOCABULAIRE FRANCAIS-MALGACHE (ORIGINAL PRINTING, NOT MODERN REPRINT)
Paris 1900 Challamel. In French. 12mo., 445pp., maroon cloth. Good plus, a bit worn, front hinge beginning to crack. (a20691)
$135.00 Matthews, Rev. T. T. . THIRTY YEARS IN MADAGASCAR
London 1904 1st Religious Tract Society. Octavo., 384pp., 62 photos, index, hardcover. Top edge gilt. Ex-library. Good, owner' s name cut from front blank end paper, worn on edges and corners. (a21579)
$115.00 Pfeiffer, Ida . VOYAGE A MADAGASCAR
Paris 1862 Hachette. Traduit de l'Allemand par W. de Suckau. et precede d'une notice historique sur Madagascar par Francis Riaux. In French. 12mo., 312pp., foldout map, original yellow printed wraps. Good, ancient dry water stain on cover and initial pages, some light foxing, small tear on hinge that holds the map. (a28454)
$99.00 Pidoux, Edmond . MADAGASCAR MAITRE A SON BORD
Lausanne 1962 Editions du Soc. In French. Sm.8vo., 240pp., monochrome photo illustrations,original wraps bound in full black leather with raised spine bands and gilt spine lettering. Fine. (a25261)
$44.00 Robequain, Charles . MADAGASCAR ET LES BASES DISPERSEES DE L'UNION FRANCAISE
Paris 1958 1st Presses Universitaires de France. In French. Octavo, 586pp., some photo illustrations, a few small text maps, full black leather with raised bands and gilt lettering. Fine . (a25271)
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