1.         ABRAHAM, R. C.  A Dictionary of the Tiv Language.  London: Published on behalf of the Government of Nigeria by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1940   8vo.  ix,331pp. 
Library bookplate and shelf number to spine, a nice copy in the publisher’s brown cloth.                                                                                                                                        £ 40.00

2.         ABRAHAM, R. C., Captain.  The Principles of Tiv.  London: Published on behalf of the
Government of Nigeria by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, 1940   8vo.  viii,102pp. 
A very nice copy in the publisher’s dark brown cloth.                                                                      £ 40.00

3.         ADEWOYE, Omoniyi.  The Judicial System in Southern Nigeria, 1854-1954.  Law and Justice
in a Dependency.  Ibadan History Series, General Editor J. F. A. Ajayi.  Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1977   8vo.  xiii,331pp.  4 plates, map, appendix, biblio., index, dw.                                                                                                               £ 25.00

4.         AFIGBO, A. E.  The Warrant Chiefs: Indirect Rule in Southeastern Nigeria, 1891-1929. 
Ibadan History Series.  New York: Humanities Press, 1972   8vo.  xv,338pp. 4 plates, 4 maps,
biblio., index, chipped dw.  A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher’s dustwrapper.                                                                                                                   £ 25.00

5.         AJAYI, J. F. Ade.  Christian Missions in Nigeria, 1841-1891: The Making of a New Elite. 
Ibadan History Series.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press 1965, Second Impression, 1969   8vo.  xvi,317pp. 4 illustrations, 5 maps, biblio., index, dw.                                                                                                                                            £ 25.00

6.         AJAYI, J. F. Ade & Robert Smith.  Yoruba Warfare in the Nineteenth Century.  Cambridge: at
the University Press in association with the Institute of African Studies University of Ibadan, 1964   8vo.  x,160pp. plate, 6 maps, biblio., index, dw. 
“...comprises a detailed account of the Ijaye war of 1860-65 and a general study of Yoruba warfare from 1817 to 1893, together with a report on the Egba army in 1861 by Captain Jones, a British Officer serving at that time with the 2nd West Indian Regiment in Yoruba country.”                                                                  £ 30.00

7.         AKINJOGBIN, I. A.  Dahomey and its Neighbours, 1708-1818.  Cambridge: University Press,
1967   8vo.  xi,234pp. frontispiece, 6 maps, biblio., index, dw.                                                         £ 30.00

8.         ALAGOA, Ebiegberi Joe.  The Small Brave City-State:  A history of Nembe-Brass in the Niger Delta.  Ibadan: Ibadan University Press, and Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1964  
8vo.  xiii,173pp. 2 plates, 3 maps, biblio., index, dw.                                                                        £ 25.00

9.         ALLISON, Phillip.  African Stone Sculpture.  London: Lund Humpries, 1968   Cr.4to.  
vii,71pp. 99 illustrations on plates, 3 maps, biblio. index, dw. 
Covering Yoruba, Cross River, Sierra Leone, Congo, Zimbabwe, etc.                                               £ 36.00

10.      AMES, David W. and Anthony V. King.  Glossary of Hausa Music and its Social Contexts.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1971   Med.8vo.  xiii,184pp.  18 plates, index.                                                                                             £ 25.00

11.      Anglo-African, The.  Vol. I.  No. 10.  Lagos, Saturday, August 8, 1863.  Lagos: Printed and
Published by Robert Campbell, Editor and Proprietor, 1863   Folio.  4pp. 
A weekly newspaper, this issue contains details of shipping, Government notices, items for
sale, local news including news of the war between Abboekuta and Dahomey, etc.   
Some creasing and paper a little browned and stained.                                                                     £ 100.00

12.      ARMSTRONG, Robert G.  The Study of West African Languages.  An expanded version of
an Inaugural Lecture delivered at the University of Ibadan on 20 February 1964 by Robert G.
Armstrong, Research Professor of Linguistics.  Ibadan: Published for the Institute of African
Studies by Ibadan University Press, 1964    Wrpps, 8vo.  76pp. appendix, biblio., index.                                                                                                                                       £ 25.00

13.      AUGÉ, M.  Quelques notes ethnographiques sur une peuplade de l’Hinterland Dahoméen.  La tribu Berba.  Article in Supplément a “L’Anthropologie”.  Institut Français D’Anthropologie, No. 7.- Séances du 17 Decembre 1912 et du 15 Janvier 1913.  Liste des Membres.  Paris: Masson et Cie., 1913   Wrpps, Roy.8vo.  117-127pp.  5 text figures.                                              £ 15.00

14.      BABALOLA, S. A.  The Content and Form of Yoruba Ijala.  The Oxford Library of African Literature.  London: Oxford University Press 1966, reprinted 1976  
8vo.  xiv,395pp.  appendix, biblio., dw. 
Ex-Oxford University Press Printer’s Library with their bookplate and stamp to verso of title.                                                                                                                                  £ 18.00

15.      BACON, R. H.  Benin: The City of Blood.  By Commander R. H. Bacon, Intelligence Officer
to the expedition.  Illustrated by W. H. Overend.  London: Edward Arnold, 1897   8vo. 
151pp. + 16 pages of publisher’s advertisements, frontispiece and 5 plates, folding map. 
The account of the taking of the City of Benin in 1897.  “...for the relations and friends of those concerned to have a full account of what happened, and, secondly, to leave on record certain details
of organisation and equipment which may be useful in the future to officers serving on similar expeditions”.    This copy bears a white label on the upper board reading “File Copy” being the
actual copy kept by the publishers.  An excellent copy in the publisher’s red cloth.                                                                                                                                                 £ 375.00

16.      BAIKIE, William Balfour.  Narrative of an Exploring Voyage up the Rivers Kwo’ra and Bi’nue,  (commonly known as the Niger and Tsádda) in 1854.  With a map and appendices.  Published with the sanction of her Majesty’s Government.  London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1856    Med.8vo.  xvi,456pp.  frontispiece, title vignette, folding plan, folding map by Arrowsmith, appendices.   
“...the British Governement collaborated with MacGregor Laird in a third attempt to penetrate the Niger from the sea.  Baikie’s expedition explored the Niger and Benue during 1854.  But the most remarkable fact about Baikie’s expedition was that none of its members lost their lives;...” - [J. D. Fage: A History of West Africa]  The spine rebacked in a matching cloth retaining the original backstrip, armorial bookplate of Walter Howard Wilkin, a nice copy in the publisher’s blind
stamped dark blue cloth.