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Timbuctoo the mysterious

Title: Timbuctoo the mysterious / by Felix Dubois ; translated from the French by Diana White ; with one hundred and fifty-three illustrations from photographs and drawings made on the spot and eleven maps and plans.
Author: Dubois, Félix, 1862-1945
Publication: London : William Heinemann, 1897.

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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc 916.62-D (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Description

xi, 377, [1] pages : illustrations, maps, plans, portraits; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Note

Translation of: Tombouctou la mystérieuse.
Includes index.
"Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press."--printer statement, colophon, foot of page 377.
Last page blank.

Provenance (note)

is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

ch. 1. From Paris to the Niger -- ch. 2. The Niger -- ch. 3. The Valley of the Niger -- ch. 4. The towns of the Niger -- ch. 5. Jenne -- ch. 6. The Songhois -- ch. 7. The Moors in the Sudan -- ch. 8. Jenne, yesterday and to-day -- ch. 9. From Jenne to Timbuctoo -- ch. 10. Timbuctoo -- ch. 11. Timbuctoo across the centuries -- ch. 12. The commerce and life of Timbuctoo -- ch. 13. The University of Sankoré -- ch. 14. Politics and literature -- ch. 15. Europe and Timbuctoo -- ch. 16. The French conquest -- Index.

Call Number

Sc 916.62-D (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)

OCLC

6475671
NYPGR6475671-B

Author

Dubois, Félix, 1862-1945, author.

Title

Timbuctoo the mysterious / by Felix Dubois ; translated from the French by Diana White ; with one hundred and fifty-three illustrations from photographs and drawings made on the spot and eleven maps and plans.

Publisher

London : William Heinemann, 1897.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 916.62-D (copy 1) (accession no. B593939) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy 1 in Sc 916.62 is in the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection.

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White, Diana, 1868-1950, translator.

Heinemann (Firm), publisher.

T. and A. Constable, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 916.62-D (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)

BKV (Dubois, F. Timbuctoo the mysterious)

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