Africa
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# 42916
[Società Geografica Italiana]
Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].
Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …
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# 40322
VALENTINE, James
[ABOLITIONISM] An illustrated Anti-slavery propaganda envelope.
Dundee : Designed & engraved by J. Valentine, [ca. 1853]. Postal envelope, 76 x 125 mm, the verso engraved with six vignette illustrations depicting scenes from Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and two main legends in capitals, the first around the upper flap: ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO UNTO YOU DO YOU SO …
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# 40288
LETAILLE, Charles
Croquis et Souvenirs d’un Artiste, ou détails les plus curieux d’un Voyage Autour du Monde.
Récreation instructive. Dédiée à la jeunesse par Chles. Letaille. Paris : chez les Principaux Mds. de nouveautés pour Etrennes et Cadeaux [Charles Letaille, 30 rue Saint-Jacques], [ca. 1855]. Original box of papered card, 265 x 200 x 30 mm, the lid with embossed gilt border and hand-coloured lithographic onlay depicting a New Zealand scene with Māori; the …
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# 38994
HAGGARD, [Sir] Henry Rider (1856-1925)
King Solomon’s mines
London, Paris, New York and Melbourne : Cassell & Company, Limited, 1898. Octavo (220 x 150 mm), publisher’s buff-coloured wrappers with titles and illustration in blue to upper wrapper, lower wrapper with publisher’s advertisement (wrappers with light staining and foxing, some paper loss at foot of spine); pp. 128, with five in-text illustrations by Walter …
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# 35151
CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY (LONDON)
Missionary lotto.
London : Church Missionary Society, [circa 1900]. “Second series. (Revised)”. Original card box, 235 x 115 x 21 mm, with title and imprint to lid (light marks and handling wear, but sturdy and without any edge or corner splits); the inside lid with printed Missionary Lotto Rules (mild foxing); the interior of the box is …
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# 35361
HADDON, Alfred C. (1855-1940)
Evolution in art, as illustrated by the life histories of designs
London : Walter Scott, Ltd., 1895. The Contemporary Science Series, edited by Havelock Ellis. First edition. Octavo (185 mm), publisher’s blind-blocked maroon cloth over boards lettered in gilt (lightly rubbed), spine titled in gilt (softened at the ends and with a couple of small marks); pp [4 publisher’s ads.], xviii, [2], 364, [14 ads.]; illustrated …
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# 35469
WEEKS, John H.; STAPLETON, Walter Henry; DODDS, C. J.; STONELAKE, Henry Thomas
[MISSIONS; AFRICA] Njembo
Monsembe : Baptist Missionary Society, 1900. ‘Imprimerie “Hannah Wade”, Baptist Missionary Society, Bolobo, Haut Congo, État Indépendant du Congo’ (title page verso). Small octavo (174 x 121 mm), original pebbled red cloth over boards, upper board with stamped lettering and decoration in black; front pastedown with pencilled name of early owner Charles W. Carter, pp 79; …
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# 27985
Dépôt de la guerre
Carte topographique des environs d’Alger
d’Aprés les levés et les reconnaissances des Officiers d’Etat-major et autres documents. Paris : Publiée par le Depôt de la Guerre; Imprimerie chez Kaeppelin, 1856. Engraved by Erhard Schieble. Engraved map, dissected and laid on linen, 680 x 1010 mm, printed label. French colonial map of Algeria, invaded by the French in 1830 and occupied with much …
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# 28578
MORRISON, Gabriel James (1840-1905); HOLUB, Emil (1847-1902)
[CHINA] Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Vol. II, no. 3, New Monthly Series. March, 1880.
London : Printed by William Clowes & Sons, [1880]. Tall octavo (245 mm), original printed blue wrappers (lightly marked, small paper loss at spine ends), pp 1-8 (advertisements), 145-208; folding colour plate at the rear with two Maps to Accompany Papers on Journeys in Eastern China by G. J. Morrison, M. I. C. E., 1878, which …
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# 27598
SIFTON, PRAED & Co.
Juba river
London : Sifton, Praed & Co., 1925. Chromolithograph map, dissected and laid on linen, 580 x 775 mm (sheet), marbled card wrappers, a very good copy. London Atlas Series. Compiled, drawn and printed at the War Office, 1925. Shows the coast of Somalia including Mogadishu. ‘The Jubba River or Juba River (Somali: Wabiga Jubbada, Italian: …
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# 26521
STANDARD THEATRE (JOHANNESBURG]
[SOUTH AFRICAN THEATRE] … Stephen Black and his South African Players in A Backveld Boer …
[Johannesburg] : African Theatres, Ltd. [1929]. Promotional card for A Backveld Boer‘s season at the Standard Theatre, Johannesburg, commencing Saturday 23 March [1929]; lithographed in black on blue card, 123 x 203 mm, printed both sides, illustrated with a portrait of Stephen Black and line-drawn illustration of the protagonist; superb condition. This rare flyer bills …
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# 25525
PAM, Max (1949 - )
Max Pam : The sea of love (deluxe edition with original photograph ‘Papier mache Mercedes, Bangkok, 1976’)
Paris : Editions Bessard, 2019. Folio, blind embossed red calf, illustrated dustjacket and glassine wrapper, unpaginated, photobook of the artist’s images, printed on high quality matt photographic paper. Edition limited to 1000 copies, with an original signed photograph ‘Chim, Bangkok 1973’ measuring 190 x 125 mm loosely housed within a pocket inside rear pastedown. This …
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# 22385
Photographer unknown.
[GOLD MINING] Photograph album compiled by a globetrotting mining engineer between 1900 and 1910, with his unique panoramic views of the King of the Hills mine in Western Australia, and topographical views in West Africa, Colombia, and the Caucasus, many of them documenting gold mining enterprises.
Late nineteenth century photograph album, oblong folio (280 x 370 mm), half calf over black crushed morocco ruled in gilt (heavily worn, front board detached), all edges gilt, containing a total of 150+ silver gelatin photographs (and one albumen print) mounted on thick leaves; over 50 of the photographs were taken with a special panoramic …
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# 22195
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS (USA)
A Christmas missionary exercise : illustrated with scenes from our Foreign Mission Fields.
Cover title: A Christmas missionary exercise and album. New York : The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., 1894. Oblong octavo, original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (lightly creased and marked), pp [24], illustrated with numerous half-tone photographic plates of various missions in China, Japan, Korea, Siam, Laos, India, Chile, …
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# 21228
Photographer unknown.
A Yoruba village watchman in tree. Jebba district, Northern Nigeria, circa 1910.
Silver gelatin print photograph on card stock, 80 x 130 mm, tipped onto a page (165 x 125 mm) removed from a disbound traveller’s album, photographer’s inscription beneath image in ink: ‘Native Watchman. Shewing how he protects himself from wild animals during the night’; lengthier pencil inscription in the same hand to verso of print …
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# 18053
WAHLEN, Auguste
Costumes, usos e trajos de todos os povos do mundo,
em face de documentos authenticos e das mais recentes viagens. Lisboa : Impresa Lusitana, 1872-1873-1874-1876-1878. Five volumes, octavo, original quarter blue calf over marbled papered boards (lightly rubbed, corners bumped, upper board of vol. 4 with several scratches), spines with gilt lettering and rule; vol. 1 (Asia) 421, [1]; vol. 2 (Asia, India) 439, [4]; …