Africa

  • L'homme cultivé, ou Tableau des différentes périodes de culture et de civilisation,

    # 47313

    [HOFMANN, Karl Friedrich]

    L’homme cultivé, ou Tableau des différentes périodes de culture et de civilisation,

    que le genre humain a parcourues depuis l’origine des sociétés jusqu’à nos jours. Ouvrage destiné à entretenir la jeunesse en l’instruisant et en lui formant le coeur. Enrichi de 50 gravures enluminées et de deux Cartes géographiques. Traduit de l’allemand d’après la seconde edition revue et augmentée. Leipzig : Bruder et Hofmann, [1812]. Square duodecimo (140 x 120 …

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  • [CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

    # 35516

    BUSSIÈRE (publisher); MATENET, Jules Xavier (designer); COUDERT, B. (illustrator); JANNIN, H. (lithographer)

    [CHILDREN’S GAME] Voyage dans les cinq parties du monde.

    Paris : Bussière, [between 1870 and 1880]. Original cartonnage box, 235 x 295 x 40 mm, the lid with hand-coloured lithographic onlay of a scene on the Amazon with printed game title above and picture caption below, along with the publisher’s imprint ‘Bussière, Ed. Paris’, framed by an embossed paper border (scattered silver fishing at …

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  • Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    # 49394

    BECHER, A. B.

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean [together with] Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas

    Navigation of the Atlantic Ocean, containing a brief account of the winds, weather, and currents prevailing therein. With charts. London : J. D. Potter, 1859. Second edition. [Together with] : Navigation of the Indian Ocean, China and Australian Seas, with an account of the winds, weather, and currents found therein throughout the year. London : …

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  • In darkest Africa.

    # 49410

    STANLEY, Henry M.

    In darkest Africa.

    Or, the quest, rescue, and retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. London : Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1890. First edition. Two volumes, octavo, gilt-decorated pictorial cloth (edges rubbed, corners bumped, hinges a little cracked), patterned endpapers, pp. xvi; 529, xvi; 472, large folding colour maps (the largest with a long tear at joint), …

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  • The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies.

    # 24306

    Mendes Pinto, Fernão (d. 1583); Cogan, Henry (translator)

    The voyages and adventures of Ferdinand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indies.

    With a relation and description of most of the places thereof ; their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave : written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the …

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  • [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    # 47286

    [WAKEFIELD, Priscilla; MILLS, Alfred, illustrator]

    [COOK] Costumes de différentes nations, en miniature. Avec des descriptions.

    Paris : Guyot et de Pelafol, 1816. 32mo (68 x 60 mm), original calf, boards with decorative borders in gilt, spine lettered and decorated in gilt (a little worn at the junctions of the head and outer joints), marbled endpapers; 96 pp. with a frontispiece and 47 copperplate illustrations of people of the world; binding …

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  • [GAME] Nouveau jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel, ou Tableaux des capitales de l'univers.

    # 45944

    A. LION (publisher)

    [GAME] Nouveau jeu de Loto Géographique et Universel, ou Tableaux des capitales de l’univers.

    [Paris] : [A. Lion], n.d. [c.1845]. Original box of thick card, 230 x 290 x 40 mm, the lid with paste-down chromolithograph; containing 18 sections of playing board (each 125 x 215 mm), each with a paste-down lithograph illustrating five different locations, mostly major cities (all 90 locations illustrated are briefly described in an accompanying …

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  • Map of Africa and adjoining portions of Europe and Asia

    # 49070

    GROSVENOR, Gilbert (editor)

    Map of Africa and adjoining portions of Europe and Asia

    Prepared especially for the National Geographic Magazine. Washington : National Geographic Society, 1922. Folding map, printed in colour, 790 x 715 mm, dissected and laid on linen, showing the continent of Africa mostly under colonial administration, extending to Madagascar and Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, southern Europe and the Arabian Peninsula, including the Persian Gulf, …

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  • Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779.

    # 48772

    THUNBERG, Carl Peter (1743-1828); LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste de Monet de (1744-1829)

    Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779.

    London : Printed for F. and C. Rivington, 1796. Third edition. Four volumes, octavo, handsome uniform early bindings of half calf over marbled papered boards, spines with leather title-pieces lettered in gilt; speckled edges; bookplates to pastedowns, Vol 1: A Voyage to the Southern Parts of Europe, and to the Cape of Good Hope in …

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  • Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty's Colonies.

    # 49242

    TRENDELL, A. J. R.

    Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886. Her Majesty’s Colonies.

    A series of original papers issued under the authority of the Royal Commission. London : William Clowes and Sons, 1886. Octavo, presentation binding of full crushed morocco over bevelled boards, ruled in gilt, spine in compartments with gilt rule and lettering (edges a little rubbed), all edges gilt, gilt-lettered morocco presentation label to front pastedown to …

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  • [POLYNESIAN MIGRATIONS + LANGUAGES] Histoire et origine des Foulahs ou Fellans. 

    # 47645

    d'EICHTHAL, Gustave

    [POLYNESIAN MIGRATIONS + LANGUAGES] Histoire et origine des Foulahs ou Fellans. 

    Paris : Librairie orientale, 1841. Series: Mémoires de la Société ethnologique. Octavo (220 x 140 mm), publisher’s printed wrappers (darkened and with minor stains, lengthy paper split along spine, dog-eared corners); half title with the author’s presentation inscription in ink; pp. xii, 296, folding map of Africa at rear; pale water stain to fore-edge margin …

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  • Carte topographique des environs d'Alger

    # 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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  • The Baganda. An account of their native customs and beliefs

    # 48584

    ROSCOE, Rev. John

    The Baganda. An account of their native customs and beliefs

    London : Macmillan, 1911. Octavo, gilt-letter cloth (edges lightly rubbed, gilt-stamp of the the New South Wales Library of Parliament to upper board), pp. xx, 525, 81 black and white photographs, two folding maps, parliamentary library stamp to title page, a very good copy. A description of the traditional societies in Uganda prior to European …

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  • [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    # 48451

    [CLIFT, Horace William]

    [INDIAN MUTINY] First Geography for Natives : or, guide to the map of the world

    Calcutta : printed at the Calcutta School-Book Society’s Press, and sold at their Depository, Circular Road, 1846. Sixth edition. Octavo (177 x 110 mm), original plum cloth (faded and with scattered stains); ownership inscription to front free endpaper: ‘R. Moore of the 1 Company 6 Bn. Bengal Artillery Feby. 12 the [sic] 1857 Anno Domino …

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  • L'Art Nègre à l'Exposition du Palais des Beaux Arts du 15 novembre au 31 décembre 1930.

    # 48607

    MAES, J. and H. LAVACHERY

    L’Art Nègre à l’Exposition du Palais des Beaux Arts du 15 novembre au 31 décembre 1930.

    Bruxelles : Librairie Nationale d’Art et d’Histoire, 1930. First edition. Exhibition catalogue. Quarto (250 x 190 mm), publisher’s printed brown wrappers with pictorial onlay to front (light foxing and staining); pp. 3-32 (text in French), followed by 48 b/w photographic plates; some foxing to text pages but the plates in fine condition. Scarce catalogue for …

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  • African & Oceanic Art : Property of Henri Lecler. December 7, 1968. Park-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York.

    # 48624

    African & Oceanic Art : Property of Henri Lecler. December 7, 1968. Park-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York.

    New York, NY : Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., 1968. Auction catalogue. Small quarto (260 x 180 mm), stapled printed wrappers, pp. 37, 104 lots, b/w photographic illustrations; a very good copy, with the printed prices realise sheet loosely enclosed.

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