Africa

  • [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 …

    $750.00 AUD Read more
  • 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 …

    $200.00 AUD Read more
  • 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.

    $50.00 AUD Read more
  • Important works from the Najd collection

    # 48576

    SOTHEBY'S

    Important works from the Najd collection

    London : Sotheby’s, 22 October 2019. Quarto, illustrated wrappers, pp. 168, extensively illustrated with important Orientalist pictures from North Africa, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East.

    $60.00 AUD Read more
  • Africa, Images and Realities : The Arts of Africa

    # 48605

    ST. PAUL ART CENTER

    Africa, Images and Realities : The Arts of Africa

    St. Paul, Minnesota : St. Paul Art Center, [1963].  Exhibition catalogue. Small square quarto (217 x 217 mm), pictorial card wrappers (spine sunned); previous owner’s name to preface; [32] pp., catalogue of 112 objects, many illustrated in b/w, map; a good copy. Art from West and Central Africa. Cultures represented include the Ashanti, Dogon, Bobo, …

    $22.00 AUD Read more
  • Tribal Art. Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1986.

    # 48627

    FAINELLO, Robert and Christine DAVIES

    Tribal Art. Sotheby’s, London, 24 March 1986.

    London : Sotheby’s, 1986. Auction catalogue. Large quarto (270 x 210 mm), printed green wrappers; pp. 55, 141 lots, illustrated in b/w and colour; an excellent copy, with the printed price list loosely enclosed. Among the highlights of the Oceanic art section is an astonishing Fijian wooden figure (19 cm high), which sold for £33,000 …

    $35.00 AUD Read more
  • Tribal Art. Sotheby's, London, 30 March 1987.

    # 48626

    FAINELLO, Robert and Christine DAVIES

    Tribal Art. Sotheby’s, London, 30 March 1987.

    London : Sotheby’s, 1987. Auction catalogue. Large quarto (270 x 210 mm), printed green wrappers pp. 54, 113 lots, illustrated in b/w and colour; an excellent copy, with the printed price list loosely enclosed. Among the highlights of the Oceanic art section are a superb Malaita bowl with mother of pearl inlay, an important Easter …

    $35.00 AUD Read more
  • Tableau géographique des quatre parties du monde;

    # 47042

    [Anon.]

    Tableau géographique des quatre parties du monde;

    orné de treize gravures coloriées, représentant les costumes des Peuples qui habitent les différentes parties du Globe; suivi d’un Traité de la Grammaire française, d’Arithmétique ancienne et décimale; de principes d’Écriture et de Dessin, gravés d’après les meilleurs maîtres … … A Paris : chez L. Duprat-Duverger, rue des Grands-Augustins, n. 21, 1811. Duodecimo (170 x …

    $1,850.00 AUD Read more
  • From Cape Town to Ladysmith. An unfinished record of the South African War

    # 47671

    STEEVENS, G. W.

    From Cape Town to Ladysmith. An unfinished record of the South African War

    London : William Blackwood and Sons, 1900. Fourth impression. Octavo, prize binding from Presbyterian Ladies College Melbourne by Relfe Bothers of London, with their emblem and old school motto Ohne Hast Ohne Rast on upper board (German, from Goethe Without haste! without rest!, changed due to political considerations at the outbreak of the Second World …

    $75.00 AUD Read more
  • [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.

    # 46765

    STANLEY, Henry Morton [ROWLANDS, John]

    [AMERICAN CIVIL WAR] Henry Morton Stanley : a rare studio portrait of the African explorer in his Union naval uniform, taken during his service on USS Minnesota in late 1864 or early 1865.

    Albumen print photograph (a copy print made in 1872 from a print made by an unidentified American studio in 1864-65), carte de visite format, 103 x 63 mm (mount); verso with imprint of ‘J. Laing, Portrait & Landscape Photographer, Miniature & Portrait Painter. Castle Street, Shrewsbury’, and with an inscription in ink by the original …

    $3,000.00 AUD Read more
  • Le Tour de monde, ou Tableau gégraphique et historique de tous les peuples de la terre,

    # 47413

    DUFRÉNOY, Mme. (Adélaïde Gillette) (1765-1825)

    Le Tour de monde, ou Tableau gégraphique et historique de tous les peuples de la terre,

    contenant une description succincte des pays qu’ils habitent ; un aperçu des moeurs, coutumes, religions et lois… monumens et antiquités… notices biographiques… littérature, industrie, commerce, etc. Dédié à madame la comtesse de Ségur. Paris : Alexis Eymery, 1814. Six volumes, 32mo (135 x 90 mm), contemporary uniform bindings of mottled calf, spines with gilt decoration and contrasting …

    $680.00 AUD Read more
  • In the shadow of the bush

    # 15216

    TALBOT, P. Amaury

    In the shadow of the bush

    New York : George H. Doran, 1912. Octavo, bright gilt-lettered cloth with pictorial onlay (very slightly flecked at edges), colour frontispiece, numerous photographic plates, folding map. A detailed study of the people of the Oban District of Nigeria

    $125.00 AUD Read more
  • Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

    # 46034

    CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

    Church Missionary Society collection box, circa 1920.

    [London : CMS, c.1920]. Wooden box, 140 x 70 x 70 mm, with chromolithographic label on one side illustrated with peoples from CMS missions around the world and worded: CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. SPHERES OF WORK: AFRICA, INDIA, CEYLON, CHINA, JAPAN, PALESTINE, EGYPT, THE SUDAN, PERSIA ETC. / METHODS: EVANGELISTIC, PASTORAL, EDUCATIONAL, MEDICAL, INDUSTRIAL, ITINERATING, TRANSLATIONAL …

    $275.00 AUD Read more
  • The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.

    # 29393

    HUDDART, Joseph (1741-1816) (attrib.)

    The Oriental navigator; or, new directions for sailing to and from the East Indies.

    Also for the use of the country ships, trading in the Indian and China seas, to New Holland, &c. &c. Collected from the manuscripts, journals, memoirs, and observations, of the most experienced officers in the Hon. East India Company’s Service; and from the last edition of the French Neptune Oriental, by Mons. D’Après de Mannevillette. Being …

    $15,000.00 AUD Read more
  • Basuto girl. Port Elizabeth, 1911.

    # 45013

    [Photographer unknown]

    Basuto girl. Port Elizabeth, 1911.

    Gelatin silver print photograph, 220 x 170 mm, on its original card mount (300 x 250 cm); photographer’s manuscript caption in lower margin ‘Basutu [sic] girl: taken at Port Elizabeth / June 1911’; print and mount are both in excellent condition. This lovely portrait study came from a small archive of photographs by an unidentified …

    $60.00 AUD Read more
  • Thinking black : 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central Africa.

    # 44576

    CRAWFORD, D. (Daniel) (1869-1926)

    Thinking black : 22 years without a break in the long grass of Central Africa.

    London : Morgan and Scott, 1913. Second edition, second impression. Thick octavo (225 x 150 mm), publisher’s black cloth decorated and lettered in gilt (very lightly marked); top edge gilt; pp. xvi+486+18; illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates and 4 colour plates; offsetting to the endpaper maps, occasional pencil lines in margins, some pages unopened, two …

    $80.00 AUD Read more