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- Africa, Books, Ottoman Books
AFRICA: يكى آفريقا. آفريقا قطعه سنك احوال جفرافيه و تاريخيه سى حقنده معلومات جديده ايله سياح مشهور استانلى نك صوك آفريقا سياحتنامه سنى و اوچ قطعه بويالى خريطه يى حاويدر
- 650.00€
- Yeni Afrika. Afrika kitʼasinin ahval-i coğrafya ve tarihiyesi hakkında maʼlûmat-ı cedide ile seyyah-i meşhur İstanliʼnin son Afrika seyahatnamesini ve üç kitʼa boyalı haritayı havidir New Africa. Geographical and Historical Situation of African Continent, New Information by a Famous Traveler Stanley and a Map Coloured in three Colours. A rare late 19th century Ottoman book on contemporary Africa 8°,…
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- Africa, Books, History
ALGERIA / FRENCH COLONIES / ARMENIANS: De l’Introduction des Arméniens catholiques en Algérie
- 1,200.00€
- [On the Introduction of the Armenians to Algeria] An unusual French pamphlet describing a governmental plan, to relocate a larger amount of Armenians from the Ottoman Empire to Algeria, in order to boost economy and trade of this relatively new part of France. A handsome example, from a library of Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, the French Colonial Minister, who…
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- Africa, Books, History
Analyse sur la justice du commerce du rachat des esclaves de la côte d’Afrique.
- 6,800.00€
- Extremely rare in commerce – the first edition of a work that featured the most powerful defense of slavery of the late Enlightenment era, and one of the most influential and controversial books in Brazilian and Portuguese history, written by José de Azeredo Coutinho, the Brazilian plantation owner-turned celebrated intellectual and cleric who was the (unintentional) forefather of Brazilian…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
ANGOLA / CONGO (DRC): SLAVERY / COMMERCIAL TRADE: Quatre Années au Congo par Charles Jeannest. 1874.
- 6,800.00€
- 1 of only 2 known surviving examples - the original issue of the French merchant Charles Jeannest’s exciting and historically valuable account of his four years (1869-73) spent in the coastal Congo (today’s Banana, DRC and Zaire Province, Angola), where he served as a factor at several trading posts, featuring authentic and highly detailed eyewitness accounts and perceptive analysis of…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Geography
ANGOLA: ‘Colonia de Angola / Relatório do Governador Geral de Angola A. Lopes Mateus / Primeiro Trimestre de 1935 / Luanda Abril de 1935’.
- 4,500.00€
- A foundational document of the establishment of the Estado Novo’s transformative colonial regime in Angola, being the secret typescript report on the state of the Portuguese colony written (and signed in mss.) by the military strongman and political heavyweight António Lopes Mateus, who had just been appointed as the Governor-General of Angola, submitted to the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar; in…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
CONGO (BELGIAN / DRC): A Evolução Política do Congo Belga.
- 1,800.00€
- Hélio Augusto Esteves FELGAS (1920 - 2008). Carmona [today Uíge], Angola: [Privately Published by the Author], 1959. Large 8° (16.5 x 22 cm): 188 pp. typescript, with 2 folding maps, the first, Divisão administrativa do actual Congo Belga (between pp. 36 & 37) printed on tracing paper (21 x 20 cm) and the second, Baixo e Medio Congo…
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- Africa, Books
CYRENAICA, LIBYA / ITALIAN COLONIZATION OF AFRICA: Cirenaica
- 220.00€
- A detailed travelogue to Cyrenaica, Libya, by an Italian jurist and artist Giuseppe Haimann. 8°, 141 pp. with black and white illustrations, [3 pp.], folding colour map, original blue wrappers with tan colour, later spine (Slightly age-toned and stained, later spine, p. 133 with tiny narrow loss of text in the outer margin, One line of contemporary ink…
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- Africa, Books
FIRST NAMA (KHOEKHOE) LANGUAGE PRIMER: NAMA- A.B.Z. Kannis, Gei *Hu- *Ze Khom-Ei-Kannis. / *Kunudsib. Bethanis.
- 4,200.00€
- Very rare and historically significant - a gorgeous unsophisticated example of the first Nama (Khoekhoe) language primer and one of the earliest language primers published in Sub-Saharan Africa, the subtitle of which translates as ‘Shouting Together and Reading Book’; Nama, a non-Bantu language with its signature ‘click consonants’ is spoken by the Nama, Damara and Haiǁom peoples who are…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
Jornada da Villa de Quilimane para Sena… Tette… Zumbo.
- 8,500.00€
- Anon. Manuscript, [no place or date, but likely Mozambique, 1842 or shortly thereafter]. 8° (19.5 x 14.5 cm): Manuscript, 9 pp. (text in black pen), plus 2 full page maps (both in black pen and grisaille wash, second map additionally with purple wash), bound in modern full brown calf with gilt title to spine (Good, text pages with professional restoration…
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- Africa, Books
La Ferrovia del Sahara fra Gabes e il Sudan e sua evidente correlazione cogli interessi commerciali d’Italia
- 420.00€
- [The Sahara Railway between Gabes and Sudan and Its Evident Correlation with the Commercial Interests of Italy] An unusual pamphlet, written by an Italian engineer Leone Paladini and printed in Cagliari, Sardinia, advocating a Trans-Saharan railway, connecting Gabès in Tunisia with towns in today’s north Nigeria. Small 8°, 64 pp. original green wrappers with lettering, later spine (minor…
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- Africa, Books
LAGOS, ABEOKUTA – NIGERIA / TRADE: Memorie di Giambattista Scala Console di S. M. Italiana in Lagos di Guinéa intorno ad un suo viaggio in Abbeockuta citta’ nell’ interno dell’ Africa fatto nell’anno 1858
- 1,400.00€
- Giambattista SCALA (1817-1871). [Memoirs of Giambattista Scala Consul of Her Majesty of Italy in Lagos di Guinéa about his trip to Abbeockuta, a city in the interior of Africa made in the year 1858] Sampierdarena, today a part of Genoa: Francesco Vernengo 1862. 8º, [4 pp.] blank and title, 243 pp., 5 pp., contemporary black linen boards and black goat…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
LAOS – HECTOGRAPHED PROOF EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST TRAVEL GUIDE TO LAOS: ‘A travers le Laos. Guide à l’usage des voyageurs.’
- 5,500.00€
- LAOS – HECTOGRAPHED PROOF EXAMPLE OF THE FIRST TRAVEL GUIDE TO LAOS: Antonin BAUDENNE. Vientiane: [Self-Published by the Author], [January 1911]. 4° (32 x 21.5 cm): 68 ff. total all hectographed in purple and printed single-sided, including 34 numbered pp. text, 1 single f. chart and 6 multiple ff. charts each on thicker paper with mss. descriptions in…
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