Africa Archives - Daša Pahor

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- Africa, Africa, Books, Madagscar, Maps and Prints
- ‘Madagascar’ [Atlas Factice of Madagascar]
- 2,600.00€
- administrator or military officer to be employed while making a reconnaissance of the island in the tense period leading up to World War I; featuring 26 colour photolithographed maps and 1 legend sheet all published in Antananarivo by the colonial military press, the ‘Service géographique de l’Etat Major du groupe de l’Afrique Orientale’, including 19 provincial maps and 6 large-format, sophisticated…
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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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- AGRICULTURE OF ANGOLA AFTER THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY: A cultura das palmeiras. Suscitando varias consideracoes acerca do Estado Geral da Provincia de Angola e da natureza dos remedios que urge applicar-lhe.
- 650.00€
- A critical observation of bad management of palm groves in Angola among the native people after the abolition of slavery in 1869, with a plan how to educate Angolans in modern techniques of agriculture for their own benefits. 12°, 44 pp. [4 pp.] blank, original green wrappers with lettering (wrappers little stained with old paper labels on the cover…
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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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- 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, Books, Design
- ART DECO IN LUANDA, ANGOLA: Exposição Feira de Angola. Actividade ecónomica de Angola
- 1,400.00€
- An impressive commemorative photographic album accompanying a large exhibition in Luanda, in 1938, demonstrating colonial introduction of Western architecture and design in Angola. Large 4°, 173 pp. text with vignettes and decoration, printed in black and orange, interleaved black and white photographs. [17 pp.] advertisements printed in black and orange, original illustrated wrappers (wrappers rubbed with small chips on…
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- CAPE VERDEAN NOVEL: Chiquinho
- 650.00€
- The first edition of the acclaimed Cape Verdean novel by the esteemed author Baltasar Lopes da Silva. 8º, 298 pp., [2 pp.], original illustrated wrappers, old bookseller’s stamp and a pasted-down book-plate of Alfredo Ribeiro dos Santos on the inner side of the front wrapper (minor foxing, mostly to the wrappers, otherwise in a good condition).
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- 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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- 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, Children's Books
- Die Reise nach Afrika. Grosses Schauspiel in vielen Aufzügen [Travel to Africa. Great Spectacle in Many Acts]
- 3,200.00€
- An educational toy for children, designed as a cyclorama - a card theater featuring rotating images in the center. It represents dramatic scenes with heroic Muslims and was created during the German economic growth interest in North Africa, especially in Egypt. Accompanied by a rare original pamphlet addressing the connection between voice and visual effect.
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