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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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- 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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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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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, Books
Italo-Ethiopian War of 1887–1889: Norme pratiche per la guerra Italo-Abissina corredate da una carta topografica di Massaua e paesi vicini e di sei piante dei forti principali
- 960.00€
- A rare manual for practical warfare in Eritrea at the beginning of the Italian invasion in 1887 was written by an anonymous author, well acquainted with local habits, geography, and climate.
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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, Archives and Documents, Books
KENYA / UGANDA: The Imperial British East Africa Company, incorporated by Royal Charter, 1888.
- 3,500.00€
- An extremely rare sammelband featuring several foundational works regarding the colonial era in what is today Kenya and Uganda, composed of various publications and ephemeral documents assembled and custom-bound in 1889 by Sir Lewis Pelly, one of the founding directors of the Imperial British East Africa Company (IBEAC), the private company that was charted in 1888 by the British government…
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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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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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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€
- Memories of Giambattista Scala, the Sardinian consul in Lagos, Nigeria, along with his travelogue to Abeokuta, located north of Lagos, depict the region at the end of the slave trade. During this period, merchants with new goods, Scala among them, began to move into the area. With a dedication by the author. 8º, [4 pp.] blank and title, 243…
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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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LIBYA – ITALO-TURKISH WAR: طرابلس غرب، بنغازى و جزائر اثنى عشر
- 1,200.00€
- After World War I and the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire, diplomat Fahreddin Reşad Bey (also known as Rumbeyoğlu Fahreddin Bey or Rumbeyoglu Fahr al-Din Bey, 1867–1943) and Mehmed Nâbi Bey (1868–1924), who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs beginning in October 1918, released several government publications about foreign affairs administration in former Ottoman territories and border regions at the…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
MADAGASCAR: ‘Imprimerie Officielle Tananarive 1897 à 1905’.
- 9,500.00€
- MADAGASCAR - ORIGINAL ARCHIVE / EARLY FRENCH PRINTING AND POLITICS IN MADACASGASCAR / ANTANANARIVO IMPRINTS: Félix LEIFFEIT (b. 1864, active until at least 1930), Compiler. / Joseph Simon GALLIENI (1849 -1916), Contributor. [Various places and dates; Core of Archive, Antananarivo 1897-1905; but other elements from France and Madagascar dating as late as 1930 – for details see below]. 4°…
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MOZAMBICAN REVOLUTIONARY MURALS: Imagens de uma Revolução
- 1,300.00€
- Large 4º, [92 pp.] with colour illustrations, illustrated wrappers with flaps, bound in later red faux-leather binding with gold tooling and lettering on the spine.
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MOZAMBIQUE (MAPUTO) – UNRECORDED RONGA-PORTUGUESE CATECHISM: Katessismanhana dja Batjonguana ba igreja katólika ka Lourenço Marques.
- 380.00€
- A seemingly unrecorded Ronga-Portuguese catechism (Ronga being the language of the indigenous people of the Maputo region of Mozambique) written by Padre António Lourenço Farinha, a prominent Roman Catholic missionary who served in Mozambique before returning to Portugal to become a senior government administrator and prolific author. 12° (15.5 x 10.5 cm): 126 pp., preserving original rose-coloured printed…
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MOZAMBIQUE: Missão para o Estudo da Missionologia Africana / Influências Político-Sociais do Islamismo em Moçambique (Relatório Confidencial) pelo Padre Albano Mendes Pedro.
- 3,600.00€
- MOZAMBIQUE – ISLAM / MIDDLE EAST-AFRICAN NEXUS / ORIGINS OF MILITANT ISLAMISM IN MOZAMBIQUE: Albano Mendes PEDRO (1915 - 1989). / CENTRO DE ESTUDOS POLÍTICOS E SOCIAIS DA JUNTA DE INVESTIGAÇÕES DO ULTRAMAR. Lisbon: Centro de Estudos Políticos e Sociais da Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, May 31, 1961. 4° (29 x 20.5 cm): [1 f., title], 49 ff. typescript, bound in original green…
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MOZAMBIQUE: Sons Orientais.
- 2,800.00€
- Exceedingly rare – 1 of only 3 known examples - the first edition of the first book of poetry published in Mozambique, featuring verses written by Arthur Serrano, one of Mozambique’s leading early journalists, the Deputy Mayor of Lourenço Marques (Maputo) and a protégé of José da Silva Campos de Oliveira, the colony’s ‘first poet’; printed in the Ilha…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
NIGERIA / PROVINCIAL COURTS: Court Record Book. Plateau. From 13. 3. 1927 to 18. 2. 1931
- 4,200.00€
- A unique court record book documenting trials at the provincial court in Plateau Province, Nigeria, between 1927 and 1931. Large 4º, 257 unnumbered sheets, printed text on the left-hand side, printed template with entries in black and red ink and annotations in colour pencils on the right-hand side. two inserted sheets with typescript, reverse calf binding with linear tooling in…
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Os Simples: destinado á defesa de todos aqueles que usurpados nos seus direitos, tenham fome e sede de justiça.
- 2,400.00€
- Exceedingly rare – an almost complete collection (76 of 79 issues) of ‘Os Simples’, the first major, and reasonably enduring, labour newspaper issued in Mozambique, published in Lourenço Marques (Maputo) from February 1911 to September 1913; an unparalleled source on the rise of the white working class and unionism in Mozambique, the socialist-republican paper, published by professional typographers, featured diverse…
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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
SARAH BAARTMAN – “HOTTENTOT VENUS” / SCIENTIFIC RACISM / AFRICANA
- 9,400.00€
- Possibly the earliest manuscript, mentioning Saartje or Sarah Baartman, known as the “Hottentot Venus” who was as a victim of contemporary scientific racism exhibited in England and Paris from 1810 to 1815 as a freak, believed to be related closer to apes than to humans. The letter was written in Cape Town in late 1809 by Alexander Dunlop, a military…
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SLAVERY / EARLY DUTCH ABOLITIONIST THEATRICAL WORK: Monzongo, of de koningklyke slaaf. Treurspel. Door Nicolaas Simon van Winter.
- 1,800.00€
- Very Rare – the first edition of ‘Monzongo’, “the most popular anti-slavery production staged across the Netherlands until well into the nineteenth century”, authored by Nicolaas Simon van Winter, the eminent merchant, poet and dramatist who became an ardent Abolitionist upon witnessing the brutal Dutch crackdown which ended the Berbice Slave Rebellion (1763-4), in modern-day Guyana; the play concerns an…
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SLAVERY / SLAVE TRADE / WEST AFRICA – FRENCH COLONIAL EXPANSION / THEMATIC CARTOGRAPHY: Commerce et traite des Noirs aux côtes occidentales d’Afrique. 1er janvier 1848.
- 6,500.00€
- Édouard BOUËT-WILLAUMEZ (1808 - 1871). Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1848. Large 8° (24 x 15.5 cm): vii, 230 pp., plus, 2 folding lithographed maps (the second of which has details in original hand colour), bound in original printed card wrappers (Good, text generally clean but toning along page edges and some areas of sporadic light spotting, maps with some…
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SOUTH AFRICA / SECOND BOER WAR: Album – South Africa
- 3,800.00€
- The album contains 131 photographs from the Second Boer War, as well as images depicting life in South Africa before and after the conflict. It provides valuable insights into this historic period, particularly through a collection of photographs taken in the field with a modern portable roll film camera.v Album, oblong large 4º, 25 thick grey boards with 131…
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SUDAN / RAILWAYS: [Sudan Governor-General Sir Charles Gordon’s Original Manuscript Report submitted to the Egyptian Public Works Minister Ali Pasha Mubarak prosing a scheme to save the embattled Egypt-Khartoum Railway project, illustrated with an original Mss. Map].
- 8,200.00€
- Charles George GORDON, aka “Gordon of Khartoum” (1833 - 1884). Manuscript, [Khartoum, Autumn 1879]. An original manuscript of extraordinary quality and interest, being a report written by the legendary British soldier-adventurer Sir Charles George Gordon, aka “Gordon of Khartoum”, in his capacity as Governor-General of Sudan, in the service of the Egyptian Khedive, articulating his well-conceived plan to…
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WOMEN OF MOZAMBIQUE: Sociedade de Estudos de Moçambique. Visita presidencial. Simposium. A Mulher em Moçambique
- 650.00€
- The Estado Novo regime’s conservative and patronizing view towards women in Mozambique. 4°, 16 pp. blue carbon copy of a typescript on yellow paper, printed recto only, yellow front and rear wrapper, lettering on the cover, stapled (rear sheet loose, light staining and foxing) (# 70489).
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