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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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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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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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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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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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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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