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- Africa, Books
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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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
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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- Africa, Books, History
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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- Africa, Archives and Documents, Books
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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- Africa, Africa, Archives and Documents, Books, Maps and Prints
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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