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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.

  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…

  An extremely rare and important sea chart depicting the mouth of the Limpopo River, in southern Mozambique; for centuries the Limpopo was one of the great transport corridors into the interior of southern Africa; the chart is based upon groundbreaking scientific surveys by a team of Portuguese naval officers, led by João António Ludovice, conducted in 1893, when the…

  An extremely rare and attractive late 19th century Portuguese sea chart of the mouth of the Rio Tejungo (today known as the Rio Moniga), a key trading port along the north-central coast of Mozambique, the chart being the first edition of the first scientific, trigonometric survey of estuary, conducted in 1898 by Lieutenant João Carlos da Silva Nogueira of…

An exceedingly rare – 1 of only 3 known examples - and historically consequential map; its contents enraged the people of Porto, helping to fuel the Republican Revolt that occurred there on January 31, 1891; the map, which embraces the midriff of Southern Africa, depicts Portugal’s premier colonies of Angola and Mozambique with greatly reduced boundaries, to the benefit of…

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…

  An amazing and unique survivor, being a finely executed original manuscript map of the Praça de São Sebastião, the grand 16th century fortress which guarded the town of Ilha de Moçambique, the capital of Portuguese East Africa and a globally significant entrepôt for slaves, gold and ivory, and which today has the distinction of being the oldest complete fortress…

  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…

  8°, [8 pp.], 26 pp., [2 pp.] blank, old tan cloth binding with pasted label with a manuscript title on the cover (Very Good, binding slightly dusty and stained).