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1960145206Bruxelles : Federation Des Entreprises Congolaises 1960 1960. First Edition. Paperback. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 84 pages; Physical desc. : 84 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Subject: Congo Democratic Republic -- Economic conditions. Bruxelles : Federation Des Entreprises Congolaises, [1960] paperback
1958244796INFOR Congo 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked pictorial cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 535 pages. Subjects; Congo. Belgian Congo. INFOR Congo hardcover
1947ZB402696Bruxelles: 1947. Part 2 only; iv 557-952 pp. illustrated including a small folding map; paper wrappers darkened and chippedat extremities a few brown spots but mostly unopened. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. Bruxelles: unknown
1950R5972Belgique: Centre d'information et de documentation du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi 1950 TRÈS RARE! Une pièce rare pour collectionneurs dart africain et de livres illustrés idéale pour exposition recherche ou ajout unique à une collection. 98 planches. Les six planches sur trois pages détachées visibles sur les photos ont été trouvées dans le catalogue mais proviennent dun autre livre. Couverture souple. Très bon. Centre d'information et de documentation du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi paperback
1955176246Congo Belge Conseil de Gouvernement 1955 1955. First Edition. Paperback. Very good paperback copy in glassine dw; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Copy from Foreign Office. Foreign Office Library. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 54 pages; Physical desc.: Various pages numbers and languages: 51 lxvii 39 p folded map. Subjects: Colonialism -- Facts and Figures -- Statistics. Languages: French Dutch. (Congo Belge Conseil de Gouvernement, 1955) paperback
190561952New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1905. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23.5cm. Tan cloth stamped in brown titled in gilt on black leather spine label top edge gilt; xvi634pp; photogravure frontispiece portrait black and white map 100 black and white halftone plates large color folding map at rear. Errata slip at p.x. Sound but rubbed slight fraying at spine ends spine label much abraded minor abrasions to boards internally largely clean: around Very Good. <br /> <br /> Wack 1875-1954 was a paid apologist for Leopold II and his atrocity-ridden regime in the Congo Free State. 61952. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown
193082301New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1930. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth; dustjacket; xiv318pp; color frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of b/w plates after André Durenceau who also designed the endpapers and dustwrapper. A sound generally clean copy; text over-opened at p.70 a few faint spots of foxing; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper unclipped but tattered with losses along upper margin and spine ends closed tears and age-toning; just Good. With the engraved bookplate of Portland Oregon collector Frederick W. Skiff d.1947. <br /> <br /> A colorful but cringingly condescending account by an Anglo-American trader who spent the years 1882-1896 in what was then French Equatorial Africa today called the Republic of the Congo. Includes chapters on cannibalism native African slaveholders and sexual customs about which the author warns he ".shall speak with the utmost frankness.for the reason that they are the most powerful and dominating factor" in the lives of the natives of Equatorial Africa. With illustrations in dramatic Art Deco style by Franco-American illustrator and muralist André Durenceau. Farrar & Rinehart unknown
1959353370Brussels: Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urund 1959. Hardback edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description; 2 volumes : color maps part folded diagrams part color tables ; 22 cm. Subjects; Congo Democratic Republic. Congo Democratic Republic; history. Congo Democratic Republic; description and travel. Brussels: Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urund hardcover
19500032989London: Unevangelized Fields Mission 1950. First Edition. Softcover Paperback. Fair Condition. 21.5cm x 14cm. 54 pages black and white illustrations. Illustrated saddle-stapled wrappers. Stories and documentation of the Unevangelized Fields Mission work in Congo in the between 1931 and 1949. At the time UMF had offices in London Toronto Philadelphia and Melbourne. In 2004 UMF changed its name to Crossworld and continues its missionary work around the world. Scarce 4 copies recorded in OCLC. Wrappers splitting at spine extremely tender. Category: Religion & Theology; Countries::Africa::Congo; Inventory No: 0032989. BZDB407 Religion & Theology; Countries::Africa::Congo; Unbranded Congo Missionaries of the Unevangelized Fields Mission Where the Master Touched Unevangelized Fields Mission paperback
195816299Leopoldville Kinshasa: Le Conseil Protestant Du Congo Léopoldville. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1958. Pamphlet. Light rub light tone light wear. Oversize paperback stapled pamphlet. ; French language. Pictorial history of Protestant missionary activities in Kinshasa during the Belgian Congo years on the 80th anniversary of the 1878 landing of George Grenfell and Thomas Comber of the Baptist Missionary Society. Published for the booth of "des Missions Protestantes au Congo" at the Brussels World's Fair - Expo 58. The first major World's Fair after World War II it also featured an inhabited exhibition Congolese village. Two years later in 1960 the Republic of the Congo was declared independent. An uncommon missionary publication from the last colonial years. . Le Conseil Protestant Du Congo, Léopoldville unknown
1951EXP015Brussels: The Tourist Bureau for the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi 1951. 1st. Hardcover. Good. Brussels: The Tourist Bureau for the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi 1951 Good Traveller's guide to the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi First Edition <br /><br />1951 757 pp Book is an Ex-Library copy in good condition No DJ Blue-gray cloth cover with gold gilt lettering & blue decoration on spine All edges have blue-gray stippled/staining Rubbing/bumping to spine edges & corners Sunning on spine Library markings including written publisher & catalog number on spine bookplate & usual stampingsThere are signs of visible wear which may include markings bookplate or authors name bumping small tears non-major spine or binding defects but book is still wholly intact SEE PICTURES for any wear or defects Condition based on age of book To ensure you receive the quality of book expected we provide pictures of NOTICEABLE WEAR for ALL books we sell with marked conditions of GOOD If you have any questions at all don't hesitate to send us an email The Tourist Bureau for the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi hardcover
190730722London: Religious Tract Society 1907. First Edition. Illustrated with 17 full-page plates and a folding map of Congo at the end of the volume. Thick 8vo publisher's original brick-red cloth the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt top edge gilt. xx 446 14 ads. pp. A fine and handsome copy clean and very well preserved. FIRST EDITION AN EXPANSIVE AND ELUSIVE BIOGRAPHY OF A CONGO PIONEER WRITTEN BY HIS WIFE. A fine work with extensive commentary on the geography the people and the social and cultural interactions of the period. An enlightening look into Congo at a time that the Belgian's were establishing rule over a vast area of the territory. Religious Tract Society hardcover
1992Q-0840732392Thomas Nelson Inc 1992-01-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Thomas Nelson Inc paperback
1991Q-0840732368Thomas Nelson Inc 1991-02-01. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Thomas Nelson Inc paperback
19544520Belgian Congo: Congo Tours 1954. First Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Belgian Congo BIG GAME HUNTING Promotional Brochure issued September 1954. 3 part fold-out brochure. 6 pp 7.5 x 5/1/5 pages. Covering all hunting areas Lake Albert Kamanda Aba Beni Tayala's Semliki River and Gabios. Giving safari rates what they include costs of licenses trophy fees and a full page map. Area hunted is contiguous to Soudan Uganda and Tanganyika i.e. the best big game areas in the Belgian Congo. Fine. Congo Tours unknown
191840631Bolenge: Congo. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1918. Fifth Edition. Flexible cloth. Small 8vo ; 231 pages; Belgian Congo. Bonkanda wa Nsao ya Nzakomba. Fifth Edition Enlarged and Revised. 231 hymns on 76 leaves in Bobangi. 8vo contemporary plain limp cloth; moderate wear spine sunned. Bolenge Congo Belge 1918. Not too many of these survive African Congo exposure in good shape. Mainly comprised of Christian hymns in Bobangi. . Congo hardcover
19227647Luebo Congo Belge Africa: The J. Leighton Wilson Press American Presbyterian Congo Mission 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Plain mauve cloth 5 x 7 inches 58 pp. index clean text. No entries for any edition at WorldCat. We have seen three binding varieties for this issue: blue pebble cloth dark green pebble cloth and a mauve plain cloth.There are 38 articles in the Constitution - these define the work the officers & workers the powers of the officers the election of officers &c. The By-Laws start with no. 39 and run to no. 113. These treat with standing committees and their duties how appointed then practical matters of budgets ordering supplies hospital and medical fees &c. Ends with a 8 pp. index. The J. Leighton Wilson Press | American Presbyterian Congo Mission hardcover
19227646Luebo Congo Belge Africa: The J. Leighton Wilson Press American Presbyterian Congo Mission 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Dark green pebble cloth 5 x 7 inches a few blotchy stains to the binding 58 pp. index clean text. No entries for any edition at WorldCat. We have seen three binding varieties for this issue: blue pebble cloth dark green pebble cloth and a mauve plain cloth.There are 38 articles in the Constitution - these define the work the officers & workers the powers of the officers the election of officers &c. The By-Laws start with no. 39 and run to no. 113. These treat with standing committees and their duties how appointed then practical matters of budgets ordering supplies hospital and medical fees &c. Ends with a 8 pp. index. The J. Leighton Wilson Press | American Presbyterian Congo Mission hardcover
191137502Bruxelles: Publiées par le Ministere des Colonies 1911. First edition. Aqurelles par Norman-H. Hardy. 403 photographs and drawings 2 fold-out maps and 29 full- page folio-size plates containing 20 color drawings 15 color plates of raffia designs 53 photographs of carved figures and objects and 14 photographs of 18th century Bombala embroidery. 1 vols. Large 4to. Original tan printed portfilo. Book loose in fasicules. Fine. wrappers slightly worn. First edition. Aqurelles par Norman-H. Hardy. 403 photographs and drawings 2 fold-out maps and 29 full- page folio-size plates containing 20 color drawings 15 color plates of raffia designs 53 photographs of carved figures and objects and 14 photographs of 18th century Bombala embroidery. 1 vols. Large 4to. Publiées par le Ministere des Colonies unknown
1946235061946. Congolese ceremonial and colonial encounter photo archive showing indigenous ceremonial dance dress and culture uniformed troops and Belgian officials in the Belgian Congo during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Key scenes are tied to the 1947 visit of Prince Regent Charles to Paulis. Belgium ruled the Congo from 1908 until independence on June 30 1960 after the Belgian parliament took over King Leopold II's Congo Free State following international exposure of forced labor and mass abuses. Several captions appear to place the photographs during the governorship of Eugène Jungers Governor General of the Belgian Congo from December 31 1946 to January 1 1952 a period when Belgian rule promoted "paternal" administration while Congolese political pressure and demands for advancement were growing. The strongest scenes center Congolese public ceremony rather than colonial officials alone: men dancing in lines drummers seated before large instruments children gathered for viewing and performers facing crowds in open fields and palm-lined roads. Chief Tongolo and his daughter appear among colonial representatives during the Prince Regent's visit giving the archive a named Indigenous presence within a public ceremony shaped by Belgian authority.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 24 silver gelatin photographs measuring approximately 3" x 4" each Belgian Congo 1940s-1950s. Several French captions can be translated; "Governor General Jungers"; "the regiment's standard at the cemetery"; "parade of the veterans"; and "Congolo gives his speech." Congolese men dance in feathered or fiber headdresses body ornaments patterned waist cloths shields and drums sometimes advancing across open ground before lines of onlookers. Belgian men in white suits and pith helmets stand with Congolese adults and children outside official buildings and in outdoor assembly areas while other scenes show African soldiers in formation a ceremony near railroad tracks a colonial cemetery observance and a station or compound with crowds gathered along walls and platforms.<br /> <br /> After the Second World War Belgium's Congo policy remained formally paternalist while urbanization war service missionary education and wage labor created new Congolese claims to political recognition that colonial rule could not contain;within thirteen years of Prince Regent Charles's 1947 visit the Congo gained it's independence and became Republic of the Congo. Light handling wear toning and minor curling; captions remain legible on several versos images remain clean and clear. Overall in very good condition. The archive records Congolese ceremonial life at the point where public dance veteran commemoration colonial ceremony military display and Belgian administrative power occupied the same public spaces. unknown
1909310760Bruxelles: Albert de Wit . Institute International de Bibliographie 1909. First edition. With 8 plates from photographs with multiple images; folding map; folding plan. xx 376 pp. Preface by Cyrille van Overbergh. 8bo. Later red cloth with original printed rose wrapper mounted to front cover. Light soiling to wrapper toning to text. First edition. With 8 plates from photographs with multiple images; folding map; folding plan. xx 376 pp. Preface by Cyrille van Overbergh. 8bo. An ethnographic description of the Warega or Lega people of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo published shortly after the creation of the Belgian Congo; volume 5 in the Collection de Monographies ethnographiques published by Cyrille Van Overbergh. A short biographical footnote on p. viii describes the author as a reserve officer in the Belgian army. Albert de Wit ... Institute International de Bibliographie unknown
1946232341946. Belgian Congo photo archive documenting colonialism and segregated settlement in Paulis Jadotville and at Kiubo Falls in 1946-1947 while Belgian rule expanded displacing Congolese communities from political power and control over local resources. Made by an unidentified traveler or colonial observer the group moves between industrial sites river traffic town streets waterfalls village compounds and posed encounters with Congolese residents placing daily life beside the infrastructure of empire. Jadotville in Katanga had been built within the orbit of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and the copper economy that tied the Congo to European industry; Paulis belonged to the northeastern colonial administrative network that extended surveillance mission activity and commercial penetration into local societies. By the later 1940s these systems were producing wealth for Belgium and foreign markets through forced and controlled labor regimes.<br /> Photo archive of 36 black and white silver gelatin photographs various sizes ranging from 2.5" x 3.5" to 5" x 7" Belgian Congo 1946-1947. Nine photographs are identified to the Paulis region in 1946 including versos inscribed in French with "Habitations Européens à Paulis" "Pavillon de l'hotel" and "Le Kigoma sur le fleuve." These images show European-style houses set among palms a large riverside or lakeside steamer a broad colonial street with automobiles and low commercial buildings thatched structures and Congolese figures posed near village compounds and along a tree-lined road. The remaining photographs from Jadotville and Kiubo Falls in 1947 include multiple views of the falls from overlooks and near the waterline several repeated compositions of cascades and riverbanks a dense electrical installation with transformers and steel framing public crowd scenes dugout canoes on calm water groups standing beside temporary camp structures and additional views of thatched settlements large shade trees and Congolese men women and children positioned before houses or in open clearings. Several photographs set European-built environments against Congolese dwellings and occupied landscapes making the colonial dichotomy apparent within this grouping.<br /> Waterfalls river steamers electric infrastructure and ordered streets mark the channels through which copper labor and administrative authority moved outward to Belgian and international markets while the photographs of Congolese settlements and residents show the populations who bore that reorganization of land and economy. In the late colonial Congo extraction and transport depended on African labor under coercive conditions and urban growth in places such as Jadotville advanced through racially unequal housing wage structures and civic access leaving Congolese people concentrated in subordinate quarters or rural zones even when their work sustained the entire system. Light wear and occasional creasing; several versos inscribed in French; overall very good condition. An intimate look into Belgian colonial rule at the point where industrial wealth infrastructure and local displacement met on the ground. unknown
192875946Bolenge Congo: Disciple's of Christ Cono Mission 1928. Seventh edition. Octavo. 118 pp. All in Bogangi. Original flexible red cloth. Very good.Mainly comprised of Christian hymns in Bobangi. It must have been quite popular to make it to the seventh edition but we can find no copies on OCLC. Disciple's of Christ Cono Mission hardcover
1901100107AG1901. Laeken / Brussels Château de Laeken Palace of Laeken 1901 - 1906. 16 pages of MLS Manuscript Letters signed on 10 leaves of Leopold's official stationery "Château de Laeken" and "Palais de Bruxelles". The leaves with different sizes 135 cm x 9 cm and 18 cm x 115 cm. Excellent condition. Unsigned. Tremendously rare to find original letters by Leopold II on the open market in which the Colonial Free State and the protection against inquisitive visitors is discussed in such clear and instructive fashion. Leopold's correspondence with Adolphe de Cuvelier shows how he is very much trying to still protect and influence the narrative of his Colonial Slavery Outpost even in the final years of his life. Adolphe de Cuvelier 1860-1931 Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Congo Free State President of the Syndicate for Studies and Enterprises in Congo. He was given the title of knight in 1893 and baron in 1908 each transferable at first birth. Wikipedia _______________________________ Leopold II French: Léopold Louis Philippe Marie Victor; 9 April 1835 17 December 1909 was the second King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909 and through his own efforts the owner and absolute ruler of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908. Born in Brussels as the second but eldest surviving son of Leopold I and Louise of Orléans he succeeded his father to the Belgian throne in 1865 and reigned for exactly 44 years until his deaththe longest reign of any Belgian monarch. He died without surviving legitimate sons. The current Belgian king descends from his nephew and successor Albert I. Leopold was the founder and sole owner of the Congo Free State a private project undertaken on his own behalf as a personal union with Belgium. He used Henry Morton Stanley to help him lay claim to the Congo the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the Berlin Conference of 18841885 the colonial nations of Europe authorized his claim and committed the Congo Free State to him. Leopold ran the Congo using the mercenary Force Publique for his personal gain. He extracted a fortune from the territory initially by the collection of ivory and after a rise in the price of natural rubber in the 1890s by forced labour from the native population to harvest and process rubber. Leopold's administration of the Congo Free State was characterised by atrocities and systematic brutality including torture murder and the amputation of the hands of men women and children when the quota of rubber was not met. In 1890 George Washington Williams used the term "crimes against humanity" to describe the practices of Leopold II of Belgium's administration of the Congo Free State. Colonial accounts typically emphasized Leopold's modernizing changes in the Congo and not the mass death he facilitated. These and other facts were established at the time by eyewitness testimony on-site inspection by an international commission of inquiry and the 1904 Casement Report. Modern estimates range from 1 million to 15 million Congolese deaths with a consensus growing around 10 million. Some historians argue against these figures citing the lack of reliable censuses the enormous mortality caused by smallpox and African trypanosomiasis and the fact that there were only 175 administrative agents in charge of rubber exploitation. In 1908 the reports of deaths and abuse and pressure from the Congo Reform Association and other international groups induced the Belgian government to take over the administration of the Congo from Leopold as a new territory Belgian Congo. Wikipedia unknown