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P., Dreyfous, 1886. Grand in-8 demi reliure rouge de l'éditeur, dos à nerfs caissons décorés, plat en percaline avec encadrements à froid, toutes tranches dorées, XVIII-696 pp. avec 3 cartes hors texte et 2 grandes cartes en couleurs insérées dans une pochette placée sur le dernier contre-plat.
xx, 356 p. plates (8 col., incl. front.) fold. map. 23 cm Hardcover Very good condition
Ouvrage complet en 2 tomes, tome I: vii + 121pp. avec 68 figures dans le texte, tome II: 40 planches et 5 cartes hors-texte en feuilles (sous étui, peu passé), 33cm., dans la série "Annales du Musée du Congo Belge, Tervuren. Nouvelle série in-4, Sciences de l'homme. Ethnographie" volume 1, brochures originales, cachet, petite inscription sur la brochure et sur la première feuille de garde blanche, bon état, texte et planches en très bon état, C99826
533 + [2] pp. + frontispice (portrait) & 5 cartes hors-texte dépliantes, avec gravures dans le texte, Edition originale de 1888, 23cm., reliure cart. contemporaine (plats marbrés, dos en cuir vert avec titre et fleurons dorés, qqs. frottements aux coins et coiffes), feuilles de garde marbrées, tranches marbrées, texte frais, bon état, [L'auteur Camille Coquilhat, Liège 1853 - Boma 1891, était lieutenant dans l'armée belge et participait aux expéditions de Stanley. Il était agent de l'Association internationale Africaine, instituté par le roi Léopold I de Belgique, depuis 1882, et devient vice-gouverneur de l'Etat indépendant du Congo de 1890 jusuq'a sa mort. Il est le fondateur de Equateurville (Mbandaka) en 1883 et de Iboko (Bangala-Station). Il engagait des autochtones comme soldats, et cela était le préambule de la "Force publique", l'armée coloniale du nouvel état de Congo. Dans cet ouvrage il décrit son voyage en Congo jusqu'a l'Equateur, suivie de ses avis sur l'avenir du commerce et de la civilisation congolaise], C104341
Complet en 4 volumes (tomes 1, 2, 3 et appendice): xxi,322 + viii,366 + viii,436 + vi,189 pp., 26cm., brochures originales (peu usées, etiquette aux premiers plats), pages pour la plupart non coupées, caceht, texte et intérieur en très bon état, bon ensemble, poids: 3.2kg., C103643
337pp.met zw/w illustraties in tekst & 38 platen in kleur buiten tekst & 289 zw/w illustraties buiten tekst, in-4, mooie staat, bevat volgende bijdragen: Afrikaanse kunst een esthetische benadering (De Heusch), De houtsculptuur in Negro-Afrika (Burssens), De metaalbewerker (Bruyninx), De functie van Afrikaanse objecten: kunst en religie (Bastin) & De negerkunst getuige van geschiedenis en humanisme (Cornet), [Exhibition catalogue, text in Dutch, 337pp.with bl/w illustrations in text & 38 colour plates out of text & 289 bl/w illustrations out of text, in-4, very good condition], C83960
Paris, C Reinwald 1889. In-8 relié demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs orné de fleurosn, titre doré, tranches dorées. VIII + 724 pages et 11 planches en fin, certaines dépliantes et en couleurs. Petites rousseurs, sinon bon exemplaire.
(Esplorazione dell'Africa - Viaggi - Esploratori austriaci dell'Ottocento - Sudan - Congo) Due volumi in 8°, bella legatura coeva in mezzo marocchino marrone con angoli e filetti dorati, dorsi a 5 nervi con titoli e fregi in oro, carte marmorizzate ai piatti ed alle guardie, pp. (4),IV,508 ; (4),434,(2), con complessive 139 incisioni in legno nel testo (anche a piena pagina) e 2 carte geografiche a colori fuori testo, di cui una più volte ripiegata. Prima traduzione in francese autorizzata dall' Autore e condotta sulle edizioni inglese e tedesca da M.me H. Loreau. La relazione di viaggio nel Sudan egiziano dell'esploratore e naturalista tedesco Georg August Schweinfurth, con importanti osservazioni sul Bahr-el-Ghazal, l'alto Congo (Uelle) ed il complesso oro-idrografico della regione. Interessanti le notizie sulle popolazioni incontrate, in particolare i Niam Niam o Asande ed il popolo pigmeo degli Akka. Leggere e circoscritte tracce di ossidazione, peraltro ottimo stato di conservazione.
Paris, Librairie Hachette, 1890. 2 volumes grand In-8 reliés demi-basane cerise. Dos à faux-nerfs, titre doré. Les couvertures sont conservées. 518 + 482 pages. Ouvrage traduit de l'anglais avec l'autorisation de l'auteur, contenant 150 gravures d'aprés les dessins de A. Forestier, Sydney Hall, Montbard, Riou et 3 grandes cartes dont 2 tirées en couleurs. Portrait de STANLEY en frontispice du tome 1, sous serpente. Edition originale de la traduction française. Légères rousseurs. Bon exemplaire dans une reliure postérieure.
Ouvrage complet en 2 tomes, tome I: vii + 121pp. avec 68 figures dans le texte, tome II: 40 planches et 5 cartes hors-texte (en feuilles, papier de la planche no.1 légèrement bruni), 33cm., dans la série "Annales du Musée du Congo Belge, Tervuren. Nouvelle série in-4, Sciences de l'homme. Ethnographie" volume 1, dédicace (par ?) sur la couv. de tome 2, brochures originales (dos du t.2 peu abimé aux bouts), bon état, texte et intérieur en très bon état, C94874
Pages 338-420 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: By Water in the Desert - an African witch doctor puts a curse on three white men; "Highclimbing" in the Tall Timbers - photo-illustrated article on high-climbers (high-riggers) of the Pacific Northwest which provides a vivid account of their work and its perils; Kwis-Kwis The Killer - British Columbia police sergeant Letherdale brings to book a most cunning and dangerous murderer in the vicinity of Queen Charlotte Sound; "Within the Law" - an unscrupulous Winnipeg estate agent tries to bring off an extra-smart deal; An African No Man's Land - the first crossing by white men of a queer region in the heart of the Belgian Congo - with photos; My Grandfather's Watch - after a watch is stolen in India, a servant suggests an unusual - and successful - method of retrieving it; Shark Catching Extraordinary - a local fisherman devises a novel method to take care of a shark which is threatening swimmers at a New Zealand resort; Through Spain in Disguise (part II) - Count and Countess Malmignati travel through Spain disguised as wandering Arab beggars; The Guru's Message - Journalist Colonel Charles Harrison Gibbons lay at death's door near the Khyber Pass but was relieved by a friend from a thousand miles away who was somehow contacted by an old native priest; The Big Voyage of the Little "Shanghai" (part IV) - the adventures of six young men sailing from Shanghai to Copenhagen; "On Construction" - the adventures of trying to build a new railway through the wilds of Africa; Experiences with the Alligators of Cambridge Gulf in Australia, with illustration of a Carl Jacobs alligator trap and photo of a massive 'gator caught at Wyndham; A Night with Lions - the appalling experience of corporal Fairweather of the B.S.A. Police on the banks of the Zambezi; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this great vintage issue. Book
Pages 291-348 plus several pages of great vintage ads. Features: "Killer Sleeman" - a Mountie's challenge handling a cop-killer; The Man Who Lost Face - a young ship's officer gets in the bad books of Chinese smugglers; The Inventor of the "Rugger" - William Webb Ellis; Amateur Bandit; A Paraguayan Dance - wild and wooly doings; "Humpie" - the unfortunate choice of a gold-seeking partner; Crocodiles in Northern Australia - article with great photos; The Clue of the Single Finger-Print - Part III of the robbery ofthe First National Bank at Lamar, Colorado and the bloody aftermath; "Bhang" - the smoking of this forbidden narcotic in Africa; My Elephant Drive - a tale from the Belgian Congo - with photos; Madui's Curse - a Rhodesian tale; Beachcombers' Luck - an amusing story from the British Columbia coast; Fish-Spearing in the South Seas; and more. Above-average external wear. Covers nearly loose. Contents clean and unmarked. A worthy vintage copy. Book
124 pages. Features: Magnificent boxing poster-style cover featuring Muhammad Ali and George Foreman as they prepare for their fight in Zaire; Many lovely fashion ads. Funky one-page photo ad features young white male with bushy hair and beard, for the city of Cleveland; Amnesty - the painful issue of how to handle Americans who dodged the draft; Putting Zaire on the Map - article on the upcoming boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire - with one-page photo of President Mobutu; Hooked on Vietnam - hundreds of unusual Americans have chosen to stay in Vietnam, including: Seminarian John Tabor, Harry Hartwig, and Frank Mariano; 'Computer Raped by Telephone' - and other futuristic felonies by electronic con men who leave no footprings (a remarkably prescient look ahead to modern day hackers); Letter from Erica Jong; Two-page Teacher's Whisky ad features one-page photo of Mel Brooks in caveman attire; The Case of the Hot Writer - a visit to Cornwall's David Cornwell - far from the neurotic insecurity of John Le Carre's unholy underworld; Color-photo centerfold ad for Bill Blass Collection beddings; Home is Next to the Factory - The Tai and Rosita Missoni home; Suicide - a sin or a right?; Will My Baby be Normal? - Genetic counselors are having increasing success in anwering this heavy question. Above-average external wear, particularly along cover fold. Bit of writing in upper corner of front cover at spine. A worthy vintage copy of this timeless boxing memento. Book
Features: The village of Kibweta in the war-torn Congo; The hard limits of government by consensus - LBJ is up against it; Daily Dilemmas of the Attorney General - Nicholas deB. Katzenbach; Commuters of Rio de Janeiro gripe but they love their city on its 400th anniversary; The American Dream and the American Negro; Venezuelan artist Marisol (includes picture of her with Andy Warhol); New York's street gangs no longer 'Bop,' they 'Jap'; Playwright Neil Simon's Prescription for Comedy. Crossword completed otherwise unmarked. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
160 pages. Features: What was killed was not only the President but the Promise; How to Survive in the Kremlin; General Westmoreland - inheritor of a wretched war; The Road Back for teh G.O.P., by Jacob K. Javits; White Mercenaries on a 'rabbit hunt' in The Congo; Photos of the new Verrazano-Narrows bridge; Michelangelo Antonioni - 'Most Controversial Director'; Gallery of Presidential Also-Rans, including Goldwater-Miller; The dizzying pace of Luxembourger life - and why Common Market bureaucrats don't want to make it their headquarters; After the Yankees What? - a TV Drama - C.B.S, the Columbia Broadcasting System; New Musicals, New Songwriters; Petain - of Verdun, of Vichy, of history; When children don't achieve. Crossword completed in pencil. Moderate wear. Binding tight. A quality copy. Book
Pages 169-252 plus 28 pages of ads. Features: Chink-Running - an account of the illegal smuggling of Chinese over the U.S. border from Canada via the Detroit River; Slippery Wiley's Luck - Mr. Wiley returns to the scene of his prior crime to con money from more victims in Australia; The Mysterious M'Zab - A description of a little-known country in the heart of the Sahara where, although the French are the nominal rulers, the people actually obey the edicts of a secret Government of their own - great photos; "Ning We Pulls the Strings" - A story of Colonel Mackenzie's inimitable Chinese detective; Our Gatta - a most amusing tale of a native regatta from West Africa; The Longest Canoe Voyage on Record, by John H.E. Nolan (Part 3 of 3) - with several photos; Murder Paul Jaworski is permitted to read advance copy of a magazine serial before being executed for his crime; Feather's Folly - a stirring sea yarn from Newfoundland; Seeing America on Thirteen Dollars - Carl N. Taylor describes his four year adventure which began when he was sixteen; At the Eleventh Hour - Racing A Dying Prospector in the Belgian Congo to British Territory for the sake of his life insurance policy; The Human Tiger - a man planning murder in Perth Australia sees his plan go wrong; A Break in Routine - a true story from a Commissioner of Police in Uganda. Unmarked. Moderate wear. Small tape reinforcements to each end of backstrip. A sound copy of this engaging vintage issue. Book
In-4° grande, 379pp, numerose illustrazioni fuori testo; 485pp, (2cc), carta a colori del Congo ripiegata. Legatura in mezza pelle blu con angoli. Titolo in oro al dorso. Copia con dedica dell’Autore, doppia suite di illustrazioni, esemplare 31/100, su carta di Giappone. Peso totale dei due volumi 8 kg.
In-8 gr. (mm. 272x182), 2 volumi, mz. pelle mod. con ang., piatti in cartonato ottocentesco, filetti e tit. oro al dorso, pp. (4),554,(2); (4),526,(2); ben illustrato nel t. da ca. 300 inc. su legno (numerosiss. a piena pag.), incluse 2 carte geografiche in bianco e nero, e da 11 tavole a colori, 1 carta geografica a colori a doppia pag. e 1 ritratto di Leopoldo II, f.t. (Sui frontesp. sono indicate: 5+5 tavv. a colori e 3+3 carte geograf.). "Manca" il vol. “De Zanzibar au lac Tanganika”, di A. Burdo. Qualche lieviss.alone, altrim. esempl. ben conservato, su carta distinta.
88 pages plus 24 pages of nice vintage ads. Features: The End of the Master Bandit - The Death of Emiliano Zapata; The Women Snake-Charmers of Mount Popa, Burma (Myanmar); The Revenge of the Kuki Khels - a grim story from the North-West frontier of India; Photo of storehouse of human skulls and bones beneath church at Hythe, Kent; In Quest of Cannibals - part 1 - Exploration and Adventure in Unknown New Guinea - with great photos; Desert Flying - part 1 - over Sinai, Palestine, Mesopotamia, and Persia; Morrison's Moose - adventure at a logging camp near the borders of Maine and New Brunswick; Relief Worker's Adventures - part IV - thrilling illustrated experiences among the war victims of Armenia, Syria and Persia; My Day with Royalty - at a Royal Review in Siam; The Sheep Thief; My South African Adventures - part 3; The Bear Man; The Adventures of Newspaper-Man - part VI - odd experiences as an emigrant; Trapped in a Sunken Submarine; Black Man's Magic - amazing photo-illustrated article in the fetish and witchcraft practiced in the Belgian Congo; 'Twixt The Snake and the Rock - thrilling adventure while mountain climbing near Delolali, India; Dragged by an Airship; The Apostle of the Coco-nut (Coconut) - a man in the German New Guinea Islands professes coco-nuts are the proper and only food for man - article with many photos. Openings to and loss from backstrip. Minor moisture-induced undulating. A worthy copy of this fascinating vintage issue. Book
3 ouvrages de J. Maes reliés en 1 volume et constituant le Tome I (fascs.1-3) des "Annales du Musée du Congo belge. Ethographie série VI: Catalogues illustrés des collections ethnographiques du Musée du Congo belge", ensemble 140pp. (pagination continuée) avec illustrations dans le texte + 17 planches hors-texte & 3 cartes dépliantes hors-texte, 35cm., reliure cart., dos en toile bleue, cachet sur la page de titre, texte et planches en très bon état, C99857
Hardback in-4°, 544 pages, illustrations, e. a. par Franz Gailliard. Reliure demi-percale, plats marbres.- RARE. Bon exemplaire (quelques rousseurs). [BU-1] La « Bibliographie de Belgique » nous apprend que le livre sort en livraisons à partir de décembre 1886.
Série complète de 8 tomes, 12pp. par tome, chaque tome contient 2 pages de texte et 10 pages d'illustrations (avec ca. 90 photos en n/bl : vues de nature, des batiments, et des indigènes congolais), soit un total de ca. 96 pages avec plus de 720 illustrations, in oblong (31x42cm.), peu de taches occassionnelles, brochures originales illustrées, le tout en bon état sauf les défauts suivants: premier tome (brochure avec qqs. défauts et déchirure de 5cm. au milieu inférieure des pages, qqs. vagues taches) et tome 8: coin inférieur détaché de la p.9-10 (avec perte de ca. 1cm. carré d'une ill.), bien rare, C97247
New York 1932/1939/1953/1954, 4 forts volumes grands In-8 brochés. Tome I : x + 756 pages. frontispice, 10 planches en hors texte, 208 illustrations et carte dépliante du CONGO BELGE en fin de volume ---Tome II : vii + 632 pages.frontispice en couleur, 21 planches en hors texte dont 2 en couleurs, 38 illustrations ---Tome III : 821 pages. 14 planches en hors texte et 36 figures. ---Tome IV : ix + 846 pages. 27 planches en hors texte et 46 figures.Index en fin de chaque volume. Bel ensemble, bien complet et en bon état. Rare complet. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
FIRST EDITION of this groundbreaking study of the Congo under French and Belgian domination. 2 leaves; 95 pp. Like Roger Casement, Mille and Challaye denounce the treatment of the natives in the French (Brazzaville) and Belgian (Leopoldville, later Kinshasha) Congos. ONE OF ONLY THIRTEEN (13) LARGE-PAPER COPIES PRINTED ON FINE HANDMADE WHATMAN WOVE PAPER. (The regular edition was printed on cheap paper.) This is copy number 4, printed for George Bellew (?--Name partially effaced, but certainly visible under ultraviolet light). 8vo. Original wraps. A bit of dust to extreme margins, else UNCUT, UNOPENED, FINE AND BRIGHT. One of the great early documents on human rights violations in Africa, and extremely rare in this state.
93 pages plus 8 pages of wonderful vintage ads. Features: My Bear Hunt in the B.C. Rockies - Part I, by E. Ashmead-Bartlett; Thrilling stories of the Air, with amazing crash photos; A Doctor in the Holy Land - Dr. H.J. Bailey in Palestine - Gaza and Nablus; Facing Death for Cinema Thrills - some hairbreadth escapes of well-known motion-picture stars, related by themselves, with photos; Tales of the Service - part IV - Tossed into the Bog - a true tale by a Customs Officer from the West Coast of Scotland; The Pirate of the Pacific - Count von Luckner - with photos; A Woman's Journey Across Africa - part V of Eva J. Jordan's 4,000 mile honeymoon trip across the dark continent; Beyond the Law - part IV, by Emmett Dalton, the sole survivor of the Dalton Gang; Exploring the Ice-Wilds of Eastern Karakoram - Part IV, by Fanny Bullock Workman and William Hunter Workman - with photos by the authors; The Drover Dempster - A.A. Beattie relates a deadly drive of 500 miles in Australia; The Disappearing Island - Helen Darbishire describes Ocean Island in the South Pacific - built entirely of phosphates - with nice photos; "Lionel - Because of the Lions" - Mrs. Fred Maturin (Edith Porch) explains how she came to name a lonely station near the Congo, on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway; The Water Miracles of India - how the engineer has wiped out India's famine scourge and reclaimed millions of acres of land by the erection of vast irrigation works - with great photos; Photo of 28-lb lobster; Photo of French school-children in war zone wearing gas masks; Photo of a Mormon Church in Salt Lake City converted into an auto shop; photo of the quaint circumcision garb worn in Uganda. Nostalgic back cover ad by the Haywood Tire & Equipment Co. of Indianapolis proves that the tire repair business was booming in 1918! Full-page ad inside back cover boasts that the Newell Pharmacal Co. can banish the smoking habit in 48 to 72 hours. Small ad for Emblem motorcycles and bicycles. Moderate wear. Unmarked. Binding intact. A sound copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book