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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 books
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 books
191840440Bolenge Congo Belge: Disciples of Christ Congo Mission 1918. 12mo 28 cm; 7.125". 231 hymns. <br><br>The fifth edition of the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission's Lonkundo Hymn Book. The Disciples of Christ Congo Mission DCCM arrived in the Congo in 1889 with the intention of developing an indigenous church that would provide change to the whole Congo social order. After developing a written form of the local language Lonkundo the DCCM began publishing hymnbooks and educational pamphlets although Eva Nichols Dye an early DCCM missionary would later lament the inaccuracy of their understanding of the language.<br>Â Â Â Â From the preface: "This fifth edition of the Lonkundo Hymn Book is a result of the joint labor of the missionaries and the native Christians." One of those missionaries was "Alice Ferren Hensey 19071931 a talented musician and poet . . . she translated many hymns and songs and taught them to new Congo Christians" Smith.<br>Â Â Â Â => This is a mission press production and was actually printed in Bolenge. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â On the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission see: Fifty Years in Congo by Herbert Smith. Publisher's green cloth-covered light boards spine sun-faded. Some dust-soiling and dog-earing but withal a nice copy. Disciples of Christ Congo Mission hardcover books
192837587Bolenge Congo Belge: Disciples of Christ Congo Mission 1928. 12mo. 118 pp. <br><br>The seventh edition of the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission's Lonkundo Hymn Book. The Disciples of Christ Congo Mission DCCM arrived in the Congo in 1889 with the intention of developing an indigenous church that would provide change to the whole Congo social order. After developing a written form of the local language Lonkundo the DCCM began publishing hymnbooks and educational pamphlets although Eva Nichols Dye an early DCCM missionary would later lament the inaccuracy of their understanding of the language.<br>Â Â Â Â From the preface: "This seventh edition of the Lonkundo Hymn Book is a reprint of the sixth edition with a certain number of newly translated songs which was the result of the joint labor of the missionaries and the native Christians."<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Ownership signature of Mary Hopkins Smith on front pastedown dated Bolenge 20 April 1928; her inked initials on front cover. Mary and her husband Herbert travelled to Africa as missionaries in 1909. "For some years they pioneered at Lotumbe but the crown of their service came in 1928 when they established at Bolenge a school for future leaders of Africa and began their teaching service which was to continue throughout the rest of their years in Congo. That school was the Congo Christian Institute" Smith. Later in the library of the Pitts Theological Library Emory University with its withdrawn stamps ONLY on rear pastedown.<br>Â Â Â Â This is not a mission press publication: Actual printing was done in Mexico MO by the press department of the DCCM. <br>Â Â Â Â <br>Â Â Â Â On the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission see: Fifty Years in Congo by Herbert Smith. Red cloth faded; age-toning a few pencilled notes to final blank and rear free pastedown. Very good. Disciples of Christ Congo Mission hardcover books
195624856Brussels: Tourist Bureau for the Belgian Congo & Ruanda-Urundi 1956. Second Edition. Octavo 21cm.; original cloth in white pictorial dust jacket spine lettered in red; xxxviii27901pp.; 14 plates of color photographic illustrations and plain folding maps; additional text illus. Jacket extremities rubbed a few short closed tears and chips along rear jacket flap fold; About Very Good. Errata slip laid in. Tourist Bureau for the Belgian Congo & Ruanda-Urundi unknown books
196072188Brussels 1960. Paperback. Very Good. 2 vols. maps 75 75p. Wrappers. 25cm. Covers faded around edges. Minor chipping. <br/><br/> paperback books
196526660Peking: Foreign Languages Press 1965. First Edition. 12mo 18.5cm.; original red and white wrappers lettered in white; 425pp.; 4 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Fine. Text almost entirely in English. Foreign Languages Press unknown books
195669682London: C.C.T.A. 1956. Paperback. Good. 268p. Wrapper. 24cm. Ex lib. Publication No. 25. Title in English and French; articles in English or French. <br/><br/> C.C.T.A. paperback books
1955110736Brussells: Institut Pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique Centrale 1955. 377p. 6.5x9.5 inches illustrated with b&w photos tables and maps texts in French Dutch and English very good in original wraps. Various reports on anthropological social and medical conditions in Central Africa and the Congo. Photos included are of foot diseases and various microbe infections. Articles on the Tse Tse fly. Institut Pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique Centrale unknown books
606760not signed on full length pose of Weissmuller in costume as Jungle Jim holding a large knife from the 1951 film "Fury of the Congo." Photograph is by Coburn for Columbia Pictures Corp. with rubberstamp on the back and is on single weight stock; 8" x 10"; very good minor signs of handling; 1951. Information slip on the back reads: "JUNGLE JIM - Johnny Weissmuller continues to portray the famed adventure character in Columbia's 'Fury of the Congo' produced by Sam Katzman.". No Binding. Very Good. unknown books
