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[AFRICA - BRITISH EAST AFRICA]

[Album of Fifty-Six Original Gelatin Silver and Platinum Photographs Showing Ethnographic Views and Colonial Buildings and Infrastructure in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania Following the Construction of the Uganda Railway (1896-1901).]

Ca. 1907. Large oblong folio album ca. 26 x 33.5 cm (10 ¼ x 13 in.). 13 light green stiff.....

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[AFRICA - CAPE OF GOOD HOPE] MACLEAR, Thomas (1794-1879), Royal Astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope

[Collection of Three Autograph Letters to Fellow Astronomer, Dr. John Lee (1783-1866), Written from the Royal Observatory at the Cape of Good Hope and Talking about Maclear’s Field Survey during the Measurement of the Southern Arc of Meridian, Seventh Cape Frontier War (1846-47), Leper Colony on the Robben Island &c...

Royal Observatory at Cape of Good Hope: 1844-1846. Royal Observatory & Cape Point, the Cape of Good Hope, 1844-1846. Three.....

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[AFRICA - CONGO - CAMEROON BORDER] MOLL, Alexandre Marie Frédéric Henry (1871-1910); BRUSSAUX, Eugène (photographer); MUSTON, Étienne (1864-1949) (Photographer)

[Album with 146 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs from the Mission to Delineate the Border Between French Congo and German Cameroon in 1905-1907, Including Excellent Early Portraits of Native People from Modern-Day Central Africa Republic (M’Biemou, Pande, Baya/Gbaya), M’Boum, Labbi), East Cameroon (Bororo, and Chad (Laka, Mundang, Toubouri); Views of Gaza...

Ca. 1909. Folio album ca. 42,5x35 cm (16 ¾ x 13 ¾ in). 41 soft card leaves. With 146 mounted.....

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[AFRICA - DE BEERS DIAMOND MINES]

[Album with Sixty-one Original Albumen Photographs, the Majority of Which are of South Africa Showing Detailed Views of Kimberley and De Beers Diamond Mines, Johannesburg Gold Mine, Sites and Memorials of the Anglo-Zulu and First Boer Wars, Views of Pietermaritzburg, Georgetown, Durban, Newcastle; Ethnographic Photos of Zulus and “Kaffirs”; With...

Ca. late 1880s. Ca. late 1880s. Oblong Folio (ca. 37,5x46,5 cm). 40 beige card stock album leaves. With 61 recto.....

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[AFRICA - EMIN PASHA RELIEF EXPEDITION] STANLEY, Sir Henry Morton (1841-1904)

[Rare Original Expedition Letter Written and Signed by Henry Stanley in the Camp at Mikese, German East Africa (Modern-Day Tanzania) during the Last Phase of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition].

Camp at Mikesse: 26 and 27 November 1889. Original letter, black ink on a laid paper bifolium ca. 25x20 cm.....

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[AFRICA - KENYA & UGANDA] LUCK, Charles Cardale (1875-1954); LUCK, Cicely Maud; LUCK, Hildur Carolina (1881-1891)

[Extensive Private Archive with over 140 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs taken during Hildur Luck’s Travels to Kenya and Uganda, Showing Her Brother Cardale Luck’s Gwonongween Estate in Kenya, His Family and House Servants, Missionary Stations, Schools and Churches in Mbarara (Uganda), Lake Victoria, River Nile’s Ripon Falls, Mombasa, and Others...

Ca. 1920s. Over 140 loose gelatin silver prints of various size, including over eighty large photos ca. 11,5x16 cm (4.....

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[AFRICA - KENYA, TANZANIA - MT KILIMANJARO]

[Album of Seventy-nine Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Ethnographic Images of Indigenous People and Early Mountaineering on Mt. Kilimanjaro (Including Kibo and Mawenzi Volcanic Cones), Mt Kenya, Namanga, and Pangani].

1945. Oblong folio album ca. 27 x 33.5 cm (10 ½ x 13 in.). With 79 original gelatin silver photographs.....

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[AFRICA - MADAGASCAR]

[Collection of Forty-nine Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Madagascar's Newly Appointed Governor, General Joseph Gallieni and Other French Officials During Their Tours Through Madagascar's Administrative regions (Ambohidratimo, Antanarivo, Mahajanga, Diego-Suarez, Sainte Marie etc.), Additionally an Execution Including a French Soldier, Hospital and Road Construction, and Interesting Portraits of Malagasy People].

Ca. 1897. 49 gelatin silver photographs all mounted recto on nine large stiff leaves each ca. 53.5 x 36.5 cm.....

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[AFRICA - MALI - FRENCH EXPEDITION] [BORGNIS-DESBORDES], [Gustave, General (1839-1900)]

[Rare Collection of Twenty-four Very Early Large Original Albumen Photographs Which Document Borgnis-Desbordes Military Expeditions From Upper Senegal into French Sudan (Mali). French and Indigenous Troops are Shown, as well as the Indigenous Peoples Including Chiefs and Settlements Including Forts and Villages Encountered].

1878-1881. 24 mounted original albumen photos, each ca. 19x25 cm (9 ½ x 9 ½ in) and slightly smaller, all.....

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[AFRICA - NAMIBIA]

[Album with 230 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs, Including Over 180 Photos Showing German South-West Africa and the Events of the Herero and Namaqua Uprising: Swakopmund, Windhoek, Okahanja, Franzfontein, Okenyenya Mountain, Okawayo, Erongo Mountains, Spitzkoppe Mountain, German Military Camps and Posts, Drills, Portraits of Herero Leaders Samuel Mahaero and Hendrik Witbooi...

Ca. 1904-1906. Oblong Folio (ca. 40x51,5 cm). 28 card stock album leaves. With 230 mounted photos, the majority - gelatin.....

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[AFRICA - SENEGAL] PICARD, Charles (1769-1819)

[Autograph Manuscript Signed by Charles Picard Detailing Opportunities and Advice for Trade in Senegal, Including a Proposal of a Slave Trade Strategy, Titled:] Renseignements sur le Commerce du Senegal.

Paris, 5th Sept. 1814. Quarto ca. 31 x 20 cm (12 ¼ x 7 ¾ in.). 8 pp. Brown ink.....

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[AFRICA - SUDAN]

[Album of Thirty-One Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Important Places and Indigenous People in Sudan with an Emphasis on Locations Along Sudan Government Railways].

Ca. 1925. Oblong folio album ca. 30 x 37 cm (11 ½ x 14 ½ in.). 31 original gelatin silver.....

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[AFRICA - TIMBUKTU] BARTH, Dr. Heinrich (1821-1865)

[Two Historically Important Expedition Autograph Letters Signed "Yours Most Truely Dr. Barth" from Tejerri and Murzuk (Libya) to Frederic Warrington (British Consul in Murzuk) and Richard Reade (British Acting Consul in Tripoli) Describing Barth's Experiences and Impressions on His Expedition to Timbuktu; With: A Mounted Carte-de-Visite Photograph of Heinrich Barth.]

Tejerri & Mourzuk (Libya): 1855. Tejerri 5 July 1855 and Mourzuk 19 July 1855. Two bifolia manuscript letters each ca.....

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[AFRICA - TIMBUKTU] RITCHIE, Joseph (ca. 1788-1819)

[Interesting Autograph Letter to John Whishaw, Secretary of the African Institution, Written at the Beginning of Ritchie's Ill-Fated Expedition to Africa, to Introduce Sidi Hassuna D'Ghies, who was a son of the Prime Minister of the Pasha of Tripoli, and Later Would Become the Pasha?s Foreign Minister, and Additionally he...

Marseilles: 28 August 1818. Quarto (ca. 25,5x19,5 cm), 1. Brown ink on watermarked laid paper. Mild fold marks and light.....

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[AFRICA – GHANA – FIRST ASHANTI WAR] CHISHOLM, James, Major (d. 1824)

[Historically Significant Rare Autograph Letter Written in the Besieged Cape Coast Castle during the First Ashanti War (1824-31) and Addressed to William Williams, the Secretary of the British Gold Coast Colony, with the Notes about the Burning of Cape Coast Town, Williams’ Imprisonment by the Ashantis, Deputy Colonial Governor Lieut.-Col...

Cape Coast Castle: 26 June 1824. Octavo bifolium ca. 22,5x18 cm (8 ¾ x 7 in), 4 pp. Brown ink.....

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[AFRICA – NIGERIA – LAGOS COLONY] GLOVER, Sir John Hawley, R.N. (1829-1885), Government Administrator in Lagos Colony (1863-1872)

[A Period Office Copy of Glover’s Official Despatch to the Duke of Newcastle, British Colonial Secretary, Explaining his Decision to Create British Protectorates in the Nearby Kingdoms of Addo, Pocrah and Okeodan. Description of the Relations between Lagos Colony, the French Protectorate in Porto Novo and the Neighbouring Yoruba Tribes...

Government House, Lagos: 6 November 1863. Folio manuscript ca. 33x20 cm (13x8 in). Twelve leaves of laid paper, several leaves.....

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[AFRICA] GORODETSKII, Vladislav [HORODECKI, Władysław] (1863-1930)

V Dzhungliakh Afriki: Dnievnik Okhotnika [In the Jungle of Africa: The Diary of a Hunter].

Kiev: Polskaya typ. 1914. First Edition. Quarto (ca. 30x21,5 cm). [2], 182, [2 - errata] pp. With a photogravure frontispiece.....

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[AFRICA] LANDER, John (1807-1839)

[Autograph Letter Signed "John Lander" to William Jerdan, the Editor of the “Literary Gazette,” Talking about his Dream to go to Timbuktu, and that his “heart is in Africa & has been for years, & until I get there such is my taste, I don't think I shall enjoy a....

[London]: Customs, 15 August 1838. Bifolium manuscript letter ca 17,5x11 cm (7 x 4 ½ in), one page of text.....

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[ASCENSION ISLAND] WILLIAMS, Montgomery (ca.1885-1916)

[Two Albums with 199 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Ascension Island, Including the Laying of Cable for the Western Telegraph Company in 1910, Military Presence, Local Life, Buildings and Landscapes].

1910-13. Two albums with a total of 199 gelatin silver photographs including one panorama ca. 7 x 18.5 cm (2.....

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[ATLAS - WORLD] LOBECK, Tobias (Active 1750-70) & Lotter, Tobias Conrad (1717-1777)

Atlas geographicus portatilis, XXIX. mappis orbis habitabilis regna exhibens. Kurzgefasste Geographie ... Nebst compendieusen Land-Charten, welche einen kleinen Sack-Atlas ausmachen. [Portable Geographic Atlas..,].

Augsburg: T. Lobeck, ca. 1758. Expanded Edition. Oblong Duodecimo (ca. 11.5 x 15 cm),72. With an engraved frontispiece, and engraved.....

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