Niger cp

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Historically Significant Collection of 82 Loose Original Rare Gelatin Silver Photographs of Niger Showing a Public Appearance of the Country’s First President Hamani Diori Agadez Mosque a WW1 Memorial a Public Parade a Guerewol Ceremony Native Villages and Markets Local Craftsmen Cattle Herders Dancers Elders Tuareg Camel Riders Families and Children and others. Ca. early 1970s.

Best.-Nr. PF64Eighty-two loose original gelatin silver photos all ca. 9x12 cm 3 ½ x 4 ¾ in. All images with period ink numbers and dates either “26.6.72” or “16.6.72” on verso. Mild foxing otherwise a very good collection of rare interesting photos. Interesting extensive collection of 82 original rare gelatin silver photos of the Republic of Niger and its people dating back to the early 1970s. A part of French West Africa since the 1900s Niger declared independence in 1960. The collection features a scene with Niger’s first president Hamani Diori 1916-1989 driving in an open car with an African military commander possibly in the country’s capital Niamey being greeted by a crowd of spectators. There are also views of the mosque in Agadez Tchirozerine Department central Niger and a cenotaph to the soldiers fallen in WW1 a fort with a waving flag of Niger is seen in the background. A series of six photos documents a public parade featuring representatives of different ethnic groups in traditional clothing walking or riding camels or horses down a street possibly in Niamey. All six photos display a sign for the “British Petroleum” company and two images also show the waving flags of Niger. The remaining images focus on the lives and traditional cultures of the people of Niger. About a dozen photos depict a Guerewol ceremony of the Fula people young men face-painted and dressed in elaborate outfits young women with elaborate hairdos and headdresses in a crowd of spectators. Several images show native villages of traditional mud huts. The other photos portray native craftsmen market buyers and sellers cattle herders women grinding grains elders dancers families and children a man transporting firewood on his donkeys a Muslim congregation during prayer Tuareg riders and their camels and others. Overall an interesting collection of original photos of Niger and its people during the first decades of the country’s independence. hardcover

Globus Rare Books & Archives · Vereinigte Staaten1.750,00 $≈ 1.560,41 €

Negri, Francesco [Franciscus Niger]Biblio.com

POST INCUNABLE ~ 1508. De modo epistolandi "The Art of Writing"

1508Best.-Nr. 4421Venice: Ioannes Rubeus Vercellensis 1508. Very good. Small 4to. 32 ff. some stains and repairs. Later inscriptions in Italian on final blank page. Bound in 20th-century French crushed niger morocco five raised bands on spine title lettered direct in the second compartment turn-ins gilt marbled pastedowns and endpapers edges plain. An attractive copy. A FOUNDATIONAL TEXT IN HUMANIST EDUCATION AND "ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR AND DISTINGUISHED GUIDES" TO LETTER WRITING WITH MODELS AND DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS FOR SECRETARIES ON HOW NOT TO WRITE A LETTER. Burckhardt "Civilization of the Renaissance" emphasizes the importance of epistolography as an achievement of the true humanist: "To maintain a faultless style under all circumstances was a rule of good breeding and a result of habit." The present pamphlet reached Europe-wide fame and was published in 43 editions in the fifteenth century alone. Salloch describing the need of humanists for exacting manuals for letter-writing states: "One of the most popular and most distinguished of these guides was Franciscus Niger's published first in 1488 recte: 1487. He gives a review of the different kinds of letters from 'Epistola Commendaticia' to amatoria gratulatoria invectiva jocosa etc. furnishes examples of perfect letters from classical as well as contemporary sources and combines them with concise practical rules. Faultless Latin and a select use of the principles of rhetoric seem to be the characteristic features" Salloch Catalogue 234 no. 973. Venetian grammarian Francesco Negri 1452-1523 was a teacher at the Hungarian court of Hippolito d'Este who had attracted a number of distinguished scholars in his Italian retinue. See Farkas Gabor Kiss "Renaissance humanism in the age of the Jagiellonian kings in Hungary 1490-1526" in: Hungarian Studies Volume 36 issue 5 uploaded 2022. See also: Giovanni Mercati "Francesco Pescennio Negro Veneto protonotario Apostolico" in: Ultimi contributi alla storia degli umanisti Vatican City 1939 III 24-109 1-75. Ours is the earliest of the two copies currently on the market; the other was published 35 years later in 1543. EDIT16 CNCE 61805 locating five copies. Inexplicably omitted from Erdmann's massive 771-page "Ars Epistolica" catalogue 2014. Ioannes Rubeus Vercellensis unknown

Michael Laird Rare Books LLC · Vereinigte Staaten1.650,00 $≈ 1.471,24 €