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1517Best.-Nr. 132° mm 270x194; cc. 18 211 recte: 210 14. Carattere romano con numerose citazioni in carattere greco. Legatura settecentesca in pergamena rigida; dorso a scomparti con titolo e autore in oro su etichetta in marocchino. Bellissimo esemplare dai margini pressoché intonsi Provenienza: Biblioteca Archinto ex-libris araldico. Editio princeps. In testa al volume si trovano legati con segnature indipendenti aa-bb8-cc4 due altri testi del medesimo Autore: la Consolatoria oratio ad Apollinium e il De Fraterna benevolentia opusculum verosimilmente estratti dall'edizione degli Opuscula di Plutarco pubblicati a Basilea nel 1530 'In Officina And. Cratandri'. Negri's work is introduced by a dedicatory epistle to Jean Grolier de Servières 1479-1565 General Treasurer of France and famous bibliophile on whose association cf. A. Hobson Renaissance book collecting: Jean Grolier and Diego Hurtado de Mendoza. Their books and bindings Cambridge 1999 pp. 28-30. The Dialogus printed after Philostratus's Heroica finds its philological fulcrum in a commentary on the Periegesis of Pausanias still essential today: "the extraordinary Latin paraphrase of the Periegesis in the form of a dialogue published by Stefano Negri in 1517 only a year after the publication of the editio princeps. In his introduction Negri extols the didactic value of the text: the literary journey upon which Pausanias takes the reader can in Negri's view go some way toward replicating the illumination from actual travel to antique lands an experience that was no longer available to the young Philhellenes of Renaissance Europe" W.E. Hutton. "Livre excellent et très rare qui conserve encore une haute reputation" Brunet III 519. Stefano Negri allievo di Demetrio Chalcondylas fu professore di Greco a Milano dapprima presso la scuola dell'Ospedale Maggiore fondata grazie al lascito di Costantino Lascaris in seguito al Collegio dei Giovani Greci che Giano Lascaris fece finanziare da Francesco I cfr. Storia di Milano VIII 437. in officina Minutiana
1532Best.-Nr. 92961532 Basileae, excudebat Henricus Petrus, [mense augusto, anno 1532]. [23]+[1bl]+405(recte 407)+[1bl] pages, marque dimprimeur au titre et au colophon.(Relié avec) Terentianus Maurus. De literis, syllabis et metris. Francofortiae, apud Christianum Egenolphum, [mense februario, anno 1532]. 95+[1bl] pages sans numéros, signatures A-M4, marque dimprimeur au titre. (Relié avec): Callimachi Cyrenaei hymni, cum scholiis nunc primum aeditis. Sententia ex diversis poëtis oratoribusque ac philosophis collectae, non ante excusae. Froben [Hieronimus Froben & Nicolaus Episcopius], Basileae, [calendis junii] anno 1532. Epître dédicatoire en latin et texte en grec. [8]+9-245+[1]+[1bl]+[1] pages, marques dimprimeur au titre et en dernière page, un feuillet de table des matières manuscrite ancien inséré entre les pages 8 et 9. Le tout en un volume in-4° (160 x 205 mm), sous belle reliure de lépoque en veau havane aux plats estampés à froid avec traces dattaches, dos à nerfs orné à froid. Dos et gardes anciennement remplacés, menue épidermure au niveau du premier nerf. Ex-libris manuscrit au haut de la première page de titre: «Collegii Soc[ietatis] Jesu Antwerp[iae] 1599». TRES BELLES EDITIONS DE TEXTES RARES.
1559Best.-Nr. 57672Frankfurt a. M., Christian Egenolff Erben, 1559. 8°. Titel in Rot u. Schwarz. Mit 60 Textholzschnitten von Hans Sebald Beham, Hans Schäufelin u.a. 12 nn., 279 num. Bll. - Angeb. - Niger, Antonius. Consilium de tuenda valetudine. Leipzig, Valentin Bapst Erben, 1558. 48 nn. Bll. (das letzte weiß), Ldr. d. Zt. m. goldgepr. Deckelbordüren- u. -vignetten, Initialen u. Jahreszahl (1560) auf beiden Deckeln.
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
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
1611Best.-Nr. P1-2E-4Lyon, Antoine de Harsy, 1611. In-8 (172x103mm), reliure d’époque, plein velin, titre manuscrit au dos, texte en latin et Grec sur 2 colonnes, 7ff.n.c.-470pp.-36ff. index. Bon état.
1910Best.-Nr. 58679Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1910-1911, in-4, 2 fort volumes brochés, LX-412 pages et 76 planches et cartes (dont plusieurs dépliantes) + VIII-631-[1] pages, 131 planches et cartes ; 7 cartes (sur 8), sous étui cartonné à rubans de l'éditeur, Unique édition, très rare avec les cartes. Le troisième volume, publié en 1914 est manquant. Ouvrage fondamental pour la connaissance géographique de l'hydrographie, de la climatologie, de l'histoire, de l'anthropologie, de la faune, de la flore, et de l'ethnographie des régions du Tchad et du Niger. Bon exemplaire, non coupé. Couvertures défraichies et un peu dentelées, mouillure sur le plat supérieur de l'étui cartonné. Couverture rigide
Best.-Nr. 25524S.N. S.L. S.D. (vers 1880) Album de photographies in-8 oblong "à l'italienne" ( 240 X 325 mm ), demi-basane framboise, dos lisse muet, plats de percaline chagrinée de la même teinte contenant 9 photographies en tirage albuminé vers 1880 de format 170 X 225 mm contrecollées sur feuillets de papier fort montés sur onglets. Vues de TOMBOUCTOU, Du fleuve NIGER, de colons...Toutes les photographies sont légendées à l'encre à l'époque. Menus défauts aux photographies, taches, éclaircissement...Documentation fort rare...
1826Best.-Nr. 43512A. Bertrand 1826 3 volumes in-8 et un atlas grand in-4. Texte : Plein basane fauve marbrée, dos lisse, caissons ornés, 366- 378- 428 pp. Rares rousseurs. Etui. Atlas : cart. ép., titre, expl. des planches, 19 pl. dont 5 carte, la dernière repl. Rousseurs, hum. à partir de la 13 pl. Bon exemplaire.
Best.-Nr. 207223Paris, Challamel aîné, 1884; 2 vol. in-8, [2] ff. n. ch., 455 pp., avec un frontispice sous serpente ; [2] ff. n. ch., 22 planches, dont 6 cartes dépliantes et 16 plans sur 15 dépliants, un f. n. ch. de table, toile Bradel bouteille, pièce de titre cerise, tête mouchetée [texte] ; broché, première couverture détachée [atlas], (reliure moderne). Rousseurs.
Best.-Nr. 214409Paris, Bohné, Bruxelles, Lacroix, 1860-1861 4 tomes en 2 vol. in-8, portr., 4 front. couleurs, 92 fig. en 58 planches, carte dépl. en couleurs, demi-basane blonde, dos à nerfs, filets et pointillés dorés (rel. de l'époque). Travail de ver sur les nerfs et les plats.
1895Best.-Nr. 15352Paris, Chamuel, 1895 ; in-12, broché ; 177 pp., (1 bl.), (2) pp. de catalogue, couverture crème rempliée, illustrée, imprimée en vieux-rose et noir, petites figures.
1840Best.-Nr. AQ24366London: s.n. 1840. 6pp. Docket title to verso of final leaf. A trifle creased some very short tears to margins. A rare survival ordered to be printed by the House of Commons of copies of correspondence concerning the setting up of a British expedition to Niger to attempt to repress the foreign slave trade. The expedition organised by the Society for the Extinction of the Slave Trade and for the Civilization of Africa was ultimately mounted in 1841 using three British iron steam vessels to travel to Lokoja at the confluence of the Niger River and Benue River where treaties against the slave trade where achieved - despite significant casualties from illness amongst members of the expedition - with the cities of Aboh and Idah. OCLC records copies at four locations Florida Harvard NYPL and Oxford; COPAC adds no further. . First edition. Folio. [s.n.] unknown
1932Best.-Nr. 20781932 Paris, A. Calavas, Librairie des Arts décoratifs, sd [1932]. 33,5 x 26 cm, 2 ff. n. ch. (titre et préface) - 54 planches de photographies en noir tirées en héliogravure - 4 ff. n. ch. (table des planches), en feuilles sous chemise rigide de demi-toile écru à rubans, titre en creux au premier plat et imprimé au dos, rhodoïd.
1829Best.-Nr. 31211Paris Everat 1829 in-8 broché sous couverture imprimée, rousseurs
1911Best.-Nr. 132592Paris, Imprimerie Nationale 1911 3 volumes, 2 de texte et 1 de cartes sous étui. Deux fort volumes brochés, LX-412 pages et 76 planches et cartes dont plusieurs dépliantes + VIII-631-[1] pages, 131 planches et cartes. Dos cassé pour l’un, fendillé fragile pour le second. Sept cartes repliées sous étui sans la 8ème carte annoncée : Air, mais enrichie de 2 grands cartes en couleurs au 1/1000000 : Tibesti & Borkou-Ennedi 1925. Un troisième volume de texte sera publié en 1914.
Best.-Nr. 245033Paris, Bohné, Bruxelles, Lacroix, 1860-1861 4 tomes en 2 vol. in-8, portr., 4 front. couleurs, 92 fig. en 58 planches, carte dépl. en couleurs, demi-basane bleu nuit, dos à nerfs (reliure moderne). Rousseurs aux premières pages du tome 1
Best.-Nr. 057482Paris 1829 in 8 (22,5x14,5) 1 volume reliure demi basane verte de l'époque renfermant une grande carte gravée et entoilée à l'époque de format 95 cx 65 cms, pliée, des rousseurs éparses. Carte éditée pour le : Journal d'un voyage à Tembouctou et à Jenné dans l'Afrique centrale, précédé d'observations faites chez les maures Brakna, les Nalous et d'autres peuples pendant les années 1824, 1825, 1826, 1827, 1828 ( Paris, imprimerie royale, 1830 ). René Caillié, Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon (Deux-Sèvres) 1799 - La Gripperie-Saint-Symphorien (Charente-Maritime) 1838, explorateur français, premier occidental à entrer dans la ville de Tombouctou en 1828. Bon exemplaire
1798Best.-Nr. PHO-2264Paris, Tavernier, An VI [1798)]. In-8° de [4], 343 pp. 3 cartes dépliantes & Paris, Directeurs de l'Imprimerie du Cercle Social, 1792, l'an premier de la République Française. 171 pp. Basane fauve racinée, dos long orné, p. de t. en maroquin rouge, filet doré sur les coupes, tranches citron (Reliure de l'époque). Annotations anciennes dans les marges. Accident à la coiffe de tête, usure aux coins, frottements au dos.
1932Best.-Nr. 43495Pierre Roger 1932 2 volumes in-4, demi-maroquin fauve, dos à nerfs, couvertures ill. cons., étui, 448- 843 pp. 6 cartes dépliantes hors-texte, nombreux plans, croquis, dessins, photographies et cartes dans le texte. Infimes rousseurs. Bel exemplaire.
Best.-Nr. 1152. (Sénégambie - Niger) 1863-1866. Ouvrage illustré d’après les dessins de l’auteur de 81 gravures sur bois par E. Bayard, A. de Neuville et Tournois et accompagné de 6 cartes et 2 plans.Mage (A.- Eugène).: Paris, Librairie de L. Hachette et Cie, 1868. RELIURE demi maroquin plat en percaline motifs en relief , dos janseniste a quatre nerfs caissons richement decorés dores , . 1ère Édition. in-8° ; 1 port. front.-X-(1)-693 pp.-8 pl. h.-t. repl qq. rousseurs sans gravité, rel. de l’époque, très bel exemplaire. « Ouvrage très estimé. » (Chadenat, 3287). Édition originale
1910Best.-Nr. PHO-659Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1910-1911, in-4, 2 fort volumes brochés et un étui LX-412 pages et 76 planches et cartes (dont plusieurs dépliantes) + VIII-631-[1] pages, 131 planches et cartes ; 9 cartes(2 en double, manque la carte du Aïr), sous étui cartonné à rubans de l'éditeur, Unique édition, très rare avec les cartes. Ouvrage fondamental pour la connaissance des régions du Tchad et du Niger. Bon exemplaire, non coupé.
1895Best.-Nr. 28325Paris Félix Alcan s.d. [1895] gr. in-4 demi-veau bleu, dos à nerfs, tranches jaspées, couvertures conservées [Rel. de l'époque], dos passé, titre et plat supérieur frottés
1877Best.-Nr. 003781original letter. CROWTHER Samuel Ajayi c.1809-1891 First African Bishop in the Anglican Church. Autograph Letter Signed. Ware 16 June 1877. Single sheet written in ink on the recto; original horizontal folds. Light creasing from folding; small loss to top left. Very good. A letter written during Crowther's episcopate as Bishop of the Niger declining an invitation to preach at Red Lion Church on account of his impending departure: "no Sunday or week day available in June and in July I shall be on the voyage for Africa." Samuel Ajayi Crowther born in present-day Nigeria was captured and enslaved as a child liberated by the Royal Navy and educated in Sierra Leone. Ordained in the Church of England he became in 1864 the first African bishop in the Anglican Communion serving over the Niger mission during a formative period of missionary expansion in West Africa. The present letter dates from a return visit to England and refers directly to his voyage back to Africa during his tenure as bishop. Letters from Crowther are uncommon on the market. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1877. original letter paperback
1964Best.-Nr. 32297Cambridge: For the Hakluyt Society by Cambridge University Press 1964-1966. 4 volumes. First Edition. Profusely illustrated throughout with frontispieces photographic plates and folding maps and charts and including a folding map stored in the pocket at the end of Vol. IV. 8vo publisher’s original light blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine all volumes housed in their original printed dustjackets. xiv 406; xiv 306; xii 307-596; x 597-798 maps and illustrations pp. A very fine copy of each volume essentially as pristine the spine panels of the dustjackets just a tad mellowed. FIRST EDITION OF EACH VOLUME. Landmark works on the discovery and exploration of the Niger and its adjacent environs. Laing whose letters are provided in Vol. I is credited with making the first recorded discovery of Timbuktu by a European. Laing's purpose was to explore the Niger itself and he traveled the ancient route from Tripoll in the north to Timbuktu in the south before setting off on the Niger passage. Hornemann's route different than Laing's began in Cairo and ended somewhat east of Timbuktu and farther down river than where Laing began his river journey. The first part of Vol. I prints The Journal of Friedrich Hornemann's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the years 1797-98 the second part prints The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing from 1824-1826. Vol. II - IV provide a long and useful introduction and print the Narative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa in the Years 1822 1823 and 1824 by Major Denham Captain Clapperton and the Late Doctor Oudney Extending Across the Great Desert tot the Tenth Degree of Northern Latitude and From Koouka in Bornou to Sackatoo the Capital of the Felatah Empire. Vol III being Major Denham's Narrative and Vol. IV the Journal of An Excursion from Kouka in Bornou Through Soudan to Soccatoo the Capital of Bello Sultan of the Felatahs. Denham and Clapperton in the company of Dr. Walter Oudney travelled from Benioleed near Tripoli almost due south to Lake Tchad with excursions into the mountains west of Mourzuk in Fezzan. Dixon attempted to traverse the circuit around Lake Tchad but was unsuccessful. In the meantime Clapperton and Oudney journeyed west from the lake toward the Niger but the doctor only made it about a third of the way and died in Murmur. Clapperton continued west but was prevented from passing beyond Sackatoo by the local Sultan. He and Denham subsequently returned to Tripoli and crossed back to England This narrative is compiled primarily from Denham's journal with a chapter by Dr. Oudney on the excursion to the mountains west of Mourzuk. A final section by Clapperton relates the westward journey from Lake Tchad to Sackatoo and includes an account of Oudney's death. Among the several appendices are translations from the Arabic of various letters and documents brought back by Denham and Clapperton including a document relating to the death of Mungo Park. For the Hakluyt Society by Cambridge University Press hardcover
