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1930ref. 82301New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1930. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's brown cloth; dustjacket; xiv318pp; color frontispiece and seven unnumbered leaves of b/w plates after André Durenceau who also designed the endpapers and dustwrapper. A sound generally clean copy; text over-opened at p.70 a few faint spots of foxing; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper unclipped but tattered with losses along upper margin and spine ends closed tears and age-toning; just Good. With the engraved bookplate of Portland Oregon collector Frederick W. Skiff d.1947. A colorful but cringingly condescending account by an Anglo-American trader who spent the years 1882-1896 in what was then French Equatorial Africa today called the Republic of the Congo. Includes chapters on cannibalism native African slaveholders and sexual customs about which the author warns he ".shall speak with the utmost frankness.for the reason that they are the most powerful and dominating factor" in the lives of the natives of Equatorial Africa. With illustrations in dramatic Art Deco style by Franco-American illustrator and muralist André Durenceau. Farrar & Rinehart unknown books
1905ref. 61952New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1905. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 23.5cm. Tan cloth stamped in brown titled in gilt on black leather spine label top edge gilt; xvi634pp; photogravure frontispiece portrait black and white map 100 black and white halftone plates large color folding map at rear. Errata slip at p.x. Sound but rubbed slight fraying at spine ends spine label much abraded minor abrasions to boards internally largely clean: around Very Good. Wack 1875-1954 was a paid apologist for Leopold II and his atrocity-ridden regime in the Congo Free State. 61952. G. P. Putnam's Sons unknown books
1965ref. 26660Peking: 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
1920ref. 235621920. Belgian Congo travel and colonial encounter photo archive June 1929 documenting Western movement through river settlements Congolese communities and transport corridors during the late 1920s expansion of Belgian colonial administration. The archive dates to the period after Belgium took over the Congo Free State in 1908 and after Leopoldville became the colonial capital in 1926 placing the group inside a decade when river rail missionary commercial and administrative routes shaped how European travelers moved through the colony. The photographs record Congolese people and Western visitors in proximity but the camera's position remains that of the outsider turning encounters village life river crossings and gathered groups into a colonial travel record. Photo archive of 37 likely silver gelatin prints each approximately 3 x 5.5 inches Belgian Congo including Leopoldville June 1929. The photos show broad river views with low shorelines and wooded banks; small boats and steam launches moving across open water; river landings with houses palms and distant hills; rough timber walkways and cleared paths through dense vegetation; and several views of Congolese people near water canoes and village structures. Other images show Western travelers or colonial personnel in light clothing and hats including figures posed near vehicles and on board transport while group scenes show Congolese men women and children gathered in circles or facing the camera. Several photographs depict Congolese men wearing body ornaments patterned cloth arm rings and headdresses including one scene with a large gathered crowd and another showing a man with a leopard skin or spotted pelt before a group. A portrait of a small child standing against a large tree shaded picnic or camp scenes and repeated riverbank views broaden the record from formal encounter to travel rest and observation. One verso is inscribed "Leopoldville. Juin 1929" confirming place and date for at least part of the group. Belgian Congo in 1929 stood between the violent reputation of the Congo Free State and the later high colonial period but Belgian rule continued to depend on racial hierarchy forced labor regimes missionary schooling transport expansion and extractive production. Leopoldville's rise as capital shifted administrative focus inland from Boma and tied the colony more tightly to the Congo River and the Matadi rail connection making the river corridor a principal route for officials commercial travelers missionaries and tourists. These photographs belong to that mobile colonial world: they show Westerners entering Congolese spaces by boat road and landing place while Congolese subjects appear as workers hosts spectators performers children and crowds arranged before an external camera. Light surface wear and toning some versos have penciled inscriptions. Overall in very good condition. A concentrated visual record of Belgian colonial travel and encounter along Congo River routes at the moment Leopoldville was becoming the administrative center of the Belgian Congo. unknown books
1930ref. 236631930. Mbuti community photo archive depicting Indigenous residents of the Ituri Forest in the Belgian Congo circa 1930s during a period when colonial expansion and missionary work drove foreigners deeper into indigenous communities. Several images concentrate on Mbuti adults and children while photographs of a Western woman and man an automobile and newly accessible routes record the external presence surrounding the encounter. The archive highlights the moment under which Indigenous communities were made visible to Western audiences. Photo archive of 14 silver gelatin photographs each 4" x 6" Ituri Forest Belgian Congo circa 1930s. Several photographs depict large groups of Mbuti men women and children standing in extended lines beside a forest settlement; the adults wear bark cloth patterned wraps or minimal garments and children cluster at the front or beside their mothers. A close portrait centers women and children gathered tightly around an older woman recording individual expressions and family proximity more directly than the formal group arrangements. Other images show dense tropical vegetation cultivated clearings narrow dirt roads rolling grassland and a motorcar traveling through the forest. A Western woman appears alone among tall plants beside a vehicle and on forest paths her repeated placement transforming the landscape into the record of an expedition. The Mbuti comprise several Indigenous forest communities through close relationships with the Ituri environment and neighboring communities. Colonial intervention altered those relationships by imposing territorial administration taxation compulsory labor mission education religious conversion and roads that connected previously remote districts to government and commercial centers. Catholic missions held substantial authority within the Belgian colonial system during the 1920s and 1930s while colonial administrators reorganized settlements and political structures throughout the Ituri region. Minor edge wear and scattered surface marks; images generally retain strong contrast and detail. Overall in good condition. A direct visual record of Mbuti communities confronting the movement of Western people vehicles institutions and cameras into the Ituri Forest under Belgian colonial rule. unknown books
1920ref. 236781920. Belgian Congo colonial residence and indigenous locals photo archive documenting European family life Congolese communities river navigation agricultural districts and travel in the eastern colony circa 1920s to 1930s. The photographs center on Kabalo and related routes through Ituri and Lubero regions integrated into Belgian administration through railways river steamers plantation production and stations built to move personnel and commodities across the interior. European residents appear as travelers hosts sports participants and household members while Congolese people are frequently photographed in large assembled groups at village sites beside transport facilities and within agricultural landscapes shaped by colonial labor demands. Photo album and loose archive of silver gelatin photographs 53 photos with 32 loose most approximately 2.5" x 4" bound in a beige and green board album measuring 7.25" x 10" Belgian Congo circa 1920s to 1930s. Many captioned with name and place identifications. The photographs show European men and women posed in cultivated grounds beside residences on railway platforms and aboard passenger steamers; organized tennis parties and formal gatherings; Congolese crowds assembled beneath palms; workers and families near village buildings; rivers waterfalls upland roads agricultural fields and broad mountain valleys. Several views record launches and larger steam vessels carrying names beginning "Commandant" and "Gouverneur" linking domestic travel to the colonial river fleet. Other images show floodwater submerged or eroded terrain plantation rows administrative or club buildings swimming parties and European visitors observing Congolese gatherings from shaded structures. French inscriptions identify "Kabalo" "Lubero Parc" "Route dans l'Ituri" or "Road in Ituri" and "Petite Halle" or "Small hall." One caption reads in part "L'inondation . de Kabalo mai 1930" or "The flooding . at Kabalo May 1930." Names and surnames visible on versos appear to include Henniger Jordens or Jordaens and possibly Mayenberg; the handwriting does not permit firm identification. Belgian rule after 1908 organized the Congo through concessionary companies missionary institutions administrative posts mines plantations railways and steamer routes intended to extract rubber copper palm products ivory and agricultural commodities while moving European officials and commercial employees through the colony. Kabalo became a strategic junction between the Lualaba River and the rail lines extending toward Lake Tanganyika and the Katanga mining region making it a point where river traffic rail transport labor recruitment and European settlement converged. Minor fading and wear occasional creasing loose photographs and several missing mounts; inscriptions remain generally legible. Overall in good condition. A view at European domestic life in the Belgian Congo depended upon river transport colonial labor agricultural production and the administrative geography of Kabalo and the eastern interior. unknown books
1950ref. 235541950. Belgian Congo colonial photo archive circa 1950s documenting how the Belgian state presented the colony to Western viewers through coffee production planned workers' housing road building urban commerce and managed landscape. Issued through the Belgian Government Information Center in New York the photographs translate colonial rule into a sequence of alluring scenes such as African labor inside an industrial coffee facility a rural workers' village at Bosulo automobiles and commercial buildings in Léopoldville road infrastructure through forest and savannah country in the Kibali Ituri district. The group belongs to the late colonial period when Belgium framed the Congo as a development project while its economy remained structured around extractive agriculture mineral wealth compulsory labor histories and racial hierarchy. Photo archive of five silver gelatin photographs New York: Belgian Government Information Center: Belgium and Belgian Congo each 5 x 7 inches Belgian Congo circa 1950s. The photos show workers handling sacks in a coffee facility; a thatched workers' village with a central road palms and surrounding hills captioned "Workers' village - Bosulo"; a busy Léopoldville commercial district filled with cars pedestrians bicycles storefronts and hotel signage captioned "Commercial center at Leopoldville city life vol. 10"; open savannah in the Kibali Ituri district captioned in handwritten script "In the Kibali Ituri district at a height of about 3000 feet there is a plain covered with savannah. Vegetation and countryside vol. 3"; and a forest road captioned "Vegetatikon and Countryside vol. 3 / Road through the jungle." Belgium ruled the Congo from 1908 after the international scandal of King Leopold II's Congo Free State until Congolese independence in 1960. By the mid twentieth century official Belgian publicity emphasized welfare labor housing roads agriculture and urban modernization recasting colonial control as technical improvement and economic order. These images present coffee production labor housing urban commerce and road construction as evidence of Belgian economic development in the Congo. For native Congolese that industrial system meant wage labor in export agriculture and processing residence in employer or state planned settlements movement through colonial transport networks and participation in an urban economy controlled by Belgian administration and business. Light surface wear and scattered verso stamps and annotations; images remain clean and clear. Overall very good condition. An archive of Congolese labor and land as the basis of late colonial industry in Belgian Congo. unknown books
1946ref. 232341946. Belgian Congo photo archive documenting colonialism and segregated settlement in Paulis Jadotville and at Kiubo Falls in 1946-1947 while Belgian rule expanded displacing Congolese communities from political power and control over local resources. Made by an unidentified traveler or colonial observer the group moves between industrial sites river traffic town streets waterfalls village compounds and posed encounters with Congolese residents placing daily life beside the infrastructure of empire. Jadotville in Katanga had been built within the orbit of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and the copper economy that tied the Congo to European industry; Paulis belonged to the northeastern colonial administrative network that extended surveillance mission activity and commercial penetration into local societies. By the later 1940s these systems were producing wealth for Belgium and foreign markets through forced and controlled labor regimes. Photo archive of 36 black and white silver gelatin photographs various sizes ranging from 2.5" x 3.5" to 5" x 7" Belgian Congo 1946-1947. Nine photographs are identified to the Paulis region in 1946 including versos inscribed in French with "Habitations Européens à Paulis" "Pavillon de l'hotel" and "Le Kigoma sur le fleuve." These images show European-style houses set among palms a large riverside or lakeside steamer a broad colonial street with automobiles and low commercial buildings thatched structures and Congolese figures posed near village compounds and along a tree-lined road. The remaining photographs from Jadotville and Kiubo Falls in 1947 include multiple views of the falls from overlooks and near the waterline several repeated compositions of cascades and riverbanks a dense electrical installation with transformers and steel framing public crowd scenes dugout canoes on calm water groups standing beside temporary camp structures and additional views of thatched settlements large shade trees and Congolese men women and children positioned before houses or in open clearings. Several photographs set European-built environments against Congolese dwellings and occupied landscapes making the colonial dichotomy apparent within this grouping. Waterfalls river steamers electric infrastructure and ordered streets mark the channels through which copper labor and administrative authority moved outward to Belgian and international markets while the photographs of Congolese settlements and residents show the populations who bore that reorganization of land and economy. In the late colonial Congo extraction and transport depended on African labor under coercive conditions and urban growth in places such as Jadotville advanced through racially unequal housing wage structures and civic access leaving Congolese people concentrated in subordinate quarters or rural zones even when their work sustained the entire system. Light wear and occasional creasing; several versos inscribed in French; overall very good condition. An intimate look into Belgian colonial rule at the point where industrial wealth infrastructure and local displacement met on the ground. unknown books
1946ref. 235061946. Congolese ceremonial and colonial encounter photo archive showing indigenous ceremonial dance dress and culture uniformed troops and Belgian officials in the Belgian Congo during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Key scenes are tied to the 1947 visit of Prince Regent Charles to Paulis. Belgium ruled the Congo from 1908 until independence on June 30 1960 after the Belgian parliament took over King Leopold II's Congo Free State following international exposure of forced labor and mass abuses. Several captions appear to place the photographs during the governorship of Eugène Jungers Governor General of the Belgian Congo from December 31 1946 to January 1 1952 a period when Belgian rule promoted "paternal" administration while Congolese political pressure and demands for advancement were growing. The strongest scenes center Congolese public ceremony rather than colonial officials alone: men dancing in lines drummers seated before large instruments children gathered for viewing and performers facing crowds in open fields and palm-lined roads. Chief Tongolo and his daughter appear among colonial representatives during the Prince Regent's visit giving the archive a named Indigenous presence within a public ceremony shaped by Belgian authority. Photo archive of 24 silver gelatin photographs measuring approximately 3" x 4" each Belgian Congo 1940s-1950s. Several French captions can be translated; "Governor General Jungers"; "the regiment's standard at the cemetery"; "parade of the veterans"; and "Congolo gives his speech." Congolese men dance in feathered or fiber headdresses body ornaments patterned waist cloths shields and drums sometimes advancing across open ground before lines of onlookers. Belgian men in white suits and pith helmets stand with Congolese adults and children outside official buildings and in outdoor assembly areas while other scenes show African soldiers in formation a ceremony near railroad tracks a colonial cemetery observance and a station or compound with crowds gathered along walls and platforms. After the Second World War Belgium's Congo policy remained formally paternalist while urbanization war service missionary education and wage labor created new Congolese claims to political recognition that colonial rule could not contain;within thirteen years of Prince Regent Charles's 1947 visit the Congo gained it's independence and became Republic of the Congo. Light handling wear toning and minor curling; captions remain legible on several versos images remain clean and clear. Overall in very good condition. The archive records Congolese ceremonial life at the point where public dance veteran commemoration colonial ceremony military display and Belgian administrative power occupied the same public spaces. unknown books
1900ref. 235051900. Belgian colonial Congo photo archive depicting European officials Indigenous Congolese adults and children public ceremony domestic labor and railway grounds between the early twentieth century and 1950. Belgium formally ruled the Congo from 1908 until June 30 1960 after King Leopold II's Congo Free State became notorious for forced labor and violence against Congolese people. A few scenes highlight colonial hierarchy as one photo shows white men in suits helmets and uniforms pose formally in chairs while Congolese men women and children appear as attendants or anthropological subjects surrounding the trio. A 1947 inscription identifying "le régent Charles" places part of the group during the Belgian prince regent's postwar tour of the Congo eight years before King Baudouin visited in 1955 and thirteen years before Congolese independence on June 30 1960. Photo archive of 12 silver gelatin photographs ranging from 3" x 4" to 3.5" x 4.75" Belgian Congo 1900-1950. French inscriptions include "Congo Belge août 1950"; "le régent Charles 1947"; "lundi le 18 janvier 1943 avec notre meilleur bonjour de tous les trois"; and "travailleur portant à l'eau" meaning "worker carrying water." Other scenes show a uniformed colonial procession outside a brick building helmeted men posed in the bush an elephant captioned with French notes Congolese children at a water spout men carrying water a compound walkway a railway yard and Congolese drummers and dancers assembled before mixed local and colonial audiences. The dichotomy of colonists occupying the pose of command travel inspection and ownership while Indigenous Congolese people appear in the surrounding labor ceremony and service spaces make for a compelling collection. Belgian rule in the Congo depended on racial separation administrative paternalism extraction mission education and controlled public ceremony while Congolese political demands intensified after the Second World War and culminated in independence on June 30 1960. Light toning handling and corner wear; photos remain clear and several inscriptions legible en verso; overall in very good condition. This archive gives Belgian colonialism a concrete human scale through officials posed with indigenous children workers ceremonial performers industrial railway spaces and royal reception scenes arranged around the unequal encounter between European power and Indigenous Congolese life. unknown books
1911ref. 37502Bruxelles: 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
1960ref. 72188Brussels 1960. Paperback. Very Good. 2 vols. maps 75 75p. Softcovers in original wrapper. 25 cm. Covers faded around edges. Minor chipping. paperback books
1956ref. 69682London: C.C.T.A. 1956. Paperback. Good. 268p. Softcover in original wrapper. 24 cm. Ex lib. Publication No. 25. Title in English and French; articles in English or French. C.C.T.A. paperback books
ref. 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." books
1801ref. 24798Weimar, im Verlage des Industrie Comptoirs, 1801. 48 x 43 cm.
1912ref. 25837Anvers, Imp. E. Stockmans & Co. u. Coffin Fils, Bruxelles, 1912. Querformat [2 Warenabbildungen]
1912ref. 25836Anvers, Imp. E. Stockmans & Co. u. Coffin Fils, Bruxelles, 1912. Querformat [2 Warenabbildungen]
1912ref. 25835Anvers, Imp. E. Stockmans & Co. u. Coffin Fils, Bruxelles, 1912. Querformat [2 Warenabbildungen]
1956ref. 005558Editions Louis Cuypers, Bruxelles 1956. 1. Auflage Broschur Noch Ordentlich
1965ref. 088963Bayreuth, Hestia, 1965. 386 S.; mit zahlr. SW-Fotos; Schmutztitel mit eigenhändiger persönlicher Widmung u. Unterschrift des ältesten Martin Bormann-Sohnes, P. Adolf Martin Bormann MSC; kleinste Läsuren Leinen 23,2 cm Erste Ausgabe kein Schutzumschlag Befriedigend
1955ref. 032487Orell Füssli, Zürich 1955. Gut Hardcover Sehr gut
1929ref. 4216DBParis, Gallimard, 1929. Gross-4°. 4 Blatt, 304 Seiten, 5 Blatt, 64 ganzseitige Heligravüren von Marc Allégret, 4 geographische Karten. Mit Kopfgoldschnitt. Halblederband mit marmorierten Deckeln. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +, A|B|C
1958ref. 17271ABBruxelles, Publications de l'Institut National pour l'Étude Agronomique du Congo Belge [Hrsg.], 1958. 24,5 cm. (3) Bl., 367 S., mit 36 Tafeln und 11 Strichzeichnungen im Text, 1 Karte. Originalbroschur (Softcover), Fadenheftung. Vol. VII. Gutes Exemplar. Einband am Kapital einseitig eingerissen, mit einem Fehlteil und etwas angefleckt. Buchblock fest und sauber.
1945ref. 2076BBBrüssel, Editions du Nord, Albert Parmentier, (1945). Quer-4°. 28 Bl. Mit zahlreichen farbigen Textillustrationen v. Gustave Van Roosbroeck. Illustrieter Orig.-Pappband (leicht berieben u. bestossen). + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +
2013ref. 159834Paris : Musée Dapper 2013. 268 Seiten/Pages. Durchgehend reich bebildeter Ausstellungskatalog / Richly illustrated exhibition catalogue. 4° (25-35 cm). Orig.-Pappband mit illustriertem Orig.-Schutzumschlag. [Hardcover / fest gebunden].
