New York: SOTHEBY'S, April 21, 1990. 260 pages, 431 lots auc-tioned, 430 lots illustrated in color photographs. Cloth cover. Price list included. More about Auction Catalogue 3) THE HARRY A. FRANKLIN COLLECTION OF AFRICAN ART
London: Sotheby's, June 16, 1980. 67 pages, 24 lots auctioned, all lots illustrated--most with several photographs--both b/w and color. Hard board cover. Price list included. More about Auction Catalogue) CATALOGUE OF WORKS OF ART FROM BENIN, THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE...
Paris: Sotheby's, June 18, 2015. 86 pages, 50 lots auctioned. all lots illustrated. Price list included. More about Auction Catalogue) COLLECTION FRANCOISE JEAN CORLAY. ARTS D'AFRIQUE
New York: Sotheby's, May 19, 2000. 116 pages, 100 lots auctioned, each lot illustrated. Price list included. More about Auction Catalogue)THE BAUDOUIN DE GRUNNE COLLECTION OF AFRICAN ART
Innsbruck: 1947. xvi, 703 pages of text, plus 48 unnumbered pages of photographs of peoples, dances rituals and structures and 9 maps – most of which are fold-out. Vol II: pp. xix – xxii, 709 – 1429, plus 32 unnumbered pages of photographs dealing with the same subjects as in... More about AFRIKA. Handbuch der Angenandten Volkerkunde. (2 volumes
Maastricht: 1992. 327 pages (10 papers), 210 pages of color photographs of 190 objects plus an additional 4 pages of color and 3 pages of b/w photographs, 6 maps. Cloth cover, small folio size (9 1/2"x12"). Central Africa, principally occupied by peoples speaking Bantu related languages, for centuries shared common... More about KINGS OF AFRICA. Art and Authority in Central Africa. Collection Museum fur Volkerkunde Berlin
Bruxelles: 1902-1906. pp. 145--316 pages containing 55 photographs, mainly of fetishes, followed by 40 leaves of photographs of 696 fetishes. Biebuyck, 590, "Inventories and describes 696 anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figurines and a few masks, staffs, and boards available by 1906 in the Musee royal de l'Afrique centrale. "Classifies the sculptures... More about NOTES ANALYTIQUES SUR LES COLLECTIONS ETHNOGRAPHIQUES DU MUSEE DU CONGO. Tome I, Fasciule II....
Milan: 1982. 343 pages, 244 b/w photographs, 50 color photographs, 216 drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover, dust jacket slightly creased: book in mint condition. Once again Fr. Cornet has published an important volume on the art of the Zairian people. This time the rites, dances, symbols and masks of the... More about ART ROYAL KUBA
Paris: Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva and Institute du Monde-Arabe, 1993. 349 pages, approximately 70 large (1/4 page, 1/2 page, full-page, and double-page) color photographs, approximately 175 b/w photographs--all of textiles in the Bouvier collection that were exhibited in 1993 in Geneva and Paris, 2 maps. Cloth cover (10" x 12") with dust jacket. More about TISSUS D'EGYPTE. Temoins du monde arabe VIII-XV siecles. Collection Bouvier
New York: 1912, 1914 (2nd ed., 3rd impression). xvi, 485, 18 pages, 17 pages of b/w photographs taken during the author’s expeditions in Angola, the Congo, Rhodesia, and Mozambique, 4 tipped-in color plates. Cloth cover. More about THINKING BLACK. 22 Years without a Break in the Long Grass of Central Africa
New York & London: 1926. 369 pages, 42 full-page photographs. Cloth cover. More about DIGGING FOR LOST AFRICAN GODS. The Record of Five Years Archaeological Excavation in North Africa
New York: International African Institute, 1956. 483 pages. It would appear that this printing was limited to no more than a few hundred copies. More about SELECT ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF TROPICAL AFRICA
Ottawa: 1978. 192 pages, 109 photographs--mostly full-page--of 25 sub-Saharan sculptural masterpieces from Canadian collections. Text in English and French. Cloth cover. More about TWENTY-FIVE AFRICAN SCULPTURES
Hagen: 1922. 181 pages, 121 full-page photographs of artifacts, 58 small drawings. Hard board cover, worn spine. More about AFRIKA. Sakralkulte Vorgeschichte der Hieroglyphen (Kultur und Erde, Material zur Kultur und...
Portland: 1979. 392 pages, photographs of over 300 objects. Cloth cover with dust jacket, mint condition. Though most certainly'...not a complete account of the peoples of the Cameroon," it would be difficult to publish a volume more comprehensive than this. The complete catalogues of the Gebauer Collection of Cameroon Art... More about THE ART OF CAMEROON
Milano, 2000: Paris, Sotheby's, September 10, 2007. 297 pages, approximately 375 large color photographs, 7 b/w photographs, 1 map. Cloth cover. (B) (auction catalogue) . 162 pages, 178 lots auctioned, all lots illustrated. Total sales: 1,032,120 Euros. Price list included. (A) A stunning visual presentation of seldom presented African material... More about Auction Catalogue) (A) AFRICAN FORMS (B) COLLECTION MARC ET DENYSE GINSBERG. AFRIQUE, L'Art...
Apapa: Department of Antiquities, 1965. v, 48 pages of text plus 72 leaves of photographs. The sculptural art of the Kalabari people of the eastern Niger Delta appears infrequently in the literature, and seldom--if at all--has it been examined as closely as in this long out of print study. Examining... More about KALABARI SCULPTURE
Stuttgart: Linden Museum, 1973. 170 pages, 93 photographs of masks and figures from Africa and the Pacific in the museum's collection. More about BILDER DES MENSCHEN IN FREMDEN KULTUREN
Studia Ethnographica Up-saliensia, VIII: 1957. 172 pages (many uncut), 38 pages of drawings of objects and 2 full-page photographs of objects. Edition limited to 500 copies. Mint condition. Volume II examines the family, law and social organization. More about THE KONGO II
Paris: 1980. 264 pages, 142 photographs--mostly full-page of nail fetishes, 3 pages of drawings, 1 map. Cloth cover. Edition limited to 800 copies. Mint condition with dust jacket. This volume, limited to a printing of 800 copies, is the major work available on nail fetishes. Given the prices of such... More about FETICHES A CLOUS DU BAS-ZAIRE
Paris: 1949. 110 pages, 64 full-page photographs. Later cloth cover over original wrappers. Fine condition. More about SUDANESE SCULPTURE
New York: 1906. xxii, 564 pages, 1 map in text and 1 fold-out color map. Cloth cover. More about THE LOWER NIGER AND ITS TRIBES
Munich: 1992. 138 pages (text in English and German), 180 color and 34 b/w photographs of shields, 3 maps. Cloth cover. Mint condition. The first illustrated volume to be published on old African shields, this publication surveys the very wide spectrum of shield types found throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Shields are... More about AFRICAN SHIELDS. Graphic Art of the Black Continent
New York: Pace Gallery, 1976. 102 pages, 126 b/w and 6 large color photographs--many full-page. More about AFRICAN SPIRIT IMAGES AND IDENTITIES
Ibadan: 1977. 400 pages, 1672 photographs. Cloth cover. This monumentally conceived and illustrated work reviews all available knowledge about the mysterious stone figures of Esie, in Yorubaland. Clear connections to the artistic complexes of Nok and Benin highlight the bountiful and impressive illustrations in this volume. More about STONE IMAGES OF ESIE