BELGIUM COLLECTS AFRICAN ART
Brussels: 2000. 352 pages (text in English and French), 330 full-page, half-page, and quater-page color photographs of objects, 6 other color and b/w photographs. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
African Art
EAST AFRICA. An Evolving Landscape
New York: 1988. 102 pages, 78 stunning, full-page color photographs. Cloth cover. More
YORUBA BEADED CROWNS, Sacred Regalia of the Olokulu of Okulu
London: 1982. 114 pages, 99 b/w and 12 color photographs, 2 maps. Cloth cover, mint condition. The beaded crown, the most important symbol of Yoruba kingship, is discussed and interpreted in this volume that examines the crown collection of one traditional ruler in Yorubaland, and describes and illustrates the "festival..... More
AFRIKANISCHE KUNST IM EUROPAISCHEN KONTEXT. Trickster No. 14,
Munich: 1985. 56 pages (5 papers), 32 photographs, 3 drawings. More
FABULOUS CONGO
London: 1954. 221 pages of text plus 62 pages of photographs (many of artifacts and body decoration), maps on endpapers. Cloth cover. Biebuyck, 68. More
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BENIN ART. Primitive Art Bibliographies, No. VI, Museum of Primitive Art
New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1968. 17 pages. More
ART, INNOVATION AND POLITICS IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BENIN.
Bloomington: 1999. xii, 177 pages, 50 photographs and drawings. Cloth cover with dust jacket. Mint condition. More
LES FOUILLES DE JEAN COLETTE A KALINA
Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Anthropologie et Prehistorie, Tome I, Fasc. 2. Tervuren: 1938. 60 pages of text (some uncut) loose in a folio (15 1/2" x 11 1/2") plus 8 pages of photographs. More
LA SCULTURA DELLA NIGERIA CENTRO-ORIENTALE
Bologna: Galleria del Vicolo Quartriolo, 1981. 24 pages, 28 large photographs of the art of fourteen tribes in east-central Nigeria. More
AFRIKA. Handbuch der Angenandten Volkerkunde. (2 volumes)
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
GARI-GARI. Leben und Abentever bei den Negern am Oberen Nil.
Frankfurt: 1951. 156 pages of text containing 1 map, plus 80 pages of photographs. Cloth cover.Though there is no information to indicate it, this appears to be a minor revision of the 1930 (1st) edition. More
PERMANENCE DE LA PARURE ET DU MASQUE AFRICAINS
Paris: 1966. 632 pages (some uncut), 63 plates containing about 400 drawings of masks. Mint condition. More
COSTUMES OF MOROCCO
London & New York: 1990 (first published in French in 1988). 205 pages, 60 full page color plates (drawings) of people (in the 1930s) dressed in indigenous costume, 10 pages of b/w drawings of clothing and jewlery, 1 map. Cloth cover, with dust jacket, 10 1/2" x 14". Mint conditon..... More
KINGS OF AFRICA. Art and Authority in Central Africa. Collection Museum fur Volkerkunde Berlin
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
THE ARTS OF ZAIRE. Volume I. Southwestern Zaire; Volume II. Eastern Zaire
Berkeley: 1985. Vol. I. xii, 313 pages of text plus 40 pages of photographs: Vol. II. xiii, 314 pages of text containing 1 color and 5 b/w photographs and 10 diagrams, plus 32 pages of photographs. Cloth covers. The first volume in a projected five volume comprehensive study of the..... More
LEGA CULTURE: Art. Initiation and Moral Philosophy Among a Central Africa People
Berkeley: 1973. 290 pages, 110 photographs. Cloth cover. More
SYMBOLISM OF THE LEGA STOOL (a); AN ETHNOSCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO AKAN ARTS AND AESTHETICS (b)
ISHI, Philadelphia: 1977. 38 pages, 11 large photographs. 42 pages, 12 charts. Fine condition. More
AU PAYS DES BOERS. Le Cap – Lourenco-Marques – Le Natal - Le Transval.
Paris: 1900. 316 pages, 60 photographs and drawings-about half of which are of indigenous peoples. Later 3/4 marbled and calf boards, marbled endpapers. More
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. A Study in Contrasts
New York: Tribal Arts Gallery, 1976. 16 pages, 8 large photographs of masks. More
AFRICA'S CROSS RIVER: Art of the Nigerian-Cameroon Border Redefined
L. Kahan Gallery: 1980. 28 pages, 28 photographs. More
AFRICA. Land of Diversity. An Ethnographic Exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, 1977
64 pages, 66 drawings of artifacts, 1 map. More
ART IN AFRICA
Corvina: 1968. 131 pages of text containing 21 drawings and 8 full-page color photographs, plus 191 photographs--almost all full-page--of objects in Eastern and Central European private and museum collections. Cloth cover. More
AFRIKANISCHE KUNST
Vienna; Budapest: 1967. This is the German language edition of "Art in Africa".131 pages of text containing 21 drawings and 8 full-page color photographs, plus 191 photographs--almost all full-page--of objects in Eastern and Central European private and museum collections. Cloth cover. More