ART OF AFRICA. Treasures From the Congo.
New York: 1971. 369 pages, 112 color (mainly tipped-in) and 67 b/w photographs--many full-page. Cloth cover. Fine condition. More
New York: 1971. 369 pages, 112 color (mainly tipped-in) and 67 b/w photographs--many full-page. Cloth cover. Fine condition. More
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
Musee Royal de la Afrique Centrale, No. 6. Tervuren: 1962. viii, 249 pages, 2 maps. More
Collectanea Instituti Anthropos, 5. St. Augustin: 1975. 328 pages, 3 pages of photographs, 8 maps. More
Stockholm: Popular Skildringar, Samson and, 1878. 148 pages, large fold-out map. Later sheep boards, gilt lettered spine. The text discusses Central Africa and deals with the then recent discoveries of Stanley and Livingston. More
Paris: 1998. (exhibition catalogue, Musee National des Arts d’Afrique, Paris, 1998). 303 pages, 309 color and b/w photographs, 2 maps. A wonderful exhibition of Bateke art (from both the Congo and Gabon) drawn from major museum collections in Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Sweden--acquired by missionaries at the..... More
Paris: Fondation Dapper, 1988, 1990. 2nd printing. 96 pages, 11 double-page color photographs, 24 half and full-page color photographs, 14 b/w photographs, 4 drawings, 1 map. All of the illustrations are of Kuba velours and appliques--particularly the wonderful, huge wrap-around skirts. Cloth cover. More
Brussels: 1987. xvi, 245 pages, 105 pages of drawings of approximately 2000 ojbects. 6 maps. Small folio size. soft cover. This long-awaited handbook selected 100 Zairian groups that have had a significant history of producing anthropomorphic sculpture in the last century. For each of the 100 groups there is a...... More
Brussels: 1995. 215 pages. Approximately 1500 drawings of figures, masks, and artifacts of 17 peoples in four stylistic regions in the Congo, Angola, and Gabon, 74 maps plus maps on the endpapers. Mint condition. In this, the first volume of a projected four-volume series, the author has divided the Kongo-speaking..... More
Munich: 1992. 348 pages, 66 full-page color photographs of masks, 64 smaller color photographs, 16 b/w masks, 5 pages of color maps, 2 double-page color maps, 11 pages of maps, fold-out ethnic map in color in rear pocket. Cloth cover. Mint condition. Written somewhat like a good detective mystery, the..... More
Munich: Galerie Fred Jahn, l991. 207 pages (text in Englihsh and German), 97 photographs--most of which are full-page, 17 pages of drawings, 2 text maps, l fold-out map in rear pocket. Hard board and cloth cover. This fine study of Central African throwing-blades (knives) accompanied an exhibition at the Galerie..... More
Munich: Galerie Fred Jahn, 1989. 314 pages, 77 full-page photographs of masks of astounding beauty and vitality from 25 roups, and about which little had been previously written, 2 double-page photographs, 17 field photographs, 10 text maps, 1 fold-out map. Cloth cover. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Mint condition. The..... More
Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, No. 103, 1980. 99 pages, 56 photographs, 1 map. Mint condition. More
Collection de Monographies Ethnographiques, VIII. Brussels: 1911. xxiv, 574 pages containing 9 drawings, plus 2 pages of photographs of artifacts, 1 fold-out map. Later cloth cover over original wrappers. More
Meerbusch: 1988. 16 pages, 15 photographs of magnificently carved ivory horns. More
Paris: 1926. vii, 217 pages, 2 photographs, 1 map. The story of the prominent late 19th early 20th century missionary in the Congo, Monsignor Augouard. Later 3/4 marbled and calf boards hubs on spine, marbled endpapers. More
Nova Acta Leopoldina, NF Band 11, No. 76. Halle: 1942. 266 pages of text containing 32 drawings of objects of material culture, plus 14 pages of photographs. More
museums in Amsterdam, den Haag, and Rotterdam: 1957. 22 pages, 19 pages of color photographs dealing with this Tibetan Buddhist monastery. More
Antwerp: Ethnographic Museum, 1993. 262 pages, 110 full-page color photographs of masks, 5 smaller color photographs, 56 b/w photographs, 1 drawing, 7 maps in b/w and 1 color, fold-out map. Cloth cover, small folio size (10" x 13"). A dazzling exhibition of masks of the Bantu peoples of Zaire and..... More
Studia Ethnographica Upsaliensia, XXIX. 1968. 124 pages, 2 color photographs. More
Paris: 1990. 239 pages, 195 photographs, 1 map. From 1931 to 1933 Michel Leiris traveled across Africa as the secretary-archivist-photographer on an ethnographic mission led by Marcel Griaule. Leiris' photographs were published in 1934 in a book, L'Afrique Fantome, that was received with great praise and acclaim. In 1988, famed..... More
Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Ethnographie et Anthropologie, Serie III, Tome I, Fasc. I, 1909. xi, 104 pages, 26 photographs, 2 drawings, 1 fold-out map in text and 1 fold-out map in rear, 1 fold-out chart. Later cloth cover over original wrappers, gilt lettering, fine condition. folio size, 11"..... More
Musee Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Archives No. 4: 1961. ix, 171 pages, 16 large photographs of dancers, 1 map. More
New York: 1948,1949, 2nd edition. 81 pages, 46 photographs--many full-page, 1 map. More
1952, 3rd and revised edition. 83 pages, 48 photographs, 1 map. More