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Alexandre ADANDÉ - Les Récades des rois du Dahomey - 1962
One volume in 8 bound brown grief with title on spine, dust jacket not preserved. 104 pages + 37 unnumbered pages of plates.
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Pierre ALEXANDRE - Les Africains. Initiation à une longue histoire et à de vieilles civilisations de l'aube de l'humanité au début de la colonisation - 1982
Paris, Auzou, collection "Histoire ancienne des peuples" n° 4, 1982 One in-8 volume, cardboard. 607 pages. Preface by Léopold Sédar Senghor. Richly illustrated in black and white and in colour. Good condition.
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Arnold BAMERT - Africana. L'art tribal de la forêt vierge et de la savane - 1980
Herscher, 1980 A volume in-folio, burgundy canvas. XIII, 329 pages. Preface by Jean LAUDE. Richly illustrated in colour. Very good condition.
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Lieutenant-Colonel BARATIER - À travers l'Afrique. Epopées africaines. Au Congo, souvenirs de la mission marchand. Vers le Nil, souvenirs de la mission marchand - [ca. 1912]
Paris, A. Fayard, collection "Modern Bibliothèque : Les inédits", [ca. 1912]. 4 volumes in 8 bound in hardcover. 206, 126, 126, 110 pages. Illustrated with maps, sketches and photos by the author and drawings by L. POUZARGUES and Gaston de BURGGRA…
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Lieutenant-Colonel BARATIER - À travers l'Afrique. Epopées africaines - [ca. 1910]
Paris, A. Fayard, collection "Modern Bibliothèque : Les inédits", [ca. 1910]. Two works by the same author gathered in one volume in 8, half blue cloth, cover of the second work preserved. 206, 126 pages. Illustrated with maps, sketches and photos…
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Adolphe BASLER - L'Art chez les peuples primitifs - 1929
Paris, Librairie de France, 1929 One large volume in 8, brown half leather, unpreserved cover. 83 pages, 106 off text plates. Slight rubbing at the corners. Good condition.
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Roger BASTIDE - Les Amériques noires. Les civilisations africaines dans le Nouveau monde - 1967
Paris, Payot, "Bibliothèque historique" collection, 1967. An in 8 paperback volume of 236 pages. Uncut. Some underlined pencil entries in the Geographic Index. Front page stamp. Good condition.
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BAUMANN Hermann et WESTERMANN Diedrich - Les peuples et les civilisations de l'Afrique - 1967
Paris, Payot, "Bibliothèque scientifique" collection, 1967. One volume in 8 bound in full brick red chagrin with a 4 nerves spine and title in gold lettering, cover preserved. 605 pages. Translated by L. HOMBURGER. Preface by Theodore MONOD. 461 …
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Hugo Adolf BERNATZIK - Der dunkle Erdteil Afrika. Landschaft / Volksleben - 1930
Berlin, Atlantis Verlag, 1930 A large volume in 8, hazelnut backing. 45 pages, 256 plates. Title in gold lettering on first cover and spine. Anthology of photos of Africa commented by Hugo Adolf BERNATZIK. Signed on the front page. Title on the s…
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Jacques BERNOLLES - Permanence de la parure et du masque africains - 1966
Paris, G.-P. Maisonneuve and Larose, 1966. An in-8 bound volume. 632 pages. LX off-text plates. Uncut copy. Very good condition.
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Jean-Claude BERRIER, Raymond DENIZET - Hauts lieux d'Afrique. L'expédition française Tibesti, Congo, Ethiopie - 1953
Paris, Amiot Dumont, collection "Bibliothèque des voyages", 1953 An in 8 bound volume. 209 pages. Illustrated jacket. Shipment signed BERRIER. Preface by Henri LHOTE. Small scratches on the edges of the jacket, a small lack at the bottom of the …
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Daniel BIEBUYCK (éditeur) - Tradition and creativity in tribal art - 1973
London, Los Angeles, Berkeley, University Press of California, 1973. An in 8 paperback volume of 236 pages and 32 unencrypted sheets. Iconographic file containing 97 plates. One fascicle in the iconographic file out of order. Fold on the spine. F…
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Dr Fred BLANCHOD - Les mœurs étranges de l'Afrique noire - 1945
Lausanne, Payot, 1945 An in-8 bound volume. 312 pages. Cover illustrated in color. 32 off-text illustrations and 1 map. Small slits at the ends of the corners of the spine. Folds on the spine. Fairly good condition.
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Robert BLEAKLEY - Masques africains - 1978
Paris, Oak, 1978 A large-format paperback volume of 5 unencrypted pages of the preface and 40 colour plates. Translation by Edith OCHS. Good condition.
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Yves de BOISBOISSEL - Peaux noires, coeurs blancs - 1954
Paris, J. Peyronnet & Cie, 1954 A 121 page in 8 bound volume, frontispiece. Uncut. Back cover lightly corneaed. Good condition. Yves de Boisboissel, then general of the French colonial troops, wrote in 1954 this book in homage to the Senegalese …
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Ludwig BORCHARDT et Herbert RICKE - ÄGYPTEN. Landschaft, Volksleben, Baukunst - 1929
Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth A.G., 1929 A large volume in-8, burgundy canvas. XXVIII preface, 271 pages of full-page photos. Insolated spine. Good condition.
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Henry BOTTU - Aperçus d'Afrique en quatrième vitesse. Chasses sous les tropiques sahariennes. - 1934
Paris, Laboratoires Bottu, 1934 Paperback, 110 pages. Preface by Pierre MILLE. Illustrations by Vergé Sarrat and Jean André. A few snags on the spine, and between the spine and the first and back covers. Pages untrimmed. Blunt corners.
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Robert BRAIN - Art and Society in Africa - 1980
London/New York, Longman group, 1980 Paperback of 304 pages. Good condition.
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René A. BRAVMANN - Islam and Tribal Art in West Africa - 1974
Cambridge University Press, 1974 Leather-bound book of 190 pages, original cover preserved. Fairly good condition despite yellowing of the first pages and freckles.
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Jacques CAILLÉ - La Mosquée de Hassan à Rabat - 1954
Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1954. Work in quarto bound, black half marocco, spine ribbed, red title piece. 172 pages, 43 in text figures, 48 photographic plates and 19 filled plans drawn by Jean Hainaut. Jacques Caillé proposes a study of one …
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Ct CHAILLEY - Les grandes missions françaises en Afrique occidentale - 1953
Dakar, I.F.A.N., 1953. French Institute of Black Africa. African initiations. Paperback book of 145 pages. Good condition. Traces on the cover; freckles.
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Clotilde CHIVAS-BARON - Côte d'Ivoire - 1939
Paris, Larose, 1939 Paperback of 218 pages. Good condition. Tears on the spine; stain on the cover; dirt.
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Erwin Ottomar CHRISTENSEN - Primitive Art - 1955
New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Editor Thames & Hudson, 1955. Book in English. Hardcover with illustrated dust jacket, 384 pages. Illustrations in colour and black and white.
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Ernest DAMMANN - Les religions de l'Afrique - 1964
Paris, Payot, 1964 Collection the religions of humanity. Historical library. Paperback of 270 pages. Good condition. Traces of wear.
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Jacqueline DELANGE - Arts et peuples de l'Afrique noire - 1979
Paris, Edition Gallimard, Bibliothèque des sciences humaines, NRF, 1979 DELANGE, Jacqueline Arts and Peoples of Black Africa Paris, Edition Gallimard, Bibliothèque des sciences humaines, NRF, 1979. 275 pages. Soft cover. Preface by Michel Leiris. …
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Robert DELAVIGNETTE - Les paysans noirs - 1946
Paris, Editions Stock, 1946 Half-bound book. Back with 4 nerves. New edition. Author's letter on the false title page. 262 pages. Good condition. Blunt corners.
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DELEDICQ A. et POPOVA A. - Wari et Solo. Le jeu de calculs africain. - 1977
Supplement to the "Mathematics Teacher Liaison Bulletin" (pentennial). N°14 December 1977. Ministry of Cooperation, Department of Education. Paperback of 206 pages. Appropriate condition.
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G. DIETERLEN - Les âmes des Dogons - 1941
Paris, Institute of Ethnology, 1941 Bound in full leather. Back with 4 nerves. 263 pages of text and 15 illustrated plates. Very good condition.
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Albert DOUTRELOUX - L'ombre des fétiches. Société et culture yombe - 1967
The shadow of the fetishes. Yombe society and culture Louvain, Editions Nauwelaerts - Beatrice-Nauwelaerts, Publications of the Lovanium University of Leopoldville, 1967, 288 pages. Condition of use. Cover in very bad condition.
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Carl EINSTEIN - Afrikanische Plastik. (Orbis Pictus Band 7) - [1922]
Hardcover book of 48 pages. Hardcover binding and title piece glued on the front cover. Freckles on the white guard. Rubbing on the cover. Slightly deformed binding.
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Pierre ERNY - L'enfant dans la pensée traditionnelle de l'Afrique noire - 1968
Paris, Le livre africain, 1968 Paperback, 198 pages. Good condition. Some dirt on the cover.
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Jean-Paul ESCHLIMANN - Naître sur la terre africaine - 1982
Abidjan, INADES Edition, 1982 Paperback of 149 pages. Fairly good general condition, despite a slight tear on the back and some dirt on the cover.
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