Afrika

Akkan Fetish Gold

Grosrouvre, Jean Paul Vibert. 1979. (64) pages. Printed wrappers. A bit rubbed. Illustrated.

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Baker, Richard St. Barbe: The Brotherhood of the Trees

London, Adelphi (1930). 64 pages +8 plates. Publisher's quarter cloth. Dust-jacket is missing. A bit rubbed.

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Balmer, W. T.: A History of the Akan Peoples of the Gold Coast

London, The Atlantis Press. Unknown year of printing (1925?). Second impression. 208 pages +plates. Publisher's cloth (dust-jacket is missing). Corners are a bit bumped. The spine is a bit rubbed and faded. Split of 5 mm in the outer front hinge. Library label (Methodist Missionary Society, London, Lending Library) on the front paste down. Trace of removed library label on the spine.

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Barbot, Jean & Paul Hair (ed.): Barbot on Guinea. The writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa 1678-1712. Volume I-II

London, Haklut Society. 1992. cxxviii+327+(8)+328-916 pages. Publisher's cloth with dust-jacket, two volumes. Dust-jackets are a bit worn with tears and minor creases. Illustrated.

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Barth, Heinrich: Reiser og Opdagelser i Nord- og Mellem-Afrika I-II

Kjøbenhavn. 1860. (10)+500+434+(2) sidor. Två samtida halvskinnband med blindpressade och guldornerade ryggar. Ganska hårt nötta pärmar. Ryggarna blekta. Sporadiskt något brunfläckad inlaga, planscherna dock rena. Illustrerad. Med litograferade planscher och utvikbar karta. Dansk översättning av "Reisen und Entdeckungen in Nord- und Central-Afrika" (aldrig översatt till svenska).

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Baumann, Hermann: Schöpfung und Urzeit des Menschen im Mythus der Afrikanischen Völker

Berlin, Verlag von Dietrich Reimer. 1936. x+435 pages. Publisher's cloth (dust-jacket is missing). A bit bumped. Big brown speckle on the lower edge, hence the price. A couple of library stamps and pencil underlinings inside.

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Boisragon, Alan: The Benin Massacre

London, Methuen & Co. 1897. vii+(1)+190+(2)+40 pages +two plates (portrait and map). Publisher’s cloth. Edges are uncut. A bit rubbed. Corners and spine ends are a bit bumped and the spine is a bit faded. The map is partly loose. Foxing on the half-title, the title page and in the catalogue with ads from the publisher (the last 40 pages). The back end-paper is a bit darkened. Brown speckle in the lower margin on pp. 2-10, and a small brown speckle in the inner margin of pp. 126-131. Owner's signature: "Ethel Cowak / November 1897". First edition. Hard to find.

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Breunig, Peter (ed.): Nok. Ein Ursprung Afrikanischer Skulptur

Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität. 2013. 291 pages. Printed wrappers. Corners are slightly bumped. Illustrated. Catalog of the exhibition "Nok - Ein Ursprung afrikanischer Skulptur" shown at Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung 2013-2014. In German.

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Burton, Richard Francis: The Land of Midian (Revisited). Vol. I

Cambridge, Oleander Press. 1984. xxviii+338 pages. Hard-cover with dust-jacket. Slightly bumped and faded spine. Illustrated. Reprint of the edition from 1879. Vol. I only.

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Büttikofer, J.: Reisebilder aus Liberia I-II

Saarbrücken, Fines Mundi GmbH. 2010. (4)+xv+(1)+440+viii+510 pages. Publisher's half-cloth, two volumes. Facsimile reprint of the edition from 1890. Illustrated. With plates. With fold-out map and chart in pockets attached to the back paste-downs in both volumes.

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DeCorse, Christopher R: An archaeology of Elmina. Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900

Washington/London, Smithsonian Institution Press. 2001. x+286 pages. Publisher's cloth. Slightly bumped spine. A couple of library stamps inside. Illustrated.

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Dudgeon, Gerald C.: The Agricultural and Forest Products of British West Africa

London, John Murray. 1922. xii+176+(4) pages. Publisher's cloth. Rubbed with white speckles on the front board. Former library book with a few stamps inside. Foxing on a few pages. With plates and maps. Second edition.

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Ellis, A. B.: The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Their Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Language, Etc.

London, Chapman and Hall. 1887. vii+(1)+343 pages +map of the Gold Coast. Publisher’s cloth. Rubbed with a crack of 6 cm in the back outer hinge. Speckles on the boards. The boards are detached, hence the price. Minor loss of paper on the fly-leaf. Owner’s signature (Sture Lagercrantz -48). Minor brown spots on a few pages. Underlinings with ballpoint pen throughout the book.

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Engelbrecht, Beate & Bernhard Gardi: Man does not go naked. Textilien und Handwerk aus afrikanischen und anderen Ländern

Basel, Ethnologisches Seminar der Univ. und Museum für Völkerkunde, in Kommission bei Wepf & Co. AG Verl. 1989. 463 pages. Printed wrappers. A bit rubbed with a minor tear on the back wrapper. Former library book with the usual stamps and labels inside. Basler Beiträge zur Ethnologie Band 30.

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Fairhead, James & Melissa Leach: Misreading the African Landscape. Society and Ecology in a Forest-Savanna Mosaic

Cambridge University Press. 2011. xviii+354+(2) pages. Printed wrappers. Illustrated. African Studies Series 90.

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Fischer, Eberhard: Der Wandel Ökonomischer Rollen bei den Westlichen Dan in Liberia

Wiesbaden, Franz Steiner Verlag. 1967. 481+(4) pages. Printed wrappers. Label with the name of the author on the front wrapper. A couple of library stamps inside. With plates. Studien zur Kulturkunde. Band XXI.

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Freeman, R. Austin: Travels & Life in Ashanti & Jaman

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1898. xx+559 pages. Publisher's decorated cloth. Top-edge gilt. Fore-edge and lower edge are uncut. The boards are heavily rubbed with dark speckles and a crack of 2 cm in the outer back joints. The spine is darkened. The book block is broken into two parts. The inner front hinge has been repaired and the inner back hinge is weak. Former library book with the usual labels and stamps inside (including stamps showing that the book has been discarded). Brown speckles on a few pages. Illustrated. With two coloured maps. First US edition of the first work of Freeman, later known for the crime novels about Dr. Thorndyke.

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Goody, J. R.: The Social Organization of the LoWiili

London, Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1956. vi+119 pages. Printed wrappers. Slightly bumped. Faded spine. Stamp on the front wrapper and owner's signature (R. A. Silverlock) inside. With plates.

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Hall, H. U.: The Sherbro of Sierra Leone. A preliminary report on the work of the University Museum's expedition to West Africa, 1937

Philadelphia, The University Press. 1938. (4)+v+(1)+51+(3) pages. Printed wrappers, staple-bound. The over-sized wrappers are a bit bumped. Spine is a bit faded. Illustrated. With a small errata slip and a fold-out map.

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Hall, Wynward Montagu: The Great Drama of Kumasi

London, Putnam. 1939. xvi+367 pages. Publisher's cloth, dust-jacket is missing. Corners and spine ends are slightly bumped. Tear of 2 mm in the lower margin of page 83 and the plate facing page 84. A small crease in the lower corner of the last 10 pages. Minor brown speckles on the edges. With plates. First edition.

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Hermann, Paul: Die Völkerstämme im Norden von Liberia. Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im Auftrage des Staatlich-Sächsischen Forschungs-Instituts für Völkerkunde in Leipzig in den Jahren 1928/29

Leipzig, R. Voigtländers Verlag. 1933. viii+141 pages. Printed wrappers. Tears and minor loss of paper on the wrappers. Dampstained throughout (a big speckle in the lower part of the first 16 pages and the last 16 pages). With XX plates. Veröffentlichungen des Staatlich-sächsischen Forschungsinsitutes für Völkerkunde in Leipzig. Erster Band.

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Hyman, Mark: Blacks Before America

Trenton, Africa World Press. 1999. xi+(1)+156 pages. Printed wrappers. Owner's signature and a few underlinings. Illustrated.

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Irvine, F. R.: Plants of the Gold Coast

Oxford University Press. 1930. lxxix+(1)+521+(1) pages. Publisher's cloth. Rubbed. Foxing on the end-papers. Former library-book (Worthing Public Library) with ex libris and stamps (one stamp on each plate). Interfoliated. With plates.

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Kaye, Barrie: Boa. Memoirs of a Banana Planter in Remote West Africa

York, K Books. 2000. x+186 pages. Publisher's cloth with dust-jacket. Spine ends are slightly bumped. Illustrated. Author's dedication.

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Lagercrantz, Sture: African Methods of Fire-Making

Uppsala. 1954. xvi+78 pages. Publisher's hard-cover. A bit rubbed spine. Minor spots on the back-cover. Author's dedication on the fly-leaf. Illustrated. With plates and one map.

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Lagercrantz, Sture: Über Willkomenne und Unwillkommene Zwillinge in Afrika

Göteborg. 1942. 292 pages. Printed wrappers. Spine ends are a bit rubbed. Minor speckles on the wrappers. A couple of minor speckles inside. Author's dedication on the front wrapper. Offprint from Etnologiska Studier 12-13 1941.

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Lem, F.-H.: Sculptures Soudanaises

Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques. 1948. 110+(1) pages. Private-bound half-cloth (unknown bookbinder), bound with the original front wrapper inside. Brown speckle on the original front wrapper, black speckle on the top edge and a couple of minor brown spots inside. Tear on the half-title. Illustrated.

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Lilliehöök, John: Tvenne år bland Zouaverne. Minnen och anteckningar från fälttåget uti Italien och expeditioner uti Afrika åren 1859 och 1860.

Stockholm, Albert Bonniers förlag. 1861. (8)+338+(2) sidor. Förlagets dekorerade klotband. Något nött. Ryggen något blekt. Innerfalsarna svaga. Sporadiska lagerfläckar. Namnad. Komplett med kartor och färgplanscher.

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Lukas, J.: Afrikanistische Studien

Berlin, Akademie-Verlag. 1955. viii+416 pages. Printed wrappers. Tears and minor loss of paper on the wrappers. Speckles on the slightly faded spine. Illustrated. With plates. Table of contents are shown on the second and third pictures. Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Institut für Orientforschung. Veröffentlichung nr. 26.

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Macdonald, George: The Gold Coast Past and Present. A short description of the country and its people.

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1898. ix+(3)+352 pages. Publisher's cloth. Corners and spine ends are rubbed. Slight foxing in the beginning and the end of the book. With plates and map.

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McCulloch, M.: Peoples of Sierra Leone Protectorate

London, International African Insitute. 1950. 102 pages. Printed wrappers. A bit bumped with minor tears on the over-sized wrappers. Brown speckles on the edges and the first and last pages. With map. Ethnographic Survey of Africa. Western Africa. Part II.

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Moore, Decima & Major F. G. Guggisberg: We Two in West Africa

London, William Heinemann. 1909. xvi+368 pages. Publisher's cloth. Rubbed with tear in the outer joints of the back-board. The inner joints have been repaired, as well as the inner margin of the first and last signatures. Owner's signature. Foxing on a few pages. Illustrated. With map.

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Otto, Franz: Bilder och berättelser ur lifvet i Syd-afrika

Stockholm, P A Norstedt & Söners förlag. 1886. (2)+478+(2) sidor. Förlagets klotryggband. Nött och fläckig pärm. Spruckna innerfalsar lagade med tejp (därav priset). Namnad. Illustrerad.

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Plumer, Cheryl: African Textiles. An Outline of Handcrafted Sub-Saharan Fabrics

Michigan State University. 1970. xiv+146 pages. Printed wrappers. A bit bumped with tear on the front wrapper and a crease in the lower corner.

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Ramin, Jacques: Le périple d'Hannon. The Periplus of Hanno

Oxford. 1976. (6)+121+(8) pages. Staple-bound with publisher's red wrappers. Tears and creases on the wrappers. The wrappers are attached with glue to the end-papers. Spine is faded. Illustrated. B A R Supplementary Series 3.

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Reygasse, Maurice: Monuments funéraires préislamiques de l'Afrique du nord

Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques. 1950. x+134+(1) pages. Printed wrappers. Corners are slightly bumped and the spine is a bit darkened. A couple of speckles on the front wrapper. Illustrated. With map. Issued in 2000 numbered copies, this one is without number.

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Sackey, Chrys Kwesi: Konkoma. Eine Musikform der Fanti-Jungfischer in den 40er und 50er Jahren (Ghana, Westafrika)

Berlin, Dietrich Reimer Verlag. 1989. (6)+180 pages. Printed wrappers. Minor brown speckles on the edges. Mainzer Ethnologische Arbeiten 8.

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Schlottner, Michael: Sehen - Hören - Verstehen. Musikinstrumente und Schallgeräte bei den Kusasi und Mamprusi in Nordost-Ghana

Pfaffenweiler, Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft. 1996. 411 pages. Printed wrappers. The upper spine end is slightly bumped. Owner's signature. Illustrated.

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Schneider, Klaus: Handwerk und materialisierte Kultur der Lobi in Burkina Faso

Stuttgart, Franz Steiner Verlag. 1990. 409 pages. Printed wrappers. Illustrated. With 32 plates. Studien zur Kulturkunde 94.

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Schnelle, Helga: Die Traditionelle Jagd Westafrikas. Analyse ihrer wirtschaftlichen Bedeutung für anbautreibende Gruppen

München, Klaus Renner Verlag. 1971. (4)+v+(1)+181+(2) pages. Printed wrappers with cloth strip on the spine. Brown speckles on the front wrapper, the spine and the edges. With maps. Arbeiten aus dem Institut für Völkerkunde der Universität zu Göttingen. Band 5.

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Schott, Rüdiger (ed.): Bulsa Sunsuelima. Folktales of the Bulsa in Northern Ghana. Series S: Folktales of the Supernatural. Volume 1: Tales of the Sky-God (Wen, Naawen). Part I

Münster, Lit Verlag. 1993. xiv+412+(2) pages. Printed wrappers. The wrappers are slightly worn. Owner's signature. Forschungen zu Sprachen und Kulturen Afrikas. Band 2.

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Schweeger-Hefel, Annemarie: Kinkirsi, Boghoba, Saba. Das Weltbild der Nyonyosi in Burkina Faso (ehemals Obervolta, Westafrika)

Wien, Verlag A. Schendl. 1986. 436 pages. Hard-cover. Minor brown speckles on the top edge.

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Smith, James Wesley: Sojourners in Search of Freedom. The Settlement of Liberia by Black Americans

Lanham, University Press of America. 1987. xiii+(1)+228 pages. Publisher's cloth. Corners are slightly bumped.

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Société Africaine de Culture/Society of African Culture (eds.): Colloque sur l'Art nègre. Volume II. Colloquium on Negro Art

Editions Présence Africaine. 1971. 282+(3) pages. Printed wrappers. Corners and spine ends are very slightly bumped. Minor speckles on the wrappers. Spine is a bit darkened. Collection of papers on African art, most of them written in French.

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Spieth, J.: Die Religion der Eweer in Süd-Togo

Göttingen & Leipzig, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/J. C. Hinrichs'sche buchhandlung. 1911. xvi+316 pages. Library-bound without the original wrappers. A bit rubbed. Trace of label on the front board, and a tear of 2,5 cm on the last page. A couple of pencil underlinings and library stamps inside. Quellen der Religions-Geschichte. Band 3. Gruppe 10.

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Spieth, J.: Die Religion der Eweer in Süd-Togo

Göttingen & Leipzig, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht/J. C. Hinrichs'sche buchhandlung. 1911. xvi+316 pages. Contemporary cloth with spine label, bound without the original wrappers. Minor speckles on the boards and a small missing piece on the spine label. A couple of speckles on the edges. Quellen der Religions-Geschichte. Band 3. Gruppe 10.

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Säfholm, Pär: The River-lake Nilotes. Politics of an African tribal group

Uppsala. 1973. 215 pages. Printed wrappers. Small note on the front wrapper. Studia Sociologica Upsaliensia 8.

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Trautman, René: La divination à la Côte des Esclaves et à Madagascar. Le Vôdoû Fa - Le Sikidy

Paris, Librairie Larousse. 1939. 155+(2) pages. Library-bound cloth with the original front wrapper inside. Spine ends are a bit rubbed. Speckles on the original front wrapper. A couple of library stamps (including a stamp showing that the book has been discarded). Illustrated. Mémoires de l'institut Francais d'Afrique Noire 1.

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Volprecht, Klaus: Sammlung Clausmeyer. Afrika

Köln, E. J. Brill. 1972. xv+(3)+253+(3) pages. Publisher's cloth. Corners are very slightly bumped. With 205 plates. Ethnologica. Neue folge. Band 5.

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Zeller, Rudolf: Die Goldgewichte von Asante (Westafrika). Eine Ethnologische Studie

Saarbrücken, Fines Mundi GmbH. 2010. (4)+77+(1) pages. Publisher's cloth. Corners and spine ends are slightly bumped. With XXI plates. Facsimile reprint of the edition from 1912. Baessler-Archiv. Beiheft III.

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Zemp, Hugo: Musique Dan. La musique dans la pensée et la vie sociale d'une société africaine

Mouton/Paris, La Haye. 1971. 320 pages. Printed wrappers. A bit rubbed. With plates. Cahiers de l'homme. Nouvelle série XI.

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