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$ 950.00
Arnoux, Hippolyte (active ca. 1860 - ca. 1890); Zangaki, Adelphoi (active 1870s–1890s). Album with Sixteen Original Albumen Studio Photograph Views of Port Said, Suez Canal, and Aden. Ca. 1870s.
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Bates, Leo. Collection of Five Large Signed Mounted Black and White Monochrome Watercolours Showing Scenes of David Livingstone's Last Expedition Including his Meeting with Henry Stanley. Ca. 1920.
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Trotter, A[lexander] M[ason] (Scotland 1891-1946). Watercolour, Apparently Used as an Illustration in 'The Graphic,' Titled On Verso: "Death of Livingstone." London: 1917.
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Raffenel, Anne (1809-58). Voyage dans l'Afrique occidentale comprenant l'exploration du Senegal, depuis Saint-Louis jusqu'a la Faleme, au-dela de Bakel; de la Faleme, depuis son embouchure jusqu'a Sansandig; des mines d'or de Kenieba, dans le Bambouk; des pays de Galam, Bondou et Woolli; et de la Gambie, depuis Baracounda jusqu'a l'Ocean; execute, en 1843 et 1844, par une commission composee de MM. Huard-Bessinieres, Jamin, Raffenel, Peyre-Ferry et Pottin-Patterson. [Travels in West Africa Including the Exploration of Senegal ..,]. Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1846.
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Manuscript Poetry Book of Frances Speke, an Aunt of the Famous African Explorer John Hanning Speke, Written Mostly in Jordans, Ilminster, the Ancestral Home of the Speke Family. Ca. 1822-1834.
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Tarih-İ İskender Bin Filipos [i.e. A History of Alexander the Great, the Son of Philip]. Cairo: Bulaq Typ. 1838.
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$ 1750.00
Album with Fifty-Eight Early Original Albumen Photographs of French Algeria, Showing Algiers, Constantine, Bone, El Kantara, Katara Gorge, Roman Ruins in Timgad, Portraits of Native Algerians, Views of Smaller French Settlements and Country Houses, Algerian Villages etc. Ca. 1878.
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$ 1500.00
Nuerdien Frères (fl. ca. 1860-1932). Album of 53 Albumen Studio and Amateur Photographs of Algeria, Including Algiers, Constantine, Bôme, etc. Ca. 1890s-1900s.
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Collection of Three Attractive Original Watercolour Views Showing Cherchell and Mustapha Superieur in Algeria. 1892-3.
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Neurdein Frères (active ca. 1860s-1890s). Historically Interesting Album with Forty Original Albumen Studio Photos of French Algeria, Showing Algiers, Constantine, Tebessa, Biskra, Staouelli, Laghouat, Chiffa, and Souk Ahras. Ca. 1860s-1890s.
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Album of 94 Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of Central and Southern Algeria Showing French Military Activity in In Salah and Tamanrasset (Mess Hall, Radio Post, Infirmary, the “Captain’s House,” Pool Opening in El Barka, etc.), Views of In Salah (Post Office, General Views, etc.), French Airship “Dixmude,” the Citroën Mission (1922-1923), and Portraits of Indigenous Algerians (Tuareg Men and Women, Fantasia Performance, the “Orphéons” of In Salah and El Barka, etc.) Ca. 1920s.
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$ 425.00
Charnay, Claude-Joseph Désiré (1828-1915). Autograph Letter Signed “Désiré Charnay” to “Mon cher ami” with the Latest News after his Arrival to Algiers for the Winter Season, the Letter is Decorated with a Printed Vignette Depicting Arab Camel Riders in a Desert. Algiers: 25 October 1891.
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$ 425.00
Baudin, Lieutenant de Vaisseau, Commander of the Warship “Vulcain”. Official Certificate Given to Michel Lastrén, 2nd maitre cannonier, who served on the Warship “Vulcain” in 1829-1830, and in particular during the French Invasion of Algiers; the Certificate is Signed “Baudin”. Toulon: , 1 December 1830.
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$ 525.00
Blanckley, Henry Stanyford (1752-1820). Original Certificate on the Printed Form of the British Chancery Office in Algiers, Appointing Lewis Tonna as Blanckley’s Secretary. Algiers: 9 October 1806.
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$ 1250.00
[Coimbra, J. da C.A., a Photographer from Chibia]. Historically Significant Collection of Fifteen Original Studio Gelatin Silver and Albumen Photographs of Portuguese West Africa, Showing the Towns of Lubango (Church, Barracks of the Dragoons of Angola) and Chibia (Streets, Houses, Waterfall), Portraits of Native Angolans, a Boer Settler with His Family and an Oxen-Driven Wagon, Portuguese Military Officers of the “Operational Column,” “Major Silva” and Native Porters, &c. Ca. 1890s.
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Album with Thirty Original Gelatin Silver Photos of the American Methodist Mission Station in Quéssua, Angola; Including Portraits of the Missionaries and their Families (V. Crandall, I. Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Kremp, Mr. and Mrs. Whitey, F. Bessa, C. Cross, M. Nelson), African Assistants and Locals (Sarah Webba, Carlos, Maravilha, Heraldo, etc.), Views of a Church, Chapel, Boarding School, Playhouse, Grass Huts, etc. Ca. 1948-1962.
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Drawing Heightened with Watercolour, Unsigned but Titled and Dated: "Ascension 1847." 1847.
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[Simms, H. W.] Album of 79 Albumen and Gelatin Silver Photographs Showing Saint Helena (Jamestown, Breakneck Valley, Sandy Bay, Plantation House, Longwood House, etc.) and Ascension Island (Georgetown, Green Mountain), the HMS Sparrow and its Officers and Crew, Group Portrait of the Members of the 1892 “Gambia Expedition,” West Africa (Fernado Po, Annobón, Sierra Leone), Jamaica after the 1907 Earthquake (Kingston, Port Royal), etc. Ca. 1890s, 1907.
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$ 425.00
Collection of Seventeen Original Unmounted Photographs of Boma, Lusambo and Surroundings in the Belgian Congo. Ca. 1910.
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$ 425.00
Spence, Percy Frederick Seaton (1868-1933). Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Titled: "Soldiers Making Friends with Lascars on a P. & O. Transport. “One touch of Nature”. 2 Nov 1899.
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$ 275.00
Ewan, Frances. Original Watercolour prepared for the “Graphic”, Titled: "Preparing for Emergencies in Johannesburg: A Promising Young Uitlander." 19 Sept. 1899.
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Interesting Collection of 123 Loose Original Gelatin Silver Photographs of French Congo, Showing a Mining Plant and Settlement of “Compagnie Minière du Congo Français” near Mindouli, the Loukouni River and Its Tributaries (Gorge, Waterfalls, Overhanging Cliffs), Native Villages, French Residents and Congolese Workers, the Interior of a Local Infirmary, &c. Ca. 1930s.
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Karaçelebizade, Abdülaziz Efendi (1591-1658). Ravzat ül-ebrar [The Garden of Piety]. Cairo: Bulaq Typ., 1248 H. [1832].
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Halid Al-Bagdadi, Mawlana Ziyaeddin (1779-1826). Tercüme-yi Risale-yi Halidiye [Translation of Halidi Order Letters]. Cairo: Bulaq Typ., 1262 H. [1846].
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$ 525.00
Collection of Three Watercolours of Simonstown, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa. Ca. 1908.
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