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Editorial Map of North-West Africa Carte de la Barbarie de la Nigritie et de la Guin?e (title on object), Map of north-west Africa, from Tripoli in the north to Gabon in the south, maps of separate countries or regions, Africa, Guillaume Delisle (mentioned on ob...
- 2020-01-15
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Editorial Guinea, Map of the Gulf of Guinea and the island of S?o Tom? in West Africa, signed: Petrus Kaerius Caelavit, Fig. 127, p. 587, Kaerius, Petrus (caelavit), Gerhard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius, Jansson: Atlas minor Gerardi Mercatoris. Amsterodami: ex offi...
- 2020-01-15
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Editorial Travels in West Africa, Congo Fran?ais, Corisco and Cameroons : Kingsley, Mary Henrietta, 1862-1900.
- 2020-01-15
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Editorial Fragment of a Ship Flag, Fragment of a ship's flag, bottom left corner, with a red cross (St. George's cross) on a white background, and a double red-white checkered border. This flag is a 'Guinea Jack', which was conducted by the English Royal Africa ...
- 2020-01-15
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Editorial Fragment of a Ship Flag, Fragment of a ship's flag, almost the entire left half, with a red cross (St. George's cross) on a white background, and a double red-white checkered edge. This flag is a 'Guinea Jack', which was conducted by the English Royal ...
- 2019-12-18
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Editorial Map of West Africa, Nigritarum Regnum (title on object), inscription r.o. surrounded by African men, women and children, native animals and products. Under inscription scale in German miles. L.o. assignment to Ottonius L. B. ? Schwerin with a weapon bo...
- 2019-12-18
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Editorial West Africa. Archipelago of Cape Verde. Sao Vicente island. Port. Engraving. Africa inexplorada, el Continente Misterioso by Henry Morton Stanley, c. 1887.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Negroes of the Cote d'Or, Portraits of inhabitants of the Gold Coast (West Africa), signed: dess., et lith., de Choris; lith., de Langlum?, Fig. 6, after p. 19, p. 365, Choris, Louis (dess.; lith.); Langlum?, Joseph (lith.), 1822, Louis Choris: Voyage ...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Corvus gymnocephalus, Print, The white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus) is a medium-sized bird in the family Picathartidae, with a long neck and tail. Also known as the white-necked picathartes, this passerine is mainly found in rocky forest...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Chamaeleo senegalensis, Print, The Senegal chameleon, Chamaeleo senegalensis, is a species of chameleon native to West Africa. Its range includes Senegal, Mali, Nigeria, and Cameroon, and it lives in moist savanna. Due to its wide range and unknown pop...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Larus fuscus, Print, The lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. It is migratory, wintering from the British Isles south to West Africa. It is a regular winter visitor to the east coast of N...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Cercopithecus diana, Print, The Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey found in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to C?te d'Ivoire., 1700-1880.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Scyllarus latus, Print, Scyllarides latus, the Mediterranean slipper lobster, is a species of slipper lobster found in the Mediterranean Sea and in the eastern Atlantic Ocean. It is edible and highly regarded as food, but is now rare over much of its r...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Caprimulgus ruficollis, Print, The red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) is the largest of the nightjars occurring in Europe. It breeds in Iberia and north Africa, and winters in tropical west Africa., 1700-1880.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Cercopithecus diana, Print, The Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey found in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to C?te d'Ivoire., 1700-1880.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Cercopithecus diana, Print, The Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey found in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to C?te d'Ivoire., 1700-1880.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Caprimulgus ruficollis, Print, The red-necked nightjar (Caprimulgus ruficollis) is the largest of the nightjars occurring in Europe. It breeds in Iberia and north Africa, and winters in tropical west Africa., 1842-1848.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Cercopithecus diana, Print, The Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey found in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to C?te d'Ivoire., 1700-1880.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Criniger barbatus, Print, The western bearded greenbul (Criniger barbatus) is a species of songbird in the bulbul family, Pycnonotidae. It is found in West Africa. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Garrulus glandarius, Print, The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) is a species of bird occurring over a vast region from Western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian Subcontinent and further to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-ea...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Cercopithecus nictitans, Print, The greater spot-nosed monkey or putty-nosed monkey (Cercopithecus nictitans) is one of the smallest Old World monkeys. It is a guenon of the C. mitis group, native to West Africa and living to some extent in rain forest...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Picathartes gymnocephalus, Print, The white-necked rockfowl (Picathartes gymnocephalus) is a medium-sized bird in the family Picathartidae, with a long neck and tail. Also known as the white-necked picathartes, this passerine is mainly found in rocky f...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Hydrocyon forskalii, Print, Hydrocynus is a genus of large characin fish in the family Alestidae commonly called "tigerfish, " endemic to the African continent. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek ?d?? ("water") + ???? ("dog"). (In fact, this ...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Garrulus glandarius, Print, The Eurasian jay (Garrulus glandarius) is a species of bird occurring over a vast region from Western Europe and north-west Africa to the Indian Subcontinent and further to the eastern seaboard of Asia and down into south-ea...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Larus fuscus, Print, The lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) is a large gull that breeds on the Atlantic coasts of Europe. It is migratory, wintering from the British Isles south to West Africa. It is a regular winter visitor to the east coast of N...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Cercopithecus diana, Print, The Diana monkey (Cercopithecus diana) is an Old World monkey found in West Africa, from Sierra Leone to C?te d'Ivoire., 1700-1880.
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Alcedo leucogaster, Print, The white-bellied kingfisher (Corythornis leucogaster) is a species of kingfisher in the subfamily Alcedininae that occurs in parts of equatorial west Africa. The first formal description of the species was by the British zoo...
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Mask, Late 19th century, Sha or Kulere, Nigeria, Coastal West Africa, Nigeria, Wood and rubber, H. 64.8 cm (25 1/2 in.).
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Mask for Egungun (Ere Egungun), Late 19th century, Yoruba, Iseyin, Nigeria, Coastal West Africa, Nigeria, Wood and pigment, 39.4 ? 25.4 ? 30.5 cm (15 1/2 ? 10 ? 12 in.).
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Figural Staff, Probably late 19th century, Baule, C?te d?Ivoire, Coastal West Africa, C?te d'Ivoire, Wood and iron, H. 160 cm (63 in.).
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Headdress (Jag?n Jag?n), Mid?/late 19th century, Yoruba, Ekiti region, Nigeria, Coastal West Africa, Nigeria, Wood, iron, nails, fiber, and sacrificial materials, H. 111.8 cm (44 in.).
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Esu Dance Staff (Ogo Elegbara), Mid?/late 19th century, Attributed to an unidentified Ketu master (active mid-19th century), Yoruba, Nigeria, Coastal West Africa, Nigeria, Wood, 25.4 ? 12.7 ? 12.7 cm (10 ? 5 ? 5 in.).
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Altar Stool, Mid?/late 19th century, Attributed to an unidentified Ketu master (active mid-19th century), Yoruba, Nigeria, Coastal West Africa, Nigeria, Wood and pigment, 40 ? 34.3 cm (15 3/4 ? 13 1/2 in.).
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Female Figure with Bowl, Late 19th century, Abogunde of Ede (active late 19th century), Yoruba, Nigeria, Coastal West Africa, Wood, beads, and traces of pigment, 62.2 ? 19 ? 31.7 cm (24 1/2 ? 7 1/2 ? 12 1/2 in.).
- 2019-11-18
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Editorial Tusk, 1850/1888, Edo, Kingdom of Benin, Nigeria, Coastal West Africa, Nigeria, Ivory, 150.5 ? 195.6 ? 12.7 cm (59 1/4 ? 77 ? 5 in.).
- 2019-10-28
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Editorial African sculptures showing persons in European clothing, with topees, ties, cameras. From West-Africa.
- 2019-08-02
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Editorial Wooden figure of a man with knife, seated in front of a mancala board; portrait of Shamba Boloncongo, 93rd Great Chief of the Bushongo. Mushenge (Mingenza), Kasai; Congo, West Africa. Around 1600. Inv. 1909-12-10-1.
- 2019-08-02
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Editorial Marabout Mandingue. A Marabout (Muslim religious leader and teacher in West Africa.), of the Mandingo people. Esquisses se?ne?galaises, etc. Paris, 1853. Source: 10096.h.9 plate 10.
- 2019-07-16
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Editorial Homme et femme Toucoulaures. Marabout faisant un Grigri. A man and woman of the Toucouleur people of West Africa. A Marabout (Muslim religious leader and teacher in West Africa.). Esquisses se?ne?galaises, etc. Paris, 1853. Source: 10096.h.9 plate 20.
- 2019-07-09
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Editorial Title page of a translation of the epsitle of St. Paul, from New Testament. Yoruba is a language spoken in West Africa mainly in Nigeria. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. Translated into Yoruba ... by the Rev. Samuel Crowther. London : C....
- 2019-07-09
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Editorial Mandinka (Mandingo) man and woman of West Africa. From Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta ...
- 2019-02-22
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Editorial Vessel: Footed Base.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial Vessel Lid.
- 2019-02-11
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Editorial A Dutch settlement on the west coast of West Africa. Maker: anonymous. Dating: 1863 - 1873. Place: West-Afrika. Measurements: h 950 mm ? w 610 mm; h 1020 mm ? w 670 mm.
- 2019-02-01
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Editorial Bance Island, in the Sierra Leone River. Bance Island, run by the British commericial forms, was one of the major slave trading operations on the Rice Coast of West Africa. Observations upon the Windward Coast of Africa, the religion, character, custom...
- 2019-01-24
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Editorial 1670, Ogilby Map of West Africa, Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast.
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial 1743, Homann Heirs Map of West Africa, Slave Trade references Guinea.
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial 1743, Homann Heirs Map of West Africa or Guinea.
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial 1770, Bonne Map of West Africa, Guinea, the Bight of Benin, Congo, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial 1765, Bonne Map of West Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and Benin, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial 1771, Bonne Map of the Guinea Coast of West Africa and the Cape Verde Islands, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial Map of Oceanvs Occidentalis. A map of the Eastern Ocean. The atlantic ocean and the Americas. Terra Incognita. West Africa. . Map of the Ancient World. Lithographed from an atlas to Ptolemy’s Geography ... Rome, 1478]. Strasbourg. Published in 1513. ...
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), founder of French Congo in bush clothing, 1886. He was an explorer of Italian nationality, who single-handedly opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo River that eventually led to French colo...
- 2019-01-23
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Editorial A map of German South-West Africa, Southern portion. . "Cape Times" Map of German South-West Africa, Southern portion. [Scale,] 50 miles[ = 70 mm]. Cape Town : "Cape Times", [1914]. 580 x 640 mm.; [Scale,] 50 miles[ = 70 mm]. Source: Maps.64615.(18).
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Bance Island, in the Sierra Leone River. Bance Island, run by the British commericial forms, was one of the major slave trading operations on the Rice Coast of West Africa. Observations upon the Windward Coast of Africa, the religion, character, custom...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Orishetukeh Faduma, B.D. Native of the Yoruba tribe, West Africa; Educated in Sierra Leone, London and Yale University. Orishatukeh Faduma, teacher and minister, was born in Guyana, South America (formerly British Guiana). He attended London University...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Illustrated front cover. Charles Andrew Gollmer, his life and missionary labours in West Africa / compiled from his journals and the Church Missionary Society's Publications, by his eldest son ; with a preface by T. Fowell Buxton Esq. ; with photograph...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Men, women and children from West Africa. The men are carrying guns. Die Nigritier. Eine anthropologisch-ethnologische Monographie, etc. Berlin, Leipzig [printed], 1876, etc. Source: 10006.g.4, plate XL. Language: German.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Weapons and other articles from South West Africa. The history of mankind / Trans from the second German edited by A. J. Butler. v. 3, 1898. [S.l.] : Macmillan, 1896-1898. Source: 572*3343* vol III, plate before f.101. Language: English.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Marabout Mandingue. A Marabout (Muslim religious leader and teacher in West Africa.), of the Mandingo people. Esquisses se?ne?galaises, etc. Paris, 1853. Source: 10096.h.9 plate 10.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial North and South West Africa shewing the course of the Niger, and principal rivers, from the latest authorities, By W. Hutton. A Voyage to Africa, including a narrative of an embassy to one of the interior Kingdoms in the year 1820, with remarks on the ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial James white preaching before King Akitoye. Charles Andrew Gollmer, his life and missionary labours in West Africa ... London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1889. Source: 4888.b.64, page 57.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial West Africa; Cape Verde Islands. Portolano. Italy; 1468. [Whole chart] Chart of the coast of west Africa, south of Cape Blanco, with the Cape Verde Islands. Probably made for Prospero Camulio de Medicis, Bishop of Caithness Image taken from Portolano ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A plan of cape coast castle. Cape Coast Castle is one of about forty "slave castles", or large commercial forts, built on the Gold Coast of West Africa by European traders. Thirty different Drafts of Guinea by William Smith, Surveyor to ye Royal Afric...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Homme et femme Toucoulaures. Marabout faisant un Grigri. A man and woman of the Toucouleur people of West Africa. A Marabout (Muslim religious leader and teacher in West Africa.). Esquisses se?ne?galaises, etc. Paris, 1853. Source: 10096.h.9 plate 20.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Title page of a translation of the epsitle of St. Paul, from New Testament. Yoruba is a language spoken in West Africa mainly in Nigeria. The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans. Translated into Yoruba ... by the Rev. Samuel Crowther. London : C....
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial A basket made in three pieces; one open and one closed specimen. On the right, a basket covered with shells from the interior of West Africa- one quarter real size. The history of mankind / Trans from the second German edited by A. J. Butler. v. 3, 189...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Consulting Ifa. Three African woman having a discussion. Charles Andrew Gollmer, his life and missionary labours in West Africa / compiled from his journals and the Church Missionary Society's Publications, by his eldest son ; with a preface by T. Fowe...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Jelleman of Soolimana. Jelleman of Kooranko. Musicians of West Africa. Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries in western Africa / by Alexander Gordon Laing. London : J. Murray, 1825. Source: G.2972 facing page 148.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial 'Group of West Africans (Gold coast) now resident in London, and their friends'. West Africa. 1900. Source: West Africa page 208.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Fetish customs for the dead, little Popo, West Africa. The Story of Africa and its Explorers. London, 1896-98. Source: 10094.f.3 vol.III, opp.112.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Jellemen of Soolimana. Musicians of West Africa. Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima countries in western Africa / by Alexander Gordon Laing. London : J. Murray, 1825. Source: G.2972 page 369.
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Map of Oceanvs Occidentalis. A map of the Eastern Ocean. The atlantic ocean and the Americas. Terra Incognita. West Africa. . Map of the Ancient World. Lithographed from an atlas to Ptolemy’s Geography ... Rome, 1478]. Strasbourg. Published in 1513. ...
- 2018-12-06
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Editorial Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), founder of French Congo in bush clothing, 1886. He was an explorer of Italian nationality, who single-handedly opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo River that eventually led to French colo...
- 2018-10-11
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Editorial Lidded Saltcellar.
- 2018-08-08
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Editorial Vessel: Footed Base.
- 2018-08-06
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Editorial Vessel Lid.
- 2018-08-06
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Editorial 1670, Ogilby Map of West Africa, Gold Coast, Slave Coast, Ivory Coast.
- 2018-08-06
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Editorial 1743, Homann Heirs Map of West Africa, Slave Trade references Guinea.
- 2018-08-06
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Editorial 1743, Homann Heirs Map of West Africa or Guinea.
- 2018-08-06
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Editorial 1770, Bonne Map of West Africa, Guinea, the Bight of Benin, Congo, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
- 2018-08-03
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Editorial 1765, Bonne Map of West Africa, the Gulf of Guinea, and Benin, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
- 2018-08-03
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Editorial 1771, Bonne Map of the Guinea Coast of West Africa and the Cape Verde Islands, Rigobert Bonne 1727 ? 1794, one of the most important cartographers of the late 18th century.
- 2018-08-03
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Editorial Cache-Sexe, 12th century, Mali, Tellem peoples, Fiber, 3 1/4 x 6in. (8.3 x 15.2cm), Basketry-Costumes, This carefully crafted object is part of a rare group of female 'modesty skirts,' which are thought to have been worn low on the hips and held in pla...
- 2018-08-02
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Editorial Cache-Sexe, 12th century, Mali, Tellem peoples, Fiber, 3 x 7 1/2in. (7.6 x 19.1cm), Basketry-Costumes, This carefully crafted object is part of a rare group of female 'modesty skirts,' which are thought to have been worn low on the hips and held in pla...
- 2018-08-02
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Editorial Mandinka (Mandingo) man and woman of West Africa. From Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno?s Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta ...
- 2018-08-02
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Editorial Costumes of the Mandingo or Mandinka people, west Africa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Antonio Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843.
- 2018-07-30
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Editorial The learned Abbas Gregorius, an Amharic Ethiopian, and Hausa man of west Africa. Handcoloured lithograph from James Cowles Prichard's Natural History of Man, Balliere, London, 1855.
- 2018-07-26
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Editorial Macrosphyra longistyla, native to West Africa (Long-styled gardenia, Gardenia longistyla). Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.
- 2018-07-26
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Editorial SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA, 1851 engraving.
- 2018-07-25
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Editorial VIEW OF THE ROADSTEAD AND TOWN OF SAN PAOLO DE LOANDA, WEST AFRICA.
- 2018-07-25
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Editorial FIGHTING ON THE GAMBIA IN WEST AFRICA: THE CAPTURE OF TONIATABA, 1892 engraving.
- 2018-07-25
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Editorial ENCAMPMENT AT JASWONG, GAMBIA, WEST AFRICA, 1851 engraving.
- 2018-07-25
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Editorial Native thatched hut under palm trees in Senegambia (Senegal and Gambia), west Africa. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures), Meiss...
- 2018-07-24
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Editorial HIPPOPOTAMUS HUNTING IN ANGOLA, WEST AFRICA, 1880.
- 2018-07-24
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Editorial Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852-1905), founder of French Congo in bush clothing, 1886. He was an explorer of Italian nationality, who single-handedly opened up for France entry along the right bank of the Congo River that eventually led to French colo...
- 2018-07-11
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Editorial African sculptures showing persons in European clothing, with topees, ties, cameras. From West-Africa.
- 2018-06-27
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Editorial Wooden figure of a man with knife, seated in front of a mancala board; portrait of Shamba Boloncongo, 93rd Great Chief of the Bushongo. Mushenge (Mingenza), Kasai; Congo, West Africa. Around 1600. Inv. 1909-12-10-1.
- 2018-06-27
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