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Catalogue 94: African Art

Michael Graves-Johnston, 54 Stockwell Park Road, London SW9 0DA, U.K.

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  1. African Arts. Published quarterly by the University of California. Vols. I-XXIII, Nos. 1-90, 1967-1990. Los Angeles: U.C.L.A., 1967-1990 Wrpps, 4to. On average 100pp. each. Numerous articles, plates, illustrations, and maps, (some coloured).
    Also with 7 indexes, from 1967-1988.
    An excellent set in the original wrappers of this important journal.     £ 1,500.00


  2. ALLISON, Philip. African Stone Sculpture. London: Lund Humpries, 1968 Roy.8vo. vii,71pp. 99 illustrations on plates, 3 maps, biblio. index, dw. Covering Yoruba, Cross River, Sierra Leone, Congo, Zimbabwe, etc. £ 30.00


  3. ANTON, Ferdinand et al. Primitive Art: Pre-Columbian, North American Indian, African, Oceanic. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1979 4to. 526pp. 302 colour and 262 monochrome plates and illustrations, 7 maps, 2 charts, biblio., index, dw.
    With the section on Pre-Columbian art by Anton, Later Indian Tribal Arts by Frederick Dockstader, African Art by Margaret Trowell, and Oceanic Art by Hans Nevermann.
    An excellent copy in the publisher’s dust-wrapper.     £ 50.00


  4. ARMATTOE, R. E. G. The Golden Age of West African Civilization. By Dr. R. E. G. Armattoe, F.S.A.Scot. With an introduction by Prof. Dr. E. Schroedinger, Nobel Prizewinner. Londonderry: Published for the Lomeshie Research Centre for Anthropology and Race Biology by “The Londonderry Sentinel”., 1946
    Wrpps, Roy.8vo. 25 plates, biblio.
    “The following pages contain a brief sketch of some of the problems connected with the history of an African community, the Ewes, living in Togoland” - from the preface. The author was from Togoland. A very nice copy in the publisher’s printed wrappers.     £ 90.00


  5. Arts d’Afrique Noire, 26. Ete 1978. Arnouville: 1973 Wrpps, Cr.4to. 56pp. £ 25.00


  6. ATKINS, Guy (Ed.). Manding Art and Civilisation. London: Published by Studio International on the occasion of an exhibition ‘Manding: Focus on an African Civilisation’ at the Department of Ethnography, British Museum, 1972
    Wrpps, Cr.4to. 47pp. 32 plates, map, biblio.     £ 15.00


  7. ATTENBOROUGH, David (Introduction by). African Tribal Sculpture. The Arcade Gallery, Autumn 1978 London: Arcade Gallery exhibition catalogue, 1978
    Wrpps, Square 8vo. 16pp. 26 plates, (1 colour).     £ 5.00


  8. BASLER, Adlophe. L’Art chez les Peuples Primitifs: Afrique, Océanie, Archipel Malais, Amérique et Terres Arctiques, Styles et Civilisations. Paris: Librairie de France, 1929 Modern maroon buckram spine with paper covered boards, retaining original printed front wrapper, 4to. v,83,4pp. 192 illustrations of tribal art on 106 plates, biblio. The pieces shown are from Museum collections in Paris, Leiden, Oxford, Berlin, Munich, Vienna, Philadelphia, and Tervuren; and from numerous private collections in Paris. A nice bound copy of this important early work. £ 125.00


  9. BALFOUR, Henry. Ceremonial Paddle of the Kalabari of Southern Nigeria. [Reprinted from “Man”, 1917, 44.]. Man, a monthly record of anthropological Science. London: Published by The Royal Anthropological Institute, 1917
    Wrpps, 4to. 2pp. plate.     £ 12.00


  10. BALFOUR, Henry. Notes on a Collection of Ancient Stone Implements from Ejura, Ashanti. London: Reprinted from the Journal of the African Society, 1912
    Wrpps, 8vo. ii,16pp. 4 plates, 5 text figures.     £ 18.00


  11. BALFOUR, Henry. The Tandu Industry in Northern Nigeria and its Affinities Elsewhere. [Reprinted from “Essays presented to C. G. Seligman”, 1934.]. London: Kegan Paul, Trench. Trubner & Co., 1934 Wrpps, Roy.8vo. 5-18pp. 5 plates, 5 figures. “One of the objectives of a tour which I made in Nigeria in 1930, was to see for myself the process, as practised by the Hausawa, of making flasks, boxes, and other receptacles from animal membranes,...” £ 12.00


  12. BASCOM, William. African Arts: An Exhibition at the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley, April 6 - October 22, 1966 Wrpps, Square Med.8vo. vi,90pp. 190 illustrations on plates, maps, biblio. £ 25.00


  13. BASTIN, Marie-Louise. La Sculpture Tshokwe. Traduction et adaptation en anglais
    J. B. Donne. Meudon: Alain et Françoise Chaffin, 1982 4to.
    293pp. 16 colour plates, 197 monochrome illustrations, maps, biblio., dw.
    With bi-lingual French and English texts     £ 350.00


  14. BEIER, Ulli. African Mud Sculpture. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1963 Oblong Cr.4to. 96pp. 77 illustrations from photographs, dw. £ 25.00


  15. BEIER, Ulli. Contemporary Art in Africa. London: Pall Mall Press, 1968 Cr.4to. xiv,173pp. 11 colour and 99 monochrome plates and illustrations, index, chipped dw. £ 30.00


  16. BEIER, Ulli. Yoruba Beaded Crowns. Sacred Regalia of the Olokuku of Okuku. Ethnographic Arts and Cutlure Series, 1. London: Ethnographica, In association with the National Museum, Lagos, 1982 Square 8vo.
    v,114pp. numerous plates and illustrations, (12 colour), index, dw.     £ 100.00


  17. BESSON, Maurice. Le Totémisme. Bibliothèque Générale Illustrée 10. Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1929 Wrpps, Cr.8vo. 80pp. 60 collotype plates, biblio. Totemism in ancient and tribal cultures with many illustrations of examples of ethnographic art. £ 30.00


  18. BIDDER, Irmgard. Lalibela: The Monolithic Churches of Ethiopia. Translated from the German by Rita Grabham-Hortmann. Cologne: M. DuMont Schauberg, 1958 Roy.4to. 137pp. 68 figures on plates, (many coloured), 48 text illustrations, end-paper maps, appendix, biblio., index, dw, slipcase. The appendix is attached to the rear board and contains (among other illustrations), ground plans of the churches.
    “As the wife of the Geman Ambassador in Addis Ababa, Irmgard Bidder was able to carry out her research into the Lalibela monoliths with the support and encouragemant of the highest government authorities.” An excellent copy in the publisher’s red cloth with the dustwrapper and slipcase.     £ 150.00


  19. BODROGI, Tibor. Art in Africa. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1968
    4to. 131pp. 8 colour and 191 monochrome plates, maps, biblio., index, dw.
    The illustrations are of pieces from the Ethnographic museums in Dresden, Budapest, Leipzig and Prague.     £ 45.00

  20. BOSER, Renée & Alain Jeanneret. Schwarzafrika Plastik. Führer durch das Museum für Völkerkunde Basel. Basel: 1969 Wrpps, 8vo. 83pp. 68 illustrations, map, biblio. £ 15.00

  21. BOUDRY, Robert. L’Art Decoratif Malgache. Extract from “La Revue de Madagascar, Publication trimestrielle - No. 2, Avril 1933. Tananarive: Imprimerie Officielle, 1933 Binder’s cloth with original colour printed wrappers bound-in, Cr.4to. iii,23-82pp. 32 collotype plates. Extracted from “La Revue de Madagascar” and bound in a white vellum style cloth with the original wrappers bound-in, a very nice copy. £ 90.00

  22. BOXER, Charles R. & Carlos de Azevedo. A Fortaleza de Jesus e os Portugueses em Mombaça. Lisboa: Centro de Estudos Históricos Ultramarinos, 1960 Wrpps, 8vo. 127pp. 21 plates, numerous illustrations, maps and plans, biblio. The Winterton copy with his bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s cream wrappers. £ 45.00

  23. BRADLEY, D. E. Traditional African Sculpture from the Britt Family Collection. Notre Dame: Snite Museum Exhibition catalogue, 1982
    Wrpps, 4to. 16pp. 10 illustrations, biblio.,     £ 8.00

  24. BREUIL, Abbe Henri. Anibib & Omandumba and other Erongo Sites. The Rock Paintings of Southern Africa: Volume IV. With the collaboration of Mary E. Boyle, Dr. E. R. Scherz and R. G. Strey. Published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through Trianon Press, 1960 Imp.4to. vi,39pp. colour frontispiece and numerous colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, 3 maps, slipcase. A very nice copy in the publisher’s slipcase. £ 175.00

  25. BREUIL, Abbé Henri. Phillip Cave. The Rock Paintings of Southern Africa: Volume Two. With the collaboration of Mary E. Boyle and Dr. E. R. Scherz.
    London: Abbé Breuil Publications, 1957 Morocco spine, Imp.4to. vi,21pp. colour frontispiece and 28 colour plates, 30 illustration from photographs, slipcase.
    One of the 110 numbered copies on Arches pure rag, mould made paper, with the morocco spine, signed by the Abbé Breuil.     £ 300.00

  26. BREUIL, Abbé Henri. Phillip Cave. The Rock Paintings of Southern Africa: Volume Two. With the collaboration of Mary E. Boyle and Dr. E. R. Scherz.
    London: Abbé Breuil Publications, 1957 Imp.4to. vi,21pp. colour frontispiece and 28 colour plates, 30 illustration from photographs, dw.     £ 200.00

  27. BREUIL, Henri. Les Roches Peintes d’Afrique Australe, leurs Auteurs et leur Age. In “L’Anthropologie, Tome 53, No. 5-6.” Paris: Masson et Cie, 1950
    Wrpps, Roy.8vo. 377-406pp. 15 illustrations.     £ 20.00


  28. BREUIL, Henri. Southern Rhodesia. The District of Fort Victoria and other sites. The Rock Paintings of Southern Africa: Volume Five. With the collaboration of Mary E. Boyle. Foreward by Roger Heim. Clairvaux and Paris: Published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation through Trianon Press, 1966 Imp.4to. xiv,119pp. colour frontispiece and numerous colour and monochrome plates and illustrations, slipcase. Produced in an edition of 420 copies, this is one of the 15 numbered copies printed on Arches pure rag mould-made paper in the quarter morocco binding. £ 300.00

  29. BRITISH MUSEUM. Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections. London: British Museum, 1910 8vo. xvi,304pp. colour frontispiece and 14 plates, 275 illustrations 3 maps, index. A very nice copy of the first edition in the original dark green cloth. £ 100.00

  30. BRIZZI, Bruno (Ed.). The Pigorini Museum. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 1976 Roy.4to. 424pp. 120 colour and 460 monochrome plates, 5 maps, dw.
    An excellent copy in the publisher’s dustwrapper of the superb catalogue of the important ethnographic collections in the Pigorini Museum in Rome.     £ 90.00

  31. BUXTON, L. H. Dudley. The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Farnham: General Handbook. Farnham Museum: 1929 Cr.8vo. 63pp. 26 plates.
    Many of the plates show items from the ethnographic holdings including the Benin collection, pieces from the Pacific, America as well as antiquities.
    An excellent copy in the publisher’s printed grey paper covered boards.     £ 20.00

  32. CAMPS-FABRER, Henriette. Bijoux Berbères d’Algérie. Grande Kabylie - Aurès. Dessins: Yvette Assié. Publié avec le concours du Conseil Régional Provence - Alps - Côte d’Azur. Office Régional de la Culture. Aix-en-Provence: Édisud, 1990
    Med.4to. 144pp. 233 illustrations (64 colour), map, biblio., dw.     £ 40.00

  33. CARROLL, Kevin. Yoruba Religious Carving. Pagan and Christian Sculpture in Nigeria and Dahomey. Foreword by William Fagg. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967 4to. xi,172pp. 2 colour and 128 monochrome plates, illustrations, end-paper maps, biblio. index, dw.
    “But there can be no doubt about the thoroughness with which the author has prepared the ground. He has made a detailed study of Yoruba life, religion and traditions, of Nigerian art from the earliest times to the present day, and in particular of four traditional carvers personally known to him, their techniques and intentions.” - from the dustwrapper. A very nice copy in the dustwrapper.     £ 250.00

  34. CARTER, J. et al. Masterpieces from the Sir Henry Wellcome Collection at UCLA. Los Angeles: UCLA, 1966 Wrpps, 8vo. 165 numerous illustrations, biblio. £ 12.00

  35. CHAPPEL, T. J. H. Decorated Gourds in North-Eastern Nigeria. London: Ethnographica for The Nigerian Museum, 1977 4to. vii,222pp. 257 plates and illustrations in colour and monochrome, map, biblio., index, dw.
    A comprehensive analysis of the art of the four cultural groups, the settled Fulani, the Pastoral Fulani, the Bata, and the Ungai.     £ 30.00

  36. CHAUVET, Dr. Stephen. Musique Nègre. Considérations : Technique, Instruments de Musique (92 fig.), Recueil de 118 airs notés. Paris: Société d’Éditions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales, 1929 Recent dark blue buckram with original front wrapper bound-in, 4to. 242pp. 92 illustrations on plates and in-text, biblio., 118 musical examples. With the many fine illustrations of musical instruments, etc. £ 150.00


  37. CHOJNACKI, Stanislaw. Ethiopian Icons. Catalogue of the Collection of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University. In collaboration with Carolyn Gossage. Milan: Skira, 2000 4to. 516pp. numerous colour plates, biblio., index, dw.
    “...this substantial repository constitutes the largest and most representative collection of Ethiopian panel paintings in the world.” The Winterton copy with his bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s black cloth with the dustwrapper.     £ 75.00

  38. CLAERHOUT, Adr. G. Afrikaanse Kunst. Een gezamenlijke uitgave van de Nederlandse Stichting Openbaar kunstbezit en Openbaar Kunstbezit in Vlaanderen in samenwerking met het Prins Bernhardfonds 1971. 4to. 88pp. 16 colour and 45 monochrome plates, map, biblio. The fine photographs of African sculpture depict examples from Belgium and Dutch collections. £ 12.00

  39. CLOUZOT, Henri (Intro.). Tissus Nègres. Introduction par Henri Clouzot, Conservateur du Musée Galliera. Paris: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, A. Calavas, Editeur. nd. (1931) Publisher’s cloth backed portfolio printed with a Kuba cloth design, Roy.4to. 12pp. 48 collotype plates, (6 coloured).
    Most of the examples of cloth are from the Bakuba, (36 plates), but examples from the Bambara, Ivory Coast, and Ruanda are also represented. Slight wear to spine.     £ 475.00

  40. COART, E. La Nattes. Annales du Musée du Congo Belge: Ethnographie et Anthropologie, Série III. Tome II: Les Industries Indigènes, Fascicule 2 et dernier. Tervuren: 1927 Wrpps, Imp.4to. 8pp. 43 colour plates.
    The fine plates show 118 examples of mats and rugs reproduced in colour. The work was issued unbound in a card portfolio, slight wear to card portfolio, a very nice copy in the publisher’s printed wrappers.     £ 375.00

  41. COART, E. Les Arts Congolais, Vannerie et Tissage. Par Monsieur Coart, Chef de Section au Musée Congo Belge, Préface de Madame C. Dangotte. Bruxelles: Édité par la Renaissance d’Occident sous les Auspices de l’Union des Femmes Coloniales, 1926 portfolio of stiff wrappers, Imp.4to. 34,(5)pp. 43 colour plates, 58 black and white illustrations. The text bound into the portfolio, the plates loose in portfolio as issued. The fine plates show 118 examples of mats and rugs reproduced in colour. The plates are numbered XXII-LXIV, the preceding plates being part of the seperate publication “Annales du Musee du Congo: Ethnographie et Anthropologie, Serie III. Tome II: Les Industries Indigenes, Fascicule 1” of 1907. This publication was produced seperately from the Tervuren Series but used the colour plates while the text written by Coart was not reproduced in the Tervuren series. The paper spine on the portfolio has been retored in a similiar coloured paper retaining the original lettering, a very nice copy in the publisher’s printed dark pink wrappers. [Gaskin: 3287] £ 600.00

  42. COART, E. & A. de Haulleville. La Ceramique. Bruxelles: Annales du Musee du Congo: Ethnographie et Anthropologie, Serie III. Tome II: Les Industries Indigenes, Fascicule 1, 1907 Binder’s blue buckram, Imp.4to. 194pp. 295 coloured illustrations of ceramics from the Congo on 21 coloured plates, numerous text-illustrations. This work was issued unbound in a card portfolio, this copy has been bound in blue buckram with the original front wrapper bound in. A very nice copy of this survey of Congolese pottery. [Gaskin: 3286] £ 250.00


  43. CORNET, Joseph. A Survey of Zairian Art: The Bronson Collection. Raleigh, North Carolina: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1978 Square 4to. 379pp. 68 colour and 207 monochrome plates, coloured style-area maps, bibliography, index, dw.
    A mint copy of this lavish and detailed work on the arts of the Congo in the publisher’s orange embossed dust-wrapper.     £ 50.00


  44. CORNET, Joseph. Art Fom Zaire: 100 Masterworks from the National Collection. An exhibition of traditional art from the Institute of the National Museums of Zaire. New York: African-American Institute, 1975 Wrpps, 4to.
    134pp. 100 plates, (9 colour), map, biblio.     £ 36.00


  45. CORY, H. African Figurines. Their Ceremonial Use in Puberty Rites in Tanganyika. London: Faber and Faber, 1956 Roy.8vo. 176pp. 163 illustrations of figurines, biblio., appendix, chipped dw. £ 50.00


  46. DELANGE, Jacqueline (Intro.). Arts Connus et Arts Meconnus de l’Afrique Noire: Collection Paul Tishman. Paris: Musee de l’Homme, 1966 Wrpps, 4to.
    xiv,108pp. 54 plates, biblio.     £ 30.00


  47. DITTMER, Kunz. Kunst und Handwerk in Westafrika. Wegweiser zur Völkerkunde Heft 8. Hamburg: Museum für Völkerkunde, 1966 Wrpps, 8vo.
    40pp. 33 plates, 34 illustrations, map, biblio.     £ 18.00


  48. DUCHATEAU, Armand. Benin Kunst einer Königskultur. Die Benin-Sammlung des Museums für Völkerkunde Wien. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1990 4to. 135pp.
    40 coloured plates, coloured map, numerous text illustrations, glossary, biblio., dw.     £ 25.00


  49. DUPONCHEEL, Christian. Esthétique Negre. Photos Suzy Embo. Bruxelles:
    Edition Cowries Gallery, 1970 Wrpps, Cr.8vo. 11pp. 21 plates.     £ 12.00


  50. DWYER, Jane Powell & Edward. Traditional Art of Africa, Oceania and the Americas. San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums, 1973 Cr.4to.
    vii,167pp. numerous plates and illustrations, (many colour), maps, biblio., dw.     £ 15.00


  51. EINSTEIN, Carl. Afrikanische Plastik. Berlin: Wasmuth, nd (1921) Orbis Pictus Band 7. Boards, Cr.4to. 32pp. 48 plates, biblio. £ 30.00


  52. EINSTEIN, Carl. Negerplastik. Mit 116 Abbildungen. Zweite Auflage. Munchen: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1920 Boards, Cr.4to. xxviipp. 108 plates, dw.
    A excellent copy kept in nice condition by the original plain paper dust-wrapper.     £ 150.00


  53. ELISOFON, Eliot & William Fagg. The Sculpture of Africa. Text by William Fagg. Preface by Ralph Linton. Design by Bernard Quint. 405 photographs. London: Thames & Hudson, 1958 Imp.4to. 256pp. 321 plates, maps, end-paper maps, biblio., dw.
    A very nice copy of one of the most influential books on African art. Stunning photographs by Elisofon with the text by William Fagg.     £ 125.00


  54. ELKAN, Walter. The East African Trade in Woodcarvings. International African Institute. Reprinted from Africa, Vol. XXVIII, No. 4. October 1958. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958 Wrpps, Med.8vo. 10pp.
    “No one who has visited East Africa has come away without seeing the woodcarvings made and sold by the Kamba.” With a presentation inscription from the author.     £ 12.00


  55. ESTERMANN, Carlos. Album de Penteados Do Sudoeste de Angola. Lisboa: Junta de Investigacoes do Ultramar, 1960 Wrpps, Cr.4to. 37pp. 54 fine portraits showing elaborate hair-styles, with Portuguese and French text. £ 45.00


  56. Ethiopian Processional Crosses. London: Society of Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, 1969 Wrpps, small folio. [16 x 12 inches]. Containg 12 loose plates of Ethiopian crosses.
    “This album was published through the generosity of the Haile Sellassie I Prize Trust which granted funds to the Institute of Ethiopian Studies.” The Winterton copy with his bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s printed wrappers.     £ 60.00


  57. Ethnography Exhibition Handbooks. London: British Museum, 1970 Printed card folder secured by a ribbon containing five Ethnography exhibition handbooks. The five handbooks are:-
    (1). William Fagg: Divine Kingship in Africa.
    (2). James Woodburn: Hunters and Gatherers, the material culture of the nomadic Hadza. (3). William Fagg and John Picton: The Potter’s Art in Africa.
    (4). William Fagg: The Raffles Gamelan, a historic note.
    (5). Jeune Scott-Kemball: Javanese Shadow Puppets. An excellent set.     £ 75.00


  58. Exposition de Bronzes et Ivories du Royaume de Benin. 15 Juin - 15 Juillet 1932. Paris: Musee d’Ethnographie, Palais du Trocadero, 1932 Wrpps, Cr.8vo.
    xiv,33pp. 12 plates, with 20 pages of adverts. The exhibition consisted of 130 pieces from private and museum collections in France, Germany and Great Britain.
    A very nice copy in the publisher’s printed wrappers.     £ 125.00


  59. EZRA, Kate. African Ivories. New York: Metropolitan Museum, 1984 Wrpps, Cr.4to. 32pp. 24 illustrations, (15 in colour), map, biblio. A very nice copy in the publisher’s wrappers. £ 12.00


  60. FAGALY, William A. (Foreword). New Orleans Collects: African Art. New Orleans: Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, 1968 Wrpps, Imp.8vo. 12pp. 26 plates. £ 8.00


  61. FAGG, William. African Sculpture from the Tara Collection exhibited by Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Gillon. Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, 1971 Wrpps, 4to.
    60pp. 4 colour, 38 monochrome plates, biblio. Containing some newspaper cuttings relating to the auction sale of the Gillon collection and with several annotations in pencil of the prices fetched at that sale.     £ 20.00


  62. FAGG, William. Nigeria. 2000 Jahre Plastik. Photos Herbert List. Munchen: Staedtische Galerie exhibition catalogue, 1961 Wrpps, 4to.
    128pp. 73 plates, map, biblio., torn dw.     £ 36.00


  63. FAGG, William. Nigerian Images. Photographs by Herbert List. London: Lund Humphries, 1963 4to. 124pp. 145 plates, map, biblio., dw. £ 40.00


  64. FAGG, William. The Webster Plass Collection of African Art. The Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition held in the King Edward VII Galleries of the British Museum, 1953. London: Published by The Trustees of the British Museum, 1953
    Wrpps, square 8vo. 46pp. 47 plates, map, biblio.
    A very nice copy in the publisher’s illustrated brown wrappers.     £ 25.00


  65. FAGG, William & Fred Uhlman. West Africa: Court and Tribal Art. London: Arts Council exhibition catalogue, 1967 Wrpps, 8vo. 8pp. 5 plates. African art from the collections of Fred Uhlman and Adolph Schwarz. £ 10.00


  66. FAGG, William (Intro.). Ancient Benin. Art of Primitive Peoples, No.18. London: Berkeley Galleries Exhibition catalogue, 1947 Wrpps, Med 8vo. 16pp. 10 illustrations, map. Includes other African material as well as some Oceanic and American. £ 50.00


  67. FAGG, William and John Picton. The Potters Art in Africa. London: British Museum, 1970 Wrpps, 8vo. 48pp. numerous plates, (6 colour). £ 15.00


  68. FAUBLÉE, J. L’Ethnographie de Madagascar. Musee de L’Homme. Avec la collaboration de R. Falck, R. Hartweg et G. Rouget. Préface de M. de Coppet. Les Édit. de France et d’Outre-Mer, La Nouvelle Édition. France: Bibliothèque d’Outre-Mer, 1946 Binder’s half morocco with original wrappers bound-in, 8vo. 170pp. numerous collotype plates and text illustrations, map, biblio. Signed on the front wrapper by R. Falck, who was responsible for the fine and detailed line-drawings of the ethnographic objects. In a fine orange half morocco with marbled endpapers and top edge gilt, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London. £ 175.00


  69. FAX, Elton C. West African Vignettes. New York: American Society of African Culture, 1960 Wrpps, Cr.4to. 62pp. numerous plates from drawings of people and scenes in West Africa. £ 30.00


  70. FISCHER, Eberhard & Hans Himmelheber. Das Gold in der Kunst Westafrikas. Zurich: Museum Rietberg, 1975 Wrpps, square 8vo. 68pp. 162 illustrations, biblio. £ 18.00


  71. Folclore Musical de Angola / Angola Folk-Music. Collection of Magnetic Tapes and Disks. In two volumes. Diamang, Dundo - Lunda - Angola, Servicos Culturais, Museu Do Dundo. Lisboa: 1961 - 1967 Cr.folio.
    (1). Volume 1. Chokwe People (Lóvua area) - Lunda District. 296pp. 60 illustrations (5 colour), 2 coloured maps.
    (2). Volume II. Chokwe People (Camissombo area) - Lunda District. 306pp.
    60 illustrations (4 colour), 2 maps (1 folding).
    An exhaustive study of Angolan folklore and music, in Portuguese with parallel English translations. Slight bumping to heads of spines, a very nice copy in the publisher’s printed red and yellow boards.     £ 75.00


  72. FORMAN, Werner and Philip Dark. Benin Art. London: Paul Hamlyn, 1960 4to. 59pp. frontispiece and 92 plates, (some colour), map, biblio., dw, slipcase. £ 25.00


  73. FROBENIUS, L. Der Kameruner Schiffsschnabel und seine motive. Abhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinischen Deutschen Akademie der NaturforscherBand LXX. Nr. 1. Halle: Druck von Ehrhardt Karras, 1897
    Publisher’s cloth backed printed boards, Roy.4to.
    95pp. 6 lithographed plates, (4 double-page and 2 in colour).
    The fine plates show 32 examples of wooden figure carving from the ornamented prows of canoes from the Cameroons. The volume also contains 4 other papers on natural history.     £ 120.00


  74. FROBENIUS, Leo. Der Kopfals Schicksal. Munchen: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1924 Cr.4to. vi,189pp. 12 portraits of Africans taken from drawings or photographs mounted on black card, 1 text-illustration. A nice copy in the original orange cloth. £ 60.00


  75. FROBENIUS, L. Die Masken und Geheimbünde Afrikas. Nova Acta, Abh. der Kaiserl. Leop.-Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher. Band LXXIV. Nr. 1. Mit 14 tafeln. Nr. I-XIV und 33 textfiguren. Eingegangen bei der Akademie am 3. Juni 1898. Halle: Druck von Ehrhardt Karras, 1898 Roy.4to.
    278pp. 9 double-page and 4 full page plates (4 coloured and 5 collotype), 33 text illustrations, coloured map, index. The fine plates show numerous examples of African masks, the coloured plates have printed tissue overlays.     £ 900.00


  76. FROBENIUS, Leo (Ed.). Das Urbild. Cicerone zur vorgeschichtlichen reichsbildergalerie. Frankfurt: Forschungsinstitut fur Kulturmorphologie, 1952
    Wrpps, 8vo. 80pp. 2 maps, numerous text illustrations.     £ 15.00

  77. FUHRMANN, Ernst. Afrika. Sakralkulte Vorgeschichte der Hieroglyphen. 3. Auflage. Kulturen der Erde, Band VI. Hagen: Folkwang, 1923 Boards, 4to.
    59pp. 121 plates of African sculpture.     £ 40.00

  78. GALHANO, Fernando. Esculturas e Objectos Decorados da Guiné Portuguesa no Museu de Etnologia do Ultramar. Lisboa: Junta de Investigaçóes do Ultramar, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Cultural, 1971 Stiff wrpps, 4to. 125pp. 121 illustrations from line-drawings, biblio. With an english summary, chipped dw.
    Showing material from the Bidyogo, Nalu, Fula, Mandinga, etc.     £ 90.00

  79. GERSTER, Georg. Churches in Rock. Early Christian Art in Ethiopia. Preface
    by the Emperor Hayla Sellase I. With contributions by David R. Buxton, Ernst Hammerschmidt, Jean Leclant, Jules Leroy, Roger Schneider, André Caquot,
    Antonio Mordini and Roger Sauter. Translated by Richard Hosking.
    London: Phaidon, 1970 Roy.4to. 148pp. 68 colour and 143 monochrome plates, 123 illustrations, biblio., dw., slipcase.
    “The author’s aim was to explore a new field of ancient Christian art and architecture. With scientific thoroughness, he presents the monolithic churches, the tomb churches and grottoes, and captures their architectural and ornamental perculiarities in detail.”
    A fine copy in the publisher’s slipcase.     £ 250.00

  80. GLÜCK, Julius. Die Goldgewichte von Oberguinea. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der wirtschaftlichen Voraussetzungen und Verhältnisse. Mit 8 tafeln. Heidelberger Akten der von Portheim-Stiftung, 21. Heidelberg: Carl Winter’s Universitätsbuchhandlung, 1937 Wrpps, Roy.8vo.
    132pp. 8 plates, biblio., index. Occasional foxing.     £ 150.00

  81. GOWER, Tess. Art of the Mende from Sierra Leone: The Guy Massie-Taylor Collection. Glasgow: Gasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1980 Wrpps, Square 8vo. 24pp. numerous illustrations, map, biblio. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, 2nd September - 30th October, 1980. £ 36.00


  82. GREUB, Suzanne (Ed.). Expressions of Belief; Masterpieces of African, Oceanic, and Indonesian Art. From the Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam. New York: Rizzoli, 1988 Roy.4to. 248pp. 102 coloured plates, numerous text illustrations, 3 coloured maps, biblio., index, dw. A very nice copy in the publisher’s cloth. £ 36.00

  83. GRIAULE, Marcel. Masques Dogon. Travaux et Memoires de L’Institut d’Ethnologie, XXXIII. Paris: Institut D’Ethnologie, 1938 Roy.8vo. xi,896pp. 32 collotype plates from photographs, 261 text-illustrations, (many in colour and many full-page), biblio., index, white plastic musical record in the pocket of the rear board printed in olive green with drawings of the dances. Vertical creasing to spine, slight stain to foredge of last few pages and plates (not affecting text or images), a very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher’s green cloth. £ 375.00


  84. GRIAULE, Marcel and others. Minotaure: Mission Dakar-Djibouti 1931-1933. No 2. Numero Special. La Mission ethnographique et linguistique Dakar-Djibouti. Paris: 1933 Binder’s cloth backed boards, Roy.4to. 88pp. 3 colour plates, numerous plates and illustrations, map.
    This special number of Minotaure was issued on the occasion of the exhibition in the new African Gallery at the Paris Museum of Ethnography, of the results of this important expedition. With contributions by Marcel Griaule, Eric Lutten, Andre Schaeffner, Deborah Lifszyc and Michel Leiris. With Gaston-Louis Roux’s striking lithographed front wrapper mounted on the front board.     £ 200.00


  85. GROSSERT, John W. Art Education & Zulu Crafts. In two volumes. This edition is limited to 250 copies. Pietermaritzburg, Natal: Published by the author in collaboration with Shuter & Shooter Pty. Ltd., 1968 4to. A critical review of the development of art and crafts education in Bantu Schools in Natal with particular reference to the period 1948-1962. This Thesis is presented for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Stellenbosch, S. Africa, September 1969.
    (1). xviii,450pp. numerous illustrations on plates, map, appendix.
    (2). v,451-697pp. + 241 page appendix, numerous illustrations on plates, biblio., appendix. A very nice set in the original red cloth, signed and numbered on the title page of Volume I by the author. Containing illustrated analyses of designs of beadwork, pottery, spoons, baskets, mats, etc.     £ 125.00


  86. GUNN, Harold D. A Handbook of the African Collections of the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Commercial Museum, nd. (1950)
    Wrpps, 8vo. 78pp. numerous illustrations on 14 plates, 2 folding maps.     £ 10.00


  87. HABERLAND, Eike et al. Swissair Gazette. 11/1986. Zurich: 1986 Wrpps, folio. 80pp. This issue of Swissair Gazete is devoted to African architecture. £ 5.00


  88. HALL, H. U. An Ivory Standing Cup from Benin. The Museum of the University
    of Pennsylvania. The Museum Journal, Vol. XVII. No. 4. Published quarterly by the University Museum. Philadelphia: The University Museum, December, 1926
    Wrpps, Roy.8vo. 416-432pp. 1 colour and 1 monochrome plate.
    Also including: Helen E. Fernald: Ancient Chinese Musical Instruments.
    Leon Legrain: The Tragic History of Ibi-Sin, King of Ur.
    J. Alden Mason: A Collection from the Crow Indians.     £ 12.00


  89. HARTER, Pierre. Arts Anciens du Cameroun. Arts d’Afrique Noire, supplement
    au tome 40. Arnouville: Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1986 4to.
    374pp. 35 colour plates, 378 monochrome illustrations, maps, biblio. index, dw.     £ 300.00

  90. HEGER, Franz. Alte Elfenbeinarbeiten aus Afrika in den Wiener Sammlungen. (Separatabdruck aus Band XXIX [der neyen Folge Band XIX] der mittheilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien). Mit 3 tafeln und einer text-illustration.
    Wien: Im Selbstverlage der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft, 1899 Wrpps, 101-109pp. many illustrations of ivory pieces on 3 plates, text-figure. Wrappers worn.     £ 40.00

  91. HEGER, Franz. De Antika Konstskatterna i Benin. Stockholm: Offprint from “Ymer: Tidskrift utgiven av Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och geografi”, 1921 Wrpps, Med.8vo. 25-46pp. 10 plates. £ 25.00

  92. HELDMAN, Marilyn. African Zion: the Sacred Art of Ethiopia. Catalogue by Marilyn Heldman with Stuart C. Munro-Hay. Edited by Roderick Grierson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993 4to. xii,272pp. numerous colour and monochrome plates, biblio., dw. The Winterton copy with his bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s black cloth. £ 150.00

  93. HIMMELHEBER, Hans. Les Masques Africains. Mémentos Illustrés. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1960 Cr.8vo. 47pp. 20 plates, (8 coloured), dw. £ 18.00

  94. HIMMELHEBER, Hans. Negerkunst und Negerkunstler. Mit Ergebnissen von sechs Afrika-Expeditionen des Verfassers. 370 abbildungen und 16 farbtafeln. Bibliothek fur Kunst- und Antiquitatenfreunde, Band XL. Braunschweig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1960 Med.8vo. viii,436pp. 16 colour plates, 370 illustrations, folding map, biblio. index, dw. The dustwrapper slightly chipped at head of spine, an excellent copy of this important work. £ 150.00

  95. HIMMELHEBER, Hans. Zaire 1938|39. Photographic documents on the arts of the Yaka, Pende, Tschokwe and Kuba. Zürich: Museum Rietberg, 1993 Square 8vo. 164pp. 194 plates from Himmelheber’s photographs, 2 maps. With a preface by Eberhard Fischer and Clara Meyer-Himmelheber. The text is in German and English. £ 25.00

  96. HOLAS, B. Industries et Cultures en Côte d’Ivoire. République de la Côte d’Ivoire, Ministère de l’Education Nationale. Préface par Felix Houphouet-Boigny. Abidjan: Centre des Sciences Humaines, 1965 Wrpps, 8vo. 117pp. 24 illustrations, biblio., cellophane dw. £ 30.00

  97. HOLAS, B. Portes Sculptées du Musée d’Abidjan. Dakar: Institut Français D’Afrique Noire, Catalogues X, 1952 Wrpps, 8vo. 71pp. 56 illustrations, biblio.
    The Baoule and Senufo sculptured wooden doors in the Museum in Abidjan.     £ 30.00

  98. HOLLAND, Ralph. African Sculpture. An exhibition organised by the Department of Fine Art, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Newcastle: Hatton Gallery, 1966 Wrpps, 8vo. 18pp. 8 plates, biblio. £ 30.00


  99. HOMBERGER, Lorenz. Swissair Gazette. 3/1985. Zurich: 1985 Wrpps, folio.
    72pp. This issue of Swissair Gazete is devoted to the Guro of the Ivory Coast.     £ 12.00


  100. HUET, Michel (Photographies de). Les Hommes de la Danse. Preface de Keita Fodeba. Lausanne: La Guilde du Livre, 1954 Boards, 4to. 134pp. numerous plates and illustrations, (6 colour) of dancers, many showing masks in use, biblio. The Winterton copy with his bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s boards with the dust-wrapper. £ 40.00


  101. IACOVLEFF, Alexandre. Dessins et Peintures d’Afrique. Exécutés au cours de l’Expédition Citroën Centre Afrique. Deuxième mission Haardt Audouin-Dubreuil. Paris: Édité sous la direction de Lucien Vogel chez Jules Meynial, 1927 Hide covered slipcase, Imp.4to. Containing a 30 page fasicule of text with numerous text-illustrations, in suede backed black silk with an African design printed in red and white on the covers; and 50 magnificant coloured plates from drawings by the author, of people and scenes on the route of the expedition. Enclosed in a hide covered portfolio as issued. One of 1000 numbered copies “de luxe” on Madagascar-Lafuma paper, this is one of 750
    copies for sale. “Cet exemplaire a été imprimé pour “ No. 470 1er Mai 1927.
    With the bookplate and signature of Catinka de Wolf, a very nice copy in the publisher’s binding.     £ 1,400.00


  102. IMPERATO, Pascal James. The Cultural Heritage of Africa. Chanute, Kansas: Safari Museum Press, 1974 Wrpps, 4to. 47pp. illustrations, maps, biblio. “Published by The Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum upon the opening of The Johnson Memorial Hall of African Culture.” £ 12.00


  103. ITALIAANDER, Rolf. Kongo: Bilder und Verse. Gütersloh: Sigbert Mohn Verlag, 1959 Cr.8vo. 48pp. 25 colour plates.
    A very nice copy in the publisher’s colour printed paper covered boards.     £ 10.00


  104. JAGER, Otto A. Aethiopische Miniaturen. Mit einer Einleitung von Otto A. Jäger. Berlin: Verlag Gebr. Mann, 1957 Cr.4to. iv,35pp. 18 tipped-in colour plates, dw. The Winterton copy with his bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s black cloth. £ 18.00


  105. JÄGER, Otto A. and Ivy Pearce. Antiquities of North Ethiopia, A Guide. Second edition enlarged by recent findings in Tigre. Stuttgart: F. A. Brockhaus, 1974 8vo. 164pp. 36 plates, (25 coloured), numerous text illustrations, end-paper maps, biblio., dw. The Winterton copy with bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s purple cloth. £ 25.00


  106. JEANNERT, A. et al. Art d’Oceanie, d’Afrique et d’Amerique: Recentes acquisitions. Geneve: Collection Barbier-Muller, 1977 Cr.4to.
    135pp. plates and illustrations, (many colour), one of 500 copies.     £ 25.00


  107. JONES, G. I. The Art of Eastern Nigeria. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984 Roy.8vo. 120 plates and illustrations, map, biblio., index, dw.
    “This book offers a definitive classification of the art of Eastern Nigeria,...”     £ 200.00


  108. KAMER, Helene. Les “Duen-Fubara”. 21 Octobre - 21 Novembre 1976. Paris: Helene Kamer exhibition catalogue, 1976 Wrpps, Cr.4to. 8pp. 33 plates. £ 20.00


  109. KAN, Michael. African Sculpture: The Brooklyn Museum. 31 masterpieces of African sculpture. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1970 Wrpps, Med.8vo.
    64pp. 31 plates, map, biblio.     £ 12.00


  110. KJERSMEIER, Carl. Centres de Style de la Sculpture Nègre Africaine. In four volumes. Éditions subventionnée par la Fondation ny Carlsberg. Paris: Éditions Albert Morancé, and Copenhague: Illums Bog-Afdeling, 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1938
    Original publisher’s printed grey boards, 4to.
    (1). Afrique Occidentale Francaise. 41pp. 64 plates, biblio., index, dw.
    (2). Guinée Portugaise, Sierra-Leone, Libéria, Côte D’Or, Togo, Dahomey et Nigéria. 39pp. 58 plates, biblio., index, dw.
    (3). Congo Belge. 43pp. 56 plates, biblio., index, dw.
    (4). Cameroun, Afrique Équatoriale Française, Angola, Tanganyika, Rhodésie.
    29pp. 42 plates, biblio., index, listes de volumes I-IV, dw.
    A magnificant set of Kjersmeier’s great work on the styles of African art; one of the most important of the pre-war books on the subject. An excellent set in the original dust-wrappers with the glasine covering, (glasine torn on volumes I and IV).     £ 1,250.00


  111. KJERSMIER, Carl. Ashanti-Vaegtlodder / Ashanti Weights. With 100 reproductions from the authors collection. Kobenhavn: Jul. Gjellerups Forlag, 1948 Wrpps, 8vo. 23pp. 100 illustrations on plates, biblio., chipped dw. With english and danish texts. £ 50.00


  112. KOLLMANN, Paul. The Victoria Nyanza: The Land, the Races and their Customs, with Specimens of some of the Dialects. With a map and 372 illustrations from native objects in the author’s own collection. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1899 Med.8vo. ix,254pp. 372 illustrations, folding map, appendix of philological notes, index. A ethnographic description of the peoples living around Lake Victoria enlivened by numerous drawings of articles collected by the author. He was a Senior Lieutenant with the Colonial troops in German East Africa and had previously worked in the Berlin Ethnological Museum under von Luschan. Mr. Ankermann of the same museum made the drawings, and the collection was placed there. Very good illustrations of just about every concievable sort of material object. Spine slightly rubbed, a very nice copy in the publisher’s red cloth. £ 300.00


  113. KORABIEWICZ, Dr. W. The Ethiopian Cross. Addis Ababa: Published by Holy Trinity Cathedral, 1973 Oblong 4to. iv,154pp. 12 colour and 213 monochrome plates, dw. £ 50.00


  114. LAHADERNE, Jean-Jacques. Deneraux Akan. Poids monetaires du XVe au XIXe siecle dans l’Afrique de l’Ouest. Arnouville: Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1981 Wrpps, 4to. 199pp. 192 plates and illustrations, biblio.
    A very nice copy of this monograph on Ashanti goldweights.     £ 100.00


  115. LAMB, Venice & Judy Holmes. Nigerian Weaving. Herts: Roxford, 1980 4to. 276pp. 424 plates and illustrations, (many colour), biblio., index, dw.
    “This book contains a systematic survey of the major Nigerian weaving traditions on a scale never before attempted.”     £ 50.00


  116. LAURENTY, J. S. Les Cordophones du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi. In two volumes. Tervuren: Annales du Musee Royal du Congo Belge, Nouvelle Serie in-4 . Sciences de l’Homme, Volume 2. 1960 Wrpps, Roy.4to.
    (1). Text. x,230pp. 144 text illustrations, biblio.
    (2). Planches et Carte. 457 illustrations on 37 plates, 5 coloured maps.     £ 75.00

  117. LARREA PALACIN, Arcadio de. Peinados Bujebas. Inicacion al estudio del tocado en los pueblos de la Guinea Espanola. Madrid: Instituto de Estudios Africanos, 1953 Wrpps, Imp.4to. 53pp. 5 monochrome plates from photographs and 55 plates from drawings printed in red, 6 illustrations, 2 maps. Number 122 from an edition of 500 copies. The text pages are printed with multi-coloured borders. A most elaborately produced monograph (printed in Tetuan) on the hair-styles of Spanish Guinea. Covers a little dusty and marked, a very nice copy in the publisher’s stiff printed wrappers. £ 150.00

  118. Le Musée Vivant. Revue de L’Association Populaire des Amis des Musées. 12e année, No. 36-37. Paris: A. P. A. M., 1948 Wrpps, Cr.4to. iii,107pp. numerous illustrations, map. This issue was devoted to African art and culture. “De cet ouvrage ont été tirés 315 exemplaires de luxe,...” £ 50.00

  119. LEBEUF, Jean-Paul. Vêtements et Parures du Cameroun Français. Préface de René Maran. Planches en couleurs de Émile Gallois. Paris: Aux Éditions Arc-en-Ceil, 1946 Loose as issued in the publisher’s slipcase, Imp.4to. 48pp. many illustrations on 50 coloured lithographic plates, (some heightened with silver) of Cameroon dress, jewellery, hair-styles, ornament, etc., chiefly from the Fali. The illustrations are of objects collated by Jean-Paul Lebeuf after his 1936 voyage to the Cameroons. Printed on fine paper, in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Front and rear covers a little rubbed and spotted, the spine has been renewed in red buckram, a very nice copy in the publisher’s printed slipcase. £ 275.00

  120. LEE, D. N., and H. C. Woodhouse. Art on the Rocks of Southern Africa. Drawings by Marion Didcott. Cape Town: Purnell, 1970 4to. 165pp. 248 illustrations,
    (82 coloured), end-paper maps, biblio., index, dw.     £ 15.00

  121. LEHUARD, Raoul. Les Phemba du Mayombe. Les figures sculptées dites ‘phemba’ du mayombe. Arnouville: Arts d’Afrique Noire, 1976 Wrpps, 4to.
    123pp. 65 illustrations map, biblio., dw.     £ 125.00

  122. LEIRIS, Michel and Jacques Damase. Sculpture of the Tellem and the Dogon. Texts by Michel Leiris and Jacques Damase. London: Hanover Gallery, 1959 Wrpps, Imp.8vo. 52pp. 38 plates and illustrations, endpapers with photographs of Bandiagara cliffs. This Hanover Gallery exhibition catalogue was designed by Aline Elmayan with the photographs taken by Luc Joubert. Forty-three objects are listed in the catalogue.
    A very nice copy in the publisher’s stiff white wrappers with the illustration to the upper wrappers.     £ 25.00

  123. LEM, F.-H. Sculptures Soudanaises. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1948 Wrpps, 4to. 110pp. 64 plates, map, biblio. Fine illustrations of sculpture from the Dogon, Mossi, Bambara, Senoufo and Bobo. Spine carefully repaired, a very nice copy in the decorated buff-coloured wrappers. £ 90.00


  124. LEM, F.-H. Sudanese Sculpture. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1949 Blue binder’s cloth with the original wrappers bound-in, 4to. 110pp. 64 plates, map, biblio. Fine illustrations of sculpture from the Dogon, Mossi, Bambara, Senoufo and Bobo.
    A bound copy of the English translation of this important monograph.     £ 125.00


  125. LEYTEN, Harrie M. Goldweights / Goudgewichten. Edited by Guy van Rijn. Amsterdam: Khepri van Rijn, 1979 Wrpps, 8vo. 114pp. 120 illustrations on plates, (7 colour), biblio. With English and Dutch texts. £ 15.00


  126. LIFSCHITZ, Edward. The Art of West African Kingdoms. Washington: National Museum of African Art, 1987 Wrpps, 4to. 48pp. 49 illustrations, maps, biblio.
    With 4 large folding explanatory posters.     £ 12.00


  127. LIPS, Julius E. The Savage Hits Back or the White Man through Native Eyes. With an Introduction by Bronislaw Malinowski. Translated from the German by Vincent Benson. London: Lovat Dickson Limited, 1937 Cr.4to.
    xxxi,254pp. 213 plates and illustrations, biblio., index.
    “In this book Professor Lips takes us through the world’s museums of tribal art, partly with a running commentary, partly with a critical exposition, historical, philosophical and anthropological, which together throw much new light on the profound questions involved”. A famous work for its time showing numerous examples of the depiction of Europeans by other cultures. The author was Head of the Department of Anthropology at Cologne University and Curator-in-Chief of the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum before leaving Germany in 1934. Spine very slightly sunned, endpapers foxed, bookplate of H. E. Sumner of S. Rhodesia, a very nice copy in the publisher’s dark blue cloth.     £ 75.00


  128. LOCKE, Alain et al. An Exhibition of African Art. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1946 Wrpps, 4to. 44pp. 45 illustrations, map, biblio. £ 30.00


  129. LONDON, Alex. Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. Primitive African Sculpture, May 1933. London: Lefevre Galleries exhibition catalogue, 1933 Wrpps, Med.4to. 32pp. 11 tipped-in monochrome plates, map. With 117 pieces catalogued. “This exhibition presents the first comprehensive survey of primitive African Sculpture in this country.” - the first sentence of the foreword. Wrappers dusty. £ 120.00


  130. LUSCHAN, F. von. Über die Alten Handelsbeziehungen von Benin. Vortrag gehalten auf dem VII. Sonderabdruck aus den verhandlungen des VII. Internationalen Geographen-Kongress in Berlin im Jahr 1899. Berlin: Druck von Wilhelm Greve, 1900 Wrpps, Roy.8vo. 607-612pp. £ 25.00


  131. LUSCHAN, Felix von. Die Altertümer von Benin. Mit 889 abbildungen. Nach Zeichnungen von B. Ankermann, G. Kilz, L. Sütterlin U. A. Sowie, nach photographien usw. Herausgegeben mit unterstützung des Reichs-Kolonial-Ministeriums, der Rudolf Virchow- und der Arthur Baessler-Stiftung. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Veroffentlichungen aus dem Museum fur Volkerkunde, VIII, IX & X Band. In three parts, one volume of text and two portfolios of plates. Berlin und Leipzig: Vereinigung Wissenschftlicher Verleger Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1919 Folio.
    xii,522pp. 889 illustrations in the text, bibliography, index, with 129 collotype plates in the two portfolios. The most important and detailed of the works on the Benin sculptures. The fine collotype plates show the bronze-work as well as some wood and ivory examples from world-wide collections. A nice set, the text volume in contemporary brown half-cloth, (title page with some vertical creasing), the plate volumes in publisher’s green half-cloth portfolios, (spines slightly worn). Enclosed in the first volume is a typewritten letter dated 3 November 1908 on Museum für Völkerkunde headed paper signed by von Luschan to an unnamed colleague.     £ 2,000.00

  132. LUSCHAN, F. von. Schnitzwerke aus dem westlichen Sudân. Berlin: Aus der Zeitschrift für Ethnologie. Heft 2. 1903 Sewn as issued, Roy.8vo. 432-435pp.
    7 illustrations of Cameroon art. Rather dusty and creased.     £ 20.00

  133. LUSCHAN, Felix von. Die Karl Knorrsche Sammlung von Benin-Altertümern im Museum für Lander- und Völkerkunde in Stuttgart. Im Auftrag des Vorstandes beschrieben von Felix v. Luschan. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, 1901
    Wrpps, Cr.4to. iii,95pp. 12 plates, 72 text-illustrations.     £ 125.00

  134. MACK, John. Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo, 1900-1909. Published for the Trustees of the British Museum. London: British Museum, nd. (circa 1989) Wrpps, Med.8vo. 96pp. 8 coloured plates, 60 text illustrations, biblio., index. £ 18.00

  135. MADSEN, Arne. Negerskulptur Pa Bornholms Museum. Bornholm: Saertryk af Bornholmske Samlinger, 1971 Offprint in cloth backed wrappers, Med.8vo.
    99-109pp. 5 plates.     £ 12.00

  136. MAES, J. 1) Kabila- en Grafbeelden uit Kongo. - Addenda. 2) Moedereerebeelden uit Kongo. Catalogues des Collections Ethnographiques du Musee du Congo Belge, Tome II. Fasc 3. Tervuren: Musee du Congo Belge, 1939 Paper portfolio, Imp.4to. 149-220pp. numerous illustrations of carved wooden mother-and-child figures on 7 photogravure plates, 79 text-illustrations, biblio. £ 180.00

  137. MAES, J. Catalogues Illustrés des Collections Ethnographiques du Musée du Congo Belge. Tome II.- Fascicules 1-3. In three volumes. Ethnographie - Serie VI. Tervuren: Musee du Congo Belge, 1935-1939 Binder’s cloth with publisher’s wrappers bound-in, Imp.4to.
    (1). Fetischen of Tooverbeelden uit Kongo. 64pp. 20 photogravure plates, 10 illustrations.
    (2). Kabila- en Grafbeelden uit Kongo. 65-148pp. 10 photogravure plates, 33 illustrations, biblio.
    (3). a) Kabila- en Grafbeelden uit Kongo.- Addenda. b) Moedereerebeelden uit Kongo. 149-220pp. numerous illustrations of carved wooden mother-and-child figures on
    7 photogravure plates, 36 text-illustrations, biblio.
    The full set of the three fasicules of Volume II, seldom found together. From the library of Jacques Kerchache, an excellent set in a binder’s black cloth with marbled end-papers and red leather labels to spine.     £ 600.00

  138. MAES, J. Les Allume-Feu du Congo Belge. Catalogues illustres des Collections Ethnographiques Tome I - Fascicule 3. Tervuren: Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, 1933 Loose as issued in card portfolio, Imp.4to.
    iii,85-140pp. 1 plate, 9 text-illustrations, coloured map.     £ 75.00


  139. MAES, J. Notes Analytiques sur les Collections Ethnographiques du Musée du Congo Belge. La Religion. Tome I.- Fascicules II. Ethnographie et Anthropologie.- Serie III. Bruxelles: Annales du Musée du Congo, 1906 Binder’s cloth with publisher’s wrappers bound-in, Imp.4to. iii,146-316pp. 41 plates showing numerous examples of amulets, wooden figure sculpture, masks, and witch-doctors’ materials.
    One of the most difficult of the Tervuren publications to procure. From the library of Jacques Kerchache, an excellent set in a binder’s black cloth with marbled end-papers and red leather labels to spine.     £ 500.00

  140. MAESEN, A. (Intro.). Vingt-Cinq Sculptures Africaines. Tervuren: Les Amis du Musée Royal de L’Afrique Centrale, 1972 Wrpps, Med.4to. xiiipp. 25 plates, map. £ 15.00

  141. MARQUART, Jos. Die Benin-Sammlung des Reichmuseums für Volkerkunde, Leiden. Beschrieben und mit ausfuhrlichen. Prolegomena zur geschichte der handelswege und volkerbewegungen in Nordafrika. Veroffentlichungen des Reichsmuseums fur Volkerkunde in Leiden, Serie II, Nr. 7. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1913 Roy.4to. 16,ccclxvii,132pp. 86 illustrations on 14 plates, 27 text-illustrations,
    2 coloured folding maps, index.
    Ex-library The Imperial Institute with their stamp on the title page and a shelf number to the spine. Rebacked with new end-papers, the spine repaired. As well as the description of the Leiden Benin collection this contains considerable information on the history of the trade routes across North Africa and the Sahara.     £ 425.00

  142. MARY-MORIN. Au Pays de Samba Diouf: Proverbes Africains. Aquarelles Du Sénégal et du Soudan par Mary-Morin. Présentation de Jérome et Jean Tharaud. Paris: A L’Enseigne du “Chardon D’Or”, Éditions Radot, nd. (1927) Loose as issued in a cloth backed portfolio, 4to. 6pp. 30 colour plates which are reproductions of water-colours executed in 1922 - 1924 in Senegal and Mali. The water-colours illustrate proverbs from the region. Text and plates printed on “Arches” paper. The edition was limited to 250 copies, this copy does not have the text leaf with the limitation information. A very nice copy in the publisher’s dark blue cloth backed portfolio. [Unknown to Joucla]. Not listed in COPAC, two copies listed in OCLC. £ 675.00

  143. MASUI, Th. Guide de la Section de l’État Indépendant du Congo a l’Exposition de Bruxelles - Tervuren en 1897. Ouvrage publié sous la direction de M. le commandant Liebrechts, Président du Comité exécutif par les soins du Lieutenant Th. Masui, Secrétaire général. Illustrations D’Amédée Lynen. Bruxelles: Imprimerie Veuve Monnom, 1897 Binder’s cloth backed boards with the original front wrapper laid-on, Roy.8vo. xiv,524pp. numerous plates, illustrations and maps, coloured folding map. £ 75.00

  144. MAUROIS, André. “Sur le Vif”. L’Exposition Coloniale, Paris 1931. Préface du Maréchal Lyautey. Vingt-cinq Lithographies Originales de Degorce avec des Commentaires d’André Maurois. Paris: Édité par Degorce en Dépot a la Librairie Eos, 1931 Wrpps, Roy.4to. iv,31pp. 25 coloured lithographs after paintings by Degorce. The fine coloured lithographs show the exhibitions and stands at the 1931 Colonial Exhibition. Fourteen of the plates relate to Africa. Paper spine a little worn, a very nice copy in the publisher’s printed cream wrappers. £ 150.00

  145. MCLEOD, M. C. The Asante. Published for the Trustees of the British Museum. London: British Museum Exhibition Catalogue, 1981 Wrpps, Cr.4to.
    192pp. 13 coloured plates, 100 illustrations, map, biblio., index, dw.     £ 18.00


  146. MERLO, Christian. Le Buste de la Pretresse. Un Chef d’Oeuvre d’Art Negre. Auvers-sur-Oise: Archee Editeur, 1966 4to. 46pp. 24 plates and illustrations, map, from an edition limited to 1000 copies. £ 25.00


  147. MEURANT, Georges. Traumzeichen, Raphiagewebe des Königreichs Bakuba. Herausgeber, Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Einführung Angelika Tunis.
    München: Verlag Fred Jahn, 1989 4to.
    148pp. 93 colour plates, numerous text figures, biblio., index, dw.     £ 40.00

  148. MOORE, Gerald. Susanne Wenger. (The Praying Elephant). Kampala: Uganda Museum, 1962 Wrpps, 4to. 4pp. with a seperate plate.
    “The Director of Extra Mural Studies, Makerere College, invites you to attend the opening of an exhibition of Lino Cuts by Susanne Wenger at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday January 18th, 1962 at the Uganda Museum, Kampala.”     £ 12.00

  149. MOUNT, Marshall W. African Art from New Jersey Collections. African Art: Subjects and Representational Modes. January 30-April 10, 1983.
    Montclair: Montclair Art Museum, 1983 Wrpps, Cr.4to. 15pp. 100 illustrations.     £ 12.00

  150. MUENSTERBERGER, Werner. Universality of Tribal Art. Geneva: Barbier-Muller Collection, 1979 Med.4to. 105pp. 5 colour and 29 monochrome plates, biblio., dw. Text in English and French. A fine copy in the publisher’s cloth with the dustwrapper. £ 20.00

  151. NEWBOLD, D. Rock-pictures and Archaeology in the Libyan Desert. London: Reprinted from Antiquity for September, 1928 Wrpps, Med.8vo.
    261-291pp. 9 plates, numeorus figures, map.     £ 18.00

  152. NEWTON, Douglas, Julie Jones,Kate Ezraa. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pacific Islands, Africa, and the Americas. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987 Med.4to. 160pp. 118 colour plates, 4 maps, dw. £ 25.00

  153. NEYT, François. Luba aux Sources du Zaire. Paris: Musée Dapper, 1993 Roy.4to. 253pp. numerous colour and monochrome plates, biblio., index, dw. £ 40.00

  154. NKETIA, J. H. Kwabena. African Music in Ghana: A Survey of Traditional Forms. Accra: Longmans, 1962 8vo. ix,148pp. numerous musical examples, 2 maps, biblio. The Colonial Office Library copy with their stamps. £ 18.00

  155. Notes Analytiques sur les Collections Ethnographiques du Musée du Congo. État Indépendant du Congo. Annales du Musée du Congo: Ethnographie et Anthropologie, Série III. Tome I.- Fascicule I. Livre Ier. Les Arts. Wrpps, Imp.4to. iv,144pp. 336 illustrations on 21 photogravure plates, numerous text-illustions. This work - Fascicule I, was devoted to dance and music, all the illustrations on the plates show musical instruments from the Museum’s collection. The work was issued unbound in a card portfolio, some wear and creasing to card covers, a very nice copy in the publisher’s printed wrappers. £ 200.00

  156. OJO, G. J. Afolabi. Yoruba Palaces: A Study of Afins of Yorubaland. London: University of London Press, 1966 Modern binder’s half morocco with original wrappers bound-in, square 8vo. 110pp. 20 plates, 16 illustrations, biblio., index. A very nice copy in a dark blue half morocco binding over light blue boards with the bookplate of Alexander Martin. £ 50.00


  157. OJO, G. J. Afolabi. Yoruba Palaces: A Study of Afins of Yorubaland. London: University of London Press, 1966 Wrpps, square 8vo. 110pp. 20 plates, 16 illustrations, biblio., index. £ 25.00


  158. OLBRECHTS, Frans M. Some Masterpieces of African Art. From the Collections of the Royal Museum of Belgian Congo, Tervuren. Tervuren: 1952 Wrpps, 8vo.
    3pp. 24 plates. With the price list of casts available from the museum of the pieces portrayed on the plates.     £ 15.00


  159. OLIVEIRA, Antonio de. Mahamba: Tentativa de interpretaçao artistica e psicológica de documentos de arte dos negros Africanos. Estudos, Ensaios e Documentos 57. Lisboa: Junta de Investigaçoes do Ultramar, 1959 Med.8vo.
    150pp. 76 plates, 3 maps, bibilio. With French and English summaries.
    Head and tail of spine rubbed, a nice copy in the publisher’s red paper covered boards.     £ 45.00


  160. PAUWELS, R. P. M. L’Habitation au Rwanda. Overdruk uit Kongo-Overzee XIX (1953), 1. De Sikkel, Antwerpen. 20-62pp. numerous illustrations on 19 plates. £ 18.00


  161. PAUWELS, R. P. M. La Mode au Rwanda. Overdruk uit Kongo-Overzee XIX
    (1953), 2-3. De Sikkel, Antwerpen. 15pp. numerous illustrations on 10 plates.     £ 18.00


  162. PHOTOGRAPH, Meyerowitz, Eva.(Photographer). Children’s art in Africa. Models made by Talense children from the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast.
    Photo: E. L. R.Meyerowitz, 1946 Silver-print photograph, 3.5 x 9.5 inches.
    Remains of old Photograph Library label on verso.     £ 36.00


  163. PICTON, John & John Mack. African Textiles. Looms, Weaving and Design. London: British Museum exhibition catalogue 1979, Wrpps, 4to. 208pp. numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, maps, biblio., index. £ 25.00


  164. PITT RIVERS, Lieutenant-General. Antique Works of Art from Benin, Collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., Inspector of Ancient Monuments in Great Britain, &c. Printed Privately, 1900 Roy.4to. vi,100pp. numerous illustrations of Benin sculpture on 50 plates.
    These pieces had been obtained by the Punitive expedition of 1897 and were deposited in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Farnham, Dorset. A special copy in dark blue calf with the design of the Kimmeridge shale tablet found by Lieut.-General Pitt Rivers embossed on the covers in gold. Slight scuffing on covers, brick red leather labels on the spine, marbled endpapers, an excellent copy in the rare leather binding.     £ 500.00


  165. PITT RIVERS, Lieutenant-General. Antique Works of Art from Benin, Collected by Lieutenant-General Pitt Rivers, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., Inspector of Ancient Monuments in Great Britain, &c. Printed Privately, 1900 Wrpps, 4to. vi,100pp. numerous illustrations of Benin sculpture on 50 plates.
    These pieces had been obtained by the Punitive expedition of 1897 and were deposited in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Farnham, Dorset. One of the few copies produced in wrappers.     £ 200.00


  166. PITTARD, Eugène. Les Arts Populaires de l’Afrique Quelques Peintures d’Abyssinie. Extrait: Archives Suisses d’Anthropologie Générale, Tome V, No.1.
    (1928-1929). Publiées par L’Institut Suisse D’Anthropologie Générale. (Anthropologie, Archeologie, Ethnographie). Genève: Albert Kundig, 1928 Wrpps, Roy.8vo.
    87-103pp. 8 text illustrations.     £ 20.00


  167. PITTARD, Eugène. Les Arts Populaires en Afrique et Peintures Indigènes Congolaises. Extrait: Archives Suisses d’Anthropologie Générale, Tome V, No.2.
    (1928-1929). Publiées par L’Institut Suisse D’Anthropologie Générale. (Anthropologie, Archeologie, Ethnographie). Genève: Albert Kundig, 1930 Wrpps, Roy.8vo.
    231-243pp. 9 text illustrations.     £ 18.00

  168. PLASS, Margaret. African Tribal Sculpture. Philadelphia: University Museum, 1956 Wrpps, 8vo. 57pp. 62 plates, folding map, biblio. £ 10.00

  169. PLASS, Margaret. The King’s Day. A Day in the Life of an African King. Chicago: Natural History Museum, 1956 Wrpps, med.8vo. 32pp. 10 plates, map. A Bamileke king in the Cameroons. A very nice copy in the publisher’s wrappers. £ 12.00

  170. PONCET, Michel. Les Bijoux d’Argent de Tunisie. Tunis: Maison Tunisienne
    de l’Edition, 1977 Wrpps, 4to.
    125pp. 16 colour plates and numerous monochrome plates.     £ 60.00

  171. PORTIER, A. et F. Poncetton. Les Arts Sauvages Afrique. Paris: Éditions Albert Morancé, second edition, 1956 Cloth backed portfolio with illustrated front cover, cloth tie, folio. Text and plates loose in portfolio as issued. 15pp. 79 illustrations of African sculptures on 50 collotype plates, (4 coloured). Fine reproductions of pieces from famous pre-war French collections: Georges Salles, Paul Guillaume, Tristan Tzara, Paul Eluard, de Miré, Lefèvre, Stephen-Chauvet, Félix Fénéon, Bella-Hein, E. Lang, Deslouis, Moriss, François Poncetton, Ruppaley, Charles Ratton, and Level.
    Small library ink-stamp on title page, the portfolio with a new brown cloth spine with leather label, a very nice copy in the publisher’s illustrated portfolio.     £ 150.00

  172. PRICE, Sally and Richard. Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980 Wrpps, 4to. 237pp. 21 coloured plates and 274 monochrome plates and illustrations, 2 coloured maps, biblio., index. £ 30.00

  173. RATTRAY, R. S., Capt. Religion and Art in Ashanti. By R. S. Rattray, M.B.E., B.Sc. (Oxon.) Of Gray’s Inn, Barrister-at-Law; Palmes d’Officier d’Académie (France). With Chapters by G. T. Bennett, Vernon Blake, H. Dudley Buxton, R. R. Marett, C. G. Seligman. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1927 8vo. xviii,414pp. 278 illustrations on plates and in-text, (including 12 colour plates), index.
    With the 108 colour illustrations of Kente cloth which were not present in the later edition. Spine lightly rubbed, a very nice copy in the publisher’s red cloth.     £ 275.00

  174. READ, Charles H. & O. M. Dalton. Antiquities from the City of Benin and from other parts of West Africa in the British Museum. By Charles Hercules Read, Keeper of the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, and Ormonde Maddock Dalton, M.A., Senior Assistant in the Department. Printed by Order of the Trustees. London: British Museum, 1899 Original cloth-backed printed boards, Roy.folio. vi,61pp. numerous illustrations of Benin bronzework and antiquities in 32 collotype plates, 22 illustrations in the text. Covers slightly rubbed, library book-plate to front paste down, small library stamp to verso of last plate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s green cloth backed printed boards. £ 600.00


  175. RECHE, Otto. Das abia-Glücksspiel der Jaunde und die Darstellungen auf den Spielmarken. Inhalt: Prof. Dr. Otto Reche, Hamburg. Mit 11 Tafeln in Lichtdruck und 1 Abbildung im Text. Mitteilungen aus dem Museum Für Völkerkunde in Hamburg, IX. Hamburg: 1924 Wrpps, 4to. 27pp. numerous illustrations on 11 mounted collotype plates, 1 text-illustration. Wrappers slightly chipped. £ 90.00


  176. RICCI, Lanfranco (Intro.). Pittura Etiopica Tradizionale. Roma: Istituto Italo-Africano, 1989 4to. 165pp. 90 colour plates, appendix, dw.
    With paralell Italian and English text. “The Istituto Italo-Africano is pleased finally to present in print its collection of Ethiopian paintings,...” An interesting collection of paintings from late nineteenth centruy to the first half of the twentieth, many on Italo-Ethiopic subjects, often showing Europeans. The Winterton copy with his bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s brown cloth.     £ 200.00


  177. ROBBINS, Warren (Foreword). The Language of African Art. A Guest Exhibition of the Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: 1970 Wrpps, Square 8vo. 20pp. 36 plates and illustrations £ 5.00


  178. ROSEN, Eric von. Traskfolket: Svenska Rhodesia-Kongo-Expeditionens Etnografiska Forskningresultat. Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1916 Publisher’s brown cloth, Roy.4to. 468pp. frontispiece and 76 plates, 401 text-illustrations, 3 maps, biblio., index. The plates are superb photographs of people and scenes and most of the text-illustrations are line-drawings of the many objects collected by the expedition. The spine has been carefully rebacked retaining the original backstrip. £ 125.00


  179. ROTH, H. Ling. Great Benin: Its Customs, Art and Horrors. With 275 illustrations. Halifax: F. King & Sons, Ltd., 1903 Contemporary red half morocco by Zaehnsdorf with marbled end-papers, Cr.4to. xii,234,xxxiipp. portrait frontispiece, 275 illustrations from photos and drawings, index.
    “The number of Copies of this Work is limited to 320 for sale in the British Isles and Abroad, and no other or cheaper edition will be issued.” An excellent copy in half red morocco by Zaehnsdorf, extremities slightly rubbed, with the original gilt decorated cloth and spine bound-in at the end of the book.     £ 750.00


  180. ROTH, H. Ling. Toreutic Art From Benin. London: Reprinted from The Studio (December 1898), with additional matter. Wrpps, Med.4to. 12pp. 38 illustrations. £ 36.00


  181. ROY, Christopher D. African Art from Iowa Private Collections. Iowa City: Published on the occasion of an exhibition at The University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1981 Wrpps, 4to. 84pp. 68 plates. £ 15.00


  182. SANTOS, Ana de Sousa. Catálogo da Exposiçao de Miniaturas Angolanas. Luanda: Outubro, 1963 Wrpps, 8vo. 85pp. 8 plates, biblio., index. £ 25.00


  183. SCHADLER, Karl-Frederick. African Art in Private German Collections. Munchen: Buchgewerbehaus, 1973 Med.4to. 369pp. 30 colour and 490 monochrome plates and illustrations, 4 maps, index, dw. With German, English and French texts.
    The majority of the art is from West Africa and the Cameroons.
    A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher’s dustwrapper.     £ 50.00


  184. SCHERZ, A. et al. Hair-Styles, Head-Dress and Ornaments in Namibia and Southern Angola. By A. Scherz, E. R. Scherz, G. Taapopi and A. Otto. Reprint. Windhoek, Namibia: Gamsberg Macmillan, 1992 oblong 4to.
    110pp. 146 photographs (7 colour), biblio., dw. The reprint of the 1981 edition.
    The text is in German, English, and Afrikaans.     £ 40.00


  185. SCHWEEGER-HEFEL, Annemarie. Masken und Mythen. Sozialstrukturen der Nyonyosi und Sikomse in Obervolta. 92 textfiguren, 170 abbildungen, 137 maskentafeln. In two volumes. Wien: Verlag A. Schendl, 1980 Med.8vo.
    (1). 480pp. 67 plates, 92 text figures, biblio., index.
    (2). 136 plates in a folder loose as issued.
    Both volumes enclosed in the publisher’s corrugated plastic slipcase. The plates in the 1st volume are reproductions from photographs, those in the 2nd from drawings of masks. A fine set in the publisher’s red cloth.     £ 50.00


  186. SELIGMAN, Prof. Charles G. Ceramica Sudanese Impressa a Traliccio. (Dal volume giubilare in onore di Giuseppe Sergi, Vol. XX della Rivista di Antropologia). Roma: Presso la Sede della Società, 1916 Wrpps, Med.8vo. 8pp. 5 text figures. £ 15.00


  187. Senufo Sculpture from West Africa. New York: New York: Museum of Primitive Art, 1963 Wrpps, 4to. 8pp. 14 illustrations, map. £ 5.00


  188. SIEBER, Roy. African Textiles and Decorative Arts. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1972 Wrpps, 4to. 240pp. 244 illustrations, (40 colour), map, biblio.
    “This book is the most comprehensive pictorial survey available of the African arts of textile design and personal adornment.” - from the dustwrapper blurb.     £ 30.00


  189. SIEBER, Roy, D. Newton & M. D. Coe. African, Pacific, and Pre-Columbian Art, in the Indiana University Art Museum. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1986 Cr.4to. 157pp. 165 figures on plates, (8 coloured), maps, dw. £ 25.00


  190. SIEGEL, Morris. The Mackenzie Collection: A Study of West African Carved Gambling Chips. Supplement to American Anthropologist. Menasha: Memoirs
    of the American Anthropological Association, number 55, 1940 Wrpps, Med.8vo. 81pp. 100 illustrations on 6 plates, 3 text-illustrations, biblio.
    The collection was formed by Jean Kenyon MacKenzie, an American missionary in the Gabun area of West Equatorial Africa from the Yaunde, a sub-tribe of the Pangwe.     £ 20.00


  191. SUMMERS, Roger (Ed.). Prehistoric Rock Art of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Paintings and Descriptions by Elizabeth Goodall, C. K. Cooke & J. Desmond Clark. Salisbury: National Publications Trust, 1959 Roy.4to. 267pp. 117 plates, (105 in colour) 61 illustrations and maps, index, dw. The Winterton copy with his bookplate, a very nice copy in the publisher’s red cloth with the dustwrapper. £ 100.00


  192. TEILHET, Jehanne (Ed.). Dimensions of Black. La Jolla: La Jolla Museum of Art, 1970 Recent binder’s half morocco with original wrappers bound-in, square 4to. xi,154pp. numerous illustrations, map, biblio. An important catalogue encased in a blue half morocco binding with light blue cloth covered boards. £ 60.00


  193. THOMAS, Trevor. Variation on a Theme: Analysis of small carved figures from Bali, Cameroons, Africa. (Reprinted from “Man”, 1938). London: The Royal Anthropological Institute, 1938 Wrpps, Cr.4to. 7pp. 5 plates and illustrations.
    With a presentation inscription from the author.     £ 12.00

  194. TONGUE, M. Helen. Bushman Paintings. Copied by M. Helen Tongue with a Preface by Henry Balfour. Oxford: at the Clarendon Press, 1909 Cr.folio, text in wrappers with plates loose in solander box as issued. 48pp. 2 colour frontispieces (1 double-page) and 4 monochrome plates, 1 page of figures. 54 loose colour plates, (2 double-page) and a lithographed map. The paintings were copied by Helen Tongue and Dorothea Bleek from Bushman drawings in the northeast of Cape Colony, Orange River Colony and Basutoland. The text contains “Notes on the Bushman” by E. & D. Bleek.
    Some wear to the brown paper covered box.     £ 275.00

  195. TORDAY, E. & T. A. Joyce. Notes Ethnographiques sur les Peuples communement appeles Bakuba, ainsi que sur les Peuplades apparentees. Les Bushongo. Aquarelles par Norman Hardy. Bruxelles: Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Ethnographie, Anthropologie Série III, Tome II, fascicule 1, 1910 Binders blue buckram spine with paper covered boards, Imp.4to. 291pp. 22 colour plates from drawings by Norman Hardy, 7 monochrome plates with numerous illustrations of art objects, 403 illustrations from photographs and drawings, 2 coloured folding maps in pocket of rear board, index. Many good illustrations of Bakuba and Bushongo art-work, colour plates of Kuba cloths, etc. as well as copious other ethnographic information. A splendidly bound untrimmed copy with the original wrapper laid onto the front board and a leather label to spine. Originally from the library of the Portuguese ethnologist Fernando Mouta with his bookplate. £ 400.00

  196. TORDAY, E. & T. A. Joyce. Notes Ethnographiques sur des Populations habitant les Bassins du Kasai et du Kwango Oriental. 1. Peuplades de la Foret. 2. Peuplades des Prairies. Aquarelles par Norman-H. Hardy. Bruxelles: Annales du Musee du Congo Belge, Ethnographie, Anthropologie Série III, Tome II, fascicule 2, 1922 Binder’s brown half cloth with marbled paper boards, Imp.4to. iv,360pp. 16 colour and 1 monochrome plates, 295 illustrations, mostly from photographs, index. Many good illustrations of the art, people, weapons, tattooing, etc. Wrappers and title page a little dusty and marked, a nice bound copy with the original wrappers bound-in. £ 375.00

  197. TRACEY, Hugh. Chopi Musicians: Their Music, Poetry, and Instruments. London: Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press, 1948 8vo. xi,180pp. 16 plates, 7 illustrations, 2 folding maps, biblio., index, dw. £ 30.00

  198. TYRRELL, Barbara. Tribal Peoples of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Books of Africa, 1968 4to. xxxxix,206pp. 96 colour plates, 76 illustrations, end-paper maps, biblio., index, dw. All the illustrations are from drawings by the author. A fine copy of this important work with considerable emphasis on the clothing and personal adornment. £ 60.00

  199. UNDERWOOD, Leon. Bronzes of West Africa. London: Alex Tiranti, 1949
    Cr.8vo. viii,32pp. 64 plates, map, biblio., dw.     £ 15.00

  200. UNDERWOOD, Leon. Figures in Wood of West Africa. London: Alex Tiranti,
    1947 Cr.8vo. 48pp. 64 plates, map, biblio., With French and English text.     £ 15.00

  201. VLACH, John Michael. The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts. Basketry, Musical Instruments, Wood Carving, Quilting, Pottery, Boatbuilding, Blacksmithing, Architecture, Graveyard Decoration. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978 Wrpps, 4to. 175pp. 8 colour plates, 100 illustrations, biblio. £ 25.00

  202. VOLPRECHT, Klaus. Sammlung Clausmeyer Afrika. Ethnologica Neue Folge, Band 5. Koln: E. J. Brill, 1972 Binder’s cloth, Cr.4to. xv,253pp. 4 colour and 208 monochrome plates, index. A very nice copy in a binder’s black cloth. £ 30.00

  203. WAITE, Deborah. Art of Africa. Newark: ‘The Museum’ Vol 21, 1 & 2. 1969
    Wrpps, Cr.4to. 38pp. 46 illustrations, (2 colour), map, biblio.     £ 5.00

  204. WATERLOT, Em. G. Les Bas-Reliefs des Batiments Royaux d’Abomey, (Dahomey). Paris: Travaux et Memoires de l’Institut d’Ethnologie, I, 1926 Roy.8vo.
    vi,10pp. 23 collotype plates with facing letterpress, (15 coloured), 2 maps.
    On the painted wall reliefs at the old Royal Palace of Dahomey.
    A very nice copy in the publisher’s dark green cloth.     £ 60.00

  205. WEBSTER, W. D. Illustrated Catalogue (27) of Ethnographical Specimens, from New Zealand, China, Africa, Fiji, Samoa, Hervey Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides and various other localities, on Sale by W. D. Webster, Oxford House, Bicester, Oxon, Eng. No. 27. September, September 1900 Wrpps, Cr.4to
    7 pp., of text listing 154 objects and 20 collotype plates illustrating all of them.
    Front wrapper chipped, lacking back wrapper.     £ 150.00

  206. WEBSTER, W. D. Illustrated Catalogue (28) of Ethnographical Specimens from Admiralty Islands, Africa, America, Australia, Fiji, Hervey Island, India, Marquisas, Matty Island, New Hebrides, New Guinea, New Zealand, Savage Island, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and various other localities. Published by W. D. Webster, Oxford House, Bicester, Oxon, Eng. Bicester: 1901 Cr.4to. 13pp. 21 collotype plates showing 291 objects. Wrappers slightly marked and tear in front wrapper. £ 150.00

  207. WILD, R. P. Funerary Equipment from Agona-Swedru, Winnebah District: Gold Coast. [Reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. LXVII.] London: RAI, 1937 Wrpps, 4to. 67-75pp. 3 plates, text-illustration.
    A presentation copy from the author to Mrs. E. M. Clifford.     £ 18.00

  208. WILLETT, Frank. Ife in the History of West African Sculpture. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967 Cr.4to. 232pp. 123 plates, (13 in colour), 41 illustrations and maps, biblio., index, dw. The Ife bronzes and terracottas. £ 30.00

  209. WILMAN, M. The Rock-Engravings of Griqualand West & Bechuanaland, South Africa. Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., Ltd., 1933 Roy.4to.
    xii,77pp. 70 plates, 16 text illustrations, folding map, biblio., index.
    The Dartington Hall copy with a stamp on the front end-paper and shelf mark to spine else a nice copy in the original green cloth.     £ 100.00

  210. WINGERT, Paul S. The Alan Wurtzburger Collection of African Sculpture. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1954 Wrpps, 4to. 30pp. 27 illustrations, biblio. £ 12.00

  211. WITTMANN, Otto (Ed.). African Art. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, Museum News, 1973 Wrpps, 4to. 20pp. 19 illustrations, map. £ 10.00


    212. Auction Catalogues



  212. Christies, 13 Jun, 1978. African Art from the Collection of the late Josef Mueller of Solothurn, Switzerland. 73pp. 64 plates, (5 colour), price list. £ 50.00


  213. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 23 Apr, 1974. African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian and American Indian Art. 96pp. numerous illustrations. Lots 1-72 African art, 73-97 Oceanic art, and 98-380 Pre-Columbian and American Indian art. £ 20.00


  214. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 11 Apr, 1975. African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian Art. 248 illustrations. £ 20.00


  215. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 13 Dec, 1975. African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian and American Indian Art. numerous illustrations £ 18.00


  216. Sotheby Parke Bernet, 26 May, 1978. Fine African, Oceanic,... 124pp. numerous illus. (some colour) £ 10.00


  217. Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 24 Mar, 1979. African and Oceanic Art. 84pp. numerous plates. £ 10.00


  218. Sothebys, 20 Nov, 1961. African Sculpture, Pre Columbian Gold Ornaments and N.W. American Art. 44pp. 20 plates, price list. £ 25.00


  219. Sothebys, 29 Mar, 1965. Important African Sculpture,.. 54pp. 33 plates £ 30.00


  220. Sothebys, 15 Nov, 1965. Important African, Oceanic and Indian Sculpture. 67pp. 33 plates. £ 30.00


  221. Sothebys, 26 Jun, 1967. African, Oceanic, American Indian, Pre-Columbian, Indian Sculpture. 69pp. 23 plates £ 15.00


  222. Sothebys, 8 Jul, 1969. African, Oceanic, American Indian... The Property of M. Christophe Tzara,... 78pp. 36 plates £ 20.00


  223. Sothebys, 15 Jul, 1975. The Tara Collection of African Sculpture formed by Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Gillon. 61pp. plates, (2 colour), price list. £ 25.00


  224. Sothebys, 14 May, 1979. Pre-Columbian,...Oceanic, African. 22pp. 16 plates, price list £ 5.00


  225. Sothebys, 23 Jul, 1979. Pre-Columbian,...Oceanic, African. 28pp. 26 plates, price list £ 5.00


  226. Sothebys, 30 Nov, 1981. American Indian,...African,... 125pp. numerous illustrations. £ 15.00


  227. Sothebys, 30 Apr, 1982. African, Oceanic, Pre-Columbian and American Indian Works of Art. 56pp. numerous llustrations. £ 15.00