Books on the countries of Western Africa
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. Read more...
Togo. Territoire African sous Mandat Français. 20 Cartes Postales Illustrées. Les albums de cartes postales illustrées des colonies, protectorates et territoires sous Mandat Français. Album No. 16. Paris: Édité par la Maison d’Art Clonial, Eug Read more...
GUILLAUME, Paul et Thomas Monro. La Sculpture Nègre Primitive. Par Paul-Guillaume et Thomas Munro. Paris: Les éditions G. Crès & Cie, “Peintres et Sculptures”, 1929 Wrpps, Cr.8vo. 90pp. 43 plates.
Thomas Munro (1897 – 1974) was a Read more...
TAUXIER, L. La Religion Bambara. Etudes Soudanaises. Par L. Tauxier, Administrateur des Colonies. Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner, 1927 Wrpps, Med.8vo. xx,472pp.
Louis Tauxier (1871-1942) was an anthropologist who joined the colonial administr Read more...
MCINTOSH, Susan Keech & Roderick J.. Prehistoric investigations in the region of Jenne, Mali: a study in the development of urbanism in the Sahel. Part i: Archaeological & historical background & the excavations at Jenne-jeno. Part ii: The re Read more...
BERENGER-FERAUD, L.-J.-B. Les peuplades de la Sénégambie. Histoire, ethnographie, moeurs et coutumes, légendes, etc. Paris: Ernest Leroux, Challamel Ainé, 1879 Contemporary quarter morocco, Med.8vo. xvi,420pp.
Dr Jean Baptiste Laurent Berenger-Feraud Read more...
ALLEN, William & T. R. H. Thomson. A Narrative of the Expedition sent by Her Majesty’s Government to The River Niger in 1841. Under the command of Captain H. D. Trotter, R.N. By Captain William Allen, R.N. and T.R.H. Thomson, M.D., Surgeon, R.N. Read more...
EDWARDS, Bryan (Introduction by). The Proceedings of the Governor and Assembly of Jamaica, in regard to the Maroon Negroes: Published by order of the Assembly. To which is prefixed, an introductory account, containing, observations on the disposition, cha Read more...
ATKINS, John. A Voyage to Guinea, Brazil, and the West-Indies; In His Majesty’s Ships the Swallow and Weymouth. Giving a Genuine Account of the several Islands and Settlements of Madeira, the Canaries, Cape de Verd, Sierraleon, Sesthos, Cape Apo Read more...
SANCHO, Ignatius. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. To which are prefixed, Memoirs of his Life. The Third Edition. London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1784 Contemporary calf, Cr.8vo. xiv,393pp. frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by J. Read more...
DALZEL, Archibald. The History of Dahomy, an Inland Kingdom of Africa; Compiled from Authentic Memoirs; With an Introduction and Notes. By Archibald Dalzel, formerly Governor at Whydah, and now at Cape-Coast-Castle. London: Printed for the Editor, by T. S Read more...