WEST AFRICA Explorers' routes Senegal Ashanti. Mountains of Kong. SDUK 1857 map

TITLE/CONTENT OF MAP: 'AFRICA' Much of Central Africa was unexplored by Europeans in 1857 and is therefore shown as blank on the map. Lake Victoria was first sighted by a European in 1858. The map sho

A pair of highly detailed maps of western Africa from the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge atlas. Plate I extends from the Senegal River to the Volta River, in what is now Ghana, and inla

Title/Content of Map: 1840 SDUK Map of West Africa -- West Africa I Date: 1840 London Cartographer: SDUK Size: 12.2 x 15.1 in. This is a fantastic Map of todays Mauritania (in part), Senegal, Gambia,

TITLE/CONTENT OF MAP: 'Africa' This fascinating map of early colonial Africa includes a number of cartographic errors or misapprehensions. These include the non-existent "Mountains of Kong" in West Af

1780 1ed RARE Complete VOYAGES Maps Captain Cook America Explorers Africa 32v The best book of its kind! An extremely rare, 32-volume complete set of La Harpe’s ‘General History of Voyages’! Thi

Large and important early copper engraved map of the western U. S. showing the route of Col. Henry Dodge’s 1835 Expedition from Fort Leavenworth to the Rocky Mountains. Rare first printing with

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Collection 1870s Adirondack Mountain Maps & Pamphlets. Includes the historic Preliminary Survey of the Adirondacks made by Verplanck Colvin in 1893, two "Birch Bark from the Adirondacks" books from 18

A FINE GURO/BAULE CARVED WOOD MASK, IVORY COAST, WEST AFRICA, of oval shape, with forehead centering a vertical raised line scarification flanked by curved notch and line hairstyle details, above arch

A very fine old carved wooden dance mask with attached coiffure , well handled surface patina. Dan peoples Mask, Gio/Geh, Liberia/Ivory Coast, west Africa. The mask measures and will include a custom

A Songye Wood Male Mask (Kifwebe) West Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo Height 16 25/32 inches (42.6 cm). Property from Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio Provenance: Ms. Dianne Komminsk, gifted i

A carved wood mask with incised designs and painted with kaolin clay pigments, Bwa / Bobo peoples, Burkina faso, West Africa. The mask measures 15 x 10 inches ( 18 inches tall on professional custom d

West Africa, Nigeria, left bank of the Benue River, Tiv peoples, ca. mid to late 19th century CE. A beautiful standing female ancestral figure known as an "ihambe," hand-carved from hard wood, standin

Copper alloy torque currency, Yoruba peoples, Nigeria, West Africa. Dimensions (approx.): 5.5" diameter PROVENANCE:From the estate of Professor Philip Gould, New York

World.- SDUK Atlas.- Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 4 parts in 1, parts 1-2 with 207 engraved maps, hand-coloured in outline, a few double-page, part 3 "Stars" with 6 hand-

JUAN LUNA Y NOVICIO (Badoc, Philippines, 1857 - Hong Kong, 1899). "Souvenir of the Battle of Lepanto ", 1887. Oil on canvas. Re-lined Signed, titled, dedicated to Vicente Romero Girón and dated in

*** START PRICE IS THE RESERVE *** [Africa]. GASTALDI, Giacomo (1500-1566) & FORLANI, Paolo (fl. 1560-1571). La Descrittione dell'Africa. Engraved Map. Venice: Paolo Forlani, 1562. 19 x 25 1/4 inches

Heading: Author: Schoolcraft, Henry R. Title: Journal of a Tour into the Interior of Missouri and Arkansaw, from Potosi, or Mine à Burton, in Missouri Territory, in a South-West Direction, toward th

North Africa, Anti Atlas Mountains, Ktaoua formation, Ordovician, ca. 488 to 443 million years ago. A rare and concentrated natural stone matrix of starfish and crinoids (sea lilies) that died and fos

the 2-sheet map of Africa and Asia, from the east coast of Brazil to Japan, charting the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies by Houtman, large titlecartouche upper centre of right sheet, ships, comp

The Daily Press. Hongkong, 31 August, 1859. Large folio, 4 pp. ************** The Daily Press was the first newspaper in Hong Kong, beginning in 1857. The present includes a long article on the Coolie

Arthur Wesley Dow (American, 1857 - 1922): Mountain Landscape. Oil on canvas, signed on the stretcher, in pencil verso, unframed. Born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Arthur Dow was a painter and printmake

Extremely Rare c1848 Map of Hong Kong, including reference to the Morrison Society School, a Protestant English langauge school for young Chinese boys. The school was built on what is now Morrison Hil