Belgian Congo by Congo (13 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 44 pages. Illustrated. E C Eggins "The Belgian Congo: a Contented Colony" / Bernard Lewis "The Ottoman Empire and Islam" / Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber "The Problems of M.Pinay" / Christopher Serpell "Has Italy Struck Oil?" / Barbara Ward "The Age of Confusion" / W G Hoskins "The Market Town" / Hugh Dalton "Labour's Criticisms of the Government" (Papers).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 95 pages. Estelle Cohen "Medical Debates on Woman's 'Nature' in England around 1700" / Waltraud Ernst "Psychiatry and Colonialism: Lunatic Asylums in British India 1800-1858" / David Arnold "Smallpox and Colonial Medicine in India" / Martinez Lyons "Sleeping Sickness and Public Health in the Belgian Congo, 1903-1930" (BT#38).

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Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Volume 1. (Congo, Land Surveys) A reading only copy. Boards/spine/hinges may be broken, detached, or missing. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes/highlighting, be heavily stained, or detached. May be missing non-text pages (e.g. end pages, half title, title, frontispiece.).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Issued for the Missionary exhibition of prinitive art held in Rome, 1950. (Vatican exhibition). Description: 89 pages : 49 plates.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Internally clean, unmarked copy with lightly age-toned prelims and edges. Block remains tight with very lightly shaken spine with a tiny slight to spine crease. Still handsome copy.

Aus dem Französischen ins Englische übersetzt von H.H. und C. Heldt. 2 Bände, dunkles Kunstleder mit goldgeprägtem Deckel- und Rückentitel, Band I: VIII, 547 Seiten, 1 Karte; Band II: XX, 187 Seiten, Glossar, Bibliographie, 12 Karten, schöne Exemplare. Buch.

Hardback edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 2 volumes : color maps (part folded), diagrams (part color) tables ; 22 cm. Subjects; Congo (Democratic Republic). Congo (Democratic Republic); history. Congo (Democratic Republic); description and travel. 3 Kg.

Hardback edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 2 volumes : color maps (part folded), diagrams (part color) tables ; 22 cm. Subjects; Congo (Democratic Republic). Congo (Democratic Republic); history. Congo (Democratic Republic); description and travel. 1 Kg.

First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.5cm). Tan cloth stamped in brown, titled in gilt on black leather spine label, top edge gilt; [xvi],634pp; photogravure frontispiece portrait, black and white map, 100 black and white halftone plates, large color folding map at rear. Errata slip at p.x. Sound but rubbed, slight fraying at spine ends, spine label much abraded, minor abrasions to boards, internally largely clean: around Very Good. Wack (1875-1954) was a paid apologist for Leopold II and his atrocity-ridden regime in the Congo Free State. [61952].

Colour printed map, 880 x 710 mm. edges re-inforced to verso with brown tape. At a scale of 1 inch to 63.12 miles, this was produced by the War Office during the Second World War.

None. Condition: None. Seventeen unmounted gelatin silver prints, including six larger ones ca. 12x17 cm (ca. 4 ¾ x 6 ¾ in), and seven smaller ones ca. 6,5x10,5 cm (2 ½ x 4 ¼ in), with three images in between those sizes. The majority with manuscript pencil captions in French on verso. The photographs are sharp and in very good condition. This collection includes early views of Boma - the capital of Belgian Congo - its streets and the house of the "Chef Batailon", and three views of Fort de Shinkakasa built near Boma in 1891, also a panorama of the Congo river with the fort on the right and Boma in the distance. Several views of Lusambo show its streets, river and a church under construction. There are also photos of a small village on the Kwamouth river and images of local people shown next to their houses, with ox driven carts during the cotton harvest, etc. "Boma is a port town, on the Congo River some 100 km upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Bas-Congo province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Boma was the capital city of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo (the modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) from 1 May 1886 to 1926, when the capital was moved to Léopoldville (since renamed Kinshasa)" (Wikipedia). "Lusambo is a town and territory in the Sankuru district of the Kasai-Oriental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The town lies north of the confluence of the Sankuru River and the Lubi River. In 1890 Lusambo was chosen by Paul Le Marinel as the main Belgian base in the Kasai region to defend against the threat of Arab or Swahili traders in slaves and ivory who were encroaching from the east. The station would soon become one of the most important military posts of the Congo Free State with a permanent staff of seventeen whites, six hundred native soldiers and four artillery pieces" (Wikipedia).

Belgian Congo photo archive documenting colonialism and segregated settlement in Paulis, Jadotville, and at Kiubo Falls in 1946-1947, while Belgian rule expanded displacing Congolese communities from political power and control over local resources. Made by an unidentified traveler or colonial observer, the group moves between industrial sites, river traffic, town streets, waterfalls, village compounds, and posed encounters with Congolese residents, placing daily life beside the infrastructure of empire. Jadotville, in Katanga, had been built within the orbit of Union Minière du Haut-Katanga and the copper economy that tied the Congo to European industry; Paulis belonged to the northeastern colonial administrative network that extended surveillance, mission activity, and commercial penetration into local societies. By the later 1940s, these systems were producing wealth for Belgium and foreign markets through forced and controlled labor regimes. Photo archive of 36 black and white silver gelatin photographs, various sizes, ranging from 2.5" x 3.5" to 5" x 7", Belgian Congo, 1946-1947. Nine photographs are identified to the Paulis region in 1946, including versos inscribed in French with "Habitations Européens à Paulis," "Pavillon de l'hotel," and "Le Kigoma sur le fleuve." These images show European-style houses set among palms, a large riverside or lakeside steamer, a broad colonial street with automobiles and low commercial buildings, thatched structures, and Congolese figures posed near village compounds and along a tree-lined road. The remaining photographs, from Jadotville and Kiubo Falls in 1947, include multiple views of the falls from overlooks and near the waterline, several repeated compositions of cascades and riverbanks, a dense electrical installation with transformers and steel framing, public crowd scenes, dugout canoes on calm water, groups standing beside temporary camp structures, and additional views of thatched settlements, large shade trees, and Congolese men, women, and children positioned before houses or in open clearings. Several photographs set European-built environments against Congolese dwellings and occupied landscapes, making the colonial dichotomy apparent within this grouping. Waterfalls, river steamers, electric infrastructure, and ordered streets mark the channels through which copper, labor, and administrative authority moved outward to Belgian and international markets, while the photographs of Congolese settlements and residents show the populations who bore that reorganization of land and economy. In the late colonial Congo, extraction and transport depended on African labor under coercive conditions, and urban growth in places such as Jadotville advanced through racially unequal housing, wage structures, and civic access, leaving Congolese people concentrated in subordinate quarters or rural zones even when their work sustained the entire system. Light wear and occasional creasing; several versos inscribed in French; overall very good condition. An intimate look into Belgian colonial rule at the point where industrial wealth, infrastructure, and local displacement met on the ground. Signed.