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DUGAST, Idelette. Monographie de la tribu des Ndiki (Banen du Cameroun). Paris, Institut d'Ethnologie, 1955-59. 2 volumes. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. With numerous maps and illustrations. XXIV,824; XX,635 pp. Comprehensive study of one of the Banen tribes, the Ndiki, who inhabit the mountainous area to the south of the Bamileke.The career of Idelette Dugast, neatly illustrates the continuity between administrative knowledge and academic ethnology. Travelling to the Cameroons in the `1930s as a student at the Institute of Ethnology, she married there the administrator-chef René Dugast. In 1943 Idelette Dugast became secretary-archivist for the offical Societé d'Etudes Camerounaises. [Boeknr.: 24946 ]

€ 175,00

EMONTS, Johannes. Ins Steppen- und Bergland Innerkameruns. Aus dem Leben und Wirken deutscher Afrikamissionare. Aachen, Xaverius, 1922.Original half cloth. With 200 photographic illustrations. VIII,332 pp. First edition. - Bücher der Weltmission. - Account of Father Emonts' first missionary journey in Cameroon, a West African colony of Germany from 1884 till 1916. Kainbacher p.104. [Boeknr.: 24859 ]

€ 65,00

HEEPE, M. Jaunde-Wörterbuch. Unter Mitwirkung von P.H. Nekes. Hamburg, L. Friederichsen & Co., 1926. 8vo. Wrappers, uncut. XIV,257 pp. Hamburgische Universität. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiet der Auslandskunde. - A dictionary of the Bantu language Jaunde, spoken in the South of Cameroon. [Boeknr.: 24811 ]

€ 175,00

KINGSLEY, Mary Henrietta. Travels in West Africa. Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons. 2nd edition, abridged. London, Macmilland and Co., 1898.Original cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With photographic illustrations and plates. XX,541 pp. First published in 1897. - 'This is arguably the best-known of all books by Victorian and Edwardian women travellers. She travelled in the forests of Africa dressed much as she would have done at home' (Theakstone p.153). 'The author made an ascent of Mount Cameroon by a new route in 1895, during the course of an enterprising expedition, vividly described in her book' (Neate K26). 'The two travel accounts she produced were immediate best sellers, both for their serious scientific content and their exuberant raciness. They are masterpieces' (Robinson p.138).Hess-Coger 5571. [Boeknr.: 32257 ]