• A valuable ethnographic work. The author had worked in the Ethnological Museum at Berlin which inspired him to begin his own collection.
  • A valuable ethnographic work. The author had worked in the Ethnological Museum at Berlin which inspired him to begin his own collection.
  • A valuable ethnographic work. The author had worked in the Ethnological Museum at Berlin which inspired him to begin his own collection.
  • A valuable ethnographic work. The author had worked in the Ethnological Museum at Berlin which inspired him to begin his own collection.
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KOLLMANN, Paul.

The Victoria Nyanza

The Victoria Nyanza

The land, the races and their customs, with specimens of some of the dialects.

Stock Code 107569

London, Swan Sonnenschein, 1899.

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A valuable ethnographic work. The author had worked in the Ethnological Museum at Berlin which inspired him to begin his own collection. The work is full of illustrations of the artefacts of German East Africa and also includes information on tattoos etc.

First English edition; 8vo; folding map, 372 illustrations; original red cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, a very good copy; ix, 254 pp.

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