Research Catalog

Title

Histoire de Loango, Kakongo, et autres royaumes d'Afrique : rédigée d'après les mémoires des préfets apostoliques de la mission françoise; enrichie d'une carte utile aux navigateurs: dédiée a monsieur / Par m. l'Abbé Proyart.

Author

Proyart, Liévin-Bonaventure, 1743?-1808

Publication

• Paris : Chez C.P. Berton, libraire, rue Saint Victor : N. Crapart, libraire, rue Vaugirard, M. DCC. LXXVI. [1776]
• Lyon : Chez Bruyset-Ponthus, imprimeur-libraire, rue Saint Dominique, M. DCC. LXXVI. [1776]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Berton, Charles-Pierre, -1788
• Crapart, Nicolas, -1783
• Bruyset Ponthus, Pierre, 1727-
• Simon, P. G. (Pierre-Guillaume), 1722-1787
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

viii, 390, [3] pages : folded map; 17 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

• Catholic Church > Missions > Congo (Democratic Republic)
• Vili (African people) > Social life and customs > Early works to 1800
• Ethnology > Congo (Democratic Republic) > Early works to 1800
• Congo (Democratic Republic) > History > Early works to 1800
• Kongo Kingdom > Early works to 1800
• Loango (Kingdom) > Early works to 1800
• Congo (Democratic Republic)

Genre/Form

Bookplates (Provenance.

Note

• "Plan des côtes de Loango": folded map bound following p. [4], 3rd count.
• Signatures: pi1 (pi1 verso blank) a⁴ ( -a4) (a1 verso blank) A-Q¹² (H5 missigned H4) R⁶ ( -R6) (R5 verso blank).
• Errata: p. 387-390.
• Engraved printer's ornament on title page; head and tail pieces; initials.
• Colophon reads: De l'Imprimerie de P.G Simon, 1776.

Indexed In (note)

• Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall

Source (note)

• of Sidney Lapidus;
• Copy 2 in Sc Rare 266-P from the Library of Melville J. Herskovits

Provenance (note)

• Copy 1 in Sc Rare -266 -P (F397389) Includes a "Star" stamp; and NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection."
• Copy in Sc Rare B 15-6 (Lapidus Collection) includes, on free upper end leaf, a graphite drawing of lady.

Binding (note)

• Copy in Sc Rare B 15-6 (Lapidus Collection) bound in contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, and red edges.

Call Number

Sc Rare 266-P (Proyart, L. B. Histoire de Loango...1776)

LCCN

04034718

OCLC

9634695

Author

Proyart, Liévin-Bonaventure, 1743?-1808, author.

Title

Histoire de Loango, Kakongo, et autres royaumes d'Afrique : rédigée d'après les mémoires des préfets apostoliques de la mission françoise; enrichie d'une carte utile aux navigateurs: dédiée a monsieur / Par m. l'Abbé Proyart.

Publisher

Paris : Chez C.P. Berton, libraire, rue Saint Victor : N. Crapart, libraire, rue Vaugirard, M. DCC. LXXVI. [1776]

Manufacturer

Lyon : Chez Bruyset-Ponthus, imprimeur-libraire, rue Saint Dominique, M. DCC. LXXVI. [1776]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Streit, R. Bibliotheca missionum, XVII:6323

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall, v. 7, page 6090, column 1, row 1

Provenance

Copy 1 in Sc Rare -266 -P (F397389) Includes a "Star" stamp; and NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection." NN

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has 3 copies of the book. Copy 1 in Sc Rare -266 -P (F397389) is probably one of the books added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian, and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator; Imperfect: bound in navy cloth over boards library binding, and gilt spine.

Also available on microfilm, researchers restricted to the microform copy in Sc Micro R-6222.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare B 15-6 (Lapidus Collection) includes, on free upper end leaf, a graphite drawing of lady. NN

Binding

Copy in Sc Rare B 15-6 (Lapidus Collection) bound in contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, spine gilt, and red edges. NN

Source

Copy 1 in Sc Rare -266 -P: F397389. NN

Gift; of Sidney Lapidus; 2015. Copy in Schomburg Center, Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Books

Gift; Copy 2 in Sc Rare 266-P from the Library of Melville J. Herskovits

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Place of Publication

France Paris.

Added Author

Berton, Charles-Pierre, -1788, publisher.

Crapart, Nicolas, -1783, distributor.

Bruyset Ponthus, Pierre, 1727- printer.

Simon, P. G. (Pierre-Guillaume), 1722-1787, printer.

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, curator.

Other Form:

Online version: Proyart, abbé, 1743?-1808. Histoire de Loango, Kakongo, et autres royaumes d'Afrique. Paris, C.P. Berton, N. Crapart; [etc.] 1776 (OCoLC)656596841

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 266-P (Proyart, L. B. Histoire de Loango...1776)

BMR (Proyart, L. B. Histoire de Loango, Kagongo, et autre royaumes d'Afrique)

Sc Rare B 15-6 (Lapidus Collection)