(AFRICA) Cipriani Lidio Tipi e Costumi Africani [African Typ

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FIFTY EXQUISITE PHOTOGRAPHS OF AFRICAN PEOPLE (AFRICA.) Cipriani, Lidio. Tipi e Costumi Africani [African Types and Dress]. Album of 50 half-tone photographs, 91/4x63/4 inches, mounted on black paper with hand-written captions in white ink. Enclosed in the original leather-bound album with the title in gilt embossed on the cover; tips rubbed. South Africa/Rhodesia, circa 1927

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Lidio Cipriani (1892-1962), was the assistant at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology at Florence from 1923 through the beginning of WWII. In 1927 he embarked on the first of several long trips to Africa, an expedition to South Africa and Rhodesia where he conducted geological studies for the Museum and took these photographs.