Jul 30, 2020 - Sale 2543

Sale 2543 - Lot 323

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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
Starr, Frederick (1858-1933) Congo Natives: an Ethnographic Album. Folio, limited edition, copy number 159 of 350 signed by Starr on the limitation page, illustrated with 130 photogravure plates the majority with half- and full-page images; bound in publisher's full green cloth, titled in gilt, spine faded, endcaps somewhat frayed, two ink sketches loosely inserted, 12 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. Chicago: for the author by the Lakeside Press, 1912.
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Starr contributed to the Congo Free State Propaganda war, flippantly minimizing the horrendous treatment of rubber workers, indigenous people of the Congo, under the colonial rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. The work is dedicated to Leopold's son Albert I .