Africa Bernatzik, Hugo A Between the White Nile and the Belgian Congo. With 204 photographic illustrations on 140 collotype plates and 1 map. Vienna, Seidel, 1929. 139 pages, plate section. 4°. Original cloth (slightly stained and somewhat bumped). First edition of the first work. - NDB II, 103: "(His) travels ... especially several times to Africa yielded rich ethnological collections (excellent photographs!) ... His gift for empathy, his ability to adapt to the nature and life of foreign peoples, his grasp of the particular fluidity of a people were B.'s most outstanding qualities. His ethnological and anthropological experiences made him aware of the many threats to the indigenous life of the native populations, which he fought to preserve through an ethnologically based, healthy colonial policy in speech and writing. B. thus became the founder of applied ethnology. This lot is taxed according to the rules. The hammer price is subject to a 24.95% buyer's premium and the final invoice amount to 7% (books, art) or 19% VAT (manuscripts, screen prints, offset prints, photographs) in the European Union. This work is subject to the regular margin scheme. There is a 24.95% buyer's premium on the hammer price and 7% (Books and Art) or 19% VAT (Manuscripts, Screenprints, Offsetprints and Photographs) on the final invoice amount in the European Union.