The Four Moments of the Sun: Kongo Art in Two Worlds

Thompson, Robert Farris & Joseph Cornet

National Gallery of Art, 1981

[Interesting provenance: From the private library of renowned historian, Philip D. Morgan.] Softcover. Shelf wear. Spine creased. Contemporary signature of Morgan on front end page. 256 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 28 cm. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. 

From the professional library of Dr. Philip D. Morgan, a professor of History at Johns Hopkins University. Morgan specializes in the African-American experience, the history of slavery, the early Caribbean, and the study of the early Atlantic world. Morgan is the author of more than 14 books on Colonial America and African American history. He has won both the Bancroft Prize and the Frederick Douglass Prize for his book Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry (1998).