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Books about Benin:

• Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at His Capital, in the Year 1849 and 1850 (2 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Frederick E. Forbes (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney; To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade (London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 1789), by Robert Norris (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Terre de Mort (Soudan et Dahomey) (in French; Paris: A. Lemerre, 1892), by Paul Vigné d'Octon
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney; To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade (London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 1789), by Robert Norris (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Ewe-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa: The Religion, Manners, Customs, Laws, Languages, &c. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1890), by A. B. Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Vocabulary of the Yoruba Language (London: Seeleys, 1852), by Samuel Crowther, contrib. by Owen Emerich Vidal
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journals of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and Residence at His Capital, in the Year 1849 and 1850 (2 volumes; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Frederick E. Forbes (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• At the Back of the Black Man's Mind: or, Notes on the Kingly Office in West Africa (1906), by R. E. Dennett (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)

• Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), by Francesca Piqué and Leslie Rainer (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Oshielle, or, Village Life in the Yoruba Country: From the Journals and Letters of a Catechist There, Describing the Rise of A Christian Church in an African Village (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1857), by M. A. S. Barber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (New York: T. Hamilton; et al., 1861), by Martin Robison Delany (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party (from a reprint edition, date unknown), by Martin Robison Delany (Gutenberg text)

• Oshielle, or, Village Life in the Yoruba Country: From the Journals and Letters of a Catechist There, Describing the Rise of A Christian Church in an African Village (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1857), by M. A. S. Barber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Christianity, Islam, and Orisa Religion: Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by J. D. Y. Peel
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR
  • HTML and PDF files at Project MUSE

• Memoirs of the Reign of Bossa Ahadee, King of Dahomy, an Inland Country of Guiney; To Which Are Added, the Author's Journey to Abomey, the Capital; and a Short Account of the African Slave Trade (London: Printed for W. Lowndes, 1789), by Robert Norris (HTML and TEI at UNC)

Books by Benin:

Books in the extended shelves:

• Benin: Agreement between the United States of America and Benin, effected by exchange of notes, dated at Cotonou September 26 and October 3, 1994 (Dept. of State :, 1997), also by United States. 1994 Sept. 26 and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benin: Agreement between the United States of America and Benin, signed at Cotonou April 28, 1995 with appendices (Dept. of State :, 2000), also by United States. 1995 Apr. 28 and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benin: Defense, International Military Education and Training (IMET) : agreement between the United States of America and Benin, effected by exchange of notes, signed at Cotonou May 15 and October 15, 1984. (Dept. of State :, 1989), also by United States. 1984 May 15 and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benin: Postal, express mail service : agreement, with detailed regulations, between the United States of America and Benin, signed at Cotonou and Washington, July 6 and 26, 1988. (Dept. of State :, 1993), also by United States. 1988 Jul. 6 and United States Department of State (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benin: Rapport d'ensemble sur la situation générale de la colonie ... (Porto-Novo., in the 19th century) (page images at HathiTrust)

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