EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals
Rare and modern books
Du Chaillu
John Murray,
1861
EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA. With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals
Rare and modern books
Du Chaillu
John Murray,
1861
1595.00 €
(Newburyport,
United States of America)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1861
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Du Chaillu
- Publishers
- John Murray
- Edition
- RARE FIRST EDITION IN THE FINE POLISHED CALF BINDING . It was on
- Languages
- English
- First edition
- True
Description
First edition. With 73 black and white illustrations, including a folding frontispiece of a gorilla (the first ever of the animal) and a folding map at the rear. 8vo, in a beautiful binding of full polished natural calf, the spine with compartments decorated with fully gilt panel designs, one compartment with a red morocco lettering piece gilt. xviii, 479 pp. A very bright and uncommonly fresh copy, much nicer then is typically found, internally a very fresh clean copy virtually free of any spotting, the folding map and folding gorilla plate in excellent order.
