Jungle Life In India; or The Journeys And Journals Of An Indian Geologist. by Ball V - 1880

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Thos. de la Rue & Co., 1880 Med.8vo. xvi,720pp. frontispiece and 11 plates, (2 in collotype), 11 illustrations, folding map, appendix, index, errata slip. A very nice copy of the first edition in the publisher's gilt decorated brown cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[L]

London: Thos. De La Rue & Co, 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [6], viii-xv, [2], 2-720, [2] pp. Half contemporary black calf over purple pebbled cloth boards, spine in six compartments with a purple morocco label lettered in gold, all edges decoratively speckled. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding map, and with 12 plates and 11 in-text wood engravings. With the errata slip. Hazlitt 147. Geological Magazine, "Valentine Ball, C.B., M.A., and LL.D. (Dublin), F.R.S., F.G.S., M.R.I.A. (1895)", 2(8), 382-383. The bookplate belongs to John Madden, listed in Hazlitt's Role of Honour. Valentine Ball was an Irish geologist and a fellow of the Royal Society and a fellow of Calcutta University. One of his longest occupations was serving on the Staff of the Geological Survey of India. He stumbled upon coal fields in the central peninsula of India, and thus advised the British government on industrial railroad routes within the subcontinent. Ball also contributed numerous reports on… Read More