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Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

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Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co., 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 1 volume : illustrations, portraits, maps (some folded) facsimiles ; 23 cm. Subjects; Africa, Southern; Description and travel. Africa; continent; travelogue. Africa; customs and culture.

Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1881. First American Edition. Leather-bound. Good Plus. Octavos. 21cm. Smoothalf calf over brown, stone marbled boards, double-ruled in blind. Dark red feather pattern marbling to endpapers, and all edges. Red and black leather spine titles and volume labels on Vol. I, lacking on Vol.II. Rubbing to extremities, and frayiing and small leather chip missing at top spinecap of Volume II. Translated by A. Elwes. 14 of the 15 Maps called for (1 folding), 2 folding facsimiles, and 132 illustrations. Volume I LACKS folding map of Tropical South Africa, called for to be inside cover pocket, which is also not present. Volume I xxx + 377, Contents clean. Many full page and in-text engravings. Volume II, vii + 388, and contains facsimiles of pages of diary, books of calculation, and album (the Watershed in Cangala). Also included are tables of hypsometrical and meteorological observations, diurnal oscillations of the barometer; a Brief Vocabulary of the Four Principal… Read More