Author:
DU CHAILLU Paul B.
Title:
Explorations And Adventures In Equatorial Africa With The Accounts Of The Manners And Customs Of The People and of the Chase of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus and Other Animals
Price:
£365.00
Year:
1861
Edition:
1st Edn,
Summary:
XVIII 478 pages, 28 pages of adverts, folding frontis of the gorilla, folding map, text illus, early name and date 1890 to front inner blank with note to verso on FEP in ink relating to the 2nd edition. Bookplate with library shelf number for Lord Carew, Castle Bond Ireland, where plate in placed glue has caused adhesion to opposite blank causing 2cm-5cm piece missing. Original cloth with gilt gorilla to upper boards in blind ruled boarders, chipping to head and tail of spine, slight bumping to corners and rubbed, light surface rubbing to part of rear boards approx. 6x2cm. Du Chaille was one of the first white men to trek into gorilla country, Czech 86
Ref:
18688