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:
£400.00
Year:
1861
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
John Murray
Summary:
xviii 459 pages, 28 pages of adverts, folding frontis of "The Gorilla", large folding map at end, full page and text woodcut illustrations throughout. Armorial bookplate with corresponding signature to the front paste down. Recased in the publisher's cloth retaining the original end papers, gilt gorilla vignette to the upper board within blind ruled boarders, spine head and tail rebacked. Du Chaillu travelled through the heavily forested Gabon and was one of the first white men to trek into gorilla territory in search of gorillas. Though he also encountered hippopotamus and elephant. Czech 86
Ref:
22538