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:
£320.00
Year:
1861
Edition:
1st Edn,
Publisher:
Joihn Murray
Summary:
xviii 479 pages, folding frontis of "The Gorilla", large folding map at end, full page and text woodcut illustrations throughout. Armorial bookplate to front paste down and front end some spotting to front blank prelims. Bound without adverts in a contemporary ? calf spine in compartments with leather title label, ornate tooling to remaining spine compartments, some rubbing to corners and spine edges . 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:
22768
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