A Journey To Ashango-Land, and Further Penetration Into Equatorial Africa

This book's major flaw is that the spine has about 40 pea sized spots of insect damage, several of which go through the cloth (see the pictures). Nonetheless, this interesting green volume has a gilt picture on front cover and gilt lettering on spine; embossed frame around cover and design on back; protective tissue page in front of title page;… Read more about this item

John Murray: London, 1867. First Edition, early printing. Hardcover. Very Good minus/without dust jacket. Octavo, 8 2/3" tall, 501 pages, with intertextual illustration, black & white plates and fold-out map at rear, marbled endpapers and fore-edges, gilt spine titles, three-quarter leather over marbled boards. A very good minus, clean, neat hard cover with moderate shelf wear and… Read more about this item

Harper & Brothers, 1874. Book. Very Good. hardback. hardback, octavo, purple cloth lettered gilt to a faded spine, rubbed at head and foot of spine, knocked to leading corners of boards - more so at top, pin-prick hole to upper board, the binding remains tight, bookplate of Newton Hall, Cambridge to front pastedown, the text is clean and unmarked,… Read more about this item

London: John Murray. xxiv 501pp hardback, purple publisher's cloth gilt, folding map at rear, 22 engraved plates including frontispiece, vignette to title page, ownership signature to title page and armorial bookplate of James G, Grove, Castlegrove [Letterkenny, Co. Donegal] neat repair to front hinge . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1867.

London: John Murray. xv 501pp hardback, purple cloth gilt with gilt illustration in centre of front board, with fold-out map at rear, and 24 eng illustrations, neat ownership signature to top of title page, with corresponding armorial bookplate to front paste-down of James C. Grove, Castle Grove. very short edge tears to fore-edge leaves ca3mm, backstrip sl sunned,… Read more about this item