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LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. A Record of Modern Discovery by Geddie John - 1881
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LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. A Record of Modern Discovery
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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881. Scarce First edition. With 32 full page engraved illustrations, many of which are double-page. 8vo, publisher's original Victorian decorated brown cloth with elaborate lettering and pictorial designs on the spine and upper cover in the motif of native and river scenes in gilt and black. vii, 275pp., [10] ads. An attractive copy, quite clean and fresh and with none of the usual with only some very minor rubbing to the edges of the spine and some cosmetic splitting to the join of the endleaves at the still-firm hinges, the text free of foxing or soiling. A HANDSOME COPY IN ORIGINAL CLOTH. An early history of explorations of the Nile, the Congo, and the Zambesi River regions, a very nicely written chronicle, now rather scarce.
“...Africa is green and flourishing at the heart, however uninviting in the rind; that away in its centre, beyond the pestilential mangrove swamps and tracts of arid sand that almost everywhere girdle its coasts, there are high and delightful countries, full of running streams and far-stretching lakes, of rich tropical verdure and abundant animal life.”-Intro.
“...Africa is green and flourishing at the heart, however uninviting in the rind; that away in its centre, beyond the pestilential mangrove swamps and tracts of arid sand that almost everywhere girdle its coasts, there are high and delightful countries, full of running streams and far-stretching lakes, of rich tropical verdure and abundant animal life.”-Intro.
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The Lake Regions of Central Africa. a Record of Modern Discovery
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T.Nelson & Sons, London, 1883. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint (originally issued in 1881). 8vo. vi, 275pp + [x] publisher's catalogue. Decorated cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board, with gilt- and black stamped illustrations. With patterned endpapers, a frontispiece, one double-spread map, and thirty-one captioned plates of engravings. Cloth a little bruised at the backstrip ends and with a single tiny nick. Free endpapers browned. School prize plate to the front pastedown, and the motif of the same school gilt-stamped to the rear board, over the publisher's blind-stamped imprint. A very good copy. A handsome early reprint of the author's first book..
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London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1881 First edition. Hardcover book . Full leather school prize binding for Windlesham House, Brighton. Gilt decorations to spine, gilt title on black leather panel, gilt borders, gilt school crest to front. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Prize label to front pastedown in Latin. 275pp, octavo. With 32 steel engraved illustrations in plates (some double page), including a map. Very Good. Clean covers with slight dulling to spine gilt and some rubbing to edges. Pages generally very clean, some dulling to closed edges (marbled) and light foxing to prelims and blanks at end.
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THE LAKE REGIONS OF CENTRAL AFRICA. a Record of Modern Discovery : With Thirty-Two Illustrations
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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1889. Full-Leather. Near Very Good. Handsome contemporary Brown tree Full-Leather Prize Binding. 5 Raised Bands to spine with Gilt Title on Black Ground in 2nd Compartment and Gilt Decoration filling the others. Bright Gilt Central School Badge on front illustrated with a Golden Eagle. Gilt Armorial Bearing on the back. Endpapers and all page edges Marbled. Frontis illustrated with " the Lady Alice Shooting the Rapids". 31 other full-page B&W illustrations. Very interesting account of African Exploration, in 3 Parts; The Nile, The Congo, and The Zambesi. Illustrations include; "Caravan crossing the Nubian Desert", "Sir Samuel and Lady Baker on the March", "Murchison Falls", "Stanley on the March", "Burton & Speke on the Tanganyika" & "Game on the Zambesi". 275 Pages, 560g, 7 1/2" Tall. Prize Bookplate with School's Armorial Bearing on Endpaper, dated 1891 Fine crack to leather down…
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London. T. Nelson and Sons. 1892. Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm, third edition, 275p., with 32 illustrations including frontis, double page map, bound in contemporary full brown morocco, blind ruled raised bands, gilt titles, blind ruled borders on the boards, gilt School Prize Binding on the cover, gilt inner dentelles, prize presentation bookplate on marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, Signed Prize Binding "Bickers Sons, Leicester,Sqr". In Fine Condition ~ Scottish journalist and writer, John Geggie (1848 1937), wrote several travel books (also Himalayas & Russian Empire) but was noted mainly for his writings on Edinburgh. This book is in three parts: The Nile, Congo & Zambezi. An attractively bound book in signed bindings " Bickers & Son, Leicester Sqr.". The school crest on front is Owen's Grammar School (est. 1613).
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London [et al.]: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881. 12mo, pp. [9], 10-275, [1], [10] ads; double-page map, 31 full-page wood-engraved illustrations, 1 double-page; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; some wear at extremities and a small break in the cloth at the top of the front joint; all else very good.
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