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By: N/A
Price: $104.50
Publisher: John G Murdoch, Holborn, London: 1870
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 77ia
973 pages (complete). A venerable copy. The book has all the ponderous Victorian dignity and presence of a lectern bible : it has a thick stamped leathered boards. It is heavy, large. The boards have decorations and titling in gilt. The boards are much scuffed, worn and marked from age, handling and shelving. They are supremely confident, secure and sure. The page trims are gilded (worn and dusty). Within, the contents have all the consequences of age and ownersh... View more info
By: Brown, Robert
Price: $342.00
Publisher: Cassell and Company, Ltd: 1892
Edition: Special Edition
Seller ID: cbgb
Four volumes (complete). Special subscribers edition. A sure and comfortable set. Volume 1: The Guinea Traders, The Corsairs of Africa, The Tale of Timbuctoo, The Niger. 312 pages (complete). A passive copy. The boards have storage marks and wear, fading. The contents are tanned from age. Nonetheless, they are tight, comfortable, clear, benign. Volume II: The River of Egypt, The Great Lakes, Across the Continent, The Congo. A mildly worn copy. The boards are s... View more info
By: Denham, Major ; Clapperton, Captain ; Oudney, Doctor
Price: $76.00
Publisher: John Murray, London: 1828
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 35le
467 pages (complete). Volume II only. A handsome copy of this thrilling journey of exploration from the fractious three explorers. At some stage in the past the book was handsomely rebound in full leather. Blind stamped decoration, gilt borders. The spine has gilt painted decoration and titling. The spine has four ridges. The boards are steady, healthy. Newer marbled end-papers. The contents are pleasing. The folded maps are a little mottled with foxing and age... View more info
By: Durant, E
Price: $142.50
Publisher: Challamel et Cie, Editeurs, Paris: 1888
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 45mm
115 pages (complete). In French throughout. A placid copy. Half-leather. Marbled boards. The boards, leathered corners and spine all have wear, scuffing, scratches from shelving and storage. There are handling and storage marks. Nonetheless, they are comfortable, sure. Marbled end papers (fresh). The contents have some tanning, especially fore and aft, and to the page edges, from shelving / storage. There are shallow handling marks. Overall, and by far, the con... View more info
By: Forbes, Prof V S ; Rudner, J & I (trans)
Price: $63.65
Publisher: Van Riebeeck Society, Cape Town: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 83mw
Two volumes (complete). A pleasingly smart set. The boards are tidy, healthy, sound, steady. Volume I published 1975. Volume II published in 1977. The contents are most agreeable. They are very clean and clear, confident, orderly, neat, certain - almost as new throughout both! fk View more info
By: Graetz, Paul
Price: $118.75
Publisher: Vereinigte Verlagsanstalten Gustav Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Druckerei Akt.-Ges., Berlin: 1910
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24od
357 pages (complete). In German throughout. A most pleasing copy of this book by (in most in-German hyperbole) the 'German Indiana Jones'. This is Graetz's account of his journey across Africa from Dar-es-Salaam to Luderitz (the first of its kind by motor car). The decorated boards are evocative. The gilt titling is fresh, bold. The boards do have some mild scuffing, wear about the edges and corners. They are steady and sound. The contents are most pleasing. Th... View more info
By: Jeal, Tim ; Calder, Angus ; Driver, Felix ; Cannizzo, Jeanne ; Barringer, Tim ; MacKenzie, John M
Price: $14.25
Publisher: National Portrait Gallery: 1996
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 35lp
239 pages (complete). A fresh-faced copy. Included: a note to Edna and Frank Bradlow from Philip Warham St Leger Searle, various cuttings about the exhibition of which this is the accompanying publication. The dustjacket is pleasing. It has light wear about the shelving edges. The boards are healthy and tidy. The contents are pleasing: very clean, clear, bright, generous, diligent, keen. fk View more info
By: Johnston, H H
Price: $190.00
Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., London: 1886
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 17ot
572 pages (complete). A generously owned copy. The spine has been repaired by a leather strip. Illustrated and gilt titled front boards. The boards have shelving, storage, handling wear about all edges and corners. There are handling, storage marks and scuffing. They are tight and sure. The contents bear their age and ownership with dignity and resolution. The pages are amiably generous. They are clean and clear, occasionally marked from storage conditions, some... View more info
Price: $137.75
Publisher: John Murray, London: 1887
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 4ol
416 pages (complete). A placid copy. Green boards with gilt decoration and titling (clear). The boards have wear about the edges, corners, seams. They are scuffed and marked from handling and storage. They are convivial and sound. The dedication page has a previous owner's rush of a signature. The contents are pleasing: clean, clear, genial, determined, amenable, companionable. fk View more info
By: Livingstone, David ; Boucher, Maurice (ed)
Price: $80.75
Publisher: Brenthurst Press, Johannesburg: 1985
Edition: Limited
Seller ID: 44ol
256 pages (complete). Unnumbered copy of a limited edition of 850 copies. A gratifying copy. The dustjacket has wear, scuffing. It is secure and sure. The brown cloth covered boards are handsome, healthy. The contents are in wonderful condition. Luxe, fresh, very clean and clear, produced with care, passion - indeed as if almost new throughout! fk View more info
By: Livingstone, David ; Waller, Horace
Price: $285.00
Publisher: John Murray, London: 1874
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 86la
Two volumes (complete) with folded map at rear. The map shows in great detail the route of Livingstone's journey. It is a different map from that included in other editions. It is in fresh, pleasing condition. Two benign copies. Pressed gilt illustrations on the boards. The boards are scuffed, worn, marked from storage and shelving, all about. The spines of both are sunned, but the titlings are still agreeable. The boards, despite their aging, are steady and sound.... View more info
By: Livingstone, David and Charles ; Woldike, M Th. (transl)
Price: $66.50
Publisher: Fr Woldike, Copenhagen: 1868
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 24ox
522 pages (complete). In Danish throughout. A benign copy. Half leather. The leathered corners have wear. The leathered spine also has wear and burnishment. The marbled boards have mild shelving wear, scuffing. The boards and spine are assured and placid and steady. Patterned (au bourge) end papers. Previous owner signature. The contents have foxing here and there throughout - particularly to the early and later pages and folded map. Otherwise, the pages are com... View more info
Price: $380.00
Publisher: Horace Cox, London: 1876
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 52qs
734 pages (complete). A comfortable copy. The blue boards have corner knocks, wear and marking, scuffing all about from handling and shelving. The gilt titling on the spine is stamped on a smaller, different leather patch. The boards and spine are sound, steady. The early pages are aged. The guttering along the frontispiece is cracked. But, the page is still secure. The early pages are marked, foxed by age and handling. The contents have some mild spots and spri... View more info
By: Mauch, Karl ; Bernhard, F O (Transl, Ed)
Price: $52.25
Publisher: C Struik Publishers, Cape Town and Johannesburg: 1971
Edition: Limited
Seller ID: 19ho
247 pages (complete). Numbered 199 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. A genial copy. The dustjacket has wear about all edges and seams. There is some light scuffing, very light marking. The dj is vibrant, healthy. The boards are smart and steady and sound. The frontispage has a gift inscription (not from the translator). The contents are tight, clean, clear, eager, confident, hale and assured. fk View more info
By: Oliver, Captain Pasfield (Trans, editor)
Price: $1,710.00
Publisher: David Nutt, London ; T and A Constable, Edinburgh (printer): 1897
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22kx
160 pages (complete). A very smart copy of this VERY RARE book. Half leather. Marbled boards. The boards are tidy, genteel. They have light scuffing and handling marks. The leathered corners have some characterful rubbing and wear from handling and shelving. They are neat, healthy. The spine is very handsome. Stamped gilt decoration and titling to the spine. Five ridges. The spine is most clubbable and healthy. The contents are exceptionally gratifying. Whil... View more info
By: Stanley, Henry M
Price: $26.60
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, London: 1872
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 72pv
736 pages (complete). A comfortably worn copy. The boards have much wear about all edges, corners, faces, seams. The spine too, has wear to head, foot and body. The boards and spine are firm, sure, steady. The contents are pleasingly healthy. There is foxing fore and aft, but by far the pages are clean and clear, amiable, fresh-faced, bold, certain, keen, companionable and contented. Please note that due to the sturdiness of the book, should the book need be poste... View more info
