Author: MAYNE-REID (CAPT.),
Title: Les Exploits des jeunes Boers. Les Chasseurs de Girafes.
Description: Paris, Coll. J. Hetzel & Cie., [circa], 1890. orig. blue publ. cloth, large circular gilt tooled illustration on lower part of upper boards, with title in bold gilt lettering at head and tail, within a broad gilt tooled decorative border, richly gilt decorated spine with title in gilt lettering at head, a.e.g., lower outer boards blind tooled. Hf.title (with frontisp. on verso). 372pp. large circular title-vignette, frontisp., with tissue-guard preserved. 22 steel-engraved plates after drawings by RIOU, [8]pp. of publ.advert. [Avantures de Terre et de Mer series]. Adventures of some young Boer-boys, hunting the giraffe in South African wilds. (Apart from some shaving to extremities & corners, some fading of spine still an attractive copy in orig. publ. cloth, in the famous J. Hetzel series)

Keywords: juvenile/africa/19thc.