Author: Stanley, Henry M.
Title: In Afrikas donkere wildernissen: tochten, ontdekkingen en ontmoetingen. Opsporing van, en terugkeer met Emin Pacha. Volumes I-II.
Description: Arnhem, Cohen, ca. 1890. Hardcover. Two volumes. Crown 4to. Pp. x, 600; (iv), 579. Plus large fold-out colour lithographed map to each volume. Fold-out table with glossary to volume II. Portrait frontispiece to the 2nd volume. Profusely illustrated with numerous engravings, some full-page. Nice head- and tail-pieces. Appendices. Hardcover, uniformly bound in original richly decorated dark green cloth, illustrated with engraved scenes from Africa, gilt embossed oval portrait, gilt lettering. Illustrated spine, gilt. Blind embossed lower board. In about fine condition. (Neat paper repairs to verso of a map, some older tape repairs; heads of title-pages clipped with no loss). Overall two bright copies in very handsome binding. ~ First Dutch edition. I-3 .

Keywords: TRAVELLING TRAVEL AFRICA ETHNOGRAPHY HISTORY ARCHAEOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGY ABORIGINAL NATIVE PEOPLES NOISBN


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