Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: AS IS. 1817 edition. Brown leather boards with a black block and gilt lettering on the spine. Pages contain markings, soiling, and discoloration. One page has been ripped out. Pages have absorbed a mild incense (from age). Foxing on edges of pages. Cover has major wear and bumpng on corners and spine. Cover has discoloration and rubbing. Hinges are very loose and are separating from the inside and outside. Binding still secure. Bottom of spine is missing.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [Fine binding] Octavo. Bound in modern brown morocco, gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers. Fine binding and cover. xiv, [2], 554, xvi p., 6 plates (of 9), folding map of Africa. Frontis of Riley remounted and chipped along margins. 2 plates have small tears. Lacking 3 plates. Restoration to folding map, marginal loss along folds. Tanning, foxing, scattered staining. Shaw et Shoemaker, 41989. Sabin 71397. A captivating account of Riley and his crew's punishing enslavement in Western Sahara by Sahrwai natives. Upon his redemption from slavery, Riley devoted himself to anti-slavery work. President Abraham Lincoln listed this book as one of the three most influential works that shaped his political ideology, particularly on slavery.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.