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Price: US$121.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: original decorated cloth hardcover, folding map, illustrated throughout, 326 pages, spine a little faded, cloth a little marked otherwise a very good well bound copy. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf N40.
Seller: Carmarthenshire Rare Books, Carmarthen, United Kingdom
Price: US$127.47 + shipping
Description: First English Edition. Hard Back. Translated from the German by Minna J.A. Bergmann. Original brown cloth boards with pictorial to the front and spine. The boards although sound do show a little discolouration with a little surface wear to the front pictorial. The spine has a red mark along the rear outer hinge with slight shelf wear to the top and base. Internally the binding is tight. Light foxing to the prelims and very occasionally throughout otherwise a good clean copy. Beautifully illustrated throughout with many black and white line drawings, full page and within the text. pp. xiv 326. Overall a good copy.nbsp;
Seller: St Marys Books And Prints, Stamford, United Kingdom
Price: US$140.22 + shipping
Description: 14+326 pages, folding map, many plates, text illustrations : translated from the German by Minna Bergmann, his account of the famous expedition from the Congo to the Zambesi in 1886-87; hardback, original boards rubbed, illustration on front board, spine faded, bubbled & with small stain, Mudie's label to front board, foxing to prelims & some margins, g+ only, bears the bookplate of Sir Albert Cook of Makindye cook south africa cook german african exploration congo zambesi african travel equatorial africa slavery slave trade africa
Seller: Yesterday's Books, BOURNEMOUTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 1891. Hardcover. Bound in dark orange publisher's cloth. Cover depicts travelers standing rowing a boat in black ink. Illustrated spine is lettered in gilt. Illustrated throughout with engravings and plates in black and white. Frontispiece is a portrait of Von Wissmann in black and white protected by a tissue leaf. Text is a larger print. Contains a list of illustrations, two appendices and a map at the back. Indexed. vi, 826 pp. Also contains an alphabetical catalogue of books in fiction and general literature published by Chatto & Windus, [1902]. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Hermann Wilhelm Leopold Ludwig Wissmann, after 1890 Hermann von Wissmann, was a German explorer and administrator in Africa. (Wikipedia). CONDITION: Overall VG. Cover shows some shelf wear, and spine is slightly cocked. Completely unmarked except for previous owners' names on the front pastedown. Inner hinges are cracked, yet boards are still firmly affixed. A very sound copy of this increasingly scarce work. Engravings are bold and incredible. Full refund if not satisfied.
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers are only Good, with fraying and creasing to extremities of spine, corner bumps, creasing and light soiling to spine, rubbing and light soil to boards. Illustrations to spine and front cover Gilt titles to spine are still readable. Hinges are cracking, barely visible elegant inscription to former owner on front pastedown. Binding is tight, contents are Very Good with very minor foxing in a few places. Some pages are unopened. . Major Wissmann was the first of the 19th century explorers of Africa to traverse the continent from west to east, and probably the most renowned of the German explorers of Africa. Profusely illustrated with a fold-out map, 31 full-page illustrations and 57 additional illustrations (drawings) in the text, all in excellent condition. Index. Published by Chatto & Windus, this is the first edition. . Drawings. Small 4to 9" - 11" tall. 326 pages. L4
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First English edition. Publisher's orange pictorial cloth. xiv, 326 pp. 8vo. Czech, Africa, p. 306; Howgego IV W40 Publisher's orange pictorial cloth. VG Publisher's orange pictorial cloth. xiv, 326 pp. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Translated from the German by Minna Bergmann. 92 black & white illustrations and a large folding map. 326 pages, 8vo, salmon pictorial cloth (rubbed & soiled). London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. Very Good.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$407.92 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp xiv, 326, portrait frontispiece, map, 92 illustrations, original cloth, vignette (canoeists), light rubbing to spine and upper cover, very good.
Seller: J & S L Bonham ABA ILAB PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$560.89 + shipping
Description: First English edition translated by Minna J.A. Bergmann. pp. xiv, 326. With a frontispiece, 31 plates, folding map & 61 illustrations on the letterpress by F. S. Weller & 92 illustrations after drawings by R. Hellgrewe and Klein-Chevalier. An excellent, tight & bright copy in the publisher's orange cloth with gilt tooling & black illustrative blocking, with some very light toning to the cloth. VG. [Hess & Coger 3132; Czech 176; Bianchi 380; Edwards 1702; Howgego W40; Mill 512; Winterton 967]
Seller: Colin Page Books, Storrington, United Kingdom
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Nominally soiled boards, lightly-exposed and bumped corners, fraying to spine ends. Hinges starting but block still tight, firm, holding. Internally clean, unmarked. TM
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1045.00 + shipping
Description: First edition in English With a folding map by F.S.Weller and 89 Illustrations after drawings by R. Hellgrewe and Klein-Chevalier including 32 full page plates. Thick 8vo, original mustard cloth with pictorial vignettes in black on the spine and upper cover, the spine is also lettered in gilt. xiv, 326. A clean copy, sturdy and well preserved with minor age toning to the cloth, primarily at the spine panel RARE AND ESPECIALLY SO IN COLLECTOR'S CONDITION. In the employ of the German government, Von Wissman was sent to investigate and report on the slave-trade in Africa. What followed became one of the most important works by a German on exploration, travel and ethnographic study of Equatorial Africa. "The present publication of my diaries is partly owing to the fact that the terrors incidental to the slave-hunt and the transport of the unfortunate human chattels are illustrated in the following pages and I can only hope that I may be enabled to excite the readers interest in, and sympathy for, those nations which still groan under the yoke of barbarism, and which certainly have a right to our help and protection.,"
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.