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Price: US$79.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good. Original 1881 second edition, rebound in original faded boards, though gilt on front boards and spine still legible. Binding now repaired and very solid. Fold out map has been sensitively repaired by adding a bottom section in facsimile and restored such that it is now complete. All repair and restoration carried out by highly skilled restorer. See photographs. Africana. Hardback. Nice to have the early Victorian edition with the authentic engravings ( about two hundred original illustrations ) and printing for a great price similar to the better facsimiles.
Seller: Treasure House Books, Franschhoek, WCAPE, South Africa
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Description: 2 vols, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 426, [2], 32 (publisher's list), with frontispiece, folding map (coloured in outline) and 27 plates; xi, [1], 479, [1], with frontispiece and 30 plates; numerous illustrations within text; a few marginal repairs in vol. 1 (e.g. pp. 249-256) and to verso of map; a very good uncut copy in original brown pictorial cloth by Burn & Co., spines and upper covers lettered in gilt and black with blocked design in black, dark blue endpapers; a little wear to extremities and hinges, vol. 2 lower board a little discoloured; some marginal pencil marks in vol. 2.First edition in English, published in the same year as the German original, of this account of the South African adventures of the Czech explorer and scientist Holub (1847-1902). 'In 1873 he set out on the first of several expeditions . crossed the Vaal River and entered the country of the Barolong (Bantu) . A second expedition followed in November 1873 to eastern and western Transvaal and to the kingdoms of Sechele and Sekomo in the north . In 1875 he travelled north along the old missionary trail to Shoshong (in Botswana), the Victoria Falls and the upper Zambezi . Holub returned to Europe in 1879 with a vast collection of 30,900 natural history and ethnographic objects which he distributed to 113 museums, scientific institutes and schools' (Howgego). His popular Sieben Jahre in Südafrika brought him comparisons with Charles Darwin.Czech p. 79; Mendelssohn I, p. 730.
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$493.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xi, 426 +xi, 479pp + 32p catalogue. illustrated, folding map. Translated from the German: Sieben Jahre in Sud-Afrika, published by Holder in 1881, translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Travels, researches and hunting adventures, between the diamond fields and the Zambesi (1872-79). Rebound, clean and tight internally apart from a single small ink stain to contents page and a light paper clip shadow to ffep. 2.4kg
Seller: EmJay Books, Bradford., United Kingdom
Price: US$520.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 2 vols. frontises, folding map, ills, index, xi, 426, xi, 479p. plus 32p. publisher's advertisements (dated January, 1881) bound in at end of first volume. Recent quarterbinding (marbled boards backed in leather). 23cm. Two repaired tears on map. Spine slightly sloped on second volume. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.