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New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Lake Regions of Central Africa. A record of modern discovery ... With ... illustrations..

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UK: T. Nelson and Sons, 1883. Green bds with black/gilt illustration to spine and front. Some light rubbing to bds. Bump/fraying to spine ends and corners. Partial split to fep hinge. B/W plates. Interior Good +. . Hard Cover. Good +. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall.

T. Nelson And Sons, 1892. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1892. No Edition Remarks. 275 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with decorations. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight cracking to hinges and gutters causing boards and binding to be loose. However, boards and pages throughout remain attached. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Pencil inscriptions to front free endpapers. Endpapers replaced. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Creasing to rear board. Staining to both boards.

T.Nelson & Sons, London, 1883. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint (originally issued in 1881). 8vo. vi, 275pp + [x] publisher's catalogue. Decorated cloth, lettered in gold at the spine and in black at the upper board, with gilt- and black stamped illustrations. With patterned endpapers, a frontispiece, one double-spread map, and thirty-one captioned plates of engravings. Cloth a little bruised at the backstrip ends and with a single tiny nick. Free endpapers browned. School prize plate to the front pastedown, and the motif of the same school gilt-stamped to the rear board, over the publisher's blind-stamped imprint. A very good copy. A handsome early reprint of the author's first book..

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: T.Nelson and Sons, 1881. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Full green black & gilt decorated cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, heavily worn with chipping at the top & bottom of the spine, binding very weak with one signature attached by stringers only. A binding copy. . First Edition. Full Cloth. Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover.

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881. First edition. Cloth. Good. 7" by 5" . Not Stated . A first edition travel work of Central Africa by John Geddie. The first edition of this work. Written by John Geddie, Scots-Canadian missionary known as the "father of Presbyterian missions in the South Seas." A record of modern discovery in three parts, first concerned with the Nile; second with the Congo; and third with the Zambesi. Introduction with historical notes on the lake regions of central Africa. With ten leaves of publisher's catalogue to rear. Illustrated with thirty-two plates of illustrations. Collated, complete.Binding seen in green, blue, and red cloth variants, priority unknown. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with shelf wear, bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities, spine gently cocked forward. Library shelf number inked to head of back strip. Boards lightly marked. Binding split to p. 91 and few other places, held by two cords only. Pages… Leer más

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1881 First edition. Hardcover book . Full leather school prize binding for Windlesham House, Brighton. Gilt decorations to spine, gilt title on black leather panel, gilt borders, gilt school crest to front. Marbled page edges and endpapers. Prize label to front pastedown in Latin. 275pp, octavo. With 32 steel engraved illustrations in plates (some double page), including a map. Very Good. Clean covers with slight dulling to spine gilt and some rubbing to edges. Pages generally very clean, some dulling to closed edges (marbled) and light foxing to prelims and blanks at end.

London [et al.]: T. Nelson and Sons, 1881. 12mo, pp. [9], 10-275, [1], [10] ads; double-page map, 31 full-page wood-engraved illustrations, 1 double-page; original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; some wear at extremities and a small break in the cloth at the top of the front joint; all else very good.

London. T. Nelson and Sons. 1892. Hardcover. 12mo. 18cm, third edition, 275p., with 32 illustrations including frontis, double page map, bound in contemporary full brown morocco, blind ruled raised bands, gilt titles, blind ruled borders on the boards, gilt School Prize Binding on the cover, gilt inner dentelles, prize presentation bookplate on marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, Signed Prize Binding "Bickers Sons, Leicester,Sqr". In Fine Condition ~ Scottish journalist and writer, John Geggie (1848 1937), wrote several travel books (also Himalayas & Russian Empire) but was noted mainly for his writings on Edinburgh. This book is in three parts: The Nile, Congo & Zambezi. An attractively bound book in signed bindings " Bickers & Son, Leicester Sqr.". The school crest on front is Owen's Grammar School (est. 1613).

1883. London, T. Nelson and Sons, 1883. 12.5 cm x 19 cm. Frontispiece, VI, 275 pages. 32 wood-engraved illustrations. Hardcover [publisher's original green cloth] with gilt lettering and design on spine and lettering and pictorial on front board. Blind stamp on back board. Beautifully illustrated pastedowns and endpapers. Good condition only with some stronger signs of external wear. Corners of boards bumped and rubbed. Binding somewhat cocked but still firm and strong. Occasional spotting. Interior bright and clean. Preowner's name on endpaper: "William Cox / 91". Includes, for example, the following: The White Nile and the Albert Nyanza / Uganda and King Mtesa / Tanganyika / The Lualaba Lakes / Cataracts and Cannibals / The Water-Parting of the Congo / The Victoria Falls and The Lower Zambesi etc. Geddie offers an interesting summation of the ruinous effects that slavery had on the European and African: "Unhappily the wrongs of the negro began with his first contact with Europeans. The first… Leer más