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HARPER, 1861-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. . Heavily eroded spine, held on with tape, boards with moderate rubbing and wear. Pages shaken and tanned with minor foxing.

Paperback / softback. New.

Harper & Brothers. Good. 1871. Hardcover. Revised and enlarged edition. Binding is solid. Pages unmarked but somewhat tanned, and with a few tiny stains or corner creases. May be missing a page between the gorilla portrait and the title page. Numerous b&w drawings -- some plates and some within text. Brown cloth cover is generally scuffed and worn, with library spine number, and wear to spine tips. No dustjacket at issue. .

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Explorations And Adventures In Equatorial Africa.

Amsterdam: Time Life, 1985. A facsimilie of the original 1861 edition, one in the Classics Of Exploration series, all edges gilt, leather bound. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardback. New.

Angell Pr, 2008. Paperback. New. 552 pages. 8.43x5.43x1.42 inches.

With accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chace of the gorilla, crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals. By... With Map and illustrations. Reprint. John Murray, Albemarle Street. London. 1983. De 22x15 cm. Com xviii, 479, [ii] págs. Encadernação do editor em percalina com nervos e ferros a ouro na lombada e nas pastas, folhas de guarda marmoreados e cortes das folhas dourados Ilustrado no texto e em extratexto com gravuras a preto e branco, um gorila e um mapa equatorial africano em papel desdobrável.   SACO JS658-5

John Murray, 1861. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1861. No Edition Remarks. 479 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rebound. Fold out map at back. B&W illustrations throughout. Mild brown staining and finger smudging to pages on occasion. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Some gutter cracking. Map at rear has been repaired with tape, but still has some large tears along fold lines. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with crushing to spine ends. Notable tanning to spine, with minor scuffing and marking across the boards.

Great Britain: Time-Life Books. Near Fine/No Jacket. 1987. First Thus. Full-Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0705415074 Hardback Hardcover. Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus and Other Animals. loose folding maps illustrations, maps. Brown leather red and gilt decorated Leather-bound, all edges gilt. Beautifully-produced complete facsimile of the 1861 first edition of one of the most influential books of African exploration. Illustrated. 479 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .

Time-Life Books, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Facsimile reprint of the 1861 first edition. Full leather binding with ruled decorations and raised bands and panels to spine. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. 480pp, with two fold out illustrations, as called for. A handsome volume in near condition containing one of the most important early accounts of the people and animals of equatorial Africa, including one of the first accounts of the newly-discovered gorillas, relflecting du Cahillu's adventures and explorations in western Equatorial Africa in the 1850s. Collector's and gift quality item.

New York: Harper & Bros., 1871. 535pp.Two-page frontispiece (Gorilla). Purple Cloth, gilt lettering, 88 illustrations, including a foldout map of Equatorial Africa. Wear and tear to the covers, hinges reinforced. fraying to the spine edges.Foldout map is present but has a large tear which has been tape reinforced. "Explorations and adventures in equatorial Africa; with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, the crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals." The author claimed to be the first to bring back Gorillas to America. . Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Good. Thick Octavo.

Paperback. New.

paperback. 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.

New York: Negro Universities Press. 1969. Reprint. Hardcover. Originally published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1861. With numerous illustrations, xxii, 531 pages, 79 illustrations + folding map at rear of book, small stamp on verso of title page indicates this was a library book, no other library marks noted, original brown cloth boards, a very good copy. ; 220 x 140mm .

Harper and Brothers, 1868. hardback. good condition only in  a worn 1/2 leather binding that is quite worn and with the front hinge starting - the plates are present BUT the book lacks the  map at the rear - shipping via USPS.

London: John Murray, 1861. Hardcover. Good. Author left America for Africa in 1855 and spent four years studying the animals and people of the equatorial regions. Pages xviii & 479 numbered, 74 illustrations listed including fold-out map at end and fold-out gorilla illustration facing the title page. Bound in 3/4 leather with five raised bands, gold decoration and title on spine, marbled boards, green endpapers. The 15x19" map laid in at the end has an 8" tear, and part of the margin on one side is missing. Light foxing on several pages, crease on front free endpaper. and rubbing on board edges. Book is straight and tight with no markings. Included is a one page handwritten and SIGNED letter from du Chaillu dated April 5,1896, accepting an invitation to dinner on the 7th at the Booksellers League meeting in New York. The Booksellers League was begun in 1895. Not available for international shipping.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861. 531 pages in good, clean condition; yellowed and stained edges. Occasional stains throughout the book. Numerous illustrations including 2 page frontispiece of a gorilla. Folding map at the back with tape repairs in good condition. Previous owner's name and stamp on the fep. Blue cloth with gilt titles and gorilla on the spine. Spine is yellowed, worn at head/tail, gilt faded. Blind stamped illustration on front cover. Covers soiled and stained. Corners and edges bumped and rubbed. Binding tight. Scarce. GOOD+. First U.S Edition. Hard Cover. Good+.

London: John Murray, 1861. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9.5" by 6". Not Stated. A smartly rebacked first edition of Paul Du Chaillu's significant work on his explorations across Africa, which details his encounters with gorillas. Written by Paul du Chaillu, a traveller and zoologist known for being the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas. The first edition of this work, which covers anthropology and zoology whilst detailing the author's travels, including encounters with gorillas, elephants, hippopotamus and leopard, amongst others. This work particularly emphasizes Containing the ownership bookplate of educator Rex Napier Price.Bound with thirty pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear.Complete with the folding map bound to the rear of the work; map is torn, with some of the edges lost and a large amount of loss to the top of the map affecting the image. The folding frontispiece of the gorilla is present, however lacking the upper half of the illustration… Leer más