Resultados de búsqueda: through jubaland to the lorian swamp de dracopoli i

Paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

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

London: Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, 1914. Near fine.. First edition of this account of the Anglo-French cartographer's explorations in Jubaland, now a member state of Somalia, illustrated with the author's own photographs and maps. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth stamped in pictorial gilt. Top edge gilt. 44 black and white illustrations, 2 maps. 317, [1] pages, followed by publisher's catalogue. "Presentation Copy" emboss to title page. Light edgewear and bumping to boards, minor chip and creasing to rear endpaper. Faint foxing to endpapers.

London: Seeley, Service & Co, 1914. Second edition, 8vo, pp. 317, [1], [2] ads; folding map printed in color, 1 other full-page map in the text, 32 plates; a near fine copy in original pictorial green cloth stamped in green. Czech, Africa, p. 51: "Dracopoli explored the region from Kismayu on the coast, then westward to the Lorian Swamp in British East Africa. In the Joreh district, he bagged oryx, gerenuk, hartebeest, zebra, and topi. Upon reaching the Lorian district, the author collected waterbuck and gazelle. His descriptions of the terrain and climate are especially interesting."