Saturday, July 5, 2014

CA. 1890 NARRATIVES AND ADVENTURES OF TRAVELLERS IN AFRICA BY CHARLES WILLIAMS - ILLUSTRATED VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

CA. 1890

NARRATIVES AND ADVENTURES
OF TRAVELLERS IN AFRICA

BY CHARLES WILLIAMS

ILLUSTRATED

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ NATIVE TRIBES, INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ~ BIG GAME HUNTING: ANTELOPE, ELAND, GIRAFFE, GNU, QUAGGA, ZEBRA, HYENA, CIVET, LION, TIGER, LEOPARD, SERPENT, RHINOCEROS, CROCODILE, HIPPOPOTAMUS ~ NATURE: BIRDS, INSECTS, MONKEYS, PLANTS ~ CLASSIC TRAVEL AND EXPLORATION ***

Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, no date, circa 1890.

• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• publisher's decorative bright blue cloth Victorian fine binding
• embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• light brown coated endpapers
• frontispiece and vignette title page
• illustrated with numerous full-page engravings

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