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N.Y. & Boston, n.d. XXX,299 pp. Ills. Cloth.
Verlag: New York & Boson: Thomas Y.Crowell & Company, [c1898]., 1898
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
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Hardcover. 8vo. pp. xxx, [3]-299. with half-title. frontis. portrait & 99 text illus. (many full-page). original cloth (rubbed, front hinge cracked, few institutional rubberstamps & labels, occasional light marginal soiling). First American Edition. During his three-year stay in the Congo Free State, Burrows commanded the Welle-Mobanghi division and the Makua (Upper Welle) and Rubi-Welle Zones.
Verlag: London: R.A.Everett & Co., Ltd., 1903., 1903
Anbieter: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Kanada
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8vo. pp. xxviii, [20], 276, [4], viii, [10], 18(ads). frontis. portrait, folding colour map & numerous text illus. (some full-page). original gilt-stamped pictorial cloth (rubbed, slightly shaken). First Edition, Second Impression. A gruesome exposé of the cruelties, excesses, and atrocities committed by the Belgian administration in the Congo, written by the former district commissioner of the Aruwimi District of the Congo Free State. Hosken p. 33.
Verlag: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company N.D., New York
Anbieter: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. ; Introduction by Henry M. Stanley, dated 1898. Present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo. The author was serving as an English officer in the Government of The Congo Free State from 1894 - 1897 and witnessed cannibalism (among many other adventures). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xxx, 299 pages.
Verlag: R. A. Everett & Co., LTD, London, 1903
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A lovely copy of Guy Burrows' treatise on the issues faced by Central Africa, including the terror of Leopold II, to whom the work is dedicated. The first edition, fourth impression, of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one colour folding map, six plates, and many full-paged and in-text illustrations.Collated, complete.A study into the issues of Central Africa at the turn of the century.Interestingly this work is dedicated to Leopold II of Belgium, though the work also condemns him and his behaviour as the absolute rule of the Congo Free State, a position he held from 1885 to 1908. The King's administration pleaded ignorance to the atrocities the Belgium's committed in the Congo.Written by Captain Guy Burrows.'A Campaign Amongst Cannibals' by Edgar Canisius is incorporated.From the library of I. and F. W. Hosken, who owned an extensive library of works on Africa.Eighteen pages of publisher's adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor rubbing to the boards and spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is a little faded. Front hinge is starting but firm. Bookplate to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some odd spots. Very Good. book.