cameron commander (5 Ergebnisse)

hardback, 8vo, xvi,379,(24)pp, illustrated, folding map, owner's name on endpaper, slight browning on edges, text clean and binding sound, red cloth pictorial, gilt titles, Very Good condition.

Zustand: Good. Engraved plates [32 including 31 full-paage and half page engraving to pictorial titlepage as listed in plate list] Octavo pale blue cloth with gilt and brown and green pictorial cover and spine on bevelled boards [edges rubbed/corners sl.bumped/plain blue lower cover with some discoloration] All Edges Gilt 359pp Lower corner of Rear end papers with pale damp mark and affecting a few leaves of last pages in the lower margin - no printed area affected. The blank verso of a plate at page 304 small brown mark which was also offset onto the facing page. Award label to front pastedown by the School Board of London to Ben Jonson. All pages well bound and tight, paper clean and no underlining or other marginalia. * Exciting victorian travel adventure in Africa. 1 volume. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in tan pictorial cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 309pp. Gold gilt page edges. B/w frontispiece, b/w plates throughout. Not library copy, pencil inscription to ffep, ink inscription to reverse half title and frontispiece, rubbing to board edges, repair to inner hinges. (37/2).

With black and white frontispiece illustration and spot illustration on title page. (illustrator). Verney Lovett Cameron was an intrepid explorer in Central Africa who was the first European (1875) to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. He entered the Royal Navy and was employed for a considerable time in the suppression of the East African Slave trade. A tight, clean very nice copy with hardly any rubbing. Only a tear and a small hole near the fore-edge of the free front endpaper which also has the previous owner's name in pencil written on the recto side. Also a couple of stains in the margins of pp. 2 and 3. Otherwise a very good to fine copy. 8vo. 7-9/16" x 5-3/8". 314 pp. Decorative pictorial cloth cover stamped in red black and gold.

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), plates and facsimiles (a number folding), woodcut illustrations in the text and large folding coloured map in pocket at end of first volume; original navy cloth, upper boards framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, chocolate endpapers, uncut, hinges tender (but binding entirely sound), a very good, unusually bright, crisp, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of John Davies Enys on front paste-down of first volume, and 4pp and 8pp publisher's catalogues bound in at end of first and second volumes respectively. Hosken, p.38.