skertchly j a (9 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

hardback. Zustand: Poor. No Jacket. hardback, octavo, green cloth lettered green on gilt to spine, black to the upper board. Spine worn, marginal water stain to the foot of the plates, light cockling. The text block is tightly sewn, the text free of marking, xi [1] + 358pp.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Red Leather. Zustand: Good. First Edition. xx, 524 pages, colour frontispiece, 3 colour plates (including The Gun Custom which is not list on the list of illustrations). also 17 b/w plates and text illustrations, and a folding map. Ex-General Assembly Library New Zealand with gilt library stamp on front cover and spine. Hand writing on List of Illustrations page. A book on Dahomey (Benin today), its people and customs with plates made after sketches by the author. Skertchley was an English entomologist who participated in anl expedition to West Africa in 1871. During a visit to Abomey he was captured by the king for eight months.

London: Frederick Warne and Co., nd. [1896] xi,358pp. + 10pp. publisher's advertisements, 4 plates. Originally written during the time of the 1974 Ashanti war, this was re-released for the 1896 Ashanti war. Some scattered foxing, a very nice copy of the reprinted edition in the publisher's decorated light grey cloth. We have been selling antiquarian books on Africa, Oceania, archaeology, anthropology, travel and the ancient world for over forty years. All our books are carefully catalogued and they are in excellent condition unless stated in the description. All shipments are fully insured at our expense. All books are carefully packaged in new packaging material and despatched by registered or recorded mail, or by a courier service; the customer is always able to track their shipment. All sales are accompanied by a VAT invoice. Photographs may be supplied if requested.[O].

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). A smart copy of this illustrated children's adventure novel by Sydney Skertchly. Illustrated with four plates. Collated, complete.A thrilling late nineteenth century adventure novel set in the West African British Crown Colony of Ashanti, set in the time of Kofi Karikari, the tenth King of the Ashanti Empire.The work of geologist and botanist Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly. With a ten page publisher's catalogue to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light discolouration to spine. Fading to tail of front board, with four marks at fore edge. Hinges lightly strained but firmly held. Inscription to recto of frontispiece. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. book.