Descrizione

First Edition. With 32 illustrations both on plates and within the text from wood engravings. 8vo, publisher’s original burgundy cloth, the upper cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, The upper cover featuring a large gilt ape, lower cover with publisher’s blind device at the center. xii, 231 [8 ads] pp. A handsome, clean and well preserved copy. Only light wear to the tips of the spine panel and corners, all gilt bright, the textblock fresh and tight.

Edizione: a scarce book on african wildlife by one of the greatest explorers. though intended for the young it is informative and intelligently written and illustrated. the author spent his youth in western africa where he learned the indigenous languages and after moving to america, gained support to fund an expedition into gabon where his father had earlier been a tradesman. during his first expeditions he made important discoveries of new and exotic wildlife, the most famous being the african gorilla which was presented in illustrated format for the first time in the author’s explorations and adventures in equatorial africa which had been issued in 1861.