across widest africa two volumes de landor henry savage (4 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 2 volumes Crisp clean tight set, xv, 396 pp+large coloured folding map, xii, 511 pp 99 B/W photos. Slight marking to front board of Vol 2 Heavy volumes and extra post will be requested outwith UK ( Total postage to : Europe £16, USA £18 ( surface) .

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. A most attractive Royal 8vo. set in very clean original gilt-decorated black cloth, Well illustrated and complete with colour fold-out map. Vol. 1 - (xvi) + 396pps. uncut. / Vol. 2 - xii. + (512)pps. uncut. Apart from some mild foxing, a near Fine pair. (Overseas shipping at cost).

Large 8vo. Pp. xvi, 396, (4) adv.; xii, 511. With one large folding coloured map and numerous b/w illustrations, mainly made from photographs. Publisher's cloth, printed in gilt. First edition. Landor was an English painter, writer and explorer who travelled the world. With an assignment to paint Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, Landor took the opportunity to make a trip across Africa. The journey took about a year and he covered eight thousand miles. A beautiful copy.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. First Edition. Bound in uniform black cloth with git title lettering to spine and front board, this dated 1907 hardcover First Edition is VG. Full-Title as follows,"An Account of the Country and People of Eastern, Central and Western Africa, as seen during a twelve month journey from Djibuti to Cape Verde". Volume One, XV/396pp+large VG coloured folding map at end. With Frontis photo of Author with Somali Servant, Adem, Preface in which the author state he was the only white man on this 8,500 mile jounney which took 364 days, 35 Chapters and 67 B/W Photos. Clean endpapers, minor rubbing to spine with two small stains and slightly bumped corners, light foxing to prelims, minor wear to top/tail of spine, and odd foxing throughout: condition VG. Volume Two, X11/511pp with Frontis photo of picturesque cannibals of the Sango Tribe, 35 Chapters and 99 B/W photos. Small stain to front board, corners slihtly bumped and worn, top/tail of spine shows minor wear, foxing to prelims and odd foxing throughout, tiny ink stain to rear board, otherwise a VG set.