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1861 Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa; With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals
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Folding Maps, Illustrated, Rebound
Second edition, rebound.
Folding frontispiece, title page, and pages iii-vi are provided in facsimile. Photocopy of the original front board is pasted onto the paste downs.
Illustrations include a facsimile folded frontispiece, seventy-two plates, and one folding map to rear.
'Explorations & Adventures in Equatorial Africa' is a comprehensive account of Du Chaillu's explorations in Africa, particularly focusing upon his experiences with gorillas.
Paul Du Chaillu was a French-American zoologist and anthropologist, who is known as being the first European outsider to confirm the existence of both gorillas and the Pygmy people of central Africa.
32 pages of publishers adverts to rear.
Collated, complete though with facsimiles above.
Condition
Rebound in cloth binding. Externally, smart. A few marks to boards. Photocopy of the original front board is pasted onto the paste downs. A few marks to rear endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with age toning and some spots to the margins. Folding frontispiece, title page, and pages iii-vi are provided in facsimile. Pages vii-x are repaired to the margin. Folding map is repaired to the reverse.
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