My African Sketch Book.

READE Winwood.

Verlag: London: Smith Elder, & Co., 51 Waterloo Place, 1873

Beschreibung

First edition. Two volumes, octavo (20 x 14.5cm). 'This work is essentially that of a dilletante, a romantic tourist who represents himself as a flaneur rather than a man of science.'- Bianchi. Vol. I, pp.xii,483; Vol. II, pp.viii,529,[6]. Publisher's adverts to rear of the second volume. With 12 maps, many of which folding & 10 full-page wood-engraved plates. Some foxing to text & plates. Publisher's green cloth, blocked in gilt & black, neatly recased, rubbed. With the pencilled signature on the half-titles of Capt. A.L. Auchinleck dated 1880 & with presentation bookplate to each volume from him to The Farnham District Council Reference Library 1932, but no others signs or marks of library ownership. A sound copy. [Hosken 166; SAB IV, 3; Work 25; Hess & Coger 130; Bianchi 307; Luke 298]. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 11282

Bibliografische Details

Titel: My African Sketch Book.

Verlag: London: Smith Elder, & Co., 51 Waterloo Place

Erscheinungsdatum: 1873