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Verlag: Derby And Jackson, New York, 1857
Anbieter: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good +. Octavo; pp; I; xiv, 17-326; II; viii, 9-303; Illustrated with a frontispiece and six black and white inserted plates; red cloth decorated in blind, spine decorated in gilt, blue leather spine label lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers; This copy has been professionally re-backed; Spine label a bit worn else, very good. Scottish traveller and sportsman, known as the "lion hunter," was the 4th baronet of Altyre and Gordonstown. At eighteen, he joined the East India Co.'s service as a cornet in the Madras Light Cavalry. A hunting enthusiast, his first books with greeted with incredulity, until David Livingstone, of Stanley fame, vouched for the accuracy of his big game narratives in public.
Verlag: Scribner, Armstrong and Co, New York, 1873
Anbieter: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, USA
Hardcover. Small octavo; pp; xiv, (ii), 372, (iv), ads; frontispiece and seventeen black and white plates; original pictorial terra-cotta cloth, stamped in black and gilt; A remarkable relic of Gilded Age publishing offering a look at the unknown places of the World. Taylor compiled and arranged this volume. Bears the bookplate and signature of Leon G. Bagley of Rutland Vermont. Bagley was a prominent citizen and manager of the Western Union Telegraph Office. The Library Of Travel, Exploration & Adventure Edited by Bayard Taylor. very good to near fine and appear to have never been read.