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Five Years Adventures in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Cumming (R.G.)
Description:
Cumming (Roualeyn Gordon). Five Years' Adventures in the Far Interior of South Africa; with notices of the Native Tribes and Savage Animals. A New Edition, Revised and Condensed, With woodcuts. John Murray, London, 1857.
Sm. 8vo., x,378pp. with frontispiece and seventeen full page woodcut illustration; green cloth gilt with lion embossed in blind on the upper cover. (binding becoming loose and the whole more than a little worn with age but complete).
Details:
- Publisher: John Murray
- Publisher Place: London
- Date of Publication: 1857
- Edition: New Edition, Revised and Condensed
- Overall Condition: As per description.
- Lot No: 31
- Hammer Price: $132
- Bids: 5
- Visits: 74
- Estimate: $120/150
- Reserve: $90
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- Name: Chas J. Sawyer
- Address: 46 The Haydens, Tonbridge, Kent, TN9 1NS.
- Contact Person: Richard Sawyer
- Country of Origin: United Kingdom
- Email: mail@chasjsawyer.com
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