PICTORIAL AFRICA, ITS HEROES, MISSIONARIES, AND MARTYRS:

Pictorial Africa

Description:

Stirring narratives of their perils, adventures, and achievements, together with a full and descriptive account of the peoples, deserts, forests, rivers, lakes, and mountains, of the "Dark Continent." Illustrated with upwards of one hundred well-executed wood engravings, Including Portraits of all the most remarkable Travellers that have visited Africa, engraved by artists of celebrity.

396 pages, frontispiece portrait of Henry Stanley, numerous wood engraved illustrations, pictorial cloth slightly worn.

Details:

  • Publisher: James Sangster and Co.
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: No date (1890)
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 4to (270 x 200 mm)
  • Lot No: 271
  • Hammer Price: $117
  • Bids: 25
  • Visits: 158
  • Estimate: $30/40
  • Reserve: $20

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Seller Details:

  • Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
  • Website: www.clarkes.co.za
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard, Bank tranfers
  • Trade Association: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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    Phone: 0027 21 794 0600

    Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.