TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE IN SOUTH-EAST AFRICA

Selous (F.C.)

Description:

Being the narrative of the last eleven years spent on the Zambesi and its tributaries; with an account of the colonisation of Mashunaland and the progress of the gold industry in that country.

De Luxe Edition, facsimile reprint: 503 pages, frontispiece portrait, 22 plates, 35 illustrations in the text, colour folding map, quarter green morocco gilt, orange title label on the spine, brown cloth sides with a gilt vignette of lions on the upper cover, top edge gilt, contained in a brown cloth covered slip case, a very good copy.

Number 57 of the Collector’s Edition limited to 90 copies.

Details:

  • Publisher: The Pioneer Head
  • Publisher Place: Salisbury, Rhodesia
  • Date of Publication: (1903) 1972
  • Edition: Collector’s Edition
  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo (235 x 155 mm)
  • Lot No: 179
  • Hammer Price: $100
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 25
  • Estimate: $150/200
  • Reserve: $100

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  • Country of Origin: South Africa
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