Lot Details
Lot 123
DU CHAILLU, PAUL B. Three items.
Comprising: Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; with accounts of the manners and customs of the people, and of the chase of the gorilla, the crocodile, leopard, elephant, hippopotamus, and other animals. London: John Murray, 1861. First edition. Publisher's brown pictorial cloth gilt. 8 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches; xviii, 479, [28] pp.; folding frontispiece, folding map, plates, in-text illustrations, vignette title page, publisher's advertisements. Extremities a bit worn, somewhat shaken, one-inch tear to map near mount, foxing throughout; a copy of the revised edition of 1871. Publisher's maroon cloth, spine gilt. 9 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; 535, 4 pp.; double-page frontispiece, folding map, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Somewhat shaken, spine toned, extremities a bit frayed, map with two-inch tear near mount, interior somewhat toned with occasional thumbsoiling, bookplate to front pastedown and ownership signature to title page and front free endpaper of E. Buckingham; and A Journey to Ashango-Land, and further penetration into equatorial Africa. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1874. New edition. Publisher's russet pictorial cloth gilt. 9 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches; xxiv, 501, 6 pp.; folding map, frontispiece, plates, vignette title page, publisher's advertisements. Some pale staining to cloth, wear to extremities with minor losses to spines ends, scattered foxing, map darkened along fold. The lot three volumes. (3)
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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