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Lot 95
[THE CONGO] Five titles.
Comprising: WARD, HERBERT. Five Years with the Congo Cannibals. New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1890. First edition. Publisher's blue pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations. Shaken, boards loose but holding, extremities worn, toned throughout with scattered foxing and surface soiling, contemporary ownership signature to first blank; BURROWS, GUY. The Land of the Pigmies. London: C. Arthur Pearson Limited, 1898. First edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, half-title. Slight lean, cloth a bit rippled, scattered foxing; WARD, HERBERT. A Voice from the Congo. Comprising Stories, Anecdotes, and Descriptive Notes. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First American edition. Publisher's green cloth gilt, top edge gilt. Frontispiece, plates, half-title. Light wear to extremities, bookplate to front pastedown; BARNS, T. ALEXANDER. The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo. The Region of the Snow-Crowned Volcanoes the Pygmies the Giant Gorilla and the Okapi. London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. First edition. Publisher's pictorial cloth, top edge gilt. Folding map, frontispiece, plates. Extremities bumped, scattered foxing, bookplate to front pastedown and booksellers ticket to rear pastedown; and BARNS, T. ALEXANDER. An African Eldorado. The Belgian Congo. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1926. First edition. Publisher's red cloth. Frontispiece, 4 maps (3 of which are folding), plates, half-title, publisher's advertisements. Extremities bumped, foxing throughout.
The lot five titles. (5)


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