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du Chaillu, Paul B.

Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa;

With Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chace of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals
Publisher: John Murray, London, 1861

First edition, hardback, bound in contemporary half leather, with raised bands and gilt decoration to spine, marbled boards, xviii + 479 pages, illustrated with folding frontispiece engraving of a gorilla, folding map at end, and numerous engraved illustrations, binding a little rubbed, minor foxing to preliminaries and very occasional minor foxing elsewhere, folding map at end present but torn and creased. Binding tight, internally clean. A Good copy.

An important early account of the interior of West Africa. Particularly notable for the earliest description of the Gorilla. [Non-philatelic]

£90.00

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