Grey cloth boards with decorated front cover; Book is sound but boards are worn and rubbed with agetoned discoloured free endpages and boards, no loose or missing pages but 2 pages have tears and one page has top corner missing but no text affected; 336 pages with index, fully illust.by multiple small b/w photos and illustrations and colour maps;
Hardcover octavo in teal cloth boards. 336 pages including frontispiece, illustrations, maps 19 cm. Readers -- Geography. Africa -- Description and travel. Faded ex library stamps to end papers. Moderate rolling to spine. Moderate rubbing and mild fraying to edges and corners of boards including head and foot of spine. Very mild soiling to back cover. Very small pencil inscription to front cover verso. Else pages clean and binding tight. Good(+)
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FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition. An early pre-World War One twentieth-century survey of the various colonies and territories maintained by the European colonial empires in Africa, discussing their geography, wildlife, customs and societies, development levels, economic issues, much more, accompanied by a full-color map of the continent as of the year 1905 and many rare period photos of tribesmen, towns, animals, much more. Hardcover, contains illustrations, map, 336pp., binding firm, interior pagination mostly clean and bright throughout, boards show mild general wear. An interesting, increasingly rare collectible. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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