Africa

First edition; 8vo; 9 maps, numerous illustrations, many full-page, blind-stamped 'presentation copy' to title; publisher's blue cloth gilt, gilt vignette to upper cover, lightly rubbed and bumped at corners, top edge gilt.

Two volumes, large 8vo, xii, 572; xii, 580 pp., 600 maps and illustrations including large folding coloured map end vol. I, original red pictorial cloth gilt, light fade to spines, (vol. II with inner hinges strengthened and spine extremities neatly repaired), a very good set.

Second impression. 8vo ( 24 x 25 cm); xi, 233pp., 2 pages ads at end, folding map, 72 photographic illustrations by the author, previous bookseller's bookplate on front pastedown, several pages detached, inner hinges cracked; publisher's tan cloth gilt, vignette to upper cover, top edge gilt, worn and rubbed ; a fair copy.

First edition. Small folio, illustrations, original cloth, dust-wrapper, minor wear but internally fine.

Folio (57.5 x 44.2 cm), chromolithographic additional title, hand-coloured tinted lithographic frontispiece and 30 hand-coloured plates by Lemoine, Lehnert, Mouilleron, Le Roux and others after Prisse d'Avennes, printed by Lemercier, all mounted on card and loose as issued, titled in pencil below image. Letterpress title, dedication, plate list and 60 pp. of descriptive text by St. John with 35 wood-engraved illustrations, original plain wrappers. Original morocco-backed portfolio with gilt-lettered morocco cover label, rebacked, flaps with morocco renewed, new ties, minor wear to card edges and corners, old waterstain to end leaves, portfolio covers rubbed and a little worn, plates clean and fresh, an excellent copy.

Second edition, 4to, xcii, 543 pp., etched portrait frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), bound without half-title, a little spotting to plates, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled edges and sides, green morocco lettering pieces, a very handsome copy.

Second edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xiv, 300; x, 316 pp., 2 frontispieces (lightly foxed), 2 title-page vignettes, 1 map, original purple blind-stamped cloth gilt, spines faded, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set.

First edition, 3 atlases bound in 2 vols; folio; 203 plates plates comprising: [Album Historique, Ethnologique et Archéologique] large folding map mounted on linen, 59 lithographed plates (3 of which are folding) most coloured, part-coloured or tinted bound with [Album Zoologie:] 40 hand-coloured engraved plates of mammals, birds, reptiles and fish, and insects, separately bound [Atlas Botanique:] 103 engraved plates, some light foxing throughout; half green morocco over green cloth boards, gilt title blind stamped to covers, spine gilt ruled with title and tooling, a fine copy.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, xviii, 412; viii, 468 pp., 12 tinted woodcut plates, 22 woodcut illustrations in the text, folding tinted map, original red cloth gilt, neat repairs to spine extremities, '90' in ink to titles, a very good set.

Second (first illustrated) edition, 8vo, viii, 424 pp., large folding maps (tears to folds), 3 wood-engraved plates, original pictorial brown cloth gilt, a very good copy.