Original berry purple cloth boards with silver-gilt lettering
Its unexpected popularity and critical success obliged the publisher to print a second impression in April of the same year
Text in German and English
there was a vibrant quest for models
Reprint of the 1887 edition
Travels in West Africa. Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons Southern Original berry purple cloth boardsLondon: Macmillan, 1897. First Edition (fifth thousand). 8vo (9 x 6 ins); pp xvi, [744], + 8 adverts. Original dark red cloth, gilt title lettering to spine. 2 lithographed plates of fish, 16 photographic plates, and numerous vignettes in the text. Scattered blotches of foxing throughout, never very heavy. Old ink owner's name to half title, plus inked note in manuscript to top margin of first pages of text. Ex. libris Albert Ruskin Cook, with his