Published by New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1839
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Volume 1 only. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and moderate soiling. Pages tanned with moderate soiling and staining, water damage.
Published by Harper and Brothers, New York, 1836
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Harper's Stereotype edition. 16mo. [1], 359 pages, [1]. Folding frontispiece map of South Africa dated 1832. Illustrated with engravings and plans. Brown cloth hardcover with gilt title on the spine. A small indent mark on the spine. A faded cloth section on the back. Former institutional copy with a book label from "Athens (Georgia) Mechanics' Mutual Aid Association" on the front paste down.
Published by J. & J. Harper, N.Y., 1831
Seller: Recycled, Corte Madera, CA, U.S.A.
Cloth. Condition: VG+. Illustrated. (illustrator). First American Edition. Spine torn, covers a bit soiled, usual foxing, otherwise quite well preserved - Harper's Family Library, No. XVI.
Published by Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Condition: Used - Good. 1844. Red cloth with gilt-stamped lettering and decoration. 8vo. 472 pp. Fourth edition. Moderate shelf wear and scuffing to boards, with some wear and fraying to joints and head of spine, otherwise protected by mylar jacket. Both hinges starting. Previous owner's inscription and stamp to ffep. Pages are clean and unmarked. Altogether a copy in Good condition.
Published by Harper & Bros., New York, 1840
Seller: JDBFamily, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This 4.125 x 6.25 inch, 359 page hardcover book is the 1840 edition of this title by Harper and Brothers of New York, with the 1840 date on the title page. This copy is in very good condition although surely the book shows time wear. This copy features a dark-brown pebble-patterned cloth binding with gilt design and lettering on the spine, with the ?Family Library No.16? and then ?Adventures in Africa 1 Vol.? shown on the spine. The covers are rubbed but the edge and corner wear is minimal and the binding is tight and secure. The book text-block perhaps at one time absorbed moisture and swelled somewhat reshaping the books profile but whatever the story of this books past it is now in solid shape. The interior features a fold-out map at the front along with a illustrated frontispiece and then the title page. There is foxing evident throughout but overall the pages are crisp and clean with all text clearly legible. The book features maps and numerous lithograph illustrations and overall offers an intriguing look at the developing knowledge base of the African continent - - nearly two hundred years ago. Overall the condition is very nice for this older book and we list it at a good price. 359 pages.
Published by Harper & Bros, New York, 1842
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Stereotyped edition, 12mo, pp. 359, [1]; folding map, wood-engraved half-title, 9 wood-engraved plates and maps, plus other wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown cloth, gilt-stamped spine; near fine. Issued as no. 16 in the Harper's Family Library series.
Published by Published By Harper & Brothers, New York: 1836., 1836
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 359p. + Plus engraved half title, full page engravings and a folding map. Foxed. 12mo. Disbound. AFRICA/6 Language: eng.
Published by Printed and Published by J. & J. Harper, New York: 1833., 1833
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 359p. + Plus wood engraved half title, full page engravings and a folding map, on light paper. an old repair. Foxed. 16mo. 160 mm. Original Harper's printed cloth binding (with the date 1834 on the front cover), stained and worn, with old spine repairs. Good. AFRICA/6. Language: eng.
Published by Oliver & Boyd Edinburgh, 1830
Seller: Bristow & Garland, Shaftesbury, United Kingdom
Folding engraved map, extra engraved title, plates, route plans, and engravings in the text, complete and as called for. Small 8vo (6 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches), 402-pages plus 4-pages of advertisements at end. Contemporary half tan calf over marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, blocked in blind, with burgundy lettering piece. Several short tears to map without loss, old repair on reverse to one fold with paper tape. 2 cracks in lettering piece.
Published by Printed By J. & J. Harper, New York: 1831., 1831
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 359p. + Plus engraved half title, full page engravings and a folding map, torn with an old repair. XLib. Damp stained. Age stained. 12mo. Original half leather marbled boards. Joints tender. Black library tape on lower spine. First American Edition. AFRICA/2 Language: eng.
Published by Oliver & Boyd, 1832., Edinburgh:, 1832
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books, Montreux, VAUD, Switzerland
Second edition, revised. Small 8vo. 503 pp. 13 engravings by Branston including additional half-title-page vignette and 3 maps, one being a folding map frontis. of Africa (linen backed), and two additional maps showing the routes for Park (facing p.114) and Denham and Clapperton (facing p.191); very minute tiny marginal bump btw. pp. 448-476. Original gilt and blind- half black calf over marbled boards); extremities a bit worn. Ink inscribed title verso, bookplate of Edmund Westby, and rubber ink stamped J. [John] Kelly (binderâÂÂs mark) (1837-1861). Signature on verso of title of Merl La Voy (1885âÂÂ"1953). Very good. For binder, see: Maurice Packer, Bookbinders of Victorian London, p. 84. Merl La Voy (1885âÂÂ"1953) was a cinematographer. "Merl La Voy was an American pioneer documentary filmmaker, photographer and world traveler. He was probably best remembered by 1920s and 30s movie goers for his South Seas Islands documentaries and as a cameraman for Pathe News. Not long after purchasing his first movie camera, La Voy traveled to Europe to cover the First World War. His film, Heroic France (1917), brought the horrors of war home to American film audiences. After the war he worked for a period of time for the International Red Cross. Later while covering an uprising in China, his wit and quick thinking saved him from being executed by a firing squad after being mistaken for a Russian mercenary. For much of his life, La Voy and his camera lens traveled the four corners of the world, earning him the title bestowed upon him by the press, "The Modern Marco Polo". In 1932 La Voy, who had been a member of the 1912 Parker-Browne Expedition that nearly conquered Mount McKinley, and Andrew Taylor, a well-known Alaskan photographer, led a group that recovered the frozen remains of scientist Theodore G. Koven from the mouth of the Muldrow Glacier on Mount McKinley. Koven, a member of the Carpe Mount McKinley Expedition, had perished the previous year after he and the expeditionâÂÂs leader, Allen Carpe, fell into a crevasse. La VoyâÂÂs group discovered that Koven had survived the fall and had managed to crawl out of the crevasse, only to eventually freeze to death. Allen Carpe had apparently fallen much deeper into the abyss, for his body was never found. Merl La Voy died in Johannesburg, South Africa on 6 December, 1953." - IMDb.
Published by J. & J. Harper, New York, 1831
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. 12mo. 359pp. Ad tipped-in at front. Folding map and fifteen illustrations. Publsiher's original tan printed muslin. Foxing in the text, small spots on boards, and faint toning at the spine. Harper's Family Library, No. XVI.
Published by Printed by J. & J. Harper, 82 Cliff-St, New York, 1831
Seller: Tavistock Books, ABAA, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
First Edition
1st US edition. x, [2], [13] - 359, [1 (blank)] pp. Engravings, folding map as frontis. 12mo, bound in 6s. 6-5/16" x 3-7/8" General wear, spine panel sun-tanned. Very Good. Linen cloth binding with printed black lettering.
Published by New-York: J. & J. Harper, 1831., 1831
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First published in the Edinburgh Cabinet Library in 1830. Twelvemo. 359 pp. One leaf of ads tipped in at front. Large folding map and fifteen other illustrations, including plates and text illustrations, and including the two route maps. Original tan muslin, printed in black. Spine darkened, but an unusually fine, clean copy. First American edition. Harper's Family Library, No. XVI.
Published by Oliver & Boyd., Edinburgh., 1830
Seller: James Hine, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. With a folding map, plans of the routes of Park & of Denham & Clapperton ; And engravings by Branston. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, 1830. Some foxing in places, plates age toned. Rear free endpaper missing. Contemporary half navy leather binding with marbled paper boards. Some rubbing to edges and corners, top of spine very slightly chipped. Raised bands with gilt rules. Generally an attractive solid copy. 492 p. Book.
Published by Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh, 1830
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Small thick Octavo. xv, [1] 492, 4pp. With a map, plans of the routes of Park and Debham and Clapperton; and engravings by Branston. Bound in a [near] contemporary half maroon morocco gilt, marbled paper sides. A little rubbing and surface wear. Marbled end papers. Light spotting to folding map with small tear near hinge. Otherwise a Very Good copy. Africana.
Published by Oliver & Boyd, and Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. c. 1832, Edinburgh, 1832
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Edition : 6th Edition, Contemporary decorative full gilt cloth boards with ornate floral and foliage fanfare border on upper board, blind tooling on lower board. Spine with 4 compartments of gilt tooled bands, gilt lettering on two, all edges gilt. , Size : 12mo, Illustrated with 3 maps, 1 of which is folding, and 3 plates., P. advertisement, frontis, engraved title, blank, title, printer?s imprint, advertisement, preface (6-8), contents (7-16), 17-472. Near fine condition, bound in decorative gilt contemporary publisher?s cloth. A handsome copy.