The Kilima-Njaro Expedition. A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa and a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District
Johnston, H H
Published by Kegan Paul Trench & Co, London, 1886
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G : in Good condition. Spine rubbed with minor loss at head and tail. Some browning to prelims. 230mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 572pp + 36pp catalogue. Six maps and over 80 illustrations by the author. Heavy item - shipping supplement may apply for overseas. Red hardbackillustrated cloth cover. Seller Inventory # r6807
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Title: The Kilima-Njaro Expedition. A Record of ...
Publisher: Kegan Paul Trench & Co, London
Publication Date: 1886
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition.
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The Kilima-Njaro Expedition. A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa. And a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District. [Kilimanjaro]
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Gregg International Publishers, Ltd., Farnborough, 1968
ISBN 10: 0576791075
ISBN 13: 9780576791076
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Seller: Bookworks [MWABA, IOBA], Beloit, WI, U.S.A.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Harry Johnston (illustrator). Reprint. Account of the six-month 1884 Royal Geographic Society & British Association expedition to Kilimanjaro, led by Johnston, who was to become an important player in the 'scramble for Africa', doing his best to claim African territory for Britain before Germany or Belgium did, whatever the wishes of the local tribes. Here he details his travels: dealings with local chiefs, particularly Mandara, chief of Mosi; ascents of the mountain, natural history collections, return through Masai territory. About a third of the book details the natural history, local culture, & dialects of the region, with a chapter on East Africa's commercial potential. Photographic reprint of the 1886 original, 1968. Hardcover, as pictured; no jacket, likely as issued. Light wear, minor bumps to edge of rear board & base of spine, clean & unmarked. [2], xv, blank, 572 pages; index, vocabulary tables, plant species list, drawings by the author, 6 maps - 2 folding, 3 with color. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # w0114
The Kilima-Njaro Expedition. A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa and a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District
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Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co, London, 1886
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Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Brown cloth with pictorial front. 572 pp. BW plates, a foldout color map. fair (ex-library with expected marks, including ink stamps on frontispiece, title page, and first two text pages. all full page plates are marked with ink stamp and perforation stamp, overlapping image. binding cracked at pgs 82, 94, 288, and 320. wear and rubbing to cover, including loss of cloth over edges and at corners. dark brown covering on spine has flaked off, leaving sections of plain cloth. exterior cloth split at hinges). Seller Inventory # 134799
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The Kilima-Njaro Expedition: A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa and a general description of the natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District
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Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., London, 1886
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Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 572 pages (complete). A generously owned copy. The spine has been repaired by a leather strip. Illustrated and gilt titled front boards. The boards have shelving, storage, handling wear about all edges and corners. There are handling, storage marks and scuffing. They are tight and sure. The contents bear their age and ownership with dignity and resolution. The pages are amiably generous. They are clean and clear, occasionally marked from storage conditions, some handling marks (about the edges in particular), some occasional foxing. The pages are certain, secure, convivial, agreeable. fk. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # 17ot
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The Kilima-njaro Expedition. A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa and a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-njaro District
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Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., London, 1886
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Seller: Kilmaree Books, Strathcarron, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good+. 1st Edition. 8vo. 572 pages. Publisher's pictorial red cloth boards, professionally recased; gilt titles on spine; picture of Kilima-njaro and titles in black on front. Black endpapers. Photographic portrait of author as frontispiece; 14 full-page black and white plates and many additional illustrations in the text. 6 maps, including 2 folding maps in colour. Boards rubbed and soiled, with pale patches at corners of front board; spine darkened; some loss to ends of spine; bumps to corners and elsewhere. Two previous owners' names at front. Stains affecting margins of frontispiece. Spots and marks on edges of text block. Foxing on some pages but mostly clean. All maps intact. Frontispiece partly detached but binding otherwise firm. Seller Inventory # 626
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THE KILIMA-NJARO EXPEDITION: A RECORD OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION IN EASTERN EQUATORIAL AFRICA AND A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE NATURAL HISTORY, LANGUAGES, AND COMMERCE OF THE KILIMA-NJARO DISTRICT ; With Six Maps and Over Eighty Illustrations by the Author
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Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. Octavo, 8.75 in. x 5.5 in., pp. xv, 572. Institutional rebinding of contrasting burgundy spine label, gilt-labeled (with title, author and year) bordered by gilt rule and roll. Initials of RDS (Royal Dublin Society) in gilt to bottom compartment.Three of the six maps hand-colored and of these maps two fold-out. Half calf over burgundy pebbled cloth. Gilt title and decorative bandlines to spine. Publisher's red edges. . Rubbing to extremities. Two, faint, coin-sized black stains to front board. repair to top edge by conservator. pages xv + [1] blank + 572 Ex-library (Royal Dublin Society Library) with usual library marks to interior -- a number of them. Whomever wielded the rubber stamp through the institutional tedium at the library of the Royal Dublin Society that Wednesday afternoon on the 2nd of March,1887 was apparently quite enamored of the neat purple stamped impression, because s/he let fly with the purple identifying-stamp on the verso of every single image, and liberally, elswhere too. Frontis photograph of author H.H. Johnston. Appendix includes dictionaries of words of the Masai, Ki-caga, Ki-gweno, and Ki-taveita people. ".Royal Society. appointed [Johnston} to lead a scientific expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro in 1884. While his new expedition was ostensibly to study the natural history of the volcano,.On his return to Britain, Johnston published this account of the expedition. He soon became known as an important authority on African matters. {and} was celebrated in the British press as 'Kilimanjaro Johnston' .By the end of the decade, Johnston's influence and his work in negotiating treaties with African nations helped to define government policy. He originated the slogan 'From the Cape to Cairo' which epitomised British colonial ambitions on the continent during the 'Scramble for Africa' in the final years of the nineteenth century." (Royal Collection Trust). Seller Inventory # 88695
The Kilima-njaro Expedition: A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa and a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-njaro District
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Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., London, 1886
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Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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Cloth. Condition: Good. H H Johnston (illustrator). First edition. A scarce copy of Harry Johnston's account of the scientific expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro in 1884. Harry Johnston was a British explorer and colonial administrator, prolific author of travel books on African subjects. He was a key player in the colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers towards the end of the nineteenth century.The present volume is the first edition, first impression of Johnston's report on the scientific expedition of 1884 to Mount Kilimanjaro. He was appointed leader of the expedition by the British Association. With sketches of the natural history of Easter Equatorial Africa, as well as of the languages and economy of the area.During the expedition, he concluded treaties with local chiefs, which were then transferred to the British East Africa Company.Illustrated with a frontispiece, six maps, of which two folding in colour, and one full page in colour, fourteen full page plates and numerous other figures in text by the author. Collated, complete. From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. Her passion for literature is displayed by her impressive library.She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonist, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things'. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear and bumping and chipping to the tail of the spine and extremities, some loss to the head of the spine. Inscribed to the verso of the front free endpaper, 'G Wilkinson Prize for Geography' dated 1888. Internally, the front and rear hinges are only slightly loose, generally firmly bound. With a minor light spotting to the first and last few leaves, otherwise the pages are generally bright and very clean throughout, with only a minor staining mark to the frontispiece, not affecting any other leaf. Illustrated with a frontispiece, six maps, of which two folding in colour, and one full page in colour, fourteen full page plates and numerous other figures in text by the author. Collated, complete. Good. book. Seller Inventory # 793A45
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The Kilima-Njaro Expedition. A Record Of Scientific Exploration In Eastern Equatorial Africa. And A General Description Of The Natural History, Languages, And Commerce Of The Kilima-Njaro District. Kilimanjaro.
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Kegan Paul, Trench, And Co., London, 1886
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Seller: JP MOUNTAIN BOOKS, PORTLAND, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. FIRST EDITION. The book measures 23cm tall x 14cm, and has pages xv + [1] blank + 572 + 36 (publisher's catalog), photogravure frontis portrait of the author & 14 other full page plates, 64 in-text illustrations, 6 maps (3 in color, 2 are fldg), 14 engraved plates, index. Account of early expedition attempt to climb Kilimanjaro in 1884. Johnston claims to have reached approximately 4973m. rebound in red cloth in style similar to original binding with original illustrated front cover retained as front cover of new binding, black & white illustration of Kilimanjaro on front cover, black lettering front cover, black coated EPs. previous owner name faintly penned on blank side of frontis, scotch tape (tape itself is long gone) yellowish stain at gutter of frontispiece & title page (frontis was obviously once held in place by scotch tape), minor foxing on plates only, binding tight, covers & spine clean & bright, other than tape stain at frontis gutter the condition is quite nice. BIG BOOK: EXTRA POSTAGE required for international shipping. PHOTOS ARE OF ACTUAL ITEM BEING OFFERED. Seller Inventory # 000840
The Kilima-njaro expedition: a record of scientific exploration in eastern Equatorial Africa, and a general description of natural history, languages, and commerce of the Kilama-njaro district
Published by
Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co, London, 1886
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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
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First edition, 8vo, pp. xxviii, 338; xv, [1], 572, 36 (ads); gravure frontispiece portrait, wood-engraved vignette title page, 6 maps (2 folding, some in color), 14 plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black, white and gilt on upper cover and spine; the spine is a mess: old, long cracks, chipped at extremities, and sunned, but the book is surprisingly sound, clean, and the covers quite bright. Not a common book. Seller Inventory # 52566
The Kilima-Njaro Expedition. A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa. And a General Description of the Natural History, Languages, and Commerce of the Kilima-Njaro District.
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Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United Kingdom
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First edition. Frontispiece & 14 plates (minor marginal dampstaining), 6 maps (3 coloured, two of these extending), and numerous illustrations. 8vo. Very smart contemporary half calf over marbled boards, a little shelf-worn. Faint staining to extreme fore-edges of plates. xv, [1], 572pp. London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., During the course of this expedition treaties were made with tribal chiefs which laid the basis of the British East African Protectorate. Many specimens of flora and to a lesser extent fauna were collected, as were notes on various languages. . Seller Inventory # 230553
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