Search Results: savage africa being the narrative of by reade w winwood

NY: The Century Company, 1864. Book. VG. Soft cover. 8vo. 12pp extract, printed in double columns, illustrated with 7 characteristic Harper's engraving, salvaged from a damaged issue of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume XXIX, No. 171, August, 1864. A review of sorts by Nordhoff of the Reade title recently published by Harper & Brothers, NY, 1864. Illustrations include the wild bull of equatorial Africa, a scene of an African tornado, a scene of natives doing the gorilla dance, a river-scene of canoes, and others of general interest. Housed in protective mylar report cover..

Paperback / softback. New.

Harper & Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. Good. New York, 1864; black cloth covered boards; heavy edge and corer wear with board exposed; back strip missing with tape repair; handmade plain green jacket; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; front hinge split; Previous owner's name on front end papers and title page; finger smudges; Interior is clean and unmarked; 452 pages.

NY: Harper and Brothers, 1864. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. xi, 452pp, folding map; ads. Contemporary name on front free endpaper, corners worn through with loss to cloth at the spine ends, else a serviceable, complete copy in publisher's green cloth.

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1864. First American Edition. Octavo (24cm). Brown cloth titled in gilt on spine; pale yellow endpapers; [i]-[xii] [13]-452,[6]pp; 6pp publishers ads at rear; folding map and black and white wood engravings. Former owner's name and bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Rubbed, corners bumped, occasional foxing especially to end blanks, excision of former owner's name from top of title page, but sound and Very Good. The work includes extensive information about gorillas and a discussion of the slave trade (in which Reade blames Africans as much as Europeans for its cruelty, though advocating its abolition), as well as general exploration narratives and (frequently racist) anthopological observations. Some of Reade's ideas were built upon by Darwin in his Descent of Man. For the first edition, published in London in 1863, see WORK p.263.

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1864.. First US edition.. publisher's cloth gilt-lettered at the spine.. Front free endpaper lacking; upper right corner of title page torn away, affecting most of the word "Africa." Bookplate; spine slightly sunned; tight and sound. . 8vo,. With Illustrations and a Map..

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1864. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Folding map plus 28 text illustrations. Publisher's original cloth, spine faded with very small tear at bottom; some browning on the first few (blank) leaves, otherwise an excellent copy. First American edition. At the age of 25, the author traveled to Africa using for the most part his own funds. He spent several months observing gorillas in South Africa and Angola, and provides some of the earliest depictions of gorillas and their habits, only a few years after the publication of Paul Du Chaillu's description of the first sighting of a living gorilla by a western explorer. In addition to gorillas, he describes the people, culture, and way of life in Western Africa, with chapters covering cannibalism, the slave trade, fever and malaria, Sierra Leone, drugged elephants, Niger, the Congo and more. A popular success, the book helped to create the popular notion that Africa, the "dark" continent, was replete with savage beasts as well as… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1864. Hardcover. good to very good. 1st American Edition. xi,[1],[13]-452pp. + [6]pp. (ads)pp. Octavo in original cloth and pale yellow coated endpapers with woodcut plates and illustrations in text, and folding map. Stefansson's copy from his library. Wear to lower corners, foot and head of spine, joints starting at foot of spine, else a clean copy of an uncommon title. Good to very good condition. 1864