ACROSS EAST AFRICAN GLACIERS. AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ASCENT OF KILIMANJARO. Translated From the German by E.H.S. Calder

George Philip & Son, 1891

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Year of publication

1891

Place of printing

London

Author

Meyer

Publishers

George Philip & Son

Edition

IMPORTANT AND RARE FIRST EDITION OF THIS HIGHLY PRIZED BOOK. One

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

First edition. With the publisher?s very rare announcement slipped in. 19 illustrations in the text, 12 photogravures, frontispiece chromolithograph in colours, 8 tipped-in photographs, and three colour fold-out maps. 4to, publisher?s very handsome original olive green cloth lettered in gilt on the spine and decorated on the upper cover in gilt and with overall pictorial representations of the mountain and indigenous peoples silhouetted in colours, the spine with colour decorations and pictorial silhouette of climbing equipment, t.e.g. others uncut. xx, 404 pp. A very bright, handsome, very pleasing and sound copy of this important and quite scarce book. Only very minimal evidence of age, the cloth in unusually nice condition, the hinges strong and tight, text very bright and clean and with very little mellowing, plates and maps all in good order. An unusually nice copy.