On the Threshold of Central Africa - A Record of Twenty Years' Pioneering Among the Barotsi of the Upper Zambesi
por Coillard, Francois; edited by Catherine Winkworth Mackintosh
- Usado
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Fair with no dust jacket
- Livreiro
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London: Hodder and Stoughton. Fair with no dust jacket. 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. The folding map is detached and has extensive tears along most of the folds. Minor green stain to front board. Hinges broken. ; xxxiv, 663, [1 (blank)] pages + [2] pages advertisements + frontispiece + 42 illustrations on 40 plate leaves + 1 folding map. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt illustration on front board. Page dimensions: 226 x 155mm. Text in English, translated from the French by Catherine Winkworth Mackintosh. .
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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 20603
- Título
- On the Threshold of Central Africa - A Record of Twenty Years' Pioneering Among the Barotsi of the Upper Zambesi
- Autor
- Coillard, Francois; edited by Catherine Winkworth Mackintosh
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Fair with no dust jacket
- Edição
- First Edition
- Editorial
- Hodder and Stoughton
- Local de publicação
- London
- Data de publicação
- 1897
Termos da venda
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Renaissance Books
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Dunedin, New Zealand
Sobre Renaissance Books
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