AN ACCOUNT OF THE FIRST ASCENT OF KILIMANJARO
BY DR HANS MEYER
1891 FIRST UK EDITION ORIGINAL COLOR PICTORIAL DECORATED COVERS
CONDITION: Original green cloth binding with gilt lettering front cover and spine, color decoration front cover and spine, TEG. Former library copy with only library marks being trace of sticker removal from lower spine, blindstamp of title page (see photo), small penned number on verso of title page. There are no other library marks or traces of library marks in the book. The end-pages are new in marbled paper. Solid original binding. The covers have rubbing at the corners and the ends of the spine, and rubbing along the spine joints. Some light rubbing on the rear cover (see photo). The final folding map has an archival repair/reinforcement along one crease made with paper (not tape). Complete with all maps and plates and pages. No foxing but some of the usual tanning to the full plates paper (publisher used different paper stock for these pages). Small 2cm tear with tiny loss to the margin of one plate. Previous owner signature dated 1891 on the top of the short title page, otherwise no previous owner marks or writing on any pages (other than the library mark on the the title and verso of the title). Price: $3500.
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