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Rare 1889 Heroes Of The Dark Continent Book Savage Lands By Buel Color Plates




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Reference Number: Avaluer:8410250Year Printed: 1889
Original/Facsimile: OriginalBinding: Hardcover
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Original Description:

Heroes of the Dark Continent
J. W. Buel 
1889 Chicago: Mercantile Publishing Co.
A Complete History of All the Great Explorations and Discoveries in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time COVERING THE WHOLE HISTORY OF AFRICAN EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY ENLIVENED WITH STORIES OF MARVELLOUS HUNTS AND WONDERFUL ADVENTURES AMONG WILD ANIMALS FEROCIOUS REPTILES AND CURIOUS AND SAVAGE RACES OF PEOPLE WHO INHABIT THE DARK CONTINENT 
Illustrated with 500 of... the grandest most beautiful and wonderful engravings and magnificent colored plates, including a full, authentic and thrilling account of Stanley"s famous relief of Emin Pasha."   Full page "colored" plates, full page black and white plates, double page plates, in-line vignettes, drawings and etching, etc. The artwork done in this book is simply stunning. There is a full page tissue guarded colored steel plate engraving frontispiece. It takes 4 pages just to list the illustrations in this book!  Nice historical account of early Africa and it's surroundings, 606 pages, book in good condition for it's 120+ years, some staining to front board and back couple pages as pictured, buyer to pay $4 shipping, no reserve!

     

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