Roald Amundsen: Som Han Var

By: Arnesen, Odd

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Oslo, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag: 1929

Seller ID: 3190

Condition: fair

Sewn wraps, 16.5 by 24.2 cm, 205 [2] pp., illus. Heavy chips, tears, creases, and wear to the wraps. There is a 1969 gift inscription on the inside of the front cover. The textblock is very good aside from a few turned page corners and a name that has been rubbed off the half-title page. The mull extends well beyond the spine between the covers and first and last leaves that makes me think, though I know little of Norwegian publishing, that this paperback edition was an afterthought or it was intended as a temporary binding and meant to be put in boards. Text is in Norwegian. A biography... View more info

Explorations and Adventures in Equatorial Africa; with Accounts of the Manners and Customs of the people, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, the Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and Other Animals

By: Du Chaillu, Paul B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Negro Universities Press: 1969

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 3132

Condition: Very Good +

Reprint (originally published in 1861 by harper & Brothers, New York). Brown cloth with gilt spine titles, 14 by 22.3 cm, 531 pp., illus., folding map at rear. Very good with lonely faint shelf wear to the boards. Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1831-1903) was a French-American traveler, zoologist, and anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, and later the Pygmy people of central Africa. The novel Tarzan of the Apes was based on Du Chaillu’s stories. He was sent in 1855 by the Academy of Natural Sciences at Phila... View more info

Our African Adventure [with Signed Card]

By: Morden, William and Irene

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Seeley Service & Co.: 1954

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 3127

Condition: Very Good

Brown cloth with gilt spine titles, lacks dust jacket, illus. endpapers, 15 by 23. cm, 40 photographic plates and a fold-out map showing the author’s route through Africa. Very good with light bumping to the extremities. Laid-in is a signed card for William Morden that reads “Leader, Morden African Expedition / American Museum of Natural History, New York N.Y.” Documents the travels of William James Morden and Irene Morden to Southwest Africa, Natal, Tanzania, and Kenya in 1954 to collect ethnographic and zoological specimens. Colonel William J. Morden, a 1908 graduate of Yale and a ... View more info