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Through Western Madagascar : In Quest of the Golden Bean
by Marcuse, Walter D
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hurst & Blackett. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1914. Hardcover. School prize label on front endpaper. Moderate foxing, quite heavy on some text leaves. Plates clean. ; 322 pages + frontispiece + 1 folding map. 55 illustrations on 47 plate leaves, these plate leaves within the pagination. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 196 x 133mm. "On my return to England from the island of Madagascar in the spring of 1912, I definitely resolved to write a book on my travels in the south-western portion of this increasingly important French colonial possession." - from the Preface. Contents: The Comoro Isles to Majunga; Namela toAmbohibe; Ambohibe and the Mangoky River; Tulear and the Onihaly River; The Sakalava; Some Colonial Characters; The Butter-Bean; Ways of Communication and Commerce; Notes on the Fauna and Flora of South-Western Madagascar - Some Notes on the Birds of Western Madagascar - Some Notes on the Flora of Western and South-Western Madagascar; Index. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 23714
- Title
- Through Western Madagascar : In Quest of the Golden Bean
- Author
- Marcuse, Walter D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Hurst & Blackett
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Travel Africa
Terms of Sale
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Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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