Wild Life Under the Equator. Narrated for Young People. by du Chaillu, Paul - 1868

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1869. Original Edition. Hardcover. Good. Gilt still fresh, but covers have some soiling, bumps to head of spine and corners; very bottom of spine is missing; one signature detached and laid in, and binding is loosening a bit at other spots; former owner's name on fep.. Maroon cloth/boards. Elaborate gilt decoration and lettering on spine; gilt image, banner, and lettering on front cover. xii, 292, [6] pp. with bw frontis and additional bw illustrations and plates. Paul Belloni Du Chaillu 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. There are two aspects which makes du Chaillu's books so unique and delightful for young people. First, is that he is an eyewitness to all that he reports on, rather than an interpreter of other's tales. Second, he appears to have been motivated entirely by love of… Read More

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1901. Reprint. Small octavo. Publisher's ornamental green cloth boards; [i-xiii], 14-231pp; illus. Wood-engraved frontispiece and numerous text illustrations. Trivial external rubbing and soil; ownership signature ("John Lowell") to front endpaper, else a tight, straight and handsome copy, Near Fine in the attractive publisher's binding. Uniform with the "Harper's Young People's Series," which included at least four of Du Chaillu's works.

Sampson Low, Son & Marston 1869. LIBRARY RE-BIND, sm octavo, half leather bound brown textured buckram boards, gilt lettering to brown leather title plate, raised bands, gilt library stamp to front board, frontispiece, 264pp, illus, VG- (moderate rubbing & scuffing to spine & extrems, moderate staining & fading to boards, moderate tanning & foxing/soiling to page edges, minor library markings/labels, moderate staining to eps, moderate cracking to gutters, varying ink & pencil markings to prelims, varying degrees of soiling to pages throughout, light to moderate foxing & creasing to terminals)

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896 A solid book, hinges intact, has a very slight lean. Brown end papers , numerous engravings including the frontispiece have tissue protection intact. Minor reading smudges and very little foxing although tissues are yellowed.. Brown boards with gilt decoration of gorilla , guns and title. Spine gilt is very dulled although title in embossed. Bumping and rubbing to most edges indicative of shelfwear.

Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1869-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. [Lovely Binding] Bound in publisher's blue cloth with lovely gilt stamped engraving of a savage gorilla on front. Jungle, snake, heron gilt stamped spine. With Numerous Engravings. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. First Edition. With 32 illustrations both on plates and within the text from wood engravings. 8vo, publisher’s original burgundy cloth, the upper cover and spine pictorially decorated and lettered in gilt, The upper cover featuring a large gilt ape, lower cover with publisher’s blind device at the center. xii, 231 [8 ads] pp. A handsome, clean and well preserved copy. Only light wear to the tips of the spine panel and corners, all gilt bright, the textblock fresh and tight. A SCARCE BOOK on African wildlife by one of the greatest explorers. Though intended for the young it is informative and intelligently written and illustrated. The author spent his youth in Western Africa where he learned the indigenous languages and after moving to America, gained support to fund an expedition into Gabon where his father had earlier been a tradesman. During his first expeditions he made important discoveries of new and exotic wildlife, the most famous being the… Read More