Central Africa: naked truths of naked people. An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, west of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile) ... Illustrated from Col. Long's own sketches
by Long, C. Chaille, Col
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1877. First American edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 330, [6] ads; frontispiece, folding map hand-colored in outline, 8 wood-engraved plates, other wood engravings in the text; fine copy in original pictorial terracotta cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine. Ibrahim-Hilmy, p. 391 for the London edition of the previous year.
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- Central Africa: naked truths of naked people. An account of expeditions to the Lake Victoria Nyanza and the Makraka Niam-Niam, west of the Bahr-el-Abiad (White Nile) ... Illustrated from Col. Long's own sketches
- Author
- Long, C. Chaille, Col
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- Used
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- 1
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- Hardcover
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- Harper & Brothers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1877
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- Nile River , , ,
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- Africa;
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