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Scholar Select. Reprint. . Glazed Boards. As New/No Jacket (as issued). Reprint of 1912 edition. Hard cover 8vo in glazed printed boards. As New and unread; no DJ, as issued. 305pp; illustrated in photos.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Constable & Co Ltd. Worn condition. Cover rubbed and marked. Ex-lib. Content in overall good condition. 1912. First Edition. Original tan hardback cloth cover. 230mm x 170mm (9" x 7"). xvii, 304pp + plates. 46 b/w plates and fold out map. 'Being an account of a journey on bicycles and on foot from Northern Rhodesia, past the Great Lakes, to Egypt, undertaken when proceeding home on leave in 1910'. .

1912. Africa, Exploration. Constable and Co. Ltd/London. Good brown cloth with hand soiling to covers, binding/hinge is slightly shaken, text is clean and very good map 305p.

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 305, [1]; folding map with route outlined in red, 46 plates showing 80 illustrations; original red cloth, gilt-stamped upper cover and spine, t.e.g.; Phillips Academy bookplate marked withdrawn, traces of pocket removal on rear pastedown, small withdrawn stamp on title page and rear pastedown, accession label removed from base of spine; lightly rubbed. Czech, Africa, p. 113: "Using bicycles as a break from the monotony of 'foot slogging,' Melland and Cholmeley set out from Kasama with the intention of traveling to the Nile. Passing through German East Africa near the shores of Lake Tanganyika, the pair bagged leopard and numerous crocodile ... with additional chapters on hunting elephant in the Masindi District in Uganda. An interesting work of travel and sport complete with numerous bicycle breakdowns."

London: Constable & Company LTD, 1912. First edition. Cloth. Good. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. The first edition of this entertaining illustrated account of Melland and Cholmeley's account of their voyage through Africa on bicycle. The first edition of this work.Frank Melland and Edward Cholmeley's account of their 1910 journey through Northern Rhodesia, past the Great Lakes, and to Egypt, undertaken on bicycles and on foot. An entertaining account.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and forty-five plates.Collated, complete.Two pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with a damp stain to the front board. Light bumping to the spine and extremities. A few light marks to the boards and spine. Prize label to the front paste down. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some odd handling marks. Good

London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1912. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6.5". None. A smart first edition of Melland and Cholmeley's account of their voyage through Africa on bicycles. First edition. With the inscription "from the authors family." Illustrated throughout with frontispiece, forty-five plates, and one folding map. Collated complete. Frank Melland and Edward Cholmeley's account of their 1910 journey through Northern Rhodesia, past the Great Lakes, and to Egypt, undertaken on bicycles and on foot. Written by Frank Hulme Melland and Edmund H. Cholmeley. Previously held in the library of David Walter Phillipson, a British archaeologist specializing in African archaeology. In the original brown cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Discolouration to the spine. A couple of small marks to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with light scattered spotting. Contemporary ink… Read More