Search Results: Africa from Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1843. Discreet initials on the title-page and minor wear to the extremities else a very good copy. 8vo. 392 pages. Contemporary red half roan, marbled boards. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

J.B. Lippincott and Co, 1868. Some foxing, some light wear to bindings. Two volumes, 8vo. Folding map. Original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.

New York: Edward H. Fletcher, 1862. 8vo. 4], xiv, [3], 18-220 pp, 11-page advertisements at end. Complete with engraved frontispiece portrait of Bertram, portrait of the author, and engraved title by J. Bannister. Original embossed brown cloth, gilt-lettered on spine. Binding worn, pale browning and dampstaining. Provenance: James L. Ward (contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper). FIRST EDITION. "...a most interesting description of Cape Town . which says, 'The habitations . so low and so quaint, with their gables to the streets, covered with whitewash and adornded with venetians, each with its stoop or porch before it after the manner of the old Knickerbockers, seemed exceedingly odd. The small window-panes, and singular sign-boards, and the absence of shop windows, had a singular effect.'" (Mendelssohn, p.119).