London: Good Housekeeping Magazine
Illustrations from drawings by the author and reproductions of Chinese documents
Text in German and English
A Fine copy of the Pickering Edition with a strong Cambridge association
Original berry purple cloth boards with silver-gilt lettering
Travels in West Africa. Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons Southern London: Good Housekeeping MagazineLondon: Macmillan, 1897. First Edition (fifth thousand). 8vo (9 x 6 ins); pp xvi, [744], + 8 adverts. Original dark red cloth, gilt title lettering to spine. 2 lithographed plates of fish, 16 photographic plates, and numerous vignettes in the text. Scattered blotches of foxing throughout, never very heavy. Old ink owner's name to half title, plus inked note in manuscript to top margin of first pages of text. Ex. libris Albert Ruskin Cook, with his