This ex-library copy of Moloney's rare and valuable book on Stairs's Katanga expedition [which ended with the death of Captain Stairs] has been well restored. All the original plates are present but the route map is missing.
A 2 pp preface updates the position in and around the expedition area of Central Africa and makes a charge of "criminality" against the Portuguese and German authorities for their "connivance in the smuggling of arms and ammunition by the Arabs".
Half-bound in maroon calf and matching marbled paper-boards. Both boards are extensively rubbed, as are the corners. The original spine cover, with gilt lettering and rules, has been laid down on a new matching leather spine. New decorative endpapers and a new backstrip with head and tail bands have been added so that the binding is again tight. All page edges are gilt.
There are neat library stamps at the front, including "not for circulation" on the original front free endpaper. The contents - xiii + 280 pp of text and index + frontispiece and 7 other inserted portraits and other plates on art paper - are unmarked and there is no foxing, just a few small brown stains near the front.
Despite the rubbed original upper board, the overall condition is very good.
- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 190 x 135; 600 g
- Sold By: Fontein Books
- Contact Person: Richard Proctor-Sims
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 051 773 0050/048 079 546 4032
- Preferred Payment Methods: Eft (South Africa), SWIFT (rest of world), or $ checks for US or Australian buyers
- Trade Associations: AA Approved
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