1 volume. Second edition 1874.
Some drawings by Melton Prior
(special artist in Ashantee of the Illustrated London News)
Half-leather over brown boards.
Raised bands to spine with gilt title.
Marbled endpapers.
Gilt top page-block.
Ex-libris with some stamps.
xiv, 510 pages.
Full-page plates and in-text illustrations.
2 large fold-out maps.
Coomassie and Magdala is the story of the great British
Campaigns in East and West Africa. "Coomassie was a town
insulated by a deadly swamp. A thick jungle forest - so dense
that the sun seldom pierced the foliage, so sickly that the
strongest fell victims to the malaria it cherished - surrounded
it to a depth of 140 miles seaward, many hundred miles east,
as many more west, and 1000 miles north. Through this forest
and swamp, unrelieved by a single novelty or a single pretty
landscape, the British army had to march; H.M. Stanley [Preface].
Recorded shipping weight 2000g.
Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.
- Binding Condition: Very good
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 22.5 x 15 cm
