THE WONDERLAND OF THE EASTERN CONGO

London & New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1922

Large 8vo, xxxv + 288pp. Hardcover binding with gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece, various plates, and one fold-out map at rear, all collated and complete.

Thomas Alexander Barns (1881 – 1930), known in his private life as Alexander Barns, was an English businessman, explorer, big game hunter, author, artist, naturalist and lecturer connected with the opening up of Central Africa by Europeans in the early 20th century. The amateur entomologist James John Joicey commissioned Barns to collect specimens of lepidoptera in Africa on his behalf.

In ‘The Wonderland of the Eastern Congo’, Barns was an early observer of mountain gorillas and reported that he had observed them living in large troops and that all such troops included at least two adult females with young of different ages. (wikipedia.com)

Condition: Good. Recased with new endpapers, professionally done. Light rubbing and very slight edgewear to boards, light rubbing and light creases and slight shelfwear to spine. Previous owner’s signature to half title page. Light wrinkling to some pages and plates at front. Several pages have their fore edges repaired. Light foxing to first and last few pages. Fading to text on one page. Otherwise text and plates are clean. Well bound.

Reserve: $70

Estimate: $85-110