The Africans at Home

R. M. Macbrair

London

:

Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

,

1864

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Second Edition.

18cm x 12cm. xx, 402 pages, 21 plates, 1 folding map (torn and incomplete), black and white illustrations in the text. Full brown leather, gilt lettering and decoration, marbled edges and endpapers.

Being a Popular Description of Africa and the Africans Condensed from the Accounts of African Travellers From the Time of Mungo Park to the Present Day. A culturally significant anthropological study of African life. Includes illustrations of flora, fauna, ‘bush women’, and dancers.

Minor rubbing to leather. Minor foxing and soiling, some staining to fore-edge of a few plates and leaves. Some insect damage to endpapers. Map located after preliminaries has been torn, half is missing. Open tear to rear fly leaf. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition.