Cameron Commander Lovett (10 results)

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. 384pp. Cover in brown yellow and gold shows lion menacing 2 natives. Average wear, spine a little rubbed and worn at head and foot. A.w.cooper (illustrator).

8vo; ornate pictorial cloth, slightly rubbed and a little bumped at head and tail of spine; previous owner's name on front free endpaper; inscription on half-title page reading: "J. Boyd Varty; III Prize York School; Xmas 1888"; tissue-guarded frontispiece; black-and-white illustrations; pp. 384; foxing and browning to endpapers and scattered throughout; small stain to edge; front hinge starting. Good condition. Novel of adventure set in Central and East Africa. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, First Printing. A swashbuckler from the past. A rare book . A nick on the front cover Prev. owners name in ink. Otherwise sound, clean and tight . Very good shape for a 117 year old book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very nice copy of the First U.S. EDITION issued in 1877. No dust jacket. 508 pages, including index. 8 additional pages devoted to Harper catalog of "Valuable & Interesting Works for Public and Private Libraries." 29 Full Page Plates and Woodcuts. Includes original folding map of journey in 2 parts stored the Front Pocket. Very clean and tight inside, with "Numerous Illustrations" (full page plates) complete with tissue guards. Photos are of the actual book being offered.…

Condition: Good. Engraved plates [32 including 31 full-paage and half page engraving to pictorial titlepage as listed in plate list] Octavo pale blue cloth with gilt and brown and green pictorial cover and spine on bevelled boards [edges rubbed/corners sl.bumped/plain blue lower cover with some discoloration] All Edges Gilt 359pp Lower corner of Rear end papers with pale damp mark and affecting a few leaves of last pages in the lower margin - no printed area affected. The blank verso of a plate at page 304 small brown mark which was also offset onto the facing page. Award label to front pastedown by the School Board of London to Ben Jonson. All pages well bound and tight, paper clean and no underlining or other marginalia. * Exciting victorian travel adventure in Africa. 1 volume. Hardcover.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First Edition. Lovely copy of this scarce juvenile, dedicated to Richard Burton (the explorer). Publisher's illustrated olive cloth, all edges gilt. Undated on title page but with code dating for 1888 at rear. Prize bookplate from 1898 on ffep but an exceptionally clean and bright copy. Stanley Berkeley (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in tan pictorial cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 309pp. Gold gilt page edges. B/w frontispiece, b/w plates throughout. Not library copy, pencil inscription to ffep, ink inscription to reverse half title and frontispiece, rubbing to board edges, repair to inner hinges. (37/2). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 29 Full Page Plates and Woodcuts. Large Folding Map in the Front Pocket. First U.S. EDITION. Very clean and tight inside, with the full page plates complete with tissue guards. We, at Coalesce Bookstore, thank our customers and supporters, acknowledging that what we do would not be possible were it not for each of you. Books over 2.2 lbs require additional shipping cost outside US, approximately $40USD ($25USD for Canada).…

Verney Lovett Cameron was an intrepid explorer in Central Africa who was the first European (1875) to cross equatorial Africa from sea to sea. He entered the Royal Navy and was employed for a considerable time in the suppression of the East African Slave trade. A tight, clean very nice copy with hardly any rubbing. Only a tear and a small hole near the fore-edge of the free front endpaper which also has the previous owner's name in pencil written on the recto side. Also a couple of stains in the margins of pp. 2 and 3. Otherwise a very good to fine copy. 8vo. 7-9/16" x 5-3/8". 314 pp. Decorative pictorial cloth cover stamped in red black and gold. With black and white frontispiece illustration and spot illustration on title page. (illustrator).…

2 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with frontispieces (original tissue guards present), plates and facsimiles (a number folding), woodcut illustrations in the text and large folding coloured map in pocket at end of first volume; original navy cloth, upper boards framed, blocked and lettered in gilt, gilt backs, chocolate endpapers, uncut, hinges tender (but binding entirely sound), a very good, unusually bright, crisp, clean copy. With the nineteenth century engraved armorial bookplate of John Davies Enys on front paste-down of first volume, and 4pp and 8pp publisher's catalogues bound in at end of first and second volumes respectively. Hosken, p.38.…