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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-06-25. Paperback. Good.

Philadelphia:: Reading & Company,, 1890.. publisher's blue decorated cloth.. Slightly shelf-slanted; very light cover wear; 19th c. private ownership label on front pastedown.. 8vo,. Illustrated from photographs and drawings.

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Philadelphia: Reading and Company, 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. xv, 278 pp, illustrated with portraits (many of Africans), maps, and a plan. Original dark blue cloth with bright gilt lettering and decoration. Corners rubbed and bumped, spine ends rubbed. Crease in cloth on front board. Some signatures a bit loose, but none detached. Occasional smudged pages; text otherwise unmarked. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon, and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia, which took them through Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior. Blockson 1628.

E-194: Reading & Company. Very Good. 1890. Second Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Reading and Co, Philadelphia, PA. 1890. Xv, 278 pgs. Frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Second Edition. Bound in mustard yellow cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board and decorated in black and gilt on upper cover and spine including a majestic lion s head gilt on the cover Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Reading served as a missionary to Gaboon, and later as a commercial agent for the United States. He recounts his party's journey from Philadelphia, which took them through Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, and Gold Coast. Includes some discussion of the American Colonization Society's efforts in Liberia; slaveholding in Africa; commerce along the coast and rivers; prospects for a railroad and commercial development of the interior.. "All the scenes… Read More

Philadelphia. Reading and Company, Publishers. 1890. 8vo. 23cm, first edition, xv,278p., frontis plate & 64 photographic plates, map, original dark blue decorated cloth, gilt block spine and cover titles, gilt lion illustration on the cover, presentation bookplate, small gilt parliament library stamp on the lower spine, text slightly wavy, nonetheless a very good copy (tr). ~ Travels and missionary work in West Africa: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory and Gold Coasts, Gaboon. American missionary, Joseph H. Reading was Secretary and Treasurer of the Gaboon and Corisco Mission and Acting Commercial Agent for the United States.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9.

Philadelphia: Reading & Company, 1890. 278 pages in very good, clean condition. With 65 plates. Decorative endpapers. Decorative yellow boards with gilt/black titles and illustration. Light wear on corners, head/tail of spine. Some fading and a small tear at the top edge of the upper cover. Binding tight. VG-. 2nd Edition. Hard Cover. VG-.

Binding rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped with cloth fray, pages lightly toned, few minor spots of foxing. Very good. LMM-279. Joseph H. Reading. The Ogowe Band. A Narrative of African Travel. Philadelphia: Read & Company, 1890. First edition. Octavo. xv, 278 pages. Frontispiece photo of A Tropic Home built by the author in 1882, 64 photographic plates, 3 maps, decorative initial letters and engraved tail-pieces. Color African Money plate mis-bound facing page 248. Publisher's brown cloth stamped with black designs and lion's head with gilt titles on front board, black designs and gilt lettering to spine, patterned endpapers. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, at his home in Archer City, Texas. His book, with personal brand-mark bookplate. .

Philadelphia: Reading and Co, 1890. First edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xv, [1], 278; frontispiece, portrait, 64 plates (1 in color), and 2 maps; original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and spine; slight wear, else near fine. The author is described on the title page as the late secretary of the Gabon and Corsico Mission and acting commercial agent for the U.S. "All the scenes and incidents portrayed in this book are true, the only fiction consisting in making these the experiences of the Ogowe Band instead of the author. All the descriptions of scenery were copied from diaries written upon the spot, and are as accurate as it is possible to make them" (preface).

Philadelphia: Reading and Company, 1890. First edition. With over 65 plates and 4 maps, most from photographs, including one plate of currency in colour and with some very whimsical engravings as chapter tale pieces. 8vo, publisher’s original dark-blue cloth, beautifully decorated in black and gilt on upper cover and spine including a majestic lion’s head gilt on the cover. xv, 278. A fine copy, fresh and completely free of foxing. The binding with only the lightest of age mellowing. A scarce African travel narrative and missionary account from the Secretary and Treasurer of the Gaboon and Corisco Mission and Commercial Agent for the U.S.A. Interestingly enough, the account covers in the same rich detail as Africa, visits to Liverpool and the Canary Islands. It gives light hearted accounts of Steamer travel, African Christmas dinners, and monkeys pulling down telegraph wires. On a more serious note are the missionary experiences on the gold and slave coasts, Liberia, Sierra Leone,… Read More