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About the product First American edition: The British first edition was published by John Murray in the preceding year. 8vo; original brown pebbled cloth, ornately blocked in blind to boards, and lettered in gilt on spine; pp. 426 + publisher's catalogue; folding frontis.; folding map; numerous plates and illustrations in text. Cover very worn and bumped; binding shaken; bottom fore-corner torn from front free endpaper; moderate foxing throughout; trace of damp-stain to gutters, becoming more extensive in the rear endpaper, appendix and final leaves. (Tenri Africana 2045; Mendelssohn I, p. 518) Pioneering account of all aspects of life in Madagascar at the time, detailing particularly the efforts of Ellis to establish a mission on behalf of the London Missionary Society. The ethnographical and natural history plates are a special feature, and the author's love of gardening is evident in the attention paid to the island's botany. William Ellis: Three Visits to Madagascar, during the Years 1853-1854-1856. Including A Journey to the Capital; with Notices of the Natural History of the Country and of the Present Civilization of the People

About the product Crown 8vo; original red cloth blocked in gilt and black; pp. 259, incl. index; frontis. portrait. Backstrip a little tanned; edges a little browned; Very good condition. Besides the poems, which take up around two hundred pages, the book provides a"biographical sketch of fifty-four pages following Conder, Ritchie, the Narrative, and a few later writers, such as Meurant."- John Robert Doyle: Thomas Pringle, p. 182.

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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Author Amy S. Greenberg, Thomas J Balcerski, Douglas R Egerton, Matthew Pinsker, William P. MacKinnon, Frank Towers, Joan Cashin, John David Smith, Michael Green, James Oakes Publisher Lsu Press Release date 20190521 Pages 298 ISBN 0-8071-7081-X ISBN 13 978-0-8071-7081-6