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1 Casati, Gaetano (Major) Ten Years in Equatoria And The Return With Emin Pasha, 2 volumes.
London and New York Frederick Warne And Co. 1891 First Edition hardcover Very Good Octavos 
Four folding maps in rear pockets (3 + 1), 60 plates in colours, tints, and black and white, numerous illustratons in the text. First Edition, pictorial brown cloth with crocidile pattern, brown coated endpapers, tips of spines repaired, rehinged. Very handsome. Casati's record of an amazing decade in the center of Africa, helping Emin Pasha, Henry Stanley, and David Livingstone among others to "civilize" the tribal areas. 
Price: 600.00 USD
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2 Henty, G. A. Out on the Pampas
London Griffith, Faran Okeden & Welsh Cloth Very Good  8vo 
Published in late 19th century, brown cloth stamped in gilt and black, slightly slanted. Publisher's 16-page catalog bound in at rear. 001909  
Price: 100.00 USD
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3 Hudson, Charles Bradford The Crimson Conquest. A Romance of Pizarro and Peru
Chicago A. C. McClurg 1907 First Edition Decorative Cloth Very Good  8vo 
003355  
Price: 40.00 USD
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4 Kent, Alexander Stand Into Danger
London Hutchinson 1980 First Edition 8vo Fine  Fine 
002408  
Price: 40.00 USD
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5 O'Brian, Patrick H.M.S. Surprise
Philladelphia Lippincott 1973 First US Edition Cloth Very good+ Very good++ 8vo 
Slight discoloration at head and foot of spine, thus vg+ in nice-looking dust jacket with just a trace of wear at spine top. A very handsoime copy, all in all. 005560 
Price: 200.00 USD
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