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1867 Rare 6 Book Lot Paul du Chaillu Gorillas Jungle Ap

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1867 Rare 6 Book Lot Paul du Chaillu Gorillas Jungle Apingi Harding South Africa

A fine collection of rare books including a rare set of works of Paul du Chaillu. Chaillu was a well-recognized zoologist and voyager who published a number of fictional works based on his discovery of animals and Pygmy people in Central Africa. He is most remembered for his ‘discovery’ of the gorilla, a feat which he portrayed in his work ‘Stories of the Gorilla Country’.

Item number: #4409

Price: $499

Main author: Paul du Chaillu

Title: Stories of the Gorilla Country

Published: New York: Harper & Bros., 1867.

Main author: Paul du Chaillu

Title: Wild Life Under the Equator

Published: New York: Harper & Bros., 1868.

Main author: Paul du Chaillu

Title: Lost in the Jungle

Published: New York: Harper & Bros., 1869.

Main author: Paul du Chaillu

Title: My Apingi Kingdom

Published: New York: Harper & Bros., 1870.

Main author: Paul du Chaillu

Title: The Country of the Dwarfs

Published: New York: Harper & Bros., 1871.

Main author: William Harding

Title: War in South Africa and the Dark Continent

Published: Chicago: Dominion Co., 1899

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