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The Country of the Dwarfs [SIGNED]
New York: Harper and Brothers.
Hardcover. Near Fine. Later printing, c. 1890s. 314 pp, with 24 illustrations and a sketch map of part of western Africa. Inscribed with a line from the text and signed and dated by Du Chaillu in December 1900. Spine toned but fully legible, with mild wear to the tips; else a fine copy. Du Chaillu was a prolific traveler and anthropologist who gained fame in the 1860s as the first modern outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas. Later he was first to describe the Pygmy people of central Africa (a report received with much skepticism). This book is an account of Du Chaillu's second trip to Africa, in 1863, on which he concerned himself primarily with studying native culture. Signed copies are rare. Although it is not marked as such, this copy comes from the library of Kermit Roosevelt.
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