gilt pictorial cover & spine decorations
including numerous which can only be considered stereotypical and racist
and of varying sizes and finishes
" "Instrument of Torture used by Slaveholders
Found here in very early (likely original) marbled paper soft-cover temporary bindings from the publisher
Asante British Guyana 1884 Royal Geographic Society Stanford periodical w/ maps World's Fair gilt pictorial cover & spine(Old Books, 19th Century Books, Periodicals, Royal Geographic Society, Sciences, Himalayas, Travel, British Guyana, Mountaineering, Asante, Mount Roraima, Mount Kukenam). Proceedings of the Royal Geographic Society and Monthly Record of Geography. Published August 1884, London by Edward Stanford. Page count starts p. 429 ends with p. 488. Text in English. Front cover only, no rear cover disbound from a sammelband. Folding maps at rear as issued