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H. Ling Roth. Great Benin. Its Customs, Art and Horrors. Halifax: F. King & Sons, Ltd., 1903....
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Description
First Edition, Limited to 320 Copies
H. Ling Roth. Great Benin. Its Customs, Art and Horrors. Halifax: F. King & Sons, Ltd., 1903.First edition limited to 320 copies for sale. Octavo. xii, 234, xxxii pages. Profusely illustrated.
Original crimson cloth over beveled boards with gilt vignette on the front board and titles stamped in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. Modest shelf wear to the extremities; contents sound. Former owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. A handsome copy in very good condition. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.
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2010 February Signature Rare Books Auction #6038 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
February, 2010
11th-12th
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