Purple publisher's cloth, with gorilla illustrated in gilt. later issue Although the copyright page says 1867, and the title page says 1872, Peter Parley to Penrod says the copyright was actually received by the Library of Congress on January 3, 1868. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1872. Du Chaillu sold his hunted gorillas to the Natural History Museum in London and his "cannibal skulls" to other European collections. A subsequent expedition, from 1863 to 1865, enabled him to confirm the accounts given by the ancients of a pygmy people inhabiting the African forests. He brought back dead specimens, and presented himself as the first white person to have seen them. During his travels from 1856 to 1859 he observed numerous gorillas, known to non-locals in prior centuries only from an unreliable report by Hanno the Navigator of Carthage in the 5th century BC, and known to scientists in the preceding years only by a few skeletons. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas and the Pygmy people of central Africa. Paul Belloni du Chaillu (1835-1903) was a French-American traveler and anthropologist. Binding is tight with heavy wear to the boards with frayed edges & torn spine page edges are soiled with some age toning to the pages. Decorative Victorian binding with embossed gilt designs and gilt lettering.
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