Purvis, J B: Through Uganda to Mount Elgon

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Purvis, J B : Through Uganda to Mount Elgon

T Fisher Unwin, 1909

Library binding, scarring and markings. The boards are slightly rubbed. Internally mostly clean and tightly bound. The map is present.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

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Purvis, J. B : Through Uganda to Mount Elgon

(London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1909)

8vo; original pictorial cloth; pp. 371, incl. index; photographic plates; folding map. Ex-library copy, with penned code to tail of spine, and hand-stamps and accession notes to front endpaper, likewise to verso of title-leaf; cloth mottled, sunned, and slightly worn to extremities; tear to fore-edge of two preliminary leaves, not affecting text; spotting to edges, and occasionally elsewhere. Good. (Hess & Coger 2521, Lewin: Royal Empire Society Catalogue, Vol. 1, p. 193) John Bremner Purvis (1871-1957) was also the author of 'A Manual of Lumasaba Grammar' and 'Handbook to British East Africa and Uganda'. In 'Through Uganda to Mount Elgon' he presents many worthwhile observations on the ethnography of the region, with excellent photographs.

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