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Reclus, Elisée : Africa and its Inhabitants. Illustrated by Numerous Engravings and Maps. Vol. I

(London: J. S. Virtue & Co., [ca 1898])

A component of 'The Earth and its Inhabitants: The Universal Geography', edited largely by A. H. Keane, though the set from which these books are drawn was evidently issued strictly as 'Africa and its Inhabitants'. Volume One of 'Africa and its Inhabitants', offered here, comprises two books, and is devoted to North-West Africa. Two 4to volumes; maroon cloth over boards, with ornate panelled effect to gilt-lettered spines, which are blocked in gilt and black; a.e.g.; pp. (ii) + 248 + (iv), (viii) + [249-504]; some maps in colours; plates with tissue-guards; numerous engravings and maps in text. Cloth a little worn; spines darkened, and somewhat worn; earlier owner's name (with the date 1st Sept. 1899) to verso of front free endpaper in second book; some foxing and light soiling to endpapers and outermost leaves, occasional fox spot elsewhere; one or two tissue-guards working loose. Good condition. Elisée Reclus (1830-1905) was a French author, scientific geographer, and disciple of anarchism. His magnum opus was 'La Nouvelle Géographie universelle' (The Universal Geography), which was first published in the early 1890s, an English edition appearing around the same time. A key attribute of the work, apart from the excellent ethnographic illustrations, is the author's sense of the place occupied by tribal people in their natural environment, enabling them to live meaningful, self-sustaining lives without interference from outside parties.

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