The Land of the Midnight Sun:

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VG, 1899, New Edition, complete. In the original blue pictorial cloth, red titles, rounded corners, corners & edges bumped & worn. Spine, gilt titles, edges bumped. Internally, frontis, [2], (ii-vii), [1], 759 pp, [1], 1 pl (folding), 33 full page illustrations, 219 illustrations within text, a.e.g. A very good copy, clean & tight. (Folio, 167*240 mm). Chaillu, was a French-American traveler, zoologist, & anthropologist. He became famous in the 1860s as the first modern European outsider to confirm the existence of gorillas, & later the Pygmy people of central Africa. He later researched the prehistory of Scandinavia.