Africa: AFRICA AND ITS EXPLORATION AS TOLD BY ITS EXPLORERS:
Mungo Park - Clapperton - The Landers - Livingstone - Barth - Barkie - Burton - Speke - Schweinfurth - Grant - Nachtigal - Mohr - Stanley - Iven Capello - Serpa Pinto - Baker - Thomson, Kerr - Emin, &c. With about Five Hundred Illustrations and Maps. 2 vols., thick roy. 8vo, First Edition; Vol. I, pp. xii, 572; portrait frontispiece, large folding coloured map, 5 full-page maps, 68 full-page & numerous text illustrations; Vol. II, pp. xii, 580; portrait frontispiece, 4 full-page maps, 62 full-page plates & numerous text illustrations (in all 477 text illustrations in the two volumes), index to each vol.; original cloth (spine ends worn); a very good set. London; Sampson Low, Marston and Company, Limited; N.D. [c. 1900].
***An interesting compilation giving an overview of African exploration from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century with much taken from the explorers own journals and attractively and extensively illustrated with woodcut drawings. #6706
Click HERE to order
