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Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 237

Group of 9 Works in 12 Volumes on Travel and Exploration in Africa.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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[Africa] Group of 9 Works in 12 Volumes on Travel and Exploration in Africa. Including Angola and the River Congo (Macmillan, 1875), two vols., map, plates; Ismailia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slaves Trade (Harper & Bros., 1875), plates, color map, pict. gilt cloth [spine and top cover edge sunned]; Seven Years Among the Fjort (Samson Low, 1887), folding map, plates; Reynard the Fox in South Africa (Trubner & Co., 1864), half-title; The Great Thirst Land (Cassett Petter, n.d.; second ed.), frontis.; Great Zimbabwe (Dutton, 1905), frontis., plates, folding map; Travels in Africa (Chapman and Hall, 1891), three vols. [one well-worn], plates, folding map; My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa (Chatto & Windus, 1891), plates, folding map; and Timbuctoo the Mysterious (Longmans, 1896), plates and illustrations, including maps. Overall good condition; ex-library copies with markings, library pockets, stamps, annotations; should be examined.