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Tue, Jun 26, 2018 08:30PM EDT
Lot 238

Shelf of Antiquarian Travel and Exploration Works on Africa.

Estimate: $600 - $900

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[Africa] Shelf of Antiquarian Travel and Exploration Works on Africa. Including The Albert N?Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile (Macmillan, 1867), two vols., gilt pictorial cloth, folding map, plates; The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia (Macmillan, 1872), two maps, plates; From Sphinx to Oracle (1899); A Pilgrimate to Egypt, Embracing a Diary Explorations on the Nile (Gould and Lincoln, 1852), frontis., engr. plates; The Great Sahara: Wanderings South of the Atlas Mountains (John Murray, 1860), maps, frontis., plates [several loose gatherings at start]; A Mission to Gelele, King of Dahome (1893), two vols., pict. cloth; Central Africa: Naked Truths and Naked People (Harper, 1877), frontis., map, plates; Algeria and Tunis in 1845 (1846), two vols., presentation copy inscribed ?from the author? to Lady Harries on the first vol. title page [spines perished]; Adventures of Gaudentio di Lucca (London, 1748); Travels in Western Africa (1847), two vols; Ruined Cities within Numidian and Carthaginian Territories (1862); Carthage and Tunis (1869); Journey to the Zoolu Country (1836); Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa (Philadelphia, 1829), fold. map; and three vols. of Ellis? travels to Madagascar. A collection in uneven condition, several damaged and in need of repairs; should be examined, sold as is.