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Lot 270

Travels and Discoveries in North and South Africa.

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Barth, Henry. Travels and Discoveries in North and South Africa. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1857/59. 3 volumes, first American edition, original blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. 8vo. Frontispieces. Illustrated with 58 full-page wood-engraved plates and other text illustrations. With hand-colored folding route map. Light rubbing to extremities; gilt worn, vol. III boards cockled with dampstaining to flyleaves, spine cracked in vol. II; contents generally clean. Scarce. First published in German in 1857-59, and in London the same year (both in 5 volumes). This first American edition was reset and complete in 3 volumes.