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BIOGRAPHIES, AFRICAN TRAVELLERS -- OSWELL, William Edward. William Cotton Oswell. Hunter and Explorer. The Story of his Life, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900. 2 volumes, 8° (210 x 150mm). Half titles, 2 photogravure portrait frontispieces, half tone plates, illustrations, maps, including 2 folding, one coloured. Original buckram gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Nathaniel Cushing Nash (bookplate). FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
With 16 other biographies of African travellers in 18 volumes including George W. Cox's The Life of John William Colenso, DD. Bishop of Natal (London, 1888, 2 vols.), Heinrich Brode's Tippoo Tib. The Story of his Career in Central Africa (London, 1907), George C. Henderson's Sir George Grey. Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands (London, 1907), and François Le Vaillant. Traveller in South Africa (Cape Town, 1973, 2 vols.). (20)
With 16 other biographies of African travellers in 18 volumes including George W. Cox's The Life of John William Colenso, DD. Bishop of Natal (London, 1888, 2 vols.), Heinrich Brode's Tippoo Tib. The Story of his Career in Central Africa (London, 1907), George C. Henderson's Sir George Grey. Pioneer of Empire in Southern Lands (London, 1907), and François Le Vaillant. Traveller in South Africa (Cape Town, 1973, 2 vols.). (20)
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