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PAUL BELLONI CHAILLU (1831-1903)
Explorations & Adventures in Equitorial Africa. London: W. Clowes & Sons for John Murray, 1861. 8° (222 x 140mm.). 32pp. publisher's advertisements. Wood-engraved folding frontispiece, title vignette and 27 plates, one folding lithographic map, numerous illustrations. (Map torn at fold.) Original brown cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (extremities bumped, small tears to joints and head and foot of spine). FIRST EDITION.
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894). Across Africa. London: Virtue & Co. for Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. Half-titles, 12pp. publisher's advertisements. 47 plates (43 wood-engravings, 4 tinted lithographs [3 of these folding]), one map with some handcolouring folded in pocket at rear of vol.I. (Map somewhat browned.) Original blue cloth, upper covers and spines blocked in gilt. FIRST EDITION.
And four others, three complete works and one odd volume (Hermann W.L.L. von WISSMANN. My Second Journey through Equitorial Africa... Translated from the German. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. 8°. Original cloth; Edward MOHR. To the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi. Translated from the German.London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1876. 8°. Original cloth; Boyd ALEXANDER. Boyd Alexander's Last Journey with a memoir by Herbert Alexander. London: 1912. 8°. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION; Wilhelm JUNKER. Travels in Africa during the years 1879-1883. London: Chapman & Hall, 1891. Volume II only (of 3), 8°. Original cloth). (7)
Explorations & Adventures in Equitorial Africa. London: W. Clowes & Sons for John Murray, 1861. 8° (222 x 140mm.). 32pp. publisher's advertisements. Wood-engraved folding frontispiece, title vignette and 27 plates, one folding lithographic map, numerous illustrations. (Map torn at fold.) Original brown cloth, blocked in gilt and blind (extremities bumped, small tears to joints and head and foot of spine). FIRST EDITION.
Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894). Across Africa. London: Virtue & Co. for Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1877. Half-titles, 12pp. publisher's advertisements. 47 plates (43 wood-engravings, 4 tinted lithographs [3 of these folding]), one map with some handcolouring folded in pocket at rear of vol.I. (Map somewhat browned.) Original blue cloth, upper covers and spines blocked in gilt. FIRST EDITION.
And four others, three complete works and one odd volume (Hermann W.L.L. von WISSMANN. My Second Journey through Equitorial Africa... Translated from the German. London: Chatto & Windus, 1891. 8°. Original cloth; Edward MOHR. To the Victoria Falls of the Zambezi. Translated from the German.London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1876. 8°. Original cloth; Boyd ALEXANDER. Boyd Alexander's Last Journey with a memoir by Herbert Alexander. London: 1912. 8°. Original cloth. FIRST EDITION; Wilhelm JUNKER. Travels in Africa during the years 1879-1883. London: Chapman & Hall, 1891. Volume II only (of 3), 8°. Original cloth). (7)
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