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CONGO -- FILIPPI, Filippo de. Ruwenzori. An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, London: Archibald Constable, 1908. 4° (255 x 185mm). Half title, coloured frontispiece, title printed in red and black, 37 half tone plates including 5 folding panoramas, 5 folding maps and tables. (Half title and title spotted, occasional light spotting.) Original red buckram gilt (rubbed and scratched). Provenance: Charterhouse prize label; R. E. Keefer (signature dated 1915 on front free endpaper).
With 7 other works of related interest in 9 volumes including Joachim John Monteiro's Angola and the River Congo (London, 1875, 2 vols.), John H. Weeks' Congo Life and Folklore (London, 1911, PRESENTATION COPY), Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg's From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile (London, 1913, 2 vols., PRESENTATION COPY TO CAPTAIN BRAITHWAITE WALLIS) and Albert R. Cook's Uganda Memories (1897-1940) (Kampala, 1945, NO. 618 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR). (10)
With 7 other works of related interest in 9 volumes including Joachim John Monteiro's Angola and the River Congo (London, 1875, 2 vols.), John H. Weeks' Congo Life and Folklore (London, 1911, PRESENTATION COPY), Adolf Friedrich, Duke of Mecklenburg's From the Congo to the Niger and the Nile (London, 1913, 2 vols., PRESENTATION COPY TO CAPTAIN BRAITHWAITE WALLIS) and Albert R. Cook's Uganda Memories (1897-1940) (Kampala, 1945, NO. 618 OF 750 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR). (10)
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