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AFRICA -- Hugh CLAPPERTON (1788-1827). Journal of a Second Expedition into the Interior of Africa, from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo, London: John Murray, 1829. 4° (268 x 210mm). Half title, engraved portrait frontispiece, folding engraved map, chart (some light spotting to chart and sub-title). Contemporary polished calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments with brown morocco lettering-piece (extremities lightly rubbed, upper joints splitting). FIRST EDITION.
With 6 other works on Africa in 9 volumes including Mungo Park's The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 (London, 1815, folding map laid down, modern half calf, FIRST EDITION), James Outram's The Conquest of Scinde. A Commentary (Edinburgh, 1846, BOOKPLATE OF W. E. GLADSTONE), David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (London, 1857, FIRST EDITION) and Henry M. Stanley's The Congo and the Founding of its Free State (London, 1885, 2 vols., original cloth, FIRST EDITION). (10)
With 6 other works on Africa in 9 volumes including Mungo Park's The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 (London, 1815, folding map laid down, modern half calf, FIRST EDITION), James Outram's The Conquest of Scinde. A Commentary (Edinburgh, 1846, BOOKPLATE OF W. E. GLADSTONE), David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (London, 1857, FIRST EDITION) and Henry M. Stanley's The Congo and the Founding of its Free State (London, 1885, 2 vols., original cloth, FIRST EDITION). (10)
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Livingstone's Missionary Travels is lacking one folding map at end.