Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls
First edition: 535 pages (pages [390] - [457] or sections *1 - *5 are additional to the pagination making a total of 603 pages - all copies were issued thus, 3 colour folding maps, chromolithographic frontispiece 'Regiment of Flamingoes - Swakop River,' 7 engraved plates, 27 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, original blind stamped green cloth – lightly rubbed, original brown endpapers with the joints replaced with cloth and preserving the binder's ticket of Edmonds & Remnants at the bottom of the rear paste-down endpaper, edges uncut, signature of a previous owner (dated Christmas 1867) on the front free endpaper, contents bright, a good copy housed in a green cloth slip case.
- Overall Condition: A good copy
- Size: 8vo (230 x 150 mm)
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