Élisée Reclus

AFRICA and its Inhabitants

Edited by A. H. Keane. Illustrated by numerous engravings and maps

Published: H. Virtue and Company, London, ca.1890

Edition: First edition

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8 half-volumes.

Burgundy buckram boards with gilt lines on cover.

Decorative bands and gilt titles on spine.

Triple gilt page edges. Plates and frontispiece with tissue-guards.

2 sections in each volume with continuous pagination.

Double and single-page maps throughout the set.

Volume I.

Section I. 248 pages + frontispiece + 19 plates + 91 in-text illustrations.

Tripolitana; The Aujila Oases; The Kufra Oases ; The Great Syrtis and Tropolitana Seaboard; 

Fezzan; Ghadames; Rhát; Tunisia; Algeria.

Section II. 255 pages + frontispiece + 20 plates + 114 in-text illustrations. 

Marocco; The Sahaha; Western Saraha

Volume II.

Section I. 264 pages + frontispiece + 15 plates + 116 in-text illustrations.

Cenrtal & South Atlantic; West African Islands; South-west African Islands;

North Senegambia: Senegal & French Sudan; South Senegambia, Upper Guinea.

Section II. 248 pages + frontispiece + 19 plates + 143 in-text illustrations.

The Niger Basin & British Sudan; The Tsad Basin; The Cameroons; The Congo Basin;

The Gaboon and Ogoway Basins.

Volume III.

Section I. 256 pages + frontispiece + 26 plates + 85 in-text illustrations.

General Survey; Nile Basin; British Uganda Protectorate - Region of the Great Lakes;

Upper Nile Tributaries; Sobat & Yal Basins, Abyssinia [Ethiopia]; Shoa, Danakil and North

Galla States; Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Upper Nubia.

Section II. 238 pages + frontispiece + 13 plates + 51 in-text illustrations.

Anglo-Egyptian Sudan continued - Kordofán, Dar Fór, Nubia; Egypt.

Volume IV.

Section I. 256 pages + frontispiece + 22 plates + 74 in-text illustrations.

Portuguese West Africa; German South-West Africa [Damara and Namaqua Lands]; 

The Orange and Limpopo Basin, Cape Colony and its Dependencies; Natal and Zululand;

The late Boer States and Portuguese possessions south of the Limpopo; Portuguese

possessions north of the Limpopo; Northern & Southern Rhodesia - Zambese Basin.

Section II. 248 pages + frontispiece + 14 plates + 73 in-text illustrations.

Mozambique - Portuguese possessions north of the Zambese; German East Africa and 

Zanzibar; British East Africa - East Africa Protectorate, Somali and East Galla Lands;

East African Islands.

Recorded shipping weight 9000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.

  • Binding Condition: very good
  • Overall Condition: very good
  • Size: 27.5 x 19 cm.
  • Sold By: West Clare Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Tom Moloney
  • Country: Ireland
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 0657087803
  • Preferred Payment Methods: Credit Cards - PayPal - Cheque.
  • Trade Associations: AA Approved


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