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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Petermann (Augustus)

AN ACCOUNT OF THE PROGRESS OF THE EXPEDITION TO CENTRAL AFRICA

Published: London, 1854

Edition: First edition

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Performed by order of Her Majesty's Foreign Office,

Under Messrs. Richardson, Barth, Overweg & Vogel,

In the years 1850, 1851, 1852, and 1853.

Consisting of maps and illustrations, with descriptive notes,

Constructed and compiled from official and private materials by Augustus Petermann, F.R.G.S.,

First edition: Elephant Folio, 14 pages of letterpress, tinted lithograph frontispiece with portraits of the four explorers and a map, 2 large lithographed maps – 1 folding of Central Africa, library stamp on the title page, brown cloth boards titled gilt on the upper cover, both covers with blind tooled decoration, starting to wear at the hinges, a good copy.

Augustus Petermann, F.R.G.S., Honorary or Corresponding Member of the Geographical Societies of Berlin, Paris, and Frankfort, Physical Geographer to the Queen.

The four explorers were James Richardson, an abolitionist missionary; Heinrich Barth, a German explorer; Adolf Overweg, a German geologist and astronomer and Eduard Vogel, also a German explorer;

Heinrich Barth, Feb. 16, 1821, Hamburg - Nov. 25, 1865, Berlin was German geographer and one of the great explorers of Africa. Early in 1850, with the explorer James Richardson and the geologist and astronomer Adolf Overweg, he set out from Tripoli across the Sahara on a British-sponsored expedition to the western Sudan (a term then in use for most of central West Africa).

When Richardson died a year later in what is now northern Nigeria, Barth assumed command. He explored the area south and southeast of Lake Chad and mapped the upper reaches of the Benue River. Overweg died in September 1852, and Barth traveled to the city of Timbuktu, now in Mali. He remained there for six months before returning, via Tripoli, to London (1855).

Despite ill health and the loss of his colleagues, he had traveled some 10,000 miles (16,000 km), laid down accurate routes by dead reckoning, and returned to Europe with the first account of the middle section of the Niger River. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Heinrich-Barth

London : Published for the author by E. Stanford, 6, Charing Cross ; Gotha : Justus Perthes, 1854.

  • Overall Condition: A good copy
  • Size: Elephant Folio (600 x440mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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