Lake Ngami

Edition limited to 750 numbered copies. Numbers 1-50 are specially bound in de luxe style. This is No. 31.  Africana Collectanea series, number XXIV.  Text facsimile of the Hurst and Blackett second edition of 1856.  8vo; brown half leatherette with lighter brown sides, gilt lettering pieces to second compartment and publisher's gilt device to upper board; pp. (vi) + xviii + 546, incl. index; several plates; engravings in text; large, folding map. Light browning to edges and endpapers; occasional fox spot; short, marginal tear to folding map, repaired on reverse side with paper tape. Very good condition.

(Czech: Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785-1999, p. 6 [Hurst and Blackett edition of 1856]) "The following Narrative of Explorations and Discoveries during four years in the wilds of the South-Western parts of Africa, contains an account of two expeditions in that continent between the years 1850 and 1854.  In the first of these journeys, the countries of the Damaras (previously all but unknown in Europe) and of the Ovambo (till now a terra incognita) were explored; in the second, the newly-discovered Lake Ngami, was reached by a route that had always been deemed impracticable.  It is more than probable that this route (the shortest and best) will be adopted as the one by which commerce and civilization may eventually find their way to the Lake regions.  The first journey was performed in company with Mr. Francis Galton, to whom we are indebted for a work on 'Tropical South Africa;' on the second, the Author was alone, and altogether dependent on his own very scanty resources."