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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Winwood Reade

The African Sketch-Book

Published: Smith, Elder, & Co, London, 1873

Edition: First edition

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2 volumes. First editions 1873.

Publishers green cover with black title and gilt vignette.

Gilt title with gilt vignette to spine.

Sporadic foxing.

Volume I.

The Gorilla Country.

The South Coast.

Senegambia.

xi, 483 pages.

Tissue-guarded frontispiece.

Full-page plates, in-text illustrations.

Full-page maps.

Volume II.

Golden Africa.

The Slave Coast.

Liberia.

The Swanzy Expedition.

vii, 529 pages.

6 page publishers catalogue.

Tissue-guarded frontispiece.

Full-page plates, in-text illustrations.

Full-page maps.

2 fold-out maps at rear.

Early African exploration, some big game hunting

as well as reports on slave trading regions. The

author also discovered a new route from Sierra Leone

to the River Niger crossing Africa from west to east. 

Recorded shipping weight 2000g.

Shipped and insured by recorded delivery.

  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 20 x 14.5 cm
  • Sold By: West Clare Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Tom Moloney
  • Country: Ireland
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