192 pages, chromolithographic frontispiece, 4 chromolithographic plates, 6 etchings (plates), 6 full-page and 40 smaller engravings, 2 colour maps - 1 large folding, original blue pictorial cloth gilt with bevelled boards, top edge gilt, a very good copy.
All of the illustrations 'are produced from the author's original sketches in pencil, water-colour, pen and ink, or sepia.'
Author’s preface. Bateman served as Captain and Adjutant of Gendarmerie in the Congo Free State, and undertook this journey to explore the upper reaches of the Congo River system. 'I have endeavoured to make my remarks as to house-building, planting, and some few processes, game and hunting, and administrative and military routine, as full, explicit, and practical ... In the cause of humanity and philanthropy of the missionary and honest trader, I have endeavoured to expose the covert slave-trade carried on by the Angolese subjects of Portugal.'
- Overall Condition: A Very Good Copy
- Size: 8vo (235 x170 mm)
- Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
- Contact Person: Paul Mills
- Country: South Africa
- Email: [email protected]
- Telephone: 021 794 0600
- Preferred Payment Methods: Visa & Mastercard via PayGate secure links and Bank transfers.
- Trade Associations: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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