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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Baines (Thomas)

EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls

Published: Longman, Green. Longman, Roberts & Green, London, 1864

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First Edition.535 pages (pages [390] - [457] or sections *1 - *5 are additional to the pagination making a total of 603 pages - all copies were issued thus, 3 colour folding maps, chromolithographic frontispiece 'Regiment of Flamingoes - Swakop River,' 8 engraved plates, 27 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, original blind stamped maroon cloth, titled gilt on the spine, which is very faded and worn, corners bumped, original brown endpapers with the ticket of Westleys & Co., on the rear paste-down endpaper, split at the front and rear hinges, edges uncut, contents bright.

A South African Bibliography volume 1 page 112: 5 copies listed

  • Size: 8vo (230 x 150 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country: South Africa
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