EXPLORATIONS IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Baines (Thomas)

Description:

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.

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,' 7 engraved plates, 27 wood-engraved illustrations in the text, original blind stamped mauve cloth – faded and simply repaired at the top of the spine, corners bumped, front hinge splitting but firm, a bookplate on both front paste-down and free endpapers, fore-edges uncut, signature of a previous owner (dated 1867) at the head of the contents pages, contents bright.

Details:

  • Publisher: Longman, Green Longman, Roberts, & Green
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1864
  • Edition: First edition
  • Binding Condition: Fair
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 8vo (230 x 150 mm)
  • Lot No: 153
  • Hammer Price: $1103
  • Bids: 14
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  • Estimate: $700/800
  • Reserve: $550

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