FOUR THOUSAND MILES OF AFRICAN TRAVEL

Southworth (Alvan S.)

Description:

Book Description: xi + 381pp. Original dark green cloth with bevelled edges. Bright gilt rules and large gilt pictorial vignette on upper board. Bright gilt spine titles. Includes a folding map of slave trade routes. Numerous excellent tissue-guarded illustrations.

Book Condition: Ex Library with minimal stamps and markings. Not circulated. Some light fraying to cloth on corners and spine extremeties. Otherwise Very good condition

Southworth, Secretary of the American Geographical Society, traveled through Egypt and the Sudan with a trip up the Nile. He comments on life and conditions in the region, notes the slave trade, meeting Lady Florence Baker, and observations of the Nile region.

Southworth's obituary in The New York Times described him as "an old-time newspaper man, traveler, and author," who was "a man of brilliant attainments and with acquaintances ranging from Princes to the habitues of lodging houses." This work is the result of an expedition that the New York Herald sent him on, from which he turned in the largest expense bill ever submitted to a newspaper, reputedly between forty and fifty thousand dollars. He died penniless.

Details:

  • Publisher: Baker, Pratt & Co
  • Publisher Place: New York
  • Date of Publication: 1875
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 217mm x 152mm x 32mm
  • Lot No: 250
  • Hammer Price: $184
  • Bids: 12
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  • Estimate: $200/300
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