Lot 64
  • 64

Baines, Thomas

Estimate
500 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Baines, Thomas
  • Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an Account of a Journey... from Walvisch Bay... to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls. London: Longman, Green, [&c.], 1864
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, xiv, [ii errata], 536pp., half-title, 3 folding engraved maps hand-coloured in outline, chromolithographed frontispiece and 7 wood-engraved plates, original blindstamped dark green cloth, dark brown endpapers, slipcase

Provenance

Sir Thomas Phillipps, with his press-mark; George Edward Hignett, inscription

Literature

Czech (Africa) p.9; Hilmy I p.49

Condition

An exceptionally fine copy
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