Lot 30
  • 30

Barth, Heinrich

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: being a Journal of an Expedition in the Years 1849-1855. London: Longman, Brown, [&c.], 1857-58
  • Paper
MIXED ENGLISH EDITION, 5 volumes, volumes 1-3 second English edition, volumes 4-5 first English edition, 8vo (217 x 132mm.), half-titles in volumes 1 and 4 only, 15 folding maps, 60 tinted plates, one folding woodcut, contemporary brown polished calf, gilt, without advertisements, scattered spotting, maps repaired (no.12 restored at top edge), a little rubbed, some joints starting

Provenance

Presented by Herbert Edward Smith to Edward Bourger Smyth, inscription on front flyleaf, dated 1863

Literature

Abbey, Travel 274; Hilmy I p.53

Condition

Condition is described in the main body of the catalogue, where appropriate.
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