Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of...
Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 2 maps (one folding), publisher's advertisements at end, previous owner's ink signature to title and frontispiece verso, spotting, strengthened hinges, original decorative cloth, neat repairs to joints and spine extremities, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.188], 1863 § Park (Mungo) & John Barrow. Travels in the Interior of Africa ... and Southern Africa, engraved folding map frontispiece and one folding map, 5 engraved plates. of which 2 folding with tears and tape repairs verso, previous owner's marginal ink signature, lacking front free endpaper, spotting, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners, Glasgow, 1815 § Bentley (Rev. W. Holman) Pioneering on the Congo, 2 vol., frontispieces, illustrations (some full-page), lacking map, spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1900 § Kearton (Cherry) & James Barnes. Through Central Africa, frontispiece, plates, previous owner's ink inscription, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1915; and others, Africa, v.s. (35).
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Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, portrait frontispiece, plates and illustrations, 2 maps (one folding), publisher's advertisements at end, previous owner's ink signature to title and frontispiece verso, spotting, strengthened hinges, original decorative cloth, neat repairs to joints and spine extremities, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners and extremities, [Hosken p.188], 1863 § Park (Mungo) & John Barrow. Travels in the Interior of Africa ... and Southern Africa, engraved folding map frontispiece and one folding map, 5 engraved plates. of which 2 folding with tears and tape repairs verso, previous owner's marginal ink signature, lacking front free endpaper, spotting, contemporary half-calf, rebacked, rubbed and worn, bumping to corners, Glasgow, 1815 § Bentley (Rev. W. Holman) Pioneering on the Congo, 2 vol., frontispieces, illustrations (some full-page), lacking map, spotting, cracked hinges, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1900 § Kearton (Cherry) & James Barnes. Through Central Africa, frontispiece, plates, previous owner's ink inscription, scattered faint spotting, original cloth, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 1915; and others, Africa, v.s. (35).
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