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[Africa] Set of 2 large volumes in-8, contemporary half-chag…
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[Africa] Set of 2 large volumes in-8, contemporary half-chag…
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[Africa] Set of 2 large volumes in-8, contemporary half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, all edges gilt:
1/ LIVINGSTONE (David). Explorations dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique Australe et Voyages à travers le Continent de Saint-Paul de Loanda à l'Embouchure du Zambèse de 1840 à 1856. Paris, Hachette, 1873, (3) ff, 687 pp. Angular nibbling of title and first f., scattered foxing. a few pages slightly detached.
First French edition in one volume of the translation of Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa (1857), a major work by the Scottish explorer and missionary David Livingstone (1813-1873).
2/ CAMERON (V.L.). Across Africa. Journey from Zanzibar to Benguela. Translated from the English by H. Loreau. Paris, Hachette, 1878. 4 pages, 559 pp. Scattered foxing.
First French edition of the translation of the work published in English in 1877. Verney Lovett Cameron (1844-1894), a British officer, was the first European explorer to cross Africa from east to west, from the coast of Zanzibar (Indian Ocean) to Benguela (Atlantic). His account describes the regions he crossed, the people he met and the difficulties of crossing Lake Tanganyika and Lake Bangweulu. 139 woodcuts and 4 facsimiles. Map missing.
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