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[Africa] BARTH, Henri (doctor). Travels and discoveries in n…
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[Africa] BARTH, Henri (doctor). Travels and discoveries in n…
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[Africa] BARTH, Henri (doctor). Travels and discoveries in northern and central Africa during the years 1849 to 1855... Translated from the German by Paul Ithier. Paris, Firmin-Didot & Bruxelles et Leipzig, Lacroix, Verboeckhoven, 1863. 4 volumes in-8, full modern taupe cloth, leather title page, covers preserved. 370 pp, (1) f; 318 pp, (1) f; 337 pp, (1) f; 304 pp, (1) f. Freckles to frontispieces, 2 plates with gaps, int. fresh.
Portrait of the author at the head of volume I, 4 coloured frontispieces (Taepe, junction of the Benouë and Faro rivers, 13 June 1851. - Herd of elephants near Lake Tsad, 25 September 1851. - Entering Timbuktu, 7 September 1853. - Ashenoumma, 17 June 1855), 53 plates out of text and a large folding map in colour.
Second French edition of this important and rare travel account. Henri Barth (1821-1865), a German explorer and geographer, was one of the greatest travellers of his time. As a member of the Richardson Expedition, he travelled across the Sahara, Sudan and the Chad Basin, spending several years in Timbuktu and the kingdoms of Bornou and Sokoto.
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