Sale 19JJ03 | Lot 365

THOMSON, JOSEPH To the Central African Lakes and Back: The Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's East Central African Expedition, 1878-80.

Catalogue: Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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Lot 365
THOMSON, JOSEPH To the Central African Lakes and Back: The Narrative of the Royal Geographical Society's East Central African Expedition, 1878-80.
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881. First edition. Two volumes. Publisher's brown cloth in slipcase. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches; xxiv, 320; viii, 323, 32 pp.; mounted photographic frontispieces, 2 folding maps, half-title in volume one, publisher's advertisements. Recased preserving much of the original spines, upper cover of volume one repaired, endpapers renewed, boards a bit rubbed, without the half-title in volume two, scattered foxing.
Thomson was the first European to cross the 250-mile plateau between lakes Nyasa and Tanganyika. Hilmy II, p. 285; Howgego IV, T20.


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Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11am EDT