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XViii + 546 pages inc a 9 page index and Latin glossary at rear 16 full page tinted litho plates of game and tribes people by J. Wolf engraved by Hansart. + Folding Map at rear of the Damara & Great Namaqua regions, Original cloth faded at spine and thinning at edges, with some edge rubbing and corners bumped, embossed gilt motif of Hippo & Rhino on covers, uncut edges. Some foxing to plates and a little also to some pages, but light, tissue guards to each plate, original yellow endpapers, old small ink inscription top edge of endpaper "James Lea. Alkington Hall [Shropshire, now a farmhouse] & the lozenge shaped blind stamp of J. Galt Booksellers to the Queen, Manchester. A clean tight copy in original cloth Rare. [See Czech, Howgego, Mendlessohn & Sahib Bibliographies. NOT in Abbey] *Lake N'gami is now a seasonal marsh at best today, in 1853 this intrepid explorer set out to reach this lake and then he continued to Okavango, but turned back and went two years later. "Few if any books give such a descriptive and full narrative of Namaqualand, Damaraland, and the Ovampo country, his observations on the fauna in unequalled, many hunting episodes are described fully with illustrations in the text depicting some and the plates others. Crown Octavo 1856. The American edition lacks the plates, only produced as woodcuts. This 2nd edition was printed the same year as the first and little difference exists. Both are SCARCE. A Cornerstone African Exploration title. Seller Inventory # 7022
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