TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA; WITH THE NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN MOZAMBIQUE.2 VOLUMES

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First Editions. Hardbacks. 2 vols, 8vos, pp viii, 341; vi, 347, (1) imprint; vignette on title-pages, portrait frontispiece (author) and folding map in rear of Vol 1, coloured lithographic frontispiece Vol 2, Original publisher's purple blind stamped cloth lettered gilt at the spine. "The author gives some account of the Cape Colony and of St Lucia, Zululand, Delagoa Bay, and the Portuguese settlements on the East Coast of Africa, together with a description of Mozambique and some details respecting the slave traffic. A full narrative is given of the seizure of the 'Charles et Georges', and of the subsequent attack of the negroes on the British Consulate." Abbey 277. Spine of firs vol slightly dulled with loss of gilt to one word, neat contemporary name on pastedown, very slight pots to a few prelinay pages else sound clean vg with second volume very good indeed with its attractive colour plate of Mozambique.

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Título

TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA; WITH THE NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IN MOZAMBIQUE.2 VOLUMES

Editor

Hurst & Blackett,, London,

Fecha de publicación

1860

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Estado

Very Good