MY SECOND JOURNEY THROUGH EQUATORIAL AFRICA FROM THE CONGO TO THE ZAMBESI, In the Years 1886 and 1887. Translated from the German by Minna J.A. Bergmann

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First edition in English With a folding map by F.S.Weller and 89 Illustrations after drawings by R. Hellgrewe and Klein-Chevalier including 32 full page plates. Thick 8vo, original mustard cloth with pictorial vignettes in black on the spine and upper cover, the spine is also lettered in gilt. xiv, 326. A clean copy, sturdy and well preserved with minor age toning to the cloth, primarily at the spine panel. RARE AND ESPECIALLY SO IN COLLECTOR'S CONDITION. In the employ of the German government, Von Wissman was sent to investigate and report on the slave-trade in Africa. What followed became one of the most important works by a German on exploration, travel and ethnographic study of Equatorial Africa. "The present publication of my diaries is partly owing to the fact that the terrors incidental to the slave-hunt and the transport of the unfortunate human chattels are illustrated in the following pages and I can only hope that I may be enabled to excite the reader s interest in, and sympathy for, those nations which still groan under the yoke of barbarism, and which certainly have a right to our help and protection.,". N° de ref. del artículo 33026

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