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BARTH, Henry

Travels and discoveries in North and Central Africa:

being a journal of an expedition undertaken under the auspices of H.B.M's Government, in the years 1849-1855

Stock Code
106457
London, Ward Lock, 1857
£275

'Barth is one of the European superstars of African travel and exploration. Disguised as a Muslim scholar, Barth spent five years ranging widely and freely over northern, central, and western Africa and returned with much useful information about the region's culture and economy'(John Delaney, To the Mountains of the Moon).

this 2-volume edition Minerva Library edition is perfectly readable and handsomely bound.

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Description

2 vols, 8vo, xviii, 548; xxxii, 608 pp., 16 full-page plates, engravings in the text, contemporary red half calf gilt, green morocco labels, a very good set.

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