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OATES, Frank.

Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls,

a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa. From the letters and journals of the late Frank Oates. F.R.G.S.

Stock Code
106611
London, Kegan Paul, 1881
£1,650

The author went to Natal in 1873, and made his way overland to the Zambesi; he was one of the first Europeans to see the Victoria Falls in full flood, but he died shortly afterwards of a tropical fever.

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Description

First edition. 8vo., xliiii, 383pp., portrait frontispiece, four folding maps, 6 chromolithograph plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations in text, natural history appendix with ten plates (9 hand-coloured) after Keulemanns (2) and others, original grey pictorial cloth gilt, neatly rebacked preserving spine, a very good copy.

Bibliography

Czech p124; Mendelssohn II, p112.

Stock ID:106611

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