Africa

First edition, 8vo, xxxi, [1], 658 pp., 32 pages ads at end (one dated April june 1863), engraved frontispiece portrait of Speke (lightly foxed), engraved portrait of Grant, 24 engraved plates, 2 maps (1 folding), illustrations in text, original brown cloth gilt, gilt pictorial vignette to upper cover, light wear, an excellent copy.

First edition, 8vo, Original terracotta sand-grain cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers. Folding tinted lithograph frontispiece, and 22 other plates including lithograph opposite page 225, illustrations to the text, 3 folding maps, one of them in pocket at end. A fine copy.

First edition, folio, 78pp., tinted portrait frontispiece and half-title with portrait of Theodore, numerous engraved plates, original pictorial gilt red straight-grained cloth, bevelled edges, neat repairs to spine, lightly marked, an excellent copy.

First edition. 4to, xvi, 287 [i] pp., two engraved folding maps, 11 aquatint plates (2 in colour), several folding, glossary at end, scattered light foxing, offsetting from plates, contemporary tree calf, sometime rebacked, red morocco lettering piece, a very good copy.

First edition. 8vo, [viii], 123 pp., original green cloth blocked and lettered in black, light toning, lightly rubbed, a very good copy.

First edition, 8vo, xvi, 397 pp., original blue cloth gilt, pictorial gilt vignette to upper cover, bevelled edges, neat repairs to hinges and spine extremities, lightly soiled. a very good copy.

First edition. 8vo., viii, 322 pp., folding map frontispiece, 8 full-page wood-engraved plates, illustrations in text, original pebble-grained blue cloth gilt, neat repair to lower joint, an excellent example.

First edition. 16mo, 64 pp., wood-engraved folding map by E. Whymper, original red printed pictorial boards, an excellent example.

First Irish edition. 2 vols in one, 12mo, xiii, [1 (blank)], 146; (147)-310 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece by Bartolozzi, contemporary calf, smooth spine panelled by gilt fillets, dark maroon morocco label gilt, bound as issued with no separate title page to second volume (both pagination and register are continuous through the volumes), nice copy.

4to (25.75 x 21 cm), 111 leaves typed on recto only, finely bound by Riviere & Son for Henry Sotheran, polished half calf gilt, spine in six compartments, green morocco labels to second and third, others richly gilt, raised bands, top edge gilt.