Lot 26
  • 26

Andersson, Charles John

Estimate
300 - 400 GBP
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Description

  • Andersson, Charles John
  • The Okavango River: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, and Adventure. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1861
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (210 x 125mm.), [ii title], [vii]-xxii, [ii], 364pp., engraved additional title with portrait, 16 plates, coloured route map and leaf of descriptive text inserted from the American edition [no map was printed for the first edition], contemporary green calf, full gilt spine, marbled endpapers and edges, lacking half-title

Provenance

J. Lamont of Knockdow, arctic voyager and travel author, armorial bookplate

Literature

Czech (Africa), p.5; Mendelssohn I, p.66

Condition

A very good copy
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