Lot 569
  • 569

GROGAN, EWART S., AND ARTHUR H. SHARP

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
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Description

  • From the Cape to Cairo. The First Traverse of Africa from South to North. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1900
  • paper
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, 8vo (237 x 170mm.), xvi, 378pp., [ii pp. adverts], 3 maps [2 folding coloured], 48 plates [9 photographic], 68 text illustrations [22 photographic], original pictorial ochre cloth, top edge gilt, printed dust-jacket, slipcase

A fine presentation copy, inscribed by the author "To Sir Henry M. Stanley the greatest of Africa's sons with best wishes from Ewart S. Grogan".

Provenance

Henry M. Stanley, presentation inscription and bookplate

Literature

Czech (Africa) p.69; Mendelssohn (1979) II, p.450

Condition

A fine copy
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