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Johnston, Harry Hamilton
Estimate
400 - 500 GBP
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- Johnston, Harry Hamilton
- The Kilima-Njaro Expedition. A Record of Scientific Exploration in Eastern Equatorial Africa. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1886
- paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (222 x 135mm.) xvi, 572pp., 6 maps [2 in the text, 3 coloured, including 2 folding], 14 plates [1 photogravure], original pictorial red cloth, black endpapers, slipcase
"[Johnston was] interested in the international problem of Africa and in the extension of British influence in that continent... [In 1882] Johnston penetrated alone, with great intrepidity and resource into the Congo basin, where in 1883 he won the friendship and encouragement of Sir Henry Morton Stanley... On the strength of his reports on his observations, Johnston was invited, in 1884, on behalf of the Royal Society, to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. The mission had also covert political objects... On this expedition he made valuable contributions to scientific knowledge, and effected treaties with the chiefs of local native tribes by which they accepted British protection" (DNB).
"[Johnston was] interested in the international problem of Africa and in the extension of British influence in that continent... [In 1882] Johnston penetrated alone, with great intrepidity and resource into the Congo basin, where in 1883 he won the friendship and encouragement of Sir Henry Morton Stanley... On the strength of his reports on his observations, Johnston was invited, in 1884, on behalf of the Royal Society, to undertake a scientific mission to explore Mount Kilimanjaro and its surroundings. The mission had also covert political objects... On this expedition he made valuable contributions to scientific knowledge, and effected treaties with the chiefs of local native tribes by which they accepted British protection" (DNB).
Provenance
G. Philip Rimington, bookplate
Condition
A good copy
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NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."