Livingstone & Stanley, et.al - Great Travellers in Africa & Africa and Its Exploration - 1892-1895

A Two Volume Companion Set.
A scarce and unique set in lovely condition.

Volume one - full title
"Great Travellers in Africa from
Herodotus and Ptolemy to
Stanley and Livingstone".
With Maps and Illustrations.
Published by The Methodist Times,
London 1895.
Livingstone portrait and large
fold-out map are facsimile.
Using information from the various authors, the following
chapters chart the historical exploration of Africa from the
earliest maps and written work, with pictures of Phoenician
sailing ships and routes.

Volume two - full title.
"Africa and its Exploration
As told by its Explorers.
Mungo Park, Clapperton, The Landers, Livingstone, Barth, Barkie,
Burton, Speke, Schweinfurth, Grant, Nachtigal, Mohr, Stanley,
Iven, Capello, Serpa Pinto, Baker, Thomson, Kerr, Emin, &c."
With about 500 illustrations and maps.
Published by Sampson Low, Marston and Company,
London 1892.

Professionally bound in burgundy half-leather over
burgundy cloth.
Gilt titles and gilt bands to spine.
Mottled page-blocks.
New endpapers.

Volume 1:
xii, 572 pages.
68 full-page plates.
6 full-page maps.
In-text illustrations and maps.
Earliest explorers; the Portuguese and their followers; African explorers of the 18th Century; African Explorers of the early part of the 19th Century, Livingstone, Edward Mohr - the region south of the Zambesi; Emil Holub - the Zambesi Region; Walter Montagu Kerr - Through Zambesi - Livingstonia - Blantyre - Quillimane; Serpa Pinto; The Barotse Country.

Volume II:
xii, 580 pages.
62 full-page plates.
4 full-page maps
In-text illustrations and maps.
Farini - The Kalahari Desert; the Orange River. Burton - Among the Fan Cannibals; A specimen day with the Fan Cannibals; Mr, Mrs and Master Gorilla; The Congo in 1863; The Yellala of the Congo. Livingstone and Stanley on Lake Tanganyika ; Stanley: Lake Victoria Nyanza; In Uganda; Life and manners in Uganda; Karagwe and its gentle King; Ujiji and Tanganyika; the river that flowed North; Down the Congo to the Atlantic; the Death of Frank Pocock; Thomson - Masai Land.

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