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First Edition of Seven Years in South Africa by Dr Emil Holub, an Austrian who arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields.
First Edition of Seven Years in South Africa by Dr Emil Holub, an Austrian who arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields.
First Edition of Seven Years in South Africa by Dr Emil Holub, an Austrian who arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields.
First Edition of Seven Years in South Africa by Dr Emil Holub, an Austrian who arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields.

HOLUB, Dr. Emil.

Seven years in South Africa: Travels, researches, and hunting adventures, between the Diamond Fields and the Zambesi, 1872-79.

London, Sampson Low, 1881.

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Holub, an Austrian, arrived in South Africa in 1872 to seek his fortunes in the diamond fields. He gives accounts of pipe mining and there are illustrations of mine workings in Kimberley. On his first excursion into the interior, he travelled to the Transvaal, taking note of the countryside and native peoples. In November 1873, he started his second expedition through Bechuanaland towards the Zambesi. His third expedition in 1875 carried him to the rivers Chobe and Zambesi. One tangible result of his expeditions was the vast number of ethnographic and natural history objects which he brought back to Europe and distributed amongst various museums.

First English edition; 2 vols, 8vo; frontispiece, 58 plates, folding map (closed tears), numerous illustrations in text, original brown pictorial cloth gilt, light wear, some discolouration to lower board vol. II, a very good copy; xii, 426; xii, 479 pp.

Czech p79; Mendelssohn I, 73-74; Sinkankas 3011.

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