ALEXANDER, herbert.

Boyd Alexander's Last Journey.

Stock Code 113808

London, Arnold, 1912

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With original dust wrapper. With the rare dust wrapper. 'After his efforts to journey from the Niger River to the Nile, Boyd Alexander returned to Africa travelling through the Cameroons, Nigeria, and into French Equatorial Africa where he was killed by Furian tribesmen. Herbert, his brother, obtained his journal and published it along with a memoir recounting the earlier expedition' (Czech).

First edition; 8vo; viii, 296 pp., frontispiece, 20 plates, folding map, illustrations & map in text, original blue cloth gilt, original dust wrapper, a fine copy

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