including a Sketch of Sixteen Years' Residence in the Interior of Africa, and a Journey from the Cape of Good Hope to Loanda on the West Coast; thence across the Continent, down the River Zambezi, to the Eastern Ocean.
London, John Murray, 1857
First edition; 8vo, x, 687 pp., folding wood-engraved frontispiece, engraved portrait (stained), 2 folding maps, 22 full-page wood-engraved plates, folding plan, illustrations in the text, original brown blind-stamped cloth gilt, couple of fade marks to covers else a fine copy.
Abbey Travel 347; Howgego L39; Mendelssohn I, p.908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341.
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