Barth - TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA,...

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Barth - TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA, 5 VOLUMES

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Henry (Heinrich) Barth

TRAVELS AND DISCOVERIES IN NORTH AND CENTRAL AFRICA BEING A JOURNAL OF AN EXPEDITION UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE AUSPICES OF H.B.M.’S GOVERNMENT IN THE YEARS 1849-1855

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1857-1858

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 8vo, original green publisher’s cloth with gilt, all plates tinted lithographs, ex library Toronto Natural History Society library with library stamps and one pastedown on eps, faded circle on spine from removed library mark, soiling on text block edge, head- and tailcap worn, foxing and tanning in pre- and endlims, plates with foxing and offsetting, maps with foxing, age toning and offsetting

Volume I
xxxvi + 578 + [ii] 24 + pub cat pp, frontis + 11 plates + 6 folding maps; pen ink on front board, top 5cm of front joint split and part of spine cover loose, front and back hinge cracked

Volume II
xi + 676pp, frontis + 7 plates + two folding maps; 2cm closed tear at top of spine, front and back hinge cracked, foxing and tanning in pre- and endlims, one plate loose

Volume III
xi + 635pp, frontis + 15 plates + 3 folding maps + one folding plan; 1m tear at top of front joint, ffep and frontis loose, half title absent

Volume IV
xiv + 641 + 24 pub cat pp, frontis + 11 plates + 2 folding maps, one folding map with 2 tears from hinge of which the longest 3cm

Volume V
[xi] + 694pp, frontis + 9 plates + 2 folding maps, contents pages unopened, two 1cm tears at hinge of one folding map
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PROVENANCE
Jürgen Witt Collection