2341 - 2618: [Africa]. Krapf, J.L.

68 2354 Africa Krapf J L

68/2354 [Africa]. Krapf, J.L. Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours, During an Eighteen Years' Residence in Eastern Africa. Together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, and Khartum; and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado. With an Appendix respecting the Snow-Capped Mountains of Eastern Africa (...). By E.G. Ravenstein. London, Trübner and Co.,1860, 1st Engl. ed., LI,(3),566p., steelengr. frontisp., 2 fold. (tinted) maps, 10 (of 12) col. lithogr. views/ plates, contemp. gilt hcalf w. black mor. letterpiece.

- Lacks 2 views (Tajurra and Mombaz); all plates dampstained in top and occas. lower margin (partly affecting images); one plate sm. tear just touching image; large fold. map outer sections reattached along fold. Top of upper joint starting.

= First published by the author in German in 1858, this first English edition brought Krapf the esteem that he deserved. His journals formed the basis for the famous travellers that subsequently explored East Africa, Burton and Speke. Krapf was the first to report the existence of the "snow-capped mountains" in the area that we now know as Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Kenya. Henze III, p.70ff; Howgego III, K22.

Fairholt, F.W. Up the Nile, and home again. London, Chapman and Hall, 1862, 1st ed., XIX,(1),448p., 20 tinted lithogr. plates, sl. later gilt blindst. and dec. cl.

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