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GROGAN, Ewart Scott & Arthur H. SHARP. From the Cape to Cairo. The First Traverse of Africa from South to North, London: Hurst and Blackett, 1900. 4° (236 x 180mm). Half title, photogravure frontispiece portrait, half tone plates, illustrations, 2 folding coloured maps, 2-pages of publisher's advertisements at end. (Marginal dampstaining to portrait, occasional light spotting and staining.) Original pictorial cloth gilt (rubbed, inner hinges splitting).
With another 32 works on Africa in 41 volumes including Thomas' Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa and its Islands (Macon, 1860, PRESENTATION COPY), Galton's The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (London, 1853, PRESENTATION COPY), Robert Moffat's Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (London, 1842), Joshua Carnes's Journal of a Voyage from Boston to the West Coast of Africa (Boston, 1852, ?lacking frontispiece), Gibbons's Exploration and Hunting in Central Africa 1895-96 (London, 1898), Carl Peters' The Eldorado of the Ancients (London, 1902), H. L. Duff's Nyasaland under the Foreign Office (London, 1903) and I. N. Dracopoli's Through Jubaland to the Lorian Swamp (London, 1914). (42)
With another 32 works on Africa in 41 volumes including Thomas' Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa and its Islands (Macon, 1860, PRESENTATION COPY), Galton's The Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa (London, 1853, PRESENTATION COPY), Robert Moffat's Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa (London, 1842), Joshua Carnes's Journal of a Voyage from Boston to the West Coast of Africa (Boston, 1852, ?lacking frontispiece), Gibbons's Exploration and Hunting in Central Africa 1895-96 (London, 1898), Carl Peters' The Eldorado of the Ancients (London, 1902), H. L. Duff's Nyasaland under the Foreign Office (London, 1903) and I. N. Dracopoli's Through Jubaland to the Lorian Swamp (London, 1914). (42)
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