Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors, 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
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860. First American edition Ex Library. Hardcover. Octavo. xl, 464pp., 1 folding map. Original brown pebbled cloth with blind-stamped decorative border and publisher's device on covers, gilt lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. With an appendix respecting the snow-capped mountains of Eastern Africa, the sources of the Nile; the languages and literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa, etc. and a concise account of geographical researches in Eastern Africa up to the discovery of the Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone, in September last, by E. J. Ravenstein. Rev. Dr. Krapf is known for his missionary work in Africa, as a pioneer of important geographical discoveries, and the field of Hametic philology. This work is briefly touching on Abessinia and Shoa, extensively treated in his 1843 publication, but mainly focusing on the terra incognita, the Eastern coast and the equatorial sections of Africa. Contains notes on East-African history and appendix at rear. Binding with some wear along edges, small chips at corner, sunned spine, this reinforced with library tap at head and tail, rubbed. Usual library markings, barcode, sticker, library bookplate and index card on inside covers, library stamps. Folding map with some creasing along edges but intact. Previous owners name inked to front free end paper and title page. Binding in overall good-, interior in very good condition. g- to vg. Item #47012
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