Item #13118 Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors During an Eighteen Years' Residence in East Africa; Together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, Khartum; and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado. John Lewis Krapf, E. J. Ravenstein, Appendix, Johann Ludwig.

Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labors During an Eighteen Years' Residence in East Africa; Together with Journeys to Jagga, Usambara, Ukambani, Shoa, Abessinia, Khartum; and a Coasting Voyage from Mombaz to Cape Delgado

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.

First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4" tall. xl, 464 pp, with folding map of East Africa, in original blind-stamped brown cloth. Very slight wear to corners and head of spine. Internally clean and sound, with a private library association bookplate on the front pastedown. An important work of African exploration, both for its wealth of ethnographic detail and for the geographical discoveries made on the expedition, including the snow-capped Mt. Kenya. Krapf's companion, Rebmann, had sighted Kilimanjaro the previous year (see Neate K47). Ravenstein's Appendix discusses "the snow-capped mountains of Eastern Africa; the sources of the Nile; the languages and literature of Abessinia and Eastern Africa...and a concise account of geographical researches in Eastern Africa up to the discovery of Uyenyesi by Dr. Livingstone" (Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 349, referring to the London edition).

Item #13118

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