BOVILL, E. W. (editor)MareMagnum
HORNEMANN FriedrichMareMagnum
Missions to the Niger. Volume I. [This volume only]. The Journal of Friedrich Hornemann's Travels from Cairo to Murzuk in the Years 1797-98 [and] The Letters of Major Alexander Gordon Laing 1824-26. Edited by E.W. Bovill. NEAR FINE COPY OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION
8vo., First Edition, with portrait frontispiece, plates and maps, full-page map in the text and 5 large folding maps; original series binding of blue cloth, upper board framed in blind and blocked in gilt, gilt back, a near fine copy. Hakluyt Society Series II, vol. 123. With personal bookplate on front paste-down. With Laing's letters are included his 'Cursory remarks on the course and termination of the great river Niger', his 'Notes on Gadamis', his only surviving letter to his wife, and the newspaper report of his death. Bridges & Hair p.287.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB25,02 €
