Lot n° 492
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- Lot 492
Captain BURTON / LIVINSTONE / PILETTE / STANLEY - Set of 4 volumes.
- Captain BURTON - Journey to the Great Lakes. Illustrated with 37 vignettes. Paris, L. Hachette, 1862. Large in-8, publisher's red half-chagrin boards, gilt edges (corners dull). 4], 719 pp. 2 maps out of text.
- David LIVINGSTONE - Explorations in the interior of Southern Africa and journeys across the continent from St. Paul's Loanda to the mouth of the Zambezi from 1840 to 1856 [...]. Translated from the English [...] by Mme H. Loreau. Paris, L. Hachette, 1859. In-8, black half-chagrined publisher's boards, gilt edges (white number on top of the spine and on the first cover).
ORIGINAL EDITION of the translation. 6], 759 pp. 26 hors-texte including folding frontispiece and 2 folding maps. Numerous foxing, handwritten mark on the title.
- André PILETTE - À travers l'Afrique équatoriale. Book decorated with 150 photogravures, 7 heliogravures, 1 watercolour, 4 maps and numerous schematic line drawings. All black or polychrome plates out of text and unpublished. Brussels, Oscar Lamberty, 1914. In-8, publisher's hardback illustrated with a large colour vignette (small loss to the vignette).
473, [2] pp. 4 maps, 7 heliogravures, 147 photogravures and 4 plates. The frontispiece has been bound backwards.
- Henri M. STANLEY - How I found Livingstone. Travels, adventures and discoveries in central Africa. Paris, Hachette, 1884. In-8, grey half cloth with corners, title page (spine faded).
[6], 600 pp. 4th edition illustrated with a frontispiece, 6 maps and illustrations included in the pagination. Working copy, numerous brown spots.
4 VOLUMES TOGETHER, MISCELLANEOUS CONDITIONS.
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