- Lot 339

SERPA PINTO - How I crossed Africa from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean through unknown regions. Work translated (...) by J. Bélin de Launay containing 15 maps and facsimiles and 160 engravings. Paris, Hachette, 1881. 2 volumes in-8, 240 x 145 mm, red half-chagrin edition boards, spine decorated with four nerves, gilt edges. xxx, [2], 456; [4], 468 pp. Numerous full-page woodcuts, 15 maps out of text. Scattered foxing. First part : the King's rifle. Second part : The Coillard family. Some foxing. Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto (Portugal, 1846 - Lisbon, 1900), Portuguese military, explorer and colonial administrator, contributed notably to the cartography of the interior of sub-Saharan Africa. In 1869, he reached the Indian Ocean by exploring the Zambezi River. It was on the banks of the river that François Coillard saved his life while Pinto was having problems with the natives. Scattered foxing. ATTACHED: - Édouard FAVRE - François Coillard. 1834 [-1904]. Tome I [-III]. Paris, Société des Missions évangéliques, 1908-1913. 3 volumes in-8, 250 x 160 mm, xiii, [3], 352; xv, 540; xiv, 572 pp. 79 plates hors texte. Publisher's percale, each volume in 1 different color (upper jaw of T. I torn). I: Childhood and youth 1834-1861. II: Missionary in Lessouto 1861-1882. III: Missionary in the Zambezi 1882-1904. The hors-texte are mostly illustrated with portraits, some views. The illustration also includes 2 folding maps out of text. Some annotations in pencil in T. III. A good copy. TOGETHER 5 VOLUMES.