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Auction archive: Lot number 157

SIR HARRY JOHNSTON

Auction 24.09.2003
24 Sep 2003
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$805 - US$1,288
Price realised:
£529
ca. US$851
Auction archive: Lot number 157

SIR HARRY JOHNSTON

Auction 24.09.2003
24 Sep 2003
Estimate
£500 - £800
ca. US$805 - US$1,288
Price realised:
£529
ca. US$851
Beschreibung:

SIR HARRY JOHNSTON The Nile Quest. A Record of the Exploration of the Nile and its Basin , London: Lawrence and Bullen, [n.d.]. 8° (217 x 141mm.). Half title, half-tone plates. (A few marginal spots.) Original pictorial publisher's cloth (very lightly rubbed). John H. Weeks A Congo Pathfinder. W. Holman Bentley among African Savages , London: The Reliogious Tract Society, [n.d.] 8° (95 x 132mm.). Coloured frontispiece, half-tone plates. (Occasional light marginal spotting.) Original pictorial publisher's cloth (small stain on front cover). With 12 other books on travel in Africa in 14 volumes, including Joachim John Monteiro's Angola and the River Congo (vol. II only, London, 1875, PRESENTATION COPY from Major S. Pinto to "the eminent African explorer Henry Stanley Esq"), Sir Richard Burton's Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration (London, 1924), and Charles Royle's The Egyptian Campaigns, 1882 to 1885, and the Events which led to them (London, 1886, 2 vols.). (16)

Auction archive: Lot number 157
Auction:
Datum:
24 Sep 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

SIR HARRY JOHNSTON The Nile Quest. A Record of the Exploration of the Nile and its Basin , London: Lawrence and Bullen, [n.d.]. 8° (217 x 141mm.). Half title, half-tone plates. (A few marginal spots.) Original pictorial publisher's cloth (very lightly rubbed). John H. Weeks A Congo Pathfinder. W. Holman Bentley among African Savages , London: The Reliogious Tract Society, [n.d.] 8° (95 x 132mm.). Coloured frontispiece, half-tone plates. (Occasional light marginal spotting.) Original pictorial publisher's cloth (small stain on front cover). With 12 other books on travel in Africa in 14 volumes, including Joachim John Monteiro's Angola and the River Congo (vol. II only, London, 1875, PRESENTATION COPY from Major S. Pinto to "the eminent African explorer Henry Stanley Esq"), Sir Richard Burton's Selected Papers on Anthropology, Travel & Exploration (London, 1924), and Charles Royle's The Egyptian Campaigns, 1882 to 1885, and the Events which led to them (London, 1886, 2 vols.). (16)

Auction archive: Lot number 157
Auction:
Datum:
24 Sep 2003
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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