Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798.

£12,000 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Signed by Burton on the title page with his annotations throughout the text. This appears to be a working copy, on which Burton has made typographic and factual corrections, notes misprints and other observations. The autograph slip enclosed lists “Dr de Lacerda’s observations 1797-1798”, a small table denoting the latitude and longitude of eight separate places included on page 123 of the published text. In addition to their annual volume of transactions, the Royal Geographical Society occasionally published works of geography. Prompted by Livingstone’s explorations, this was a particularly important example, including nearly everything known of the interior of Africa to that time. Burton’s piece occupied the first 164 pages of the work and included two controversial appendices that were later rejected by the Royal Geographic Society. Penzer, pp89-90; Casada, 85.

• Year: 1873

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