The first ascent of the Kasai being some records of service under the lone star

by Charles Somerville LaTrobe Bateman

$325 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

London: George Philip & Son, 32 Fleet Street, 1889. First edition, 8vo, pp. xx, 192; 5 chromolithographs, 6 etchings, 6 wood-engraved plates, 2 maps printed in color 1 folding , other wood-engravings in the text; original blue pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, a very good, sound copy. Bateman's account of his ascent up the Kasai River in south central Africa, the first journey of its kind. Bateman and the expedition leader, Dr.

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