Barth, Henry [Heinrich Barth]

Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Including Accounts of Timbuktu, Sokoto, and the Basins of the Niger and Benuwe

London: Ward Lock & Co, 1890. Octavo, half-leather binding with marbled sides, spine decorated in gilt with raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges marbled, b&w plates, b&w woodcut text illus, pp xviii, 548. 'Minerva Library' edition. Few minor light marks to boards, very good condition.

Barth was considered one of the greatest European explorers of Africa. His work was first published in five volumes in the 1850s. Item #102430

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