R9,000 - R12,000
LOT OF 2 COPIES OF NARRATIVE OF AN EXPLORER IN TROPICAL SOUTH AFRICA (1853 ORIGINAL AND 1889 REPRINT) by Francis Galton
1. John Murray, 1853, 8vo, xiv + 314pp. Original hardcover binding, with gilt lettering to spine, and inlaid gilt illustration to front board. Recased. With frontispiece, 10 additional plates and engravings, and fold-out map at rear, collated and complete.
2. Ward, Lock and Co. 1889, 8vo, xviii + 320pp. Rebound copy in half-leather hardcovers, marbled boards and endpapers, 5 raised bands, and top edge gilt. Gilt lettering to spine. With frontispiece of author, 1 map, and 13 plates and illustrations, collated and complete.
From the collection of N. J. van Warmelo, linguist and former State Ethnologist.
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