(London: Methuen & Co., 1897).

SCARCE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Harry Johnston spent his life exploring Africa and has written some of the greatest accounts of all time, including books on Liberia, Uganda and the missionary George Grenfell in the Congo. Two years residence in the Central African region produced this superb description of the physical geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, language, and history of the eastern portion of British Central Africa, primarily the territories bordering on Lakes Tanganyika and Nyasa.
Handsomely presented, this book is replete with photographs and illustrations of Central Africa at the end of the century. Copies in this most elaborately decorated cloth are now scarce. Item #28740

First edition, the true first issue. With over 150 illustrations from drawings and photographs, including 16 plates, and 6 maps on five folding sheets and an electroengraved frontispiece. Large 8vo (250 x 189 mm), publisher’s handsome original black and yellow cloth, lettered in gilt and white on the spine, pictorially decorated in black, yellow, and white on the upper and lower covers, leopard print endpapers, t.e.g. [xx], 544. A well preserved and uncommonly nice copy of this very scarce book, seldom found in true first issue format, this copy shows only a normal bit of aging with extremities a little rubbed, the hinges are sound and tight, the textblock is clean and well preserved.