BOOKSET FOR SALE: Exploring and Hunting Expedition in East. Eq. Africa in 1887-88. 2 Vols.

Von Hohnel (Ludwig).

Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie : A Narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's Exploring and Hunting Expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 and 1888- Complete in Two Volumes.

London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd, 1968. New impression of the 1894 edition. First edition thus.

This is the scarce account of the exploring and hunting expedition of Count Samuel Teleki von Szek and Lieutenant Ludwig von Höhnel to Eastern Equatorial Africa. Although the narrative was produced for the general reader and therefore deals more with the adventures and experiences than with the scientific work it contains considerable information of value. As the title suggest, the primary contribution of the expedition was the discovery of Lakes Rudolph and Stephanie in the mountainous region just northeast of Victoria Nyanza and thus adding one more piece to the great puzzle of the African watershed whose complexity had eluded European explorers for decades. There are also accounts of exploration during ascents of Mounts Kilimanjaro and Meru and considerable work of anthropological interest. In common with most African exporation books of the time there is copious material on hunting, indeed it seems to have been an obsession.

xxii 435; xii 397pp., folding maps and plates.

CONDITION: Very Good. Well preserved set.

Red cloth with contrasting black title panel to spines, gilt titles, gilt motif to upper covers.

(##9318) R1,790.00