[CENTRAL AFRICA] BURTON, R[ichard] F[rancis] (trans.); Francisco Jose de Lacerda e Almeida

The Lands of Cazembe. Lacerda's Journey to Cazembe in 1798...Journey of the Pombeiros...Résumé of the Journey of Mm. Monteiro and Gamitto

London: Royal Geographic Society/John Murray, 1873. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine; light brown coated endpapers; [viii], 271,[1]pp; large folding map at front. Lightly rubbed, spine darkened, short (2-inch) split to rear inner hinge, short tear at gutter of map, else clean and sound: Very Good.

Kazembe was a large Lunda kingdom in the Katanga region of Congo and northern Zambia. This is famed explorer R. F. Burton's translation of the journal of a Portuguese explorer who died on a 1798 expedition to Kazembe.

Price: $175.00

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