Research Catalog

Title

Explorations in South-west Africa : being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls / by Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S.

Author

Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875.

Publication

London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pearson, George, active approximately 1860
• Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, publisher.

Description

xiv, 457, 390-535, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates (3 folded) : ill., maps; 22 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• South Africa > Description and travel
• Indigenous peoples > Namibia
• Namibia > Description and travel
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Africa, Southern > Description and travel
• Indigenous peoples > South Africa

Genre/Form

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

• The insertion of chapter 15, after the last chapter was in type, caused the alteration in paging. cf. Preface, p. vi.
• Includes engravings by G. Pearson.
• Includes index.

Indexed In (note)

• Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925 (3rd ed.)
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc Rare 916.88-B (Baines, T. Explorations in South-west Africa)

LCCN

05015395 //r42

OCLC

• 4476145
• NYPGR4476145-B

Author

Baines, Thomas, 1820-1875.

Title

Explorations in South-west Africa : being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls / by Thomas Baines, F.R.G.S.

Imprint

London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864.

Indexed In:

Mendelssohn, S. South African bibliography to the year 1925 (3rd ed.) I:69

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 774

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 916.88-B (accession no. B593588) inscribed: in ink on title page "A. Schomburg." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

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Added Author

Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, publisher.

Pearson, George, active approximately 1860, engraver.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner, inscriber.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 916.88-B (Baines, T. Explorations in South-west Africa)

Stuart 6971