758 - Africa - Barth, Heinrich. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa from 1849 to 1855. Diary of his journey undertaken on behalf of the British Government. 5 volumes. With 60 color lithographic plates, 153 woodcuts, and 16 lithographic fold-out maps. Gotha, Perthes, 1857–58. 22.5 x 15 cm. Original cloth binding with blind embossing and gold-stamped title on the spine (slightly rubbed, partly stained; upper cap of Vol. 1 has a small tear).

Africa - Barth, Heinrich. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa from 1849 to 1855. Diary of his journey undertaken on behalf of the British Government. 5 volumes. With 60 color lithographic plates, 153 woodcuts, and 16 lithographic fold-out maps. Gotha, Perthes, 1857–58. 22.5 x 15 cm. Original cloth binding with blind embossing and gold-stamped title on the spine (slightly rubbed, partly stained; upper cap of Vol. 1 has a small tear). First edition, Vol. 1 in its second, unaltered printing. - Henze I,175 ff - Embacher 21 ff - Abbey 274 - Imbrahim-H. I, 54 - “In 1850, the Hamburg geographer, historian, ethnologist, and linguist Heinrich Barth joined a British expedition. On foot, on dromedaries, and by boat, the men traveled … from Tripoli through the Sahara to the Niger River and on to the city of Timbuktu, which was off-limits to foreigners. The route back to Tripoli led across Lake Chad. During this five-year journey, Barth recorded a wealth of information about the landscape and peoples, settlement patterns, economic systems, and arts and crafts... After traveling 20,000 kilometers, Barth arrived at the Mediterranean in 1855 as the sole white survivor: without luggage, but with 14,000 pages of notes—the basis for his five-volume work...” (National Geographic, Nov. 2001, p. 9). His linguistic studies are particularly noteworthy. — The plates, executed by Johann Martin Bernatz based on Barth’s sketches, mostly depict views and landscapes. — Text and plates mostly show some foxing. *