Three Books on Central Africa, including: Alexander Laing. Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima.... ... (Total: 3 Items)

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Three Books on Central Africa, including: Alexander Laing. Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima.... London, 1825. [and:] James McQueen. A Geographical Survey of Africa. London, 1840. [and:] John Roscoe. The Baganda. London, 1911. All very good. From the Professor John Ralph Willis Collection of Rare Africana.

More Information: Three Books on Central Africa, including: Alexander Gordon Laing. Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko, and Soolima Countries in Western Africa. London: John Murray, 1825. Six hand-colored plates of Africans; hand-colored folding frontis map. [and:] James McQueen. A Geographical Survey of Africa [...] to which is Prefixed, a Letter to Lord John Russell, Regarding the Slave Trade. London: B. Fellows, 1840. Missing map, as well as front free endpaper. [and:] John Roscoe. The Baganda. London: Macmillan, 1911. Photos. Map. All three books have bookplates of a previous owner. All in very good condition.