RICHARDSON (James).

Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara in the Years of 1845 and 1846. Containing a Narrative of Personal Adventures, during a Tour of Nine Months through the Desert, amongst the Touaricks and other Tribes of Saharan People; including a description of the O

First edition. 2 vols. Folding map and frontispieces (these a little stained) 8vo. Modern half calf, d xxxii, 440; xii, 482, [2]ads.pp. London, Richard Bentley, 1848.

£750.00

Richardson’s principal objective on this and his other two expeditions was to discover the state of, and the remedy to, the African Slave-Trade, which he considered to be attributable in the main to European raiders.

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