First English edition. 2 folding maps, portrait, 12 coloured lithograph plates. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt, recased inner joints repaired, back a little stainedli, ii, 566pp. London,Trubner, 1860.
Krapf’s journals form the cornerstone of East African exploration from which it was decided by the Royal Geographical Society to send Burton and Speke to verify the accuracy of the missionaries’ maps, and their astonishing claim to have seen two mountains permanently capped by snow. Ibrahim Hilmy, 1/349.
