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LOBO, JERÓNIMO, S.J.
A Short Relation of the River Nile, of its Sourse
and Current . . . and of other Curiosities.
[8], 105 pages, including initial license leaf.
8vo, 139x85 mm, early 19th-century calf, joints worn and starting, few minor stains on
covers; margins trimmed with slight loss to some sidenotes, stain in outer margin on verso
of license leaf. 19th-century signature of James Chester and bookplate of George
Windybank; signature of the astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868-1938).
London: John Martyn, 1669
[2,000/3,000]
FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
of an excerpt from the unpublished Portuguese original work on
Ethiopia by the Jesuit missionary Lobo (1593-1678). The account of the geography and
flooding of the Nile is followed by discussions of unicorns, Prester John, the Red Sea, and palm
trees. Streit-Dindinger XVI, 254 and 647; Wing L2733.
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MAWSON, DOUGLAS, Sir.
The Home of the Blizzard; being, The Story
of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914.
Plates and maps, including 3
folding maps in Volume 2 rear cover pocket. xxx, 348, [2]; xiii, [1], 337, [2] pages, including
half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, 247x181 mm, original silver-pictorial blue cloth, silver slightly
rubbed or flaked on front covers, few small white marks on Volume 1 spine, rules at bot-
tom rubbed; contents crisp and clean, with only pencilled and dated initials on titles.
FIRST
AMERICAN EDITION
.
Philadelphia & London, (1915)
[400/600]
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