Lot 270
G. Rohlfs, Kufra. Leipzig, 1881.
Estimate
€ 200
Starting Price
€ 140
Lot:
270
Category:
Geography and work of views
Artist:
Gerhard Rohlfs
Rohlfs, Gerhard: Kufra. Reise von Tripolis nach der Oase Kufra. Leipzig: Brockhaus 1881. 21,4 x 13,7 cm. Including 7 woodcut plates, 3 folded maps (2 in colour) and 21 tables of meteorological observations. VIII pp., 1 leaf, 559 pp., 1 unnumbered page, 1 leaf. Original linen-binding.
(Corners and edges rubbed; spine slightly discoloured. Endpaper with a mounted bookplate and a stamped bookplate. The half-title page is more heavily discoloured; otherwise, the interior is only slightly discoloured.)
Kainbacher 389, 13. Henze IV, 659. - First edition. - An account of the final desert expedition undertaken in 1878 by the African explorer Gerhard Rohlfs (1831–1896). - “Despite differences with the ‘African Society in Germany’, Rohlfs set out once more for the Libyan Desert on its behalf at the end of 1878, accompanied by the zoologist Anton Stecker; he became the first European to reach the oases of Kufra and, following the looting and destruction of parts of his collection, to Benghazi at the end of 1879 with important new insights into the geography of the Sahara” (NDB XXI, 767).
(Corners and edges rubbed; spine slightly discoloured. Endpaper with a mounted bookplate and a stamped bookplate. The half-title page is more heavily discoloured; otherwise, the interior is only slightly discoloured.)
Kainbacher 389, 13. Henze IV, 659. - First edition. - An account of the final desert expedition undertaken in 1878 by the African explorer Gerhard Rohlfs (1831–1896). - “Despite differences with the ‘African Society in Germany’, Rohlfs set out once more for the Libyan Desert on its behalf at the end of 1878, accompanied by the zoologist Anton Stecker; he became the first European to reach the oases of Kufra and, following the looting and destruction of parts of his collection, to Benghazi at the end of 1879 with important new insights into the geography of the Sahara” (NDB XXI, 767).