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8vo, 20.6cm. Pp. viii,[4],430,[2], 1 wood-engraved portrait plate, 7 (of 8) wood-engr. plates. Contemp. blind cloth-backed marbled boards (reading library binding). First and last page browned/foxed, no half-title, small old paper label to corner of title-page, some general traces of use. - Very scarce. Lacking the small map and one plate (the one showing a Ovampo woman from the Chella mountains). - Daniël David Veth (1850-1884) was the son of the first author Pieter Jan Veth (1814-1895), a prominent Dutch geographer and traveler in the former Dutch East Indies who wrote a.o. a standard work on Java. His son died of exhaustion during his travels in Africa.

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