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Roualeyn Gordon Cumming (1820-66) Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the far Interior of South Africa , London: John Murray 1850. 2 volumes, 8° (20 x 12.9cm.), half-titles, wood-engraved frontispieces, and titles, 12 plates and one map, green half morocco gilt by Root & Son, spines ruled and lettered in gilt, t.e.g. (spine very lightly sunfaded, extremities very lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION; together with 7 other works on Africa in 8 vols, including Proceedings... for Promoting the Discovery of Africa, 2 vols (London, 1810), S. L. Hinde's The Fall of the Congo Arabs (London, 1897), C. G. Gordon's The Journals ... at Kartoum (London, 1885), R. W. Leyland's A Holiday in South Africa (London, 1882), C. Neufeld's A Prisoner of the Khaleefa. Twelve years' captivity at Omdurman (London, 1899), G. A. Henty's With Kitchener in the Soudan (London, 1903), and The Matabele Mission. A Selection from the Correspondence of John and Emily Moffat, David Livingstone and others 1858-1878 (London, 1945). (10)