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Six Years on the Road: or, Reminiscences of Colonial Life, Scenes, and Incidents, 1st edition, Cape Town: for the author, 1856, errata slip, bookplate of South African bibliographers Ida and F. W. Hosken, contemporary cloth, label to front board, spine sunned, covers marked, 12mo (19.2 x 10.8 cm), together with: Du Chaillu (Paul B.), A Journey to Ashango-Land: and Further Penetration into Equatorial Africa, 1st edition, John Murray 1867, wood-engraved frontispiece and plates, folding map to rear (slightly spotted), Hosken bookplate, inner hinges slightly tender, original pictorial cloth gilt, rubbed, fraying to spine ends, tips bumped and worn, 8vo, Ball (Benjamin Lincoln), Rambles in Eastern Asia, including China and Manilla, 1st edition, Boston: James French and Company, 1855, lithographic map, mild spotting, original cloth, wear to spine-ends, pale marks to covers, 8vo, Scott (James George , France and Tongking, a Narrative of the Campaign of 1884 and the Occupation of Further India, 1st edition, T. Fisher Unwin, 1885, folding map frontispiece (with tear to one fold), 2 folding plans, original red cloth (secondary binding without the Chinese characters gilt to the front board), spine sunned, 8vo, and approximately 30 others, all travel, East Asia and elsewhere, 19th and 20th century, original cloth, 8vo Mendelssohn II p. 234 for Robertson (rare Cape Town imprint: Copac traces copies at the British Library, Cambridge and Oxford only). (approx. 40)