An interesting set of works concerning the history of Africa by various authors, circa 1885-1921, bound uniformly as one set in 3/4 leather with gilt decoration, with the original cloth covers preserved in the back of all but one volume (Eldorado...), including: DRACOPOLI, I.N., Through Jubaland to the Lorian Swamp, Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1914; BASDEN, G.T., Among the Ibos of Nigeria, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1921; HODSON, ARNOLD W., Trekking the Great Thirst, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912; JOHNSTON, H.H., The Kilima-njaro Expedition, with six maps and over 80 illustrations by the author, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co., 1886; PETERS, CARL, The Eldorado of the Ancients, New York: E. P. Dutton, 1902; STIGAND, C.H., To Abyssinia Through an Unknown Land, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1910; THOMSON, JOSEPH, Through Masai Land..., second edition, London: Sampson Low, et al., 1885; WEEKS, JOHN H., Among the Primitive Bakongo, London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1914
h. 9 w. 6-1/4 in.

Provenance: Christie's, New York, circa 2004 (old lot ticket remaining); Christie's, New York, 04 April 2003, sale 1319, lot 815; Purchased by the consignor's family from the above, private collection, Mount Kisco, NY