Descrizione

First American Edition published the same year as the first in German and the first in the UK. With two large folding maps and 97 fine illustrations from the original drawings of Tennyson Cole and from photographs. Thick, Tall 8vo, publisher’s original terracotta cloth ribbed cloth, the spine lettered in gilt, the upper cover stamped with gilt emblematic devices and lettered in gilt. [x], 447, [1] pp. A good copy, the binding tight and strong, a bit of rubbing to the extremities

Edizione: this is the second book by doctor peters and in it he tells of his attempts to locate ancient ophir, the source of king soloman’s gold. after leaving his positon as the german imperial high commissioner for the kilimanjaro district, peters spent the years 1896-1902 on an expedition to prove that the area between the lower zambesi and the lipopo rivers was the famed ophir and to show it’s connection with egypt. comprehensively illustrated, mendelssohn call’s this “an important contribution to the investigations regarding the early history of rhodesia, and the efforts to identify the kingdom of macombe with that of manomotapa”.