BAINES, Thomas. - Explorations in South-West Africa. Being an account of a journey in the years 1861 and 1862 from Walvisch Bay, on the western coast, to Lake Ngami and the Victoria Falls.

London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green, 1864.Contemporary half calf, spine gilt. With coloured lithographed frontispiece, 3 folding lithographed maps, and 34 woodengraved plates and illustrations. XIV,535 pp.First edition. - Thomas Baines (1820-1875) travelled with James Chapman from Walvis Bay via Lake Ngami to the Victoria Falls, which he and Chapman were among the first seven white men to see. 'The journey was started on March 20, 1861, and the author was joined by his fellow-traveller, Mr.J. Chapman, on the 20th of July. The volume contains an interesting account of hunting and exploration in the country of the Namaquas and Damaras, and the illustrations are very spirited; there is a good description of the flora and fauna of the country, together with an account of the habits of the natives' (Mendelssohn I, p.69). Thomas Baines became one of the great African travellers (Gordon-Brown p. 118). - (Small library stamp on titlepage). SAB I, p.113; Czech p.9; Hess & Coger 4815.

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