
A Report of the Kingdom of Congo and of the Surrounding Countries, Drawn out of the Writings and Discourses of the Portuguese Duarte Lopez by Filippo Pigafetta. Translated from the Italian and edited, with explanatory notes, by Margarite Hutchinson. With facsimiles of the original maps, and a preface by Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1970. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1881 first issue in photo-facsimile. xxi, 174p., illustrated with two fold-out maps bound in at the rear (reasonably good reproductions), hardbound in 9x5.5 inch bright red cloth boards gilt with a printed black spine-label field. Enclosed in the dust jacket. Book itself has a small sprinkle of foxing to top edge, and top rim is slightly crimped. Dj a little edgeworn with a scrape to spine. Perfectly sound and unmarked, a very good copy. Cass library of African studies, travels and narratives no. 66.
Cat.No: 280050
ISBN: 0714618470
Price: $45.00
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Africa,
Cartography,
Congo,
Geography,
Maps, mapping, Atlases,
Missionary,
Portugal,
Sixteenth century