Oates (Frank) & Oates (Charles George, ed.)

Matabele Land and the Victoria Falls, First Edition, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the editor on the half title, engraved frontispiece portrait, 16 chromolithographic or hand-coloured plates, 4 folding maps, the last with a repaired tear, intermittent spotting, 32 pp. catalogue at rear, original publisher's pictorial cloth gilt, spine extremities rubbed, [Czech (Africa) p.124; Mendelssohn (1979) III, p.565], 8vo, Kegan Paul & Co., 1881.

*** A fire at the publisher destroyed all unsold copies of the first edition not long after publication, making it quite rare.