Kirk on the Zambesi: A Chapter of African History

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1928. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Red cloth titled in gilt; plain endpapers; [viii],286,[2]pp; color frontispiece, 4 color plates, 10 black and white plates, folding map. Sound but rubbed, spine-sunned, and lightly cocked: Very Good.

Dr. John Kirk was the botanist and medical officer on Livingstone's Zambezi expedition (1858-63). Coupland's history was based on Kirk's journals, which would be published thirty years later. [61109].