Harry Johnston — The Uganda Protectorate

New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1902. First edition. Cloth. Harry Johnston's extensive study on Uganda, its history and people, illustrated in colour throughout with folding maps. The first U.S. edition of this work, published in the same year as the U.K. first, printed from the U.K. sheets.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a colour frontispiece, seven colour folding maps, forty-one colour plates, forty-six monochrome plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, compete.Volume II illustrated with two colour folding maps, six colour plates, forty-eight monochrome plates, and in-text illustrations. Collated, complete.A highly descriptive and detailed work on Uganda, detailing the geography, botany, zoology, anthropology, languages, and history of the country as it was as a British colony.Written by Harry Johnston, a noted British explorer and botanist who spent years travelling widely across Africa. He spoke many African languages, and published forty works on Africa during his career. His works were one of the key players of the 'Scramble for Africa' at the end of the nineteenth century. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities. Some minor marks to the boards and spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Harry Johnston. Near Fine .