(Travel & Exploration.) William Barry Lord & Thomas Baines: ...

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£140

(Travel & Exploration.) William Barry Lord & Thomas Baines: 'Shifts and Expedients of Camp Life, Travel and Exploration', London, Horace Cox, 1871, 1st complete edition in book form, engraved pictorial title page + 15 engraved plates (including frontispiece) as called for, v,831pp + [6]pp adverts at end, original cloth gilt. Lord and Baines pooled their considerable experience of exploration to produce this amazingly interesting encyclopaedia of practical survival for the explorer in the late 1800s. These include advice on the selection of wagons and boats, horses and oxen, tents and firearms, hunting and fishing, observing and collecting, carpentry and metal-working, camping requisites, bush cuisine, medical improvisation, the best ways to cross rivers, to move heavy objects and to build huts. Scarce