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VON HÖHNEL, Ludwig (1850-1909). Discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stefanie. A Narrative of Count Samuel Teleki's Exploring & Hunting Expedition in Eastern Equatorial Africa in 1887 & 1888 by his companion Lieut. Ludwig von Höhnel, translated by Nancy Bell, London & New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 1894. 2 volumes, 8° (236 x 158mm). Half-titles, portrait frontispiece, 3 maps, 2 folding coloured and lithographed, 178 illustrations, 35 full-page. (Spotted.) Original blue pictorial cloth gilt (lightly soiled, extremities bumped). Provenance : Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925, inscription in pencil on half-title of vol.I 'H. Rider Haggard , Given to me by C.J. Longman , 1894'). RIDER HAGGARD'S COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. VON HÖHNEL, Ludwig. Zum Rudolph-See und Stephanie-See. Vienna: Alfred Hölder, 1892. 8° (229 x 160mm). Portrait frontispiece, 3 maps, one full-page and uncoloured, 2 coloured folding lithographed plates, illustrations, 35 full-page. (Repaired tears to maps.) Original cloth, upper cover and spine blocked in gilt, green and black (extremities rubbed). Provenance : Ernest Testi (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. VON HÖHNEL, Ludwig. Zum Rudolph-See und Stephanie-See. Vortrag, gehalten den 22. Jänner 1890 von Ludwig Ritter von Höhnel , Vienna: E. Hölzel, 1890. 8° (186 x 115mm). 4 half-tone plates and one engraved map. Original printed wrappers, uncut and partly unopened (slightly soiled). Offprint from Vorträge des Vereines zur Verbreitung naturwissenschaftlicher Kenntnisse in Wien , year XXX, issue 8. (4)