5000 KILOMETER AFRIKA

(AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL - AFRICA) OPEL, Georg von, and Irmgard von. 5000 KILOMET AFRIKA. $85.00 Berlin: Deutsche Buch, (circa 1925-1940). Square 4to. Decorated boards, clot spine. 118, (1) pages, including photographs and double-page map. Scarce African travel book. OCLC records only a handfull of any edition most in Germany and Europe with only four in the U.S. A travel journal kept by Ge and Irmgard von Opel of their travels by automobile in Africa about 1930 to 1940. It is interspersed with 54 color photographs and many black-and-white ones starting in Venice (truncated) and from there to the African continent from Egypt do the Nile River into Ethiopia and the Sudan. Covers use brightly colored stylised African motif. Very good. (Inventory #: 40185)