A very RARE and beautiful book by Paul Kollmann...."The Victoria Nyanza - The Land, the Races and their Customs, with Specimens of some of the Dialects. With a Map and 372 Illustrations from Native Objects in the Author's Own Collections". Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co in 1899. Book in very good condition, Inside scattered foxing, around half of book unread with pages unopened!!! Externally light wear around edges and corners with light stains on boards, bright gilt, spine lightly sunned. Map in very good condition for age. In the preface Kollmann outlines the aims of the book: "In presenting to the reader a description of the races inhabiting the shores of the Victoria Nyanza, the most extensive fresh-water basin of Central Africa, exhibiting their custom and usages, their mode of life and their ethnographic relations, I have a twofold object in view: to record in detail the results of my observations and the contents of my collections, and to awaken public interest in the most beautiful region of Germany's East African colony, destined in no great time to play an important part in colonial enterprise." Rarity.