Author: Samuel W. Baker
Title: The Albert N&Apos;Yanza Great Basin of the Nile and Exploration of the Nile Sources
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1867. Leather. Samuel Baker's important account of his journey through the Albert N'Yanza and exploration of the Nile, an early edition complete in two volumes bound in one. An early edition of this important account of Samuel Barker's exploration of the Albert N'Yanza and the Nile. Originally published the year prior in 1866. Complete with two volumes in one in a signed full calf binding, binding signature not visible.Illustrated with double portrait frontispiece, seven full page plates including a large folding colour map, and sixteen illustrations in text to vol. I, and coloured lithograph frontispiece, six full page plates and five in-text illustrations to vol. II. Collated, complete. No half titles as issued. Samuel Baker was an English explorer, naturalist, big game hunter and more, who also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, as well as serving as Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin between 1869 and 1873. He was the first European to explore Lake Albert, and is remembered for his exploration of the Nile and interior Central Africa. With his travels and explorations, he demonstrated that the Nile flowed through the Albert Nyanza, and formed the idea of the importance of the Albert and Victoria lake sources in contributing to the Nile flow rate, ideas shared in these volume, which provide a geographical look at the great basin of the River Nile at Lake Albert in Uganda. In full calf binding with five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine and extremities marbled edges and endpapers. externally very smart with minor shelf wear, minor rubbing to boards and spine. Previous ownership inscription to recto front blank page, dated 1872. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Large folding map to vol. I chipped with few closed tears, one previously tape repaired, and minor odd spotting, lower half detached from top half but present, lightly soiled. Illustrated with frontispieces, thirteen full page plates including large folding colour map, and other illustrations in text. Collated, complete. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
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Title: The Albert N&Apos;Yanza Great Basin of the Nile and Exploration of the Nile Sources
Description: London, Macmillan and Co. 1867. Leather. Samuel Baker's important account of his journey through the Albert N'Yanza and exploration of the Nile, an early edition complete in two volumes bound in one. An early edition of this important account of Samuel Barker's exploration of the Albert N'Yanza and the Nile. Originally published the year prior in 1866. Complete with two volumes in one in a signed full calf binding, binding signature not visible.Illustrated with double portrait frontispiece, seven full page plates including a large folding colour map, and sixteen illustrations in text to vol. I, and coloured lithograph frontispiece, six full page plates and five in-text illustrations to vol. II. Collated, complete. No half titles as issued. Samuel Baker was an English explorer, naturalist, big game hunter and more, who also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, as well as serving as Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin between 1869 and 1873. He was the first European to explore Lake Albert, and is remembered for his exploration of the Nile and interior Central Africa. With his travels and explorations, he demonstrated that the Nile flowed through the Albert Nyanza, and formed the idea of the importance of the Albert and Victoria lake sources in contributing to the Nile flow rate, ideas shared in these volume, which provide a geographical look at the great basin of the River Nile at Lake Albert in Uganda. In full calf binding with five raised bands, gilt tooling to spine and extremities marbled edges and endpapers. externally very smart with minor shelf wear, minor rubbing to boards and spine. Previous ownership inscription to recto front blank page, dated 1872. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean. Large folding map to vol. I chipped with few closed tears, one previously tape repaired, and minor odd spotting, lower half detached from top half but present, lightly soiled. Illustrated with frontispieces, thirteen full page plates including large folding colour map, and other illustrations in text. Collated, complete. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: albert n'yanza early editions travel africa early editions Not Stated
Price: GBP 390.00 = appr. US$ 556.91 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 818A60
- Book number: 818A60
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