Author: Samuel W. Baker
Title: Ismailia a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Samuel Baker's exploration of Central Africa, a vivid description of his expedition, illustrated throughout. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and twenty-two plates. Collated, complete.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, one map, and thirty-one plates. Collated, complete.A vivid and extensive narrative of Samuel Bakers' expedition across Central Africa, a trip during which he hunted big game, which was his passion.The primary reason for the expedition was to suppress the slave trade. During the Victorian era Baker was one of the greatest explorers of Africa.Written by Samuel Baker, who is best known for being the first European to visit Lake Albert. He was an abolitionist, engineer, and big game hunter, and he was the Governor-general of the Equatorial Nile Basin in the nineteenth century. Though he was renowned for being an explorer, he never received quite the same amount of acclamation that his contemporaries did. Queen Victoria refused to meet Baker, due to the way in which he met his wife; he had bought his wife, Florence, as a slave after they had fallen in love.Fifty-five pages of adverts to the rear of Volume I. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities, small cracks to the head of the joints. Light rubbing to the joints. A few minor marks to the boards and spines. Rear board of Volume II is cockled. Hinges are starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots, including to the folding map. Prior owner's ink inscription to the reverse of the frontispieces. Plate facing page 57 in Volume I is detaching. Folding map is repaired to the reverse. Tidemark to plates facing pages 476, 478, and 479 in Volume II. Good . Ill.: Zwecker; Durand. Good .
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Title: Ismailia a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade
Description: London, Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Samuel Baker's exploration of Central Africa, a vivid description of his expedition, illustrated throughout. The first edition.Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, one folding map, and twenty-two plates. Collated, complete.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, one map, and thirty-one plates. Collated, complete.A vivid and extensive narrative of Samuel Bakers' expedition across Central Africa, a trip during which he hunted big game, which was his passion.The primary reason for the expedition was to suppress the slave trade. During the Victorian era Baker was one of the greatest explorers of Africa.Written by Samuel Baker, who is best known for being the first European to visit Lake Albert. He was an abolitionist, engineer, and big game hunter, and he was the Governor-general of the Equatorial Nile Basin in the nineteenth century. Though he was renowned for being an explorer, he never received quite the same amount of acclamation that his contemporaries did. Queen Victoria refused to meet Baker, due to the way in which he met his wife; he had bought his wife, Florence, as a slave after they had fallen in love.Fifty-five pages of adverts to the rear of Volume I. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities, small cracks to the head of the joints. Light rubbing to the joints. A few minor marks to the boards and spines. Rear board of Volume II is cockled. Hinges are starting but firm. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpapers. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with some spots, including to the folding map. Prior owner's ink inscription to the reverse of the frontispieces. Plate facing page 57 in Volume I is detaching. Folding map is repaired to the reverse. Tidemark to plates facing pages 476, 478, and 479 in Volume II. Good . Ill.: Zwecker; Durand. Good .
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Price: GBP 750.00 = appr. US$ 1070.99 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 821P13
- Book number: 821P13
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