Baker, Samuel White. - THE ALBERT N’YANZA, Great Basin of the Nile, And Explorations of the Nile Sources.Macmillan and Co., 1866. 1st Ed. 2 vols. xxx + 395pp. + ix + 384pp. Port. frontis., tinted litho. frontis., 2 maps including 1 folding, 12 plates (one not listed), many ills. Some light browning, marbled e.ps. and edges, contemporary half calf with marbled boards, extremities rubbed, dec. gilt ruling and filleting to spines with (modern) gilt lettered labels, spines rubbed with loss across tail of spine of vol. 1. ¶ The discovery of the Albert N'Yanza was the most remarkable feat accomplished in Baker's adventurous career; the work of Speke and Grant was completed and the source of the Nile freed from mystery. D.N.B.
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