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Macmillan / Lippincott. Used - Good. 1866. Hardcover. Cloth, 516 pp., illus., map. Binding shaken but holding. orig. spine replaced with library cloth, title written on spine. The colored map is in very good condition. Ex-library with usual markings and labels. Sound working copy.

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London / Philadelphia: Macmillan / J. B. Lippincott, 1866. First one-volume edition. Octavo (22cm). Half tan calf with marbled paper over boards, all edges marbled; marbled endpapers; xxvi,516pp; 1 tinted lithographic plate, 2 color maps (1 folding), 13 black and white relief plates, numerous in-text wood engravings. Erratum slip at rear. Complete, including the plate at p.464 not called for in the list of illustrations. A bright, handsome copy, leather slightly dry over spine, light rubbing to edges, but generally Very Good. Samuel Baker (1821-1893), with his partner Florence Baker (1841-1916), was at the head of a successful but disaster-plagued expedition to the sources of the White Nile. They traveled from Khartoum, following the White Nile; met with Speke and Grant's expedition, returning from Lake Victoria; and, following information from local Africans, became the first Europeans to see Luta N'zigé, which he renamed Lake Albert. They were also the first Europeans to see the Murchison Falls.… Read More

London, Macmillan and Co., 1866 1st edition.. 2 Volumes. Hardbacks, 8 x 5 inches. In green cloth binding with gilt lettering to spines and gilt paneled vignettes to fronts. Light brown endpapers. In very good condition. Nice bright copies. Some very minor rubbing to edges. Volume I very light lean to binding. Two inscriptions on first blank pages. Some foxing on early pages. Folding map has old cellotape repair. Else generally clean & tight. 371 & 372pp. With b&w engraved plates and illustrations within text. Fold out coloured map in Vol I. A day by day account of an expedition to find the source of the White Nile, which proved to be Lake Albert now on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The author led the expedition and recorded the daily journeys and the people and events. A fascinating account of an expedition in the Victorian era.

1866 1ed
Albert Nyanza Nile Tributaries AFRICA
Egypt Abyssinia Samuel Baker Maps

Samuel White Baker was an English explorer and was the first Englishman to sit in a high office of the Egyptian government. Many of Baker's works shed light on the horrors of slave owners and slave trade in central Africa. His works, however, also centralized on Egypt and the Abyssinia Nile tributaries. He had an extensive knowledge of Egypt as he held important political officers in Egypt.
His accounts of Egypt and the Nile River Basin are some of the most important 19th-century books on the Nile River and helped record the discovery of Lake Albert. 'The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile' is Baker's account of his discovery of the last great source of the Nile.
Item number: #10917
Price: $499
BAKER, Samuel White
The AlbertNyanza, great basin of the Nile and explorations of the Nile Sources
London : Macmillan ; Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott, 1866. First edition.

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1866. London, Macmillan and Co. 1866. 8vo. 2 volumes, both in the original green pictoral cloth. Light wear to upper and lower part of spines. Front free end-paper in vol. 1 with repair and the large folded general map of the country (erroneously called for in vol. 2) reinforced in margin and with two small tears. A fine and clean set, housed in custom made red clam shell box. XXX, 395; IX, 384 pp. + double-portrait frontispiece in volume 1, lithograph frontispiece in volume 2, 2 maps (1 large folding), 13 full-page plates, 20 illustrations in text. First edition of Baker's famous account of his discovery of the last great source of the Nile, Speke and Grant having established Lake Victoria Nyanza as the source of the White Nile and Bruce discovering the source of the Blue. The present work constitute one of the great travel narratives on African exploration. “First published in two illustrated volumes in 1866, this account of his most celebrated expedition is amongst the most important works of… Read More