Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

by Nile, John Hanning Speke

$450 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First Edition. First printing. Octavo 22cm . Contemporary full calf prize binding, with gilt stamp of the King's School, Rochester; marbled endpapers; two engraved portraits, 24 black and white relief plates, one two-color map, one large folding map tipped in at rear, and numerous in-text wood engravings. Binder's stamp of Bickers &

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