Journal of the discovery of the source of the Nile

by John Hanning Speke

$275 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864. First American edition of a classic in African exploration; 8vo, pp. v -xxx, 31 -590; 2 steel-engraved portraits, folding map tinted in blue and with author's route in red with short tear neatly repaired on verso , full-page map printed in blue and red, and numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout, 20 full-page; spine ends chipped, corners and extremities rubbed, else a good, sound copy in original brown cloth

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