The Nile Basin

by Richard Burton

$1,000 · Offered by Trophy Room Books

First edition

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Part 1 showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy's western lake reservoir by Richard Burton and Part 2 Captain Speke's DIscovery of the Source of the Nile by James McQueen. Penzer p 74, 75. First ed. Very scarce. LACKS THE MAPS which are considered rare and lacking in a majority of copies . First ed bound in purple brown cloth with triple line border on covers. Little better

• Binding: Hardcover

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