Lake Tana & the Blue Nile.

£950 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

inscribed presentation copy with royal provenance A fine presentation copy from the author to Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, younger brother of Edward VIII and George VI. Cheesman was H.M. Consul in North-West Abyssinia, and led this surveying expedition to Lake Tana in the course of which he became the first European to visit all the islands on Lake Tana. He also made the first journey from the Lake down the Blue Nile through entirely unexplored country to the furthest point reached by expeditions which had entered Abyssinia from the Sudan. First edition; 8vo; inscribed presentation copy from the author to H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester, 48 photographic illustrations (including a folding panorama frontispiece), 2 folding maps and a plan; original green cloth gilt with pictorial design in gilt on upper board, original pictorial dust-wrapper, a fine copy; xiv, 400 pp. Howgego C32.

• Binding: Hardcover

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