Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile

by John Hanning Speke

$2,450 · Offered by Whitmore Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. First edition. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt figure. Octavo. xxxi, 1 , 658, 34, ads pp. Collating complete with twenty-seven plates including frontisportrait of Speke and the large fold-out map 445 x 570 mm of Eastern Equatorial Africa tucked into the pocket beneath lower pastedown as issued . Binding is clean and attractive

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