A walk across Africa
or domestic scenes from my Nile journal.
Stock Code 107575
Edinburgh and London, Blackwood, 1864
Original price
$5,185.00
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Original price
$5,185.00
Original price
$5,185.00
$5,185.00
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$5,185.00
Current price
$5,185.00
One of the scarcest Nile accounts. One of the scarcest Nile accounts and a monumental work of exploration, James Grant travelled with Speke from Zanzibar to the source of the Nile at Lake Victoria, naming Ripon Falls.
First edition; 8vo, xviii, 452, 33 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, large folding map hand-coloured in outline in pocket at end, original olive cloth gilt, stamp of a tribesman with spear and shield to upper cover in black, light wear to extremities, corners bumped, a very good copy.
Czech p66.
First edition; 8vo, xviii, 452, 33 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, large folding map hand-coloured in outline in pocket at end, original olive cloth gilt, stamp of a tribesman with spear and shield to upper cover in black, light wear to extremities, corners bumped, a very good copy.
Czech p66.
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