BAKER, Samuel White.
The Albert N'Yanza,
The Albert N'Yanza,
great basin of the Nile, and explorations of the Nile sources.
Stock Code 115294
London, Macmillan and Co., 1866
Baker, after various adventures in Ceylon and the area around the Black Sea, went to Africa and embarked on his greatest adventure, namely to discover the source of the Nile. Having met up with Speke and Grant and exchanging valuable information with them, he eventually discovered the third great Nile lake, the Albert N'Yanza, but only after most of his men had deserted him and he had been forced to rely on the help of the slave trader Ibrahim and capricious local ruler, Kamrasi. One of the great travel narratives.
First edition, first issue (with the incorrect plate list in vol. II calling for the two maps to appear at the end of vol. II rather than the front of vol. I; vol. I with an additional plate opposite p.351); 2 volumes, 8vo (23 x 16 cm); double-portrait frontispiece in volume i, lithograph frontispiece in volume ii, 2 maps (1 large folding with tear at fold), 13 full-page plates, 20 illustrations in text, previous ownership inscription to front endpapers and titles, touch of spotting to frontis of vol. II; publisher's gilt green cloth, professionally recased and refurbished, large gilt pictorial vignettes to upper covers, gilt lettering to spines, light wear to corners, a very good set; xxx, 395; ix, 384 pp.
Hilmy I, 49; Czech p10.
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