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First editions of Garstin's 1901 and 1904 Reports on the Irrigation and Basin of the Upper Nile, from the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
First editions of Garstin's 1901 and 1904 Reports on the Irrigation and Basin of the Upper Nile, from the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
First editions of Garstin's 1901 and 1904 Reports on the Irrigation and Basin of the Upper Nile, from the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
First editions of Garstin's 1901 and 1904 Reports on the Irrigation and Basin of the Upper Nile, from the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
First editions of Garstin's 1901 and 1904 Reports on the Irrigation and Basin of the Upper Nile, from the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century.
First editions of Garstin's 1901 and 1904 Reports on the Irrigation and Basin of the Upper Nile, from the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

blue books on the nile


GARSTIN, Sir William.

Despatch from His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, Inclosing a Report as to the Irrigation Projects on the Upper Nile. &c. Egypt. No. 2 (1901); [and] Despatch from His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, Inclosing a Report Upon the Basin of the Upper Nile. Egypt. No. 2 (1904).

London, H.M.S.O., 1901; 1904.

£2,750.00
£2,750.00

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Fine pair of official government reports on basin and lakes of the Nile. The first work is the first modern hydrographical survey of the Upper Nile, produced before the Aswan Dam had finished construction, and the second gives a full account of Sir William Edmund Garstin's (1849-1925) extensive survey of the Nile around Lake Edward, the Semliki River and the Lake Albert, and its tributaries into Uganda conducted in 1903. Together they represent the first attempt to understand the Nile in a modern hydrographical context and contain the most detailed survey of the Upper Nile of its time.

From the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century, whose library was dispersed by Sotheby's in 2003.

First editions; 2 vols, 4to (33 x 22 cm); 13 folding colour maps, plans, and cross sections, 6 of which folding, discreet library stamp to title; [and] 46 photographic plates, 41 maps, plans, and cross-sections, including 6 large folding; in the original printed blue wrappers, preserved in modern quarter calf clamshell box, bookplate to pastedown of box, both volumes with a little rubbing to spines and in fine condition.

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First editions of Garstin's 1901 and 1904 Reports on the Irrigation and Basin of the Upper Nile, from the noted collection of Humphrey Winterton, one of the greatest collectors of East Africa in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

Despatch from His Majesty's Agent and Consul-General at Cairo,

£2,750.00
£2,750.00

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