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SIR SAMUEL WHITE BAKER (1821-1893)
The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs. Philadelphia & London: R. Clay, Son & Taylor for J.B. Lippincott & Co. and Macmillan & Co., 1867. 8° (218 x 137mm.). Engraved double-portrait frontispiece, 2 maps printed in three colours, one folding, 23 wood-engraved plates after Baker. Original cloth, spine blocked in gilt (spine slightly faded, soiled and bumped at head and foot). Provenance: R.R. Montgomery (early signature). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Sir S.W. Baker Ismailia. A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, London: R. Clay, Sons, & Taylor for Macmillan & Co., 1874. 2 volumes, 8° (221 x 143mm.). 55pp. publisher's advertisements, portrait frontispieces, two maps printed in three colours, one folding, 50 wood-engraved plates. (Tears to folding map, light spotting to frontispieces.) Original green cloth, upper covers and spines blocked in gilt (spines rubbed and chipped, recased, modern endpapers). FIRST EDITION, ex-library copy with ink stamps to foot of contents leaves.
With 5 other books of related interest, R. E. Cheeseman's Lake Tana & the Blue Nile an Abyssinian quest (London, 1936, FIRST EDITION), Abel Chapman's Savage Sudan (London, 1921, FIRST EDITION), F. L. James's The Wild Traibes of the Soudan (London, 1883, FIRST EDITION), Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von Slatin's Fire and Sword in the Sudan ... Translated by Major F.R. Wingate (London, 1896) and Charles George Gordon's The Journals of... Gordon... at Kartoum. Printed from the original Mss (London, 1885), all in original cloth. (8)
The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs. Philadelphia & London: R. Clay, Son & Taylor for J.B. Lippincott & Co. and Macmillan & Co., 1867. 8° (218 x 137mm.). Engraved double-portrait frontispiece, 2 maps printed in three colours, one folding, 23 wood-engraved plates after Baker. Original cloth, spine blocked in gilt (spine slightly faded, soiled and bumped at head and foot). Provenance: R.R. Montgomery (early signature). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION.
Sir S.W. Baker Ismailia. A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, London: R. Clay, Sons, & Taylor for Macmillan & Co., 1874. 2 volumes, 8° (221 x 143mm.). 55pp. publisher's advertisements, portrait frontispieces, two maps printed in three colours, one folding, 50 wood-engraved plates. (Tears to folding map, light spotting to frontispieces.) Original green cloth, upper covers and spines blocked in gilt (spines rubbed and chipped, recased, modern endpapers). FIRST EDITION, ex-library copy with ink stamps to foot of contents leaves.
With 5 other books of related interest, R. E. Cheeseman's Lake Tana & the Blue Nile an Abyssinian quest (London, 1936, FIRST EDITION), Abel Chapman's Savage Sudan (London, 1921, FIRST EDITION), F. L. James's The Wild Traibes of the Soudan (London, 1883, FIRST EDITION), Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von Slatin's Fire and Sword in the Sudan ... Translated by Major F.R. Wingate (London, 1896) and Charles George Gordon's The Journals of... Gordon... at Kartoum. Printed from the original Mss (London, 1885), all in original cloth. (8)
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