What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
By Speke, John Hanning
1st Edition. 372pp. Octavo. Bound in full contemporary polished calf. All edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. Gilt school crest on the front board and prize bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive gilt spine. Mild bumping and wear. Half title. Engraved frontispiece. Folding map. Two page map of the Somali coast. Four extra illustrations from Speke's other book bound in. A very clean copy with only a touch of very light foxing on the first few pages. The scarcest of the two books written by John Speke describing his travels in the lake regions of Africa with Richard Burton starting in October of 1854.
Published by: London William Blackwood & Sons 1864, 1864
Vendor: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC
By Speke, John Hanning
1st Edition. 372pp. Octavo. Bound in full contemporary polished calf. All edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers. Gilt school crest on the front board and prize bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive gilt spine. Mild bumping and wear. Half title. Engraved frontispiece. Folding map. Two page map of the Somali coast. Four extra illustrations from Speke's other book bound in. A very clean copy with only a touch of very light foxing on the first few pages. The scarcest of the two books written by John Speke describing his travels in the lake regions of Africa with Richard Burton starting in October of 1854.
Published by: London William Blackwood & Sons 1864, 1864
Vendor: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC
