Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Author:
SPEKE, JOHN HANNING
Title:
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile
Publisher:
William Blackwood & Sons 1863
Description:
CONTAINS FOLDING MAP OF EQUATORIAL EAST AFRICA LOOSLEY ENCLOSED- NO POCKET AT REAR, octavo, brown buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt portrait & blind rule to front board, frontispiece, xxxi + 658pp, illus, VG- (heavy bruising & scuffing to spine extrems- 5mm at base partially detached, heavy wrinkling to spine, moderate chafing &soiling to boards, front board partially detached, moderate soiling & foxing to page edges, prev. booksellers' sm labels to pastedowns, gift inscription in pencil to prelims, moderate water staining to frontispiece, light foxing sporadically throughout, some pages still uncut)
Keywords:
Egypt exploration history landscape Nile river source geography