Item #79220 Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa; with Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Region of the Equator being Sketches from Sixteen Years' Travels. John Petherick.

Egypt, the Soudan, and Central Africa; with Explorations from Khartoum on the White Nile to the Region of the Equator being Sketches from Sixteen Years' Travels

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1861. 1st ed. Hardcover. folding map, xii, 482p. plus 4p. solicitation of subscriptions to support expeditions by Petherick and Speke to discover the source of the Nile which is tipped to front free endpaper and 16p. publisher's advertisement bound in after the folding map. Original cloth. 23cm. Backstrip faded as is a wrinkled area on front cover where a library label was probably removed. Relatively minor chipping at ends of backstrip. Ex lib. (stamps on endpaper and back of title-leaf -- possibly elsewhere). Endpapers cracked at hinges. Good. Item #79220

Price: $500.00

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