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Lot 341
SPEKE, JOHN HANNING Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1864. Second edition. Contemporary green pictorial cloth gilt. 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; xxxi, 658, [2] pp.; folding map with hand color in outline, frontispiece, plates, in-text illustrations, publisher's advertisements. Extremities worn, a bit overopened, old tape repair to map (which is bound in before the appendix rather than in rear pocket), scattering foxing (particularly to frontis and title page), blind stamp to front free endpaper, booksellers ticket to rear pastedown.
"In this cornerstone book of African exploration, Speke describes his search for the fabled source of the Nile. Accompanied by James A. Grant, the author trekked from the coast into the highlands around then unknown Lake Victoria from whence the Nile flowed. After crossing the Ajagara Range, the party trekked into Mgunda Mkhali where rhinoceros and buffalo were hunted. Later, as they crossed into the kingdom of Uganda, rhino and hippopotamus were bagged. They continued their trek down the Nile where buffalo, eland and rhinoceros were stalked before finally encountering the camp of Samuel White Baker" (Czech). Czech, Africa, pp. 260-261; Hilmy II, p. 255; Howgego IV S53-4.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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