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SPEKE, JOHN HANNING.
Journal of the Discovery of the Nile.
Turnhout, Time-Life Books, 1984. 8vo. In full imitated leather with red title-label to spine with gilt lettering and gilt lines to edges of front boards. Introductory sheet and bookplate loosely inserted. Two very nice and clean copies, near mint. XXXI, (1), 658, (28) pp.
Reference : 44880
Facsimile of the 1863 edition.
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Herman H. J. Lynge & Son
William Schneider
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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. With Map and Portraits, and numerous Illustrations, chiefly from Drawings by Captain Grant.
Edinburgh and London, Blackwood and Sons, 1863. Orig. full cloth, gilt lettering on spine, frontcover gilt. Tears to cloth at hinges, but covers not loose. Spine and covers somewhat rubbed. Covers worn at edges. XXXI,658 pp. and Publishers Catalogue at end. Numerous textillustrations in woodcut, 26 plates (incl. the steelengraved frontispiece), 2 maps (1 large folded and coloured in outline), foldings of map strenghtened on verso). Internally in general fine and clean, only a few weak brownspots.
First edition. Speke travelled with Burton in Somaliland in 1854 and barely escaped with his life. In 1857 he joined Burton again in Africa. Together they found Lake Tanganyika, and later travelling alone, Speke found Lake Victoria. Returning to Africa with Grant in 1860, he proved that the Nile was the outlet of Lake Victoria. . He died in Bath by shooting himself accidentally.
