Lot 290
Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, 1st ed., cont. half calf, 1863 & 2 others, Speke (3)
Hammer Price: £300
Description
Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, 2 engraved portraits, 2 maps (one printed in red and blue, the other folding with outline hand-colouring), wood-engraved plates and numerous illustrations, lacking advertisement leaf and 32pp. publishers' catalogue at end, title soiled, a little foxed, 1863; [What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile], with half-title but lacking title and preliminaries (i.e. all before main text), with double-page map but lacking folding map, also lacking catalogue at end, [1864], first editions, cropped, uniform later half calf, rubbed, new red and green labels, [Czech p.151], Edinburgh & London; and a rebound copy of the first American edition of the first, 8vo; sold not subject to return (3)
Description
Africa.- Speke (John Hanning) Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, first edition, 2 engraved portraits, 2 maps (one printed in red and blue, the other folding with outline hand-colouring), wood-engraved plates and numerous illustrations, lacking advertisement leaf and 32pp. publishers' catalogue at end, title soiled, a little foxed, 1863; [What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile], with half-title but lacking title and preliminaries (i.e. all before main text), with double-page map but lacking folding map, also lacking catalogue at end, [1864], first editions, cropped, uniform later half calf, rubbed, new red and green labels, [Czech p.151], Edinburgh & London; and a rebound copy of the first American edition of the first, 8vo; sold not subject to return (3)