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Lot 338
Sale 654 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
May 1, 2019
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SPEKE, John Hanning (1827-1864). Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863.
8vo (220 x 142 mm). Frontispiece, 2 lithographed maps (one folding in rear cover pocket, one printed in two colors), 25 engraved plates. (Light spotting to pre- and post- lims.) Original publisher's cloth gilt. (hinges repaired with tape to front endpapers and frontispiece).
FIRST EDITION of Speke's important account of finding the source of the Nile. Speke is famed for being the first European to visit Lake Victoria and to identify it as the source of the Nile.