London, Macmillan and Co, 1870. New edition, i.e. the first single-volume edition. Octavo. pp. xxviii, 499. Two maps (one folding), 11 plates, and illustrations in the text. 43-page publisher's catalogue, dated September 1870, at rear. Full leather binding with gilt title to spine, raised bands. Leather worn and rubbed in parts. Gilt edged paper. Contemporary (1872) ownership inscription on front free end paper to Anstruther R Simson. Very good indeed. Macmillan, London., 1870.
Baker's works centralized on Egypt and the Abyssinia Nile tributaries. He had an extensive knowledge of Egypt as he held important political officers in Egypt. His accounts of Egypt and the Nile River Basin are some of the most important 19th-century books on the Nile River and helped record the discovery of Lake Albert. The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile is Baker's account of his discovery of the last great source of the Nile.
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