THE UGANDA PROTECTORATE

An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical Geography, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, Languages and History of the Territories Under British Protection In East Central Africa, Between The Congo Free State and the Rift Valley and Between the First Degree of South Latitude and the Fifth Degree of North Latitude. In two volumes.

First edition. 2 volumes: I. 470. II. (471) – 1018 pages – continuously paginated, 48 coloured plates (including the frontispieces), 505 illustrations, 9 maps, original blue cloth gilt with gilt vignette laid down in both volumes, starting to wear at the front hinge on both title pages, uncancelled library markings on title pages and versos, very good set.

Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, (born June 12, 1858, London —died Aug. 31, 1927, Woodsetts House, near Worksop, Nottinghamshire), British explorer, botanist, zoologist, artist, and pioneer colonial administrator. Widely travelled in Africa and speaking many African languages, he was closely involved in what has been called the Scramble for Africa by 19th-century colonial powers. He published 40 books on African subjects and from 1891 to 1895 served as the first British consul general and commissioner in Nyasaland (now Malawi).

He gained his early African experience as a painter, natural-history collector, and freelance journalist. He was in Tunis (1879–80) and then travelled through Angola and up the Congo River (1882–83). On a botanical expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro in eastern Africa, he obtained a land concession that helped draw the frontiers between British and German territories in that region. Joining the consular service in 1885, he spent three years administering a British protectorate in eastern Nigeria. Between 1888 and 1891 he exercised much influence on British African policy and obtained the treaties on which the United Kingdom based its claims to Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia. Johnston was knighted in 1896. He served two years as consul general in Tunis and then was special commissioner in Uganda (1899–1901).https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harry-Hamilton-Johnston