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Auction #121 begins on 27 Feb 2025

Baker (Sir Samuel White)

EIGHT YEARS' WANDERINGS IN CEYLON

Published: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1855

Edition: First Edition, first printing

Reserve: $550

Approximately:

Estimate: $600-750

Bidding opens: 27 Feb 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 6 Mar 16:30 GMT

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(this book is located in the USA)

Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1855. First edition, first printing

Quarter-leather and marbled boards, gilded page edges. A very good copy.

With ALL 6 of the color lithographs. 

The first editions are not very common at all.

Before Samuel Baker became famous as the Nile explorer, he lived in Ceylon and owned a tea plantation and hunted all over the country. We also have other Baker first editions up for auction today.



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