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Auction #119 begins on 14 Nov 2024

Baker (Samuel White)

The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Exploration of the Nile Sources

Published: Macmillan & Co, London, 1866

Edition: First Edition

Reserve: $45

Approximately:

Estimate: $65/85

Bidding opens: 14 Nov 16:30 GMT

Bidding closes: 21 Nov 16:30 GMT

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Published by Macmillan / Lippincott. 1866. 1st edition. 516 pp., illus., large folding coloured map. Very good if dust dulled green decorated gilt cloth covers. Internally very good with an edge worn coloured map.

Recounting Samuel White Baker's discovery of Lake Albert - 'the great reservoir of the equatorial waters, the ALBERT N'YANZA, from which the river issues as the entire White Nile' in 1864. 

  • Binding Condition: Very Good
  • Overall Condition: Very Good
  • Size: 8vo


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