EGYPT, THE SOUDAN AND CENTRAL AFRICA. With Explorations From Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator, Being Sketches from Sixteen Years’ Travel.
Rare and modern books
Petherick
William Blackwood,
1861
EGYPT, THE SOUDAN AND CENTRAL AFRICA. With Explorations From Khartoum on the White Nile to the Regions of the Equator, Being Sketches from Sixteen Years’ Travel.
Rare and modern books
Petherick
William Blackwood,
1861
1265.00 €
(Newburyport,
United States of America)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1861
- Place of printing
- Edinburgh
- Author
- Petherick
- Publishers
- William Blackwood
- Edition
- RARE FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL CLOTH OF THIS EXTENSIVE WORK OF
- Languages
- English
- First edition
- True
Description
First edition, and WITH THE SCARCE SUBSCRIPTION PAMPHLET appealing for funds for Petherick’s proposed expedition to explore the Nile sources and to aid the Speke and Grant Expedition already in progress, and to further explore the Nile beyond Gondokoro. With a large folding map of the author’s travels. 8vo, original publisher’s textured burgundy cloth, blindstamped decorative borders to both covers, the spine lettered in gilt. [4 page subscription pamphlet], xii, 482, 16 ads. A very desirable copy of this rare first edition, internally very clean, the binding bright and handsome with only light mellowing to the spine and gilt, a bit of expert strengthening to the tips.
