ISMAILIA: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade, Organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt

First One Volume Edition and the second overall. Extensively illustrated with maps, portraits, and over fifty plates, including one map which is folding with the route marked in red. 8vo, publisher’s original forest green cloth, the spine lettered and pictorially decorated in gilt, the upper board ruled and pictorial decorated in black. xx, 524, 32-page publisher's catalogue. A fresh and very pleasing copy, clean and bright binding and very well preserved throughout, neat strengthening to the hinges of the otherwise very fresh and bright green cloth.

Edizione: a classic work by one of the most significant african explorers of his time. scarce and rarely found in original cloth in this condition.<br> samuel baker was prolific in his writing about africa. his works on the basin of and search for the sources of the nile are among the most important writings ever penned about the dark continent and he ranks with burton, speke and grant in importance as an african explorer. <br> this is the account of the khedive of egypt’s expedition, which baker commanded, to suppress the slave trade in central africa. it was one of the first practical steps taken for the purpose. in his early exploits in africa baker had been an eyewitness to the horrors and misery caused by the trade. he was determined in his attempt to bring it to an end.