The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources viennese Original printed brown card covers

Original printed brown card covers

and hardly ever in this fresh and untorn state

otherwise clean and tight copy

Early edition bound in tan half morocco over marbled boards with raised bands to spine

He was a keen amateur naturalist

The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources viennese Original printed brown card coversLondon & Philadelphia: Macmillan Lippincott, 1866. First single volume edition. 8vo (9 x 6 ins); pp xxvi + 509. Portrait frontispiece plus six engraved and plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Two coloured maps at the back, one of which is folded. Folding map has a repaired tear across one corner. Original cloth boards with embossed gilt illustrations of canoeist in front of a setting (or rising) sun to front board, gilt lettering to spine,