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Hartford: O.D. Case & Co., 1868. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 624pp.incl.index; HB burgundy w/gilt; heavy rub w/wear on edges&corners; spine sunned&frayed; cracked at pg.402/403 & detaching; bookplate; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. except where noted. "The sources, supply, and the overflow of the Nile; the country, people, customs, etc. Interspersed with highly exciting adventures of the author. Among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopotami, rhinoceros, etc.. Accompanied by expert native sword hunters. Illustrated. With a supplementary sketch relative to the captivity and release of English subjects and the career of the late Emperor Theodore. by Rev. W.L. Gage.
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Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia.
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EXPLORATION OF THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA. THE SOURCES, SUPPLY, AND OVERFLOW OF THE NILE; THE COUNTRY, PEOPLE, CUSTOMS, ETC.
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Hartford:O. D. Case and Co., 1868. First Edition. hard cover. Good/No jacket. Interspersed with Highly Exciting Adventures of the Author, Among Elephants, Lions, Buffaloes, Hippopotami, Rhinoceros, Etc. Accompanied by Expert Native Sword Hunters. With a Supplementory Sketch Relative to the Captivity and Release of English Subjects and The Career of the Late Emperor Theodore by Rev. W. L. Gage. Hartford:O. D. Case and Co. 1868. 1st American edition. xx+(24)-624pp. Illustrated, with 2 maps (one folding). Hardcover. Pebbled brown boards with title in gilt on spine strip soiled, rubbed and shelfworn, with wear along edges, spine ends cipped and frayed and edge points worn to boards. Spine edges of front cover rubbed and worn, fraying and starting to separate from top edge. Page edges soiled. Internally, brown end-pages lightly soiled with a previous owners name stamped and penciled to 2nd free end-page. Otherwise, aside from an occasional…
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Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; The Country, People, Customs, etc. Interspersed with Highly Exciting Adventures of the Author. Among Elephants, Lions, Buffaloes, Hippopotami, Rhinoceros, etc. Accompanied by Expert Native Sword Hunters. With A Supplementary Sketch Relative to the Captivity and Release of English Subjects and the Career of the Late Emperor Theodore. By Rev. W.L. Gage
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Hartford: O.D. Case & Co, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Thick octavo. 624pp. Illustrated with plates and one color map in the preliminary and a folding map of the Nile tributaries in Abyssinia in rear. Brown cloth, bind-stamped and ruled on boards, gilt-stamped spine. Page edges faintly dampstained, lacking half-title page, front hinge cracked, spine sunned with short tears on ends, about very good without dustwrapper as issued.
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Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia. The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; The Country, People, Customs, etc. Interspersed with Many
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Hartford: O.D. Case, 1868. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Cloth, 23 cm, 608 pages, with black & white illustrations and two maps complete. Very good copy but for some very light foxing in pages.
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Exploration of the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia; The Sources, Supply, and Overflow of the Nile; The Country, People, Customs, Etc.
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Hartford (CT): Published by O.D. Case & Co, 1868. First American edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. [5], vi-xx, [3], 24-608 pp. Wood-engraved frontispiece with 15 additional engraved plates, based on original sketches by the author; one fold-out map and a full-page map. Brown pebbled cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Concluding the title page: "Interspersed with many highly exciting adventures of the author, among elephants, lions, buffaloes, hippopatmi, rhinoceros, antelopes, and other great game of the country; accompanied by expert native sword hunters." Baker provides an account of Eastern Africa: its animals, its peoples, its rivers, its lakes, and its landscapes. He completed the European discovery of the source of the Nile, naming the Albert Nyanza, with help from Sir John Speke. His account of Eastern Africa would greatly influence the common person's attitudes and perceptions of the Nile basin and the peoples who lived there. The plates in the volume depict Baker's penchant for big…
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