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Part of the Time Life series Classics of Exploration. Leatherette binding with red and gilt inlaid frame to front board and red and gilt design and lettering (with raised bands) to spine. Explanatory insert included. Contains large fold-out map inside back cover. Facsimile of the 1863 edition, preserving historical authenticity of the original work, including typographical errors and printing irregularities. With yellow ribbon bookmark, marbled endpapers and reproduction of the author's signature.

New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1864. Hardcover. Gift inscription on front pastedown; moderate wear to boards, corners and spine tips; 4" tear (below title in blank space) to enclosed map; some staining to endpapers ; 6 X 9 1/2 x 2"; 590 pages .

(Edinburgh and London: Blackwood: [1863]) First Edition? Gilt pictorial cloth (that is, hard covers) pp. xxxii, 658, ii, 32 publisher’s advertisements (230 x 160 x 55 mm thick). Illustrated including portraits of Speke and Grant. Map of the Nile. Map of Eastern Equatorial Africa (in Pocket at end of the Volume). Appendices A to G. First Edition. LACKS TITLE-PAGE. Upper hinge split and front board almost detached; both inner hinges detached; old clear tape residue to front board and spine; stain to dedication page; otherwise internally near fine and the Maps in like condition.

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1864. An attactively bound copy of the 1864 First U.S. Edition. Very Good condition (only lightly rubbed). SEE PHOTOS. Bright, clean, square and tight. Inner and outer hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a library discard. A landmark work in the history of African exploration. Handsomely bound in contemporary marbled paper covered boards, with tan leather spine and corners. The leather backstrip has 7 raised bands and brightly gilt-stamped red and black leather spine labels. It is beautifully and elaborately tooled with black rules and leaf ornaments. The endpapers feature marbled paper in a fan pattern that matches the front and rear covers. Well illustrated with about 75 engravings (chiefly from drawings by Captain Grant -- a few tissue-guarded), and two maps. One of the maps is a full page page map in blue and red, by Lieut. Francis Wilford that shows the course of Nile from its source. Bound in at the rear is a very… Read More