The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources big cats] unforgiving landscapes

unforgiving landscapes

London: Bodley Head

East Sussex

Bound in red half calf over marbled boards

by Charles Ricketts

The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Explorations of the Nile Sources big cats] unforgiving landscapesLondon & 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,