Dec 03, 2009 - Sale 2198

Sale 2198 - Lot 254

Price Realized: $ 240
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
BAKER, SAMUEL; Sir. Group of 3 works in 4 volumes. 8vo, original cloth, second and third works rebacked. first editions; American issue of The Albert Nyanza, with Lippincott spine imprint. London, 1855-74

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Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon. 6 chromolithographed plates. Half-title. Contemporary English school prize certificate on front pastedown. 1855 The Albert Nyanza, Great Basin of the Nile and Exploration of the Nile Sources. 13 plates; 2 maps, one of them folding. Light dampstaining on preliminaries, scattered pencil marginalia. 1866 Ismailïa. A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. 51 plates; 2 maps, one of them folding (with discolored cellotape repairs along folds on verso). 2 volumes. 1874.