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The Nile Basin. Part I. Showing Tanganyika to be Ptolemy's Western Lake Reservoir . . . By Richard F. Burton, F.R.G.S.Part II. Captain Speke's Discovery of the Source of the Nile. A Review. By James M'Queen, Esq., F.R.G.S. Half-title. 8vo, original dark purple cloth, spine faded, hinges cracked; light foxing on preliminaries; cloth slipcase. London, 1864
first edition of a hostile critique of Speke's theories published not long after his death from a self-inflicted gunshot wound just before a scheduled debate with Burton; remainder issue, without maps. Casada 49; Penzer, pages 74-75.
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