Apr 08, 2021 - Sale 2563

Sale 2563 - Lot 266

Price Realized: $ 520
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Speke, John Hanning (1827-1864)
Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile.

London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1863.

First edition, octavo, illustrated with engraved portrait frontispiece, numerous woodcut text engravings, large folding map housed in custom pocket inside the front board, full-paged map, and twenty-five full-paged plates, bound in contemporary half calf with marbled paper boards, 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.

Provenance: from the Stephen White Collection.