An unusually nice set, internally near pristine. Lack of foxing is very rare for the London editions.

First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo., xiv, [1], 522; ix, 566 pp., 2 frontispiece portraits, 10 maps including 2 large folding maps in pockets at rear, 33 wood-engraved plates, illustrations in the text, original brown pictorial cloth.

In 1874, the New York Herald and the Daily Telegraph financed Stanley on another expedition to Africa. Stanley's ambitious objective was to complete the exploration and mapping of the Central African Great Lakes and rivers, in the process circumnavigating Lakes Victoria and Tanganyika and locating the source of the Nile. 

This was Stanley's second journey in central Africa. In 1871–72 he had searched for and successfully found the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. In his publications, Stanley described greeting him with the famous words: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

Between 1874 and 1877 Henry Morton Stanley traveled Central Africa east to west, exploring Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and the Lualaba and Congo rivers. He covered 7,000 miles (11,000 km) from Zanzibar in the east to Boma at the mouth of the Congo in the west. The expedition resolved several open questions concerning the geography of Central Africa, including identifying the source of the Nile, which he proved was not the Lualaba.

The first printing of the first edition, published in 1867

Here is a rarity. Original cloth binding. 1867 first London edition published by Macmillan. 

Sir Samuel White Baker’s THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA AND THE SWORD HUNTERS OF THE HAMRAN ARABS

This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.

Baker and his young wife, whom he purportedly stole from a slave auction in the Ottoman Empire when he was not the winning bidder, for an entire year explored the many tributaries of the Nile and learned Arabic in preparation for exploring for the source of the Nile. The Bakers’ subsequent Nile explorations, and meeting John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant on their way back from discovering the source of the Nile, is covered in Baker’s THE ALBERT N’YANZA, which was published in 1866 even though the events occurred AFTER the events of THE NILE TRIBUTARIES.

An unusually nice set, internally near pristine.

2 volumes. The 1878 American first printing of the first edition in the original Deluxe Half-Leather and Marbled Boards binding.

Numerous illustrations and maps throughout, including 34 full page plates and two very large folding maps in rear pockets of each volume.

Sir Samuel White Baker’s THE ALBERT N'YANZA

Beautifully rebound in a custom fine binding. 1866 first London edition published by Macmillan in 2 volumes. Some wear to outer hinges, edges, corners. Repair to large fold-out map.

This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.

Baker and his young wife, whom he purportedly stole from a slave auction in the Ottoman Empire when he was not the winning bidder, for an entire year explored the many tributaries of the Nile and learned Arabic in preparation for exploring for the source of the Nile. The Bakers’ subsequent Nile explorations, and meeting John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant on their way back from discovering the source of the Nile, is covered in Baker’s THE ALBERT N’YANZA, which was published in 1866 even though the events occurred after the events of Baker's THE NILE TRIBUTARIES (published a year later in 1867).

Sir Samuel White Baker’s THE ALBERT N'YANZA

Beautifully rebound in a custom fine binding. 1866 first London edition published by Macmillan in 2 volumes. Mild foxing to mainly early pages of first volume. Repair to large fold-out map.

This is one of the most exciting accounts of true exploration and adventure ever published.

Baker and his young wife, whom he purportedly stole from a slave auction in the Ottoman Empire when he was not the winning bidder, for an entire year explored the many tributaries of the Nile and learned Arabic in preparation for exploring for the source of the Nile. The Bakers’ subsequent Nile explorations, and meeting John Hanning Speke and James Augustus Grant on their way back from discovering the source of the Nile, is covered in Baker’s THE ALBERT N’YANZA, which was published in 1866 even though the events occurred after the events of Baker's THE NILE TRIBUTARIES (published a year later in 1867).

2 volumes. The 1878 American first printing of the first edition in the original Deluxe Half-Leather and Marbled Boards binding.

Numerous illustrations and maps throughout, including 34 full-page plates and two large folding maps in rear pockets of each volume. The marbled paper has been touched-up, re-colored in places. The volumes are aged and have wear. Inner hinges intact; the volumes are sturdy. One of the map pockets has a repaired rip (see photo)

Published by J. Winchester, New World Press, circa 1843/1844, though no date in the book.

This is the First American edition "from the first London edition"

392 total pages; text ends at 338, 8 appendices from 339-392

Half title: The highlands of Ethiopia described, during eighteen months' residence of a British embassy at the Christian court of Shoa

Title page with a vignette illustration

Color lithograph (Endicott) immediately after title-page.

Single illustration on a plate, facing page 105

Single illustration on a plate, facing page 201

Two illustrations on a plate, facing page 297

Appendix VII "Catalogue of extant mss. in the Ethiopic and Amharic tongues": p. 360-361

Appendix VIII "Senkesar or Synaxaria. The calendar of the Ethiopic Christian church": p. 363-392

Harris led an expedition into Ethiopia (Abyssinia) for the British government, and describes in detail local cultural and physical conditions. Text in double columns. Six illustrations, including color lithograph of King Sahela Selassie. Important early work on this area of Africa.