Author: BURTON, Richard F. and James M’Queen.
Title: The Nile Basin: Part I: Showing Tanganyika to Be Ptolemy&Rsquo;S Western Lake Reservoir. A Memoir Read Before the Royal Geographical Society, November 14, 1864. Part II: Captain Speke&Rsquo;S Discovery of the Source of the Nile.
Description: London: Tinsley Brothers, 1864. First edition, 8vo., pp.iv,195, lacking the 3 b/w maps but with facsimiles of each bound in, professionally recased preserving the publisher’s decorative maroon cloth, gilt; bookplate to front pastedown endpaper, very light foxing to free endpapers and half-title, lightly rubbed, otherwise a very good copy.

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