Author: SIR SAMUEL W. BAKER
Title: Ismailia a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade Organised by Ismail Khedive of Egypt
Description: London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1895. Hardcover. 8vo. This is a Very Good Copy of this book in green cloth binding with gilt title lettering to spine and with black lined border to the front cover with black design motif to upper board.This copy has a firm binding with NO loose pages.Illustrated with maps,portriats and upwards of fifty full-page illustrations.There are No previous names or inscriptions present and the text block remains clean with rough cut page edges or untrimmed.Early Edition 8vo (xx) 524pp [1895] Ismailia: Sir Samuel White Baker (1821-1893) was a renowned traveller and explorer.His original two-volume work of 1874 was his account of a military expedition under Ismail Pasha (Ismail the Magnificent, 1830-1895), Khedive of Egypt, to suppress the slave-trade of central Africa between 1869 and 1873...This copy is a later single volume edition of 1895. Very Good .

Keywords: Ismail Central Africa Slavery


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