- Lot 320

Samuel White BAKER - Discovery of the Albert N'Yanza. New explorations of the sources of the Nile. Paris, L. Hachette et Cie, 1868. In-8, 242 x 150 mm, publisher's green half-chagrin binding, four-ribbed spine. [8 (incl. front)], xi, [3], 512 pp. Work translated from English by Gustave Masson. Illustrated with 30 woodcuts, including the frontispiece and 23 full-page engravings, as well as 2 out-of-text maps showing all of Samuel Baker's travels and the course of the Nile south of Gondokoro. Minor scattered foxing or spotting. ATTACHED: - H. M. STANLEY - The Discovery of the Congo [...] Illustrated with one hundred woodcuts and two maps, one in seven colors. Paris, Maurice Dreyfous and M. Dalsace, s.d. Large in-8, 270 x 170 mm, publisher's red percaline decorated boards, gilt edges (1st guard torn off). [8 (including frontispiece)], 328 pp. Relation illustrated with 1 frontispiece, 12 full-page illustrations, numerous figures in the text, 1 map included in the pagination and 1 general folding map in color of Central Africa. Work composed of letters written by H. M. Stanley during his exploration, completed according to his travel journal by Lucien Herdebert, member of the Geographical Society. TOGETHER 2 VOLUMES.