BAKER, Sir Samuel White (1821-1893). - T. Douglas MURRAY & A. Silva WHITE. Sir Samuel Baker A Memoir, London & New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode for Macmillan & Co., 1895. 8° (220 x 144mm). Half title, title and dedication leaf in red and black. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 5 plates (one folding and printed in brown), 4 folding maps (2 coloured, 2 tinted), extra-illustrated with tipped in 3pp. ALS from the author to an unnamed correspondent, dated 30 September 1890, mentioning his books and discussing Lake Albert N'yanza. (Tears to two final maps.) Original orange buckram, upper cover blocked in black and gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (spine discoloured, small splits to joints, extremities slightly soiled). Provenance : F.W. Cavendish-Bentinck (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with an interesting letter from Baker, possibly to Cavendish-Bentinck, in answer to a question about Lake Albert N'yanza: 'It should be remembered that the great Lake Albert N'yanza described to me by natives as "one sheet of water," has been found by Stanley to be two Lakes connected by a river 90 miles in length, but the flat valley through which the river flows during 30 or 35 miles of its course was the bottom of the Lake Albert, and was probably under water on the occasion of my visit in 1864'.
BAKER, Sir Samuel White (1821-1893). - T. Douglas MURRAY & A. Silva WHITE. Sir Samuel Baker A Memoir, London & New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode for Macmillan & Co., 1895. 8° (220 x 144mm). Half title, title and dedication leaf in red and black. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, 5 plates (one folding and printed in brown), 4 folding maps (2 coloured, 2 tinted), extra-illustrated with tipped in 3pp. ALS from the author to an unnamed correspondent, dated 30 September 1890, mentioning his books and discussing Lake Albert N'yanza. (Tears to two final maps.) Original orange buckram, upper cover blocked in black and gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt (spine discoloured, small splits to joints, extremities slightly soiled). Provenance : F.W. Cavendish-Bentinck (armorial bookplate). FIRST EDITION, with an interesting letter from Baker, possibly to Cavendish-Bentinck, in answer to a question about Lake Albert N'yanza: 'It should be remembered that the great Lake Albert N'yanza described to me by natives as "one sheet of water," has been found by Stanley to be two Lakes connected by a river 90 miles in length, but the flat valley through which the river flows during 30 or 35 miles of its course was the bottom of the Lake Albert, and was probably under water on the occasion of my visit in 1864'.
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