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A two volume set completing the first edition of this sought after account of the Central Africa expedition for the suppression of the slave trade of 1869. The first edition, first impression of this work. Complete in two volumes. Sir Samuel W. Baker tells of his expedition to Central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade. Between 1869 and 1873 Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, appointed Barker as governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin with the rank of pasha in the Ottoman army. Among his duties were the annexing of the equatorial Nile basin, establishing Egyptian authority over the region south of now South Sudan, suppressing the slave trade, and opening the great lakes near the equator to navigation.The present volume provides a charming account of the author's travels and military experiences during the four-year-term, with some chapters recounting of the hunting of big game.Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding map, and twenty full page plates to vol. I, as well as a frontispiece, a coloured map, and twenty-nine full page plates to vol. II. Collated, complete.With numerous leaves of advertisements to the rear.From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie (1902-1968). Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII. Her passion for literature is displayed by her impressive library.She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things'. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally sound with some shelf wear and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities, some minor chipping to the spine and extremities and minor marking to the front boards. the spine has slightly darkened. Internally, the hinges are slightly tender, the volumes generally firm throughout. With evidence of the removal of a bookplate to the front pastedowns, and library stamps to the recto of the frontispiece, the first leaves of text, and to the margins of the occasional leaf of text or plate throughout. With a minor faint scattered spotting throughout. Illustrated with a frontispiece, a folding map, and twenty full page plates to vol. I, as well as a frontispiece, a coloured map, and twenty-nine full page plates to vol. II. Collated, complete, with some minor tape repairing to the folding map. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 793A48
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