I have here for sale a book entitled ISMAILIA: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt by Sir Samuel W Baker, Pacha M.A. With maps, portraits, and upwards fifty full-page illustrations by Zwecker and Durand. Published by Macmillan and Co, London in 1886. It has a map of the route and 52 other b/w plates and illustrations.


Sir Samuel White Baker, 1821 - 1893, was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the first European to visit Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa. He was an fierce advocator of the abolition of slavery.


FINE BINDING

Full brown leather prize binding with school emblem to frontboard [Royal Grammar School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne]

to gilt ruled front and back boards and gilt decorated five ridged spine and panels. Black leather title plate. Marbled text block edges and endpapers, with matching bookplate. Internally clean with some yellowing towards the page edges. The double-paged map of Baker's route in the intro is intact. All gilt is still very bright. Overall in near very good condition. xx, 524 pages, 20 x 13 cm