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Ismalia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Signed first edition). Macmillan and Co

Ismalia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Signed first edition). Macmillan and Co by Baker, Sir Samuel W.

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
Ismalia: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade (Signed first edition). Macmillan and Co
Author
Baker, Sir Samuel W.
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition. Near Fine. Two volumes, octavo. Signed by the author in black ink to front blank of volume 1. Bound in handsome modern half calf gilt over marbled boards to stylem with twin red morocco spine labels. Wood-engraved portrait frontispiece, 52 plates, 2 lithographic maps, one folding. Scattered foxing, small repaired closed tear to inner margin of large folding map (as usual). A Near Fine copy. A work that is noticeably scarced signed or inscribed. We have only been able to trace one other such example appearing in auction records. A key work of 19th-century African exploration and the suppression of the slave trade in the Nile Basin, "the Khedive Isma'il appointed Baker to a four-year term as governor-general of the equatorial Nile basin, with the rank of pasha and major-general in the Ottoman army. It was the most senior post a European ever received under an Egyptian administration. According to the khedive's firman, Baker's duties included annexing the equatorial Nile basin, establishing Egyptian authority over the region south of Gondokoro [modern-day South Sudan], suppressing the slave trade, introducing cotton cultivation, organizing a network of trading stations throughout the annexed territories, and opening the great lakes near the equator to navigation" (ODNB). "While most of the narrative involves travel and military adventure, there are several episodes of sport as well. Baker's troops bagged crocodile and hippopotamus, depicted in several fascinating engravings. South of Regiaf, the author bagged a pair of elephants, and attempted to collect a few more by using both Hale's rockets and the company's fieldpiece. Later, in Unyoro, he hunted antelope and lion while natives drove the game toward a series of nets" (Czech). Blackmer 66. Czech (Africa) p. 11. Howgego I B10. Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 49. Near Fine.
The Man Who Was Thursday

The Man Who Was Thursday by Chesterton, G.K.

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Title
The Man Who Was Thursday
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Chesterton, G.K.
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Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
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New York: Dodd, Mead and Company. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (no price). Blue cloth with blue ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

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