PBA Galleries

2 volumes. [iii]-viii, 447, [1] + 55 ad; [iii]-viii, 588 pp. Copper-engraved frontispiece portrait of Samuel Baker in Vol. II; numerous wood-engraved plates including frontispiece in Vol. II; 2 maps with hand-coloring, 1 folding. 8½x5½, modern full blue oasis morocco, spines gilt, raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt; original front cover cloth bound into the back of each volume. First Edition.

Baker traveled through Egypt, the Sudan, and points south to the headwaters of the Nile in this expedition to suppress the slave-trade of Central Africa, which he was chosen to command.