Fifty years of Nile exploration, and some of its results. As contained in The Geographical Journal, vol. XXXIII, no. 2 for February, 1909
[London: Royal Geographical Society, 1909]. 8vo, pp. [117]-240 [i.e. 122 pages]; portrait frontispiece, 2 maps (1 full-page); large folding color map at the back, worn, and with neat repairs on verso. Bound in slightly later half maroon calf, gilt-lettered direct on spine; very good and sound. Also contains articles on The Panama Canal, by Vaughan Cornish (with 4 illustrations from photographs); Survey Work on the Frontier between Bolivia and Brazil, by Major P. H. Fawcett; The Italian Earthquake of December 28, 1908, by R. D. Oldham (with a map); The Meteorology of the 'Discovery'; Lake Kioga (Ibrahim) Exploratory Survey 1907-1908, by Lieut. C. E. Fishbourne; and, Swallow-Holes in Chalk, by Col. W. Pitt. Plus book reviews and the Monthly Record of expeditions and explorations. Item #59365
Price: $75.00
