BAKER, SAMUEL WHITE:
ISMAILIA : BERÄTTELSE OM DEN AF ISMAIL, KHEDIV AF EGYPTEN, FÖR UNDERTRYCKANDE AF SLAFHANDELN I CENTRALAFRIKA UTSÄNDE EXPEDITION.
Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1875.
8vo. [4], 400 pp. + frontispiece portrait of the author + 2 maps (one folding) + 39 wood-engraved plates. 24 wood-engravings in the text.
¶ First edition in Swedish of Sir Samuel White Baker's A narrative of the expedition to central Africa for the suppression of the slave trade organized by Ismail, khedive of Egypt (London 1874), translated by C.A. Swahn.
"Sir Samuel White Baker [1821-93], English explorer in Africa. He explored the Nile tributaries in Ethiopia in 1861-62. Going up the Nile from Cairo, he reached Gondokoro in 1863. He continued his journey southward in spite of the opposition of Arab slave traders and visited Lake Albert (Albert Nyanza) on Mar. 14, 1864. In 1869, with the authority of the khedive of Egypt, he returned to the region and, creating an administration in the Lado Enclave, he suppressed the slave trade and opened up the lake areas to commerce"(The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2001).
Bibliotek för resebeskrifningar, 4.
Cf. Ibrahim-Hilmy, 1, p. 49.Uncut copy, 6 parts in 4 volumes, as issued, with all of the original printed and pictorial wrappers preserved. Publisher's catalogue entitled Bokhandels-anmälan till Julen 1875, 12 pp., inlaid.
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