AFRICA. - Samuel White BAKER. The Albert N'yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources. London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. 2 vols., first edition, 8vo (223 x 135mm.) Frontispiece to volume 1, tinted frontispiece to volume 2, 1 large folding map, another map, 13 wood-engraved plates, numerous wood-engraved illustrations within text. (Spotting to preliminaries of volume 2, toning to margins.) Original green cloth, gilt vignettes of paddle-boats to upper covers, gilt lettering to spine (rubbing to extremities, joints of volume two splitting). Note: Baker's book about the source of the Nile, proving that it flowed through the lake Albert Nyanza. - And four further volumes about the River Nile (including Harry Johnston's 'The Nile Quest', [n.d. but circa 1905], 8vo) (6).