I have here for sale a 2 volume set entitled ISMAILIA A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade organised by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, Vols I and II by Sir Samuel W Baker, Pacha.  It is a first edition set published by Macmillan and Co in 1874.  Vol I has a frontispiece portrait of Baker, a colour fold-out map of the Albert Nyanza and the routes taken by Baker, and 22 further b/w plates.  Vol II has a frontispiece portrait of Lieut-Colonel Abd-El-Kader, a colour map of the Basin of the Nile, and 29 further b/w plates.  

Sir Samuel White Baker (1821 – 1893) was an English explorer, officer, naturalist, big game hunter, engineer, writer and abolitionist. He also held the titles of Pasha and Major-General in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. He served as the Governor-General of the Equatorial Nile Basin (today's South Sudan and Northern Uganda) between April 1869 and August 1873, which he established as the Province of Equatoria. He is mostly remembered as the first European to visit Lake Albert, as an explorer of the Nile and interior of central Africa, and for his exploits as a big game hunter in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. Baker wrote a considerable number of books and published articles. He was a friend of King Edward VII, who, as Prince of Wales, visited Baker with Queen Alexandra in Egypt. Other friendships were with explorers Henry Morton Stanley, Roderick Murchison, John H. Speke and James A. Grant, with the ruler of Egypt Pasha Ismail The Magnificent, Major-General Charles George Gordon and Maharaja Duleep Singh.

Beautifully bound in full dark brown calf leather hardboards with 5 tooled raised bands, gilt motifs, red leather title and author/volume blocks with gilt lettering.  Boards have tooled edges.  One or two minor dents to the boards but otherwise in fine condition.  Cream linen effect endpapers and marbled page edges.  The map in Vol I has a couple of tears along the folds and has been repaired on the reverse in one place.  Some foxing to the map also.  Light foxing to first page of text, the last page and the flyleaf, but all other pages are clean and the binding is very tight.  Vol II has light foxing to the frontispiece and its tissue guard, last page and flyleaf and the odd page here and there in the text but mostly clean and firm.  A lovely set.  Vol I - 448 pages, Vol II - 588 pages.  22 x 15 cm.

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