sources nile being general survey von beke charles (8 Ergebnisse)

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First edition, first printing. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to Alexander George Findlay. Octavo. Publisher's original plum cloth with blind-stamped decoration to the boards and titles in gilt to the spine. Top edge untrimmed. Pale yellow endpapers. Illustrated with seven engraved maps (two folding, including frontispiece of the Nile Basin and one in-text). A very good copy, the binding square and firm with some minor marks to the cloth, wear to the corners, a little fraying and chipping to the joints and spine ends, a neat repair to the lower joint. The contents, with a little toning and very occasional spotting to page edges, occasional offsetting from the maps to facing text pages and a small, neat clear tape repair to the blank margin of the lightly creased folding frontispiece map, are otherwise in very good order and clean throughout. Inscribed in black ink at the head of the title page "A. G. Findlay Esq. / From the author". An excellent association copy of this notable work on the exploration of the Nile, presented by one key figure in the charting of the region to another. Charles Tilstone Beke (1800-1874) was an English traveller and geographer, best-known for his explorations and studies of the Nile and its tributaries. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society - who had received its gold medal for his contributions to the knowledge of Ethiopia - Beke was the first to determine, with any approach to scientific accuracy, the course of the Abay River, otherwise known as the Blue Nile. The present work, although drawing upon on his earlier texts, includes his pioneering essay 'On the Nile and its Tributaries' and contains much new material concerning the latest discoveries in the region. Having had his theories on the population and geography of the interior of Africa confirmed by the explorations of Sir Richard Burton, Beke also used the present work to call for the opening up of the continent by merchants, missionaries and philanthropists. The recipient, Alexander George Findlay (1812-1875), was a geographer and one of the leading hydrographers of the period, who produced charts and maps for a wide variety of famous ventures. Indeed, at the time of Sir John Franklin's loss he sifted all the possible routes; and as a member of the Arctic committee of the Royal Geographical Society worked on the arguments which induced the government to send out the Alert and Discovery expedition of 1875. Much of his time was also devoted to the labours of his friend David Livingstone, as well as African exploration more broadly. Notably, Findlay contributed to the investigation of the sources of the Nile, constructing maps for the Burton and Speke explorations of 185859, which in part built upon - and vindicated - Beke's previous work. Pleasingly, this copy of Beke's most complete study of the Nile valley was thus given to Findlay shortly after this latest expedition had returned home. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Dedication copy of the first edition of a survey on the geography of the Nile and it's sources. Charles Tilstone Beke (1800-1874) was an English traveller and geographer, best-known for his explorations and studies of the Nile. The present work includes his pioneering essay On the Nile and its Tributaries and contains much new material concerning the latest discoveries in the region, including the data of the expeditions by John Hanning Speke (1827-1864) and Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890). The present copy was given by the author to Thomas Hodgkin, MD (1798-1866), the famous physician, pathologist, and reformer.With an annotation by the author ("Thomas Hodgkin Eg. MD, from the author") at the head of the title page. The spine is damaged, with part of the material missing, the corners of the boards are somewhat scuffed. The work is lightly browned throughout, with a horizontal tear in the folding map, but without loss. Otherwise in good condition.l Edwards, Catalogue of books on Africa, 848; cf. Gay, Bibl. de l'Afrique, 2606. Original publisher's embossed purple pebbled cloth, with the publisher lettered in gold at the foot of the spine. With 5 maps (1 folding, 4 full-page), a folding plate, and several illustrations and tables in the text. Pages: XV, [4], 155, [1 blank] pp.

First edition of this thorough and uncommon monograph on the geography of the Nile basin, based on findings and data from the expeditions by Burton and Speke. It "gives the best existing summary of what had been done and fancied on the subject up to that date" (Proceedings, p. 160). Charles Tilstone Beke (18001874) was an English traveller and geographer, who went to Abyssinia (now Ethiopia) from 1840 to 1843. He "correctly divined that the principal source of the Nile River must lie in the equatorial highlands of east Africa and that the Blue Nile was a tributary to the White" (ODNB). His theory was later published in An Essay on the Sources of the Nile in the Mountains of the Moon (1848). In the preface to this work, Beke comments: "I need not dwell on the gratification which I have experienced in seeing the soundness of my hypothesis now at length established, so as to entitle it to be recognized as the true theory of the Sources of the Nile in the Mountains of the Moon. The fundamental cause of the erroneous notions prevalent respecting Africa is that Europeans have always approached that continent in the wrong direction". He had previously pointed out that the Nile basin could be reached with relative ease from the Zanzibar coast, instead of the Mediterranean. This advice was followed by Burton and Speke thus proving Beke's theory of the source of the Nile. Gay 2606. Proceedings of the Liverpool Literary & Philosophical Society, vol. 21, 1867. Octavo. With 5 engraved maps (4 full-page and one folding), engraved folding panorama. Original maroon pebble-grain cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards elaborately blindstamped. Spine ends repaired, spine and boards sunned and lightly mottled, folding map with old tape repairs to recto and verso, largely unopened, small chip to edge of contents page, spots of worming. A good copy.