Heuglin,M.T.v. Reise in das Gebiet des Weißen... Lot 1600

Heuglin,M.T.v. Reise in das Gebiet des Weißen Nil und seiner westlichen Zuflüsse in den Jahren 1862-1864. Lpz. u. Hdbg., Winter 1869. With 1 border color lithogr. folding map, 8 plates in tinted wood engraving and text woodcuts. Wood engraving and 9 woodcuts. X pp., 1 leaf, 382 pp., 1 leaf. Olwd. (Best.). Gay 2321, Henze II, 580, Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 301, first edition. - With a preface by A. Petermann. "His main merit consists in the professional work, which not only significantly completed the map of the Nile countries, but also scientifically illuminated the entire area of the Gazelle River for the first time" (Petermann, quoted from Henze II, 578). - Foxing.