Petherick, John

Estimate

1,200 - 1,800 GBP

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Description

Travels in Central Africa, and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1869
paper

FIRST EDITION, 2 volumes, 8vo (222 x 138mm.), (vol.1) xx, 332pp.; (vol.2) xiv, [ii], 272pp., 32pp. adverts, 2 folding maps [identical, as is correct], 11 plates, illustrations, original pictorial purple cloth gilt, dark green endpapers, bevelled edges, slipcase, a few leaves spotted at beginning and end

Provenance

Count de Vesci, Abbeyleix, gilt armorial cypher on the spines

Literature

Czech (Africa) p.129; Hilmy II, p.111

Catalogue Note

Petherick travelled to central Africa as consul, and as an envoy for the Royal Geographic Society. He was meant to meet Speke and Grant at Gondokoro with boats and provisions for their journey down the Nile to Khartoum, but when they were well overdue, Petherick and his wife headed into the interior on a trading expedition. When Speke eventually arrived Petherick was not present.