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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First English Language Edition. Emin Pasha (born Eduard Schnitzer) was a German physician and governor in the Egyptian Sudan, this book based on his own notes and letters provides an intimate look at nineteenth-century Central African geography, wildlife, and indigenous societies. xviii, 547 pp. Includes 2*photographic portraits and 1*map. Original brown cloth covered boards with Arabic lettering in gilt to upper board and gilt lettering to spine. Light rubbing to extremities of boards. Spine cloth a little darkened. Splitting to lower half of the hinge between the front pastedown and free endpaper, not currently affecting the book's integrity. Three tears along folds in the map, restricted in the main to the margin. Text-block sound and pages remain bright.

Cloth Bound. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy of the scarce first edition, first issue, translated in to English by Mrs R. W. Felkin. Pasha (1840-1892) was an Ottoman-German Jewish physician and naturalist, and governor of the Egyptian province of Equatoria on the Upper Nile. The Ottoman empire conferred the title "Pasha" on him in 1886, and thereafter he was referred to Emin Pasha.Complete with the two tissue-guarded portraits of Pasha plus a large, folding coloured map (in excellent condition, with just one small blank margin repair. The text is in very good+, tight, clean condition. "Sutton 1889" inscribed on front end paper. Negligible age-browning. The brown cloth binding, with gilt titles and motif on front and spine, is in very good, tight condition, with very minor wear. 547 pages. See photographs of this actual book attached.