EXPEDITION TO DISCOVER THE SOURCES OF THE WHITE NILE; in the years 1840, 1841. From the German, by Charles William O'Reilly.

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First English Edition, 2 vols, 8vo, pp vi, 346, (2) advertisements; ix, (i), 354; half-titles, folding map in Vol 1, folding engraved diagram in Vol 2, textual illustrations, original green cloth , spines faded with small wear to head of spines some light browning to the title page SCARCE This account, published nine years before Speke discovered Victoria Nyanza as the head of the White Nile, disproved de Bellefonds, who supposed that the head must lie in a lake about the latitude of 7° N. The first edition was published in one volume at Berlin in 1848. "There followed three Egyptian expeditions sent in 1839-41 and 1842 by Mehemet Ali on the White Nile.the second and third pressed further south, reaching 4° 42' N - or the foot of the rapids above Gonokoro. A Turkish officer, Selim Bimbashi, commanded the expeditions, and among the members were the Frenchmen Thibaut, D'Arnaud and Sabatier and a German, Ferdinand Werne. The last wrote a scientific account of the second expeditiion and drew a map of the Nile between Gondokoro and Khartum." ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA Tenri Library 1229. N° de ref. del artículo 9424

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