Travel
CHEESMAN, R[obert] E[rnest]
Lake Tana & the Blue Nile. An Abyssinian quest.
Macmillan, London, 1936. First edition. 8vo., xiv, 400pp., 48 photographic illustrations (including a folding panorama frontispiece), 2 folding maps (1 with small tear) and a plan, signed in pencil on front free endpaper by C. Cheesman, original green cloth gilt with pictorial design in gilt on upper board, original pictorial dustwrapper defective including portion of spine missing.
A family copy; C. Cheesman is possibly the author's wife, to whom the work is dedicated. Cheesman was the H.M. Consul in North-West Abyssinia, and led this surveying expedition to Lake Tana in the course of which he became the first European to visit all the islands on Lake Tana. He also made the first journey from the Lake down the Blue Nile through entirely unexplored country to the furthest point reached by expeditions which had entered Abyssinia from the Sudan.
Price: £ 450
US Dollar Price: $ 900
Stock Number: 42660