First Edition, with a frontispiece from an etching, 5 other plates from etchings, 40 other full-page engraved plates mainly from woodcuts, and 3 maps (of which 2 are folding), lge. 8vo., pp. xx, 273, publisher’s pictorial cloth, gilt, signature of the author’s brother, W.D. James, on the half-title, and bookplate of Sir S.W. Baker on the front end-paper."Sir Samuel Baker wrote a short prefatory chapter, (on ‘The Political State of Khartoum and the Soudan’) in the second edition of this work, published in the following year, and the present copy was presumably presented to him by the author’s brother, in preparation for this. "