Lot 111
- 111
Speedy, Cornelia Mary
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- My Wanderings in the Soudan. London: Richard Bentley, 1884
- Paper, ink, leather
2 volumes, 8vo. Folding lithographed map, in-text illustrations; minor foxing to titles and endpapers. Original pictorial red cloth gilt, black endpapers; minor foxing to edges, water stain to upper cover of vol.1. Blue cloth slipcase.
Provenance
Franklin Brooke-Hitching (his sale, Sotheby's London, 30 September 2015, lot 127)
Literature
Hilmy II, p.254
Catalogue Note
FIRST EDITION, BROOKE-HITCHING COPY. Mrs. Speedy's travels covered the northeastern part of the Sudan, from the Red Sea port of Suakin to the territory of the Hamran Arabs near the Black Nile.