Name: Auction: The Source of the Nile Bruce & Speke
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 500 GBP
Availability: InStock

Lyon &amp; Turnbull are pleased to announce their October 2025 Books &amp; Manuscripts auction, taking place live and online from Edinburgh. The sale will present a carefully curated selection of printed books, manuscripts, maps, autographs and archives that span centuries of intellectual, literary and cultural achievement. &nbsp;Highlights from the autumn sale include fine bindings and library sets from the libraries of the late Earl of Airlie and from the Estate of Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy, Dowager Countess of Airlie, signed documents and letters from literary and historical figures ranging from John Ruskin to Duleep Singh, an important collection of Middle Eastern photography documenting the transformation of the region with the discovery of oil, and a large collection of travel narratives from the 18th to the 20th centuries.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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Bruce, James, of Kinnaird. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Dublin: P. Wogan, and others, 1790. 6 volumes, 8vo, 61 plates and maps (including three large folding maps), contemporary half calf, rubbed, joints split, one board detached; Speke, John Hanning. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1863. 8vo, portrait, 26 plates, folding map in pocket at rear, publisher's adverts, original red cloth gilt, bookplate of Sir David Stewart of Banchory Devenick, portrait torn and soiled with stamp to reverse, cloth a little rubbed (7)

The Source of the Nile

Bruce & Speke

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