Algiers, the Sahara and the Nile

HUMPHREYS, Rachel

Published by W. J. Ham-Smith, London, 1912

About this Item

FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 8vo, pp. viii, 181, [1], amply illustrated with 32 b/w photographic plates by Humphreys, Miss G. Hume, Miss C. White and Major L . Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Leading edges untrimmed and crudely opened. Extremities pushed and worn, grubby and stained boards. Offsetting to endpapers, signed by Humphreys in black ink to title page, toned, some foxing, spine cracked at a few gathering, but binding firm, else, clean. Good+ An unusual signed copy of Rachel Humphreys' North African travelogue, published a year before she was elected a member of the Royal Geographic Society, alongside 163 other women, following the resolution of the protracted (20 year!) debate over admitting women to its ranks. Morag Bell and Cheryl McEwan (1996) 'The Admission of Women Fellows to the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1914: The controversy and the outcome,' The Geographical Journal, 162:3 (Nov., 1996), pp. 295-312.

Seller Inventory # 3019

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Algiers, the Sahara and the Nile
• Publisher: W. J. Ham-Smith, London
• Publication Date: 1912
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good+
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Travel
  • Signed & Association Copies