The Source of the Blue Nile

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1905. FIRST EDITION. With 2 folding maps and 32 plates photographic plates, including frontispiece. Bound in new blue buckram in exactly the same manner as the original publisher’s cloth, with gilt lettering and decorative seal; maps and plates all in good condition. Stamp of the Cork Garrison Library, bookplate of the Royal Citadel Barrack Library pasted onto original free endpaper. First edition. In this colorful Edwardian bit of travel writing, Hayes, a British physician working in Egypt, recounts his voyage through Abyssinia during 1902-3. Photographic plates, descriptive footnotes, and lively prose paint a vivid picture of colonial Ethiopia under British rule after Kitchener.