James Augustus Grant

Grant behind John Hanning Speke, with whom he discovered the Source of the Nile River.

Copies of the first British edition

I do not own any of the copies shown on this page, but do own a first edition copy in the original green cloth binding. 

Title-page of the 1864 first British edition

The cream-colored and brown bindings are variant-binding first British editions

Grant inscribed a copy of the first edition for his mother, which, sadly, is not in my collection.

Grant signed a first edition, which, sadly, is not in my collection.