Khartoum, and the Blue and White Niles

London, Colburn, 1851. . Second edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xiv, 300; x, 316 pp., 2 frontispieces (lightly foxed), 2 title-page vignettes, 1 map, original purple blind-stamped cloth gilt, spines faded, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set. Apparently an ancestor of the eponymous jazz singer, the author travelled through Egypt and Nubia, together with his family, arriving at Khartoum, the confluence place of the two Niles. Melly's father, Andre, died on the trip. Hilmy II, 29.