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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797...With an Appendix containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797...With an Appendix containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell

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Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797...With an Appendix containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell

by Park, Mungo

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London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1799. Second edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps and charts, two botanical engraved plates, and three copper-engraved plates after drawings by the author, 2 leaves of engraved music. xxviii, 372, xcii, [2] pp. Half-title. 1 vols. 4to. Bound in full contemporary polished tree calf, red morocco label. Occasional browning, but an excellent copy. Second edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps and charts, two botanical engraved plates, and three copper-engraved plates after drawings by the author, 2 leaves of engraved music. xxviii, 372, xcii, [2] pp. Half-title. 1 vols. 4to. The classic of African exploration, a fresh copy of the second edition, published in the same year as the first. PMM 253 (First edition) ; Howgego P21; Cox I pp. 394-95; Hosken p. 154; Ibrahim-Hilmy II 93. Provenance: J. Steward Hepburn (bookplate)

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Title
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797...With an Appendix containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell
Author
Park, Mungo
Format/Binding
Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps and charts, two botanical engraved plates, and three copper-engraved pla
Book Condition
Used - Bound in full contemporary polished tree calf, red morocco label. Occasional browning, but an excellent copy
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Edition
Second edition
Publisher
Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to His Majesty, Pall-Mall
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1799
Keywords
Africa
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