Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773. In Five Volumes
London: Printed By J. Ruthven, for G.G.J. And J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, 1790. First Edition. Full Leather. Quarto. Very Good. Item #33019
5 volumes, pp. lxxxiii, [2], 535; viii, 718; viii, 759; viii, 695; xiv, 230, [9] - index, [1] - errata. 61 plates, plus 1 plan, 3 large folding maps, and 3 battle plans with separate explanation sheets, title-page vignette to all volumes. Half-titles in all volumes except vol. II. Half-title in volume V reads "Appendix" and title-page reads: "Select Specimens of Natural History, Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia." Full contemporary tree calf, gilt-tooled spine, double spine labels in black leather. Mixed set though bindings uniform. Volume II contains armorial bookplate of Thomas Tyndall, Junr, Esqr., has marbled endpapers, and has been expertly rebacked and sympathetically tooled; volumes IV & V contain armorial bookplate of Lesley Alexander; all volumes rehinged at one time, with new lower board and rear pastedown to volume III. Some offsetting to text, occasional spotting or mild foxing, with occasional soiling to the text, mild foxing to endpapers. Covers rubbed and scuffed, otherwise a very good, tight set. " ... Scottish traveller James Bruce's (1730-94) [account] of his journeys in the Horn of Africa, which includes an eye-witness account of Ethiopian history and culture, as well as a description of that country and the neighboring kingdom of Sennar and the Ottoman province of Habesh." - Wikipedia.
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