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LE VAILLANT, François. Travels into the interior Parts of Africa by the way of the Cape of Good Hope, London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1796. 2 volumes, 8°, engraved frontispiece and 11 plates, including 2 folding (spotted, occasional browning), contemporary tree calf, morocco lettering-pieces, spines gilt (spines chipped and very rubbed, extremities rubbed), bookplate of Thomas Nash. Second edition. cf. Mendelssohn I, p. 889 (first edition).
THUNBERG, Charles Peter. Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, made between the Years 1770 and 1779, London: F. and C. Rivington, sold by W. Richardson, 1795. 4 volumes, 8°, half titles in volumes I-III, engraved frontispiece in volume I, 10 plates, including one folding (frontispiece tipped-in, folding plate with tears, one with loss, S5 in vol. III torn with loss of one or two letters of 3 lines of text, d1 in vol. IV torn with loss of a few letters of footnote, occasional spotting), contemporary half calf (spines faded and scuffed, extremities rubbed), bookplate of Buddle Atkinson. Second edition. cf. Mendelssohn II, p. 499 (third edition).
With Thomas Herbert's Some Years Travels into divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great (London, 1677, lacks one plate) and Thomas Pringle's Narrative of a Residence in South Africa (London, 1840). (8)
THUNBERG, Charles Peter. Travels in Europe, Africa, and Asia, made between the Years 1770 and 1779, London: F. and C. Rivington, sold by W. Richardson, 1795. 4 volumes, 8°, half titles in volumes I-III, engraved frontispiece in volume I, 10 plates, including one folding (frontispiece tipped-in, folding plate with tears, one with loss, S5 in vol. III torn with loss of one or two letters of 3 lines of text, d1 in vol. IV torn with loss of a few letters of footnote, occasional spotting), contemporary half calf (spines faded and scuffed, extremities rubbed), bookplate of Buddle Atkinson. Second edition. cf. Mendelssohn II, p. 499 (third edition).
With Thomas Herbert's Some Years Travels into divers Parts of Africa and Asia the Great (London, 1677, lacks one plate) and Thomas Pringle's Narrative of a Residence in South Africa (London, 1840). (8)
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