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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, London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author, and sold by C. and W. Nicol, 1799. 4° (25.8 x 20cm.), half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Dickinson after H. Edridge, 5 engraved plates, 3 folding maps, one hand-coloured in outline, 2 leaves of engraved music and list of subscribers (occasional offsetting, some browning and spotting, pages 67-70 bound-in upside down), contemporary tree calf, black morocco lettering piece (corners bumped, rebacked). Provenance: Pull Court (book plate and shelf mark).
FIRST EDITION of this great classic of travel literature which was so popular that three editions were published in 1799 alone. PMM 253.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, London: W. Bulmer and Co. for the Author, and sold by C. and W. Nicol, 1799. 4° (25.8 x 20cm.), half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait by T. Dickinson after H. Edridge, 5 engraved plates, 3 folding maps, one hand-coloured in outline, 2 leaves of engraved music and list of subscribers (occasional offsetting, some browning and spotting, pages 67-70 bound-in upside down), contemporary tree calf, black morocco lettering piece (corners bumped, rebacked). Provenance: Pull Court (book plate and shelf mark).
FIRST EDITION of this great classic of travel literature which was so popular that three editions were published in 1799 alone. PMM 253.
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