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MUNGO PARK (1771-1806)
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, London: for the Author by W. Bulmer, 1799. 4° (260 x 202mm.). Half title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates and 3 folding maps, 2 leaves of engraved music. (Short tears and old repairs to 2 maps, occasional light spotting, browning and offsetting, front and rear endpapers detached, front pastedown with adhered newspaper cutting). Contemporary half calf (covers detached, worn).
FIRST EDITION. cf. Brunet IV, 375 (citing 1816 edition): "La première édition de cette très-intéressante relation a paru à Londres en 1797"; Lowndes p.1775.
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa, London: for the Author by W. Bulmer, 1799. 4° (260 x 202mm.). Half title, engraved portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates and 3 folding maps, 2 leaves of engraved music. (Short tears and old repairs to 2 maps, occasional light spotting, browning and offsetting, front and rear endpapers detached, front pastedown with adhered newspaper cutting). Contemporary half calf (covers detached, worn).
FIRST EDITION. cf. Brunet IV, 375 (citing 1816 edition): "La première édition de cette très-intéressante relation a paru à Londres en 1797"; Lowndes p.1775.
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