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BRUCE, James (1730-1794). Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie, entrepris pour découvrir les sources du Nil. Paris: Plassan, 1790-1792.
First edition in French translated by Jean Henri Castéra, published in the same year as the English edition (vol. 5 includes 'Quatre voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778 et 1779', also translated by Castéra). Bruce had arrived in North Africa in 1768, accompanied by the Italian artist Luigi Balugani; he spent five years in Upper Egypt and Abyssinia before returning home in 1774, and publishing his book half a century later. He was the first European to trace the Blue Nile to its confluence with the White Nile. Brunet I, 1283.
6 volumes including atlas, quarto (247 x 190mm). Half-titles, atlas with 88 engraved maps and plates, of which 21 folding; text with a further 10 engraved plates, of which 2 folding (occasional faint spotting and browning, a few marginal repairs, minor marginal wormholes in vol. 2 and marginal stains in vol. 3). Contemporary calf-backed boards, spines gilt (discreet restoration to spines).
First edition in French translated by Jean Henri Castéra, published in the same year as the English edition (vol. 5 includes 'Quatre voyages dans le pays des Hottentots et la Cafrerie en 1777, 1778 et 1779', also translated by Castéra). Bruce had arrived in North Africa in 1768, accompanied by the Italian artist Luigi Balugani; he spent five years in Upper Egypt and Abyssinia before returning home in 1774, and publishing his book half a century later. He was the first European to trace the Blue Nile to its confluence with the White Nile. Brunet I, 1283.
6 volumes including atlas, quarto (247 x 190mm). Half-titles, atlas with 88 engraved maps and plates, of which 21 folding; text with a further 10 engraved plates, of which 2 folding (occasional faint spotting and browning, a few marginal repairs, minor marginal wormholes in vol. 2 and marginal stains in vol. 3). Contemporary calf-backed boards, spines gilt (discreet restoration to spines).
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