BRUCE, James. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773, Edinburgh: James Ballantyne for Archibald Constable [and others], 1804, 8 volumes, text 8° and plate volume 4° (298 x 230mm.), second edition, 4 engraved frontispieces, 78 engraved plates and plans, 3 folding maps (one map with short tears at centre fold, a few margins lightly cropped, lower margin and corner of 2E1 torn, some mainly marginal dampstaining to text vols.), contemporary diced calf (spines chipped, lacking some spine labels), marbled edges. [cf. Cox p. 388: "The result of his travels was a very great enrichment of the knowledge of geography and ethnography"] (8)