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BRUCE, JAMES.
Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years
1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 . . . Third Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.
Engraved frontispiece in Volumes 4 and 5. 7 volumes, each with half-title. With atlas from
the 1805 second edition containing 79 engraved plates of natural history and miscellaneous
subjects, 3 folding maps, and 16 pages of letterpress text including half-title. Together, 8
volumes. Text volumes 8vo, 209x130 mm, in 19th-century green calf with red morocco
lettering pieces, scuffed overall, spines darkened to brown, stains on covers of first 2 vol-
umes, occasional browning, light dampstaining in lower outer corners in Volumes 1 and 3;
atlas 4to, 296x233, in mid-19th-century
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2
green calf with red morocco lettering piece,
spine ends chipped, joints starting, varying foxing, short clean tears in first folding plate.
Signatures of the astronomer George Ellery Hale (1868-1938).
Edinburgh & London, 1813; 1805
[500/750]
“Bruce was only the second European to visit the isolated mountain kingdom of Abyssinia
since the 1630s . . . His long and energetic narrative . . . remains one of the great travel
accounts of the eighteenth century” (ODNB).
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BURTON, RICHARD FRANCIS, Sir.
Abeokuta and the Camaroons Moun-
tains. An Exploration.
Mounted portrait of Burton; 4 wood-engraved plates; folding
engraved map. xvi, 333, [1] (of [3]); v [i. e., iv], 306 pages, without half-titles, as issued; lacks
the integral ad leaf at end of Volume 1. 2 volumes. 8vo, 190x126 mm, modern red
leatherette; conspicuous marginal spotting on portrait and title in Volume 1, map partly
separated at fold.
London, 1863
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION
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Casada 25; Penzer, pages 70-71.
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