PARK (Mungo).

Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa:

Performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796 and 1797. With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa by Major Rennell.First edition. 3 engraved folding maps (1 with route coloured in outline), portrait & 5 engraved plates. 4to. Contemporary calf with gilt decorated borders and spine & inner gilt dentelles. Joints rubbed, with short split to upper front joint. xxviii,372, xcii, [ii]pp. 2 plates of music. London, Printed for the author, 1799.

£1,500.00

Park was the first European to reach the Niger. His “Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature, and it’s scientific observations on the botany and the meteorology of the region… have remained of lasting value” (Printing & the Mind of Man).Cox I, 394-95; Ibrahim Hilmy II, 93; Graesse V, 136.

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