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.
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).
Although this copy lacks the list of subscribers, it does contain the often missing postscript.
Cox I, 394-95; Ibrahim Hilmy II, 93; Graesse V, 136.