Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the direc

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, the first of these with repairs to verso. Portrait & 5 engraved plates (2 folding). 4to. Contemporary diced calf, rebacked with the original gilt back laid down. Bound without the half-title and list of subscribers (xxi-xxviii). xx, [vi]postscript, 372, xcii pp. London, printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author, 1799.

£1,550.00

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.

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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.

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