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Mungo Park's search for source of Niger

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Description

Heading:
Author: Park, Mungo
Title: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association in the Years 1795,1796 and 1797
Place Published: New York
Publisher:J. Tiebout
Date Published: 1800
Description:

354, [2], 82 pp. Folding copper-engraved map by J. Rennell. (8vo) 20.2x12 cm (8x4¾"), period tree calf, rebacked with modern calf tooled in gilt, raised bands, earlier morocco lettering piece.

Early, if not the first, American edition of the chronicle of Mungo Park's legendary solo expedition into the interior of Africa in search of the source of the Niger River, reprinted from the 1799 London Quarto Edition. There was another American edition of 1800, published in Philadelphia.

Condition

A little darkening and light foxing within, bookplate; very good or better.

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Mungo Park's search for source of Niger

Name: Mungo Park's search for source of Niger
SKU: 147901670
Price: 225 USD
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