Africa.- Heron (Robert) The New Universal Traveller; or a collection of late Voyages and Travels ... vol. 1 Travels in Africa, vol. 1 only (of ?2), folding engraved map frontispiece, 13 engraved plates, tissue-guards, bookplate, contemporary calf-backed boards, a little rubbed, 1811 § [Knight (Ellis Cornelia)] Dinarbas; a Tale: being a continuation of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia, third edition, scattered spotting, previous owner's stencilled surname and initials to title, previous owner's ink inscription to front pastedown, faint abrasion mark to front free endpaper where label removed, bookplate, contemporary calf, rebacked, 1793 § Jameson (Prof.), James Wilson & Hugh Murray, Narrative of Discovery and Adventure in Africa, first edition, frontispiece, vignette title, plates, advertisements at end, bookplate, contemporary half-calf, a little rubbed, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Edinburgh, 1830 § du Bourg de Bozas (R.) Mission Scientifique: de la Mer Rouge a l'Antlantique á travers l'Afrique Tropicale, first edition, portrait frontispiece, illustrations, 3 folding maps at end, one or two short splits to folds, bookplate, contemporary morocco-backed boards, slight bumping to corners and extremities, Paris, 1906; and 2 others similar, v.s. (6)


⁂ The first is scarce. Susan Pickford & Alison E. Martin write of it, "... what distinguished Heron's collection from many of its predecessors was its considerable use of translation to extend the range of travel literature that could be presented to an Anglophone readership."