Exploration and Discovery, 1576-1939, The Library of Franklin Brooke- Hitching, Part 3, K-P

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Lot 894
  • 894

Moore, Francis

Estimate
600 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Travels into the Inland Parts of Africa: containing a Description of the Several Nations for the space of Six Hundred Miles up the River Gambia. London: Printed by Edward Cave for the Author, 1738
  • Paper
FIRST EDITION, 8vo (192 x 121mm.), xi, v, 306, 86, [iv], 24pp., folding engraved map, contemporary calf, dark green label

Provenance

Thomas Percival, bookplate

Catalogue Note

"The most comprehensive account of west African geography yet to appear in English which... remained the most authoritative source until the publication of Mungo Park's Travels in 1799 [see lot 989]" (ODNB).