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Park, Mungo
估價
600 - 900 GBP
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描述
- Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa... in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. London: for the Author, 1799, [iv], vii-xxviii, 372, xcii pp., [ii pp. postscript], 3 folding engraved maps, 6 engraved plates, plates and maps offset
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PARK, MUNGO. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805. London: John Murray, 1815, [xii], cxxx, [ii], 220, xxviii pp., folding engraved map
Together 2 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS, 4to (270 x 210mm.), half-titles, uniform contemporary russia, gilt spines (lettered "Vol. I" and "Vol. II"), marbled endpapers, gilt edges
Together 2 volumes, FIRST EDITIONS, 4to (270 x 210mm.), half-titles, uniform contemporary russia, gilt spines (lettered "Vol. I" and "Vol. II"), marbled endpapers, gilt edges
來源
William Carr, armorial bookplate
出版
Hilmy II p.93
拍品資料及來源
Park's Travels, recording his hardships during almost two years' travels and captivity in Africa, was a best-seller, offering readers their first realistic description of everyday life in west Africa.
The Journal of a Mission recounts Park's last, ill-fated, expedition to the Niger, during which the whole party perished, either at the hands of tribesmen or in the Bussa rapids.