Author: Bruce, James.
Title: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773.
Description: Edinburgh: printed by J. Ruthven, for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, London, 1790. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. First authorized edition. Five volumes. I: 6ff. lxxxiii, 535pp.; II: 2ff. viii, 718pp.; III: 2ff. viii, 759pp.; IV: 2ff. viii, 695pp.; V: 2ff. xiv, 230, [9]index, [1]errata pages. Modern half calf over marbled boards. Engraved title-page ornaments, engraved head- piece, fifty-eight engraved plates and three engraved folding-maps by Heath and I. Beuge, along with seven typographic pages of Ethiopic characters. I: 8 plates & 4 leaves Ethiopian script; II: 4 plates; IV: 3 battle plans; V: 43 plates and 3 folding maps. Blakmer 221; Cox I, 388; Ibrahim-Hilmy, p. 90; ESTC T51608. Good.

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