Author: BRUCE, JAMES, OF KINNAIRD
Title: Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1970, 1771, 1772 and 1773. In Six Volumes. [Complete set]
Description: Dublin, 1790. Hardcover. Book, Printed by William Sleater for P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, W. Porter, W. Sleater, J. Jones, J. Moore, B. Dornin, C. Lewis, W. Jones, G. Draper, J. Milliken and R. White. Complete 6 volume set with 55 plates and 6 folding plans and maps. Vol. I: lxxx, 381 pages of text; six plates. Vol. II: [viii], 592 pages; three plates including one fold-out. Vol. III: [vi], 687 pages; three plates including one fold-out map. Vol. IV: [viii], [777] pages (misnumbered 775) followed by three sheets, printed on one side only, four plates including three fold-out battle plans. Vol. V: [viii], 496 pages. Vol. VI: Titled "Select Specimens of Natural History. Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in Egypt, Arabia, Abyssinia, and Nubia. xxiv, 286 pages, followed by 13 pages of index and 3 pages "List of Plates". 42 plates plus three large fold-out maps. The plate of the papyrus in volume VI is missing. otherwise a complete set. Binding is half leather with marbled paper boards. Front covers of volumes I, III and VI are detached. Good.

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