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Travels in the interior districts of Africa: performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association, in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797. By Mungo Park ... With an appendix, containing geographical illustrations of Africa. By Major Rennell.
London : printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for the author; and sold by G. and W. Nicol, Booksellers to his Majesty, Pall-Mall, 1799.
xxviii, 372, xcii p., [6] leaves of plates (some folded) : maps, music, port. ; 26 cm. (4to)
The "Appendix" has a divisional titlepage with separate pagination and register.
The postscript, followed by two leaves of engraved music, is bound in various places in different copies.
Engraved frontispiece of author, illustrated by H. Edridge and engraved by T. Dickinson.
With a half-title and a list of subscribers.
Includes words and music of a song, pp. xxi-xxv.
Includes errata, p. xx.
ESTC, N13836
Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1985. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 1502, no. 9).
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
[Copy 1, 2] Bookplate of Eton College.
[Copy 2] Armorial bookplate of Charles Yonge with motto “qualis vita finis ita”, undated, on front pastedown.
[Copy 1] 18th century gold-tooled calf.
[Copy 2] 18th/19th-century dark brown calfskin over millboards. Covers decorated with gilt tools to form a border. Spine rebacked with five raised bands, decorated with blind fillets, gilt tools and titling ("Travels in the interior of Africa"; "Mungo Park"). Textblock trimmed. Endpapers of modern paper including pastedowns; four flyleaves at both ends of the textblock.
[Copy 2] Card catalogue entry inserted between front pastedown and endpaper.
Africa Discovery and exploration Early works to 1800.
Africa Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Edridge, Henry, 1769 - 1821 illustrator.
W. Bulmer and Co. printer.
G. and W. Nicol bookseller.
England London.
B10696