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Mungo Park's Travels to Interior Africa

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Author: Park, Mungo
Title: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an Account of a Subsequent Mission to that Country in 1805...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for John Murray... by William Bulmer
Date Published: 1816
Description:

Volume 1 (of 2) only. xviii, [2], 458 pp. With 6 copper-engraved plates including frontispiece portrait; 3 folding copper-engraved maps; engraved plate of music. (4to) 26.5x20.5 cm (10½x8¼"), period calf.

This first volume comprises the whole of the account of Mungo Parks first journey to Africa in search of the mouth of the Niger River, 1795-97; the second volume, not present here, contained the account of his second voyage, of 1805, on which he was killed, compiled from various sources, along an account of Park's life.
Condition Report: Binding worn, front cover detached; some foxing within; internally very good.

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Heading:
Author: Park, Mungo
Title: Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. With an Account of a Subsequent Mission to that Country in 1805...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Printed for John Murray... by William Bulmer
Date Published: 1816
Description:

Volume 1 (of 2) only. xviii, [2], 458 pp. With 6 copper-engraved plates including frontispiece portrait; 3 folding copper-engraved maps; engraved plate of music. (4to) 26.5x20.5 cm (10½x8¼"), period calf.

This first volume comprises the whole of the account of Mungo Parks first journey to Africa in search of the mouth of the Niger River, 1795-97; the second volume, not present here, contained the account of his second voyage, of 1805, on which he was killed, compiled from various sources, along an account of Park's life.
Condition Report: Binding worn, front cover detached; some foxing within; internally very good.

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