Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa:

£1,200 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Park was the first European to reach the Niger. His “ Travels had an immediate success and was translated into most European languages. It has become a classic of travel literature, and it’s scientific observations on the botany and the meteorology of the region… have remained of lasting value” ( Printing the Mind of Man ). Cox I, 394-95; Ibrahim Hilmy II, 93; Graesse V, 136.

• Year: 1799

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