Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773

by [NILE] BRUCE, James

$4,000 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Edinburgh: J. Ruthven for G. G. J. and J. Robinson, 1790. First Edition. First printing. Quarto (30cm). Five volumes bound in contemporary acid-sprinkled calf, board edges and spine bands tooled in gilt, titled on leather spine labels, all edges sprinkled blue; plain endpapers; I: [xii],lxxxiv,535,[1]pp; II: [iv],viii,718pp; III: [iv],viii,759,[1]pp; IV..... More

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