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BRUCE, James. Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 & 1773. ... To Which Is Prefixed A Life Of The Author.
Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne For Archibald Constable and Co., ...., 1805. In seven volumes plus a volume of plates. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Tall 8vo., recently rebacked with dark brown half calf (after the period) and corners, retaining the contemporary marble boards, gilt and blindstamped compartments. With portrait frontispiece, 79 plates and 3 large folding maps. Large folding maps a bit foxed with professional reinforcements of the folds on the verso, boards rubbed but still a near fine set.
James Bruce [1730-1794], Scottish explorer in Africa. After journeying through Barbary and the Levant, Bruce arrived at Alexandria in June 1768 resolved to endeavour to discover the source of the Nile. His Travels was issued in 1790, after he retired to his home at Kinnaird, at the urging of his friend Daines Barrington. It was published in five octavo volumes, lavishly illustrated. The work was popular, but was ridiculed by scholars and other travellers as being exaggerated nonsense. However, the substantial accuracy of every statement concerning his Abyssinian travels has since been amply demonstrated. (11th Brit).
BRUCE, James. Travels To Discover the Source of the Nile, In the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 & 1773. ... To Which Is Prefixed A Life Of The Author. Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne For Archibald Constable and Co., ...., 1805. In seven volumes plus a volume of plates. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Tall 8vo., recently rebacked with dark brown half calf (after the period) and corners, retaining the contemporary marble boards, gilt and blindstamped compartments. With portrait frontispiece, 79 plates and 3 large folding maps. Large folding maps a bit foxed with professional reinforcements of the folds on the verso, boards rubbed but still a near fine set.
James Bruce [1730-1794], Scottish explorer in Africa. After journeying through Barbary and the Levant, Bruce arrived at Alexandria in June 1768 resolved to endeavour to discover the source of the Nile. His Travels was issued in 1790, after he retired to his home at Kinnaird, at the urging of his friend Daines Barrington. It was published in five octavo volumes, lavishly illustrated. The work was popular, but was ridiculed by scholars and other travellers as being exaggerated nonsense. However, the substantial accuracy of every statement concerning his Abyssinian travels has since been amply demonstrated. (11th Brit).
