Live auction - Lot 647
Historical account of discoveries and travels in Africa by the late John Leyden [...].
London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Browne, 1817
Hammer price: €
800
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
2 vol., 8vo: xx-512, 536 pp. (foxing).
Contemp. half sheep, cloth on covers, flat spine (faded spine, sl. rubbed, tail of vol. II gone).
First ed. of John Leyden's earlier work published at the end of the 18th c. This vol. contains chapters of Abyssinia, The Congo and Timbuctoo. Details of Mungo Park's expeditions are also included with chapters on natural history and the gold trade. Ill with 4 large folded maps.
Ref. BnF. - Cox I:394. - Mendelsohn 69. - Opac KBR.
Prov. Walter Stewart Howard (bookpl.).