Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa...Enlarged, and Completed to the Present Time, with Illustrations of Its Geography and Natural History, As Well As of the Moral and Social Condition of Its Inhabitants

Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co., and Longman Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Contemporary calf rebacked with red leather, titled in gilt on black leather spine labels, all edges sprinkled brown; plain endpapers, f.f.e.p. renewed in vol. I, both front endpapers renewed in vol. II; I: [iii]-xx, 512pp; II: [iii]-viii,536pp; 6 maps (3 folding). Lacking both half-titles but otherwise complete. Sound but lightly scuffed, with leather dry and cracking near board edges; internally mostly clean, a few leaves foxed. plates with minor foxing and offsetting: around Very Good.

First geographical work by notable Scottish geographer Hugh Murray (1779-1846), best known for his 1834 Encyclopaedia of Geography. This work is an expansion of the 1799 overview of European knowledge of African geography written by John Leyden, who never actually visited Africa.