Historical Account of Discoveries and Travels in Africa, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
- Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Horme, and Brown, 1818
Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co.; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Horme, and Brown, 1818. Second Edition. Octavo (12.5cm). Two volumes in contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt roll to outer perimeter of boards, titled in gilt on green leather spine labels; plain endpapers; I: [iii]-[xxiv],557,[1]pp; II: [viii],550pp; 7 maps (3 folding), including a Chart of Zaire not mentioned in the directions to the binders. Nineteenth-century bookplate and shelfmarks of Ditton Park. Bound without half-titles. Sound and tight, leather over spine dry and flaking, boards lightly rubbed with a stain to front of vol. II and scuffing to rear of vol. I, internally with occasional browning and foxing, overall Very Good.
Second edition of the 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.
Second edition of the 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.